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Looking for Clues: Selected Images 2003 – 2010
Opening Reception is Friday April 29, 2011 from 5:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
The Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council
810 Penn Avenue, Suit 200
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15222-3401
Normal Exhibition Hours: Monday – Friday 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
"Looking for Clues: Selected Images 2003 – 2010" is an exhibition of Brian Sesack’s journey in finding his own voice as a black and white fine art photographer. Included are images that have been juried into previous exhibitions and several thematic bodies of work in which he conveys a concept or human emotion without the use of written language.
The exhibition will open on the 29th of April within the offices off The Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council as part of the Gallery Crawl in the Cultural District of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This body of work was selected by the Arts Council for their Art on the Walls, a juried bi-annual, solo exhibition for individual artists in the Greater Pittsburgh region.
The Gallery Crawl on April 29th will take place between 5:30 and 9:00 p.m. Normal hours for the exhibition are 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday until September 23, 2011.
Artist website: http://briansesack.com
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the blog and website are volunteer projects from fine art photographer and pittsburgh artist advocate rick byerly.
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from an old craigslist post found by Sam Thorp
Every day, there are more and more CraigsList posts seeking “artists” for everything from auto graphics to comic books to corporate logo designs. More people are finding themselves in need of some form of illustrative service.
But what they’re NOT doing, unfortunately, is realizing how rare someone with these particular talents can be.
To those who are “seeking artists”, let me ask you; How many people do you know, personally, with the talent and skill to perform the services you need? A dozen? Five? One? …none?
More than likely, you don’t know any. Otherwise, you wouldn’t be posting on craigslist to find them.
And this is not really a surprise.
In this country, there are almost twice as many neurosurgeons as there are professional illustrators. There are eleven times as many certified mechanics. There are SEVENTY times as many people in the IT field.
So, given that they are less rare, and therefore less in demand, would it make sense to ask your mechanic to work on your car for free? Would you look him in the eye, with a straight face, and tell him that his compensation would be the ability to have his work shown to others as you drive down the street?
Would you offer a neurosurgeon the “opportunity” to add your name to his resume as payment for removing that pesky tumor? (Maybe you could offer him “a few bucks” for “materials”. What a deal!)
Would you be able to seriously even CONSIDER offering your web hosting service the chance to have people see their work, by viewing your website, as their payment for hosting you?
If you answered “yes” to ANY of the above, you’re obviously insane. If you answered “no”, then kudos to you for living in the real world.
But then tell me… why would you think it is okay to live out the same, delusional, ridiculous fantasy when seeking someone whose abilities are even less in supply than these folks?
Graphic artists, illustrators, painters, etc., are skilled tradesmen. As such, to consider them as, or deal with them as, anything less than professionals fully deserving of your respect is both insulting and a bad reflection on you as a sane, reasonable person. In short, it makes you look like a twit.
A few things you need to know;
1. It is not a “great opportunity” for an artist to have his work seen on your car/’zine/website/bedroom wall, etc. It IS a “great opportunity” for YOU to have their work there.
2. It is not clever to seek a “student” or “beginner” in an attempt to get work for free. It’s ignorant and insulting. They may be “students”, but that does not mean they don’t deserve to be paid for their hard work. You were a “student” once, too. Would you have taken that job at McDonalds with no pay, because you were learning essential job skills for the real world? Yes, your proposition it JUST as stupid.
3. The chance to have their name on something that is going to be seen by other people, whether it’s one or one million, is NOT a valid enticement. Neither is the right to add that work to their “portfolio”. They get to do those things ANYWAY, after being paid as they should. It’s not compensation. It’s their right, and it’s a given.
4. Stop thinking that you’re giving them some great chance to work. Once they skip over your silly ad, as they should, the next ad is usually for someone who lives in the real world, and as such, will pay them. There are far more jobs needing these skills than there are people who possess these skills.
5. Students DO need “experience”. But they do NOT need to get it by giving their work away. In fact, this does not even offer them the experience they need. Anyone who will not/can not pay them is obviously the type of person or business they should be ashamed to have on their resume anyway. Do you think professional contractors list the “experience” they got while nailing down a loose step at their grandmother’s house when they were seventeen?
If you your company or gig was worth listing as desired experience, it would be able to pay for the services it received. The only experience they will get doing free work for you is a lesson learned in what kinds of scrubs they should not lower themselves to deal with.
6. (This one is FOR the artists out there, please pay attention.) Some will ask you to “submit work for consideration”. They may even be posing as some sort of “contest”. These are almost always scams. They will take the work submitted by many artists seeking to win the “contest”, or be “chosen” for the gig, and find what they like most. They will then usually have someone who works for them, or someone who works incredibly cheap because they have no originality or talent of their own, reproduce that same work, or even just make slight modifications to it, and claim it as their own. You will NOT be paid, you will NOT win the contest. The only people who win, here, are the underhanded folks who run these ads. This is speculative, or “spec”, work. It’s risky at best, and a complete scam at worst. I urge you to avoid it, completely. For more information on this subject, please visit www.no-spec.com.
