Mitch Dobrowner

I love good photography. Art Knowledge News reported that Mitch Dobrowner, an artist that specializes in black and white photography, is having a show in LA.

"WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA.- The Kopeikin Gallery presents the first California exhibition by Los Angeles based photographer Mitch Dobrowner. Titled Troposphere the exhibition features recent work of extreme weather throughout the Midwestern United States. Mitch Dobrowner has always loved storms; the rumble of distant thunder, the flashes of lightning, the energy and electricity in the skies. Watching a storm born from a small, unstable weather system and developing into a towering, powerful, beautiful and majestic "super cell" is for him a sight to behold, and one he wants to share. The exhibition opens on January 9 and continues through March 6. A reception for the artist will take place on Saturday, January 30, from 6:00 - 8:00."

If you're in that area, I urge you to see it. He delivers provocative haunting black and white images that appear to look deep into the soul of the structure or scene. Take a look.....

You may also see more of his work at his website.

Placing his work in designs takes careful consideration. A grouping down a bright hallway would be wonderful. How about leaning on a shelf with the top of each placed a few inches from the crown of the room that scales one full wall ~ like this .....

Courtesy of House Beautful

..... except not overlapping, and all in black frames, OOOOO!!! Now I am designing.....

Where would you place Mitch's work?

American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity

Today's fashion: Carolina Herrera, Herve Leger, Giorgio Armani

Art Knowledge News Announcement:

NEW YORK, NY.- The spring 2010 exhibition organized by The Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art will be American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity, the first drawn exclusively from the newly established Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at the Met. The exhibition, on view from May 5 through August 15, 2010 (preceded on May 3 by The Costume Institute Gala Benefit), will explore developing perceptions of the modern American woman from 1890 to 1940, and how they have affected the way American women are seen today. Focusing on archetypes of American femininity through dress, the exhibition will reveal how the American woman initiated style revolutions that mirrored her social, political, and sexual emancipation. “Gibson Girls” and “Screen Sirens” laid the foundation for today’s American woman – a theme that will be explored in a video installation.

What a wonderful opportunity to see the influences of the age of glamour and its influences today! A trip to NYC seems in order.