UH070 Digitally Stylized Photograph in my FotoFest exhibition
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Finding location...
oliverart.com says:
Saturday Dan wanted a snapshot of himself with Ronald Reagan’s bust. Really the foundry is amazing and the busts are fabulous over on Summer street.
We did Colquitt, but got there right at closing, since we dallied at Khyber grill over the Indian food. Goldseberry Gallery, especially the jewelry fascinated Nancy so by the time she was done Cleary had closed. Lisa and I did get to see Cleary and the images created from “strips” of 35mm slides were interesting, colorful and ingenious. Maggie Taylor and other Cleary standards were up, so well worth the trip. Cleary Gallery was evolving in the past bit just before his death and was going to the solid cutting artistic edge. I hope this continues. New Gallery was closed and so was Hooks. Watermark, was open and had two sets of work up. Nancy called one Zen black and whites and that’s not a bad description. Lisa and her Mom (who joined us) enjoyed the color still life’s of cut fruit on the back wall. Watermark usually has good things, although always very conservative, and did not disappoint or surprise. Solid well crafted, livable, not breakthrough work that presses the medium or art.
The finds of the meeting place, journeymen work, and quoting a well known collector/photographer from a family of photographers volunteering for FotoFest, not my cup of tea.
In the back were color images of people with farm animals – a la Diane Arbus. I know farm and ranch folk a little, having worked on barns and farms images for years. The series was not really characteristic of the people nor a good documentary of the life and concerns of these people whose job is to produce the food we all eat and a large part of the exports of the United States. They don’t deserve to be mocked like this “artist” did, I found it down right offensive. Self centered, self important better than everyone artistic viewpoints give artists a bad name, it gives reviewers and FotoFest a bad name that this travesty was the “best”. It is always a bad sign when you start thinking, it’s a free country they have a right to say it. Work like this in my opinion is part of the reason so many people want to cut art from schools and the national endowment for the arts. I suppose it is part of the wonder of FotoFest, pointed out by the China theme, that we do have the right to “say” such things, but courtesy, honesty and fairness says sometimes we shouldn’t.
The large black and whites that included pictures of torn panty hose executed well and consistent with their subject matter, just simply boring and overdone. The vertical snapshots of people that needed a description almost as big as the image were poorly composed and if they need that much description…… Posed contrived pictures of young girls at risk, just to me not effective – too pretentious.
It is a little hard to get to and certainly NOT WORTH THE EFFORT – finds of the Meeting Place indeed!
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