Art Events

Art Events
Art events are fun to photograph and certainly guarantee things worthy to look at in more than one direction at a time, hence they make for natural subjects of panoramic photography . . .

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Lady Vile at Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School | 2009-02-23

One of the several dozen cities where Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School has taken foothold since its 2005 beginnings at the Lucky Cat in Brooklyn, NY is Baltimore. The frequent events, which nowadays get invariably sold out (at $7 a head) are held on select Monday nights at Dionysus Restaurant and Lounge. It's good time to be had for the art monkeys blessed with the opposing thumbs capable of producing facsimilies of the beautifully odd models in various states of burlesque and undress.

Lady Vile at Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School | 2009-02-23

For someone such as myself, who requires electronic extentions to be able to produce likenesses of others, it's a pretty amazing experience to see sketches transform from uncertain pencil tracks into brilliantly interpreted reproductions in less time than required to unload a flash card from a camera.

Lady Vile at Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School | 2009-02-23

If you're as uninitiated in the art of modeling as I am (not to say that I don't have the build and the looks; yeah right), let me tell you briefly that these persons are capable of holding still for 20 minutes (the longest i witnessed). And when I say still, I mean they-must-be-breathing-through-their-eyeballs still.

Lady Vile at Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School | 2009-02-23

Lady Vile, guest of honor, got to choose two favourite drawings upon completion. Two more were chosen under further subjective evaluation by others and ultimately the sketchers voted for the ultimate favourite by clapping the loudest when presented with it. Prizes were donated by local shops but alcohol was to be won in some rounds, as prescribed by the Anti-Art School formula.

Lady Vile at Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School | 2009-02-23

For the record, let it be known that I did all I could to refrain from disturbing the progress of art around me, and all my photographs were taken during ten minute or longer poses, taking up no more than 20 seconds each time, once only during each of those sittings. My thanks go out to Lady Vile and Dr. Sketchy's Baltimore, who welcomed me to their drawing session.

Eric Adams : Untitled | 2007-01-15

Eric Adams' photo exhibit opened at Brewer's Art tonight. Our favorites: 'Exodus' and the house ale, of course. 'Exodus' (taken of a lonely assembly of wheelchairs saturated in bittersweet hues) was tucked in a corner, difficult to get to and without pretty women looking at it at the time, so instead, you get to see 'Untitled' in this panorama.

Gotta Get A Message To You | 2007-01-15

Like I said, among our favourites: the house ale. Actually, my glass is empty here, unlike Eric's friends', who were hence much better equipped to relay their love to their buddy. So here's to you Eric, congrats on the exhibit from all of us . . .

Home & Beast : Art Exhibit Opens at AVAM | 2006-10-06

Thanks to the American Visionary Arts Museum for inviting me to photograph their Home & Beast opening.

Loring Cornish lives in Baltimore, and his entire house is like the room you see here. he sleeps on the floor and channels all is being into working on the live-in art.

Home & Beast : Art Exhibit Opens at AVAM | 2006-10-06

Nancy is pointing at her tooth hidden in the little tin box fronting one of her urn creations. Another of her urns, the biggest one at the Home & Beast exhibit, (slightly visible by her right shoulder in this picture) poses the question embedded in scrabble pieces: "Does this make my ashes look big?"

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