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Landscan#12'- 1 3/4" x 6'- 9 3/4" Archival Digital Print May 2007 This work was created by scanning the ground plane with a series of overlapping shots using the camera fitted to a pole held parallel to the ground. This could also be called "ode to an elm tree." The photos were taken just before our 120-year-old backyard elm had to be cut down. Artists Statement, April 2008"... i tend to do large scale work, either in physical size or work that is based on time and abstracting reality. " My latest work is based on digital photography, specifically panoramas. While the subjects vary from urban waterfronts to skylines, landscapes, and parks, the true subject of the work is 2 dimensional space and 3 dimensional illusion. Most of the works in this exhibit are based on images taken in Chicago and Maine between 2004 and 2007. Each panorama consists of multiple images that are composed into one massive image. They are printed on archival paper and laminated with an UV protecting film. Some large-scale pieces are done as 'one-of-a-kind' and are meant to hang as wall graphics (flat to a wall and removable). Others are mounted on hardboard and framed. Most are available as signed and numbered editions in smaller sizes.
Current Projects:Division Street USAAnnually photograping all the buildings (and storefronts) on the north and south sides of Division Street from Leavitt Street [2200 west] to Milwaukee Avenue [1599 west]. Started in 2003.
Farmers MarketAnnual 360 degree panorama from a center point inside the Farmers Market. Started in 2002. I hope to complete this and Division Street this year.
Future Project:To re-shoot 'The Otter Pond' on Swans Island, Maine, this time, 2 or 3 times each day over a longer period of time [one month], combining the images into a 54" high x 360 degree presentation that will take the viewer [starting on the outside] from dawn to dusk [ending on the inside] on a continuous curving wall.
Some highlights:I am a native son of Maine and, since 1963, a resident of Chicago. I studied at the Boston Museum School and the Art Institute of Chicago, but i consider myself largely self-taught. Having worked in most media at one time or the other, i consider myself a conceptual artist:'... idea and process is the art, ... all the rest is artifact.' In the early 1980s i found and directed WPA Gallery of Environmental Art, which was, as far as i know, the first art gallery in Chicago's Wicker Park neighborhood. That gallery, which operated on the premise that artists are the best judge of art. On average 30 artists participated in each of WPA's annual 4 open group shows, choosing 3 artists among them to participate in an annual survey show, and likewise those 12 chose 3 from among them for one-person shows the following year. Each artist had 3 votes.**
Based on one's vested self-interest, ...a dynamic-dialectic** produces a self-sustaining governing system. |
