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Study for Light Projection’s 38 & 39 (Negative Versions) 2015 by Thomas Brummett
(From Unique Silver Gelatin Prints)
Each work is 36×47″ 100 year Color Pigment Print
Edition of 5
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Study for Light Projection’s 38 & 39
Most photographers don’t spend a lot of time thinking about constructing an image. Good painters on the other hand spend a great deal of time planning, sketching and sweating the composition and in Disiderio’s case meaning. For me this is what separates the realist painters; How they think about and express meaning in their imagery. Vincent Desiderio is a great example of the amount of shear work, toil, sweat and thought that goes into the creation of one of his works.
Excellent Article On his legendary painting Sleep: Unfinished: On Vincent Desiderio’s ‘Sleep’ by Lawrence Weschler
Catalog reproduction of Vincent Desiderio, Sleep, 2008 oil on canvas 52 x 252 inches
Sleep in progress
Detail of Sleep
Interview here: http://paintingperceptions.com/featured-interviews/interview-with-vincent-desiderio
Nice article here: http://www.nccsc.net/legacy/vincent-desiderio
The Work of Vincent Desiderio
One of our country’s greatest portrait painters passed away recently. Nelson Shanks was also Philadelphia’s own. Students came from all over the world to attend his school which was just a block around the corner from me. A monumental mind with a monumental talent who touched everyone from dignitaries to students throughout his life. This self portrait was one of his last apparently.
via http://www.studioincamminati.org/
There is no obituary that can possibly capture this man. Here are a few that make a good attempt:
Nelson Shanks painting Margaret Thatcher in 1994 (Via Newworks.org)
Nelson Shanks 1937-2015
Olafur Eliasson is part artist and part mad scientist. He is a very curious guy and manages to consistently makes incredible objects and environments. This video is about turning a massive hand made metallic sphere in the studio but the real magic begins after the job is done and the thing begins to spin….
His current exhibition sadly ( if you live in America ) is in Europe at the Langen Foundation in Germany.
Olafur Eliasson: Boros Collection 1994 – 2015
On view until 18 October, 2015
via http://www.olafureliasson.net/
Olafur Eliasson: Sphere
Under Construction – New Positions in American Photography is a very interesting show of young photographers at the huge Pioneer Works Center for Art and Innovation. The exhibition originated at the Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam better known across the pond as Foam. Looks like the the still life and constructed image is alive and well…
Group exhibition featuring works by Joshua Citarella, Jessica Eaton, Daniel Gordon, Matthew Leifheit & Cynthia Talmadge, Matt Lipps, Matthew Porter, Sara Cwynar, Kate Steciw and Sara VanDerBeek
ON VIEW: March 14 – April 26, 2015
Foam devoted an entire magazine to the show. You can see a preview here: http://issuu.com/foam-magazine/docs/08-081_underconstruction_issuu_elis
via Foam
Under Construction – New Positions in American Photography
