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HIGH PEAK MONOCACY
William Dilworth + Mike Nesbit, 2020
Digital Exhibition 04


"Over the years I have built things, being a basically competent carpenter. Those things that I cared less about were more joyously arrived at and curiously captured a vivacity that lingers. CARE can be burdensome. I think there too, the outcome is in priority to the process and so the making is more of an effort than journey. I just looked up vivacity. 'Attractively lively and animated'. This joint endeavor that we are on is animating studios while the pandemic rivets us to our places. Liveliness from combining studio practice and place."

"If there was a word for this time of globally sheltering in place with dire purpose it could be Monocacy."
- William Dilworth,  "Re: Monocacy Landscapes."  Received by Mike Nesbit. 6 April 2020.

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No. 19.
​Report of Lieut. Col. David R. Clendenin, Eighth Illinois Cavalry, of operations July 4-10, including battle of Monocacy.
Headquarters Eighth Illinois Cavalry,
Baltimore, Md., 14 July 1864.
"When the rebel infantry charged upon our left and our forces had fallen back, I retired toward Urbana, skirmishing with the enemy’s cavalry. They pressed me closely and made several charges. At Urbana the Seventeenth Virginia Cavalry charged me with desperation, but were repulsed with the loss of their colors, their major, color bearer, and several men killed and a number wounded."
- United States War Department, et al., The War of the Rebellion: a compilation of the official records of the Union and Confederate armies. (Washington: GPO, 1880-1901) 219-221.
​

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no longer still
But linger still
taking position by jostle & choice
suggesting the inevitable
banding
tribal songs
Miles winking or staring?
a fence no longer of separation
filmatic, cinematic
linked by sections
substance spread thickening
the fence goes on to the far ends and bump of battlefield
eyes raise searching
for a way to stay alive
win the day
survive
a fence no longer of separation
we are joined in battle of reverence & play 
relevant now in the bare teeth of the life & death of our moment in time
punctuating it
red & green being complimentary  
we look for a good way forward
we go on
go on


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Self-isolated viewing of HIGH PEAK MONOCACY in Little Italy, Omaha:
Photos Courtesy of Dan Schwalm
Video Courtesy of Dan Schwalm
Complied video from William Dilworth's farm in the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York:
Video Courtesy of William Dilworth
Compiled video from Mike Nesbit's current daily drive from Frederick, MD to Urbana, MD:
Video Courtesy of Mike Nesbit
Complied video from William Dilworth's farm in the Adirondack Mountains + Mike Nesbit's location at the Battle of Monocacy:
Video Courtesy of William Dilworth & Mike Nesbit
Photos Courtesy of William Dilworth & Mike Nesbit
Email conversation between Mike Nesbit and William Dilworth regarding this digital exhibition:

About the Artists:
William Dilworth’s paintings range in size and palette, incorporating smooth streaks of color and shapes that defy recognition for how they were made. Each intentional gesture is a spontaneous exploration of movement and material. Forgoing canvas, Dilworth paints on Formica, a thin, strong plastic laminate that allows his oil paints to travel across the surface. In some works, smoothness is interrupted with bark-like texture, the cumulative result of the artist’s fingertips, motion, and time. Dilworth paints on the floor using the soles of his shoes instead of brushes to lessen the practiced control of hands, “I don’t want to impose things. I want to discover things.”
 
Dilworth (b. 1954, Detroit) is based in New York City. His artistic discipline spans drawing and writing with a concentration on abstract painting. He received his BFA from Wayne State University, Detroit. He has been featured in solo and group shows across the country and in Paris. 

​www.williamdilworth.com

Mike Nesbit is a fine artist based in Los Angeles.  With a background in architecture, his multidisciplinary trajectory greatly informs his artwork, allowing Nesbit to explore areas between art and architecture with a focus on technique, repetition, and representation. Nesbit has participated in solo and group shows throughout the United States.  He received a Bachelor of Architecture from the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles and played four years of professional baseball with the Seattle Mariners.
www.mikenesbit.com
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  • ABOUT
    • BOARD OF DIRECTORS
    • THE SPACE
  • EXHIBITIONS
    • SEASON 8 (2025) >
      • PICTURES OF NOTHING
    • SEASON 7 (2024) >
      • THE SILENCE OF LIGHT
      • SEASONS
      • HOME ON THE RANGE
      • DE STIJL TRANS AM
      • SITE WORK
      • FOR RICHER, FOR POORER
      • MATTER SHIFTING SHAPE
    • SEASON 6 (2023) >
      • OPEN STUDIO V
      • NEBRASKAFLAT
      • WORDS HAVE GONE TO SLEEP INSIDE...
      • EN SILENCIO
      • SHOW AND GO
      • OPEN STUDIO IV
      • POST FACADE
      • GANDZASAR AT HIGHLAND
    • SEASON 5 (2022) >
      • WHO KNOWS WHAT WILL HAPEN
      • VENTURING MIDWEST
      • OPEN STUDIO III
      • BROKE EVEN WHEN I BET THE FIELD
      • HARMONY AND DISSONANCE
      • OPEN STUDIO II
      • THE FADE
      • SPIRALING SOLITUDE
      • IMPROVISE
      • OPEN STUDIO
    • SEASON 4 (2021) >
      • Automatic Composition
      • This Will Get Us Somewhere
      • CRUISE CONTROL
      • Off Alondra and Hickory
      • DIG
      • Unfamiliar Appearing
      • Floral Rodeo
      • Shiny Side Up
      • Expecting Snow
      • FORWARD
    • SEASON 3 (2020) >
      • EMPTY SPACES
      • Winter Saturdays are for Spring
      • A High Disregard
      • Between the Void
      • 12:38
      • Precarious as Obtained by Entreaty or Prayer
      • A Morning in Little Italy
      • Past Grounded in Nature
      • Silence and Intimacy
      • Highway Hypnosis
      • Between Nonchalant and Relaxed
      • The Fickle Crowd
      • High Peak Monocacy
      • 251,000 Trees
      • Textured Sound
      • The Room and The Landscape
      • VERNACULAR
      • MOVEMENTS
    • SEASON 2 (2019) >
      • FOUNDATION DRAWINGS
      • DANIEL IN OMAHA
      • SHED
      • Little Italy Abstracts
      • CHARRETTE
      • The Hand and The Arm
      • A Surfer's Time
      • Los Angeles Sunsets and Quiet Landscapes
      • Perspective BLUE
      • No Road Most Traveled
      • POST-NOVIS
      • Pairings
    • SEASON 1 (2017-2018) >
      • KATHY
      • Above The Silos
      • THE BLUES
      • To Be Pigeon Holed
      • The Fool's Journey
      • Wall Assembly
      • The Map and its Porcelain Goat
      • Loose Landing
      • Long Ago, Far Away
      • Victories Over The Sun & Campus Stories
      • Perspective Flood
      • Falling Vertical
      • Textured Blue
      • FLOOD
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