AERIAL TAPESTRY: ONE SHEET EXHIBIT FOR ARVADA CENTER

One Sheet: Wood

A blank page, a blank canvas, a blank slate–widely-used idioms for limitless possibilities. For the exhibition series One Sheet, we invited over 60 Colorado artists to start with the same blank building block and create a new artwork.

Each artist received a sheet of ¾” x 4’ x 8’ unfinished baltic birch veneer plywood, a sheet of 50" x 50" Stonehenge acid-free white 90lb paper, or a sheet of large format 16" x 26" 50 staves staff paper. The artist used this raw material as the building block for their creation. This material could be filled up, ripped apart, added to, or reimagined into something completely different. By highlighting the creativity, diversity, and range of processes and concepts that are derived from a simple sheet material, One Sheet showcases the limitlessness of the blank sheet and of the creative mind.

CONCEPT

The Parti Concept allows me to balance and plan for color application and proportion for alignment. I then made a CNC CAD file for my longtime pal Dan Sjogren to laser cut the overall panels. I planned to cut my sheet into 2 panels as a Diptych.

PEELING TAPE AND LAYING COLOR

I created (2) 3'-10" Birch Plywood panels and started to apply the Acrylic and Gouache color. I chose colors that bring joy to your eyeballs- that was the only criteria!