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Collections: Gregg Museum of Art and Design, North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC, November 20, 2020, The Gregg Museum of Art and Design, North Carolina State University Selection Committee voted to acquire five Photographic Works on Paper from the Richard and Elizabeth Peña Family Living Trust. The selected Photographic Works on Paper included individual prints from both portfolio series, “Recent Findings: Southern Exposure” and “Argus, Mysterious […]
Of Beauty and of Death
Forgive me with kindness for speaking of something as morose such as of beauty and death in the same breath, but both are breathing, iconic, mysterious, and often misunderstood. Beauty and death are seldom the points of reflection in daily life, given the emotional and spiritual weight they pay tribute to. The world we know […]
Flora Nocturne – Still Lifes
Flora Nocturne is an analysis that compares and contrasts two visual constructs; Objective Poetic Transformation and Abstraction. Objective poetic transformation is not a new idea and derives from photographic statements and criticism from the twentieth century. Practitioners from Alfred Stieglitz to Edward Weston to Minor White were pursuant to purity, objective observations and gateways. The […]
Who is enjoying the shadow of whom…
In the year 1889, Oscar Wilde looked out the window of his London flat, as the fog rolled in, pondered about the great discourse of human observations, the iconic values of civilizations, beauty, and truth. Wilde decided to take on the Aristotelian constructs, and challenging the status quo thinking about aesthetics and art, by firing […]
Works on Paper: Disasters of War – Syria, Iraq, and Levant
Now in the twentieth-first century, the complex threads of Arab Nationalists, Socialists, Islamists, and their supporting allies have weaved a bloody tapestry in the Syrian civil war, where realities of death, torture, rape, cruelty, and inhumanity are beyond the Abrahamic code and human comprehension. The series of Five Variations on the Disasters of War is […]