my pacific coast muse

Cerulean Blues

June and July and nearly August…

As I listed these months, counting the time since my last post, a cover of “Fly Like an Eagle” by Tony Crown started playing in the background. It was a slow ghostly version of the old Steve Miller Band song, never heard this version before. Perfect synchronicity. Time keeps on slipping…

But I haven’t been sleeping by the sea. Gabriel Harrison chose a number of works during a studio visit in early spring, most of them recent, for a solo exhibit at Stanford called Cerulean Blues. He put together a beautiful installation, especially for Copepodilia: 64 images varying in size from 10″ x 8″ to 50″ x 40″. It was up for much of July and just closed yesterday.

One work was unresolvable – the photographs of collisions along the coast. I’ll figure it out eventually, but for now, I pared it down to just one image, same title as the show: Cerulean Blues.

cerulean.jpg
Cerulean Blues   pigment print on Arches Aquarelle   40″ x 60″   2017
Cerulean Installation 1
most of Copepodilia 2017, with Pool 2017 in the foreground
sandbox
Sandbox   sorted sand on birch boxes   33″ x 103″   2017
Blues Sand Pool
Cerulean Blues 2017, Sandbox 2017, and Pool 2017 in the foreground
Wind Pool Cope
Homage to the Wind 2012, Pool 2017, and a bit of Copepodilia 2017

5 Comments

  1. Elis Imboden

    The most beautiful show! Thank you, Gail.

  2. MARCIA TANNER

    This was such a beautiful revelatory exhibition, Gail. I wish I could have revisited it, and hope it was reviewed somewhere. Was it? Congratulations on this amazing body of work. Much love, Marcia

    • gailwight

      Thanks so much, Marcia, and thanks for coming to the opening, and for visiting my wintery haunts with me! I think Susan Krane might be writing something. Fingers crossed, she’s such a great writer (as are you).

  3. Nano

    I wish I had been able to see this exhibit. I love your work.

    • gailwight

      Thanks, Nan! Hey, let me bring this to you! Know any places that might be interested in exhibiting this? I’m just putting together some documentation to send around, hopefully travel this a bit…

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