Friday, September 12, 2008

Global Peace Film Festival Art Show

The Global Peace Film Festival Art Show will be held at Bay Two Gallery.

The event will consist of works by local artists (including myself, Joshua Freeman, and Isabelle Ribeiro), live music, films, food, spirits.

COME, support, and have fun!

later we plan to head farther downtown to continue the party.

BE ADVISED - BAY TWO is CASH ONLY

Sunday, July 20, 2008

Corcoran/UCF Photography Exchange

A group of students(including me!) and recent graduates from the UCF photography program will be exchanging artwork with a group of students from the Corcoran School of Art and Design in Washington D.C.

The shows are scheduled to take place this September. I will post more information as the opening nears!

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Photocentric

The Photocentric exhibition at Museum of Fine Art in Tallahassee, FL was a huge success.

Fellow artists Joshua Freeman, Isabelle Ribeiro and myself traveled up for the night to attend the opening and view the best florida's fine art photographers.

Some images from our trip:

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Exhibitions UPDATE!

July 18th - August 1st my work will be featured in the group exhibition titled Photocentric to be held at the Museum of Fine Art in Tallahassee, FL. Photocentric is a project of photographic artists, art faculty and MFA candidates state-wide. The exhibition has been coordinated by George Blakely, the Professor of Art at Florida State University.

The opening will be held July 18 (7 - 9pm)

The flyers posted here (click to make them readable) gives you a list of every artist participating, as well as the local of the museum:




Wednesday, June 11, 2008

MFA, Assist, Janae Corrado

I start my MFA in Studio Art and the Computer this Fall at UCF, I'm excited and feel the program will be very beneficial. There is a small group of students in the program and the MFA studio area plus equipment is top-notch. I will be working as a Graduate Assistant which will hopefully open the doors for teaching opportunities in the future.
Last week I had the opportunity to assist my friend Adam Krause again, who was visiting from NYC executing a photo shoot for GLAMOUR magazine. He has been making a name for himself working as a commerical photographer, and was even selected by PDN as one of the 30 top emerging photographers this year. It was fun to work on a shoot for a magazine I read regularly.

July 1st, my good friend the talented artist Janae Corrado will be having a solo show at Tatame lounge and gallery in Winter Park, FL.

Sunday, June 1, 2008

Re.action

Unpleasant car rental agents, unaccessible hot tubs, and finicky GPS aside.....the trip to MD was a complete success!
We arrived in Dulles around one and began the scenic drive, including an unintentional detour through downtown D.C., to Solomons. Solomons is a very pretty little town with an outlandishly tall bridge we drove over maybe six times for the thrill of it. Isabelle and I explored the area some and then got all gussied up for the Grand Opening Gala of Annmarie Gardens new arts building. The Gala was a black tie affair including exhibits from Olga Hirshhorn's Recollects as well as Re.action. It was amazing to see my work in the midst of the new buildings success and being exhibited anywhere near the works of Picasso, Calder, Serrano, and Matisse. All the women working Annmarie Garden as well as Juror Mark Ward (Deputy Director of the Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore) were amicable and I admire them for putting together such an incredible event. I am also grateful for their choice to provide liberal portions of the best oysters I have ever consumed.





Some reviews of the Gallery opening:

Artdaily.org

Atlanta Business Chronicle

SoMdNews.com

washingtonpost.com


The next day we explored some of the art galleries in Washington D.C.
My favorite was Randall Scott Gallery, which was exhibiting the work of Sarah Wilmer.

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

summer time. busy time.

This month has been ultra busy. I have been participating in an intense three week "books without books" class taught by Carla Poindexter at UCF. This is an experimental course utilizing the concept of what a book is. That is, the artworks created do not have to literally be books, but they must encompass a beginning, middle and an end, like a book.

When not working in books without books, I found time to assist rock star photographer Brook Pifer and attend an exhibit by artist/photographer Rob Pruitt at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach with Isabelle, Josh Freeman, and Brady Robinson.
The exhibit consisted of a series of enlarged photos taken with his iPhone, as well as an indoor flea market installation! This was my first time visiting the Atlantic Center for the Arts and I absolutely loved it. I hope one day I can be an artist in residence there.
Finally we received a private tour of the works in Frailty by Carly Gibran & Jinsong Kim at the Harris House Gallery.

Here are some photos from the Gallery show:





Isabelle and I are packing our bags to fly out Friday for the Re.action show in MD!