My trip to the east coast was refreshing. I miss living in a city that has great mass transportation. There is something about walking around and bumping into people. Yea its crowded, but you can travel all over the city with ease as long as you plan ahead of time. I think that's why I really love San Francisco. Washington DC is cool, small but really patriotic. It's a nice place to visit.
New york was cool, I was thankful that the weekend I was there, the weather wasnt too humid and hot. People were young in Williamsburg, early 20s to mid to late 30s. The city is alive for younger people at the beginning to mid career parts of their lives.
New York city was on another level. Alot of business professionals I was fortunate enough to stay with a friend Stephen Higgins at his Chelsea apartment with an amazing view and location. He welcomed me with open arms and it was a great two days talking about business, art and catching up on life. It has been 3 years since I was in contact with him and there was alot to talk about. We talked about our careers as artists and our evolution to where we are currently. It was enriching to spend time with other artists I was introduced to by Stephen. It was something I needed. I received great feed back about my work and collaboration are in the works.
New York is a beautiful place to be as an artist. Its expensive, different from the west coast, but I have a fondness to it. It keeps calling me every year one way or another, either for business, pleasure, or both. It is something I keep considering and will find my self in New York one day when my career takes me there.
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Saturday, June 18, 2011
Alexander Mcqueen Exhibit NYC Metro
During the last day of my East Coast trip, my friend Stephen and I went to go to the Metro Museum of Art in New York to check out the Alexander Mcqueen Exhibition. I enjoyed it very much. Mcqueen's work was displayed well with a personal sound track and interesting holograms and short movies.
It was apparent through out the exhibit that Mcqueens work is influenced by dark ideas and sadomasochist themes. What I found interesting were the videos of his well produced fashion shows with high concept.
One collection in the exhibition was called "Romantic Nationalism," where the influence to this collection was his personal heritage.
The rest of the exhibit was great! There was an area that had motion pieces that attracted large crowds. There was one in particular in the "Romantic Exoticism," that contained a Joel Peter Witken influenced video, Amazing to say the least.
Witken's Sanatorium.
Check out Mcqueen's Video here
Here are the rest of the images.. that i wasnt supposed to take but did it any way.. =)
Monday, January 17, 2011
Lucas Samaras: Photo Transformer Extraordinaire
Lucas Samaras is most famous for his Polaroid "Photo-Transformations" where he would twist and manipulate Polaroids during the developing process, creating eerie effects in the end result:

Currently, Samaras is represented by The Pace Gallery in New York where, at the end of 2010, he exhibited a show called Poses/Born Actors which demonstrated his current style of manipulating digital images through lighting and other effects. The series features portraits of art-world big wigs, hauntingly lit and disturbingly demonic:

Currently, Samaras is represented by The Pace Gallery in New York where, at the end of 2010, he exhibited a show called Poses/Born Actors which demonstrated his current style of manipulating digital images through lighting and other effects. The series features portraits of art-world big wigs, hauntingly lit and disturbingly demonic:
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
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