Jung Park Presentation

So tonight at Otis, Jung Park gave a presentation on his work. What an incredible concept artist. Check out his work here:

>>>Jung Park's Blog<<<

Dreams of London Town

So I was contacted by a gallery in London, and they are interested in exhibiting my work. This is really exciting + scary! It seems they may be interested in showing existing work that I did for my graduate thesis show back in 2007, but may also be interested in representing me long term. This would be all sorts of awesomeness. This has given me a kick in the pants in the direction of creating more digital artwork. I'd like to do some experimental stuff and combine traditional stuff and photo collage in there as well - not totally sure yet. They were interested originally in some of the pieces I had created as a grad student, examples of which are above. I'm thinking of using that as a starting point, but hiring some models to get the ideas flowing for some new pieces. We'll see how this goes...

It's funny because when I showed these for my MFA thesis show, I think some people thought these were photographs, and not digital paintings. I'm thinking I need to combine some clearly non photographable elements in the new pieces to make it obvious that digital painting is involved.

Inspiration for Environments

I'm totally up for LACMA :) And now in anticipation of doing some environments, here are some inspirational images from Project Offset, Khang Le, and Oddworld....

Vanity Fair Portrait Exhibition at LACMA - Thru March 1, 2009

This is an exhibition I'd like to see before March 1 at the LACMA. Includes photos by Annie Liebovitz.

>>>LINK to the Exhibition<<<

>>>LACMA hours and directions<<<

"Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913–2008 is the first major exhibition to bring together the magazine's historic archive of rare vintage prints with its contemporary photographs. The exhibition explores the ways in which photography and celebrity have interacted and changed, with portraits from the magazine's early period (1913–1936) displayed in conjunction with works from the contemporary Vanity Fair (1983–present). The Los Angeles presentation, which is sponsored by Burberry, will be the only U.S. stop on the exhibition's international tour. Photographers to be represented include Cecil Beaton, Harry Benson, Julian Broad, Imogen Cunningham, Annie Leibovitz, Man Ray, Mary Ellen Mark, Steven Meisel, Helmut Newton, Herb Ritts, Edward Steichen, Mario Testino, and Bruce Weber."

Travellers

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San Francisco Scrapbook, Part XIV

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San Francisco Scrapbook, Part VIII

Legion of Honor >>>