Friday, October 29, 2010

"Snowy Night" Chosen for "After Dark" Show


"Snowy Night" a 30 second exposure taken during a Sierra snow storm was chosen by juror and photographer Tom Paiva for the national juried show After Dark at the Vermont Photospace Gallery Essex Junction, Vermont. Tom has been a commercial photographer for over 20 years, specializing in industrial and architectural subjects.

Night photography has been a passion for him for over 25 years and always tries to incorporate it in his commercial work. His statement for this show: When I review a night photograph, one of the most important criteria is the balance of light from the extreme highlights to the deepest shadows, regardless of whether it is b+w or color. This tonality is important to keep the viewers interest. A night shot should have a sense of mystery and the composition should make your eye move around the image. Of course, it must be technically perfect to make the grade.

I was a little surprised this image made the cut, not have a bowlful of experience with night shooting and having been shot with a point and shoot camera, but it made the grade.

Friday, October 15, 2010

Water - Blog Action Day


Today’s Blog Action Day, an annual event that calls on the world’s bloggers to post about the same issue on the same day. This year’s theme is water, including conservation and accessibility.

Water has been one of my major image themes for my images.



Monday, September 6, 2010

2 Works Chosen for San Joaquin Show

2 photographs, ALEXANDRIA RHYTHMS AFTER DEMUTH and ATGET IN THE GOLD COUNTRY, were chosen by Carol McCusker, an independent curator, writer and educator, for the show ALTERED LANDSCAPES at the LH Horton Gallery in Stockton, CA 11/18 - 12/16/2010. Both photographs are homage, one to Charles Demuth, painter and Eugene Atget, photographer.

Both photographs are unusual in that photography is the underlying foundation of my work the majority of which consists of paintings and prints digitally processed from photographs. I seldom present photographs as a final product.

Both of these photographs also are of historical architectural subjects, which is kind of a sub-genre for me, my most predominant work being landscapes.

I have written a more detailed description of both of these images to be presented in a later blog and on my website.

LH Horton Gallery
San Joaquin Delta College
5151 Pacific Ave
Stockton, CA

http://www.deltacollege.edu/div/finearts/dept/dca/gallery/visit.htm

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

BURNT Chosen for Fredericksburg Show


The image 'BURNT' was chosen to be a part of the fall show "Transitions" at The Fredrick Gallery in the Fredricksburg Center for the Creative Arts, Fredricksburg, VA.

'BURNT' is part of a series of photographs made above the South fork of the American River in and adjacent to the Desolation Wilderness, the scene of of the 2001 Red Star Fire. The Red Star Fire consumed 17,500 acres of forest .The USDA-FS determined it will take 100 years to reestablish large trees (>24” diameter at breast height) and at least 250 years to develop old trees with decadence features that would be beneficial to wildlife.

September -- National Art Exhibit Transitions
Opening reception: First Friday, September 3 from 6 - 8:30 p.m;
Exhibit dates: August 29 – September 24, 2010;
Amie Oliver, juror.

Saturday, May 29, 2010

Spring Creek in 2 Juried Shows

spring creek, larry darnell, california landscape art, california landscape, california landscape painting, california landscape photography, sierra nevadaMay 29 Felton, CA "Spring Creek," an image created by local artist Larry Darnell, has been chosen by the Morris Graves Museum, Eureka, CA and the Santa Cruz Art League for their respective shows: Images of Water and Transference of Light.

The Images of Light show in Eureka, CA [5/21-6/27/10] at the Morris Graves Museum is the 24th annual California Mixed Media Competition and Exhibition open to California artists. The Transference of Light show, in Santa Cruz, CA[7/2 -8/1/10] is a competition open to artists nationwide.

"Spring Creek" is a photo-based acrylic painting style image made from an original photograph of a tributary of the South Fork of the Stanislaus River near Boards Crossing in the central Sierra Nevada. Taken in early March, the spring runoff is still brisk with the shaft of mid afternoon sunlight slanting through the pines and cedars. The original underlying digital image was filtered and processed in Photoshop to create a painterly look, and originally printed on canvas.

Larry Darnell's work brings remote natural locations to viewers who wish to share quietude, serenity and the beauty of these places. For over a decade he has been combining photography and digital tools to create images that have the feel and quality of traditional paintings and prints.

His work has appeared in Central California galleries, juried exhibitions and is owned by a number of American collectors. He lives in the Santa Cruz Mountains in Central California.

Larry Darnell website www.ldarnell.com

Thursday, May 27, 2010

"Columbia Rhythm" Chosen for Marin Museum Show

The Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA. recently chose Larry Darnell's image "Columbia Rhythm" for the Fifth Summer National Juried Exhibition "Private Eyes: Artist Visions". The show dates are June 19 - July 18, 2010.

View "Columbia Rhythm" at Fine Art America website.

"Columbia Rhythm" was taken on an early fall morning at the Columbia Historic State Park, Columbia, California, a preserved gold mining town in the Sierra Nevada foothills. The shot is of the entrance of a small cabin, its doors and walls of unpainted raw weathered wood; the uneven and time-worn sagging counterpoint to the subdued elegance and Eastern style transplanted to the raw wild gold settlement.

Larry Darnell's work brings remote natural locations to viewers who wish to share quietude, serenity and the beauty of these places. For over a decade he has been combining photography and digital tools to create images that have the feel and quality of traditional paintings and prints. "Columbia Rhythm" is part of a series of photographs of historic sites which are presented as documentary photographic images as opposed to art pieces.

His work has appeared in Central California galleries, juried exhibitions and is owned by a number of American collectors. He lives in the Santa Cruz Mountains in Central California.

Larry Darnell website www.ldarnell.com

Marin Museum of Contemporary Art at the Novato Arts Center at Hamilton Field
500 Palm Drive, Novato, CA 94949
415-506-0137

Contact:
Larry Darnell
1321 Lost Acre Dr
Felton, CA 95018
831 335 3929
art at ldarnell.com

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Santa Cruz County Chooses Image for Collection


I was contacted by the County last week wishing to purchase a print of LAS ANIMAS CONCRETE, for their Visual Chronicle of Santa Cruz County. The image is from a photo and subsequent art print I made in winter of 2009. This was a crisp Santa Cruz coastal winter afternoon featuring altocumulus clouds at the Las Animas Concrete facility. I felt the image would work well as a Japanese-style print.

image at website image at Fineartamerica

From the Santa Cruz County website:
The Visual Chronicle of Santa Cruz County
The Visual Chronicle of Santa Cruz County is an archival collection of works on paper owned by the County of Santa Cruz that portrays artists' ideas, visions and perceptions of what makes this County unique. The intent of the collection is to document the spirit of the times in Santa Cruz. People, neighborhoods, landmarks, buildings, events, daily life - will be captured on paper by some of the leading artists in the County.

http://www.scparks.com/visual_chronicle.html

Monday, April 26, 2010

More new images posted

My Gallery pages are now loaded in all categories except other. I will be adding more text to images as time allows. I will continue to add new work as well.

I'm preparing for my first show open house at our home in July. More to come.

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

finally, new images posted on website

since my computer, that's an apple g5 dual died last summer, i've been trying to get myself reorganized, which may not be possible, but have, at any rate, finally started to populate my website with images instead of relying only on the fineartamerica site to rep my work.

so....by the end of this week there should be a whole lot of new images.

there's also a rotating hello banner on the main page.

i'll start posting stuff here again.

who will read it besides me?

who knows.