Tag: art

p2: May ’26 Review

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additions [p2’s ] .. missed links and updates to prior posts.

>> link [ Seeing it in person, however, gives a more weathered impression than in photographs.
The greens are not as vivid, and the garden feels dry, even somewhat rough.
It’s best not to expect something overly decorative.
Tōfuku-ji, A Study in Geometry and Garden Design in Kyoto

>> link [ Gabriel Antonio Reed is from New Market, Tennessee. He received his MFA from Hollins University and his PhD from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
“a will to change that derives from our inability to change ourselves”—Gabriel Antonio Reed
… Gabriel Antonio Reed

>> link VSW [Matthew Schlanger’s image processed video works are serial constructions created with custom-built analog and digital processors. Each video is a real-time synthesized recording in which sound and image are parallel structures, often using periodic waveforms as image and sound source material. Schlanger is both an artist and a tool maker. He has been working with analog synthesizers since the 1980s, and continues to create video in his home studio in Nyack, NY.

lumpy banger https://vimeo.com/18289189?fl=pl&fe=vl&goal=0_3b0c1d68ed-eef87426d4-631039129&mc_cid=eef87426d4&mc_eid=f0298e5cc5

–Invisible Fisherman: The Art of Bill Brand
now available through VSW Press

 VSW Press is pleased to announce that our most recent Film Art Book (FAB) publication is now available in the VSW bookstore! Invisible Fisherman: The Art of Bill Brand is a 160 page artist book featuring critical essays and full color images documenting the scope, breadth and impact of Bill Brand’s creative practice in film, installation, drawing and painting. Brand is well known for his work as a filmmaker and preservationist, and this book shines a light on his lifetime studio practice of drawing and painting. Brand himself navigates his portfolio in a “studio visit” with Tara Nelson, sharing his personal history with drawing and painting as a critical approach to problem solving and creative development throughout his career. 

Click to access VSWPressSPRING-26BillBrandRelease_FINAL042126.pdf

EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA, VSW provides a walk along the path, to this: https://expcinema.org/site/en/books/invisible-fisherman-art-bill-brand
AND opening that we come to a site of many others making the swim.
https://www.billbrand.net/biography preservation of experimental cinema-video.

I keep things.Shoes wear out twice. Shirts last past many washings, patches. I have a wool shirt that once seemed scratchy, now it is smooth comfort. 50 years just happens with some things. Ideas, strong enough to last, provide the same sustenance. Some ideas are not meant to last. The young have difficulty picking among them.

flexichrome — photographs are always colorized, it’s just that some tell better color lies..

i seem to repeat myself .. someone, at some time asked a question..on the web, nothing ever finishes; nothing is ever found.

flexhichrome.

just Friday (yesterday), as if by synchronicity, C found an old Flexichrome brochure among poetry magazines she was reviewing… keep, or pass along..

That refreshed my thinking about some posts I made several years ago… I wrote, but never published.

The Flexichrome process has special memories… serving as release from constraints that I was setting upon myself too early in my career to recognize as bad habits. Habit of “giving away” my eyes. to some prior, unknown visionary. Why let them set my standards?

So, maybe I will finish and release the tech post I made more than a decade ago on the process of Flexichrome.

spray bottle has been returned to her place above the wet sink in the processing room of the lab. Used to keep the lavender seeds and seedlings moist. Now, they are big enough to take on full water..

Relative humidity as well as other concepts will apply longer than the specific instance. that’s how firms as well as art schools and studios acquire and extend practice and theory awareness..
early, in fact my first reading about application of registration of masks and subs, included paper tape. when I realized that paper tape included an envelope with adhesive, I was able to revive a method from the 40s when packaging tape was widely available.. this was part of making a ‘cab,’ a carrier to hold mask and original.
The general principle must be combined, must be modified by your local current awareness; what’s available to you locally, currently. photography, all plastic Art as a practice includes a physical component, a manual component.. Our current change to a “text to image ” is part of the sense of many that we lose skills — visual art becomes removed from prior plastic concerns and privileges. The scale of the hand, the privileges granted to those practitioners with that skill diminishes when that skill no longer controls the input to the eye of the receiver..

