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‘Guns in America: Works by Jeff Corwin’ Powerful photo exhibit opens at the Holter Museum of Art | Local

By Dorsey Rohweder 3 days ago

After his father died, photographer Jeff Corwin made the surprise discovery of three vintage handguns in his father’s belongings.

Uncertain what to do with the guns, Corwin locked them in a box and stored them in his basement.

Five years later in 2012, the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School happened, killing 20 children and six adults.

For Corwin, it spurred a lot of thought about guns and the ones sitting in his basement.




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Jeff Corwin’s “Guns in America” photo exhibit opens at the Holter Museum of Art.




At the urging of a friend, Corwin took the guns to his studio and began using them in a series of dramatic photos that became his exhibit, “Guns in America,” which opens at the Holter Museum of Art with a reception 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, June 24, and an artist talk at 6:30 p.m.

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Juxtapoz Magazine – The Color Work of Spanish Photographer Cristóbal Hara

By Dorsey Rohweder 4 days ago

“Perhaps the two primary factors that authorized me to certainly cross more than to color, in 1985,” writes photographer Cristóbal Hara, were being the realization that I could obtain assistance in the good custom of Spanish portray, and the selection to have the full image in emphasis the latter pressured me to use a shorter focal size (28mm) than I usually utilised and it built it required to widen the field of vision on which I was functioning. I no more time reacted to a scenario that was in front of me, but relatively to the visual rhythms of a situation in which I was immersed. So simple, and still so complex.

I experienced been doing work for 17 decades in black and white when I started working exclusively in color. I was then 39 years previous. Instantly I felt pretty relaxed, liberated and euphoric. The colors dazzled and overwhelmed

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Let’s party!: Art Works Gallery celebrates 12 years

By Dorsey Rohweder 4 days ago

Artist Kris Johnson demonstrates her cloth art in the course of a Second Saturday Spotlight at Art Works Gallery Co-op in Grass Valley.
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Art Works Gallery is celebrating its 12th anniversary with a 1-day sale and reception. Everything in the gallery will be 20% off all day Saturday, June 25. The reception is from 2 to 5 p.m. with refreshments and stay songs by Alan Greenbaum.

The reception is from 2 to 5 p.m. with refreshments and dwell songs by Alan Greenbaum.
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What began as a getaway popup in the winter season of 2009 with 9 community artists in Nevada Metropolis became a cooperative gallery with 35 users in Grass Valley in May possibly 2010. The opening reception for the Mill Avenue location was held in August 2010. An report in the August 2010 Foodstuff and Wine magazine states, “Now a newcomer has arrived: Art Operates

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Juxtapoz Magazine – Steve Seeley’s “The Voyeurs” @ All Star Press, Chicago

By Dorsey Rohweder 5 days ago

All Star Push in Chicago presents Steve Seeley’s The Voyeurs, a demonstrate that is made up of additional than 50 new paintings on paper, with 28 of the will work are acrylic on classic nude art magazine web pages. Each individual piece incorporates Steve’s legendary imagery like appropriated romance comics and nostalgic cartoon characters. There are 6 collaborative is effective exactly where artists were prompted by the matter: ‘what is being “voyeured” or spied upon’. Seeley labored with six of his most loved community feminine and/or LGBQT artists to open new interpretations exterior of his applied written content of the male gaze. These is effective include: Totes Ferosh, Liz Flores, Paola Seeley, Vivian Le, Isamar Medina and Kate Lynn Lewis.

“The Voyeurs is naturally about voyeurism. Type of.
I indicate, I guess it’s also about the decline of innocence.
Let’s not fail to remember that it’s also about net memes

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