Meet local artist, visit downtown stores, have a night of shopping, network in your community, display your art, sing, rap, read poetry, display body art, share your style, get inspired, share techniques, demo your work, volunteer, and have fun! Next Art Hop July 21, 2012 5-9pm, registration deadline is 30 days before the Art Hop. Artists in order to participate you have to upload images of your artwork, if you don't have your images uploaded you can not participate. No vendors, tables outside, passing flyers and soliciting during the Art Hop.
jeff gwartney active 11 months, 1 week ago
jeff gwartney
| User Type | Artist |
| Personal Profile | photographer |
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Artist Profile
| Artist Statement | I use photography as a means of self‐expression – I make pictures for myself, to identify with hidden qualities of my character, to better understand my reality, and to express my interpretation of the world around me. A clearer understanding of myself and of my world allows me to explore fragments of life as an abstract form, and also to interact with people I would otherwise not be able to engage with. My goal is to use my camera like Alice’s rabbit hole, to open an unexplored world, a place of curious self‐expression, but also a world of new relationships, new chances new beginnings and most importantly new stories. My choice of subject comes from a place of intuition and is fueled by an impetuous desire to partake and record the stories that unfold around me. I seek the unknown and I look for the light within the shadows, the stories that are not at first obvious and the uncommon in the common. I photograph people in their environments because I am curious of what lies behind their eyes, where they have been and experienced and where they hope to go. My photography evokes the passage of time. I use slow shutter speeds and double exposures to explore the nuances of movement and the modulation of time as it passes from past to present to future. Recently I have begun to work with our social landscapes, attempting to illustrate abstract, gritty scenery as a motif to epitomize the idea of imagined space, a reminder that what I create through the viewfinder is only real to me. I am inspired to compose by the contrast of light and dark, while I use the changing light of day to arouse the mood of my visions and inspirations. Strangely, color has appeared in my work, slowly and without intention, concealing the black and white imagery of my past. This color conjures images of my favorite and not so favorite memories of my own personal life. Gone with the black and white is my concern with documenting a story, rather I find myself interested in the results of immersing myself in the narrative and recording my own reactions and actions to my world. The photographs of my portfolio come from that immersion. |
| Average Dimension of Pieces | 16 X 24 Framed Images that are 20 X 30 inches overall. |
| How is Art Exhibited? | I have easels that will support my work or it can be hung on walls that have space available. They are all matted and framed ready to hang images. |
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jeff gwartney