Lennell Allen: Ocean Beach @ Pacheco                                                                                        Wendell Shinn: Bay Bridge #1

BY LAND & BY SEA

Wendell Shinn and Lennell Allen

LENNELL ALLEN- At the edge of the ocean at the edge of the day, color becomes an abstraction: I wait with camera and tripod. I focus on edges of the surf as the waves retreat on shifting sand. I watch the rhythm and motion of the low tide in natural light. Slow exposures layer images of moving color on the digital screen to create a new final image. The colors shift to blue as the light fades; it’s dark and I adjust exposures with the histogram. Whether I am capturing evening seascapes, or chasing drifting feathers on shallow ponds, or focusing ethereal reflections of sunlight through blue bottles, I seek images that suggest an object and an atmosphere. With time and motion, I paint with light.

WENDELL SHINN- In my retirement I find my ‘mid-life’ crisis drawing me back to my early days of creating abstractions of dreamlike worlds instilled by the likes of Disney and Dali. Luckily, I have new tools to extend my fantasy worlds even further and with exactitude and expertise. I am exuberant with the expectation of exploration and creative accomplishments unencumbered by the majority of life’s strife and restrictions.  I’ve found renewed interest in the day-to-day things registered but left unearthed till now and a trove of under estimated photos from decades gone by:  A song by Tom Waits, the life of birds and ravens, fairytale worlds of childhood dreams and Dreamscapes made of panoramas with bird’s eye and worm’s eye views.

through Mar 8