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UPDATED 5.12.2010 at 13:00

Pixels An An Exhibition is showing a new exhibit of iPhoneography. art@TheOakbook opens this Saturday, May 15, 2010 at the Oakbook Gallery in Oakland, California. The opening reception starts at 4:00 PM and the public is invited. The exhibit will run for one month.

Among the iPhoneographers represented are works by Maia Panos, Jaime Ferreyros, Daniel Berman, Fabio De Vincentiis, Andrea Mdos and many others.

art@TheOakbook is an entirely new collection of iPhone photography, different than was shown previously at the Giorgi Gallery exhibit in February. A full-color program of the exhibit is available from the PixelEx website.

Click here to go to the PixelEx website for gallery hours, directions, a map as well as more information on the exhibit.

If you will be in or near The Bay Area this month, be sure to include plans to see this new exhibit from curator Knox Bronson. It’s another impressive collection and the photography is amazing.

UPDATE: Here’s the link to a list of the finalists who will be showing in art@TheOakbook Exhibition.

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Related links: Oakbook Gallery website

During the course of the show, Suzan’s distinct style and vision—the straight forward and unadorned capturing of life as it happens, the ephemeral moments which distill the magic of reality into an image—caught the eye of many a visitor, often engendering the remark “I can’t believe these were taken with an iPhone!” — a phrase we heard perhaps more than any other in the month the show ran.

Her work will be featured on Pixels At An Exhibition all month long.

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Pixelsatanexhibition.com, in association with OakBook Magazine, is presenting a new exhibition of iphontographic images from around the world.

The gallery show opens May 8, 2010 at the art@theOakbook Gallery at 423 Water Street, Oakland, CA 94607 on Jack London Square.

Due to a thin response to the original call for submissions here in the San Francisco Bay area (a reminder that the iphontographic community is still relatively small, underground (we are going to change that!), and spread out thinly across the globe) we are opening up the show to the global community.

That would be YOU.

The rules are simple:

1. Images must have been taken with an iPhone.
2. Images, as always, must be manipulated only on the iPhone. If we discover an image has been manipulated on a computer, the artist will be eliminated from consideration. Please read the Submission Guidelines at PixelsAtAnExhibition.com.
3. Please send only five images for consideration. If you have images on the site already you would like considered, just email me and let me know. Pictures that were in the Giorgi Show are not eligible for this show.
4. While there is no entry fee, you will be responsible for making prints to hang in the gallery. If you need help with this, we will assist you for a reasonable amount.

If you email images please send them to submissions@pixelsatanexhibition.com and put “Oakland” in the subject line. If you use our app, PixelEx, please put “Oakland” in the photo name along with the rest of the title.

We will accept submissions starting now, until April 23. Selected Artists will be notified as soon as possible. This will be different from the first gallery show we did at the Giorgi Gallery, Pixels At An Exhibition, in that we will be choosing far less images and will be printing them in a much larger format.

Time is short! Please send in your pictures today!

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Arts District Restaurant, by Jaime Ferreyros

Also on the floor, by Jaime Ferreyros

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Jaime Ferreyros

Two of the features that I like about Knox Bronson’s Pixels At An Exhibition are the monthly Featured Artists (of which I was selected) and the Artist-In-Residence. Both are an extended focus on an iPhoneographer and give you a more in-depth look into some of the best or more personal works of the artist and their work.

This month’s PixelEx Artist-In-Residence is Jaime Ferreyros. I’ve admired Jaime’s work for some time, his photography, his poetry and his iPhoneography. He has an amazing eye for color, contrast, composition and finding the moment.

As he said in a recent interview (link available after the jump), iphontography “allows you to show the beauty that is in everything and everywhere.”

His images are a testament to that philosophy and approach to image-making. His use of color and his sense of composition, as well as his use of apps, are impeccable. As iphontography has recently emerged from its infancy as an art form, Jaime stands out as one of the pioneers of this new medium.

Well-deserved congratulations to Jaime for being selected as this month’s Pixels At An Exhibition’s Artist-In-Residence.

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Related links: Jaime Ferreyros on PixelEx |   Jaime Ferreyros’ Photostream on Flickr

PixelEx/Pixels at an Exhibition: Dada Left

As part of my Featured Photographer for March 2010, we’ve just posted more exclusive images at Pixels At An Exhibition. You can browse them all if you click here.

Much of it is photography of the street art in Deep Ellum — the area of Elm Street just east of downtown Dallas. Deep Ellum is a strip of three, maybe four streets of bars, restaurants, clubs, tattoo parlors, art galleries, vintage stores, old warehouses and lofts. Baylor Hospital where Mickey Mantle died is a couple of blocks away. Most of the buildings are old — old for Dallas, anyway. Many of them surviving gentrification since the 1920′s.

In a few hundred words, there’s not much one can say about a lifetime ago. Since I’ve lived in Dallas/Fort Worth, Deep Ellum had the reputation of where the bad kids go — “Dangerous” Deep Ellum. Then where all the cool kids go. Then people started getting mugged and it was dangerous again.

During the day, this old part of Dallas was a neighborhood. Before the rents went up, a lot of artists simply lived in their studio space there.

Then rents were jacked up. Bars closed. Clubs went away. Artists left and the neighborhood withered.

It’s my old stomping grounds from my club DJ days. “Dangerous” Deep Ellum wasn’t so much dangerous as it was different. For years, it was where you went to listen to cool new bands or cool dance music with no words by artists with names you couldn’t pronounce. I remember far too many late nights there after the bars had closed and the after-hours warehouse parties kicked in. Friends were family — many of us are still friends to this day. It was a neighborhood I felt comfortable in — like home.

One thing that I love about Deep Ellum is that throughout the years — not just the 1990′s — it’s a neighborhood that refuses to die, no matter who owns the buildings. After years of far too many For Lease signs, new clubs have opened. Lofts are for rent — both old and new. Old fixtures like Club Dada have left, but there are new places now waiting to become the new fixtures.

Deep Ellum has some amazing street art. I’m not sure I can call it my art when all I did was photograph some of these works. My hope was to capture a few calm moments in this neighborhood and share some colors and contrasts of a part of Dallas that I still love very much.

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Related links: Pixels At An Exhibition website   |   Marty Yawnick, PixelEx featured photographer

His Name is Freddy

This month, March 2010, I am glad and honored to have been invited to be the first featured photographer for Pixels at an Exhibition. Knox Bronson is the curator and webmaster for PixelEx and helped put together the recent Giorgi Gallery exhibit of iPhone photography.

I recently shot a photo story just for this gallery. They’ll only be posted at PixelEx this month.

I love the spontaneity of shooting with an iPhone. Despite the relatively low resolution of my 2G, it really can take remarkable photos. More importantly, it’s there with me all the time to capture remarkable images. As they say, I have a camera that I sometimes use to make phone calls.

Head over to my intro page on PixelEx and you can click here to view my images.

Thank you, Knox et al, for this opportunity.

I hope y’all enjoy my photography. Thank you for visiting.

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Link:  Pixels at an Exhibition