We almost forgot….. here are images from the “forgotten” receptions. King Tut even showed up for champagne and pumpkin brownies! Thanks Blue Mitchell for selecting a great group of images that will not be forgotten!
There are always moments of magic when you fill a room with creative individuals. We were not disappointed this past Saturday afternoon at the closing reception for “Downtown”.
First, the three ladies in wonderful floral wear (they asked that their names not be used) asked to have their picture taken.
Three old friends met and talked of old times — they had been medical photographers and an illustrator at different hospitals here in Texas.
The brownies con chili and the champagne were well received.
David Hansen gave a very moving talk about his image which was reminiscent of the work of Piet Mondrian.
Lynn Baldwin brought along his beautiful and arresting book of panoramas. They are mostly of disappearing small towns here in Texas and Missouri.
Jasmine Peters,who drove up from Corpus Christi, spoke about her great image of Town Lake in Austin. She is a former student of our friend, Steve Goff, at Odessa College. She also regaled us with humorous stories of her day job.
Carol Serur explained the capturing of her beautiful images. We also want to thank Carol for helping us hang the show.
Thanks again to for Peter Liepke for selecting such a wonderful group of photographs.
See ya
There has been a lot going on around here over the last couple of months: workshops, receptions, building stuff, feeding the cats — haven’t had time to blog. We have been working like crazy on our new workshop/studio space, Blue Taller Studio, unfortunately it wasn’t ready this past weekend for our encaustic workshops, however, we held the classes in the gallery and it worked out beautifully. We had a great turnout of eager, talented participants. It was so much fun and so encouraging to work with so many committed photographers that are as stimulated by encaustic as we are. We especially want to send a shout out to our friend Vicky Richardson Reed for inspiring us with her wonderful encaustic images.
The weekend of May 30th and 31st was fantastic with Fran Forman and Tami Bone teaching workshops in conjunction with the reception for the exhibition “Magic”. It was Magic. Fran juried the show and chose a great group of images. Her gallery talk was one of the best we’ve had and got folks participating and rhapsodically waxing aesthetic. Fran and Tami’s classes were enthusiastically attended and, according to the participants, very informative and life changing. Fran is a wonderful instructor, showing others how to also create magic. Tami got her participants to dive into the pool of themselves and come up with personal epiphanies and insights into the “why” of their art — I sat through part of her class and it was fantastic. Little Johnson City was very lucky to have these two creative forces in town. And last but not least, the irrepressible, creative fun champion, Judy Sherrod, showed up and parked her Shootapalooza Art Bar Airstream in front of the gallery and led everyone in creating lumen prints with broccoli, peppers, cabbage etc. There were visitors all over the gallery, smiling, holding an onion, a sprig of cilantro or some other item of produce. Thanks Judy.
Saturday June 28th was the opening reception for “Downtown”. The juror, Peter Liepke, selected a very compelling group of images for the show. I was touched and sparked by Tami Bone’s workshop at the previous reception and we decided to have a gallery talk in the same vein. Right out of the shoot, Pierre Cook started talking about his photo of a fellow sitting, playing the guitar with a passerby just passing by in the foreground — turns out Pierre is a musician with certain feelings about the passerby just passing by….Tami’s on to something, the “why” of it is a good question. Later we went to dinner with a local photographer and her husband — he was a competitive diver in college. Turns out he now builds swimming pools. Very interesting. The final reception for “Downtown” is July 26th.
Well, back to work on the new studio, see ya.
No, LBJ’s not coming back. Photographers Fran Forman, Tami Bone and Judy Sherrod are coming to town. Fran will be here to celebrate the opening of “Magic,” the current exhibition on the walls here at the gallery. Fran was the juror for “Magic.” She will give a gallery talk at 5:30 on Saturday. Fran will also be presenting a two workshop Friday and Saturday. Tami will also be here Saturday to present a workshop.
Photographer, camera maker and the leader of shootapalooza, Judy Sherrod, will have her “shootapalooza Art/Bar Airstream” parked out in front of the gallery on Saturday demonstrating the lumen print process. Everyone is encouraged to come by the gallery, eat some of Amanda’s famous brownies, have a glass of wine, make a lumen print and meet Fran, Judy and Tami. It will be a very special day. These three great friends of the gallery are immensely talented folks with an abundance of creative energy and knowledge to share – please come if you can.
Kevin
Schedule of Events
Deconstructing the Digital Collage | taught by Fran Forman
May 30 1pm to 4pm and May 31 9am to noon – $200
Lunch | with Fran, Tami and Judy at Chantilly Lace
May 31 noon to 1pm – $15
Finding Treasure | taught by Tami Bone
May 31 1pm to 5pm – $60
Reception | “magic”
May 31 4pm to 7pm with a gallery talk by Fran Forman, juror, at 5:30pm
shootapalooza Art/Bar Airstream | with Judy Sherrod
May 31 1:30pm to 5:30pm making Lumen Print Extravaganza
Hallelujah, we’ve got the new website up and rockin’! Bloggers are bloggin’, whales are singin’ and photographers are photographin’ — it’s a good day! Amanda has been working her tail off putting this together, she deserves a big round of applauds – clap, clap, clap! I have been appointed the official gallery blogger. This is going to be fun and hopefully, illuminating.
I take this endeavor very seriously and do not take the influential task ahead of me lightly nor do I consider Amanda’s trust in me inappropriate or all out of proportion to my abilities. Boy, it’s fun to write sentences like that. Ok, no more kidding.
There is so much great stuff going on with photography right now – so many talented and fascinating folks making pictures. There will be a lot to talk about. Stay tuned.
Good be on you,
Kevin
kevin@asmithgallery.com
P.S. Please share this around, we need the exposure for the new website.
Welcome to our blog. Stay tuned!