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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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Like Robert Frost’s two roads diverged, there are two instinctual reactions to the photographs in Terri Weifenbach’s “Woods”: serenity and fear. Weifenbach, whose 28 photos have inaugurated the new Civilian Arts Projects space, wants us to feel a little of both—but along with whichever sentiment she stirs in a viewer, one will certainly feel disoriented. Weifenbach deliberately leaves parts of the photograph out of focus, a trick that leaves the viewer constantly searching deeper into the trees, like a lost camper. The photos were taken in a wooded park in Wheaton, but Weifenbach may as well have taken them off of the Appalachian Trail. They’re soothing and disquieting, reminding us that sometimes we turn to nature to get away from it all, and sometimes, we just get away.
I'd like to see the exhibition before it closes on December 19.
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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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Check out preview photos of tonight's show — kudos to Laurel and Project 4 Gallery.
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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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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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DC-based Phil Jones is like me: a web developer with a passion for art and photography. Last week, he gave a talk to artists at Hamiltonian Gallery. He recommends popular web services to artists looking to share their work in a more efficient and social manner. He mentioned Tumblr, Flickr, and Google applications (Feedburner, Docs) and how they are integrated into artists' websites. He also advocated for ShareThis/AddThis.
I was thrilled to see that Phil included my own blog as an example, an application powered by Posterous. As you know, I'm an advocate of the service since I switched over to lifestreaming in the summer. Posterous is releasing more features for lifestreamers than any other service on the web. If you haven't felt its power, see Steve Rubel's posterous blog. The Edelman-hired media professional is an evangelist for the start-up. Listen to him--he is usually ahead of the curve when it comes to web innovation.
Joining Phil tonight is Greg Lavallee, software engineer at The Washington Post.
Phil Jones works for CITI (Community IT Innovators), an employee-owned web development studio on U Street corridor. I am excited to see tech folks mingling with the DC art community, and looking forward to more!
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...behind the precise limits of where we live, there is only a universe whose bursting forth open is incomparable, and behind the universe there is nothing. - Georges BatailleThree more days to see Bradley Chriss's new work at Flashpoint Gallery. Check out his portfolio site for close-ups of the artwork and for his ideas behind the show. Here is the press release (PDF). Mentions of Visions From the End of the World:
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