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New Body of Work

Actually I'm amazed. My wife has been telling me I shouldn't apply to shows until I have new pictures. I even had a show director tell me not to apply anymore until I had new work.

I posted on the Facebook forum that I was applying to The Plaza with new photographs I created just this week. I received a number of emails from fellow artists asking if they could see the new images I was jurying with.

Since 2004 I've been improving jury images for artists and since 2007 I've been doing my creative work behind the camera photographing artwork for artists:
http://bermangraphics.com/digital-jury-resources/jury-slide-photography.htm

 We had temperatures around 70-80 degrees last week and our tulips came up. Sunday night we were supposed to have a freeze so we cut all the tulips and brought them in. They looked beautiful when they opened on Monday which inspired me. So between photographing sets of jewelry, I managed to spend a few minutes each day shooting the tulips. When Ray Morton posted about applying to The Plaza, I realized I actually had a new body of work to try out. I put my booth together (difficult to see at this size) by adding the new tulip pictures to the walls and in the bin and chose four tulip images that worked together.

Artist statements. Yes I need more than one. The first is 100 characters and the second is more, actually 149 characters.

100 - High key tulips photographed using film techniques. Mood created from strong backlight and diffusion

149 - High key tulips photographed using traditional film techniques. Moods created from strong backlighting, diffusion and the relationships of the stems.

I can't believe a show as sophisticated as The Plaza is still asking for a 100 character artist statement. I thought ZAPP eliminated that as an option, which means the show has to actually choose it from their interface.

Larry Berman
http://BermanGraphics.com
412-401-8100