A new show of Johns’ work opens up next month in Chicago. It focuses on the importance of gray in his work, and includes 141 works from 1955 to the present.
There’s a nice article about it here.
From the article:

“I think viewers of this exhibition will be able to experience the great potential and meaning that gray has for Jasper Johns,” said James Rondeau, Frances and Thomas Dittmer Chair of Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago and co-curator of the exhibition. “Gray is much more than a colour to him. It is an analytical tool, a measure of distance and separation, and a means of getting to the heart of his practice as an artist. Through such a close exploration of a subtle and restricted range, Johns is able to make abundant and commodious discoveries….”

Here’s a pic from my show, that I snapped with the cellphone the day I hung it.

…starts tomorrow. I’ll be in Ellsworth hanging it a good part of the day, I’m sure. i’ve been working all week getting paintings and collages ready to hang, and I’m about ready. It’s at the Hancock County Higher Education Center; come visit if you get a chance. The show runs from August 13-Sep 21, 2007.

Yesterday I participated in The Farnsworth Art Museum’s fourth annual Paint the Town event, where artists get together and go out and paint scenes of Rockland, and then the paintings get auctioned off that evening. Bids weren’t very brisk last night, but the event probably made about $10,000 for the museum, and both the paintings I did sold.
Pics to follow:

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