On the eighth day, Monday, I rested, mostly…at least until Gregg came by late afternoon with the consignment sheet and unwelcome news that the Library would close at nine that night until March 31st…or The Duration, which made March 31st look wildly optimistic. So as soon as L was back from her afternoon perambulation we piled into the ’45 so she could see the show
and attempt unofficial documentation of “Further Afield” while Gregg and Kathryn were putting the finishing touches on the installation of an exhibition potentially unsee-able…
I’ve compiled a tour of the show, nominally clockwise in rotation, beginning with the 40′ wall, which more or less conforms to the floor plan above – with exceptions – such as beginning with
“Seven Troughs”, 24X24″, 2017 [above] and then “Looking West, Early Spring”, 20X88′, 2019;
“Libre 2″, 48X48”, 2019; “Libre 1, 48X48”, 2019…
“Blue One”, 14X81″, 2019; “The Quinn River Sank”, 12X81″, 2019…
‘Ptg. 3″, 24X24″, 2019; “Ptg. 1″, 24X24”, 2019.
Gregg with Linda at the end of the corridor with the wall of paintings on cardboard behind
them and then details of the cardboards, various sizes and dates.
Three acrylics, all 2018, all 8X44″; “Oregon Fade”, Red One” and “Oregon One”
before moving on to the wide spot in the road wherein were hung “We’ll Mine the Other Planets
Later” [an actual bumper sticker – “Earth First, We’ll Mine the Other Planets Later” – seen in a parking lot in Puckerbrush, Nevada, in the early nineties], 30X30″, 1997 and
the aforeseen [for those of you who noticed the announcement for the show] “Black Rock Point; Quinn River Sink”, 30X72″, 2019. Finally came “Playa from Libre”, 14X48″, 2017. Additionally I
put a random selection of six 2007 14X17″ pen and ink imaginary topos in one vitrine and copies of “Auto Biographies and Every House I Ever Lived In [from Memory”, 2014, in the other.
This being the only occasion the installation was open to the public we improvised a sort of
“soft opening” attended by curator Kathryn Renfrow [Gregg shown earlier], Linda Fleming
and the excellent David Dodd, Director of the Benicia Public Library, which then closed for the
unforeseeable future. As a result, the artist will not be present…nor anyone else. Not soon.
Most pictures here, if any good at all, taken by L. Fleming..
Stay home, be safe, take care.
MSM