Conception to perception is a tough path for some. particularly for those stuck forever in perpetual adolescence.

Friday photographers : 5.29 ’26

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uncorrelated link of photographers . they made my curiosity think

The book is not a niche, the book is the main street of Photography.

THEN LINKS === ‘The exhibition will foreground Monroe’s collaborative approach to image-making and her creative agency. De Dienes’ portraits offer some of the earliest photographs of Monroe — Muus Collection

=== ‘Throughout his career Hujar recorded more than a thousand photo shoots in his job books. These documents, transcribed and annotated by Olivia McCall, illuminate the contact sheets, rich in never-before-seen images as well as the earliest iterations of Hujar’s best-known works.’ Hujar:Contact — Mack https://www.mackbooks.us/products/hujar-contact-joel-smith

=== ‘Through extensive research and collaboration with women chasers worldwide, Chaplin Espenon advances a critical visual position in which storm chasing becomes an allegorical terrain through which broader structures of power, visibility, and autonomy come into view.’ risk as a gendered condition through storm chasing, : https://loosejoints.biz/products/blinded-by-your-grace

=== Thirty Cuts, Jim Goldberg. ‘His use of collage has been a mainstay of his practice apparent since the publication of his second book Raised by Wolves, published in 1995 by Scalo. This edition of only 750 copies from the Japanese publisher’ — https://www.dashwoodbooks.com/pages/books/30822/jim-goldberg/thirty-cuts

== OTHER THAN ==’Scholars @ Silver Eye is a year-long, intensive, work-based training program for college seniors from Pittsburgh-area universities with interests in photography, graphic design, arts education, art history, arts administration, and museum studies.’ https://silvereye.org/events/scholars-silver-eye

AIPAD 26 has concluded; press releases are at this link. YT will have public lectures… YouTube.com/AIPADPHOTO

I used AIPAD in the early 80’s as a sales place, a customer finder, a watering hole.. it is a trade organization, a gathering spot for showing wares. A showcase of the stable. As it is these things it attracts young or mid- career photographers. I found people in need of printing I also talked with some gallerists .. these people formed a small part of my contact and mailing list. I knew that if they knew about me but didn’t contact me or only wanted a price list, they weren’t a likely customer. I didn’t know that at first, but I learned. I also learned that going to trade shows and being on the floor isn’t as effective as being outside the trade-show talking with people gathering and discussing non-floor portfolios…

Beginnings1965: MFA fine arts photography within schools of art, and within universities with an art school
had to proceed a trade-show given to selling photography for the wall.
First comes understanding, next comes standing. The studio experience is key to the growth of photography as a wall art. It took approximately 15 years of art schools teaching photography as a studio art before there were enough galleries selling photography for there to be an association such as AIPAD.

The mature market for photographs as collectible items, as museum items, required the university and the educated collector .. The person prepared to treat a photograph as a fine art on paper suitable for putting on their wall.. work that they would live with; not the sterile work found in offices, but the vibrant work found in the home of the dedicated, mature collector.. beyond the sunset and moon-rise… more, some morning soon.

photographs are always colorized, it’s just that some tell better color lies

wallace berman

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[or: dec 27, 2016] a post that never finished began:
groups. goals. the single or simple. matters of influence(s) culture or conceit

the book stack 2016
1 provoke
2 studio
3 semina culture. TU
4 in a box Wed 28th
5 emanations Th
6 challenging art Fri 30th 
7 diane arbus revelations Sa
8 flower... Su Jan 1
9 good 70s	Mon Jan 2
Seems it was a planned series of posts... much collected references, along with short impressions. Berman's Semina Culture seems to have been assigned a Tuesday date. Wonder why I never finished the set.

Wallace Berman,(February 18, 1926 – February 18, 1976 [50]. Key terms in his work: Semina, a mail art publication published between 1955 and 1964, and Aleph, his long term film making project. It runs only 6 minutes, but took him from 1958 til 1976 to make. Stan Brackhage salvaged the 8mm film with a conversion to 16mm to be shown.

He appeared in Easy Rider (1969). Berman died on his 50th birthday, a prediction from childhood. He was killed by a drunk driver.

Exhibitions:

see: refresher handmade