This weekend I found myself spending a lot of time just staring (studying?) the initial prints from my new series Quantum Elements. I found myself questioning the underlying reason why I am creating this series of abstractions. I know what turned me onto this series in the first place; capturing the visual effects that link... Continue Reading →
The Photographer’s Eye – Memory Pods exhibition – New dates!
As I recently posted, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, my two-person exhibition at The Photographer's Eye gallery in Escondido (San Diego County) is delayed by one month. I just received the new exhibition dates; February 20th - March 20th, 2021. Nice start to 2021! I will be exhibiting thirteen images from my Memory Pods series in conjunction... Continue Reading →
Memory Pods exhibition being rescheduled due to COVID-19
Angst copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale I had the good fortune to announce in October that my Memory Pods series is going to be featured in a two-person exhibition at the Photographer's Eye gallery in Escondido next January. Now the next wave of COVID-19 is impacting just about all of California and we are now back... Continue Reading →
Photographer’s Eye exhibition – Memory Pods on Hahnemuehle Metallic
Back in July when I first wrote about experimenting with the Hahnemuehle Photo Rag Metallic I had closed my article with a question as to whether to frame these photographs under glazing, whether it is museum glass or acrylic. My concern is with the potential loss of luminosity under a layer of glazing. My final... Continue Reading →
Abstract – The Alternative Exhibition
Ryuten Paul Rosenblum - Japan Temple Wall – Nanzenji The Southeast Center for Photography (SEC4P) had a recent call for Abstract (photography), juried by Blue Mitchell. The exhibition call was looking for non-representational imagery from found objects in nature, man-made or figurative works and images that do not attempt to represent external reality, but seek to achieve its... Continue Reading →
Quantum Elements – Time-Refractory Abstractions
I think that I have known this for some time; I seem to work a little bit better when working on a dead line, especially when the due date is rapidly approaching. Case in point, an open call for submissions for 'Abstract Photography', with a deadline of Oct 4th. Thus the my new COVID-19 series... Continue Reading →
Diary; August 11th 2020 – Not in the Critical Mass 200 (this year)
Hello... I know that it is always a let down to receive these types of emails, but please remember that the jurors’ opinions are entirely subjective. We know you have worked hard on this body of work and we want to encourage you to keep putting it out there and making work that matters to you.... Continue Reading →
Diary; August 8th, 2020 – Abstract Art – Take 2
So my angst; I feel that I have been working predominately in one style, what I have termed documentary-style landscape photography, very representational work, and now very intrigued and investigating a completely different direction in my artwork. I could rationalize that this might be confusing to my collectors, but I have so few, would this... Continue Reading →
Diary; August 6th 2020 – Abstract art
During this pandemic I started a series that is pretty much based on creating abstract images. Which is actually not that new for me. When I made a transition from photography to painting in the mid-1980's and to gain some understanding of the various mediums, my artwork was pretty representational. When you looked at my... Continue Reading →
Diary; July 31st 2020 – Infection storm
Yesterday, I felt like crap. Which is how one usually feels when they are beset with a bacterial infection, especially in the earlier stages and the meds have not fully taken effect (e.g. some bacteria is still creating some internal havoc). About all that I could accomplish yesterday was to look for an image that... Continue Reading →