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William Christenberry Retrospective – Spain 2013-2014
November 13th, 2013
House & Car, Near Akron, Alabama (© William Christenberry)
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 Christenberry’s photography and much of his oeuvre. The retrospective is currently showing at Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid, and then travels to Centro José Guerrero in Granada, Spain. Be sure to journey through the gallery via the “virtual tour”, too. It’s fantastic.
View Exhibit/Fundación MAPFRE here
House, Near Akron, Alabama (© William Christenberry)
Photographs featured in “Petty Thieves” projection exhibition, Washington D.C.
November 5th, 2013
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” zine.
View event information and links to Petty Thieves 3
photo © Michael Ast – Untitled, New Hampshire, 2013
Sunday Walk At Dusk
November 3rd, 2013
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 at home, horizontal on the front yard, peering up to dark. My feet feel faint, lightweight and soft, as if bathed in epsom salt for hours.
November . . . she is like that sometimes despite them bare branches seeming to spite us.
LENSCRATCH “2013 Night Exhibition”
October 31st, 2013
Chattanooga (© Michael Ast)
Pleased to have my photograph “Chattanooga” featured in LENSCRATH’s “Night Exhibition”, launched today in conjunction with Halloween.
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
October 30th, 2013
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 strip . . . I put on Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Bad mistake. Bagpipes morphing into drone guitars, ominous sky, kinks in the chevron flight. The world might just implode today. At least it feels like it should.
Michael Ast – Interview With Blak Dot (October, 2013)
October 29th, 2013
I’m honored to be featured and interviewed for Blak Dot by founder/curator Matt Sanchez, the delightful Oregon-based photographer. I discuss Guinness among more important things, namely image-making . . . .
Michael Ast – Interview / Feature, Blak Dot, October, 2013
Sunday Morning Walk
October 7th, 2013
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 the distance. A thump in the woods, then again. I love the wet pavement this time of year, it runs straight through me. I can’t begin to translate the language I walk on, along graveled Peach Lane, how it meanders through perfect woods and introduces audible overload at this hour after dawn. I question how many silly fools tired themselves already with the government shutdown, picking sides hopelessly. And how much beauty they’ve already missed today in their morning clothes.
Photos: Sunday Morning Walk, Spinnerstown (Michael Ast © 2013)
Back in the Printmaking Studio
October 3rd, 2013
Emmett, Blacktop Beach (© Michael Ast, 2013)
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!
Etching featured in “Under Pressure” exhibit – West Windsor Arts Center
August 30th, 2013
“Spinnerstown” – Michael Ast © 2013
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.
