lori nix

i met lori nix outside review la this past weekend. she is a lovely person and i was amazed at her art work, which she showed me through her web page, but when i saw it live in photo la, i realized what a great artist she is. apart from creating eerie scenarios, that are beautifully lit, she is one excellent printer. i love when works i see on the web become even more impressive when seen in real scale. it just makes it a more intense experience. from the text on her web:

"Lori Nix is an artist who bends the line between truth and illusion in her photographs. She accomplishes this by photographing miniatures and models which illuminate her interest in the disaster movies of the 1970s and her memories of growing up in Kansas—a place that seems to attract disasters like no other. In her series titled Accidentally Kansas Nix creates scenes of floods, tornadoes, snow storms, lightning strikes, and insect infestations, all epic and defining events recalled from her formative years in rural Kansas. The state of Kansas is located in the middle of the United States geographically, and also represents the moral middle of the road as a state of mind where conventional family values and good citizenship go hand in hand. By linking disasters with moral imperatives Nix allows herself to question conventional codes of society at the same time as she explores the unsettling memories of her youth".

leadapron

if you are interested in collectible photo books and you´re in the los angeles area, visit the leadapron book gallery. they have the most amazing books ever! so don´t miss out if your around LA.

review la

again i come out of a portfolio review event feeling great and overwhelmed at the same time. i left with many suggestions, appraises and proposals that i hope work out through out the year. my list of reviewers:

Charlotte Cotton, Curator of Photography, LACMA
Laura Addison, Curator of Contemp. Art, NM Museum of Art
John Rohrbach, Senior Curator of Photographs, Carter Museum
Amber Terranova, Photo Editor, Photo District News
Darius Himes, Co-Founder and Editor, Radius Books
Ann Pallesen, Gallery Director, Photographic Center NW
Stella Kramer, Photographer Consultant and lecturer
Mary Virginia Swanson, Marketing Consultant
Anthony Bannon, Director, George Eastman House

all of the reviewers where concise and open about their thoughts on my suburbia mexicana project and i enjoyed my time with them.

lacma

we made our way last week in LA to the LACMA museum and really enjoyed the space and exhibitions. the story of photography show had incredible prints, including one by carleton watkins that just blew my mind. if your in the area don't miss it!

karin apollonia muller

really liked karins images of the on the edge series. reminded me a bit of how mexico city looks like from pablo lopez luz lens. Karin has a book coming out in nazraeli press. From the publisher:

On Edge is Karin Apollonia Müller’s second monograph, and the first to be published by Nazraeli Press. While Angels in Fall (2001) dealt with the disconnect between human beings and their environment, On Edge shows the earth “crumbling away”, and our futile efforts to control or hide the subtle invasion of nature into cultivated spaces. Working in color with a muted palette and low contrast, Müller creates powerful images which evoke a sense of displacement in keeping with the artist’s “visitor status” as a foreigner in Los Angeles.

a view of the pause to begin show

sanja thomsen

more over at sonja thomsens blog

we are in L A and it rocks

pause to begin show opens in booksmart studio gallery in rochester NY

ill be showing 3 of my pictures from the lost river series in company with 12 other great photographers.


pause to begin blog has some sneak peaks of the show.

review la

getting ready for los angeles portfolio review. sooooo much work. will not be posting for a while. my mind is a big mess. happy holidays.

mark ruwedel

I am interested in revealing the narratives contained within the landscape and am most attracted to places where the land reveals itself as being both an agent of geological processes and a field of human endeavor. – Mark Ruwedel

his images are beautiful with a profound sense of being. more images here