Karin Rosenthal, Belly Landscape 1980

First Doubt: Optical Confusion in Modern Art, a new show by Joshua Chan, curator at Yale University Art Gallery, with 114 pictures drawn from the Allan Chasanoff collection, looks at optical confusion in pictures. A topic that is often talked about in classes but rarely investigated as thoroughly as this. With pictures from Ansel Adams to Lee Friedlander all dealing with a confused optical space, the viewer is challenged to look out and figure out sometimes very beguiling space. The show is up through January 4, 2009 but will be reconfigured three times during the run. Worth a look.

450,000 Gallons in 22 Seconds

I remain amazed by the power and feeling of the falls. I may  put this and the picture below side by each.

450,000 Gallons in 22 sec.

Niagara Falls is an amazing site.  Visual, audible, tactile, and amazing all at the same time with 450,000 of water right there…amazing.  Maid of the Mist was the intent.

Snake River Dance

I post this with fear and trepidation, it is my first time based piece. It is a 27 second video that seemed so obvious at the time I made it. Click on the link and it will open in Quicktime.

This is the second time this piece has been shown: first at CEPA as a linear installation, 20×240 in ; This time at Kehler Liddell Gallery in New Haven as a 4×3 grid measuring 86×64 in. I think I like it best this way.

Flies over Niagara, 2008

The beginning of new work shot while AIR at CEPA in Buffalo.  

A beautiful day in the Queen City. Time to head north along Niagara Blvd. to Niagara Falls. this was just one of those pictures (one of 15 such made) that could not be passed up. Yahoo.

Three days of graduate students and critiques was an exhausting blast.

Do Not Open is available at the CPW auction 10/11/08.

Avast, today is Internationational Talk Like a Pirate Day. Invented 1993, popularized seven years ago by Dave Barry, columnist for the Miami Herald, so talk it up, me heartie .