Construction Workers Vegas

Caracas Marketplace

Eiffel Tower

Acropolis

Taj Mahal

Artist Statement

“TILT-SHIFT”ing the World

Tilt-Shift, What type of photography is that? people always ask me. How do I make people look so small or why do I make people look so small, simple…WE ARE. In the big picture we are just a small blip of what the world truly is. I enjoy the power I have to change the perspective of the way people look at the world and maybe at themselves.

Photographers need inspiration like all artists of all types of art,  mine is travel. From my series “Tilt-Shift”ing the world you can see only a small piece of the world that I have seen. Travel-Photography, Photography-Travel, they go hand in hand with me. The love of both is one. My passion to try and make the iconic places and structures that man desires to see and has for centuries traveled to see, is the same desire that drives me to go there and photograph them. I have been an avid photographer for over 25 years and have taken thousands upon thousands of photographs of iconic buildings. I’ve had the pleasure to “X” off from a list that grows and grows as new architects from around the world build new buildings for me to see and explore.

Life is said to be too short and I agree with that simple statement. I have goals like every artist does and mine is to “X” off as many places around the world until I run out of places to see or I run out of time.

Biography
1961 Born in Brooklyn, New York, USA
Lives and works in New York, NY USA

Exhibits
2002 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
2003 Camera Club of New York, New York
2006 Kolo-submission work
2008 Kolo-submission work
2008 The Skyscraper Museum, New York
2008 Schmap “Miami Guide“, Miami
2008 Ansonia Pharmacy, Solo Show, New York
2008 www.NowPublic.com, “Potent Greenhouse Gas” Publication
2009 Lana Santorelli Gallery, “New York, NY” Group Show, New York
2009 Chelsea Wine Vault, Solo Show, New York
2009 Baboo Digital, “Different Flavors“, Group Show
2009 www.artscenetoday.com finalist
2009 www.InfinityArtGallery.com finalist
2009 Lana Santorelli Gallery, New York, NY Group Show “Gastronomy”
2009 New Artist featured with www.LUMAS.com

Website
www.richardsilverphoto.com

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Resurrection, 2007
oil on canvas (34″ x 50″)

Ascension, 2007
oil on canvas (54″ x 70″)

Cruciferous, 2008
oil on canvas (54″ x 80″)

Artist Statement (Excerpt)

Resurrection is not only about the process of the mix between abstract and real but also concerned with the presence of human reaction to the emotion associated with enigmatic personal experiences. Those private moments when things seem above and beyond human understanding are the ones we either tell or keep a secret. This depends upon who experiences them, for some will tell immediately and believe wholeheartedly in the supernatural, while others will dismiss not only their experiences but the tales of even their most trusted confidants.

Recently, with Resurrection, Smith began toying with the concept of abstracted bitmaps and pixels. Throughout the series he sprinkles small color spaces of brushed on pigment through stencils. To the artist, these intrusions represent the concepts of transition of time and space. They also represent the idea of the manifestation of both good and evil. Much in the way that corrupted DVDs present bitmapped projections of scattered images, these tiny squares provide the transition between real and imagined—between abstract and realism. They are paintings on top of paintings but within paintings. The concept of which, can be observed in Smith’s earlier series, too. In Revelations in Red, he uses similar geometric forms and collage materials (particularly postage stamps) to represent rights of passage. In Sanctuary, he employs text, floating etched images and layers of various mixed media to create spiritual illusions and surreal thought processes.

Artist Website

http://www.stacystewartsmith.com/

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“Lifeforms” by John Azelvandre on Exhibit at Dizzy’s

A show of John Azelvandre’s artwork, titled “Lifeforms,” is currently on exhibit at Dizzy’s Restaurant, on the corner of 8th Avenue and 9th Street, in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

“Lifeforms” is inspired by the following thoughts: The time is long past due
for us to begin treating fossil hydrocarbons and their derivatives as precious
materials, easily on par with gold and diamonds, amber and pearls. This
photosynthetic labour of countless living beings — stellar energies stored up
into the very marrow of these living bodies — is all too commonly burnt up or
refashioned into cheap, tawdry, “disposable” items.

To read more about the show, please visit John’s website blog at:
http://apps.azelvandre.net/Blog/.

The show will be up until mid-August. Dizzy’s is conveniently located at the
front (east) end of the 7th Avenue stop on the F-train.

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