Art I'm Making: Untitled Collage No. 290 (Santa Rosa)

Still trying to catch up with 2024, this is Untitled Collage No. 290 (Santa Rosa), the last piece I finished in 2023 (before a fallow period of several months). Dated October 7, 2023. Acrylic on paper, acrylic monotype, collage. Image size: 41.1cm x 32.3cm (16.3in x 12.7in). Matted to 24 x 20 inches. Signed on the mat. Signed and dated on the reverse.

Click on the image for a larger view. For more of my abstract monotype collage work, visit my website at http://ctalcroft.wix.com/collage-site/ or you can purchase my recently published book commemorating ten years of working in the collage medium – Colin Talcroft: Abstract Monotype Collage: 2103–2023 (ISBN 979-8-218-37717-5). Available on the website. 

 

In person, my work can be seen at Calabi Gallery in Santa Rosa, Hammerfriar Gallery in Healdsburg, and at the Ren Brown Collection in Bodega Bay. Or, you can visit me during Art Trails, Sonoma County's premier juried open studios event, which will be October 19–20 and October 26–27 this year. This year, I'll be Studio 40. Hope to see you in the studio!

Art I'm Looking At: Palo Alto

Last month, I went to Palo Alto to see the big glass and ceramics show they do there every year in the summer. It's always a pleasant way to spend a couple of hours outdoors. Didn't buy anything this year, but there were some interesting pieces. 

A visit to Palo Alto wouldn't be complete without a stop at the two excellent art museums on the Stanford Campus, The Cantor Center for the Arts and The Anderson Collection. The Cantor has a diverse collection. The Anderson Collection is mostly 20th century art with a good core of abstract expressionist works. I always enjoy seeing a few favorites in each of the collections. The Cantor has a good Sargent portrait and a good Hopper, among others. The Anderson Collection has a Louis Morris, a De Kooning, a Motherwell, and a Frankenthaler that I like and both collections have good examples from Diebenkorn's Ocean Park series. 

On the way home, dinner at La Salette, the Portuguese restaurant of long standing in the town of Sonoma. I particularly enjoyed the cold cucumber soup with shrimp and doing one of the Portuguese wine flights they offer.