Artist Kate Petley is opening the exhibition, The Very Thing, at the Von Lintel Gallery on March 14th. Kate’s approach to her art making collapses “the boundaries between sculpture, photography, and painting.” Starting with ordinary materials, she photographs small constructions and then prints the enlarged image on canvas, providing the potential for interventions with a […]
Archives for March 2020
Joshua Dudley Greer: Somewhere Along the Line
The photographs of Joshua Dudley Greer are like small novellas that contain pathos, humor, and unfinished stories, where the every day and the overlooked are elevated to a place of uncomfortable beauty. I see the work like a series of film stills, those final scenes of a visual journey that takes the viewer through emotion […]
Fran Forman: The Rest Between Two Notes
“I communicate with the world by creating visual narratives of composited photographs, often illuminating that in-between moment in time. It is how I explore dreams deferred, connections to prior generations, the natural world and our place within it. Making art is my psychological release, my obsession and my salvation. – Fran Forman” Fran Forman has […]
Keeper of the Hearth: Picturing Roland Barthes’ Unseen Photograph
“In order to see a photograph well, it is best to look away or close your eyes.” – Roland Barthes Forty years ago, French literary theorist Roland Barthes wrote the Camera Lucida (La Chambre claire), a book and way of thinking that has influenced generations of photographers. Published in 1980, shortly before his death, the […]
Frazier King: The Collector’s Eye
It’s always fascinating to peek into the flat files and onto the walls of photography collectors. And even more interesting, is to examine the compilations made by collectors who are photographers themselves. Frazier King, lawyer-turned-photographer, 15-year board member of the Houston Center for Photography, and avid photography collector is releasing a book based on his […]
Art + Science: Nature and Nurture: Doug Eng
It has been medically proven that when immersed within nature, one’s anger, fear and stress tends to melt away. Nature heals. Even placing a plant indoors can bring one closer to nature. For me, being in the mountains, desert and near the ocean, I can find my personal place of sanctuary. Yet, Mother Nature doesn’t […]