Howard Hill Studio

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Saturday, January 9, 2010

The last few days I have been doing some shooting of different things - textures, birds out on the wires and trees, sunsets from the 99¢ store parking lot, deformed fruits - and just about anything else that has caught my eye. I am really wanting to make 2010 as productive as I can make it - I have a couple of shoots set up and I'm hoping to see about starting some of the sculpture work I have been planning... see how much time allows for it... till then here are some recent shots.

Thursday, January 7, 2010

New Year - New Art!

It's a New Year and I figured it was about time to share some of my new work. - This is the first new image of the year! I had decided to do something on the first day of the year in an attempt to start off the year in a productive way.... and then for a lil while I was creating a new work each day. I'll post a few more soon!

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Hidden Heart <3

I am always seeing "heart" shapes everywhere.... I see them in oil stains on the street, in the way that a piece of string folds over in the wind. I see them in the holes that you can find in old trees or the leaves of some trees... Hearts seem to be everywhere.... I use to think that they were a man made shape... but in recent years I have come to believe that they are a natural shape that can be found all over nature. =)

This is a recreated version of an older piece... and I wanted it to be my end of the year blog art piece. =) If you look in the piece.... you can see where my heart is hidden. =)

Monday, December 28, 2009

Lost Sounds

I was just thinking about different sounds that I heard while growing up - just anything and everything that created sounds like old dvds going into the machine. The way a tape deck, 8 track, or the OLD car push channel buttons looked, felt and the sound as you pushed them. I was thinking about the way that when you transitioned thru channels on the old radios or dial tvs - the click click click or the static moving in and out of the stations.... all that noise and sounds.

How all those sounds that a whole culture has grown up and grown old too... have disappeared with the new digital age.

And how odd it is to think that when your watching an old movie there are all these types of sounds that are heard that you KNOW what they are or meant (like a telephone that has been left off the hook.) because you lived thru them... But kids today have no idea what those sounds are or mean. If it was a warning or notifying you about something... It isn't a "bad" thing that they don't - just odd to think about.

I was also thinking back to OLDER times... and all the sounds of nature that we no longer can hear - even SILENCE has been "silenced" hahaha... Just the thought of sitting silently for longer then 5 minutes is not something that we often do - muchless days or weeks.... makes me wonder how vastly different our lives are and our ways of seeing life and thinking about it....

Sunday, October 25, 2009

From Beyond Eden Exhibition Reception

A few of the images from the Reception

Recent work

Friday, October 9, 2009

Also THIS SAT. - if your around Pomona

Beyond Eden Show -- THIS SAT! =)

Interesting thoughts / examples....

Does God Exist? - posted by Lindsey Welsh (LNeidenfeuhr) - tangle.com

http://www.tangle.com/view_video.php?vie...

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Seriously? 79 million to Bomb the moon???

Beyond Eden Show Coming Soon!

16 galleries and a BUNCH of artist/ great artwork-- ALL at the LA Municipal Art Gallery!!!

I have been helping curate part of the show. It has been amazing to see all of the rooms totally empty and each day fill up a lil more. Their is a bunch of work that I really like this year.

Some of my favorite artists in the show include: Brooks Salzwedel, Sam Saghatelian, Edwin Ushiro, Shepard Fairey, Craig 'Skibs' Barker, Nathan DeYong -- along with a few others!

Andrew from Thinkspace was taking pictures... I saw a few of these that are from his flicker... but there I am in the empty gallery... it looks like I am doing nothing but really I was working organizing nails and hangers! hahaha

For more of his photos of the progression of the behind the scenes:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thinkspace/sets/72157622518269848/

Saturday, September 26, 2009

A Recent Shoot

This is from one of the shoots I recently shot. It seems that I have just been really slow to get back into the swing of shoots as much as I was this time last year.

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Mt. Sac. Art Gallery Opening Reception

INTIMACY ON PAPER: THE ARTIST’S UNTOLD PROCESS

Download: Exhibit Poster

Envision an exhibition space explosive with pages from artists’ sketchbooks revealing the untold stories of their intimate process of art making. This show explores the work and teaching process of artist Marshall Vandruff and the visual dialogue between him and his peers. The following artists will be participating in this exhibition: Mollie Boorman, Ron Brown, Vanessa Cook, John Dickenson, Ron Green, Donald Kirby, Vance Kovacs, Kevin Llewellyn, Josh Reed, Cassandra Siemon, Justin Sweet, Marshall Vandruff, and Dok Whitson.

Exhibition Dates: September 17 - October 15, 2009
Opening Reception: September 17, 4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Artist Talk: Marshall Vandruff, September 17, 2 p.m.
Closing Ceremony: October 15, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Gallery Hours:

Tuesday - Thursday 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Tuesday Evenings 5 to 7:30 p.m.
Closed Friday through Monday

Location: Mt. SAC Art Gallery

Admission: Free

This is a very cool exhibition - It is not of "finished" artwork but instead is sketches out of the artist sketchbooks. It is showing the concepts and thoughts that the artist were thinking BEFORE working on the actual piece. -- There is a lot of work in the exhibition, hope you all can get down there and take a look!! (My artwork is not in the show - But I helped work on the show itself and will be there at the opening reception.)