Hello! I'm Vincent Gallegos, a web designer and event photographer living in Washington, D.C. Enjoy my stories about art, technology and creative living.
Yes, there was free chicken at Brandon Hill's closing show at Lamont Bishop Gallery.
Read more about his solo exhibition here (an interview between Simone Jacobson and the artist). Become of fan of Brandon Hill on Facebook.
Check out these fun portraits that I photographed at the Textile Museum--for "Urban Picnic: PM @ the TM"--organized by the museum in partnership with The Pink Line Project. See all the photos on Pink Line's Flickr here.
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Panel (L to R): Joshua Yospyn (Worn Magazine), Chris Chen (BYT), Josh Sisk (BYT/Spin), Kyle Gustafson (Washington Post/DCist), Dakota Fine (BYT).
I had the pleasure to attend a photography panel organized and moderated by BYT's Shauna Alexander. What a great lineup. The anecdotes were funny and inspiring. Follow this great photo advice:
Dakota: Find a great photographer you can assist. Contribute your passion. Get on Facebook.
Joshua Y: Join ASMP (American Society of Media Photographers). Get on LinkedIn.
Kyle: The best camera is the one you have with you (here's a book).
POLL - 3 out of 5 of the panelists use Nikon.
Chris: What matters is the talent and commitment that you bring to image making.
Worst photo-related injury: Josh
Chris: Get apartment insurance.
Joshua Y: Get damage and liability.
Josh S: Carry fewer lenses. Buy your lenses at Best Buy ;-).
Dakota: Shoot every day.
Kyle: Find great lenses. Don't give your photos away (print). Pitch stories--don't expect great assignments to come to you.
Josh S: Build relationships. Find something you really like and get involved.
Chris: Access is rewarding. You won't learn everything from schools. Learn by looking at other photographers to set your own vision.
Joshua Y: Learn from history. Study the last 180 years. Read biographers, attend museums, photograph everyone (family and friends).
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Our awesome artist friend Elizabeth Graeber is surprised w/ cupcakes at Ginger Root Design (16th & U St), where she's finishing up a sweet mural. Thanks Glory for planning!
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I met artist Mariah Johnson at Logan Circle's Transformer Gallery in 2007, when she was based out of LA. She's since moved to DC--this year equipped with a great list of projects. Photos are from her February show--"Coup d'Espace: Fort Distraction"--at the Washington Project for the Arts' (WPA) gallery.
WPA's write-up about the show:
For the project Fort Distraction, artist Mariah Johnson will transform the WPA office space by slowly folding, arranging, stacking and layering bed sheets around the architectural features and furniture in the space. Part performance, part site-specific installation, Fort Distraction invites viewers to witness Johnson’s process and the work behind her beautifully arranged installations. Throughout the project’s four-week run, Johnson will add to the installation on a daily basis. The public is welcome to stop by during the installation process to view the installation’s progress and watch Johnson at work. After weeks of adding, rearranging and layering, Johnson’s installation will engulf the audience, transforming the WPA office space into a kind of artist’s pillow fort.
See more photos of Fort Distraction on Mariah's blog.
I'm pleased to see Mariah's DC-born work evolve since her Transformer installation. She's showing solo at the Arlington Arts Center in April 2011. For me, however, her strongest sign of growth comes from the spearheading of a curatorial project--called Porch Projects--opening this Saturday, February 24 (check it out!).
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See the Long View Gallery invite here. Also check out Metroweekly's article on Jeff McElhaney, creator of the exhibited ads. He tells the magazine:
The ads are near and dear to my heart. There are a lot of ghosts standing next to me when I'm holding these ads. I've lost so many friends.
Thanks to his ads, however, it's likely McElhaney saved quite a few, as well.
Jeff is Creative Partner at Brand-Aid Creative in Washington, DC. He just found Posterous—we hope he starts using it!
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I met Dave Richardson at Aaron Gallery in Dupont Circle. He tells me that Zenith Gallery will be hosting a "Meet the Artist" reception for him at Chevy Chase Pavilion, so come see him as he presents his work a day before the exhibition opens. The reception is on December 9 from 6-9pm, and the show, called The Soul of Seoul, will be on display from December 10 through February 28, 2010. See the press release here.
Congrats, Dave, I look forward to seeing your work!
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At Project 4, Laurel Lukazewski’s Sakura is the signature piece of her new show, “Once.” It’s an installation of 3,020 delicate porcelain cherry blossoms—the number coincides with how many trees were given to our city by Japan—covering the two-story walls of the gallery. By the baseboards, petals are strewn about, for even though these flowers look newly blossomed, Lukazewski won’t let us forget that natural beauty is fleeting—a message that, when cemented in porcelain, seems somewhat contradictory, as delicate as its medium. It’s as though Lukazewski takes us through the seasons: flowers in summer, piles of leaves in fall, the swirls of snow in the winter, and a waterfall-like cascade of rain in the spring; all four a reminder to be more deliberate, thoughtful, and grateful.
A beautiful piece in the City Paper. I hope you get to see Laurel's installation.
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Curation is the latest trend, so we thought you might like to share tidbits that inspire you--as they come. Tell Me DC is a local design scrapbook edited by DC graphic and web designers (we are 3 for now). A fun experiment. Become part of it.
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“Flight Patterns” are not just for the birds. Though the title of Phil Nesmith’s show at Irvine Contemporary is quite literal for his glass-plate images of birds and insects, flight unites his show with the concurrent exhibition by Oliver Vernon. Both are characterized by movement through air, but with completely divergent approaches. Nesmith, whose medium is photograms (a method in which exposures are made directly on photosensitive black glass plates), captures delicate, subtle movements. Vernon, on the other hand, creates futuristic abstract landscapes that look as tenuous as Jupiter’s—stormy gases and debris, rotating and swirling together in orbit. Nesmith’s birds and insects are restricted in their flight by the glass jars in which he’s ensnared his subjects. Vernon’s paintings and a 3-D installation explode into space, bound by nothing.
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More at ReadysetDC! Looking forward to Thanksgiving -- Tweetsgiving, anyone?
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You must see this in person! Oliver Vernon's Double Down and Phil Nesmith's Flight Patterns opened today at Irvine Contemporary. You can become a fan of Phil Nesmith on Facebook. View the press release (PDF).
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More photos on Flickr. A wrap-up of Design Week DC coming!
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