Favorite Artists Series

Coming soon!

A blog-entry series containing information and insight on my favorite artists and why they inspire me!

We’ll be starting with Salvador Dalí.

Digital ID: ppmsca 09633 Source: digital file from original photograph. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-09633 (digital file from original photograph). Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieve unedited JPEG version (106 kilobytes)TITLE: Salvador Dali A. CALL NUMBER: PH – Halsman (P.), no. 14 (AA size) [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ppmsca-09633 (digital file from original photograph)
RIGHTS INFORMATION: No known restrictions on publication. No renewal found in Copyright Office.
SUMMARY: Portrait photograph of Salvador Dali, including objects, cats, and water caught in surreal motion. MEDIUM: 1 photographic print : gelatin silver. CREATED,
PUBLISHED: c1948.
CREATOR: Halsman, Philippe, photographer. NOTES: J3769 U.S. Copyright Office. Title from item. Image also published as Dali Atomicus.
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And, yes, bear with me as I learn to properly site images!

Blog Revival

A few months have gone by since I’ve last updated this blog, but have no fear, I once again return with the confidence that I will blog!

Upcoming events include some trips up to the city to see some exhibits on Richard Avedon and some Asian photography. I’ll try my best to be time-appropriate in posting reflections on that.

14-Piece Exhibition at Art Object Gallery

As mentioned before, I had been preparing for a small exhibition at the Art Object Gallery in Japantown, San Jose. I believe they will be up longer than proposed, but I am not entirely sure.  The gallery owner and I are hoping to organize a reception some time in August. They include 14 pieces from my series An Expedition into the Footage of Revered Circadian Paraphernalia.

I will include photographs of the installed show soon.

Update

I’ve had to set aside reviewing the exhibits that I saw last week. Good news as to why, however. I am currently prepping and framing 14 pieces from An Expedition into the Footage of Revered Circadian Paraphernalia. They will be up for this weekend through the end of the month at Art Object Gallery in San Jose.

More details to come and I promise those reviews…

Also, please check out the newly updated Lara Fine Art website…more advancements to come.

Museum and Gallery Discussions

I will be starting my trips to museums and galleries tomorrow. The day before the museum (or, perhaps, that morning) I will announce what exhibit I am going to see. Later that day (or, perhaps, the next day) I will review what I’ve seen. I hope to do this at least twice a month.

Antidote for a Worry Some World, 2006 Acrylic on canvas 10 x 8 inches, Image linked to from the SJMA website. Credit Todd Schorr.

Tomorrow, Tuesday, I am heading out to the San Jose Museum of art with two of my artist colleagues to see the Todd Schorr: American Surreal exhibit. I think it will be interesting. Here is what the SJMA says about the exhibit:

“Todd Schorr: American Surreal is the first mid-career retrospective of the Los Angeles-based artist. Schorr is a leading figure in Southern California’s cartoon-based movement, dubbed “Pop Surrealism,” which embraces low-brow culture and a ribald graphic style indebted to pop sources such as Mad magazine. Schorr’s astonishing, highly polished realism, (inspired by Bosch, Brueghel and Dali), sets him apart from his best-known peers such as Camille Rose Garcia, Gary Baseman, and Mark Ryden. The exhibition, curated by SJMA’s Senior Scholar and Curator of Collections Susan Landauer, is accompanied by a book published by Last Gasp, San Francisco.”

It runs from June 20, 2009 to September 16, 2009.

Yes, yes I know.

Indeed, it has been yet another month or so that I have waited to post on this blog. I am not dead or uninterested in the arts. On the contrary, I have a lot of things that are coming up…after I get through some other things that are on my plate at the moment.

Coming up will be the sketches/paintings for the canvas project- due July 1st!

Also, I will be featuring (art-related) books that I am currently reading.

As a colleague of mine is doing on her blog; I will start posting and sharing art I find inspiring- old and new.

Until then…

PS- I also was given, for my birthday, a lovely black and white enarger and alternative dark-room processing supplies. More to come in later days.

Long Overdue Update

Yes, yes I have not updated here in quite awhile. Bullocks.

Anyway, I have the canvas project deadline coming up…still fleshing out the details on that. Will post when production begins.

Making some intial plans for the Noir shoot. That is going to be fairly intense.

Welcomed home a used (but brand new to me!) Omega enlarger. I’m so excited. Will certainly be doing some experimentation with that!

Shoot Assistant Experience

Yesterday I had the awesome opportunity to assist on a shoot with Gladys White. I was happy to be able to experience her current project, “I Dance”. I am so happy that I was there! I learned some new things about lighting and just enjoyed the overall vibe of being on a studio shoot. The dancers were all awesome and nice- it was a great day! The two other assistants were also super cool (one was a dancer as well).

I was also able to sneak around the studio, Citadel Artist Studios, and take some of my pwn photos- it is such an interesting place with lots of character! So, look for those images in Abstract and Landscape.

Don’t Forget!

This is the last week for the Momentum Show at the Art Object Gallery in Japantown in San Jose.

Friday, February 27th brings us the second Artist’s Panel as well as the Closing Reception.

The Artist’s Panel will be held from 6pm until 8pm and will feature Q&A with 4 artists from the show (including myself).

The Closing Recption will run from 5pm until 9pm and will feature Ken Matsumoto’s Tacomoto Taco Bar.

See you there!

My Pieces in Momentum

There is also another piece that is on an adjacent wall. Will put an image of that up shortly.