I am Ubik...
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In March 2011 a group of American Association of Museums members visited Cuba. Here is a short video about the trip that I co-produced with Deborah Ziska, Chief of Press for the National Gallery of Art.
Fifteen Pairs of Hands, 1996, by Bruce Nauman, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.
The Temple of Dendur, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY.
Constitution Avenue entrance, looking up, West Building, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.
Have I mentioned that the building itself is magnificent?
Sketching the Rotunda, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.
I love watching artists in museums doing there thing. Most of the time they can be found in gallery G10 on the ground floor, sketching the numerous Rodin marbles. But I rarely see them in the rotunda, which is a shame because the building itself is magnificent and I often find myself taking photographs of it rather than the works contained within. I took this almost two years ago and it has taken me this long to process it in a way that does the image justice.
Skull, 2006-09, by Brian Jungen, National Museum of the American Indian, Washington DC.
If you get a chance to visit the NMAI, the Strange Comfort exhibition is not to be missed. Jungen takes ordinary objects and reworks them into “sculptures that are simultaneously fake and authentic, playful and political, common and extraordinary.” This skull is made out of baseballs and softballs.
The nose of the Enola Gay, National Air & Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center, VA.
Apollo-Soyuz spacecraft, Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum, National Mall Building. I gave the photo a little Topaz Adjust lovin’ to bring out the details.
Stupendous Badasses of Medieval Europe, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
I need another Vought F4U-1D Corsair fix. You can see this beauty at the Smithsonian’s NASM Udvar-Hazy Center in VA.
Vought F4U-1D Corsair, Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum. Processed through Topaz Adjust.
More Topaz Adjust fun. This photo was taken inside the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, MD.
The Great Hall, National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC, looking towards the Luce Foundation Center.
Here is a more serious attempt at using Topaz Adjust to process a photograph. This is the Luce Foundation Center in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC.
About I am Ubik...
MA, Museum Studies, Johns Hopkins University, 2010 (4.0 GPA).
BA, History, University of Maryland University College, 2008 (summa cum laude).
