A Designer’s Selection
Stuart Allen
Texas artist, Stuart Allen, is driven by science, algorithms, and light. His minimalist photographs reveal his fascination for the individual pixel when we are inundated with trillions of pixels every day in our smart phones and computers. He is interested in color spectrums that our eyes cannot see, but in a soap bubble the colors playfully appear. He makes use of his camera in airplane rides by photographing through his window, breaking down the images into a dot matrix, each image using a different algorithm to translate light, color and wonder.
Karl Blossfeldt
Karl Blossfeldt’s early 20th Century plant studies are classic! He was interested in Mother Nature’s genius for design. These magnified close-up images of stems, buds, fronds, and flowers powerfully display design in nature, which is the name of his book that compiled his work.
Peter Brown
Peter Brown is a Texas-based artist that is known for his extraordinary photographs of the Great Plains. He has also created an ongoing series of self-named buildings that are scattered across the landscape. Some have curious names for such small, odd structures like Museum, Dimmitt Meat Co, and Cake Palace.
Patty Carroll
Patty Carroll loves to work in the studio with big splashes of color and mayhem. Her Anonymous Woman series started years ago when she noticed she seemed to always be the anonymous person that stood by her husband at social events. Patty’s exaggerated set design finds a woman in all sorts of playful contortions, sometimes disappearing into the set.
Vadim Gushchin
Vadim Gushchin, is influenced by the great Russian artist, Kazimir Malevich. His imagery is minimalist, influenced by Malevich and his Suprematist movement. He uses a table to place ordinary objects, favoring books, and places them in vertical, horizontal constructions, organized by color. The resulting photographs create mystery about the objects themselves.
Cheryl Medow
California-based artist, Cheryl Medow, has been a photographer most of her life. More recently she has been fascinated with birds, prompting her to travel the world as a Birder. She photographs these magnificent creatures and then places them in landscapes that do not necessarily correspond to their true habitat. These delightful compositions pay homage to the beauty of nature and the feathered world.
Kazz Morishita
Kazz Morishita creates sublime landscapes printed on exquisite Japanese paper.
Fabio Del Re
Fabio Del Re admires the work of Italian painter, Giorgio Morandi. Fabio studies the vessels much like the painter might have, but with a camera. Rather than use color, he paints the still lives in black and white using techniques exclusive to photography.
