Watching the second night of the second round of the Democratic President debates in Detroit last night to obtain some more information as to who is going to be the next American President. As expected, one of the many issues was immigration, pathway to American citizenship, illegal border crossing, deportation and indirectly the American-Mexican border... Continue Reading →
Middle Ground – Book + print box set final development
With the ongoing border wall issues created by the current American president it just seems that my Middle Ground project will always have some relevancy. When I self-published the Middle Ground artist book concurrently with my solo exhibition at Fabrik Projects, Chris Davies, the owner of the gallery, asked if I would also be interested... Continue Reading →
Middle Ground – Photobooks International
My artist book Middle Ground is now available at a third US bookstore; Photobooks International. Nice! This virtual bookstore also has a small retail space at Fabrik Projects gallery (Los Angeles near Culver City) where there are a few copies of this limited edition book are available to check out. Middle Ground is also available at Grenade... Continue Reading →
Middle Ground – San Diego site morphing
I-5 Southbound, San Diego, February 2019 copyright 2019 Douglas Stockdale First, this is not meant to be an inspiring photograph as it's a cell phone drive-by grab shot. Essentially a quick visual note about the evolving demolition of the I-5 middle plant divider as this freeway winds down along the Pacific Ocean coast in San... 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 →
Fabrik Projects exhibition preparations
Alternative Crossing (Middle Ground) 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale With the pending exhibition at Fabrik Project next month quickly coming up fast, there are a bunch of things that I need to do to prepare for this. I guess it never fails; I have the web-images for the project prepared and then the gallery would like these... Continue Reading →
Exhibition News; Douglas Stockdale at Fabrik Projects
Surveillance (Middle Ground/En Medio Tierra project) 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale I am really excited to announce the exhibition of my project Middle Ground/En Medio Tierra at Fabrik Projects, an LA gallery located near Culver City. Exhibition dates: Saturday, May 5th thru Saturday, June 2nd, 2018 Artist reception: Saturday, May 12th, 2018 Location: Fabrik Projects, 2636 S.... Continue Reading →
En Medio Tierra – Middle Ground
Middle Ground, book dummy 2018 copyright Douglas Stockdale When I was re-examining my Middle Ground project in the context of how symbolic the subject was to the issues facing the DREAMers, I realized that another way to underscore this concept was to have the book's text in both English and Spanish. A gringo process to... Continue Reading →