Charleston, it's time for your cameo...
"Bike Rack" by Michael Keller is among the works in the "Charleston and Vicinity" show at the Byrd Federal Courthouse through October.
"Charleston and Vicinity" is the title of a group show featuring photographs of West Virginia's capital town and its environs, now up through Oct. 31 at the Robert C. Byrd Federal Courthouse on Virginia Street. The show, orchestrated by photographer Betty Rivard, is part of the Judiciary Arts Program, coordinated by Sally Groves. It's viewable when the courthouse is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. (You'll need a photo ID to enter the building and prove you are not Osama bin Laden.) The featured photographs are by: David Fattaleh, Bruce Haley, Robin Hammer, Michael Keller, Thorney Lieberman, Laura Moul, Steve Payne, Betty Rivard, Amy Williams and Mark Wolfe.
If your appetite is whetted for more Charleston photographs, do check out the DowntownWV gazzblog, which specializes in that sort of thing, featuring A daily dose of three photos by photoblogger Walker DeVille along with occasional guest photos.
7 Comments:
Robin Hammer?!!! No thanks, I'll pass. His work is all the same. I don't know how he gets by.
Because you don't much like one artist you'd avoid a show with 10 other artists? That's like avoiding a long food buffet because you don't like the steamed broccoli that's part of it.
Maybe anonymous one just wants to avoid flashing ID at the federal courthouse.
Ah! Maybe the trail of Osama bin Laden has not "gone cold" as was announced in the news this week. He is here, in Charleston, fearful of going to an art show at the federal courthouse!
A disclaimer: I coordinated this show, e.g. requested the space, decided the theme, invited the photographers, and put up the work. I didn't see the photographs ahead of time, except for my own.
I included Robin because I loved the series of flowers that he showed at the Cultural Center a year or two ago, and he was good to work with when I requested a sample of this series for a show at Cafe Cimino in Sutton last summer.
He took four photographs specifically for the courthouse show based on images that he felt were characteristic of Charleston. I find them unique and beautiful. They cause me to look at things differently, which I believe is a measure of fine art.
Do they look the same? Yes, in a way. Is that OK? Yes, it's OK with me.
I've encountered two divergent views in making selections for shows with small samples of work, including for jurying. One is to show work that is similar and demonstrates consistency. The other is to show a variety of work that is eclectic and demonstrates an ability to focus widely and do different things. Some people prefer one or the other.
This show as a whole is eclectic with a lot of different ways of looking at the city and surrounding areas. I would be curious what others think of the work itself.
Thanks for the opportunity to comment.
Hey, Doug. There's something wrong with this clock. I wasn't really up at 3:15am writing the last comment. According to my clock it's 6:11am, which is plenty early enough. Or are you on PDT? These are my first comments ever, so maybe I just don't understand how it works.
WVHomeplace, I wouldn't worry about the anonymous slam of Robin Hammer's work. It's easy to do drive-by insults from behind anonymity. So he/she doesn't prefer one local artist's work and so won't go to a show with 10 other artists featured? Really, now.
We'll check out the time snafu.
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