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.

Momentum Special Events

Reception Reflections

This is the poster for the show. Initial word is that the gallery had 300-500 people come through last night for the opening reception. I think that is awesome. Everyone had great pieces and I am excited to see what happens over the next month while the show is in the gallery.

I ended up having five pieces in the show.* I think they looked awesome and I am thankful to everyone that helped me get the unexptected pieces ready and up to hang.

* The back-story on this: I had originally submitted only one piece to the show. The show organizer of our group, Deborah, wanted me to bring in another peice for the other side of the wall (to balance things). She and the gallery owner, Ken Matsumoto, ended up looking at my entire portfolio (that I had brought in because it was easier to transport than just three or so pieces) for “Revered Footage of Circadian Paraphernalia“. Ken chose a few more images for me to hang…and the rest is history, as they say. I am quite thankful to both of them for encouraging me to hang more.

Momentum Show

Very early details:

I have an upcoming show this February. It is a group exhibition entitled “Momentum” and it will be held in San Jose.

The opening date is February 4th and the opening reception is February 6th from 4pm-9pm.