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27-6
Reception: Saturday, February 27, 6-9pm
Open Gallery: Sunday, February 28, 12-5pm
Candelabra Gallery, 412 E. 7th St., Tucson, Arizona

You’ve seen 27 online, now it’s time to see the show!

27 is how different artists approach the same theme.
27 is to be excited and inspired by photography.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/maxed27/

***Come to the Saturday reception for to take part in a surprise interactive photographic experiment!***
Music + refreshments

Work from MAXED ART members not limited to:
Rachelle Diaz, Alex G!, Christian Ramirez, Steven Soloway, Alex Von Bergen (Tucson, AZ)
Molly McClintock, Alex Nelson, Sylvia Sewell (Brooklyn, NY)
Jaxun Doten (Portland, OR)
and others… or perhaps not all of these people.

27 is an international group art project occurring on the 27th of every month. The project began in September 2009 as a collaborative photography experiment among mixed/multi-media artists and friends originally based in Tucson who, over the course of a few short months, found themselves living in different cities and missing the connection once accessible when it was easy to meet in person to share and talk about art.

Each month, we pick a different theme simple enough to shoot on a busy weekday, but one that also requires conceptual thinking and attention to detail. Past themes have included Place, Colors, Reflection, Transport, and Portraits. However, we’ve self-imposed a few technical limitations in order to make us stretch our imagination further within the given subject, leaving room for nuance and surprises. Images can only be taken within 24 hours on the 27th of the month, and only “lo-fi” cameras including disposable cameras, vintage cameras, toy cameras, cell phones, webcams and even scanners may be used.

But 27 is more than just a picture-taking/picture-looking/documentary project. We then share the resulting images online for commentary ranging from introspective aesthetic feedback to humorous quips. 27 has not only provided an outlet for communication within our collective, it has also made us grow as artists through examination of our personal thought processes and technical inventiveness.

[Image by Jenny DuPont: "trophy" from Reddy Set Go]
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Bohemian/Goth/Patrick Nagel self-portraits
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Started off attempting to makeup inspired by Patrick Nagel. Duran Duran’s Rio remains one of my most favorite albums for both music and cover art and, although I didn’t know it at the time, his illustrations of men and women were ubiquitous in all the pastel-hued hair salons my mom drug me in tow to in the 80s. But I also had the idea of using this church-lady hat I bought at Burlington Coat Factory in Austin over the Holidays last year, so then the concept turned into kind of a early 1900’s bohemian tearoom sort of costume. But that’s about it. It’s really just a study. This is the part that my photographer friends are better at than me in terms of both concepting and editing. I was at a loss with the editing — all I could think of was just blacking out the eyes, as that was the only thing I kind of liked the look of. Fortunately some good did come out of this: the makeup component gave me some practice for a photoshoot I did with a friend a few days later. We’ll see how those come out.
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27
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October 27: tail lights, by Molly McClintock

27: International group art project
The 27th of every month. 2009.

We began this project to make ourselves grow as artists, and to see and interact with what other artists are doing. 27 is more than just a picture-taking/picture-looking project.

We pick themes that are strong in their simplicity. Themes that you can shoot on a busy weekday, but that you can also put some thought into. We want to hear your thoughtful, introspective, aesthetic, and intelligent comments.

27 is how different artists approach the same theme. 27 is to be excited and inspired by photography. Come be inspired with us.

We are currently planning a traveling exhibition, which will show in Brooklyn, New York, and Tucson, Arizona.

Round 3: Friday, November 27th, 2009

This Month’s Theme: Reflections
Shoot with any lo-fi camera such as:
Disposable camera
Digital point and shoot (less than 3 Megapixels!)
Your plastic toy camera
Camera Phone

Please email maxedart@gmail.com if you have any questions, or if you would like to contribute to the traveling exhibition by hosting a show in your hometown. If you’re participating in the November shoot, let us know if you need the password for MAXED 27 Flickr account.

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Rachelle, Molly, Steve
Get your 27 on at MAXEDART.com.
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Mystery Hed
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How it was:

How I saw it:
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Brownsville
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Lowrider: check
Palm trees: check
Streetscape: check
Stunning flora: check
Quinceañera: check
Santa Muerte: check
The only thing missing’s a taco.

Layers of cities, mirage cities, ephemeral cities, black hole cities, particularly border cities; the splendor of the hidden city.

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Tucsonphotomanip
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Did this really quick today for zee blog. Been in Tucson for 1 year now. And what a year! Lately I’ve been slowly and quietly working on new paintings, clothing pieces for fall, writings and Pop Up Spaces projects, all currently in the “drudgery” phase of the creative cycle, between the fun parts of inception and accomplishment.

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Staring At Screens original photos
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Just realized I hadn’t posted the original photos for this new series. Artist statement for this project is here and here.
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One down…
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The first painting in my Staring at Screens series is down, several more to go.

Acrylic on canvas
2009

Here is the original photo, doctored in Photoshop for exposure/saturation to create the painting:

My digital camera has been dying a slow death since the summer of 2008. Finally, back in March 2009 I couldn’t get it to come up at all (I have since purchased a new one); it would only take blurry pictures that look like analog television signals. But it kind of works out because I already had an idea to work with a series of images exactly like this and was wondering how I’d find source material without a TV set.

This project is about un-pixelating the screens we stare at all day: computer (including internet, email, video, social media), cell phone, TV, bank ATMs, post office, touch screens credit card payment at the grocery store/convenience store/big box stores, etc. The addiction, the relief one feels when pulling the eyes away, the awareness of ubiquity. It’s akin to what I mentally dubbed in Texas “air conditioned bliss.” It’s the same feeling, only visually, that you get when you step into hot, hot summer-baked air and bright sun outside from working in a cool, even chilly, climate and light-controlled building all day long. It’s about the invigoration resulting from discomfort, or from a mere change from “comfort” and “stability” stepping into uncontrollable elements.