Alternative Crossing, Middle Ground, 2017, copyright Douglas Stockdale Contextualize; the artist intends to explain, justify and extend their body of work. Similar to the write-up a gallery will provide for an artist's work that might need to be re-positioned as to it's artistic merit (such as being "collectible", thus you should buy it), as example... Continue Reading →
Feedback – Artist talk at Fabrik Projects
Douglas Stockdale, Artist talk, Fabrik Projects, photos by Kasey Taylor Having an opportunity to having an open discussion with those interested in your work is a great chance to create a dialog as well as get some really honest feedback from your work. Really honest. Yes, there was what one person called afterwards a little... Continue Reading →
Middle Ground – featured on New Landscape Photography
San Diego Point of Entry, Middle Ground, 2016 copyright Douglas Stockdale I am very happy to announce that yesterday my urban landscape project Middle Ground was featured on New Landscape Photography. Another nice validation of this project and the second time my work has been featured by Willson Cummer on his blog; with my Italian... Continue Reading →
Featured artist on Artsy
Marker #169, Middle Ground, 2016 copyright Douglas Stockdale I just found out that I am one of the two "artist of the week" featured on Artsy, one of the web based portals that are used by galleries to promote their represented artist. As a friend of mine stated, Artsy is a different platform on the web,... Continue Reading →
Artist talk June 2nd at Fabrik Projects
Middle Ground exhibition, photograph by Don Webb II One of the requests that apparently reoccurred during my opening reception is for an artist talk about this exhibition and artist project. The artist talk is now scheduled to coincide with the exhibition closing reception at 4pm on Saturday, June 2nd (2018) at the Fabrik Projects gallery.... Continue Reading →
America Memorial Day
America, (Middle Ground/En Medio Tierra), 2016 copyright Douglas Stockdale Here in the United States we are celebrating Memorial Day over this long three day weekend, a wonderful event for many reasons. As a kid it meant that we were going to be out of school shortly and the summer vacation was about to go into... Continue Reading →
LACP exhibition opening Friday, May 25, 2018
America, Middle Ground/En Medio Tierra, 2016 copyright Douglas Stockdale I was pretty excited that two of my photographs from my Middle Ground/En Medio Tierra project were selected by Scott B. Davis for the Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACP) annual Fine Art Exhibition. The two photographs are America, above and the photograph San Diego Port... Continue Reading →
Middle Ground – Trial Proofs now available
Marker #34, Middle Ground/En Medio Tierra T/P (1/1) 16 x 20"/17 x 22" 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale I currently have 22 unique prints now available for sale at my gallery, Fabrik Projects, in Los Angeles. While working on the final Edition for the Middle Ground/En Medio Tierra project I printed a series of these photographs... Continue Reading →
Artist Reception & book launch last night
Fabrik Projects, Culver City May 2018 Douglas Stockdale Last night was a wonderful evening celebrating the opening of my Middle Ground/En Medio Tierra exhibition at Fabrik Projects along with my family, friends and some new acquaintances. This artist reception was shared with Marilyn Sanders who has the other side of the gallery's walls with her... Continue Reading →
Artist book making: now fully engaged!
Books in Boxes, Middle Ground/En Medio Tierra 2018 Douglas Stockdale After meeting with the Dual Graphs pre-press team to provide the final tweaks and approval of the art work, the job went to the press. I also did a quick assembly of the hard copy prints to create a trial book dummy just to really,... Continue Reading →