New Year's Studio Resolutions 2012

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As always, here is a link to last years resolutions:

http://www.sculpture.net/community/s...ht=resolutions

How'd you do?

Me - not so well. Had a busy year with lots of new work and shows but never tidied the studio or approached any commercial galleries. I did clean up my website a bit - probably should update it again in the next few days.

In 2012 I really want to push myself in a couple of ways.

1) Return to fabrication. Most of my work from the last two years has been based in assemblage. Looking forward to making some new work from scratch. I don't expect it to be a big production year, so this looks like a good time to make a few labor heavy sculptures.

2) Write more (or get someone else to write more) about my work to date. My artist statement is way out of date and as much as I'd love to not even have one - fact is that a well written statement is still a requirement for landing shows.

3) Make more use of social media. Ugh - I know - but it works and even if it doesn't yield much it can't hurt (whereas being absent from these resources can often lead to dismissal by default). I like what I've been recently reading here about blogs - so that might be an option. Maybe a FB page for my studio/website.

4) Learn some new skills. I've never thrown a pot - probably time to do that. There is an awesome ceramics facility at the school where I teach that is adjacent to the sculpture area. Learning more about clay based processes will likely be good for me as a sculptor AND a teacher. Win/win. Wouldn't mind doing a bit more flat work too this year. Perhaps playing around more with dry point etching/printing.

5) Connect more with other artists/sculptors. Not only to network but to seek out new modes of thinking about the things we do. I don't want to go stale and comparing differences among studio practices always yields new perspectives.

Well, that should do me.

Best to all of you in the new year. Assuming the world doesn't end - I think 2012 is going to be a great year for sculpture!