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LACMA, MOCA, GETTY

LACMA, MOCA, GETTY

Topanga Beach, 2014 26 1/2" x 40"

Topanga Beach, 2014
26 1/2″ x 40″

A recent visit to Southern California found us driving around, visiting museums and galleries, being with friends and family; its always good. As usual, the main focus of this blog is about art, the art I make, the art I see, and art that is memorable to me. I share it here in case you may find yourself in the vicinity of any of the specific exhibitions that are still on or that may travel to other venues; also, some of the artists’ work may be somewhere close by or coming to a museum or gallery in your city. This post is a departure from my usual, where a few words go with a series of photographs. This narrative is longer than usual, and could have easily morphed into more detailed descriptions of the artworks referenced, and in case you are interested in additional info just follow the links to the institutions. Despite this, it is longer than my usual post. Continue reading →

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Three 4 Seattle

Three 4 Seattle

Seattle Skyline 2014

Walking around, looking around (and up), finding shape and color in the urban environment. I like the way things fit in my compositions, all the little triangles around the larger one in the Seattle Skyline, and at the Seattle construction site, the primary colors, plus black, white, and gray. Somedays, things just fit in the frame perfectly, taking advantage of the confines of the frame, all the space on the film, or in this case, sensor.

Seattle Construction

This third image, added to this post later, and now included here: I just couldn’t walk past it, or ignore it, for several reasons. It just grabbed me; a hole in the wall, a broken surface, a simple, beautiful shape, on a gray textured field. As a source, it was located directly behind me as I arranged the elements of the picture included above in this post.

SeaShape

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