What: Walls, Windows and Doors, an exhibit by professional photographer Joe KozlowskiYou can find out more about the Amerind Foundation and Museum on-line at Amerind.org.
Where: The Amerind Museum
When: May 1-December 31, 2012
Exhibit description: Professional photographer Joe Kozlowski’s stunning photography examines the Walls, Windows and Doors of the American Southwest’s ancient ruins and historic structures. The photographer captures the artistry of ancient architectural elements, likening them to abstract impressionist paintings. For Kozlowski, the subject matter is a metaphor for human interaction: walls which isolate us, windows that provide us with insights into each other, and doors that help us connect. The changing nature of these structures from ancient Native American towns to recent Spanish Colonial churches poses questions for us. How have the functions of walls, windows and doors changed over time and between the cultures that created them?
About the Photographer: Joe Kozlowski is the son of a portrait/landscape artist and an elementary school teacher. He has been involved with photography as an amateur, semi-professional and professional since he was a child. With a background in cultural anthropology, his photos reveal the artistry in human structures and objects. Kozlowski’s photography is available in book form through Blurb.com. They are also on display on-line at FineArtAmerica.com.
About the attached image: A signature piece of the exhibit, this photograph by Joe Kozlowski shows the doors of Pueblo Bonito, a ruin in New Mexico that was first built over one thousand years ago.
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Saturday, May 05, 2012
One Man Show
The Amerind Museum is currently hosting a show of 27 of my photographs of "Walls, Windows and Doors". The following is from the Amerind Foundation's press release announcing the show:
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Candy's Latest
Spread out over the living room floor. Sunlight streaming through the glass door to the patio. Still unfinished, but getting there. Borders, binding and quilting still to go.
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Second Annual Peep Show
Here’s a Peep Show for the whole family: The Washington Post is now accepting submissions for its third annual Peeps Diorama Contest, in celebration of the “candy” Peeps that are somehow representative of Easter, in America.
... check it out after the click.
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Shock and Awe: Guernica: April 26, 1937
by Joseph Palermo
Seventy-one years ago, on April 26, 1937, the German Luftwaffe used the people of Guernica in northern Spain as laboratory animals in an experiment to see what it would take to bomb a city into oblivion. The head of the German air force, Herman Goering told the tribunal at Nuremburg during his war crimes trial: "The Spanish Civil War gave me an opportunity to put my young air force to the test, and a means for my men to gain experience."
Goering's Nazi flyboys rained incendiary bombs on the center of the market town of some 5,000 residents. In five bombing raids, twenty-nine planes dropped 44,000 pounds of explosives. A firestorm engulfed the central plaza of the city, and biplanes strafed the fleeing civilians with machine guns. Most of the city's buildings were either completely destroyed or severely damaged. The bombing killed 1,650 people, and wounded 889, most of them older civilians, and women, and children. The Nazi bombing of the undefended town of Guernica became the first aerial destruction of a civilian center, and it shocked the world. President Franklin D. Roosevelt correctly called it an atrocity, and Pablo Picasso immortalized it with his anguished mural, Guernica.
But within a few short years the murder of innocents from the air at Guernica was dwarfed by the 45,000 civilians killed in Hamburg, the 100,000 civilians killed in Dresden, the 130,000 killed in Tokyo, and the 280,000 killed at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
In early February 2003, a few days before Secretary of State Colin Powell gave his power-point presentation to the United Nations making the case that Saddam Hussein possessed "weapons of mass destruction," American officials demanded that a curtain be draped over the U.N.'s reproduction of Picasso's Guernica. They believed it would be inappropriate for Powell to make his pitch for aggressive war while standing in front of the 20th Century's most iconic protest against the inhumanity of war.
More after the click ...
My comment:
Trite but too true, "Those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it". Did you pay attention in your history classes? Did they even teach you anything about Guernica?
Seventy-one years ago, on April 26, 1937, the German Luftwaffe used the people of Guernica in northern Spain as laboratory animals in an experiment to see what it would take to bomb a city into oblivion. The head of the German air force, Herman Goering told the tribunal at Nuremburg during his war crimes trial: "The Spanish Civil War gave me an opportunity to put my young air force to the test, and a means for my men to gain experience."
Goering's Nazi flyboys rained incendiary bombs on the center of the market town of some 5,000 residents. In five bombing raids, twenty-nine planes dropped 44,000 pounds of explosives. A firestorm engulfed the central plaza of the city, and biplanes strafed the fleeing civilians with machine guns. Most of the city's buildings were either completely destroyed or severely damaged. The bombing killed 1,650 people, and wounded 889, most of them older civilians, and women, and children. The Nazi bombing of the undefended town of Guernica became the first aerial destruction of a civilian center, and it shocked the world. President Franklin D. Roosevelt correctly called it an atrocity, and Pablo Picasso immortalized it with his anguished mural, Guernica.
