My First Opening!

One of my BFA graduation requirements is to exhibit my thesis!  So for the last nine months I have been shooting, editing, selecting, printing, matting and mounting my thesis.

So finally on April 30th I got to hang my show at Art/Not Terminal...

We used 63" as our middle height. 

However when it came to hanging the salon style images measuring this out became a little tough!!

Luckily I had my Fiance, best-friend and teacher to help me arrange the images, hang them and set up the lighting.  Even with all this help it took us three hours to hang 25 images!!!

So finally on May 1st from 7-10pm we had our opening.  (By the way "we" is Yukari Isa and I.  We shared the Sub-T room of Art/Not Terminal)

It went great!!! We had a lot of family and friends come through.  I sold a few images which was a great surprise for my first show!

I had my books out for people to look at and see the full series. (Things I Forgot to Show You and Dream Me Some Meaning)

My first red dot!!!!!

Overall it was a GREAT show.  I was super happy with the turn out.  It will hang for the rest of this month so if you haven't gone to see it yet... don't miss your chance!

Brainstorming in the gallery

I went to Art Not Terminal today with Yukari and my teacher Ramey to start looking at where we might hang things.  Finding out how to allocate space for a group show is harder than I thought... but we'll figure it out.

A few pictures of the SubT room with Jenna Johnson's work up!   It looks great but I'm definitely excited to see my own show up!  

It's time to get cracking on production of my three series.

Getting ready for my Exhibition

In order for me to graduate in June with my BFA in photography I am required to have a gallery exhibition of my photographs and participate in the portfolio day.

So here I am six weeks out from my gallery show starting to feel the full court press to get it all done!  Yukari Isa and I are going to have a joint show in May (opening night May 1st) at Art Not Terminal in the SubT room (downstairs).

I suggest checking out the current show by Jenna Johnson who is going to be the first BFA student to graduate from Ais!

Anyways I am preparing three different series for this exhibition.  Two are fine art photography while the 3rd is a mixed media series with a photography base.

I made two portfolio books through Blurb for my two photo series.

A graphic design student helped me with my first attempt to make one of these portfolios.  I bought the 6"x6" book.  You can see the difference between the small first attempt and my new one at 12"x12".

Most photographers love to see their work bigger and I have to admit I am now one of them.  The larger portfolios are great!  I am really impressed with the quality and am happy that by following the clear guidelines that Blurb provided my first attempt was a success!

The two series that got portfolios are "Dream me some meaning" (left) and "Things I forgot to show you"(right).  You can see more images from these series on my photography website under Fine Art and then the series title.