Small Showcase Exhibition

Stop into Delta Workshop this weekend, to celebrate the opening of Small Showcase, an Exhibition of Work Under 12” with me. Two of my bioluminescent photograms are in the show.

The opening is 6-8pm, Saturday, 1/10. Here’s the address for the gallery: 2598 21st Street, Sacramento, CA 95818.

The show is a snapshot of artwork in the region at this moment by way of 35 artists. I admire the work of so many of the artists in the show, and my eyes were popping with excitement with the work I got to see during my art drop off.

Nature and landscape are themes in many pieces, and many of the artworks have materials and process as driving forces. Yep, my work falls into the latter category. :)

If you miss the opening, you can always catch the show until it closes on 3/7 during Delta’s normal gallery hours.

I just saw the show Secondhand at Pier 24 in San Francisco and it was so good that I want to see it again! It’s a photography exhibition featuring the use of found photos and images used in ways you’d never expect. I posted a few pics on Instagram/Facebook if you want to see my favs from the show.

See you soon!

Cheers,
Kate

Open Studios

In two weeks I’m opening my art studio so come by and say hello if you can. It would be great to see you.

I’m opening it up through the CAST Sacramento Open Studios event. There are 38 other studios open that weekend so there will be art all over. Here are the details...

Sat. 9/20/14 and Sun. 9/21/14
10am – 5pm
Studio #207
Free – open to the public
Map and Guide


Donna Napper, Curator of the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art selected me for inclusion in her Curator's Picks for Open Studios – I am so excited (and honored) to be on her list!

I'm really excited because I'll get to share a new project with you called Processing the Drugstore - where I made photograms completely inside a drugstore, from start to finish.

And, there will be a few other photogram goodies including the some made using foxfire, a bioluminescent fungus that I grow.  

Oh, and please come to the opening reception for the Open Studios Exhibition on Thursday 9/11, 6-9pm at Verge Center for the Arts. It’s free and I have a piece hanging in the show! The opening will coincide with the opening of 343 Dresses: the Chromatic Convergence Project by Mary Younnakof which is a super project, too.

Cheers,
Kate
P.S. Look for the red yard signs during Open Studios!

Kate’s Bioluminescent Photograms in SF This Weekend

My new bioluminescent photograms will be shown this weekend as part of ArtSpan’s San Francisco Open Studios event! These prints are from my Hacking Photographic Memory series and many have not been shown publicly before.

I’ll be there along with eleven other amazingly talented artists. Come by and say hello!

Saturday, 11/2 & Sunday, 11/3

11am-6pm

SHARED
739 Bryant Street (between 5th & 6th Streets)
San Francisco, CA 94107

Lots of studios will be open so it’s easy to make a day of it. Here’s a link to the map and artists’ listings.

Pick up a Guide at my studio location and plan your tour around town. Or you can download the SF Open Studios App here.

I’ll be there to talk about my process and you can ask me in person why I use glowing fungus to make images.

If you know of other people that enjoy looking at art, please forward this invite to them.

Hope to see you soon if not this weekend!

Cheers,
Kate

open studio

Thank you to everyone who came to my studio to say hello during last week's Capital Artists' Studio Tour! It was great catching up with old friends and making new ones, and of course chatting about art all weekend. Here are a few visuals from the studio last weekend....

See Kate's Art - Capital Artists' Studio Tour

Come out and see my work on the Capital Artists' Studio Tour. Yep, the same one you read about in September’s Sunset Magazine.

Sat. 9/21 and Sun. 9/22
10am – 5pm
Studio #212

Free – the Tour is open to the public

Map and Guide: www.CASTsacramento.org

I’ll have my recent bioluminescent-based photogram work, from my Hacking Photographic Memory series, on view along with artwork from my photogram mail-art series, Letters to Myself.
 
Curator of Contemporary Art at the Crocker, Diana Daniels’ selected me for inclusion in her Dare Tour of the Expanding Local Arts Scene – an honor to be picked!

I’ll demonstrate my process and answer questions both days of the tour.

There will be over 40 other studios open so you can make a day of it.

Cheers,

Kate

P.S. Watch me get ready for the Tour on Facebook or Instagram!

gun shot in pink

a bioluminescent photogram of a stranger's memory, transferred to me. faces obscured by the gun smoke are interesting. perhaps it's practice for a hunt. without a choice in the matter, I've already started to change that memory so it's become my own.

culture notes

getting up at 1am to go make photograms after not being able to sleep, i was crushed to find that my foxfire had dried up from the extreme, dry summer heat. i was planning on a full three more weeks of glow. grrrrr. so, quick, quick, quick, i cultured a new batch of foxfire for making bioluminescent photograms! now I just need to be patient while it grows. 

Bioluminescent Photograms

heredity of miscommunication, foxfire
Bioluminescent Organism Photogram / Unique Chromogenic Print, ©Kate Farrall 2012

Photograms of Bioluminescent Organisms.

Creatures from the deep and things in the dark, they’re speaking. I’m listening, to the code, to decipher the chatter. When my mappings don’t work, I realize it’s a heredity of mis-communication and chance. I need to listen more.

Made in an analog fashion by photographically recording the emitted bioluminescent light from living organisms including fish from the deep, sea algae, fire flies and foxfire fungi onto color photo paper, I record to decode the exchange through the resulting photogram.

These works are about communication, mis-communication and heredity; revealing another way of looking at the organisms and myself through photograms, a vintage photographic method for capturing marks of light on photographic paper or film without the use of an enlarger or negatives.

More of my bioluminescent photograms may be found here. :)