Anderson Gallery Pieces:

At 3P.M on Tuesday the 23rd, I put two pieces of mine, from a year ago, titled "21st Century Business. The pieces, were a commentary of the hidden 'transactions' of the business life today. The two pieces were titled "Full Service", which shows an after work solicitation, and the second titled "Saving on Recycling", which looks at the waste a business can create, with no regard for others. Here they are pictured below.

Artist Blog: Behrouz Rae

Behrouz Rae is an artist born in 1979 in Azerbaijan, who became an Iranian citizen after he moved shortly after being born. He received his Bachelors in Photography at Azad University in Tehran, Iran in 2006, and still lives and works there in Iran. I became captivated by two of his pieces that I discovered in my artist searching. The following images are the pieces that I feel symbolize work that relates to me.

I like his use of extreme blacks and extreme whites. I want to explore and play with blowing out the photographs of my own work to see what that looks like, taking the focus even more off of the background, so the viewer is forced to react with the hidden meanings behind my work. These two pieces speak strongly of hidden undertones, and I feel that part of that has come from the simplistic background, and blown out tones within the piece. It puts emphasis specifically on what the artist wants the focus to be on, and nothing else. Being that I have already gotten my own work printed for the midterm critique, I will start playing in Photoshop with these tools, to see if it works well with the work, or is just too much manipulation. I want to stay away from manipulating my photographs too much and this might just push my images too unrealistic. I really enjoy his work, however, and the blown out and simplistic focus on the piece really brings his work together, and I feel the same might work for me.

http://www.artnet.com/artist/425789065/behrouz-rae.html