Photographs of Paintings (or painterly photographs) Part 3

Alexi Hobbs, Untitled, 2010

Bruce Wrighton, Yonda's Bar, Binghamton, NY, 1986

Lara Shipley, Creatures
 

Lori Nix, Museum of Art, 2005

Phil Jung, 588-Verbanes on the Desert, 2008

Robert Adams, Longmont, Colorado from What We Bought, 1970-74

 Yola Monakhov, Hotel, Perm, 2004

Yola Monakhov, Sign, 2010

Globes Part 4

Andrew B. Myers (I love this work - check out his website)

Lori Nix, Map Room, 2010

Matthew Gambler, From Any Color You Like

Meggan Gould from Small Moments

Rachel Hulin, Globe

Rachel Phillips

Rune Guneriussen, There is no earthly explanation, 2008

Sarah Malakoff, Untitled (Interior Blizzard, Roslindale, MA), 2005

 Seba Kurtis

Shawn Records

From an abandoned Russian school via

Fred Wilson, Atlas

Le Globe Celeste, Paris, 1900 via

Diorama Exhibition at the Museum of Art & Design, NY

Otherworldly: Optical Delusions and Small Realities features the work of some of my favorite artists who work in miniature: Lori Nix (image below), James Casebere, Joe Fig, and Paolo Ventura


Lori Nix, Violin Repair Shop

From the website: "Otherworldly: Optical Delusions and Small Realities illuminates the phenomenal renaissance of interest among artists worldwide in constructing small-scale hand built depictions of artificial environments and alternative realities, either as sculpture or as subjects for photography and video. These are worlds of "magic realism" conceived and realized through intense engagement with materials, attention to detail, and concern for meaningful content. In this exhibition, the works are presented as dioramas, models, snow globes, and site specific installations, as well as through photographs and video."

It's That Auction/Raffle Time of Year Again

I used to work at the Houston Center for Photography and the print auction was the biggest fundraiser. Unfortunately, it was a little too easy to purchase artwork for one's personal collection rather than observing everyone else empty their wallets (although I have no regrets in acquiring Abandoned Car from Lori Nix's Accidentally Kansas series).


Each year I receive an email from HCP advertising their next auction, I will admit to checking out the inventory to see if I can purchase a Ruth Thorne-Thomsen print like the one I no longer have (Dot Lady, WI, 1983).




No Thorne-Thomsen this year but had I all the money in the world, I would walk away with William Lamson's Horizon, 2009.



What all this really amounts to is that I'm procrastinating making my print for the Society for Photographic Education raffle that I was asked to donate to this year. What image you ask? Surely a cake but which one? Someday I hope to get over my fear of auctions (i.e. rejection) and not endlessly sweat over whether or not I will be giving away something that someone else deems desirable.