Artifacts: Art of the City Wall
De / Faced
Defacing a wall, door or window allows the artist to say that is me without the need for social justification and inclusion. Interestingly enough defacing frequently includes a representation or actual face…be it a poster or actual drawing. Faces that look out to you speak to me visually and frequently are a focus of my lens. It will also be the focus of my next book due out in the Spring of 2019.
Visual Jazz Legacy / Monterey Jazz Festival
For more than 20 years my visual passion was jazz…specifically portraits of artists as they played on stage. My passion with a camera carried me to other countries and other parts of the US. I always felt my visual home was the Monterey Jazz Festival. But after all those years, enough was enough. For many reasons when I retired, I archived my jazz website and images….until now I thought I would sample some of my older MJF images here.
Check out the publications page…I was lucky enough to do the Monterey Jazz Festival commentative book for their 40th anniversary (along with Bill Minor)
Torn Posters
Several decades ago there was an art movement that involved artists ripping posters off the city walls, taking those remnants back to their studios and re-assembling them into new transformative artworks. I focused my lens on posters already torn and defaced giving these remnants artistic life.