Douglas Witmer http://douglaswitmer.com Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:15:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Catalogue for “I Found A Reason” available for order http://douglaswitmer.com/2012/02/catalogue-for-i-found-a-reason-available-for-order/ http://douglaswitmer.com/2012/02/catalogue-for-i-found-a-reason-available-for-order/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:37:19 +0000 admin http://douglaswitmer.com/?p=646
Essay by Chris Ashley
12 pages with 6 reproductions
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I Found a Reason
Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park FL
Exhibition continues through October 9, 2011

From the Orlando Weekly review of the show: The aggregation of tiny variations develops like a meditation; the repeated interaction of color and paper slowly builds a body of knowledge, much as a child learns to write by repeating the same motions over and over…If there is any message imparted by I Found a Reason, it’s the importance of play to contemplation; and vice-versa… Read full review…

  • PUBLIC LECTURE
    I will be a Visiting Scholar at Rollins College September 22 and 23. In addition to presenting a workshop and doing individual critiques with students, I will give a public lecture about my work at the Museum on Thursday September 22 at 6:00pm.

  • MUSEUM ACQUISITION

    How Soon Is Now?, 2008. Black gesso and acrylic on canvas, 44 x 54 inches.

  • In July, the Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia acquired my 2008 painting “How Soon Is Now?” for their permanent collection. The painting will debut this fall in the exhibition “Flirting With Abstraction” which runs from September 25 through January 8, 2012.

    In 2008, the artist Brent Hallard published an interview with me that included a discussion of this painting. The painting was also exhibited in New York in 2008 and in 2010.

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    Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park FL
    July 2 — October 9, 2011
    Catalogue (12 pages, 6 reproductions, essay by Chris Ashley) available here.
    Review by Jessica Bryce Young on Orlando Weekly here

    ]]>     http://douglaswitmer.com/2011/09/i-found-a-reason/feed/ 0     Fruitville / The School Papers http://douglaswitmer.com/2011/03/fruitville-the-school-papers/ http://douglaswitmer.com/2011/03/fruitville-the-school-papers/#comments Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:23:28 +0000 admin http://douglaswitmer.com/?p=550 AxD Gallery, Philadelphia PA
    February 25 – April 2, 2011
    Review by Dennis D’Alesandro on The Artblog here

    ]]>     http://douglaswitmer.com/2011/03/fruitville-the-school-papers/feed/ 1     Fruitville http://douglaswitmer.com/2010/06/fruitville-2/ http://douglaswitmer.com/2010/06/fruitville-2/#comments Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:06:00 +0000 admin http://douglaswitmer.com/?p=510 By Chris Ashley
    Accompanied the exhibition of the same title. Some Walls, Oakland, CA, June 2010.

    Well-known for his paintings, most recently widely-exhibited works with precisely-placed bars of evocative color that float on casual-appearing yet skillfully-intercepted washy black-stained canvas grounds, Douglas Witmer’s Fruitville series might initially appear to be quite a different direction for the artist. The appearance of three dimensional art objects, small and intimate at no more than eight inches in any direction, might seem sudden, but actually Witmer has slowly worked on this series with great consideration for over ten years. These pieces have never been shown with his paintings, and in fact they have never before been publicly shown at all except on the artist’s web site. The Fruitville series are interestingly connected to Witmer’s paintings, and spark additional dialog about his overall ongoing project. More…

    Photo by Chris Ashley
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    Some Walls, Oakland CA, June 19-July 25, 2010
    Images and essay here.

    Photo by Chris Ashley
    ]]>     http://douglaswitmer.com/2010/06/fruitville/feed/ 0     Douglas Witmer at Blank Space Gallery, NYC http://douglaswitmer.com/2010/06/douglas-witmer-at-blank-space-gallery-nyc/ http://douglaswitmer.com/2010/06/douglas-witmer-at-blank-space-gallery-nyc/#comments Fri, 04 Jun 2010 13:11:18 +0000 admin http://douglaswitmer.com/?p=476 by P. Timothy Gierschick II
    Published at Gierschickwork, March 2010.

    Ring The Bells Anew at Blank Space Gallery, New York

    A pair of paintings in Ring the Bells Anew arrested my attention quickly upon turning the corner: A Trace of Something I Want to Feel Again and We’ll get Away with It. It was an impulse for which I couldn’t find a reason (not that it was completely necessary to)…until I spoke briefly with Douglas Witmer about them, and found out that they had two related common denominators. They were the same size canvas, and that particular ratio was a new one for Witmer. That said, they fit nicely into my resonation with the show’s title: Witmer is ringing a very old bell, but the tintinnabulum never grows old: in fact, the results feel as fresh as does every toll from a bell tower greeting a new day. The possibilities continue. More…

    ]]>     http://douglaswitmer.com/2010/06/douglas-witmer-at-blank-space-gallery-nyc/feed/ 0     Ring The Bells Anew http://douglaswitmer.com/2010/06/ring-the-bells-anew/ http://douglaswitmer.com/2010/06/ring-the-bells-anew/#comments Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:16:27 +0000 admin http://douglaswitmer.com/?p=467 Ring The Bells Anew at Blank Space Gallery, New York
    Blank Space Gallery, Chelsea, New York. March 4-27, 2010
    Review by Timothy Gierschick here.

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    ]]>     http://douglaswitmer.com/2009/05/field-stream-new-paintings/feed/ 0     My Certain Fate http://douglaswitmer.com/2009/05/my-certain-fate/ http://douglaswitmer.com/2009/05/my-certain-fate/#comments Mon, 25 May 2009 13:31:08 +0000 admin http://douglaswitmer.com/?p=359 Pharmaka, Los Angeles, May 14-June 6, 2009
    My Certain Fate at Pharmaka, Los Angeles

    Curated by Timothy Buckwalter. Combining photography, painting, sculpture and text-based works in My Certain Fate, Buckwalter crafted an exhibition that mimics the dynamic behind the mix tape.

    Included in the mix are works from John Altoon, Angela Baker, Val Britton, Martin Bromirksi, Manuel Dominguez Jr., Bill Dunlap, Sacha Eckes, Sylvia Fragoso, Tammy Harper, Kevin Parks Hauser, Jeffrey Cortland Jones, Michelle Lewis-King, Joe Macca, Michael Macfeat, Rob Matthews, Mike Monteiro, Marlon Mullen, Christopher Saunders, Jen Siska, Dean Smith, Brian Stechschulte, Katy Stone, Rebecca Whipple, Billy White, Jim Winters, Douglas Witmer, Michael Zahn, and Nina Zurier.

    Photo by Timothy Buckwalter.
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