An Historic District Walk with Surprises
Adding to my architectural portfolio, I made these images at the Jepson Center, part of the Telfair Art Museums, while visiting Savannah for my graduation. An amazing modern building set within the historic district of Savannah’s old squares. Most of the architecture in downtown Savannah spans the 18th and 19th centuries with styles from the Colonial and Federal periods to the gingerbread details of the Victorian period.
Savannah, Georgia with Family and Friends
What an amazing journey! I am so thankful to my husband, Randy, and my family and good friends for all the encouragement and pep talks to complete this degree. I had always wanted to go back and earn my MFA in Photography before I turned 50 and I did it! Here are some of the photos from graduation day in Savannah, Georgia. It was certainly a memorable day, as I walked a different stage in Savannah for my BFA in May 1993 after having completed my undergraduate degree in November 1992. What fun to meet up with my new friend from Santa Fe, NM, Chris Nail, who also completed his journey through the SCAD MFA Photography program!
Civilized Frontier
I was very excited to have shared my thesis project with so many family, friends and the community. My show, Civilized Frontier, at Kreuser Gallery was a success, and a lot of fun (even with a broken arm and having had major surgery on the day before)! Here are some of the images from that night, and just a fun reminder to have this memory on my website. The reception photographs were made by my friend, Dustin Price.
Group Exhibition at Kreuser Gallery – January 2018
Being invited to hang work in any of Abby Kreuser’s exhibitions is an honor. She is a force in the Colorado Springs art world, and I am grateful for all the work she does for local artists. We are beyond lucky to have her in our community, and as such a champion for local arts. Here, I show my three images for entry in her Energy exhibition.
What does energy mean to me – life force. I think of being alive, I think of the cycle of death, I think of the tiny cells always at work in our bodies while we sleep, while we are quiet. Energy means to feel, to bleed, to love, to cry, to scream with joy.
What if the next time you visited a National Park, or hiked into the backcountry on BLM land, you happened upon this? For the final project in one of my classes during winter quarter we had to explore a believable, but currently impossible, photo realistic situation. At least that was my take-away.
Given my background working in the advertising world, and my love of these majestic landscapes, I combined the two to see what this world might look like. Can’t say I like it much, but it was a fun project to complete.
The landscapes are scans from my 6×9 negatives taken over the years, and the billboards are new digital captures made here in Colorado Springs towards the end of the quarter. The billboards were removed from their natural backgrounds and composited into my landscapes.
As I mentioned to my classmates at the time of peer review, let’s hope we don’t see this in our lifetimes.
Well, where do I begin…exhausted. That’s it, short and sweet as promised, and not exactly on time.
I’m going to share some school work and projects here just because, well, it is fun to get others thoughts and opinions in addition to a professor. I think it is fun to hear feedback from those who know you best.
Over the next few weeks, I’ll share a few items from my first quarter at SCAD.
To begin, here is my Post-Modern appropriated piece.
Any of my students who know me, and who took my History of Photography class know that I loathe “appropriation,” so that said, I did it. For a grade, yes, for my own direction, no.
Here’s my take on a current issue using recognizable imagery from the 1980s and yes, it is all appropriated.
