My lovely wife Caryn has put together one of the best group shows yet at our gallery sixspace. Most of you know we rarely do group shows, and also know that who is in what show is almost 100% up to Caryn. She's a god when it comes to that stuff. So we opened a photo show called snapshot this weekend featuring 5 Los Angeles photographers. I think it turned out amazing, and since it's a short show (only 3 weeks) if you are in LA and like photos you need to come check it out. Really. Don't take my word for it though, I'm obviously biased. Here's some of the blogsphere chatter about it this morning...

Communicatrix says:

Saw a cool photography exhibit, Snapshot, at sixspace, a cool gallery downtown, last night. Apparently, it was inspired by the work that came out of  SENT, that phone-cam show that was making the Internet rounds a ways back, which looked pretty damned cool, too.

I liked several of the photographs in the exhibit, but I especially liked Andy Mueller's work, seen here. Not only are the photos themselves beautiful, the juxtapositions between them are startling and wonderful. It's a good thing I don't have much wall space, because I certainly don't have enough money to fill it with what I like.

And just to follow up on that, the idea for the show was developed when we wre doing SENT as three of these 5 artists were in the show.

Also, Steve Diet Goedde's work in snapshot is actually images shot on camera phones (some from SENT) and blown way up. He's taking images that are 72dpi and 640x80 and blowing them up to about 20"x24" and printing them on photo paper. It's super cool to see the giant pixels and it might be the only example of that in the world right now.

And Rarified Air echos the Mueller love:

I finally ended the evening at sixspace for Snapshot: A Look at Los Angeles Photographers. For me, Andy Mueller's snapshot collage compositions were the highlight of the show. Mueller, a graphic designer by trade brings a strong organizational sensibility to the selection and editing of the work included her. At times, the photos are grouped by color, other times by basic geometric forms, at times it appears there is a more conceptual undercurrent to the pairings (perhaps one of the pieces was about 9/11?). Each of the compositions has a rhythm and pacing that is more akin to fast cutting filmic techniques than static art.

Well there you have it. If you check it out, please let me know what you think.