Life
is funny! What starts out in one direction often turns into an entirely
different one. This happened yesterday. I was trying to get to the
closing reception of
radiant landscape showing at the
Gallery at the Werkshack in Oakland. It was a show featuring the photography of
Francis Baker and
Jan Watten (
link below),
both brilliant artists. After driving around for 30 or 40 minutes
without finding a parking space, I gave up and headed back to my
studio.
As I neared it, I recollected an exhibition was showing at the K Gallery at the
Rhythmix Cultural Works, so I headed over to see it. The show is entitled,
Radiance, and features works by several artists with light being the major element in them (
link below).
The "collateral damage" was a work not really part of the exhibition; it was in the Rhythmix parking lot and it is titled, Cameraman.
Cameraman features a sculptural collaboration between artists
Ed Holmes and
Marc Ribaud with a sound design by Joe Paulino and an additional sculpture, Cameradog, by Maria Chenut.
The
idea for this show began when Holmes and Ribaud decided to create a
larger than life size “Cameraman” using Ed’s 45 year-old camera
collection and Marc’s engineering genius. The hundreds of cameras date
from the 1920’s to yesterday, from a 4×5 view camera to plastic toy
cameras and everything in between. The artists responded to the unique
beauty of each camera design. A red box camera becomes the heart, two
1940’s film strip projectors become the eyes, and a series of instamatic
cameras become the spine. Recorded shutter sounds create a sonic
atmosphere and camera cases form Cameraman’s best friend,
Cameradog.
I love that they used kids toy cameras for the "shoes" on the Cameraman; ya gotta have a sense of humor!
Cameraman just had to have a companion and sure enough, there he was, Cameradog aka Casey, created by Maria Chenut.
All in all I had a great time!
