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03 July, 2009

Brad Moore








Brad has a creative vision. Clever, insightful, full of structure, yet oddly quirky. His document of the Inland Empire in Southern California has me obsessed by shrubbery. Yes - that fabulous way Southern Californians landscape. He takes the idea of a cypress to a whole new level. Not that that is all the images are about, I don't want to dismiss the intelligence of the work that way. I find on a human scale, I look at who we are and what we do to control our surroundings, and Brad's work showcases nicely the way we brick and mortar ourselves into a community. I am drawn to the structuring of the natural world, not only by the work he's capturing, but how he has photographed it. I love the abstracts. Greenery in a desert. He has a way with the architecture as well, but for me - it's a perfect shrub.

02 July, 2009

John Mann






John Mann is a great guy. Talented too.

A participant of Review Santa Fe, I was treated to his really inventive work, Folded in Place, images of cartographic goodness. As a geeky scientist, and map lover, I was excited to see science and art meet at a somewhat original median. The three dimensional nature of the work leads to creation of newly found worlds, civilizations and ideas of how we inhabit this planet.
He has an upcoming show at Rayko Photo Center this December, and I am always looking for a good excuse to get to the Bay Area. This might be the right enticement....
see what you think.

In his words -
"Folded in Place highlights the abstraction of the landscape traditionally offered by these means, while creating a tangible photographic “place” in each image that is occupied by a mapped construction. The images therefore provide precise photographic and mapped information at the same time as they offer an abstraction of the landscape itself. The viewer is shown a landscape that is simultaneously understood and unknown, a landscape in which the map obtains a new geography of its own. "

03 July, 2009

Brad Moore








Brad has a creative vision. Clever, insightful, full of structure, yet oddly quirky. His document of the Inland Empire in Southern California has me obsessed by shrubbery. Yes - that fabulous way Southern Californians landscape. He takes the idea of a cypress to a whole new level. Not that that is all the images are about, I don't want to dismiss the intelligence of the work that way. I find on a human scale, I look at who we are and what we do to control our surroundings, and Brad's work showcases nicely the way we brick and mortar ourselves into a community. I am drawn to the structuring of the natural world, not only by the work he's capturing, but how he has photographed it. I love the abstracts. Greenery in a desert. He has a way with the architecture as well, but for me - it's a perfect shrub.

02 July, 2009

John Mann






John Mann is a great guy. Talented too.

A participant of Review Santa Fe, I was treated to his really inventive work, Folded in Place, images of cartographic goodness. As a geeky scientist, and map lover, I was excited to see science and art meet at a somewhat original median. The three dimensional nature of the work leads to creation of newly found worlds, civilizations and ideas of how we inhabit this planet.
He has an upcoming show at Rayko Photo Center this December, and I am always looking for a good excuse to get to the Bay Area. This might be the right enticement....
see what you think.

In his words -
"Folded in Place highlights the abstraction of the landscape traditionally offered by these means, while creating a tangible photographic “place” in each image that is occupied by a mapped construction. The images therefore provide precise photographic and mapped information at the same time as they offer an abstraction of the landscape itself. The viewer is shown a landscape that is simultaneously understood and unknown, a landscape in which the map obtains a new geography of its own. "