So to artists/designers/illustrators looking for work, do everyone a favor, ESPECIALLY yourselves, and avoid people who do not intend to pay you. Whether they are “spec” gigs, or just some guy who wants a free mural on his living room walls. They need you. You do NOT need them.
And for those who are looking for someone to do work for free… please wake up and join the real world. The only thing you’re accomplishing is to insult those with the skills you need. Get a clue.
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The Pittsburgh Art BlogThe Pittsburgh Art Blog features selected pittsburgh artists and upcoming exhibits with photos from the artists and galleries. since the major press outlets do not go beyond a directory listing of exhibits, blogs are needed to promote pittsburgh artists and their work. the blog also calls attention to the inferiority complex of pittsburgh art and how it's perpetuated by the major players in town. Started on August 20,2007. pittsburgh area galleries and art venues are listed at the sister site www.PghGalleries.com.
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The Pittsburgh Art Blog features selected pittsburgh artists and upcoming exhibits with photos from the artists and galleries. since the major press outlets do not go beyond a directory listing of exhibits, blogs are needed to promote pittsburgh artists and their work. the blog also calls attention to the inferiority complex of pittsburgh art and how it's perpetuated by the major players in town. Started on August 20,2007. pittsburgh area galleries and art venues are listed at the sister site www.PghGalleries.com.
the blog and website are volunteer projects from fine art photographer and pittsburgh artist advocate rick byerly.
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The Pittsburgh Art Blog features selected pittsburgh artists and upcoming exhibits with photos from the artists and galleries. since the major press outlets do not go beyond a directory listing of exhibits, blogs are needed to promote pittsburgh artists and their work. the blog also calls attention to the inferiority complex of pittsburgh art and how it's perpetuated by the major players in town. Started on August 20, 2007.pittsburgh area galleries and art venues are listed at the sister site www.PghGalleries.com.
the blog and website are volunteer projects from fine art photographer and pittsburgh artist advocate rick byerly, www.RickByerly.com.
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Happy Birthday to a ... Blog?
I don't celebrate my own so why not? Who knows how much longer it will make it. Jumping candlesticks can get tiresome.
Pittsburgh doesn't exactly have an abundance of art info beyond the crude basics currently so hopefully more artists will take advantage of this resource and email me about what's happening on their end.
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"CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER..."
Silver Eye Center for Photography brings Wonderland to Pittsburgh with two stunning exhibitions by Maggie Taylor and Abelardo Morell
PITTSBURGH, Pa. 4/22/10 - The Silver Eye Center for Photography is pleased to present exhibitions this summer by two of the most renowned and influential photographers working today - Maggie Taylor and Abelardo Morell - each highlighting a singular reinterpretation of the 150-year-old story of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
These Strange Adventures: The Art of Maggie Taylor on view at Silver Eye's South Side Venue beginning May 14, 2010.
Maggie Taylor first exhibited her work at Silver Eye in 1995, and today, she is internationally recognized as one of the most inventive and accomplished artists working with cutting-edge digital imaging processes. This exhibition features 40 of Taylor's photo montages created from 2003 to 2009. The centerpiece is a selection of 23 works from Almost Alice: New Illustrations of Wonderland, a three-year project published to great acclaim by Modernbook Editions in 2008.
Since 1996, Maggie Taylor has been using the most advanced digital image-making tools in place of the camera and darkroom to create her fantastical work. Starting with objects that she finds on eBay or in flea markets such as old Victorian photographic portraits, Taylor scans and assembles a single image from dozens upon dozens of Photoshop layers.
"A single work may take months of experimentation and careful thought to complete and Taylor's artistry is, in short, nothing less than virtuosic," comments Ellen Fleurov, curator of the exhibition and Silver Eye's executive director. "Yet, what makes Taylor truly great is not just her technical mastery but the rich interplay between photographic veracity and illusion, the psychological tension between dreams and reality, which seems to stand at the heart of her deeply affecting and beautiful work."
These Strange Adventures: The Art of Maggie Taylor will be on view from May 14 through August 21, 2010 at the Silver Eye Center for Photography at 1015 East Carson Street in Pittsburgh's South Side. Admission is free and open to the public.
