honorable mention
Lee Musgrave united states
title
CC Rider
Kinetics is a key element in the assembling of my subjects, for in my studio process assorted bits & pieces of paper, plastic and wire are tossed onto a light pad allowing them to fall where they may without concern for composition or aesthetics because kinetic energy has a life of its own and I strive to capture it within photographs.
After photographing these randomly assembled objects, cropping the resulting images is my conscious way of featuring their individual charisma. Further, I favor a visual language that explores and refines the shallow picture plane and cropping accentuates that preference.
Like the inherent qualities found in all contemporary abstract art, my photographs often appear starkly linear, richly textured and/or almost painterly… and yet they highlight an ephemeral world that reflects upon something vulnerable while speaking to the very nature of our existence.
Except for minor modifications in contrast the only computer processes applied to the photographs is the occasional cloning over of small distractive spots of dust and lent.
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entry description
My photographs merge random occurrence with conscious creation in pursuit of elegance within chaos. They are abstract images created by cropping photographs of repurposed art supplies.Kinetics is a key element in the assembling of my subjects, for in my studio process assorted bits & pieces of paper, plastic and wire are tossed onto a light pad allowing them to fall where they may without concern for composition or aesthetics because kinetic energy has a life of its own and I strive to capture it within photographs.
After photographing these randomly assembled objects, cropping the resulting images is my conscious way of featuring their individual charisma. Further, I favor a visual language that explores and refines the shallow picture plane and cropping accentuates that preference.
Like the inherent qualities found in all contemporary abstract art, my photographs often appear starkly linear, richly textured and/or almost painterly… and yet they highlight an ephemeral world that reflects upon something vulnerable while speaking to the very nature of our existence.
Except for minor modifications in contrast the only computer processes applied to the photographs is the occasional cloning over of small distractive spots of dust and lent.
about the photographer
Originally from Perth, Australia artist Lee Musgrave studied in Los Angeles with Hans Burkhardt (Swiss) and Fritz Faiss (German). Hans was studio partner of Arshile Gorky. Fritz studied at the Bauhaus with Paul Klee & Wassily Kandinsky. Musgrave holds a Master of Art degree from California State University, Los Angeles. His artwork has been exhibited in numerous solo & group exhibitions. He is the recipient of an American National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. He specializes in staged abstract still-life photography and he shares his photographs via Instagram (leemusgrave_art), Lensculture.com & his website www.leemusgrave.com. He lives in Washington, USA.back to gallery