{"id":1381,"date":"2021-05-06T04:44:17","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T04:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/?page_id=1381"},"modified":"2021-05-08T19:15:02","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T19:15:02","slug":"john-woolsey","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/john-woolsey\/","title":{"rendered":"John Woolsey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2021\/04\/J.-Woolsey-_Sandpit_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"742\" src=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2021\/04\/J.-Woolsey-_Sandpit_-1024x742.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2021\/04\/J.-Woolsey-_Sandpit_-1024x742.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2021\/04\/J.-Woolsey-_Sandpit_-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2021\/04\/J.-Woolsey-_Sandpit_-768x556.jpg 768w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2021\/04\/J.-Woolsey-_Sandpit_.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>John Woolsey, <em>Sandpit<\/em>, pastel on paper, 34 x 26 in., 1983.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Artist&#8217;s Statement<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the \u201970s and \u201980s, I did a number of works that explored human-made landscapes: quarries, earthworks, expressway on-ramps, and the like. I explored a lot of locations in the Northport, Maine area, where I summer, for <em>plein-air<\/em> painting locations. At the time, I was doing a lot of pastels on paper because of the ease of transporting a fairly large surface to work on (no wet oil paint to smear while transporting the work!) and the fact that the medium was quick: a concern when the light changes a lot in a couple of hours.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This work was done in a sandpit south of Belfast, Maine, where sand and gravel were being dug for construction and road projects. I was not only interested in the human-made topography, but also\u2014<em>\u00e0 propos<\/em> of this exhibit\u2014the tire tracks in the soft sand and earth, a kind of human-made drawing on the surface of the landscape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/home-summer-exhibition-2021\/\" data-type=\"URL\">RETURN TO GALLERY<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist&#8217;s Statement In the \u201970s and \u201980s, I did a number of works that explored human-made landscapes: quarries, earthworks, expressway on-ramps, and the like. I explored a lot of locations in the Northport, Maine area, where I summer, for plein-air painting locations. At the time, I was doing a lot of pastels on paper because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9148,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1381"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1874,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1381\/revisions\/1874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}