Brian’s PhotoPile

I realize I’m a bit late for posting photos from Halloween, but thought you might enjoy them.
Having slithered out of my crypt that evening I visited some of the other spooks in my neighborhood. In our travels we found a party at a house that backs up to Highland Park just within walking distance of the cemetery. Many varieties of beings seemed to have flocked to this location safe in the cradle of the night. My favorite room was the kitchen for here I was able to lick my chops on some of the best pies I’ve ever had the pleasure to eat. Drinks were on the house. Loaded, I traveled north into City Center. Here at the East End I found a veritable hive of activity. Stumbling about, I walked past many faces, phantoms in the night, only to be seen for these brief dark hours.

On the first friday of each month many, many galleries hold open house. The Bone Lab, an installation by the Pifer brothers, at Potential Life Studios http://www.potentiallifestudios.com/ is awsome. These two brothers brought the dead alive again. It’s like 18th century science and 21st century vision merged. Sarah Rutherford, who has been doing Wonder Woman paintings for some time now, opened her studio and displayed new sepia toned paintings. The installation with the little girl and tall child is hers. Sergei Sviatchenko’s collages at the Visual Studies Workshop posessed humor and other qualities that I can’t enumerate, but I found them fascinating, especially the one that covered an entire wall. I even bought one of his books. Then there is that lady with her back to the camera. I was going to follow her and ask if I could take her picture but I forgot and she left the room before I knew it. The Persian New Year  exhibit that was at the Arts and Cultural Center. I liked their offerings, the grass planters that celebrated the outdoors, green and lush, painstakenly nourished by the sun and water. There is a photo I would like to buy by Courtney Gruttadauria not to mention some of John Pfahls work and those of his students on display at RoCo. Tim Mack is displaying resonably priced collectors items at the 4 Walls Gallery on Elton St. Kurt Moyer’s bathing series of paintings where on display at his studio and at Gallery 9. Dee Topham makes amazingly beautiful painted jewely. Craig Gilbert is clearly an up and coming artist to be reconded with. His well thought out images are mind boggling in their complexity and visual impact.

The bed of grass photo is part of Kelly Jacobson’s exhibit: GROUND. I happened in on it Friday night. From what I can tell it looks like it was up just for the weekend. It was cool. I liked the etched messages on the bottles along the walls. The gas and electric photos are from a shopping mall I walked around while waiting for Park Avenue Bikes to open. I left my bike there to have the rear wheel repaired and a few other maintenance items taken care of. The wedding dressed mannequin looks like she wants to open the car door cleverly without touching the metal, maybe she should. Those two buses just  stood at the corner while people got on and off. And then there was snow on the fence the other day.