Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage
February 2, 2010–May 9, 2010
The Howard Gilman Gallery

Sixty years before the embrace of collage techniques by avant-garde artists of the early twentieth century, aristocratic Victorian women were already experimenting with photocollage. The compositions they made with photographs and watercolors are whimsical and fantastical, combining human heads and animal bodies, placing people into imaginary landscapes, and morphing faces into common household objects. Such images, often made for albums, reveal the educated minds as well as the accomplished hands of their makers. With sharp wit and dramatic shifts of scale akin to those Alice experienced in Wonderland, these images stand the rather serious conventions of early photography on their heads. The exhibition features forty-eight works from the 1860s and 1870s, from public and private collections.
Accompanied by a catalogue.
The exhibition was organized by The Art Institute of Chicago.

SWEET STREETS
August 29, 2009 - September 14, 2009 Opening Reception: Saturday, August 29 2009, 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM upcoming exhibition sponsored by HiFructose magazine, featuring artwork inspired by japanese street fashion. Nucleus Gallery, LA. * many thanks to FAWN FRUITS!

check out Robert Mack solo exhibition!

Downtown Art Walk
Downtown Film Festival - Los Angeles

August 13-15, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday August 13, 7-9pm

UCR|California Museum of Photography
Exhibit dates: July 2-August 22
Reception in conjunction with Riverside Artswalk: July 2, 6-8pm



CGSociety Challenge XXIV - Secret Agent
A creative challenge exploring the secret life of spies, informants, and agents.
11 June 2009 - 10 September 2009