Solo show: Internal Reflections at MWC, Denver
In September my solo exhibition, Internal Reflections opened at the beautiful Michael Warren Contemporary art gallery in Denver: www.michaelwarrencontemporary.com. My husband, David, and I flew there for the reception and my poetry reading and artist talk that I did the following day. It was so rewarding to see my art in this beautiful space because we had canceled the exhibition because of Covid for a couple of years and then when we rescheduled the gallery had a flood and had to close thus the opening finally in 2024. I showed different bodies of work that I did during the above period.
After the meeting and greeting and celebrations in Denver we headed out to Green Mountain Falls for a long awaited visit to James Turell’s Skyspace interactive exhibit commissioned by Green Box, (https://greenboxarts.org/skyspace/) an organization that presents visual and performing arts experiences. I was especially intrigued because of my Artist Residency at Lowell Observatory and the ideas inspired.The Skyspace is located up a steep mountain so we chose to avail ourselves of the ATV available. We ascended to a cleanly designed box-like building made with nature’s stones—I liked the simplicity that doesn’t distract from the experience. We choose to have the experience in the evening hours (you can also see it in daytime). When we were let into the building it was still light and we could easily see the blue clouded sky through the roof hatch so the participants could position themselves conveniently for the event which started shortly afterwards. I positioned myself lying down and using David’s lap as my pillow.
As the sky darkened the light in the ceiling changed color tones which then made the sky appear to also change colors. This phenomenon reminded me very much of the color exercises that I did in design classes based on Josef Alber’s ideas that color is relative and it’s appearance is influenced by many factors including the colors around it.
As we sat there 45 minutes watching the colors change and interact—sky and interior, I found it to be a magical and soothing experience that transcended my experience of the everyday sky watching. There was a spiritual quality to the experience somewhat like that of the Rothko’s Chapel in Houston. I was very moved and hope that you have this experience as there are more than 85 Skyscapes located around the world.
Unfurling 
This latest collection of poems is the result of my time as a 2022 writer in residence at the Fairhope Center for Writing Arts in Fairhope, Alabama. During my month long tenure on the Alabama Gulf coast, I was able to distill down from numerous poems and writings, with the help of the quiet and the water.
But as my recent newsletter can attest the move, though slowing me down a bit and requiring time, has not diverted my art endeavors. I enjoyed participating in the Portugal group exhibition “earth@Faro” curated by Paulo Duarte Filipe. We spent part of a morning ‘messaging’ one another to get my “Boundless” pieces hung. My regret was not going to Faro as seeing pictures of some of the artists frolicking on the beach made me very envious. It’s always an adventure and a pleasure to exhibit internationally. And there will be more exhibits in Portugal to report.
is extended time of chaos and pandemic I hope that you are okay. Like many of you I am entering my seventh month of staying-at-home that sometimes glides by with ease and sometimes seems interminable. For me this is a supreme exercise/lesson in yielding—to overlook that the to-do list that doesn’t get completed and to not judge myself or others for how they are coping. This is hard times and I need to remind myself that we need to be gentle with ourselves and others.
I am also adding some photos of the exhibits that went ‘live’ in July and December in South Korea and Istanbul so you can appreciate the global community keeping art alive! 
Also I’ve have finally gotten to the first stages of painting the round shape of our earth’s colors on wooden formats. They will also be painted on the concave side.
Lost and Found in Iceland, Michael Warren Contemporary, Denver, CO.
