As natural observers, we learn and understand with our fives senses—that is, until they’re impeded by things such as geography or time, in which case we look to outside experiences to fabricate our own. Enter photography: the window to shared places, moments and experiences from which we inform our own by others’ documented memories. For photographer Yoav Friedländer, those shared memories are more than memories, but opportunities to develop personal meaning and effect.
To Justin Clifford Rhody—an Oakland, CA native with free-form photography down to an archival science of sorts—the experience of a photograph is to be interpreted by the experiencer, whether that lives in his interactions with subject and film or in the onlooker’s self-diagnosis of a photo’s weight.
Although the saying goes, “Don’t judge a book by its cover,” we more often than not find ourselves doing so as we navigate the rows of our local book store. From color scheme, to use of text, to the amount of white space left untouched, the book’s cover artwork should evoke just as poignant of a story as the words that line each page inside.
Twists and turns, zig zags and dead ends—a maze can appear unsolvable. For artist Eric Eckert, completing a maze was never his goal, but creating those complicated, interesting routes became his focus.
Images have power and an ability to etch themselves immediately onto our consciousness that give them their iconic weight. McDonald's golden arches, Shell gasol... Read More...
Artist Jay Riggio’s craft is that of the early cut-and-paste model: the physical detachment of subject from circumstance. Permanent and formulated, Riggio’s alterations take the form of curious analog collages mixing personal relief with published depictions.
Canon EOS 70D in hand, New York photographer and amadeus frequenter David Dyte set forth on the city with one word in mind: 'hodgepodge.' Based on the single, slightly muddled word we dished him, Dyte snapped a collection of hodgepodge-y photos—here’s what he came up with given the word ‘hodgepodge.’
Big crowds and lines around the block have quickly become commonplace when it comes to the night of a show opening at Slow Culture Gallery - a now mainstay to n... Read More...
Pretty pinks, Yoshi-like greens, flipped cars, shop-lifting Big Bird, and Sailor Moon. Just a few of Harley Jones' favorite things, and some of the colorful characters that inhabited the walls of Stone Malone Gallery during his debut US solo show, Heavy Soda Rocks.
Last week we featured a collection of black and white and diptych photographs from New York photographer Ricardo Lozano who gladly participated in amadeus' newe... Read More...
What's an image worth without context? A work of art altered in colors, purpose or form. Do these artifacts continue to hold their inherent meaning, or are they stripped of that in transformation? Thriving on the "rawness of chaos," California native and digital artist Tyler Spangler pushes both concepts—of continuity and the artistic license of visual evolution—collaging had-been permanence with new-age digital alterations.
