Posts tagged Basquiat
2ND HONORABLE MENTION WINNER AWARD IN INTERNATIONAL COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION!

So thrilled to announce receiving a 2nd Honorable Mention Winner Award in international fine art color photography competition, the prestigious 16th Annual International Color Awards, for OTGR. By composing elements of a dynamic, bold abstract pattern of red and yellow lines with the realism of a paint-splattered, dirty city sidewalk below where parallel wavy wet lines on the pavement seem to point to the eye-catching large red OTGR text, I sought to capture some of the duality of urban life and how disparate elements, when framed strategically in the viewfinder, can create an independent harmonious image... To see image large, as well as the reasons graffiti exists, click MORE.

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SAVOURING SOLITUDE

THIS WEEK’S PICTURE OF THE WEEK, a solitary figure appears to be savouring solitude while walking along a windswept beach at low tide in early April.  Taken from a very high perspective (not a drone) overlooking the wide expanse of beach on which the lone man is strolling, the line of wet sand where the tide has come in and receded until the next wave, the patterned foamy surf beyond, the waves breaking in the distance - each visual element seems to occur in sequential horizontal bands.  That’s the visual side of what prompted me to capture the moment you see.

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CONTEMPORARY ART AUCTION PREVIEW at DAVID ZWIRNER GALLERY, NYC

Curious, enigmatic image of mannequins’ legs clustered near one another outside a clothing store in VeniceItaly, STAND BY ME joins work by art luminaries Richard Serra, Hank Willis Thomas, Roni Horn, Nicole Eisenman and Alice Neel, along with other talented artists, offered in the Friends Seminary Contemporary Art Auction Preview at David Zwirner, 533 West 19th Street, NYC, February 23 and 24. Backstory of the image, and how to bid online, click MORE.

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