Modern Mouse, a very cool new modern gift and home accessories store in Alameda, is offering prints from my Cranes+Containers series for sale this fall. Stop by the Alameda Town Center and check out all the ultra-local modern wares the MM team has assembled!
I’m pleased to have been chosen as one of the 10 photographers in Duckrabbit Digital‘s inaugural Portfolio Project. “End of the city, Sunset District, San Francisco” from Composited Neighborhoods is being released today in a limited edition of 20 prints available from Duckrabbit’s website.
The image is being printed on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag paper using the awesome Piezography K7 carbon-based ink set — quite likely the highest-quality black-and-white printing process currently available. The prints will be available at Duckrabbit’s site until the edition sells out.
After seeing the Composited Neighborhoods show at Aunt Mary’s, someone from our own neighborhood got in touch and commissioned a piece based on his house. The resulting image is a little out of the ordinary for this concept, as it’s just one house seen multiply instead of many different (similar) things imaged together, but it was a fun challenge and an interesting new way to engage with this project.
I’m delighted to be doing the inaugural art show at the new Actual Cafe at San Pablo and Alcatraz in Oakland. There will be an opening reception (also the grand opening of the cafe) on Friday, January 8, from 6-10 PM. Hope to see you there….
The composited neighborhoods series, now 14 strong, is on display this spring at Aunt Mary’s Cafe in the Temescal district of Oakland (43rd and Telegraph, three blocks up Telegraph from MacArthur BART).
I have a (very) small piece in a (very) large benefit/exhibit/sale in New York this month.
The piece is a tiny version of “Painted Ladies,” one of three brand-new pictures from my slowly growing composited neighborhoods project.
The event is “Postcards From the Edge,” an annual benefit for Visual AIDS, the art-based AIDS awareness and HIV prevention organization. Essentially, 1600 or more artists have each contributed a 4″x6″ postcard-sized work for the event; they’ll all be sold (or as many as possible) at a showing at Metro Pictures (519 W 24th St) on January 9, 2009 (preview party the night before). Should be an invigorating show: an overwhelming mixture of big names and little-knowns, arrayed in an anonymous grid across the walls of the gallery, all available for a standardized price (or five for the price of four!) and the money going to a good cause.
I’m showing quite a bit of work this fall at Maison Nouveau, a real estate office in Rockridge (google map). The show includes:
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.