In February I receive an email from Assistant Curator Jen Padgett at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
I’m curating a small focus show about tempera painting and was drawn toward your Male Torso – Anterior View and Female Torso – Anterior View, which were in our State of the Art exhibition.
I wondered if you might have any comments about your use of casein in the work, or any of the other materials. We’re planning to install the paintings in a section that looks at the variations of tempera including casein, and how that is used with other materials such as gouache, etc. The overall goal of the exhibition is to engage our visitors with the complexity of materials and techniques and I think your works do that beautifully.
Before a planned phone call at the end of the week, I send Jen process shots ↓ of both of the works. I list all the material including casein and egg tempera.
Male Torso in process. Mixed media includes Casein, Egg Tempera, Gesso, Gouache, Ink, Micaceous Iron Oxide on Canvas
Size: 45 x 35½ inches
Jen tells me about the exhibit. I enjoy our conversation about materials and also share with her some history about both casein and egg tempera.
Today she sent installation ↓ shots!
Tempera, one of several exhibitions on view now at Crystal Bridges Museum, runs to October 14, 2019.
Jen, thank you for the photos. The space looks beautiful!
Installation photos courtesy of Crystal Bridges Museum
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Congratulations? Well deserved.
On Fri, Jun 21, 2019, 1:31 PM Monica Aissa Martinez wrote:
> monica posted: “In February I receive an email from Assistant Curator Jen > Padgett at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. I’m curating a small > focus show about tempera painting and was drawn toward your Male Torso – > Anterior View and Female Torso – Anterior View,” >
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Thanks Josh.
I told her about the egg yolk…and the ritual of holding onto the membrane. Of course, I pictured you…
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