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Posted in Misc on Feb 29th, 2008
Next week I head to attend Houston FotoFest2008. I will try to cover various shows as well as try to give a day-by-day account of what I see from the photographers point of view in the portfolio review sessions (The Meeting Place). It will be an insider’s view of a portfolio review.
Note: If [...]
Posted in my art updates on Feb 26th, 2008
A group show “Keep Portland Weird!†group show will be held in Portland City Hall in March. It has a First Thursday opening that is going to be quite the event. So come to the opening and have fun with artists and politicians and the rest of your fellow citizens!
The [...]
Posted in my art updates on Feb 26th, 2008
I’ve updated two of the Portfolios on my website: “Night Amalgam” and “Passage Perceptions.” Take a look.
Shows of my Art open in March (Munich & Portland):
Munich Show: My solo show is still open in downtown Munich. I’ve gotten some great response from it and have sold a quarter of the show at this point. [...]
Posted in Misc on Feb 20th, 2008
A key thing for any photographer to do is to edit oneself. Most fine-art photographers I know take too many images and then try to keep and show all of them. Reality is that when you are showing your work to collectors, gallerists, curators, magazines, etc. you really need to focus them on [...]
Posted in Art Car on Feb 19th, 2008
I took the art car up to Mt. Hood Meadows to ski on President’s day. On the left is an image of it at the end of the day. I, of course, skiied hard till the very last lift. The filled lot had largely emptied by the end of the day.
This was [...]
Posted in Misc on Feb 17th, 2008
FotoFest Photographer’s portfolio review is every two years (officially it is called “The Meeting Place”). The public part of the international FotoFest Biennial are the shows that occur throughout Houston.
The portfolio reviews give photographic artists 20 minute face-to-face reviews with important international museum curators, gallery owners, photo festival directors, representatives of photo agencies, collectors, [...]
Posted in Misc on Feb 12th, 2008
I tossed a couple of ideas into PORT’s Portland bridge design contest, see PORT’s bridge award here. PORT shows a few of my jpgs and some other interesting designs.
The 2nd and 3rd jpegs are the same design, except at night and in low winds a screen/sail is unfurled to allow art to be [...]
Posted in 1st Thurs Photos, Other Openings on Feb 8th, 2008
Michael T. Hensley’s “Loss/Control” show at Mark Woolley Gallery (817 SW 2nd, Portland OR) was a great place to start Portland’s First Thursday this month. Chromatically you had your choice of vibrant blue or cream&rust. Both worked wonderfully for me.
The cream and rust were more numerous and had some beautiful isolated interesting intimate [...]
Posted in Other Openings on Feb 4th, 2008
Rauschenberg’s “Runts” at PaceWildenstein Gallery (534 West 25th Street, NYC, Chelsea). These works are created from Rauschenberg’s archive of photographs, which he then transfers onto polylaminate mounted on aluminum panels. These images are of a more personal nature than other commercial images that appear in earlier work.
“Mine is the need to be where it [...]
Posted in my art updates on Feb 2nd, 2008
My solo show opened at Galerie Maurer (Munich, Germany) this weekend it will run until 8-March. The gallery owner, Wolfgang Maurer, is showing 18 of my 30″x40″ images. Several of the images are shown as face-mounted plexi, while others are hung as raw prints which heighten the study of change and impermance, I [...]