Abstract Photography by Lenard Smith

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div align="center"><img align="center" alt="Lenard Smith" border="0" height="626" hspace="8" src="http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/4339/lenardsmith.jpg" width="500" /></div><a href="http://www.lenardsmith.com/" target="_blank">Lenard Smith</a> is spending his time at Light Work to both create new work and catch up with some existing projects. Since day one of his residency, Smith has been shooting with the 4 x 5 camera to create a whole new series based on his impressions of and experiences here in Syracuse, a body of images that he calls the AIR Work. These images are half found, half constructed moments in space and time that exalt the scratches of individuality found within institutional architecture. In this way, the images resemble Smiths’ Park Nursing Home series that examines how residents transform the cold comfort of the nursing home into a real hearth be adding personal touches, especially artifacts from their past lives, to their rooms. Besides editing, scanning, and making large-format prints of AIR Work, Smith has been casting a host of models to appear in a series of images based on schematic drawings he came across in several books from the 1950’s. These images, which each involve anywhere from 3 to 9 models, aim to create a surreal atmosphere somewhere between sexuality and healing. Finally, Smith has been reexamining images of African Americans, intended to be recontextualized by way of appropriation, a series which he thought was completed years ago but which has recently started calling to him again.<br /><a name="more"></a><br /><center><script type="text/javascript"><!--google_ad_client = "pub-8429290713386535";/* 336x280, created 2/26/11 */google_ad_slot = "0683073266";google_ad_width = 336;google_ad_height = 280;//--></script><br /><script type="text/javascript"src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script></center><br />Smith lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He holds an MFA in Advanced Photographic Studies from Bard College/International Center of Photography in New York City. Smith has done commission for the Studio Museum, Harlem, NY as well as for BURRO Gallery, London. His work has been exhibited at venues including Blender Gallery in Sydney; Australia, Humble Arts Foundation, Christie’s Rockefeller Plaza, Talman + Monoe Gallery, and International Center of Photography, New York City; as well as Ravenscroft Gallery and BURRO Gallery in London, among others.<br /><div align="center"><img align="center" alt="Lenard Smith2" border="0" height="626" hspace="8" src="http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/1629/lenardsmith2.jpg" width="500" /></div><div align="center"><img align="center" alt="Lenard Smith3" border="0" height="626" hspace="8" src="http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/3475/lenardsmith3.jpg" width="500" /></div><div align="center"><img align="center" alt="Lenard Smith4" border="0" height="626" hspace="8" src="http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/6218/lenardsmith4.jpg" width="500" /></div><div align="center"><img align="center" alt="Lenard Smith5" border="0" height="626" hspace="8" src="http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/3000/lenardsmith5d.jpg" width="500" /></div><div align="center"><img align="center" alt="Lenard Smith6" border="0" height="626" hspace="8" src="http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/7782/lenardsmith6.jpg" width="500" /></div><div align="center"><img align="center" alt="Lenard Smith7" border="0" height="626" hspace="8" src="http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/7079/lenardsmith7.jpg" width="500" /></div><div align="center"><img align="center" alt="Lenard Smith8" border="0" height="626" hspace="8" src="http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/2528/lenardsmith8.jpg" width="500" /></div><div align="center"><img align="center" alt="Lenard Smith9" border="0" height="626" hspace="8" src="http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/4205/lenardsmith9.jpg" width="500" /></div><div align="center"><img align="center" alt="Lenard Smith10" border="0" height="626" hspace="8" src="http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/3973/lenardsmith10.jpg" width="500" /></div></div>

Abstract Photography by Lenard Smith

Lenard Smith is spending his time at Light Work to both create new work and catch up with some existing projects. Since day one of his resi...

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Abstract Photography by Mike Cable

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div align="center"><img align="center" alt="Mike Cable" border="0" height="375" hspace="8" src="http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/8158/mikecable.jpg" width="500" /></div><br /><a href="http://www.pbase.com/jakeyferret" target="_blank">Mike Cable</a> is an self taught photographer who first picked up a camera in 2007. He lives and works on the Eastern Shore of Maryland with his wife Claire and daughter Emily. Cables photos have appeared in several major photography magazines, including an European Canon EOS brochure. His photography has also won numerous awards and appears in major hotels and private collections throughout the United States. <br /><br /><a name="more"></a><br /><center><script type="text/javascript"><!--google_ad_client = "pub-8429290713386535";/* 336x280, created 2/26/11 */google_ad_slot = "0683073266";google_ad_width = 336;google_ad_height = 280;//--></script><br /><script type="text/javascript"src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script></center><br /><div align="center"><img align="center" alt="Mike Cable2" border="0" height="376" hspace="8" src="http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/5920/mikecable2.jpg" width="500" /></div><div align="center"><img align="center" alt="Mike Cable3" border="0" height="375" hspace="8" src="http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/5861/mikecable3.jpg" width="500" /></div><div align="center"><img align="center" alt="Mike Cable4" border="0" height="375" hspace="8" src="http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/9509/mikecable4.jpg" width="500" /></div><div align="center"><img align="center" alt="Mike Cable5" border="0" height="376" hspace="8" src="http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/6994/mikecable5.jpg" width="500" /></div><div align="center"><img align="center" alt="Mike Cable6" border="0" height="375" hspace="8" src="http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/7491/mikecable6.jpg" width="500" /></div><div align="center"><img align="center" alt="Mike Cable7" border="0" height="667" hspace="8" src="http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/579/mikecable7.jpg" width="500" /></div><div align="center"><img align="center" alt="Mike Cable8" border="0" height="375" hspace="8" src="http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/9712/mikecable8.jpg" width="500" /></div><div align="center"><img align="center" alt="Mike Cable9" border="0" height="667" hspace="8" src="http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/222/mikecable9.jpg" width="500" /></div><div align="center"><img align="center" alt="Mike Cable10" border="0" height="334" hspace="8" src="http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/5872/mikecable10.jpg" width="500" /></div><div align="center"><img align="center" alt="Mike Cable11" border="0" height="334" hspace="8" src="http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/4278/mikecable11.jpg" width="500" /></div><div align="center"><img align="center" alt="Mike Cable12" border="0" height="485" hspace="8" src="http://img594.imageshack.us/img594/8983/mikecable12.jpg" width="500" /></div><div align="center"><img align="center" alt="Mike Cable13" border="0" height="376" hspace="8" src="http://img594.imageshack.us/img594/5566/mikecable13.jpg" width="500" /></div><div align="center"><img align="center" alt="Mike Cable14" border="0" height="421" hspace="8" src="http://img594.imageshack.us/img594/5566/mikecable13.jpg" width="500" /></div><div align="center"><img align="center" alt="Mike Cable15" border="0" height="333" hspace="8" src="http://img594.imageshack.us/img594/8089/mikecable15.jpg" width="500" /></div></div>

Abstract Photography by Mike Cable

Mike Cable is an self taught photographer who first picked up a camera in 2007. He lives and works on the Eastern Shore of Maryland with hi...

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