Urban Utopias

My Urban Utopias photographic series is almost complete.........

For the past year I have been out taking pictures for a body of work to be exhibited in galleries and what-not..........I have probably shot over 1,000 negatives...contact printed, proof printed and edited the series down to 25 pieces....yes, I over-edit but I have always been EXTREMELY critical and will not allow sloppy work to go out - period - and I don't accept second best - there will be plenty of that left over in boxes that will show up in an estate sale (or garbage) at my death (which are known as seconds - that is another issue) - I know how these things work - anyway - all of the selected prints have be printed in a series of 5 -10 each (some artists will do 250 - 500) but I am always thinking about my next project and don't see the point in mass production - that's reserved for the Jeff Koon's of the world - I number mine up to 10 (with the potential there) but in reality I only print 5. So now I have 100 prints that have to be spot-toned (which I do not enjoy), matted, mounted and framed and crates built for shipping.......I have bought a majority of the supplies - except a dry mount press which is around 1400$ - (there is controversy surrounding dry-mounting but galleries want it that way) ----- busy work - at this point I wish I had an assistant so I could proceed to my next project ---- also there are several magazine publications that accept unsolicited work :ie Lenswork, B&W Mag, Focus, Afterimage, Contact Sheet, and Camera Work . I have exhibited for many years starting in 1989 - there are tons of galleries calling for entries. See Art Calendar, Art List, Art News, etc for listings. They are especially under represented by women artists and are begging women to submit....

I am anxious also to start painting again - I painted/designed heavily from 1987 - 1996, 1997 - 1998 (see strategies page on website for example) I started one in 2003 of dancers but didn't feel it had the political and psychological impact of my previous work so I set it aside -

So many ideas - so little time ------ it's all exciting -----