SHOW DATE
January 19, 2012 (Thurs) 7-9pm

VENUE
Apple SF Store
1 Stockton St., San Francisco (map)

WHAT I’M DOING
I’ll be giving a 20min artists talk (slideshow) of my Interface series—this is an encore presentation of what I presented last year at Stanford.

WHAT IS OPEN SHOW
Rapidly growing into a worldwide movement, OPEN SHOW is a series of free monthly curated artist-talks that feature 5 or 6 photographers who have 10-15 minutes each to show a 20 image story (or 4‐7 minute video/multimedia project). Beyond offering a stage to get great work seen, shows are also incubators for emerging photographers and works in progress. This evening is a “best of 2011″ encore so it should be an especially compelling show. More info at openshow.org.

OTHER PRESENTERS
Jeremy Rourke – Out to See
Brandon Tauszik – Pray For Mercy
Michael Mullady – In Memory of Fabienne Geichmar
Yoni Klein & Alka Joshi – Blink
Cera Hensley – Here Nor There

Come experience this unique live show featuring the six best projects from 2011 curated from hundreds of submissions. Work includes a photo collage music video, powerful images from Haiti, surreal landscape dioramas and more. (I am the more, I suppose).

>>RSVP AT FACEBOOK (optional)

Some images from my Interface series…

RELATED: video of my presentation of this work at Stanford last year
ALSO: Read the post about me over at the SFMOMA Artists Gallery blog

Intersection for the Arts

Chronicle Building
925 Mission Street (@ 5th), Suite 109

Friday, December 9, 2011
6:30 – 9:30 p.m.

Silent Auction Ends at 9:00pm

via You’re Invited to (c)elebrate! A ME’DI.ATE Holiday Party & Fundraiser 

Update: read the eastbayexpress Review

I’m in a holiday show/sale that is in conjunction with this Timescapes exhibition.

I will also be in the auction at SF Camerawork’s annual Benefit Auction of Photographic Prints
Saturday, 12/3/11: Auction, bidding starts at 1pm…

Collaborate presents Timescapes, a look at time and memory through the lens of the camera, featuring the work of seven members of the Bay Area Photographers Collective. Layering memories through a wide variety of cameras and photographic techniques, images become amorphous, undefined. A single moment is stretched through the blur of movement to include infinite others.

We believe in the creative power of collaboration, participation, and engagement – where artists from varied backgrounds and disciplines come together to create, and where the community is a part of that experience.

Collaborate Studio & Art Gallery
431 13th Street
Oakland, CA 94612
Located in City Center Oakland, at 13th and Broadway, steps from the 12th Street BART Station.

Lytro lets you take pictures like never before. Unlike a conventional camera that captures a single plane of light, the Lytro camera captures the entire light field, which is all the light traveling in every direction in every point in space.

This comment on their blog gave some idea of how this technology can really be different.

I see potential for this technology in the detection of wavefront aberrations of the cornea. Currently, Fourier based wavefront algorithms are used for wavefront guided ablation of the cornea for LASIK. This technology has potential to give us new insights into corneal aberrations as well as intraocular lens technology.

The images on their site could be done with a wide depth of field and then selective blurring. So in that sense it’s not so impressive and kinda just a little flash-viewer gimmick. But there is something new here and even if this camera doesn’t bring out its full potential I am very curious about it’s eventual uses.

via Lytro.

Last year I had a small lightbox and this year I am donating 2 small Interface images – to be sold as a diptych.

Thursday, 11/3/2011: Preview Exhibition 5-8pm
Saturday, 12/3/11: Auction, bidding starts at 1pm

SF Camerawork’s Benefit Auction of vintage and contemporary prints is truly a collector’s paradise. Admirers of vintage and contemporary photography can view works at the preview exhibition and bid on them at the auction on Saturday, December 3. Featuring works by more than 150 artists, doors open at 11 am, and the first lot is up for bidding at 1 pm.

My studio is located at 16 Abbey (off 17th between Church and Dolores: map) in the Mission District in San Francisco.