But within a few short years the murder of innocents from the air at Guernica was dwarfed by the 45,000 civilians killed in Hamburg, the 100,000 civilians killed in Dresden, the 130,000 killed in Tokyo, and the 280,000 killed at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
In early February 2003, a few days before Secretary of State Colin Powell gave his power-point presentation to the United Nations making the case that Saddam Hussein possessed "weapons of mass destruction," American officials demanded that a curtain be draped over the U.N.'s reproduction of Picasso's Guernica. They believed it would be inappropriate for Powell to make his pitch for aggressive war while standing in front of the 20th Century's most iconic protest against the inhumanity of war.
More after the click ...
My comment:
Trite but too true, "Those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it". Did you pay attention in your history classes? Did they even teach you anything about Guernica?
Monday, February 18, 2008
True Blues
Democrats (Counterclockwise around the table beginning in lower left): Jimmy Carter, F.D. Roosevelt, Andrew Jackson, Harry Truman, LBJ, Woodrow Wilson, Bill Clinton, JFK.
More here.
Sunday, January 27, 2008
A Charge to Keep?
“A Charge to Keep.”, by W.H.D. Koerner, 1916
There's a great piece in Harpers about G.W. Bush's favorite painting that gives an interesting insight into Bush and the Bush mentality.
What's the true nature of the subject matter?
- A brave man leading missionaries along a steep mountain trail -or-
- A silver tongued thief, one step ahead of a lynch mob
Find the answer here ...
What's your call?
And who IS that man on the horse, anyway? Sure looks familiar!!
Friday, October 19, 2007
The Fear Factor
from Michael Gene Sullivan's "Making a Killing" piece on Huffington Post
[...]
Sad, isn't it? This is what our citizens have been reduced to. Afraid to be seen at a show that questions this administration and the corporatocracy, fearful the people they know will turn against them for being exposed to something besides Fox News, scared their neighbors will see them as traitors for watching a play about governmental corruption.
This is the real effect of six years of the Patriot Act, and seven years of paranoid ineptitude at the highest levels. Fear of your fellow citizen. Fear of being identified as less than mindlessly loyal, fear of being identified by your friends as an Enemy of the State, a traitor, because you question authority. By even listening to someone point out the lies and transgressions of those who are undermining the very Constitution they swore to uphold you are somehow the renegade, and have changed from one of "us" to one of "them."
Centuries of struggling for civil rights, and we live in a country where people are scared to see a mime troupe.
Ladies and gentlemen, the terrorists have won.
[...]
Sad, isn't it? This is what our citizens have been reduced to. Afraid to be seen at a show that questions this administration and the corporatocracy, fearful the people they know will turn against them for being exposed to something besides Fox News, scared their neighbors will see them as traitors for watching a play about governmental corruption.
This is the real effect of six years of the Patriot Act, and seven years of paranoid ineptitude at the highest levels. Fear of your fellow citizen. Fear of being identified as less than mindlessly loyal, fear of being identified by your friends as an Enemy of the State, a traitor, because you question authority. By even listening to someone point out the lies and transgressions of those who are undermining the very Constitution they swore to uphold you are somehow the renegade, and have changed from one of "us" to one of "them."
Centuries of struggling for civil rights, and we live in a country where people are scared to see a mime troupe.
Ladies and gentlemen, the terrorists have won.
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Pin-ups for Vets
Nostalgia for a time when we fought wars and won ... against actual heavily armed armies.
Click image and get yours now.
I wonder why the theme music and the backdrops reflect a time more than 60 years ago. No hip-hop? No full body tattoos? What's wrong with this picture?
Click image and get yours now.
I wonder why the theme music and the backdrops reflect a time more than 60 years ago. No hip-hop? No full body tattoos? What's wrong with this picture?
Saturday, September 22, 2007
The Art of Statistics
Running the Numbers
An American Self-Portrait
"This new series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. Statistics can feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or 426,000 cell phones retired every day. This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs. My underlying desire is to affirm and sanctify the crucial role of the individual in a society that is increasingly enormous, incomprehensible, and overwhelming."
Well worth a closer look ... absolutely fascinating.
An American Self-Portrait
"This new series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. Statistics can feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or 426,000 cell phones retired every day. This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs. My underlying desire is to affirm and sanctify the crucial role of the individual in a society that is increasingly enormous, incomprehensible, and overwhelming."
Well worth a closer look ... absolutely fascinating.
Monday, September 03, 2007
Enemies of the People: Who Are They?
by Dan Agin / Huffington Post contributor
One hundred and twenty five years ago, in 1882, the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen presented the first performance of his play, An Enemy of the People.
Like many of Ibsen's plays, this play is a social commentary, a piece of literature that in addition to providing a window into human character also defines both individuals and society in sociopolitical terms.
Finish the thought here ...
One hundred and twenty five years ago, in 1882, the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen presented the first performance of his play, An Enemy of the People.
Like many of Ibsen's plays, this play is a social commentary, a piece of literature that in addition to providing a window into human character also defines both individuals and society in sociopolitical terms.
Finish the thought here ...
Sunday, September 02, 2007
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