04May 2014 by Ryan No Comments

Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day 2014; Upper Bidwell Park

Global Art Events
This year for Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day (On Sunday April 27) I went to Upper Bidwell park and took some photographs. I went to two areas of the park, first I went out to around Horseshoe Lake, then on my way out I stopped at 5 mile recreation area. The Photograph that I uploaded to the Worldwide Pinhole Photography website was from 5 mile recreation area. These are made with a Pinhole Body cap, on a Canon 50D, with a very dust covered sensor. I cleaned my sensor after looking at these photos. In the future I might try using my 35mm Canon to make pinholes on, The larger film or sensor size will allow for more detail from the pinhole, as well as not having to deal with dust so much.…
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24Mar 2014 by Ryan No Comments

Semester Break

Series and Works
Last week was semester break at CSU Chico, for my break I went home to the Redding Area in Northern California. I had this grand idea of photography all week long, but come Wednesday I was sick with a cold and didn't want to do much of anything. I made some panorama's of landscapes to use in my Hand of Man series, I still have the photographs from the three days that I did go out even though I lost two days to being sick. I process my panoramas lightly using Photoshop's camera raw, then I export them as a tif and load them into Hugin. Hugin is a Open source program for stitching together Panorama's, I prefer it over Photoshop's Photomerge because it gives me control over what projection…
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17Mar 2014 by Ryan No Comments

LAPS Give and Take Print Exchange, Exhibition and Sale

Exhibitions, Series and Works
The Los Angeles Printmaking Society put out a call for Art a while back for an Exchange and Exhibition. Its titled Give & Take, and the exhibition is up from March 18th to May 9th. I made two prints, for the exchange. Both are Serigraphs, on an 8 by 10 paper size. The image size is smaller, around 6 inches on the longest side. The prints are in the Easternizing Western art series of prints that are based on historical paintings. The two for this exchange are both based on Caravaggio's paintings. The concept has to do with how we look at non-western art in comparison to looking at the actual paintings of western art.   [caption id="attachment_31" align="aligncenter" width="240"] Easternizing Western Art: Caravaggio's Medusa[/caption] [caption id="attachment_32" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Easternizing…
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10Mar 2014 by Ryan No Comments

The Cans: Closing Reception and Exhibition Extension

Exhibitions
My show reception was on Wednesday March 5th, there were around 40 people that came through during the two hours of the Reception. Thanks to everyone that came out for the reception, even while it was raining. The show has been extended and will stay up on the walls until the end of March. So if you haven't seen it yet, its still there.
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03Mar 2014 by Ryan No Comments

10-10-20 Exhibition and Sale

Exhibitions, Series and Works
The annual 10-10-20 is this week, in the B-SO Space. There will be lots of works on 10 by 10 inch panels that will be sold for $20. This is a fundraiser that benefits the Art Department, and the Art Shop. The panels go on sale Tomorrow the 4th at 10:30am there is a reception and Awards presentation on March 5th at 5:30pm. The panel that I made is out of a new series of photographic works, the Series is titled Hand of Man. It consists of an Inkjet print that has Pronto Plate Lithographs on Japanese mulberry paper that are collage to the inkjet print.
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27Feb 2014 by Ryan No Comments

Installing The Cans in the Third Floor Gallery

Exhibitions
On Monday and Tuesday of last week I installed The Cans at the Third Floor Gallery. There are two series of The Cans installed, One Shot, and One Squeeze. One Squeeze is comprised of 71 mounted 6 by 9 photographs, and One Shot is 64. In total there are 135 mounted works in the gallery. Monday morning I installed the One Shot series, on the wall with a window. I decided to put the smaller series on that wall because I felt it would fit better there. The wall at the end of the gallery has the stairs beside it with a small third wall. To install this series it was important that the top be level all the way across, regardless of the height from the floor. I started…
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24Feb 2014 by Ryan 1 Comment

Valentines Day Card Sale

Series and Works
Print Club did a Valentines Day fundraiser sale this semester, I made two similar but different cards for them to sale. The design on the cards is based off of a painting by Michelangelo Merisi Caravaggio, better know as Caravaggio. Around 1601-1602 he made a painting of cupid titled Amor Vinicit Omnia or in English Love Conquers All. More on Caravaggio in later blog posts.   The English version of the card shown above was an edition size of 41.   The latin version was an edition of size of 20. The fundraiser was a success, Holiday cards do sale. The cards were drawn, then scanned into the computer. I printed them out and then exposed them onto a screen coated with photo emulsion. I had sixteen cards cramped onto…
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23Feb 2014 by Ryan No Comments

Pushing Boundaries-Expanding Horizons; Juror on Campus

Local Art Events
On February 20th the Juror for the 10th Janet Turner National Print Competition was on Campus to select the works that are to be awarded. The Juror was Anne Collins Goodyear, who co-curates at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. There were also several of the Artists on the campus that day as well. Katherine Venturelli, Yangbin Park, Jenny Robinson, and possibly more that I did not get the chance to meet. It was a pleasure to meet and talk to the artists, and to be able to share my artwork with them. Later during my Advanced Printmaking class we had a small critique that Anne Collins Goodyear led, and the other guest artists could also participate in. It was very useful to have guest from outside of out department at CSU Chico to…
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17Feb 2014 by Ryan No Comments

February 17th 2014, The Cans Opens

Exhibitions
The creation of this blog and website is a result of being selected for a solo show. The show opened today at the 3rd Floor Art Gallery in the BMU, on the Chico campus. It is up until March 10th, there will be a reception on March 5th from 5pm to 7pm. The website is still a work in progress, with more pages and information to come. Particularly printmaking related pages. Some pages are still in need of refinement and additional information. This blog will serve as a platform for my thoughts, and to share information. Soon I will be posting a blog that details the process of installing my first solo show, and the issues that came up while installing. There will be plenty of installation pictures, and a…
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