This year Shift Collaborative Studio is participating in SUPERMARKET 2012 in Stockholm, Sweden. Initiated and organised by artists, SUPERMARKET has rapidly evolved from a modest group of local initiatives to a full-fledged international art exhibition.

Hundreds of artists from over 25 countries show the latest trends in contemporary art. Performance art, photography, painting, video and more.  Beautiful, provocative, educational, humorous – it is the interaction between the visitor and the art/artist that is SUPERMARKET’S founding idea and strength.  SUPERMARKET has grown from being an art happening in 2006 to becoming an international art fair – unique because it is run by artists. This year it again occupies Kulturhuset for a couple of rowdy days in mid-February, in the apocalyptic year 2012.  This year’s artist-run galleries will come from Albania, Australia, Bosnia, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Italy, Japan, Canada, China, Latvia, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Switzerland, Serbia, Singapore, Spain, UK, South Africa, Czech Republic, Germany, USA and Austria.

Encaustic, Rice paper, light, metal, graphite

The theme for our January Members show at Shift was shift, a photo montage of which is showing this month at Supermarket 2012.  All gallery members interpreted this idea in their own way and using varied media.  My piece in this exhibit is entitled lightshift.  Appealing during the season of little light, I made a shift in my encaustic work from painting two-dimensional solid images to working with light and hollow translucent forms .  In this piece, apparent symbolism on the lantern are actually nonsensical shapes from a sketch for a two-dimensional mural piece.  Here the shapes are scattered, much as light from the hollow of the form, covered with rice paper shapes, graphite and encaustic medium, is dispersed and reflected in the wall of the studio as the light shifts to that surface.