Glen Arbor Art Association

Right There, Installation at ArtCenter South Florida, 800 Building, 2006

Posted by Tom Virgin

This installation was the product of an artist’s residency at the Glen Arbor Art Associaton in 2005 and ArtCenter South Florida in 2006. The work combined all the elements that eventually became the award winning artist’s book, “Right There” (Winner of the 2006 Florida Artist Book Prize).

It combined drawings, prints, an essay, objects and ephemera from the residency, as well as my childhood in Michigan. This window installation was the laboratory for “Right There.” I am grateful to Claire Bruekel for her support and encouragement with this installation. The piece with the yellow background was one of several other spin offs from this original. The extra pieces wound up in “Right There” or other installations.

 

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

Posted by Tom Virgin

Cottonwood Snowfence, 16 x 20, 2006
Doll's Eyes, 16 x 20, 2006
Pyramid Point, Sleeping Bear, 16 x 20, 2006
Dune Overlook, Sleeping Bear, 16 x 20, 2006
Fishing Boat, Glen Arbor, 16 x 20, 2006
Maple Forest, Empire, 16 x 20, 2006
Right There, 16 x 20, 2006
Thorsen Granary, Sleeping Bear, 16 x 20, 2006

This work came from an artist’s residency in a place very close to my heart, Glen Arbor. The Glen Arbor Art Association gave me two weeks in Glen Arbor, Glen Haven, Leeland, Empire, and of course… Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. I grew up in Michigan. This residency brought me back to my childhood. It also produced an installation at Art Center South Florida in the 800 Building’s Large Window Gallery and the 2006 Florida Artist Book Prize for “Right There.” This spot continues to generate images in my head, looking for a space to hold them.

All prints from this series are 16 inches x 20 inches, black on Japanese paper, in an edition of 20.