Absolute Blogmusings from an absolutely blank mind Hold The Front Page!The catalog for the exhibition "Field Notes: Landscape and Architecture" at Black Box gallery in Portland OR is now available, and look: my image "Dark House" has been selected for the front cover!
You can also check out the catalog for Black Box's exhibition "Color: The Revolution" (here) which features my image LoveLoveLove Receptioned!Thanks to everyone who came to the opening reception of the Bay Bridge exhibition at the 4x5 gallery in San Francisco yesterday! It was nicely busy (without being too crowded). Gordon and Hung (gallery owners) must have been very happy with the turnout.
I had a great time chatting with the other photographers and met some lovely people. I hope I'll get to meet many of you again! It's a small gallery, and a nice well curated selection of images. If you missed the reception, don't worry. The gallery is open every day from noon to 6pm, and the show is on until July 27th. The area is fun to explore too (no doubt I'll be back with a camera at some point!) Boosting the BayThis year (2013) sees the 75th anniversary of the San Francisco Bay Bridge, and (...possibly) the opening of its newly constructed Eastern Span replacement. To mark this occasion, the 4x5 Gallery in San Francisco, CA is holding an exhibition of images of San Francisco's second most iconic bridge. My image, "Iron and Light" is one of those selected for the show, which runs from June 17th through July 21st.
Click here to see the image in the gallery. To create this image I had to drive back and forth over the bridge at sunset holding my camera out of the sunroof! It took a few attempts over a couple of nights, but I finally got what I wanted! The 4x5 Gallery is a new small photographic gallery located in San Francisco's trendy Lower Haight, at 442 Haight St., San Francisco. The opening reception will be held THIS SATURDAY June 22nd, 4-7pm. I will be there and hope to see you at the gallery!
Here's your invitation: Calling Portlanders!Unfortunately I can’t be there in person, but it’s the First Friday Art Walk in Portland’s Eastside TONIGHT! (Friday June 7). If you happen to be in the neighborhood, check out the Black Box Gallery (811 E Burnside St.) where I have a photograph in the group show “Field Notes: Landscape and Architecture”. The opening reception is tonight so you might get a glass of wine if you play your cards right. (Just tell them I sent you!)
The print on exhibition was made by the gallery (not me), so I'm curious to see how that turned out! Dark House Have fun! WaterscapeIt seems silly to call it a "landscape" when it's mostly water (...and that includes the clouds of course!). This is the featured photo for June - a "waterscape" taken in Cape Cod earlier this year.
Click here to view the image in the gallery. Obviously the first thing that appealed to me was the symmetry of that central cloud with it's reflection neatly bracketing the "island" (technically a headland, I think). The other aspect is the color. As you can see, the photo is split horizontally with the top half being more influenced by the blues of the sky while the lower part shows a warm beige tint from the sand which lies just inches below the surface of the water. The waters' edge is just out of shot, but you know it's there - the boundary of land and sea is implied. By giving the viewer both this (implied) near and far (island) reference points - the distance is made to seem unimaginatively vast - and that far land becomes an exotic, desirable, but ultimately out-of-reach destination. Hmm. Maybe it IS all about land after all... |
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