Schneider Gallery

I went to a photography museum the other day just to explore and get out of the house for a while.
I wasn't really expecting anything great, but I was pleasantly surprised.

The gallery was really small, but the work was really good and I was glad to see that it wasn't all digital "artsy" hipster art. It was toward the end of the exhibition and the gallery attendant was setting out work for the new show, so I also got a bonus sneak peak of their upcoming show.

Normally I'm really not into portraiture, but I was really into some prints by Luis Gonzalez- Palma. I think I liked that it was a large format and was all hand done.

 

He did an alternative process on red paper and gold leaf for some of his prints. It's kind of hard to tell in the picture, but the way it was layered and and the little bit of red peaking through made the piece way more interesting than a lot of work I've seen around.

His more traditional portraits were silver gelatin prints, which makes me really miss having a darkroo, and then were hand painted.

I'm really glad I went. It makes me want to get back out there and take pictures again. Hopefully Once the weather gets just a bit better and when I have a couple of days off I'll go on an adventure that I can capture on film or at least on my digital.

Decked out

This is one of the first skate decks I painted that I ended up giving to Matt Wes. It took forever to paint because I hand painted each skull and put like 10 or 11 coats of varnish on it.

This is my Flint skate deck. Really if you've never been to Flint you wouldn't know, but the CB tower is a landmark and no matter what Flint will always be home.

These are a couple of decks that my friend Brooke and I did for the band Left Alone on Hellcat Records. We have anther design too, but I don't have any pictures of it. All the decks sold out in like a month and we've both been too busy to make more. Hand painting takes way too long, so we need to money up so we can start screening them.