Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Julian Opie








































All the way back at the end of October, the gallery that I work at showed at the IFPDA Print Fair. Fairs are fun but hectic, and sadly there is little time left to see what the other galleries are showing. One artist that captured, was Julian Opie's set prints 'Untitled' featured at the Alan Cristina Gallery.

Monday, September 22, 2008

Setting up the new studio....






















....for my first real shoot with a professional model (haha, my friend who was in town for fashion week)

pictures to follow soon!

Monday, August 18, 2008

Dmitry Karakazov

Over the last few months I have been reading 'The Gulag Archipelago'. A book that I had tried to read for years, but never had the attention span to give much time to because of school work. Now that I have graduated and am in the real world I have finally been able to fully devote myself to the book. With the current state of Russia, today I got got thinking about the why things have developed the way they have in that region over the last 100yrs. I know thing are very different in Russia now, then they were during the Cold War, but all that has happened recently, paired with Solzhenitsyn's story of the Russian prison's saddens me greatly.

Today I found this while researching Dmitry Karakazov. I thought it was very fitting of a quote.








"The revolutionary is a doomed man. He has no interests, no affairs, no feelings, no habits, no property, not even a name. Everything in him is wholly absorbed by a single, exclusive interest, a single thought, a single passion--the revolution."

Sadly, I think this might more greatly pertain to the failings of modern life. Thus who are passionate about change often get steam roled

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Busted Backup Drive....

Makes for one very sad photographer. Until then it's fixed I guess I'm relegated art related posts.

Today at work as I was researching auction results I found these Warhol prints that I'd never seen before.

I thought these prints were really sweet and whimsical, and a very odd yet intriguing subject matter for Warhol.

It seems that moments like these make me happy that I took this job that at the time seemed a little out of my realm of expertise. Stepping out of your comfort zone can be really enjoyable sometimes.

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

We Are Shaped by What We Come From....

In Celebration of my mother's birthday afew days ago, I thought I'd post the pictures of her that I finally scanned and got around to retouching.


























They need alittle more work but I wanted to post them because I felt like as I am restarting my blog, I felt they were perfect little pieces of family history that so greatly shaped my artistic vision.

Thursday, June 12, 2008

A Start to New Things

Since the East Coast had been in the middle of a heat wave until Tuesday night's much needed Rain Shower, this image seemed to sum up how I felt standing in the with such joy.









It also felt like a very suiting image to re-start my blog with. I just love how the rain seems to wash away the old and bring with it a new start.