Imagination

"You can't depend on your eyes if your imagination is out of focus."

-- Mark Twain

Tom Paiva

The work of Tom Paiva.

How To Be Yourself

"To those of you who will begin, as I did, at an early age to be interested in creative effort, I have a word or two to say: Follow no one. Only you can lead yourself. Be open-minded and ready to reject every extraneous influence. Use your own. Talk is cheap; let others talk. Pay no attention to them or to me. Shun them and me with your self-discipline. Value your freedom from the shackles of the strait jacket. A rose is a rose regardless of its position on the bush. Approach your line of activity as an individual. Be independent. There is but one law to obey, the law of freedom: and obedience to that law is liberty."

--Samuel Aiwaz Jacobs

Something New

"My favorite thing is to go where I've never been."

--Diane Arbus

Austin Granger: Point Reyes V

Austin Granger's Point Reyes V portfolio.

Confusuion

"I have gradually confused photography and life and as a result of this I believe I am able to work out of myself at an almost precognitive level."

-- Jerry Uelsmann

Impossible Exchange

"When the world, or reality, finds its artificial equivalent in the virtual, it becomes useless."

-- Jean Baudrillard

Illusions

"In photography we talk about illusions."

--John Sexton

Huntington Witherill: Chariots of Desire

Huntington Witherill's Chariots of Desire collection.

Portraits

"The thing that's fascinating about portraiture is that nobody is alike."

-- Imogen Cunningham

Huntington Witherill: Farewell to the Revolution

Huntington Witherill's Farewell to the Revolution essay.

Personal Vision

"Your photography is a record of your living--for anyone who really sees. You may see and be affected by other people's ways, you may even use them to find your own, but you will have eventually to free yourself of them. That is what Nietzche meant when he said, 'I have just read Schopenhauer, now I have to get rid of him.' He knew how insidious other people's ways could be, particularly those which have the forcefulness of profound experience, if you let them get between you and your own personal vision."

-- Paul Strand

Success

"Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility."

-- Pablo Picasso

Austin Granger: Death Valley II

Austin Granger's Death Valley II portfolio.

[ photograph above: Badwater, Death Valley National Park, 2005, by Matt Artz ]

Tales from the Underground: Exhibit Dates and Info

Tales from the Underground

New Abstract Photography by Matt Artz

January 12th to February 26th, 2006

Reception: Sat., Jan. 14th, 6 to 9 p.m.
2nd Reception: Sat., Feb. 11th, 6 to 9 p.m.

Gallery Hours:
Thurs. – Sun. 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Gallery 57 Underground
300 So. Thomas St. #C
Pomona, CA 91766

909-397-0218


[ photograph above: Pomona, 2005, by Matt Artz ]

Tales from the Underground: Ten New Images

I just posted ten new images to the Tales from the Underground page on my web site. These were all taken at Gallery 57 Underground about 10 days ago, and several of them will probably on display at my Tales from the Underground Exhibit in January 2006.

[ photograph above: Pomona, 2005, by Matt Artz ]

Synthesis

"In putting images together I become active, and excitement is of another order--synthesis overshadows analysis."

--Minor White

Watching Paint Dry

I was painting myoffice this afternoon, and looking in the 5 gallon drum of paint I noticed some curious patterns...and immediately put down the paint brush and picked up the camera. I think there is potential for some very interesting abstracts in this bucket; the four images on the New Work page are only scratching the surface. For some reason, they remind me of some of the abstract work that Wynn Bullock did.

[ photograph above: abstract, East Highlands Ranch, 2005, by Matt Artz ]

Austin Granger: Bay Area

Austin Granger's Bay Area portfolio.

Edges

"I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any situation, I don't find photographing the situation nearly as interesting as photographing the edges."

--William Albert Allard