I’m showing quite a bit of work this fall at Maison Nouveau, a real estate office in Rockridge (google map).  The show includes:

• All eight pieces from my current Composited Neighborhoods project;
• About 12 selections from the Cranes + Containers series;
• And some work that’s so new I haven’t put it up on this site yet!  (It’s available for viewing at JPG Magazine for now).  It’s a group of diptychs (and one, um, quad-tych) shot with a vintage Olympus Pen EE-2 half-frame camera.

So I’m migrating my ‘news’ page to Wordpress, a blogging platform.  Soon I’ll have all the existing content of the old news page moved over, and then (at least in theory) it’ll be much easier to add new stuff.

UPDATE:  I apparently have a lot to learn about css.  :-)  The images aren’t working out for me at the moment, so for now this will just be a big page of text.

I was one of 48 photo-based artists selected to participate in Alameda on Camera 2008.  We were each assigned a sector of Alameda in a lottery on February 22, and then we had the next 48 hours to go out and shoot it.  The results of the project will be shown at the Frank Bette Center for the Arts during the month of April (opening Friday, April 4, 7–9 PM).

UPDATE: With the Alameda on Camera project I’m starting a new body of work, “composited neighborhoods,” using intensively layered photographs to explore commonalities and differences among houses, buildings, streetscapes, and other features of neighborhood environments.  I’ve posted a new gallery of the work from Alameda; read more about it here, come out to the Frank Bette Center to see the work in person, and stay tuned for more in this series.

UPDATE 2:  My piece “The 800 block” was awarded Best of Show.  I appreciate the recognition, and I’m even more galvanized to pursue these ideas further.

I have three pictures from the Blur series hanging at TOUCH, a new salon in the Montclair district in Oakland (google map).  The opening reception (also the grand opening of the salon) is December 6.

“K-Line containers” has been selected for the ArtworkSF “Vessel” show at Hotel Triton (google map).  The theme has obvious resonance for me, so I’m looking forward to seeing the other work in the show.

I have four pictures from the cranes + containers series in a show with two other artists (Lisa Feather and Annette Aust) at InYourElement, a modern furniture store and design studio in San Francisco (google map).  The opening is Wednesday, June 13, and the pieces will be up for most of the rest of the summer.

I’m showing the “intentional blurs” pictures at Aspect Gallery and Custom Framing in San Francisco.  It’s a frame shop and gallery space located at 731 Polk St. (between Ellis and Eddy) (google map).  The opening for the show is Saturday, May 5, 6-10 PM, and the show will be up through June 20.

I have 10 photographs in “The Photo Show” at the Notary Gallery in Oakland.  Here’s the press release from the gallery:

EXHIBITION: 

The Photo Show

LOCATION: 

The Notary Gallery

499 Embarcadero East (@ 5th Ave.)

Building B

Oakland 94604

DATES: 

March 31st - April 29th

OPENING RECEPTION: 

Saturday, March 31, 6-10pm

DESCRIPTION: 

The Notary presents the works of four Bay Area photographers, each of whom offers a unique interpretation of the medium. Uri Korn assigns narrative to the unstaged moment with his black and white images. David Uzzardi focuses on the emotional possibilities of urban street scenes in his series, appropriately titled “Streets”. Allan Ayres pays homage to the manufactured environment of the industrial landscape. Eric Philpott explores the reductive via multiplicity and grid with his installation, “At the Cemetery Gates”.