Galleries
Below you can explore photographs that are divided into six galleries: exhibitions, seascapes, nature, people, and eye catchers.
Photo Gallery 1: "Shades of Blue" Exhibition
Exhibition Description
SHADES OF BLUE, a solo exhibit that first opened at the main gallery of the Oxford, OH, Community Art Center for a six week period, is a group of thirty-six photographs related by their subject matter: an interpretation of the concept of blue. Blue can apply to color, music, emotion, or a state of being, and the photographs all visually convey some one or more dimensions of the idea. That same diversity of meaning is, of course, also expressed in word and song, and to provide the viewer with a wholistic artistic experience, the photographs were interspersed with printed quotations from authors in different disciplines reflecting on the meaning of blue, while a selected list of songs referencing blue played during the exhibit.
Introductory Quotation
“And so, I fell in love with a color-in this case, the color blue- as if falling under a spell, a spell I fought to stay under and get out from under in turns. Well, and what of it? A voluntary delusion you might say. That each blue object could be a kind of burning bush, a secret code meant for a single agent, an X on a map too diffuse ever to be unfolded in its entirety, but that contains the knowable universe. How could all the shreds of blue garbage bags stuck in brambles, or the bright blue tarps over every shanty and fish stand in the world, be, in essence, the fingerprints of God? I will try to explain this.”
Maggie Nelson, Bluets
Music
SONG TITLE ARTIST
The Birth of the Blues Della Reese
Blue Eyes Elton John
Blue LeAnn Rimes
Easy Come, Easy Go Blues Bessie Smith
Blue Moon Rod Stewart
Workin’ Man Blues Merle Haggard
Misty Blue Dorothy Moore
Blue Suede Shoes Dion
Blue Eyes Cryin’ In the Rain Willie Nelson
Am I Blue? Billie Holiday
Blue Mountains of Mexico Ian Tyson
My Blue Heaven Leon Redbone
Forever in Blue Jeans Neil Diamond
Blue Joni Mitchell
Blue Velvet Tony Bennett
Blue Skies Ella Fitzgerald
Blue on Blue Bobby Vinton
Blue Lucinda Williams
Midnight Blue Melissa Manchester
Blue Christmas Elvis Presley
This is a list of the music that was played during the exhibition.
Photo Gallery 2 : Sparks Exhibition
Description
What is a “spark?” I’ve found a variety of definitions. Among them are: a “quality or feeling with latent potential, a seed or a germ” and “a glistening particle, a flash of light.” These words capture what I view as essential to my work as a photographer and what the images presented here have in common. Each began with my being drawn to a particular quality of light in a scene and sensing that it had the potential to become a print that would express my vision and hopefully impact the minds and hearts of others. My artistic challenge is this: can I realize that potential through the steps of capturing the image, processing the resulting digital file, and thoughtfully printing the final photograph? In each step, I work with the awareness that the power and appeal of the subject is intimately tied to the spark of light that surrounds it. In one sense, the subject matter changes with each photograph: it may be a green leaf in blue water, a woman collecting shells on a deserted beach at sunset, a fishing pier on a foggy morning, or the flash of a white egret in a drab swamp. But in another sense, the subject matter is always the same: the light, the spark. In every photograph, what is essential is capturing the unique quality of the light at that moment. The photographs I chose for this exhibition are those where I felt I had accomplished that goal. Of course, a final consideration in determining whether they are evocative art is whether some work to spark thoughts and feelings in you, also. I hope they do.
I wrote this description for the May, 2018, exhibition of my work at the Oxford Community Arts Center in Oxford, OH. The thirty-two photographs in that exhibit are collected in the Gallery below with their titles underneath. You may scroll through the exhibit by using the forward arrow button to the right of each picture. I hope you'll take a look and that you find them interesting and thought-provoking. I'd welcome hearing your reactions.
