Showing posts with label website-galleries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label website-galleries. Show all posts

Thursday, August 9, 2012

incidents & interesections

"snow covered car" (c) 1987 george elsasser


INCIDENTS & INTERSECTIONS (1987-) FORMAL STATEMENT: I explore those points in my visual life where the natural and the artificial meet. The conflicts, tension and ironies thus generated appear to be analogous for corresponding meeting places in our inner lives. Some viewers have remarked on the presence in my work of conflict between thought and feeling, conscious and subconscious, [reality] and [dream]. There are inner boundaries that are implied by the exploration of visual boundaries in my images. Theses images are not [formalistic] in the sense that formal relationships constitute the essence of the works’ meanings; rather, their main thrust is the use of formal visual relationships to stimulate awareness of relationships within ourselves. 

Often I do not understand the point of many of my images until long after I have made them. Part of being an artist is being a sensitive viewer; much of the fun of the process comes from being stimulated by my own work.



Sunday, July 1, 2012

website galleries

02-21-14 (update)

These links lead to my current portfolios and information about them.  If you have any questions please feel free to send me an email.  

I am continuing to improve my new site hopefully making things much easier. I apologize for any inconveniences.  Thanks for visiting.







breakenterhuntgather
portfolio 
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observing liberty
portfolio 
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Mammals at the beach
portfolio
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In Step
portfolio 
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After 10 years of photographing weddings in a candid style I became interested in street photography. It seems to be a combination of some of my current landscape concerns along with trying to get me into a position that locates people in positions I find pleasing as they visually interact with the landscape.  working portfolio flickr






plane encounters
portfolio 
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fencing flora
portfolio
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Effigies  (2004-)
portfolio
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Photographer's Pencil  (drawings:1997-2000)  
portfolio 
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Particle Pool  (1994-2001)
portfolio
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Incidents & Intersections (1983-)
portfolio
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Excavation  (1977-1983)
portfolio
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arrivals & departures  2013-
working portfolio flickr
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"reflection in old glass" (c) george elsasser


Leela  2005-
working portfolio at flickr
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"outdoor stairs on rock wall" (c) george elsasser




Current b&w  1994-   
working portfolio at flickr          
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Still Remains  2005- 
working portfolio at flickr        
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PAINTINGS  (1992-2000) 
portfolio - not shown at this time
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This group includes both mixed media, works on paper and paintings on canvas. They as the drawings, were made to aid in loosening and further informing my photographic work. At the time I begun these paintings I felt photography was not giving me the visceral or emotional impact I sought at the time. In addition I really felt a strong attraction to the surfaces of paintings and that language mostly is non existent in photographic prints. When I stand next to a painting (particularly modern ones) I often want to inspect them with my hands in addition to my eyes. Sculpture is almost irresistible in this regard but unfortunately I know better. I wanted a heavier hand so-to-speak with a more blatant emotional energy and wanted to shake my photographic history somewhat. These were the first paintings I had made while not pursuing a formal education other than some I had made during my childhood.