up the coast in the rain

Last night was the offi­cial open­ing of the exhi­bi­tion I’m in at the Can­non Gallery in Carls­bad, but the nice gallery folks had a lit­tle break­fast event for the artists ear­lier in the morning.

It rained lightly both head­ing north and back. Since rain is such a rare event in these parts, I got out my camera.

I-5 in the rain

I-5 in the rain

These two shots are of the wind­shield on the way back. Don’t worry–John was dri­ving. The first is with Inter­state 5 in the back­ground. The sec­ond is while we were being passed by a truck.

Passing Truck, Rain

Pass­ing Truck, Rain



The Breakfast Spread

The Break­fast Spread

Starving Artist's Plate

Starv­ing Artist’s Plate



They’d set up a nice break­fast spread for us. With the meal being served at ten in the morn­ing, how­ever, we were all starv­ing artists. We dis­patched the edi­bles in almost no time.

My photographs in the exhibition

My pho­tographs in the exhibition

And then it was finally time to go inside and pre­view the exhi­bi­tion. Here’s my wall in the exhi­bi­tion. Tonight there’ll prob­a­bly be a few hun­dred more peo­ple at the open­ing, so it won’t be so easy to doc­u­ment the exhi­bi­tion view.

Landscaping Around the Gallery and Library Complex

Land­scap­ing Around the Gallery and Library Complex

The gallery itself is part of the com­plex that houses the Carls­bad Pub­lic Library. Land­scap­ing there is a mix of native sycamore trees and exotics–spiky sedges, bio­mor­phic hedges and myopo­rum for ground­cover. Like the library and gallery com­plex, it’s mod­ern with­out try­ing to be par­tic­u­larly avant-garde. Nicely done, I thought.

The Overhead Screen

The Over­head Screen

Run­ning around the perime­ter of the build­ings is a screen wall that is set sev­eral feet from the main walls of the com­plex. Join­ing the two are these over­head screens cut out of pati­nated metal. The branches on the screens curve in arabesques that reminded me of Art Nou­veau, but the tri­an­gu­lar frames give them a geo­met­ri­cal edge that joins them com­fort­ably with the architecture.

Isn’t it a shame most peo­ple are so busy look­ing down they never notice the branches–or artwork–overhead?

Post on the work in the show
The Can­non Gallery

December 14 2008 05:15 am | Categories: art • gardening • landscape design • photography • places | Tags: • • • •

2 Responses to “up the coast in the rain”

  1. Philip on 14 Dec 2008 at 6:25 am #

    I did not real­ize that those were your images, pho­tos from the ear­lier post. My hats off to you and my com­pli­ments! The color reminds me of the early pho­tog­ra­phers. This is so effec­tive in doc­u­ment­ing a con­tem­po­rary event. We vis­ited Yel­low­stone just last year. I will look now at the other links you pro­vided.
    Philip

  2. lostlandscape on 14 Dec 2008 at 3:04 pm #

    Thanks very much, Philip–I hope your Yel­low­stone trip was a great one! As to the color of the works, it is in fact derived from some 19th cen­tury albu­men prints that have faded over the years. I enjoy both their gen­tle tonal­i­ties as well as the sense of time passed.

    James

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