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05 June, 2009

Isa Leshko

Isa Leshko submitted work to our New Directions 2009 juried show, and I was hooked on the work.

I'm a sucker for a carny, and if there is a rodeo nearby, you can't drag me away. The lure of the rides, smell of the corn dogs, and of course, the photobooth...like a moth to a flame.

Isa's images of the carny rides, coasters, tilt-awhirls, ferris wheels and swings are loopy, windy breezes of memories.

Shot with a Holga, the images are a little soft and hazy, like the memories we all share from our childhood.
There is something implied about the motion, imperfect ride, the hanging sensation, that pause before you get jolted in a direction you didn't expect.

This is Isa's statement about the work -

These images explore the fantastic and sinister place these rides hold in our imagination. With these images, I suspend disbelief and embrace the underlying fantasies of these rides. I create these images with a Holga camera to heighten their dream-like and surreal quality. They are deliberately printed dark to reflect the murky-realm that I envision these mechanical beasts inhabiting.


03 June, 2009

UW Photography Certificate Program Exhibition


You have seen the BFA and the MFA show, now take a look at the Certificate Program show.

The Certificate program is a group of students who love photography, and care about fine tuning and crafting their own vision.
They have two shows brewing for your viewing pleasure - group one opens on the 12 of June, group two opens on the 17th of July. Don't miss out on supporting this great group of people.



Here's what they say about their vision -
An eclectic collection of photography that shows our unique connections with our environment. Subjects such as the lines that link us to each other in the physical world, an examination of the beauty of aging, the commodity of space in landscape, the ethereal world of water and reflection; though each subject is different, the art connects us as students, and links itself together as a single body of art. Join us as we present small pieces of ourselves. Small windows into our vision of what surrounds and connects us.

For more information log onto their website here.





shown above-
Ferns - Jennifer Ely Anderson
Cross - Siobhan Pearce McGuire
Lamps - Susan Smilow
Architecture - James Harnois
Portrait - Sopon Supamangmee

01 June, 2009

Corvo Brothers

The Corvo Borthers were part of the mass of submissions for our New Directions 09.

I think the work is clever, creative and timeless in a quirky sort of way.




Their artist statement talks about a world that does not impose sharp divisions between reality and fantasy and Celebrates the existence of the extraordinary. The completely blur the lines of time, humor, darkness and fear. The work is a little uncomfortable, but you keep going back. Their images are well crafted objects, with rich color, significant narrative, and intricate details. I just keep going over them, always finding something new. The series they submitted to the gallery, The Van Buren's, I was entranced with, however, the Orphan series I find truly transfixed by.


It is creepy, cool and interesting all at once. I think they are great stories.

Here is what they have to say about the series -

In Orphans, we create dreamscapes that generate wonder. Simultaneously playful and sinister, these images suggest mysterious narratives in which children on their own make their own rules. Unexpected juxtapositions of the comic and the dark become refracted portraits of our own childhood. Each image in this series is a graft that fuses photography to painted backgrounds in order to create hybrid images that blend Victorian culture, Pop imagery, and the compositional aesthetics of the Renaissance and Baroque masters.



05 June, 2009

Isa Leshko

Isa Leshko submitted work to our New Directions 2009 juried show, and I was hooked on the work.

I'm a sucker for a carny, and if there is a rodeo nearby, you can't drag me away. The lure of the rides, smell of the corn dogs, and of course, the photobooth...like a moth to a flame.

Isa's images of the carny rides, coasters, tilt-awhirls, ferris wheels and swings are loopy, windy breezes of memories.

Shot with a Holga, the images are a little soft and hazy, like the memories we all share from our childhood.
There is something implied about the motion, imperfect ride, the hanging sensation, that pause before you get jolted in a direction you didn't expect.

This is Isa's statement about the work -

These images explore the fantastic and sinister place these rides hold in our imagination. With these images, I suspend disbelief and embrace the underlying fantasies of these rides. I create these images with a Holga camera to heighten their dream-like and surreal quality. They are deliberately printed dark to reflect the murky-realm that I envision these mechanical beasts inhabiting.


03 June, 2009

UW Photography Certificate Program Exhibition


You have seen the BFA and the MFA show, now take a look at the Certificate Program show.

The Certificate program is a group of students who love photography, and care about fine tuning and crafting their own vision.
They have two shows brewing for your viewing pleasure - group one opens on the 12 of June, group two opens on the 17th of July. Don't miss out on supporting this great group of people.



Here's what they say about their vision -
An eclectic collection of photography that shows our unique connections with our environment. Subjects such as the lines that link us to each other in the physical world, an examination of the beauty of aging, the commodity of space in landscape, the ethereal world of water and reflection; though each subject is different, the art connects us as students, and links itself together as a single body of art. Join us as we present small pieces of ourselves. Small windows into our vision of what surrounds and connects us.

For more information log onto their website here.





shown above-
Ferns - Jennifer Ely Anderson
Cross - Siobhan Pearce McGuire
Lamps - Susan Smilow
Architecture - James Harnois
Portrait - Sopon Supamangmee

01 June, 2009

Corvo Brothers

The Corvo Borthers were part of the mass of submissions for our New Directions 09.

I think the work is clever, creative and timeless in a quirky sort of way.




Their artist statement talks about a world that does not impose sharp divisions between reality and fantasy and Celebrates the existence of the extraordinary. The completely blur the lines of time, humor, darkness and fear. The work is a little uncomfortable, but you keep going back. Their images are well crafted objects, with rich color, significant narrative, and intricate details. I just keep going over them, always finding something new. The series they submitted to the gallery, The Van Buren's, I was entranced with, however, the Orphan series I find truly transfixed by.


It is creepy, cool and interesting all at once. I think they are great stories.

Here is what they have to say about the series -

In Orphans, we create dreamscapes that generate wonder. Simultaneously playful and sinister, these images suggest mysterious narratives in which children on their own make their own rules. Unexpected juxtapositions of the comic and the dark become refracted portraits of our own childhood. Each image in this series is a graft that fuses photography to painted backgrounds in order to create hybrid images that blend Victorian culture, Pop imagery, and the compositional aesthetics of the Renaissance and Baroque masters.