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Author Archives: Michael Ast
William Christenberry Retrospective – Spain 2013-2014
November 13, 2013 – 3:04 pm
I wish I lived in Spain . . . one of the most consistent and exemplary artist working in photography, sculpture, painting, drawing, doll-making . . . you name it, a humble and dedicated artist to his maternal home of Hale County . . . William Christenberry. This website, beautifully designed by Fundación MAPFRE, showcases […]
Photographs featured in “Petty Thieves” projection exhibition, Washington D.C.
November 5, 2013 – 2:35 pm
Super psyched to have photographs shown at the Petty Thieves Three projection exhibition and party. Showing Friday, November 8, at the Petworth Citizen + Reading Room in Washington D.C.. Big shout out to Empty Stretch for their ongoing Petty Thieves curatorial projects. The exhibition takes place with the launching of their latest “Petty Thieves 3” […]
Sunday Walk At Dusk
November 3, 2013 – 9:06 pm
I favor November to October, when the floor is littered with failure and a tarnished gold. It’s then I walk straight into the bramble, foothold in the musty, leafy mud, fingers in the rough-hewn skin of the walnut tree and pull myself in. So much gained inside that ordained thicket. I find myself eventually taciturn […]
LENSCRATCH “2013 Night Exhibition”
October 31, 2013 – 3:48 pm
Pleased to have my photograph “Chattanooga” featured in LENSCRATH’s “Night Exhibition”, launched today in conjunction with Halloween. View Lenscratch Night Exhibition
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
October 30, 2013 – 4:01 pm
The first thing I heard was a grandmother killed picking okra in her fields, her grandson full of shrapnel, his father, the school teacher pleading on Capitol Hill to the Nobel Peace Prize president’s men about them lethal hawks hovering near by his schoolyard. I heard the daily jackhammer pound the length of the median […]
Sunday Morning Walk
October 7, 2013 – 11:03 pm
Morning walk. Sunday. The dew drops fooled me for rain. Acorns strike gutters, my neighbors car. The neighborhood is two shades more yellow today. Not knowing my insects, is that monotone whistle a cicada? Feeling guilty for a moment, then jealous, thinking of Gary Snyder’s native knowledge. Crows caw. United Church of Christ bells in […]
Back in the Printmaking Studio
October 3, 2013 – 11:33 am
Feels good to get back in the printmaking studio! I’ve added a couple latest prints and will be posting more to my gallery in the coming weeks and months. Cheers! Etchings Gallery
Etching featured in “Under Pressure” exhibit – West Windsor Arts Center
August 30, 2013 – 5:31 pm
I’m honored my photo-etching was selected as part of the juried printmaking exhibition “Under Pressure” at the West Windsor Arts Center, Princeton, NJ. Opening Sept. 9 through November 15th, 2013.
