The Sketchbook Project, February - June 2011

I am participating in the Sketchbook Project,  which is an open project and exhibition run by the Art House Co-op in Brooklyn, New York City.  Each participant produces a sketchbook within a certain size that tours the following locations:

Brooklyn Art Library, New York, February 19th - February 27th 2011
Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, March 12th, 2011
Space Gallery, Portland, ME, March 30th - April 2nd 2011
The Granite Room, Atlanta, April 8-9th 2011
Form/Space Atelier, Seattle, WA, June 10th - 11th 2011
111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, June 18th 2011

The multitude of sketchbooks will be available to view online once all submissions have been recieved in early January 2011.  The ArtHouse Co-op are still accepting participants. 

Although, in the early stages of the sketchbook, it is an interesting and challenging exercise as in one sense the sketchbook becomes the 'work'.  The sketchbook is traditionally considered as a vehicle for prepatory work, which is often indoctrinated into you within art education.  As a practicing artist, I rarely, or never, fill a sketchbook.  Working on bits and peices of paper, beginnings of some sketchbooks and middle pages of another notebook. 

Some of the early pages I have been working on: