Metropolis, no.4

"Metropolis, no.4" (2011/2012)

Public Pool, Oakland

 

 

 

   

(2010.)

Photographs on View at SLATE Contemporary, Oakland

"Train car, Oakland"

This season I'm thrilled to be participating in the "Urban Information" and "Urban and Suburban" exhibitions at SLATE Contemporary in Downtown Oakland. 

Limited Edition prints of "Train car, Oakland" (above) are selling quickly.  If you're interested in purchasing a print, please feel welcome to contact the gallery, or me directly.

Thank you!

A Learning Place, Detroit

This past Sunday, Josh and I met a really cool guy who moved out to California from Detroit. Our conversation got me thinking about last year's trip to Detroit, and how I'm still processing the experience. As I slowly wade through my photographs, I can't help but think that one visit was just not enough. I merely skimmed the surface of a city so rich with history, with presence, and lessons to be learned.

Farm Fresh

Berkeley Farms, San Francisco, Ca.

The Pawnbroker

What a place... Detroit.

Train Depot, Detroit.

The Michigan Central Railway was designed by Warren & Wetmore and Reed and Stern, the same firms who designed the Grand Central Terminal in New York. Just a mile from Downtown Detroit, the Depot serviced passengers from 1913 through 1988, although a major decline in traffic began after WWII .

Per our friend Wikipedia:

At the beginning of World War I, the peak of rail travel in the United States, more than two hundred trains left the station each day and lines would stretch from the boarding gates to the main entrance. In the 1940s, more than four thousand passengers a day used the station and more than three thousand people worked in its office tower. Among those who arrived at MCS were Presidents Herbert Hoover, Harry S. Truman and Franklin D. Roosevelt, actor Charlie Chaplin and inventor Thomas Edison.

To read more on Michigan Central Station's interior stylings and history, click here.

American Royalty

Saturday, Southern California

Natural Resources, West Oakland

Some old shots...

West Oakland, circa 2001.

It's a Blustery Day in the Golden State

Winded.

(From the "Valley of the Moon Apartments" series, 2010.)

Oakland Illuminated, a memory

"Oakland Illuminated", our rooftop view, 2008.

Today's rainy weather has pulled me from my sun-filled visions of Palm Springs, and demanded I take notice.

A darkened sky reminds me of the day I shot this photograph. On that day, as sunset approached, the light so perfectly played with the darkened clouds that all visible planes were aglow.

I ran up the stairs to our rooftop and caught the light before it passed, in moments.

A 20x30 metallic print of this photograph hangs in my studio, and though so different than much of my work, this photograph continues to be one of my favorite. Sometimes the print almost looks three dimensional, as if I could jump right into the landscape of my former life. The dark and light of the city appear so distinctly, each their own and full of detail.

Today a similar wonder, new rendition.

Filling Station

Filling Station, 2010.
Another photograph from my new "Valley of the Moon Apartments" series...

Better with Two, from Light to Dark

Painted Train, Oakland.

Children of Earth and Sun

- Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
Frank Lloyd Wright

I shot these photographs a few months ago, on a beautiful Sunday morning. The Marin County Civic Center was Frank Lloyd Wright's last and 770th commission.

I've visited a couple of times, and with each visit I see more clearly how the building's colors disappear into the landscape of Marin's golds, ambers, and blues. The building is showing signs of wear, which I think makes it even more beautiful. See some really cool photos of the building circa 1957 here and here.