August 2, 2022
'Plenty' On Exhibit In Columbia For 'Scapes
The new ‘Scapes show now open at the Columbia Arts League, as might be expected by the name, is all about landscapes, however an artist might interpret them, literally or metaphorically. The seven dozen works on exhibit (paired down from roughly 135 submitted) represent a plethora of mediums, both two and three dimensional, and stand beautifully with the high quality of work the gallery attracts. Summer, right now, is actually the perfect time to visit because, as it happens, the kids are gone! Located just a block from the north edge of the University of Missouri at Columbia on 9th Street, parking in downtown Columbia can be at something of a premium. Not so much when the kids ain’t there! A serendipitous opportunity to see the gallery, snoodle around downtown, or visit the old campus haunts.
My work on exhibit ‘Shades Of Plenty’, is an older one that I posted earlier this year to show my support for Ukraine (colors are roughly Ukrainian, anyway, if not perfect). It was so well received that I reproduced it on metal with a white barnwood float frame – turned out quite striking, I think. It’s hanging right by the window, waiting for your attention.
- CH
My work on exhibit ‘Shades Of Plenty’, is an older one that I posted earlier this year to show my support for Ukraine (colors are roughly Ukrainian, anyway, if not perfect). It was so well received that I reproduced it on metal with a white barnwood float frame – turned out quite striking, I think. It’s hanging right by the window, waiting for your attention.
- CH
July 30, 2022
Speaking As Featured Artist At Capital Arts Exhibit
‘Oh Snap: Photography & Photo Art’ is the new exhibit now open at Capital Arts, and I’ll be speaking as the featured artist at the August 4 reception, which begins at 5p. I’ll be reflecting on cameras and photographic equipment and drawing a distinction between photographers, who I revere BTW, and photo art, of which I count myself a practitioner. A dozen of my older works are also on display as part of my role as featured artist.
As to my four works hanging in the exhibit itself, three of them are new works just debuting this year. Questions abounded in my mind as I went about selecting these works; because I felt the show may lean towards straight photography, I deliberately chose a couple abstract works. ‘On Stage’, which recently ribboned in Columbia, is the only work not created just in the past months, and I think illustrates how far photo art can go. ‘Corner Bar’ carries on with the street style I’ve worked with before, this time using bolder colors and sharper lines. The automotive art I’ve been working with is clear in ‘Blue Impala’, which is already one of my personal favorites. What’s not clear is the intensive work that goes into creating a complex piece of photo art that looks very simple. ‘Seek Me In The Shadows’ is, for all practical purposes, straight photography – what little work I did with it simply mimics darkroom procedures.
Always great culinary treats available at these receptions; if you can’t make it on August 4, please stop in for a viewing during gallery hours (find Capital Arts on the web through the link right here); so many good artists and wonderful works represented.
- CH
As to my four works hanging in the exhibit itself, three of them are new works just debuting this year. Questions abounded in my mind as I went about selecting these works; because I felt the show may lean towards straight photography, I deliberately chose a couple abstract works. ‘On Stage’, which recently ribboned in Columbia, is the only work not created just in the past months, and I think illustrates how far photo art can go. ‘Corner Bar’ carries on with the street style I’ve worked with before, this time using bolder colors and sharper lines. The automotive art I’ve been working with is clear in ‘Blue Impala’, which is already one of my personal favorites. What’s not clear is the intensive work that goes into creating a complex piece of photo art that looks very simple. ‘Seek Me In The Shadows’ is, for all practical purposes, straight photography – what little work I did with it simply mimics darkroom procedures.
Always great culinary treats available at these receptions; if you can’t make it on August 4, please stop in for a viewing during gallery hours (find Capital Arts on the web through the link right here); so many good artists and wonderful works represented.
- CH
March 23, 2022
Grand Opening of Damn Photo Artist Redesign!
The Damn Photo Artist website is now redesigned with cleaner, more attractive headers, clearer navigation, and a less confusing structure.
To begin with, photo art and prose now have their own blog pages, respectively called Create and Compose (I've populated each with a few works from the old site, just to get things rolling). No more confusing whether the art goes with the story, or the story goes with the art or the nature of duality or any of that. And no more waiting to post one until I've completed something of the other. To that end, the old Commune page which combined both is gone. Buried and gone, and with it several years of archives. One of the problems the old design was running into was that the website was having trouble differentiating between old works and new. Not the fault of the website builder (Weebly, you're okay, really, highly recommend you!) but related to my own filing structure which carried identically numbered works across different years. One might scroll the archives and find work that was just posted last week in its place. Won't happen now, bro.
About archives: There won't be any. By default, each blog page includes an archive that simply fills with every post ever posted. The result was, I felt, was a pile of stuff both a) hard to navigate through and b) easy for the nefarious to steal, watermarks or no. So henceforth, new posts of both photo art and prose will hang around for a month / six-weeks and then go bye-bye.
There are new pricing charts on the Collect page to make purchases easier, and clearer ways to reach out to me on the Communicate page. Finally, this new Home page you're on right now will be a more efficient means for announcements, news, and exhibition notices. And everything can be more precisely linked to social media as appropriate.
We begin anew, folks. Welcome home!