First In Space

Space Dog Giuseppe, Joseph Tepperman and Alan Nakagawa. Read about their installation at the recent 2012 Long Beach Soundwalk here. Though it's been happening for nine years, this was my first visit to the annual event. I will surely return next year. 

Jonathan Zawada @ PRISM: Free Roam Above the Mist

@ PRISM

Metro/ Sam Erenberg

Orange Line, Roscoe station: tile mosiac by Sam Erenberg
(photo appears courtesy of Metro)

The Knowledges, contd.

Came across this at Mt. Wilson, while wandering through the Knowledges. If you know anything about it, I'd like to hear it.

Hammer VBB, pt. 2

Fossilized dinosaur poop holding up books. Hands-down the most minimal setup I saw at the VBB. If you can ID the artists responsible, please let me know.

I Couldn't Not Photograph This Thing

 (Out-of-towners: primer here.) What I enjoyed most was the barren, negative space around it, but from my grounded position, I didn't see any way to make a picture of that.

The Knowledges: Gabie Strong

Part of an installation by artist and friend Gabie Strong at Mt. Wilson last weekend. Gabie's site is here.

The Knowledges

On our way to see The Knowledges at Mt. Wilson. More on that to come.

When In Rome

A little more than a year ago, I photographed a group exhibition of Italian artists put together by Nero, and the catalog with my photos just arrived in the mail. It was a fun job in a lot of ways: I was surrounded by beautiful people speaking Italian; most of the show took place at the Italian Cultural Institue of Los Angeles, which inhabits a fine building with a splendid interior courtyard; though most of my work involved lighting and photographing traditional installations, I actually did some full-on running in order to capture a performance piece that made its way from the courtyard of the Hammer Museum over to the ICI's building a couple of blocks away, and then back; finally, in addition to the excellent visual art, wonderful Balinese music accompanied the performance pitcured here. Lots of photos to share from the catalog, so please check back later this week. (Top: The cover—with which I had absolutely nothing to do. Below: A spread of a photo I shot of a performance/installation/tableaux by Italian artist Luigi Ontani.)

Barry McGee @ PRISM, contd.

Another install photo I shot of the current Barry McGee show at PRISM.

Barry McGee @ PRISM

More recent work, this time for PRISM: an installation photo of the Barry McGee show that's up through the end of June and well worth a visit.

20 Months; In the Footsteps of the Minutemen

My, how time is flying. This kid joined me on an outing to photograph a friend's gallery installation of work that focussed on Cold War landscapes, physical and aural, and included references to SST bands, including the Minutemen. The gallery that featured this friend's work is in San Pedro; and I really can't visit San Pedro without thinking about the Minutemen. I don't know that that has any bearing on this photo of a kid, but that's some of the backstory. As always, there's plenty more backstory, but you don't need it.

Josh Beckman's Sea Nymph

I'm a little late in posting this image I shot, but it's of an installation by artist-friend Josh Beckman at Machine Project last fall. I don't have any words that can do it justice (that's why we have this photo blog, right?), but it was both fun and awe-inspiring, loved equally by our 5-year-old and her parents. You can find out a bit more about it here and here.