The exhibition is made possible, in part, through support from the BNY Mellon Audience Development Fund. Media sponsors are WYEP 91.3FM and Pittsburgh City Paper.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Photographs by Abelardo Morell opens May 7 in the Cultural District as part of Three Rivers Arts Festival
Abelardo Morell's rethinking of the Lewis Carroll classic precedes Maggie Taylor's series by a decade and the fifteen images in the suite will be on view from May 7 through June 25, 2010 at the 709 Penn Gallery in downtown Pittsburgh's Cultural District. The exhibition is organized by the Silver Eye Center for Photography and presented by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Education and Community Engagement Department in association with the Three Rivers Arts Festival. Admission is free and open to the public.
Abelardo Morell's interest in the Alice story is not surprising for he has long been intrigued by the magical qualities of books and their enduring presence in our memory and history. To make his images, Morell created paper cut-outs from the original Sir John Tenniel illustrations to Alice in Wonderland and then arranged the figures into carefully constructed scenarios. These mis-en-scenes were then photographed from a variety of often disorienting perspectives with a large format view camera. The resulting images brim with a wit, delight and punning imagination that Lewis Carroll himself, a pioneering photographer, would have relished.
Gallery hours are Wednesday - Thursday (11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.); Friday - Saturday (11:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.); and Sunday (11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.). Special extended hours during the Three Rivers Arts Festival, June 4 through 13; visit www.pgharts.org for further details.
The exhibition will be open during the First Friday Gallery Crawl on June 4, 2010 from 4:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. This evening of events showcases an array of activities throughout the Cultural District and they are free and open to the public. For more information and a map of the Gallery Crawl events, visit www.pgharts.org or call 412.456.6666.
ABOUT MAGGIE TAYLOR
Maggie Taylor was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1961. She received her BA degree in philosophy from Yale University and her MFA degree in photography from the University of Florida. After more than ten years as a still-life photographer, she began to use the computer to create her images in 1996. Her work is featured in Adobe Photoshop Master Class: Maggie Taylor's Landscape of Dreams, Peachpit Press, Berkeley, 2005; Solutions Beginning with A, Modernbook Editions, Palo Alto, 2007; and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, Modernbook Editions, Palo Alto, 2008. Taylor's images have been exhibited in one-person exhibitions throughout the U.S. and abroad and are in numerous public and private collections, including The Art Museum, Princeton University; The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and The Museum of Photography, Seoul. She lives in Gainesville, Florida, with her husband Jerry Uelsmann.
ABOUT ABELARDO MORELL
Abelardo Morell was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1948 and moved with his family from Cuba to New York City at age 14. He was introduced to photography at Bowdoin College in Maine and received an MFA from Yale in 1981. In 1983, he began teaching at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston where he is now a Professor of Photography. He has received a number of awards and grants, which include a Cintas grant in 1992, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1994 and a Rappaport Prize in 2006.
His work has been collected and shown in many galleries, institutions and museums, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Art Institute of Chicago; The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and The Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Major books on the artist include: Abelardo Morell, Phaidon Press, 2005; Camera Obscura, Bulfinch Press, 2004; A Book of Books, Bulfinch Press, 2002; Abelardo Morell and The Camera Eye, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, 1999; and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, photo-illustrations by Abelardo Morell and introduction by Leonard S. Marcus, Dutton Children's Books, 1998.
ABOUT SILVER EYE
For the past 30 years, the Silver Eye Center for Photography has played a unique and valued role in the region's cultural landscape and earned a national reputation as one of the country's pre-eminent photography centers. Our mission is to advance understanding, appreciation and active engagement with photography as a vital form of creative expression and as an educative force in communicating the diverse values, histories and issues that shape and influence our lives.
Silver Eye Center for Photography is generously supported by the Allegheny Regional Asset District, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, The Fine Foundation, The Grable Foundation, The Heinz Endowments, The Pittsburgh Foundation, The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation, The Henry John Simonds Foundation and Anonymous.
ABOUT THREE RIVERS ARTS FESTIVAL
June 4 -13, 2010, Downtown Pittsburgh
Point State Park, Hertz Gateway Center & locations throughout the Cultural District
A division of The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Three Rivers Arts Festival is a 10-day free celebration of the arts held annually in Downtown Pittsburgh. Each year, the Festival features nightly live music concerts at Point State Park; an Artists Market featuring original art and fine crafts; gallery exhibitions throughout the Cultural District featuring top Pittsburgh-based artists and exhibitions from around the country; and hands-on activities for kids and adults alike. Demonstrating the convergence of art, the environment and technology, Three Rivers Arts Festival is a national leader in environmentally-conscious event production and at 10 days long, is among the largest and longest-running free arts events in the country, welcoming hundreds of thousands of visitors annually.
IMAGES
Maggie Taylor
The great puzzle. 2006
Archival pigment ink print
Courtesy of the artist and Verve Gallery of Photography, Santa Fe, NM
(left)
Abelardo Morell
The loveliest garden you ever saw. 1998
Archival inkjet print from the original gelatin silver print negative
Courtesy of the artist and Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York
(right)
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