Jeff Deemie

There's not much bio info to be said about this artist, once again- pretty low key..  What I like about this work is that he's photographing these areas after natural disaster (Hurricane Ike)-  with these images you can see the impact man has made on the landscape, but it comes full circle as nature then takes its toll on man made structures and objects.

http://www.deemie.com/index.html

Auroras

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/050608_mars_aurora.html

Britt, Robert Roy, Auroral Lights Discovered at Mars

Auroras are one of the many natural phenomenon that are visually appealing, of which somehow- someway I would like to incorporate into my work.  Also referred to as the Northern and Southern Lights, these luminous sensations generally appear as bright, colorful bands of light visible in both the northern and southern hemispheres of the Earth.  

It is believed that auroras are caused by charged high energy particles  from the solar winds.  These winds are trapped within the atmospheric magnetic field of the Earth.  When the charged particles spiral back and forth along the lines of this magnetic field, they become visible.  The colors are a result of electrons colliding with oxygen and nitrogen molecules in the atmosphere.  The molecules become energized, cool, and emit the actual light that can be seen by humans.  They are most commonly seen in winter months within a 2500km radius of the N and S magnetic poles, or the auroral zone.  It is kind of interesting to note that, as of May 2005 it has been observed that Auroras occur on Mars as well.  

Paul Raphaelson

Bio

• Brooklyn, New York based artist
• Recieved a grant from Brooklyn Arts Council / NYC Department of Cultural Affairs Greater New York Arts Development Fund, 2008
  
• Recent Exhibitions:  
  
• -Lost Spaces, Found Gardens • Individual Exhibit • Brooklyn Public Library, 2008 - 2009
  
• -Ten Years Under The Manhattan Bridge • Individual Exhibit • Brooklyn Public Library, 2008
  
• -Brooklynature • Juried Exhibit • St. Joseph's College, Brooklyn, 2007
  
• -Environment: Place • Group Exhibit • Photomedia Center.org, 2005
  

His Work

LOST SPACES, FOUND GARDENS
2005-ongoing

"These photographs were inspired by my immediate surroundings in Brooklyn and Manhattan; particularly by overgrown spaces that lurk almost everywhere, but that have dropped off the map of collective consciousness. I’m drawn to the surprises that I find here, to the almost subversive thriving of natural life and unusual form.

Paradise is the Persian word for a walled enclosure. As often as not, in the city the walls are cyclone fences crowned with razorwire. Whatever they lack in charm they make up by providing a framed view from the outside. I find solace in the spontaneous gardens behind the fences. And I’m inspired by all the wild things invading them, by the relief they bring from the city’s antiseptic geometry and sheen." -Raphaeloson

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Venezuela's Everlasting Storm

http://www.oddee.com

I've been researching different natural phenomenon that I could incorporate into my imagery.  I came across "Relámpago del Catatumbo" Catatumbo lightning.  This lightning is located on the mouth of the atatumbo river at Lake Maracaibo (Venezuela), the phenomenon is a cloud-to-cloud lightning that forms a voltage arc more than five kilometers high during 140 to 160 nights a year, 10 hours a night, and as many as 280 times an hour.  Interestingly enough, this storm occurs over the marshlands where the Catatumbo River feeds into Lake Maracaibo and it is considered the greatest single generator of ozone in the planet, (this is judged from the intensity of the cloud-to-cloud discharge and great frequency.)  The storm is also known as the Maracaibo Beacon as light has been used for navigation by ships for ages.

Guy Crittenden

Bio

• Lives and works in Richmond, VA
• Gallery/studio owner in Richmond, VA
• location scout, art director, painter

Work

• This guy seems pretty low profile but some of the work on his site was awesome.  He enioys nature and explores the land while photographing it.  He does a lot of location work, but also shoots portraits, products and architecture.  Im mostly interested in his digital imagine portfolio.

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Design

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landscape_art

I've been thinking a lot lately about the different ways people choose to depict and construct landscapes.  There always seems to be a certain element of design to it, considering exactly what each artist decided to depict, things are omitted and added at their discretion.  I stumbled across this interesting article that explains:
"In Europe, as John Ruskin realized,[1] and Sir Kenneth Clark brought to view, landscape painting was the "chief artistic creation of the nineteenth century", with the result that in the following period people were "apt to assume that the appreciation of natural beauty and the painting of landscape is a normal and enduring part of our spiritual activity"[2] In Clark's analysis, underlying European ways to convert the complexity of landscape to an idea were four fundamental approaches: by the acceptance of descriptive symbols, by curiosity about the facts of nature, by the creation of fantasy to allay deep-rooted fears of nature and by the belief in a Golden Age of harmony and order, which might be retrieved."

Clark's analysis is so similar to my thought process with my current series, and I think my work reflects his theories pretty accurately.  This may help me a bit in redefining my artist statement.

Atta Kim

Bio

• Born in Korea in 1956.
• Education in mechanical engineering at Changwon University, Korea.
• Atta Kim's work has been exhibited at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea; the 25th Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil; the Australian Center for Photography, Sydney; and Nikon Salon Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, among others. His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark; the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul; and the Art Museum of Kyongnam Province, China. The ICP exhibition (June 9–August 27, 2006) will be accompanied by a catalogue, including an interview with the artist by ICP Curator Christopher Phillips. Atta Kim was born in Korea in 1956 and currently lives and works in New York.

His Work

• His later and most notable series of works have been exhibited as full color, large scale prints: The Museum Project, which depicts people "preserved" within Plexiglas cases placed in various settings, and ON-AIR, which uses long exposures and image compositing to make individual people and objects dissolve. Kim's work has been heavily influenced by Zen Buddhist concepts of interconnectedness and transience, and he commonly uses Buddhist iconography.
  

Im mostly interested in this work because of the shifty lighting thats created by long exposures.  With this, his work questions the relationship between time and place which I think is pretty interesting.

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