CZE Magazine has always been a great patron for the photographic arts, remarkably curating a huge diversity of image makers. It’s an honor to be featured in their latest issue “Blurry”! Be sure to check CZE Issue #13 out! View Blurry here
Happy to have featured my etching in next months “Members Show” at the Crane Arts Center, Philadelphia. Multiple works from a diverse mix of artists, belonging to the art collectives InLiquid, Second State Press & Philadelphia Photo Arts Center will be showcased. Exhibition runs from August 3rd – 24th. Artist Reception will be held on […]
A few of my photo-based etchings will be featured at the J.B. Kline & Son Gallery in Lambertville, NJ. A group photography show on view through June, 2013. Opening reception is Saturday, June 8th, 6-9:00.
Happy to be among an array of great international photographers in One Giant Arm’s “Issue #4: White & Black”. The current issue is dedicated to analog photography. Published in England, the first edition is limited to 60 copies. View “Issue #4: White & Black” at One Giant Arm . . . check her out here!
Holidays in the western world, we all know, are a blasphemous experience. Commercialism has obviously defeated the sacred, which has always been its underlying mission. A long, but successful journey, material value has conquered the invaluable with the majority of capable minds. The notion, which I retaliate against consciously with limited success, is precisely why […]
February 18, 2013 – 3:06 am
Images from a night of free PBR’s, Jameson on the rocks and Punk Rock with Brooklyn’s Parquet Courts . . . Voyeur Nightclub, Philly. Spent Sunday overcoming the much deserved tinnitis. All worth it! Rock-n-roll may not be dead after all. [portfolio_slideshow navpos=top pagerstyle=thumbs togglethumbs=true centered=false] All images © Michael Ast, 2013
December 30, 2012 – 2:37 am
Passing through, during a quick detour off Route 61 . . . returning from a day making photographs in Centralia, Pennsylvania. Fascinating town! My thoughts a bit congruent with the dark and dank history in that Pottsville before my eyes.
December 16, 2012 – 2:17 am
Resisting the edit . . . . suffering from tunnel vision. Wishing I popped out of the womb a sports fanatic, a boob tube potato, or at best, a Buddhist. The creative critic inside me is a brute, more often than not.