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Gallery Heist presents Another Thing Coming
new works by Seth Armstrong
Opening Reception Saturday, May 14, 2011
from 7-11pm
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On View May 14 – June 11, 2011
Gallery Heist is pleased to present Another Thing Coming, a solo exhibition featuring new works by Seth Armstrong. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, May 14, 2011 from 7-11pm. The exhibition is free and open to the public.
Seth Armstrong graduated with high honors and received his BFA from CCA in 2006. During 2005 he spent six months studying abroad in The Netherlands at the Academie Minerva. Seth Armstrong was recently featured in the March issue of Bl!ss magazine and has been featured in Juxtapoz arts and culture magazine. For a full bibliography please see his CV. He is currently an instructor at ASUC Art Studios at UC Berkeley. In September 2010 Seth Armstrong was commissioned by Possible Productions in LA to paint a portrait of Biggie Smalls, which was featured on stage as a backdrop for the back-to-back Comerica Park performance headlining JayZ and Eminem.
Another Thing Coming marks the artists first solo exhibition at Gallery Heist. Armstrong creates obscure narratives within his work utilizing the language of cinema and classical portraiture. By using ambiguous light, contrived compositions and saturation he invites us to join him in his voyeuristic gaze within urban dwellings. His surrealist rendering of light dictates the viewer’s perception of time, playing with our conceptions of reality. It is in this aspect that Armstrong’s love for cinematic iconography rises to the surface of his work pairing 1960’s Americana within surrealist obscurity. Armstrong hides stories within the framework of his landscapes examining the adversarial conversation between figures and their surroundings provoking the viewer to set his work within an indexical time in history.
The exhibition is open to the public and will be on view from Saturday May 14 - June 11, 2011. Gallery hours are as follow: Tuesday - Saturday 11:00am - 7:00pm. Gallery Heist is located at 679 Geary Street San Francisco CA 94102 near the corner of Leavenworth southeast of the intersection. For more information please visit www.galleryheist.com
To request a preview of the available work please contact Julianne Yates at info@galleryheist.com
Predicting Perceptions: The 3rd International Conference on Appearance. Just a few pictures to share. Shoot at Heriot-Watt University, Our Dynamic Earth and National Museums of Scotland using a Canon 5D MKII and an HTC One S.
Predicting Perceptions: The 3rd International Conference on Appearance. Just a few pictures to share. Shoot at Heriot-Watt University, Our Dynamic Earth and National Museums of Scotland using a Canon 5D MKII and an HTC One S.
Predicting Perceptions: The 3rd International Conference on Appearance. Just a few pictures to share. Shoot at Heriot-Watt University, Our Dynamic Earth and National Museums of Scotland using a Canon 5D MKII and an HTC One S.
Predicting Perceptions: The 3rd International Conference on Appearance. Just a few pictures to share. Shoot at Heriot-Watt University, Our Dynamic Earth and National Museums of Scotland using a Canon 5D MKII and an HTC One S.
The smoothness of the water in front makes the identity of sky and water slightly confusing and abstracts the reality of the branch and its reflection, I think.
As stated before - I've been pushing more for the use of primes. The amazing shallow depth of field provides for more isolation and more use of whatever light is available than ever before.
As we know - I'm not afraid of using my High-ISO settings to get the shot and the Fast Lenses really help attain that.
This shot gives the feeling of being wide angle - but was really telephoto at 135mm.
Canon 5DMk2 / 135/F2
F/2.2, 1/80th ISO-12,800
Although the best exposure here keeps the ISO grain to the least visible - sharpening did bring it up a bit. After the image was sharpened I used an application designed to reduce noise in the image.
It did a really solid job.