The show this post is about is titled “The Mind of an Artist.” But that’s a little too boxed-in for me. So I took of “the” and added a question mark. Because what I submitted that did get invited into the show certainly might tell you something about at least one of my minds, but it’s far from “The Mind” of this artist! Yes, I’m quarreling over semantics, but as also a teacher of writing, my mantra has long been “Words have meanings; each and every one either works for you or against you.” The call for this particular show…
Category: Recognition
Small Work
Holiday gift giving is just around the corner and the annual crop of “small works” shows has begun. Maybe this will be the year you try a small, affordable piece of art for a holiday gift? Las Laguna Gallery in Laguna Beach, California, is the first to have one of my pieces this year in their online “small works, BIG TALENT” show. The show opens November 7, so I don’t have a link yet. I’ll post it on the Facebook page when it comes, but you can also always just search for the gallery online. Seeing Eye to Eye happened…
Newer Work
I organize my photo archive by year, location, and date, in that order. Sad to say, my folders for 2023 and 2024 are kind of slim pickings. I just can’t seem to get out and shoot lately! So I’m especially pleased that, nevertheless, I have a few winners in those rather thin folders. Color Me Jazz is from a 2023 trip to Chicago. It was in a couple online shows earlier this year and is now hanging in the show called “Spot On #5” in the D’Art Gallery in downtown Denver. You will hear more about this gallery soon, as…
Abstracting
That’s what photography does: abstract. All photographs are abstract at the most basic level because they pull out and preserve a moment in time and space from the ongoingness and continuity of things. Whatever else photographers might be up to–journalism, art, documenting the family picnic, messing around, whatever–they are in the business of abstracting. But that’s only the beginning. Once that moment abstracted from time and space is on the photographer’s computer, the fun begins. Well, I have a lot of fun shooting. So, more accurately, the fun continues. In the case of Nevermore, I wanted the image to also…
Four Online
October seems to be ‘online show month.’ Here are some options for your browsing pleasure. Ghost Dancers and Fibonacci on the Beach are two faves of my own work, so it’s fun that both are in a show called “Black & White.” Why black and white? Because when the main subject matter is filtering light and/or curving form, color is irrelevant, even distracting. Of course, I also love beach grass falling in perfect Fibonacci spirals and Spanish-moss draped cypress trees undulating to the light! This show is hosted by The Hummingbird & Dragonfly Art Gallery in Los Angeles, CA. You…




