Kelly Wrage

Last night I got some great news--my project is on the website for Fotomuseo! Gilma Suarez, who is director of Fotomuseo, was one of my reviewers at Fotofest this year. She was very helpful with her advice and even offered to present my images on the organizations website. Alicia was also helpful in getting me to put the proper items together for the presentation. The link to their main page is: http://www.fotomuseo.org/fotomuseo/ As of this posting, the link to my images was on this page. The language is spanish, but the images are there, and the current statement for the project is on this blog in the post below this one. Fotomuseo is a very interesting organization that brings photography to the people by presenting it in open galleries on the street. There have been a number of notable photographers who have worked with them, and I'm feeling very privileged to have my work on their site! If you have a moment, please take a look at some of their images of the outdoor galleries a...

Actually, I guess this is a new evolution of a project that I was working on a couple of years ago. It needed to evolve, and still needs to do a bit more before it is working the way I truly want it to. This is a process of discovery, as most of my work is, and I'm loving it. Speaking of loving it, after graduating college, I took a year and a half off of any serious photo work and completely avoided the business side of it, like making blog updates, creating a website, any in-depth series work, etc, so I could get back to what I loved to do. Art school is a great way to find new and different things to experience and experiment with. You discover things about yourself as an artist that you had never known before, but you can lose a bit of yourself in the melee as well. For me, it was important to take all that I had learned, mix it with what I already possessed, let it quietly simmer for a while, then get back to work when the stew was fully cooked. More simply put, I needed to fi...

Going through the archives and putting together the website--finally. I'm uploading a few images here first to get a feel for what I want on the site. This group of images represents a series I've been shooting since 2007. It's the zen project I turn to when the highly controlled work becomes too much. Funny that it's supposed to be a zen project because it's actually been fraught with all types of hazards. Many of the images have been posted here before, but this is the first time they're being posted together as a full group. The first ones up are here for the first time, and there are new ones on the way. An explanation and rough draft for an artist statement follow the images. Summer-Fall 2007 Senior Year, 2009-2010 This is a rough (very) draft from Dec '09 for an artist statement for this body of work. It was cobbled together from a couple of random thoughts and comments copy/pasted from emails sent to my sister Erin, also a photographer, with whom I’d ...

Just a couple of paintings that date back to '05 or '06. They were rushed (as usual) and so, aren't finished. They were fun to paint though, and it made me smile when I came across them.

Well, the folks at the Impossible Project stated that the white speck problem had been addressed, but I'm afraid those specks are still present and in great numbers. Bummer. I had high hopes for this stuff, but perhaps they'll pull it together sometime soon.

This year I was asked by the photography faculty at the University of the Arts (now my alma mater) to participate in the 2010 FotoFestiwal International Festival of Photography in Lodz, Poland. Fellow student, Lou Caltabiano, was asked to participate as well with his Shower series. Judging by the images I've seen online, it was a great event, and I really wish I could have been there. I've seen some amazing images of the work that was hung (is still hanging??) there. Phillip Toledano was also present with an exhibit of his series Days With My Father , a wonderful series I've admired since I first heard about it several months ago. I've posted the images of mine that were in the Factory of Photography portion of the festival. They have appeared on this blog at an earlier time, and since I'm still working on the series, there will be more to come. I'll post some links here...... Link to my images on the fotofestiwal site: http://fotofestiwal.com/2010/kelly-wrage/...