I will show some new and in-progress panoramas and my new, smaller lightboxes that can be hung on a wall or displayed on a tabletop. I will have a wider selection of unframed work compared to previous years.

• View my Artspan artist profile
• Attend the Open Studios Preview Party and Exhibition (I have one small piece in this giant warehouse show)
  September 29, 6:30 – 9:30pm (a ticketed event, $25-$60)
  October 15 6-8pm (a free reception)
  SOMArts Main Gallery, 934 Brannan St. (map)
• View Facebook event listing

Motion Study #2673 (Omotesando Hills): Images are available finished in two dramatic presentations. The first is a light box. The second option is “face-mounted” to the back of 1/4in plexiglas. Also available unframed.

Irwin Lewis – "Beautiful Silence"

I participated in Open Show last month at Stanford. You are invited to attend this month’s show – I’ll be there. It’s themed closely to the FROM JAPAN TO JAPAN show I’m in at PHOTO Gallery Oakland.

OPEN SHOW SF BAY AREA #26
SHOW DATE: June 16th (Thurs) 7-9pm

VENUE: Rayko Photo Center & Gallery
428 3rd Street, San Francisco, CA 94107

This month is Open Show’s inaugural themed show – we have collaborated with the Japan Society to offer a special screening lineup raising donations through Give2Asia to benefit the earthquake and tsunami survivors in Japan. Our event team will be collecting cash, check and credit card donations – join with Open Show to support the people of Japan!

CO-SPONSORED BY: The Japan Society is an educational non-profit organization and the West Coast’s leading forum on Japan. For over 100 years, they have provided a cultural bridge between the U.S. and Japan through business, politics, society and the arts events.

THIS MONTH’S PRESENTERS
Dai Sugano – Christmas in Tokyo
David Butow – Survivor Portraits
Stirling Elmendorf – Japan 2.0
Atsuko Morita – Cells
Irwin Lewis – Beautiful Silence

via San Francisco Bay Area | OPEN SHOW.

FROM JAPAN TO JAPAN Images of Japan by American Photographers

A BENEFIT FOR THE CHILDREN OF JAPAN

JUNE 2–JULY 30
reception: July 1, 6-9pm (Oakland Art Murmur)

PHOTOGRAPHS BY: Judy Dater • Anthony Delgado • LeRoy Howard • Allan Mandell • Ari Salomon • Whitney Vosburgh • John Watson
and more . . .

25% of all sales goes to Fortunate Blessings Foundation for their work with Japanese children who have survived the recent earthquake and tsunami.

Framed and unframed prints will be sold right off the walls—no waiting until the exhibit ends.

Open Thu/Fri/Sat Noon to 6:00 and by appointment. Open for Oakland Art Murmur until 9:00 on the first Friday of the month.

473 25th Street, Oakland , CA 94612 (map)

More info at PHOTO website

I talk about the evolution of this project and get a few laughs. Some of the audio is quiet in this video.

and the intro for the evening:

ALSO: original post

OPEN SHOW SF BAY AREA #25
SHOW DATE: May 19th (Thurs) 7-9pm

VENUE: Stanford University
Cummings Art Building (Room AR4) 435 Lasuen Mall, Stanford, CA 94305 (map)

Free monthly social screenings feature 5 curated presenters (from professionals to students) who have 10 minutes each to show a 20 image story or 4‐7 minute video/multimedia project. Beyond offering a stage to get great work seen, shows are also incubators for emerging photographers and works in progress.

THIS MONTH’S PRESENTERS:

Geoffrey Biddle – Alphabet City
Cera Hensley – Here Nor There
Briar March – Michael & His Dragon
Ari Salomon – Interface
Rom Srinivasan – Dance of Life

more info at San Francisco Bay Area | OPEN SHOW

I’ll be showing images from my Interface series…

UPDATE: video of my presentation is online
UPDATE: I gave this presentation a 2nd time in their BEST OF 2011 show