From the fragility of life one expands to the idea of overcoming. This has different implications and connotations for each individual...
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Trassinelli’s Light
It started in 1970. “Light” is an ongoing exhibit of Trassinelli’s work at the Pieve di San Cresci, Greve in Chianti, Tuscany, Italy...
File Room from India: Dayanita Singh
Another photographer that I came across in the Arsenal at the Venice Biennale was Dayanita Singh from India. She presented five photographs in a series entitled File Room...
The Mirror Image of Ryan Gander
Ryan Gander from London, England produced the piece pictured above entitled Out of Sight (All on my own). This piece is located in the Arsenale at Venice Biennial Art 2011...
Drifting in Venice with Annette Kelm
One artist whose work caught my eye in the Arsenal at ILLUMInations, the Venice Biennale 2011, was German artist Annette Kelm.
Kelm showed several series of photographs...
Considering ILLUMInations, Venice Biennale Art 2011 n.54
I had the chance to visit the 54th Venice Biennale in September 2011 during my artist residency in It
Fragility of Life in Patterns in Flight
Life is fragile. This tenuous state is particularly evident in the smaller living creatures around us. When I first decided to use butterflies as my subjects for a painting series, I ordered 12 Painted Lady larvae from a science company. It was November, and I wanted to have a physical reference to work from as well as to study the life cycle of the subject...
Translucent Color in Patterns in Flight
Have you ever walked outside in the fall and looked up at golden leaves that glowed as the sun shone through them? Has the similarity of these natural foliage and stained glass ever struck you? Butterflies wings can have the same effect on light when the creatures fly in-between you and the light source...
Searching for Beauty in the Ice
An ice storm is something that holds rare beauty. My first memory of one was the 2003 ice storm when I was in college in Kentucky. In December ’09, I was with my family during the ice storm that hit Illinois. On the morning of the storm, I spent several hours with my father, Allen Steely, out in the freezing rain taking pictures of the ice. We would run out of the car and take a p
Beauty of Process or Anatomy of a Butterfly
There is something beautiful about the process of forming of ideas, thoughts, and art. At a gallery or museum one can sometimes see the development of a series by viewing its parts, but this process is still fairly opaque with only a showing of the final work...