Of course we had to do the Pardeeville High School cheerleading squad!
These church ladies had the absolute most fun anyone has ever had.
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Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Bed Jump in Pardeeville!
As promised, here are the final images from our awesome, intense shoot two weeks ago in Pardeeville, WI. We hauled around some lights, cameras, and one huge bed to five locations around the town, where artist Kelly Wainwright grew up. She now lives in California, but has arranged these bed jump photos in South Africa and now Wisconsin with various photographers. We were excited and honored to be her chosen Wisconsin photographers. It was a really fun day! Much thanks again to Beth McConnell for being a wonderful assistant, and please to check out and support this project at www.playjumpeat.com (all profits go to a charity selected by previous bed jump participant Desmond Tutu!).
Of course we had to do the Pardeeville High School cheerleading squad!
These church ladies had the absolute most fun anyone has ever had.
Of course we had to do the Pardeeville High School cheerleading squad!
These church ladies had the absolute most fun anyone has ever had.
440 Gallery show update--we won the grand prize!
Me mum and meself have won the coveted Juror’s Choice award at the group show we are currently showing in at the 440 Gallery in New York! Okay, coveted may be the wrong word—we didn’t even know there was a prize being awarded! I got a call from my mom when she was at the opening and another artist informed her that she should stick around until the end, since she was going to receive the Juror’s Choice prize, chosen by the inimitable Charles Long himself. We were competing with over 70 artists. Pretty exciting!
“Delivery”, the winning photo. Apparently Charles Long was just delighted by it, and loved the fact that it was a mother/son collaboration. He was wondering how old I was, 6 or 30 or what?
“Delivery”, the winning photo. Apparently Charles Long was just delighted by it, and loved the fact that it was a mother/son collaboration. He was wondering how old I was, 6 or 30 or what?
Art show in New York!
I’m happy to say I have some photos in a show opening Thursday in Brooklyn! It’s a collaboration with my mom Jeanne Wilkinson that we did last summer in Rhode Island. The venue is the 440 Gallery in Park Slope. It’s their 5th Annual Small Works Show, and it was juried by Charles Long, a heavy dude (artistically heavy, that is) who was in the Whitney Biennial last year! If you’re in New York, say hi to my mom at the opening on Thursday from 6 to 9!
And, because I find it a little bit hilarious, here's some verbiage from show juror Charles Long's bio:
"Charles Long’s interest in opposing formal and metaphysical forces informs a complex sculptural lexicon marked by radical stylistic shifts . . . now nearly devoid of Pop references, while still wittily limning the space between abstraction and figuration."
I'm seriously considering limning my own metaphysical lexicon one of these days!
And, because I find it a little bit hilarious, here's some verbiage from show juror Charles Long's bio:
"Charles Long’s interest in opposing formal and metaphysical forces informs a complex sculptural lexicon marked by radical stylistic shifts . . . now nearly devoid of Pop references, while still wittily limning the space between abstraction and figuration."
I'm seriously considering limning my own metaphysical lexicon one of these days!
Graham Yeager and Rhea Vedro at the Overture
Our super-cool artist friends Graham Yeager and Rhea Vedro asked us to photograph their art because they had a show at the Overture Center. This was a new challenge for us, and we are pretty happy with the results. One of the cool things about their art is that it’s different enough that they aren’t competing with each other, but their work looks great hanging together in a show—it just makes sense. Check out their current show at EmeryArt in Sun Prairie!
Mom/Son collaboration
I’m proud to announce that a photograph of mine is a “distinguished finalist” in a contest! My mom (Jeanne Wilkinson) and I collaborated on some art photographs on a trip we took out west, and one of those photos finished in the top 20 in a contest on www.myartspace.com. It is now showing along with some other photos from the series (which we call “Painted People: Western Walkabout”) in the NYAXE Gallery in Palo Alto, CA. Yay for art!
This is our winning photo, “River Crossing”. My mom takes found dolls, usually Barbie dolls or G.I. Joe dolls, and paints them and then photographs them in various scenarios and mixes things up in Photoshop. I'm more into the un-manipulated image kind of thing, so this series is basically straight out of the camera. She and I drove from Denver to San Francisco, retracing the route she had taken in a VW Bus when she was nineteen. We sort of followed these “Painted People” across the west, from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific. It was way fun!
“Fiery Furnace”, in Arches National Park.
“Sand Mountain”, this totally crazy gigantic dune in Nevada.
“Ocean Overlook”, just north of San Francisco. They made it!
This is our winning photo, “River Crossing”. My mom takes found dolls, usually Barbie dolls or G.I. Joe dolls, and paints them and then photographs them in various scenarios and mixes things up in Photoshop. I'm more into the un-manipulated image kind of thing, so this series is basically straight out of the camera. She and I drove from Denver to San Francisco, retracing the route she had taken in a VW Bus when she was nineteen. We sort of followed these “Painted People” across the west, from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific. It was way fun!
“Fiery Furnace”, in Arches National Park.
“Sand Mountain”, this totally crazy gigantic dune in Nevada.
“Ocean Overlook”, just north of San Francisco. They made it!
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