Dan Grayber is a Oakland Artist. He graduated from SFAI with his MFA in 2005. He is represented by Johansson Projects in Oakland, California. I met up with Dan at his recent show at Johansson Projects and we talked about his work. Let’s start near the beginning. I read that your journey started with an…
Jonathan Odom is from Louisiana but live and works in the Bay Area with his artist- wife Clare Szydlowski. (Who we interviewed in Spring 2015) Jonathan attended Venison Camp, our adult camp for art professionals. It was during his Labs session (like Critiques) that we got to talking about world building, the sci-fi, and what his…
Paul Baker Prindle is a photographer and arts administrator based at the University of Nevada, Reno. We were drawn to Prindle’s photographic series Mementi Mori, which documents sites where gay and transgender men were murdered. In each photograph we are presented with a moment that captures the gravity of the silence surrounding the murders of…
Inspirational concept based photographer, Dave McHale, shares his art process and his beautifully deep photography for the first time with Amber Imrie-Situnayake. Dave is a photographer originally from the Boston area, he moved to NYC and studied photography at Pratt Institute for two years before leaving to work as an assistant for numerous fashion photographers….
Tell me a bit about where you grew up & what your upbringing was like. I grew up just east of Toronto, Ontario in Canada. My family and I lived further away from town on one of the Great Lakes, Lake Ontario, so I had a kind of remote and scenic upbringing. My father is…
Abrams Claghorn Gallery 1251 Solano Ave, Albany, California 94706Showing July 5 – August 31, 2017 Recption: Saturday July 15, 5 – 7 pm Artist Talk: Saturday August 12, 5 – 7pm Rebecca Reeves has been a part of our wonderful Venison community since our first year, 2014. When we did a full feature of her work…
Janarie Ricchio’s Artist Statement A house can express the individuality of those who inhabit them or can be used as a tool to create false personas. It is a retreat and a refuge where thoughts can be locked up inside accessible only to the self and anyone they allow in. A house is filled with…
Residencies in Jamaica & Beyond You live and work in your home country of England, but your art practice has taken you all over the world. Tell me a bit about the different residencies that you’ve visited and what series you made there? My first residency was in Jamaica, a real fluke, straight out of…
Quire is a Portland based mixed media artist, who discusses her series Science of Change, previous grant experience and collaging. What is it about the human connection that interests you and why are you drawn to making work through many voices? It’s just how my mind works. When I was in college my dorm room…
A Sense of Things presented by Durden and Ray & Paper 1923 S. Sante Fe Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90021 Opening Reception | Saturday, November 4th, 2017, 4pm -7pm Exhibition Dates | November 4th – November 25th, 2017 Gallery Hours | Tues – Sat 10am – 6pm FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — The Sense of Things follows on from the exhibition The Surface of…
