Click image for detailed view

Flyer

OPENING RECEPTION Saturday June 4th 5-7PM at the RRCA Gallery for the month-long running of this exciting combo!  Yes, get two for the price of one (it’s really free).  This Exhibition will feature the art and fine craftsmanship of Madeleine and Steve Sabo with their artistic art from wood.

Photographers of the Lincoln County Photographic Society will fill the walls with over 50 pieces of artistic photography! A great selection for sale, remember art makes a great Father’s Day gift!

Light refreshments at the Opening Reception on Saturday June 4th from 5-7PM at the RRCA Gallery and it will be open Wednesday-Friday 10-3pm and select Saturdays throughout the month of June.

The New Mexico Museum of Art is currently showing the work of three FSA photographers in New Mexico – John Collier Jr., Jack Delano, and Russell Lee.

The exhibit will continue until June 4, 2010…and is well worth seeing! Learn more about the exhibit and view images HERE.

Daisy is a local artist exploring painting, writing, and photography. Her work is unique and full of life and color. This site has been a bright spot in my day…inspiring!

Visit her site HERE (check out the galleries!)

Look at her photo blog HERE.

(View a slideshow of this exhibit HERE)

“Breakthroughs aren’t always all they’re cracked up to be. Collage, one of riverheads of modernism, is usually thought to have been introduced around 1912, when Braque and Picasso began gluing pieces of newsprint and wallpaper to their Cubist drawings.

But what if it turns out that at least one form of collage was practiced decades earlier, not in Paris in the teens but in Victorian England in the 1860s and ’70s? And not by ambitious your-body-my-art macho geniuses but by women at the highest reaches of society, including the royal family? This rejiggering of history is fundamental to “Playing With Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage,” a seemingly modest, almost scattered, yet strangely reverberant exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

In all fairness, “Playing With Pictures” includes the work of one man and also a French woman, but in the main it demonstrates how upper-class English women — some of whom knew one another — introduced cutout photographs into the albums of watercolors, sketches and writing that had long been an approved female leisure activity.

…

Using their new vernacular the photocollagists developed a series of shared conventions, though individual styles come through. Recurring motifs range from polite, vividly colored drawing-room tableaus to fantastical creatures that merge human heads with animal bodies. The tiny faces of friends and family are added to painted images of fans, cameo necklaces, umbrellas and playing cards and, most mysteriously, to the tail feathers of a turkey, still attached. Or they serve in place of stamps or wax seals on carefully drawn and addressed trompe l’oeil envelopes. The most over-the-top feat of trompe l’oeil occurs in an album by Frances Elizabeth Bree, who outfitted a painted image of a photo album with actual photographs and, quite a bit more surprising, pages that actually can be turned…”

(Read the full article HERE)

The View From the Wall

Excerpts from an article written by Steve Cherry.

I do just enough corporate travel each year to push me into that category of fliers who are a bit more familiar with airports than they would really like to be. But this familiarity has a nice silver lining to it, and as a photographer, that translates to a target-rich environment for capturing people in a sort of raw, unrehearsed setting of life.

So, how should one go about catching this unique environment with a camera? Some photographers worry that federal agents will swarm upon them and seize equipment if they even try to pull out pro equipment on an airplane or in a terminal. I have to admit that at first, I had some serious reservations of my own – but the temptation was just too great!

My photo-conscious eye was constantly being drawn to interesting exchanges, lighting, and motion. I was missing shots left and right because I was just too timid to react. Finally, one fine day at Denver International, I just started blazing away in concourse B. You know what? No one made a peep. They barely noticed I was there. I have been shooting airports, terminals, and airplanes ever since, and it is amazing how much fun and excitement it brings.

Click HERE to read Cherry’s tips on terminal photography and to view some of  his work.