Air Invitational Exhibit

A selection of images from the series Photographs of Strangers will be exhibited at the Air Invitational Exhibit, curated by Hub-Bub artists in residence Claudia Dishon, Gregory Bae, Esteban del Valle and Jameelah Lang at the Showroom in Spartanburg, SC. 

The Photography Show at the School of Art

The Photography Show, a student photography exhibition will be held at the Lightwell Gallery at the School of Art in Norman, OK until October 9th.

A selection of images from the series People and Where They Live will be exhibited along with work from other photography students.

Momentum Tulsa 2009

Woman with Dog, Elizabeth Standing, and Laura on Balcony will be exhibited at Momentum: Art Doesn’t Stand Still! in Tulsa, Oklahoma Saturday, October 10, 8pm-Midnight.

Update: Woman with Dog, Elizabeth Standing, and Laura on Balcony received the Curator's Choice Award.

Photographs of Strangers

This collection of portraits comes from an obsession with strangers. I am intrigued by the connections and narratives a person can create from a visual encounter with another. My intent is to provide the viewer with an opportunity to explore those photographs and create their own narrative about the photograph. The process of photographing with a view camera slows down the image making allowing for a relationship to be created, that is then revealed to the viewer.

This and the rest of the photographs from this series will be exhibited at the University of Oklahoma School of Art Senior Capstone Exhibition May 6-16th.

Momentum OKC 2009

Toll Both and Pet Exercise Area, Kansas Turnpike (both 24 in x36 in) will be exhibited at the Momentum: Art Doesn’t Stand Still exhibition in Oklahoma City March 6th and 7th.

The Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition Momentum exhibition is open to the public through March 14.

More information here.

Pet Exercise Area, Kansas Turnpike is also part of the University of Oklahoma's School of Art juried show, the 95th Annual Student Exhibition.

Cage Fighters

Printed in The Oklahoma Daily and online at OUDaily.com

Link to story.

Replacing the Monocle: New Masters to be Viewed with Magnifying Glass

(Click image for magnification)

Replacing the Monocle: New Masters to be Viewed with Magnifying Glass, collaborative piece with artist Keaton Kilpatrick, is a collection of 3/4 in by 1/2 in classic art defaced and redefined. Meant to be displayed at a small enough size that the viewer is forced to use a magnifying glass, recalling and pointing out the absurdism of time when art was accepted only as a form of fine scholarship and then appreciated by only those within high society that could afford it. 

Replacing the Monocle: New Masters to be Viewed with Magnifying Glass was exhibited at the Black Monday After Black Friday Art Show at Tellers in Lawrence, Kansas by Fresh Produce Art Collective.

American Cheese on CNN

CNN's coverage of American Cheese.

Uploaded by Matt De La Cruz.

American Cheese

Images of Barack Obama, Sarah Palin John McCain, and Joseph Biden printed with liquid photo emulsion on individual slices of American Cheese.

Slices of American cheese with liquid photo sensitive emulsion processed in a darkroom with traditional black and white photography chemicals.

Liquid Light Photographic Emulsion Ingredients: Silver halides, silver bromide, silver chloride, gelatin, cadmium chloride, water.

Imitation Pasteurized Process Cheese Food Ingredients: Water, modified food starch, soybean oil, maltodextrin, whey gelatin, salt, enzyme-modifed cheese (cultured milk, water, salt, sodium phosphate, cream, sodium citrate, enzymes, sorbic acid, artificial color), sodium hexametaphosphate, guar gum, sorbic acid, artificial color, natural flavor.

Follow their decomposition here.

American Cheese will be at Forward Foods in Norman, OK until Election Day November 4th and is a featured gallery at MYARTSPACE.com.

Article about American Cheese in the Norman Transcript. Also featured on KWTV News 9 Oklahoma City, KCAL/KCBS Los Angeles, KUSA NBC Colorado, and CNN nationwide.

Crime Track

W. Robinson and Woods Ave, drunk driver. Near Max Westheimer Airport.

In January 2007 LA Times reporter Jill Leovy began covering every homicide in LA County on a blog in an attempt to make up for what the media misses and demeans. "It's sort of awful to think of people being murdered and nobody seeing it," she said.

I decided to download the local crime logs from the police department's website and the next day, at the same time that the crime had occurred, photograph the locations. I was attempting to understand if these locations held any memory of the crimes or held back some kind of remnants of what happened there just 24 hours ago.

More Crime Track images

Shown at Momentum Oklahoma City 2008.

Panoramic Portraits

Max, Boyd Street

Andy, Vietnamese Restaurant

These two images are part of a series of panoramic portraits. Shooting portraits as panoramas allowed me to not only capture the figures, but the area around them. Much can be seen about these figures in their setting and surroundings, and the light of these places. By shooting five or more snapshots and stitching them together, the image displays the atmosphere and mood of the moment and place. These scenes were not constructed to display the subjects’ personalities, but were quickly captured moments that create and define these characters.

More panoramas.

Shown at Momentum Tulsa 2008. Max, Boyd Street also shown at the 93rd Annual School of Art Students' Exhibition.

Road Rage

Road rage on Alameda Street and 24th Street near Sonic and 7-11.

More Crime Track images.

Shown at Momentum Oklahoma City 2008.

Moving Vehicle Accident Injury

Moving vehicle accident injury on the SE corner of the Lloyd Noble Center in Norman, OK.

More Crime Track images.

Shown at Momentum Oklahoma City 2008.