Studio Day 75 - Call for Artists

6311arts Call for Artists - screenshot

This work is from my archive, from the 1987 March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights. It was the first time the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt was displayed in DC. I was there with my then partner, several friends, and thousands and thousands of others. We had traveled from Vermont to Washington for the weekend - community, joy, rage - and tears.. so many tears, and laughter, and the deep awe of our presence taking over the Capital that weekend. 

This is a large print made by tiling sheets of paper. It will be taped directly to a wall along the top edge of each sheet. It's still very much a work in progress, though this current iteration feels good. The attached image is a prototype printed on regular paper. The exhibition print will be on vellum.

I'm also working a single legal-size sheet about the work which folds into a fortune teller, an artist statement and a momento to take away.

The work as displayed for the exhibition is priced at $750. ... I might also sell it as a limited digital edition with the right to print and install, say for $200. I'm open to discussion on pricing and the digital option.

Thanks for your consideration,

Larry

Larry Wolf, Celebration of Life on the National Mall (1987/2026)
printed on a grid of pages
56" x 73.5" (each tile is 8" x 10.5")

Studio Day 74

Larry Wolf, Lincoln Memorial Group Photo Shuffled (1987/2026)

Larry Wolf, Lincoln Memorial Group Photo Reverse Tracing (1987/2026)

Larry Wolf, Lincoln Memorial Group Photo Tracing (1987/2026)

Larry Wolf, Lincoln Memorial Group Photo Drawing (1987/2026)

Larry Wolf, Lincoln Memorial Massed Areas (1987/2026)

Studio Day 73 - Tiger Strikes Asteroid

Larry Wolf, TSA - It's a Muscle - Rex Delafkaran & Colleen Keihm (2026)

Larry Wolf, Rex Delafkaran at TSA (2026)

Larry Wolf, Colleen Keihm at TSA (2026)

Studio Day 72 - Wrightwood

Martin Wong
Photo: Larry Wolf (2026)

Martin Wong
Photo: Larry Wolf (2026)

Martin Wong: Chinatown USA at Wrightwood 659

Studio Day 71

Larry Wolf, Printing on Vellum (2026)

Studio Day 70

Larry Wolf, Commentary on Learning to See by Keith Sawyer (2026)

This is personal. As someone who had a flash of insight into how software works, and how when I was 16, I shifted my thinking to do it, I deeply believe that a mental reorientation is required to do software, data analytics or any "tech" or "hard science" well. It was my professional life. 

I've watched people work in software development and database groups for years and always be struggling. Their code worked but never very well and they were often stressed out. I've seen others write code as a kind of poetry, a structure that flows from them. The same with people who get databases and how to design them, how to extract information and meaning from all those 0's and 1's. I've seen it with friends who are mathematicians and physicists. 

These technical areas are design spaces, like the art spaces that Keith Sawyer writes about. They are disciplines that train the mind and change how our minds work.

There is something special to art in how the process of making becomes the path to knowing. It's not unique to art, it could apply to communicating with someone, of navigating through moments of confusion, when what one person says lands differently for the other, the "failure" to communicate could become an entry way to a deeper understanding of difference and connection, or it could become part of a larger disconnect. 

I'm reading Sawyer's Learning to See to further make that shift in my art making. 

[see also Keith Sawyer's substack. Lots of good stuff.]

Studio Day 69

Larry Wolf, Two Moments of Community
March on Washington 1987 (2026)