Cannon Gallery

The exhibit that I attended at the Cannon Gallery was called On Flowers and it was a collection of drawings and paintings of all flowers. The piece that I really thought was great was called Path. it was by an artist named James Lorigan and was an acrylic painting. I walked through the whole gallery and was only really intrigued by his work. They were all huge acrylic paintings with so much detail and color. It was really amazing

ordover gallery

The gallery that I attended was the Ordover Gallery that is located in Solana Beach, CA. It was a very small place but held 3 lead photographers that were just amazing. The first artist I came across was Lou Montrose and his exhibit was called India in Black. It was an exhibit of about 15 pictures that were all black and white and were shot in India. The first half was all portraits of various people in the country. I was really taken aback by the photos. There was so much intensity in the eyes of all the people that it was scary. The picture I came across later turned out to be my favorite of the whole trip. It was called Taj Mahal Studies 1 – From Across the Reflecting Pool. It was just the most beautiful shot of the Taj Mahal with the reflection so clear in the pool in front. The whole picture made it seem like it was just the more gorgeous, clear day when it was taken. It was great. I walked on and found the John D. Clark exhibit. These were all scenic pictures which I thought were great because they looked like something I would take a picture of. While my pictures are not as good, there was a slight resemblance which made me feel pretty good. The picture that I really loved was Grapevine Mountain-Death Valley. It was just a flawless scenic photo. I then reached the exhibit of Heidi Fickinger which was called Garage Lights. This was my least favorite exhibit because I found it odd. All the photos were taken in what looked like a parking garage at night. I didn’t think any of them were extraordinary. To me they were just weird pictures taken in a parking garage at night. I thought it to be the strangest concept, but then again I’m kind of new to this artist concept thing so I probably just didn’t get it.

diana willow

i really liked the piece that she built of the big rocking chair like structure. I liked that it was functional in the way that she wanted it to kind of take the person sitting in it back to the comfort level of being a child being rocked. It seemed to really serve its purpose and it looked really comfy.

brandenburg

so after seeing part of the video about this artist, there was one thing that he said that really stood out in my mind. He did his one photo a day book in order to get back to the roots of why he loved nature. It was his way of detoxing his craft. This is a very important lesson that many people don't realize is needed. You start a craft early, mine is music, because you love it. Everything you do with it is purely because you love it and it makes you happy. Then, more than likely, you start to get influenced by other aspects such as money, fame, etc. You lose site of the root, the love. Your craft has become a job. Its just what you do and not what you love to do. I really respect his view of getting back to the root and that he challenged himself so much in order to get back to that point.

Richard Misrach

I really enjoy the night shots that Misrach is able to capture. Its hard to try and capture things at night, especially capturing the world of colors during a sunset which he does beautifully. Trying to shoot a sunset is difficult because it is constantly changing so you have to just constantly shoot and hope you come out with one you like. I also like that all of his photos seem to cover so much space. Even though it may be a picture of a small object in the middle of the shot, there is so much captured around it that seems equally as important.

book works

so far my book is starting to really take shape as an inspirations of music idea. here are some works in progress

collier schorr

So there were a couple of things that she said in her video that i found to be quite interesting. The first was during the wrestling shooting where she said that this project came from the larger idea of photography a body of work that looked the same without actually being the same. The pictures provided the same expressions and same body language without being the same people constantly. I also could really appreciate her idea that she stated in the end about her wanting her work to unveil desire and repression and removing the myth and making it into something human which I think is harder than people imagine. This is kind of a hit or miss idea where most mainstream ideas about it, mostly advertisements and such, really miss it. Showing such a thing as desire is easy, its the humanizing of it that is missed most of the time. It just makes you think about how your work speaks. Is it really saying what you are? Interesting.