High dynamic range imaging (HDR for short) is a photographic technique that has become all the rage lately. The f8 Consortium, a group of local Tampa and Clearwater photographers (including myself) is opening an exhibit this Saturday, April 24, called “New Visions” (more details). Here is one of the pieces I will be showing, “Wholesale Sponges,” taken at the nearby Tarpon Springs sponge docks:
Alice Alexander is an interior designers who participated in “The Ideas of March,” a showcase of art and interior design hosted in my art gallery in Clearwater, FL. Here she is in front of her display, giving an interview on her work:
I’ll be posting more interviews with other designers soon.
Triptychs are a wonderful format for artwork. They look great over a couch, along the wall behind the dining room table, over a large screen TV or over the headboard of a bed. Gallery wrapped as three panels, the depth of the canvas panels adds a 3D aspect to the artwork (almost like a hanging sculpture) creating a more interesting presentation that invites the eye and intrigues the senses.
Almost any piece of my artwork can be re-worked into a triptych.
One of the original challenges of making triptychs was figuring out how to plan for the proper overlap of the artwork on each of the three canvases so that there there is no break in continuity looking across the three panels. What would appear in-between the panels is wrapped on the inner edges of the two adjacent panels, so one must allow for the proper overlap when creating each panel.
Hanging triptychs so that each panel is in perfect alignment may seem like a daunting task, but it is actually quite easy. There are two methods that I can share with you in a future blog entry.
I saw something cool and wanted to share. Media Decor makes a creative solution for hiding TVs when the screen is off. A custom-built devise can automatically raise and lower art that covers the TV. Their Youtube page just put up a video of them testing a model with my art on it (the piece is a non-triptych version of “Triptych in Brown“.)
As an ASID Industry Partner, I’ve had the pleasure of working with some of Florida’s top interior designers. Collaborating with these designers has given me an new appreciation for their craft. It’s impressive to see how much thought and planning goes into designing a space and how much skill it takes to do right. More than just picking the curtains and carpet, an interior designer has to have a vision for creating a space that functions for the people in it and also please them aesthetically. Then they have to have practical, real-world know-how to see these visions made into a reality.
With the help of my wife Jerri, we’ve organized “Ideas of March,” an event showcasing ten of the top local ASID interior designers and their use of my artwork in their designs. The exhibit runs until April 10, 2010 and is open to the public. Read more about the Ideas of March here. The St. Petersburg Times also mentioned it in their Home & Garden section as “Inside designers’ minds.”
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