NYC Gallery Visit

I travelled to NYC this weekend with my mentor, Jim Dow to visit some galleries. The list of galleries is long and to put it simply we went to about 12. I did get to see the Crewdson show and many others. The best part of the trip was the travel to and from NYC. Jim and I discussed everything from art to politics. I got a lot of great advice and hope to use it in my work. I had the pleasure to meet Janet Borden the owner of Janet Borden Gallery.I can't stress enough what a pleasure it has been to have Jim as a mentor. He is so giving and authentic. In a couple of weeks I will be accompanying Jim on a photo shoot. This is something I have been really looking forward to. We ended up our gallery trip at his gallery to see his work (which I love) before it was taken down.

Over the past month I have gone to numerous artist talks, the last being Larry Sultan at Mass Art. He certainly was the best. All of this information will be the focus of my last paper. I have taken more pictures this month than the previous and hope to continue this right up until our June residency.

Second Portland Visit

I went to Portland ME. again for a family day trip. I didn't get a chance to take a lot of photos though I did bring the fisheye to better emulate the Rackstraw Downes technique. I also couldn't help myself at the Cape Elizabeth lighthouse. Today I took a few photos in Somersworth NH.

New Work Posted

I've posted 11 new images. With the warm weather coming I expect to take a lot more photographs. Recently I have been reading a lot of John Brinckerhoff Jackson. Actually he played a large role in the research for my 3rd residency paper. I went to see Ralph Gibson at a PRC talk at B.U. He is an old school type of photographer. I didn't hear him once talk about photography as a post-modern form of representation. LOL. I ran into a few AIB students there too. Next week Larry Sultan will be at Mass Art and Tina Barney at another PRC talk. I plan to go to both. Jeff Wall, well what do I say? I've been reading quite a bit about him and still haven't made up my mind about his work. Here is a link to an iTunes podcast by him at an artist talk. It's very good.
I recently picked Jeff Brouws's new book Approaching Nowhere. I have an affinity to him though he's a bit more pessimistic about the future.