PG - 31

My new year resolution for 2010... PG -31.

Be

Positive and Grateful at age 31...
Patient and Generous,
Productive and Geeky,
Proud and Graceful,

in my personal and professional life.

Happy New Year and new Decade.

Winter wonderland...

solstice 2009

No ice on the lake this year but thought this view of Lake Michigan winter 08 was appropriate for today .

new work...

hoping to be publishing a lot of new images on the blog in the next few weeks...

what I hate about photography...

This is not a joke... ugh.

"This unique "how-to" book demonstrates an amazing variety of attractive poses to photographers and models, all set against a clean, white backdrop. It is small enough (4" by 8") to fit in a camera bag or jacket pocket. There are six pose pictures per page, organized according to the type of pose (seated, standing, kneeling, reclining, etc.). Pages and poses are numbered so it's simple to find poses you use often."

Larry Sultan...

I was truly saddened to read about Larry Sultan's passing today. I have spent the afternoon revisiting journals from graduate school and considering the few studio visits I had with him at SFAI. I just received this image from Photo Alliance in remembrance of...

New York Times obituary

Holiday cheer

what are you doing tomorrow night?

Stop by the Dean Jensen Gallery between 6-9pm
Friday December 11
759 N. Water St.
Milwaukee WI
(414) 278-7100

© Fracesca Pastine

© sonja thomsen

© susan worsham

© wendel white

Big Bangs/Small Bucks II: Present and Past Tenses

Friday, December 11, 2009 - January 30, 2010

...

Thus, you’ll find the first son of that show on our walls and floors here from the night of Friday, Dec. 11, 2009, through Jan. 30, 2010.

With only a few modifications, the template used to produce the first exhibition was reused in the making of Big Bangs/Small Bucks II: An Exhibition for the Post-Bust Economy. In all, the exhibition will include about one-hundred objects in all media, and there will again be about thirty artists represented, many of them from Wisconsin, but others from across the US as well as from abroad. While $750 was the top price on any of the works offered in last year’s Big Bangs, this time around we’ve raised the ceiling to $900,although there will still be pieces available for as little as $100 or $200.

Some of the artists who were in the first show will be back again, but there will also be a lot of newcomers, some of whom already have imposing credentials in the art world, others who are just starting to phosphoresce. We wish we could have re-invited all the artists from the first show, of course, but it seemed to us that outings like this are worth re-presenting only if the mixes are refreshed from year to year. Look for some of the artists who were in Big Bangs I to be back again for Big Bangs III or IV.

Big Bangs/Small Bucks II will include painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, graphic media and installation works.

We’re certain about at least two matters:

+ Among those who take in the show, there will be differences of opinion about which of the one-hundred objects sound the biggest bangs.

+ Whether a visitor is only a casual looker, a beginning collector or a connoisseur, she or he will leave the exhibition with this impression: Art, real art, isn’t defined by the number of zeroes that follow the ordinal number on the pricetag.

--Dean Jensen

Studio wall...

I have been planning on reworking this wall in the studio for the new
year- a new clean slate full of potential- but right now I am enjoying
making connections between the pieces of the past... Maybe that's what
December is for.

winter has arrived in wisconsin...

Wilson "snowflake" Bentley

the air is crisp and cold
the first snowflakes of the season fell yesterday...

Pause, to Begin BOOK

Pause To Begin Catalogue Book- Available here
$31.99 Shipping December 20th from Booksmart Studio

2009Pause, to Begin is a unique project born in discussions about the direction of contemporary photography today. A competition geared towards the emerging photographer, Pause, to Begin selected 15 photographers in April, 2008. After a juried selection, the creators of Pause, to Begin traveled 10,000 miles to meet and interview the selected photographers about their work.

The beautiful hardbound catalogue (color, 108 pages) accompanies the Pause, to Begin exhibition held at Booksmart Studio from January 2–30, 2009, and is limited to 500 copies. The remarkable catalogue showcases the work of the 15 selected photographers, as well as statements on photography the creation of Pause, to Begin by founders Ethan Jones and David Wright; advisors John Paul Caponigro and Joyce Tenneson; juror Cig Harvey; and editorial director Susan Morelock.

Matthew Gamber

Tealia Ellis-Ritter

John Mann

Colin Blakely

Thomas Prior

Sonja Thomsen

Timothy Briner

Alejandro Cartagena

Erika Larsen

Matthew Eich

collect.give

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