My first art show: Songlines at PointB
Last year I visited my friend Becky's gallery at Point B Studio while driving up the Southern Oregon coast. She mentioned the idea of including my stuff in an upcoming show and I filed it away under the "someday, yeah, that'd be cool" pile. Fast forward to earlier this year and Becky asked me to submit something to a show with several other artists. I kicked around ideas for the past few months until I came up with something I'm calling Twitart.
I went through my most favorited items at Tweeteorites and Favstar, picked ones I liked and then went through my 30,000 photo archive of stuff I've shot over the last seven years, looking for images to match. My favorite piece is this one:
It was fun to see other artists and talk with other photographers in the show. I particularly liked Christopher Garcia's work that combined pixel art in digital prints with hand drawn elements and finished with screened inks. The pieces were really beautiful:
If you're headed up the Oregon Coast, stop by and check it out.