"Testament" photographic mixed media, 16"w x 20"h

“Some Manatee County Road Crew Has A Great Sense Of Humor”;   40″w x 30″h; Mixed Media Photography: scanned negative, digitally printed, mounted in pieces on canvas gesso primed canvas and hand tinted.

Photo mixed media "Bug Eye Gazing" 60"w x 72"h

Photo mixed media "1973" 60"w x 72"h

Photo mixed media "1973" 60"w x 72"h

Photo mixed media "Bug Eye Gazing" 60"w x 72"h

I presented two new mixed media pieces during Saint Petersburg’s Second Saturday Gallery Walk at the MQC Fine Art Gallery located in the Crislip Arcade, 624 Central Avenue.  My recent body of work is entitled, REM Sleep.  In this body of work, I am exploring the idea of, at what point is a photograph no longer a photograph.  Considering the the history of photography, especially contemporary photography, and the altering of photographs.  There has been hand colored photographs, images manipulated by air brushing, altering Polaroid photographs and more recently the printing of digital images on canvas.

I went for a walk about midnight around the upper east side.  That’s were I saw the dead and mayhem.   On every corner.  Piles of blown out umbrellas.  Each intersection, on every corner, stashed between streetlight poles and newspaper stands.  Thrown in doorways.  Cast aside in the gutters.  My plan, to get up at 7am as the sun was coming up and document the piles dead umbrellas.  But by 7am, NYC’s street cleaners were already out bagging them or putting them in corner trash cans.  Take a look at the small b&W portfolio, Dead Umbrellas.

Lazarus was awakened from the dead.  This mixed media takes a number of image relating to death and resurrection.  the primary image, a person whose face is painted in a traditional death mask.  The photo images at the bottom right corner of the painting are from store windows in a Hispanic neighborhood in Los Angeles where religious items, candles, beads, scapulars and statues were sold.

This piece is on canvas.  The primary photograph is applied and the canvas is painted with acrylic.  Additional images are added using image transfer techniques.  Additional acrylic with texture is added.  finally the images in the right corner are an under image photo copy with a color transparency image applied over the photocopy.

Mixed media, photography, photo copies and photo transparencies.   36 x 36 x 2

Dali LookAlike Movie

Double Takes: Dali Look Alike Contest. Film entries 2008: Film entries to the 2008 Double Takes: Dali Look Alike Film Contest – hosted at the Dali Museum and judged by legendary surreal film maker John Waters. This year, Double Takes is a contest encouraging people to create a vision of who they think Salvador Dalí is we want them to think, create, behave and/or look like Dalí. The Look-Alike Contest is not celebrity impersonation: our contestants, both male and female, are encouraged to express and define how they or their work embodies the spirit of Dalí. Contestants may enter by submitting one-minute videos within that theme, or by appearing in person to model their interpretive Dalí costume. Our two-day event opens with an art party and screening of video entries in Ybor City on May 8, and concludes with an awards ceremony and celebration honoring Dalís birthday at the museum on May 9. The museum is now seeking digital entries from across the globe! For complete rules, visit http://www.salvadordalimuseum.org/doubletakes/ and click on the entry form link.
Entry for 2008 Double Takes – Dali Look Alike Contest by Michael Conway, Tec Tao Studio. I won 3rd place.