Art
Volume 3, Spring/Summer 2010
TODD BEHRENDT (whose art graces the cover of issue three) has this to say about his enigmatic work:
This series of work is concerned with portraying the fragile state of the American psyche in this new post-economic collapse era of information. The instantaneous and aggressive dissemination of fact and opinion pressures the psyche into the formulation of an immediate reaction. This response can be cynicism, apathy or simple presumption, along with emotional states such as paranoia and fear. The demand creates further frustration and leads to greater factionalizing along class and party lines. In these prints, I utilize
graphs without quantitative relevance, statistics without significant information, sentences without context, and figures without faces. In a purely visual sense, my aim is composition versus disorder; positive versus negative. Conceptually, these elements contribute to the notion of confusion and frustration in the information age.These pieces are silver gelatin prints created in a traditional wet-process darkroom using non-traditional techniques. No digital methods were employed.
A documentary historian, photographer and poet, some of BRIAN BROWN’s recent work appears or is forthcoming in Oxford American, Chiron Review, Inkwell, Roanoke Review, Keyhole, Santa
Clara Review, Vain, and Louisiana Review, among others. His images of the vernacular arcitecture and folklife of the Wiregrass Region have just been acquired by the Georgia Historical Society for their permanent collection.
GANESHA BALUNSAT is an artist from beautiful San Francisco where inspiration can be found on every street corner. She makes it a practice to photograph daily, using photographs to capture the world through her eyes.
ANDREW LEWIS MARNIK is a Providence-based artist whose real passion lies in cinema. He is currently editing a feature length film for charity and recently shot the 20-min short “Cold Brother” in and around southern New England.
Volume 2, Fall 2009
Featured Artist, JIM FUESS – interview
“I like movement, collision, or relationships between forms and images. It makes for energy. Some of the images … are static. Some of the composition is planned but I’ve learned that a painting can take on a life of it’s own. I don’t fight it.”
Featured Photographer: DOMINIC DAGRADI
Artist’s Statement: “I am drawn to the abstract and the emotional in making a photograph. The impermanence and transitivity of the subject is central to much my imagery, and a driving force in the narrative I strive to create between image and viewer. To accomplish this, I seek out the unusual and mundane subject matter, and make images applying a variety of techniques, including but not limited to, time dilation, collage, pinhole photography, and multiple exposures. Combined with a variety of antiquated cameras and printing processes, I attempt to create images that are a timeless and unique experience for all involved.”
Also in this issue:
G. CHRISTOPHER DAVIS is an economist who is drawn to photographing old cemetery art as it ages and reflects the character of those left behind.
