Exhibition Installation Panoramas

During the Fall, I had the opportunity to create several panoramic views of exhibition installations.  For the University of Richmond Museums, I documented Jay Bolotin's The Jackleg Testament Continues exhibit at the Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art.  Mr. Bolotin had for several days added text and drawings to the walls of the gallery around his framed prints.  The University Museums wanted to document this work and the overall exhibit.  I also did several panoramas for Sukjin Choi's exhibition at artspace gallery.  Her work consisted of ceramic sculptures hung on the walls to create an overall installation.  I have included two of the images below, along with views of the respective galleries.

This view Jay Bolotin's installation was created from 12 vertical images merged to create a high-resolution image of one wall with hand written text.  Below is a view of the gallery.  The wall is the one on the left.

This panorama is a combination of the two walls in the gallery view below.  To create this  view of Sukjin Choi's exhibit over 15 vertical images were merged together as well as two different walls.  The artist was interested in seeing the piece as if installed on one wall, which the size of the gallery did not allow.

Better Housing Coalition Annual Report

A look back to the summer and some images from the BHC Annual Report.  These are portraits of three people who have benefited from BHC housing developments.  It was pretty warm and humid when these images were taken, but all the people did very well posing outside in the heat.

 Rose Martin and her son Harold Ford at Beckstoffer's Mill Apartments

Vickie Perkins on her porch in Winchester Greens

Promise and Kenya Wheeler in front of their home in Oak Summit

Joan Elliott wins Bader Fund Award

Congratulations to Joan Elliott on being one of four winners of a 2013 Bader Fund Award.  The award given by the Franz and Virginia Bader Fund provides funds to an artist to continue their work and focus on a project.  This is a very prestigious award, and well deserved.  I have photographed Joan's paintings for a number of years now and have always been very impressed.  I have included below three images of recent work.  It is always hard for me to choose what to put on the blog, her paintings are all so wonderful.

Since it is snowing, I had to include this painting.  It is not often that Joan paints a snow scene.

The New Buildings at Collegiate School

I have been very neglectful of this blog this year.  So, I will hopefully make up for the that in the next few weeks.  To start off, I want to include images I did this Fall for Collegiate School.  These are views of the new buildings and additions on campus.  The night shots are of the new addition to the Hershey Center for the Fine Arts.  The structure on the left in the photographs is the new H2L2 wing for the visual arts.  I took the shots just after a storm had cleared and students were arriving for play rehearsal.  The other view is of the new Sharp Academic Commons.  You can see the H2L2 wing of HCA to the right in the background.  This image as well as the image of the Lower School with the kids running were done for the brochure announcing the new Head of the School.

Eubank and Tyree - Recent Art Work

Here is art, I recently photographed, by two artists who's work I enjoy.  I have been doing photography for  these woman for quite awhile and am always amazed by the wonderful technique and vision they have. The first two images are work by Tanya Tyree.  These are ceramic sculptures done with a hard to photograph iridescence, opalescent glaze.  The technique creates a lovely quality and color palette, which I just have to deal with.  The other work, by Kim Eubank, is done in bee's wax, using an encaustic method.  Ms. Eubank is known for her work with enameling which is sold under the name MetalQuilts.  

Ceramic Sculpture by Tanya Tyree

Ceramic Sculpture by Tanya Tyree

Encaustic Mixed Media Painting by Kim Eubank

Encaustic Mixed Media Painting by Kim Eubank

BHC Annual Report

Time to get back to the blog and update you with images and projects from 2012.  The images below were for the recent Better Housing Coalition Annual Report.  As I have said before, this is an organization I have been working with for a long time.  In fact, since BHC started.  The first image was used for the cover shot.  While it was a wonderful, care free image of a young man blowing bubbles, it was anything but easy to pull off.  The other two are portraits of people involved with BHC.

Josh blowing bubbles for the Annual Report cover.

Freda Green-Bolling on her front porch.  A first time homeowner, she is now a certified housing counselor and serves on the BHC Board.

Carter McDowell, one of the Founders of BHC

 and her son Wheat McDowell, who now serves on the Board.

Affordable Housing Awareness Week 2012

This week long event not only works to raise awareness about the need for safe affordable housing, but also provides volunteer opportunities for people to help out one of the many non-profit housing organizations in Richmond.  For the last several years, I have been lucky enough to go around and document the participation of the many student, corporate and community leaders who involve themselves in AHAW.  Part of the event is Walking in Their Shoes were community leaders spend a day on the streets of Richmond navigating the challenges faced by the homeless in the area.  A few of the images from the week are below.

Capitol One employees helping clean out a unit at one of Virginia Supportive Housing's SRO facilities.

Kit Simmons, DJ with Lite 98 with one of the thankful residents of Virginia Supportive Housing's SRO

VCU students painting a fence at a Fan Distract building owned by Better Housing Coalition

Volunteers from Franklin Federal Savings Bank and the Richmond Realtors Assoc. replanting and repairing a garden at BHC's Winchester Green apartment complex.

The best example of using the Tom Sawyer approach of painting a fence to good advantage, at Winchester Green

Wells Fargo employees helping paint an apartment for Virginia Supportive Housing.

Two of the community leaders taking part in Walking in Their Shoes, on the street.

Several of the Walking in Their Shoes participants talking with others waiting for lunch at St. Paul's Church.