NEW ARTIST: SUE TALLON

We welcome still-life photographer Sue Tallon to the roster. Her style might best be described as graphic, iconic, conceptual and even sometimes humorous. Take a few minutes and view her new gallery and breathe in the colours!

WELCH PHOTOGRAPHS FOR HILTON

Stephen Austin Welch created five ad images for Hilton Garden Inns with Southern California's DGWB.

BRANDT FEATURED IN EVEN MAGAZINE

David Allan Brandt is featured in the current issue of Germany's EVEN MAGAZINE http://even-magazin.de/bestellen.html

MAISEL'S FINE ART SUMMER PART TWO

David Maisel's "Library of Dust" featured in group show at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts: Dark Matters: Artists See the Impossible:   July 28 – Nov 11, 2007. A large-scaled image from Maisel's "Library of Dust"  is also featured through December 2007 in the reinstallation of the permanent photography collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Inside a dusty room in a decaying outbuilding on the grounds of a state-run psychiatric hospital are simple pine shelves lined three-deep with thousands of copper canisters. The canisters hold the cremated remains of mental patients who died at the hospital from1883 (the year the hospital was opened, when it was known as the Oregon State Insane Asylum) to the 1970’s, and whose bodies remained unclaimed by their families. The copper canisters have a handmade quality; they are at turns burnished or dull; corrosion blooms wildly from the seams of many of the cans. Numbers are stamped into each lid; the lowest number is 01, and the highest is 5,118.

The project's title is "The Library of Dust". As I was setting up to photograph in a storage building that houses the cremated remains, prisoners from the local penitentiary were called in to clean up some of the mess in the adjacent hallway, crematorium, and autopsy room. A young male prisoner leaned into the room lined with the copper cans, scanned the room, and said in a low tone, "The library of dust.”

MAISEL'S FINE ART SUMMER PART ONE

David Maisel's "Black Maps" is the subject of a solo traveling exhibit, currently on view thorugh July 29 at the Nevada Art Museum.   Black Maps is comprised of large-scale aerial photographs by San Francisco-based artist David Maisel. Featuring sublime images from his three recent series: The Lake Project, Terminal Mirage, and Oblivion, Maisel frames the complexities of environmentally-impacted landscapes with equal measure of documentation and metaphor, beauty and despair. His aerial images showing the alteration of the Great Salt Lake, Owens Valley, and the Los Angeles basin transcribe an interior psychic landscape that is profoundly disturbing.
http://www.nevadaart.org/