Upstream Gallery Annual Juried Photography Show 2024

I'm pleased to announce that one of my recent video time-lapse composite pieces, Spirit Howl, is going to be in the upcoming 2024 Photo Show: Ordinary & Extraordinary at The Upstream Gallery.

Thursday, February 1, 2024: Opening day of exhibition, 12:30pm-5:30pm.

Sunday, February 4, 2024: Opening reception, 2:00pm-5:00pm.

Sunday, February 25, 2024: Last day of exhibition, 12:30pm-5:30pm.  Curator's Talk 3:30pm.

Location: 

8 Main Street, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, 10706 

www.upstreamgallery.com 

Gallery Hours: 

Thursdays & Fridays: 12:30 - 5:30 pm

Saturdays: 10 am to 5:30 pm

Sundays: 12:30 - 5:30 pm

Upstream Gallery 'NEW BEGINNINGS' 2022

My newest series of short video haikus (Buddhaverse Variations ©2020-21) is on view at the Upstream Gallery this month: 

Annual National Juried Small Works Exhibition

‘NEW BEGINNINGS’ 2022

January 6 thru January 30th, 2022

Location: 

8 Main Street, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, 10706 

www.upstreamgallery.com 

Gallery Hours: 

Thursdays & Fridays: 12:30 - 5:30 pm

Saturdays: 10 am to 5:30 pm

Sundays: 12:30 - 5:30 pm

Self Portrait as Thai Medicine Buddha (00:15)

Use QR code to watch my newest set of short video animations entitled Buddhaverse Variations in my Vimeo Showcase.

https://vimeo.com/showcase/7916179

Online access to the complete set of 125 video haikus. Select thumbnails to view on Vimeo Showcase page, or click thumbnail title (ex: v001) to watch & enable autoplay.

Less Is More

'Less Is More' is the current exhibition at Upstream Gallery. It's described as a Juried National Small Works Exhibition running from January 7th through January 31st. Open Thursday - Sunday, 12:30 - 5:30pm

8 Main Street, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, 10706

email: UpstreamGallery26@gmail.com

gallery phone: 914-674-8548

I have work in the show - a small 5.5"x3.5"x3" sculptural piece entitled Portable Healing Shrine. This piece is built upon a found object (a small hand made, hand-painted Hindu shrine that I found at the AsiaBarong marketplace in Great Barrington). While the found shrine was rather crudely made and painted, I thought it would be fun to use the wooden framework to create a personal shrine using my own imagery. 

A selection of images follow:

a front view of the shrine with all doors closed

the shrine under its protective glass jar in the gallery

a view with one side door partially opened

showing Medicine Buddha and emerging lotus

the shrine with all outer doors open
showing hands making offerings (multiple panels) and
Protective Dakinis dancing on the doors of the inner-most realm

the doors of the inner sanctum opened to reveal
the meditating Medicine Buddha flanked by flaming lotus flowers

Show of animation work at Upstream Gallery

The show runs from Jan 30 - Feb 23 (Thur-Sun 12:30-5:30) at the Upstream Gallery

As described in recent posts on this blog, my current digital photo-composite series Forest Gods and Jungle Spirits (2018-2020) continues an ongoing visual investigation of the flow of divine energies 'hidden in plain sight' in the world around us. The faces and forms of our own shared, yet dimly recalled, lineage ancestors and protective totem spirits are discernible within the leafy canopy of the old growth forest or within the darkly camouflaged jungle understory.

For this gallery show, I have loaded a digital frame with a collection of short 10-20 second animations based upon the Forest Gods and Jungle Spirits compositions, adding sound and motion to embody the ebb-and-flow of our connection to these hidden energies surrounding us. I've also utilized a range of ‘glitch’ image tools to help evoke the sensation of our too often ‘noisy’ connection with such ancestral beings/energies.

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CHAOS & CALM: ENVISIONING ORDER

Photography 2020, a national juried exhibit

Upstream Gallery website