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Posted in 1st Thurs Photos, Ponderings, my art updates on Aug 16th, 2008
<update: I’ve also put a version of the table below at: www.bradcarlile.com/bio/context.html >
Explorations of time and space are important to many artists. One of the early photographic pioneers of exploration is Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904). Those in Portland are fortunate to have the opportunity to see a nice collection of vintage Muybridge collotypes from [...]
Posted in 1st Thurs Photos on Aug 14th, 2008
Last fall I just missed the three-person show at Hasted/Hunt (NYC) that Gerald Slota was in. Missed it by a week. Slota’s new show at Quality Pictures (916 NW Hoyt, Portland, OR) was a chance for us to see some of his work.
Gerald Slota photographs look like constructed images from many sources. The [...]
Posted in my art updates on Aug 11th, 2008
My solo show at Galerie Maurer in Munich was covered in the PhotoMedia magazine Summer 2008 edition. In lead of the “People” section it says…
“Eighteen images from “Passage Perceptions,” a series by Portland-based photographer Brad Carlile, were on display in downtown Munich’s Galerie Maurer from February 1 to March 8. The 30- x [...]
Posted in Misc on Jul 14th, 2008
On Jörg Colberg’s weblog about fine-art photography there is a translated interview with Hilla Becher, which, unfortunately, only appears to be available in German. He translated some of the passages that struck him…
Q: You spent your life photographing industrial memorials: Hundreds of furnaces, hundreds of water towers, hundreds of coal bunkers. Is this about being [...]
Posted in Misc on Jul 10th, 2008
Somebody woke up o the wrong side of the bed… the wrong side of the contemporary art bed that is.
Jed Perl wrote this latest attack in “Postcards from Nowhere” for the The New Republic (Published: Wednesday, June 25, 2008)
I found his attacks to bounce around a bit, cherry pick, and lack some clear arguments for [...]
Posted in Main, Music, Ponderings on Jul 1st, 2008
Last November, I read a NYT article that said that Freud and psychoanalysis form a key part of humanities teaching, while in those same universities his teachings are virtually extinct in psychology courses. Read Patricia Cohen’s article “Freud Is Widely Taught at Universities, Except in the Psychology Department”
In the day, I took enough psychology [...]
Posted in 1st Thurs Photos on Jun 28th, 2008
This Saturday, Quality Pictures (916 NW Hoyt, Portland, OR) hosted a talk by Chas Bowie entitled “Before there was Ballen”. This was the closing event for the show “Roger Ballen: Photographs” at Quality Pictures.
Chas talked about the Ballen’s and how his work builds on a myriad of photographic traditions. Chas approached [...]
Posted in Misc on Jun 11th, 2008
Finally! cross-platform Web browser(Firefox) to support color management and use your custom display profile to display images. Safari has been doing this on the Mac, but now Windows users and of course all FireFox users can also have color-management. I’ve been a big supporter of Firefox and Thunderbird for years and promoting [...]
Posted in 1st Thurs Photos on Jun 6th, 2008
I started off June First Thursday at Eric Franklin’s show at the Laura Russo Gallery (805 NW 21st, Portland, OR). Eric’s new show is called “Bifurcations”.
Eric’s organic glass sculptures, are filled with a variety of noble gases, give them a a different soft yet surreal bioluminescent glow. Without touching, try hovering your hands [...]
Posted in 1st Thurs Photos on Jun 4th, 2008
Eric Franklin with have an First Thursday opening this week
at the Laura Russo Gallery (805 NW 21st, Portland, OR). Eric’s new show is called “Bifurcations”.
Eric’s organic glass sculptures, are filled with a variety of noble gases, give them a a different soft yet surreal bioluminescent glow. Without touching, try hovering your hands over [...]