Images from the 2012 sketchbook are in the portfolio on the website. The Sketchbook show will be at the Hyde Park Art Center May 3 - 5. Check back for more information - I plan to be there two of the days.

I had a painting, "Blue Light Therapy" in the show "Blue" at the dispatch gallery. The link to the gallery is in my links page. The show was open from January 28 to February 24, 2012. The gallery is located at 1734 W Cortland in Chicago.

The show is based on the conceptual idea of blue and/or the formal qualities in art based on blue. My work in the show is related to one type of light therapy that can be used to treat SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder), other mood disorders, and sleep problems. The piece is blue in hue (and therefore a direct visual connection to the show's theme). However, the more important relevance to me is the contextual connection of blue light used to heal depression/sleep problems whilst the connotation (at least in America) is that to be blue is to be depressed.

My subject for the notebook was Things that Changed Over Things. I decided to create simple drawings the explore three areas of causality: logical, physical and psychological. The project travelled to galleries throughout the US.

The website is http://arthousecoop.com/users/apuotinen

I've also added a link to this project on my links page.