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Exhibit at Lycoming Arts Gallery – June 2024
My Photographs
I shoot lots of photographs everywhere I go. Like most people, most of the shots are not particularly artistic. This is a work in progress, a kind of a live lightbox to find the artistic. I am making successive passes at weeding out the bad stuff in hopes of distilling this into a quality curation.
I have been fortunate to be able to do some travelling, so the images are from a wide range of places.
My Artwork
Since my art school days, I have done a lot of graphic design and art direction. I have more time now to pursue my fine art interests. I am still drawn toward the immediate and generative nature of photography. I combine that with my love of serigraphy to create these collages. I print these on quality watercolor paper using inkjet technology, so that all evidence of the printing dots bleed together, producing a silkscreen-like final output.
My work tends to take images I find interesting and juxtapose them in non-representational ways and which draw on meanings or symbols from other, more historical roots, or to present images where the elements are representational but in visually dissonant ways.
I have also always been interested in found object art. One of my art teachers did a lot of sculpture using found objects. Some of my work uses “digital found objects” — 3d models of objects rummaged from industrial sites, and repurposed in Cinema 4D.
Art of James Rettinger
This is a small sample of the artwork created by James Rettinger, who taught for many years in the Art Department of Seneca Valley High School. He inspired many of his students to go on to become professional artists and many others to continue the study and appreciation of art of all types. He was…
Meditation on Canvas: Lippi’s Madonna and Child with Two Angels
I have been really fortunate. I have been to Florence several times and stood in front of this painting – for a long time – twice. It is like meditating as you look at its perfection. This is fine example of renaissance art, when Western artists began to paint in a much more humanist way.…
Impressionism Central
Every major impressionist exhibit I’ve been to has been very popular. As I write this, I am looking at my living room walls where we have 4 impressionist paintings and 1 from Klimt. So not surprised why impressionism is so popular. The best place for this sort of art is in France at the d’Orsay.…
The British (by way of Greece): The Elgin Marbles
Another of my favorite museums. So much stuff to explore. When we were there in the 1990s, we were looking for the lou, and happened by chance on a room containing the Elgin Marbles. These are sculptures from ancient times that adorned the frieze of the Parthenon in Athens. I think the Turks were storing…
Experience the Splendor of the Palace of Versailles: Interactive Virtual Tour
The opulent palace of the French kings. A very nice virtual tour of both the grounds and the palace. Versailles Outside and Inside Palace of Versailles Virtual Tour – A Step into the Magnificent Past Welcome to our innovative Palace of Versailles Virtual Tour, your passport to one of the world’s most celebrated architectural masterpieces.…
The Met Streetviews
The defining venue of museum mile. World class galleries and a nice website with some virtual galleries provided by google. The Met Streetviews The picture is from the parking garage, which makes it convenient to get to the Met – just take the 86th street transverse from the west side – through the park –…
The National Gallery, Washington DC
This is one of those museums that can be done as a day trip. Drive to the Shady Grove or Greenbelt Metro stations and zip into the city. Take the Green or Yellow trains to Archive. The galley has a great cafe and always some surprises. Here’s a link to their online collections.
The Guggenheim
I think many people overlook the the Guggenheim, situated at the upper end of Museum Mile. But it should not be overlooked. The architectural wonder alone is worth the trip. To be just 3 hours from all the NYC museums is a blessing to us in Central Pennsylvania – most people who live in “the…
Art Zoom from Google
OK, this is fantastic. When I was at the Uffizi, I got close enough to The Birth of Venus to see how Sandro painted the whitecaps on the ocean. Amazing. This set of images put out in the cloud by Google let’s you be that close to these masterpieces. Use the tools to really really…
The Hermitage in Mother Russia
I have a good friend who has been to Russia and has a fantastic story about why he will never set foot there again. But in St. Petersburg, there is world class museum that I would brave the dangers of mother Russia to see. Scratch that. After what is happening in Ukraine, Russia is off…
My Baltimore Painting
This is a fantastic painting and it’s right here in the states in Baltimore. It is in the Baltimore Museum of Art’s European collection and I really think very few people realize it’s here. It is a wonderful Botticelli and there is never anyone in the room – I usually have it all to myself…
The Finest of Museums – the Uffizi
The Finest Museum in the World – the Uffizi in Florence Botticelli’s Birth of Venus – with incredible high rez detail Leonardo’s Annunciation My favorite – Lippi’s Madonna and Child with Two Angels (model was his mistress and child)
The Massive Vatican Museums in Rome
I’ve been very lucky to have gotten to walk the Vatican Museums twice. There is a great little hotel right across the street from the entrance – the Alimandi. If you stay there and get advance tickets to the museums, you skip the usual blocks long line completely and make the whole day stress free.…
The Virtual Sistine Chapel
A stunningly fine rendition of the Sistine Chapel in Rome make sure – once it loads – to click the rightmost double arrows – that will start the magic
Atari ST Emulator
OK, so this is not a virtual museum. But I did sneak a few of my interests into this site. You may have found my collection of old, black & white iai sword videos. Or the synopsis of my trip to the post-Soviet state of Armenia. Skip past these unless you feel like taking a…
themThangs
WARNING – Many of these images are just amazing and I have never ever seen such a trove of cultural imagery. But some of these images are also disturbing or explicit, so be warned. From the site: Them Thangs is an image blog run by Justin Blyth. Ritualistic Iconography Systems of symbols and pictures that…
Iai and Iaido: Explore the Art of Drawing the Sword with our IAI Videos Library
OK, so this is not a virtual museum, at least not exactly. But I did sneak a few of my interests into this site. You may have run into my page memorializing the famous Atari ST. Or the synopsis of my trip to the post-Soviet state of Armenia. Welcome to our page dedicated to the…
armenia
OK, so this is not a virtual museum. But I did sneak a few of my interests into this site. You may have run into my page memorializing the famous Atari ST. Or my preservation of some old but valuable iai videos. Skip past these unless you feel like taking a diversion of questionable value.…
mongols+thePope
OK, so this is not a virtual museum, at least not exactly. But I did sneak a few of my interests into this site. You may have run into my page memorializing the famous Atari ST. Or my synopsis of my trip to the post-Soviet state of Armenia. Skip past these unless you feel like…
about kidRiverStudio
kidRiverStudio began as a freelance company in the early 1990’s for my work with clients in the Susquehanna River valley in Pennsylvania, and my work illustrating and designing children’s books, mainly for Boyds Mill Press in Honesdale, Pennsylvania. The client list eventually was combined with my friend’s client list and grew into the core of…