My painting, Passages (acrylic on panel, 24×24), is included in the group show “Point of View” at Gallery 125 in Trenton, NJ (125 South Warren Street).  The show runs from Friday, November 13, 2009, through February 6, 2010.  The opening reception is Friday, November 13, from 6-9pm.

Passages, acrylic on panel, 24x24, 2009

On Thursday I visited the Jacob Javits Convention Center for the 2009 edition of the PhotoPlus Expo, an annual photographer’s trade show that I’ve visited every year since 2001.  One good sign for the economy was that the expo hall was completely packed with visitors.  Every aisle was jammed and many booths were stuffed with people.  (Other anecdotal evidence of a rebounding economy:  very crowded shopping centers here in central New Jersey last weekend.)

On the other hand, there were two notable absences from this year’s show.  Adobe, which always has a major presence in the front of the expo hall, was amazingly missing this year.  They are one of the big draws with a booth that includes demonstrations and tutorials about using Adobe software, with a focus on Photoshop techniques for photographers (though in recent years there’s been too much time spent on Lightroom, a piece of software that I regret buying and which I found completely unusable).  In the past, the first thing I would do at Javits is check out the Adobe booth, look at the schedule for interesting seminars, and make sure my butt was planted in a seat ahead of time.  No Adobe, though, in 2009, presumably because they’re saving money and because they have no new products to promote at this time.

The other obvious, and perplexing, absence was Panasonic, whose cameras receive rave reviews but which always seem to be in short supply.  With major presences from Canon and Nikon, it seems curious that Panasonic wouldn’t be here to get their cameras into the hands of the people most likely to spread word of mouth.  I don’t recall if Panasonic had been at past shows, though, so I don’t know if this was a new development or par for the course for Panasonic.

As for the show itself, I didn’t sign up for any seminars this year and stuck to the expo hall, which was the same as usual.  Perhaps less new stuff to drool over than in the past (though perhaps that’s because I’m pretty happy with my current equipment right now); a lot of online photo labs pushing their photobooks and other press products; many of the same software products from past years.  One booth that looked interesting was Metal Mural, a company which prints photographs onto aluminum panels.  I plan to give them a try with some reproductions of my paintings.  Also, if you were willing to wait in a maddeningly slow line (I was), you could get a free sample pack of some of Epson’s newest inkjet paper which looks quite promising for artistic purposes, such as Epson Hot Press Bright Paper (they also have a “natural” paper without optical brightening agents, as well as a cold press paper in bright and natural forms as well).  Can’t wait to give those samples a try!

I picked up a book from one of the several book publishers present, Practical HDR: A complete guide to creating High Dynamic Range images with your Digital SLR.  It’s a great looking book that contains some useful information about HDR photography (and some very nice HDR images), but I will admit that I pretty much read the whole book on the 56 minute train ride home from New York and found that you could probably summarize most of the useful information in a couple of pages (or even a few bullet points).  The most useful part was the explanation of how to obtain the proper range of exposures for best results, though afterward you realize it’s not particularly complicated or mysterious.  But I am now inspired to do some HDR photography and see how it turns out.

Time flies and now there’s just one weekend left if you’d like to see my 2-person show with Marc Reed at Artists’ Gallery in Lambertville, NJ.  The show is up through Sunday, October 4, and the gallery is open this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from 11am-6pm.

I’ll be at the gallery all day on Sunday (11am-6pm) if you’d like to stop by, say Hi, and see the show before it closes.

Artists’ Gallery
32 Coryell Street
Lambertville, NJ 08530

Here’s a 360-degree installation view of my 2-person show with Marc Reed at Artists’ Gallery in Lambertville, NJ, which is up now through October 4, 2009.

Thanks so much to everyone who made it out for the opening reception and for those of you who helped to pull the show together!

On Tuesday night I finished hanging the paintings for my half of the upcoming two-person featured show (with Marc Reed), Internal/External.  Whew!  The exhibition starts tomorrow, Friday, September 11, and runs through Sunday, October 4.  The opening reception is on Saturday, September 12, from 4-7pm, and I hope to see lots of you there!

Artists’ Gallery is located at 32 Coryell Street in Lambertville, NJ.  The gallery hours are normally Friday-Saturday-Sunday from 11am-6pm (or by appointment; if you’d like to see the show off-hours, send me a note).

Here are a couple of new paintings that are part of the show:

Reflection, 2009; acrylic on aluminum on panel, 12x12

Insight, 2009; acrylic on panel, 12x12

Paintings by
Andrew Werth & Marc Reed

September 11 – October 4, 2009

Opening Reception
September 12, 2009
4-7pm

Gallery Hours
Friday – Saturday – Sunday
11am – 6pm
609.397.4588
www.lambertvillearts.com
32 Coryell St, Lambertville, NJ

I hope that you’ll be able to attend the opening reception for my 2-person featured show at Artists’ Gallery on September 12, 2009, from 4pm-7pm.   This will be my first “featured” exhibit with the gallery since joining last year and my partner in art will be fellow painter, Marc Reed.  The exhibition runs from Friday, September 11, through Sunday, October 4, and the gallery is open Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays from 11am-6pm, or by appointment.  Artists’ Gallery is located at 32 Coryell Street, Lambertville, NJ.

I’d love to see you at the opening reception, so please save the date!

For the June show at Artists’ Gallery, I’ll be exhibiting five small paintings, including this new one entitled Conscious Conscience:

Conscious Conscience, acrylic on panel, 12x12 inches, 2009

I’ve painted this image using a slightly different process than in most of my other paintings, though the difference will be hard to see in a reproduction.  This piece contains many layers of glazing to produce the color gradations (as opposed to palette-mixed colors), providing both a physical as well as optical depth to the painting.

Also on display is another recent work, Any Which Way, as well as Perceptual Present, Sines of the Time, and Yin/Yang.

The show runs from this Friday, June 5, through Sunday, July 5, and gallery hours (as usual) are Friday-Sunday from 11am-6pm (or by appointment).  The opening reception for this show, which features Alan Klawans and Michael Schweigart in the front room, will be on Saturday, June 6, from 2-7pm (CORRECTED TIMES).  Artists’ Gallery is located at 32 Coryell Street, Lambertville, NJ.

After a month’s hiatus at Artists’ Gallery, the co-op exhibition space where I’ve been a member since last November, I will have 3 paintings up for the May show which runs from May 8 – May 31, 2009. The opening reception is this Saturday, May 9, from 6-9pm (the front-room featured artists this month are Beatrice Bork and Joe Kazimierczyk).

The paintings that I’ll be showing are Entanglement, Moving Forward, and Secondary Process.

If you’re in the area on Saturday night, please stop by to say Hi!  Artists’ Gallery is located at 32 Coryell St, Lambertville, NJ, and is open Fri, Sat, and Sun from 11am-6pm.

I’m very happy to announce that one of my photographs was accepted into the 27th Ellarslie Open, a juried exhibition that runs from April 25 through June 14. The show is located at the Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie Mansion, in Cadwalader Park, Trenton, NJ, and there will be an opening reception on Saturday, April 25, from 5-9pm. My photo is “The Road Ahead”, one that I first posted on the blog a couple of months ago.

The Road Ahead

[Update:  I'm happy to report that this photo received an honorable mention award in the category of Digital Photography from juror Dr. Helen Shannon.]