Tonight was the invitation-only preview for the 75th annual Laguna Beach Festival of Arts. No comment on the Pageant of the Masters, a related event in which actors dress up as paintings for some reason; this was the art festival portion of the proceedings, and it was well attended . . . with food, wine and cleavage flowing freely.
Each year the exhibitors at the festival include a large number of printmakers, including Donna Westerman, Dirk Hagner, Noriho Uriu, Julita Jones, and Vinita Voogd. Dirk's woodcuts are always amazing, usually writers but this year a series of very interesting nudes printed from multipe blocks.
While waiting in line I had the thought of shooting a series of black-and-white portraits of printmakers, the way Renee King has been doing with photographers.
Saturday, June 30, 2007
Sunday, June 24, 2007
Perimeter no. 12
Excerpted page from Perimeter 12. Letterpress and relief print, 2006/2007.
click for larger view
click for larger view
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Conversations with Eric Kroll
After shooting with Renee Wednesday night and into Thursday morning, I drove her up to Eric Kroll's place in Silverlake, from which she would leave for New York City.
Eric Kroll is not to everyone's tastes, but I was glad to meet him and thrilled just to be inside his home: on one wall, the huge Helmut Newton portrait of Andy Warhol; elsewhere, work by Larry Clark, Bunny Yeager, Eric Stanton, John Willie; a nude of the late model Gia.
We had a lot to talk about, since we've been shooting a lot of the same models, and from the moment we met he was insisting I show him my work. Of one piece, he said, "I think I've shot this girl." (True enough: she had worked with him the same day she shot with me.)
Looking at the image with his editor's eye he decided that, "this is good, I think." He liked my work but worried that the technique was getting in the way of the message. I'm supposed to send him more images at Taschen Books.
Renee was mostly silent as we sat on the porch and talked, but when he went into the other room to fetch a handful of vintage Bizarre magazines she said that she was seeing him in a different light. I wish I had a better idea what she meant.
Around 1:30 in the morning, when she announced that she was going to take a shower, she may have been a little scared when he said he would take one too . . . at least until he clarified that he'd wait until she was done.
Eric Kroll is not to everyone's tastes, but I was glad to meet him and thrilled just to be inside his home: on one wall, the huge Helmut Newton portrait of Andy Warhol; elsewhere, work by Larry Clark, Bunny Yeager, Eric Stanton, John Willie; a nude of the late model Gia.
We had a lot to talk about, since we've been shooting a lot of the same models, and from the moment we met he was insisting I show him my work. Of one piece, he said, "I think I've shot this girl." (True enough: she had worked with him the same day she shot with me.)
Looking at the image with his editor's eye he decided that, "this is good, I think." He liked my work but worried that the technique was getting in the way of the message. I'm supposed to send him more images at Taschen Books.
Renee was mostly silent as we sat on the porch and talked, but when he went into the other room to fetch a handful of vintage Bizarre magazines she said that she was seeing him in a different light. I wish I had a better idea what she meant.
Around 1:30 in the morning, when she announced that she was going to take a shower, she may have been a little scared when he said he would take one too . . . at least until he clarified that he'd wait until she was done.
Sunday, June 17, 2007
Friday, June 15, 2007
Nancy Chiu in Newport Beach
Nancy Chiu had a piece in a show that opened tonight at Cordell Surfboards on 31st Street in Newport Beach, along with some CSULB grad students and others. It was quite crowded actually, and the space got a bit steamy and tropical; but it was cool outdoors.
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Zwartboek (2006)
At Bay Theater, Seal Beach
Paul Verhoeven's thoughtful tone poem on the Dutch Resistance of World War II. Not as funny as "Hogan's Heroes," but actress Carice van Houten has a really nice . . . smile. Contains nudity, but probably not enough.
Paul Verhoeven's thoughtful tone poem on the Dutch Resistance of World War II. Not as funny as "Hogan's Heroes," but actress Carice van Houten has a really nice . . . smile. Contains nudity, but probably not enough.
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