October 24, 2013. 24 photos.
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Two small works hang near the entrance of The Rosewood Collective. -
Following the advice of a former art professor, Klotzman prints out small digital works, and grids them on the wall in order to “get out of the laptop.” -
Nearly all wallspace is filled with works in progress in Klotzman’s small studio. -
Word collages display Kotzman’s knack for combining the sweet and the juvenile. -
Digital photo-collages, chopped and reorganized. -
Laying down lines for one of the geometric gouache works that hang around Klotzman’s studio. -
Sometimes using a straight edge and sometimes free-hand, Klotzman’s latest gouache works on paper leave spaces intentionally blank. -
Josef Albers, the famous Modernist painter and color theorist, shares a basket with Guy Hocquenghem’s “The Screwball Asses” – a perfect summa of Klotzman’s mash-up aesthetic. -
Klotzman’s space, although small, is extremely well organized. A bright yellow pegboard holds tools of the trade. -
As an homage to an artist friend, Klotzman sometimes offers Lillet to studio visitors. -
Cleanly organized in clear plastic containers, tubes of paint are diligently taken out, mixed, and applied. -
Klotzman selects the next color. -
A palette of pink, blue and grey. -
Using the compartments of an industrial lid as an artist’s palette, Klotzman begins the process of mixing and applying gouache. -
Lauren Klotzman lays down paint with precision, mindful of the pencil lines that form the foundation of her latest composition. -
Art historical jokes, seemingly diaristic thoughts, and grammar notations share sketch space above Klotzman’s work-bench. -
Many of the works hanging on the walls of Klotzman’s studio are provisionally taped up using regular and brightly colored masking tape. -
Many of the works hanging on the walls of Klotzman’s studio are provisionally taped up using regular and brightly colored masking tape. -
Sketches of repetitive language, and statements such as “Werner Herzog has no real friends”, comment on everything from studio practice to contemporary film. -
Klotzman seen from outside her studio, looking in. -
In a series of collaborative works with her mother, Lauren Klotzman takes the painted gesture and translates it into needlepoint. -
Progress on works such as these, although small in scale, is slow going. -
The artist and her media. -
A moment of respite on the porch outside the artist’s small studio behind The Rosewood Collective.