Heading to Virginia

I am looking forward to my father James Grashow's openning at the Taubman Museum of Art. Here is a picture of it waiting to be shipped from the studio in my family's home to the gallery in Roanoke, VA. It is a corrugated fountain, and the opening reception is June 10, from 6.30 - 8.00 pm. If you are in Virginia, come by! The show runs from June 11, 2010 - February 20, 2011

In the show's promotion it was written: Grashow creates works in a variety of media that address the themes of man, nature and mortality. The scale of his work ranges from large environmental installations, through which the viewer traverses, to the delicate and contained world of his houseplants, where tiny fabricated homes and buildings replace flowers and buds in intricately constructed bouquets. For the past three years, Grashow has been working on his most ambitious work to date; a Corrugated Fountain - an epic work reminiscent of the Trevi Fountain in Rome, complete with Poseidon, nymphs, rocks, waves, and an assortment of sea creatures. The idea of a cardboard fountain is an impossibility, an oxymoron that speaks to the human dilemma. Grashow has made something heroic in its concept and execution with full awareness of its poetic absurdity. His work can be found at www.jamesgrashow.com.

One of the strangest things abotu moving to California was the fact that no one I met had ever been in my father's studio. I couldn't imagine that anyone could ever understand who I was if they'd never been in that enchanted space. I suppose it's true for anyone, really. Our origin becomes our own private story, no matter how often we share.