Peter J. Crowley

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October Sale 2019

11.17.2018 by Peter J. Crowley // 1 Comment

A print of my Fine Art Photography a wonderful gift an 8 x 10’s $60.00 till the end of October. Select from any galleries some people images, portraits NFS. Send a check or Paypal and image name or web link.  My Art Your Walls.

3139 Quince St SE #3 Olympia Wa. 98501

Color Fine Art

Black and White

Flowers and Nature

Figures

Performing Arts

Abstract Figures 

Layered Life Time merges to no time.

Autumn 2002

Art is Life, love, communication, speak to loved ones with my art.

peace pjc

Categories // A Life in Photographic Art, Art, B+W Fine Art, Ballet, Buy Local, Christmas, Color Fine Art, Coventry Ct., Dance, Figures, New London Ct, Nikon, Norwich Ct, Olympia Wa., Performing Arts, Providence Rhode Island, Willimantic Tags // Abstraction, B+W Fine Art Photography, Color Fine Art, Dance, Figure Studies, Layered Life

The Art World, Today and Yesterday Forty Years of Observation

08.20.2017 by Peter J. Crowley // 3 Comments

In the seventies models paid photographers for sessions now everyone is a photographer and everyone is a “model” and “models” are paid by GWCs. Boobies for bucks.  A chuckle to start but truth is funnier than fiction.

Everybody is an artist. I noticed a shift in NPO grants in the late nineties community involvement. Turn of the century and the digital camera is now cheap enough for everyone. A few hundred dollars some software and how to make a © and you are a pro. Many understand when Walmart moves in small businesses are deleted. The informed local merchants, neighbors, friends replaced by cheap and goodnuff.  But the sudden modes and preset pros do not see the connection to Smugmug and other sites selling their technically goodnuff images for Walmart prices. Or giving them away for the glorious ego of publication.  The market crowded with emotional free cheap copies of the world. This trend of A.I. and creative choices moves over to graphic design my Asst Molly wanting to take a few GD classes at a local college was told by admission counselor  just get Photo Shop and you are all set. No need for concept or emotion just an app. There is no A.E. Artificial Emotion except in congress.

Contests, Juries and Vanity Galleries.

A contest I entered for Norwich Tourism/Revitalization “Picturing Norwich.”  Awarded Best in Show and little chance of being sold for tourism.

The concept of the contest. In Norwich a bank decided to put out a calendar so they had a contest. For a mere $25 you could enter as long as you released your rights of the image to the bank and all of their agents. So a thousand entries and the bank has a calendar, a tidy sum of cash and  photos to use for future advertisements. If the bank is really lucky their agent may find another buyer and sell their [formally you image] for profit. The Vanity Gallery rent the walls and the gallery is paid so they don’t need to do much promotion and everyone can have an exhibit. The juried show and fundraisers for the community where you have the privilege of giving your work away. I have done some of these I have also convinced organizations that a 50/50 sale is more fair. Artists are mostly poor here the artist and the organization split the sale. This way the quality of art will be better.

Painting with a broad stroke here and for forty plus years. There is more to the Art World and life than instant gratification or you last text message. Last a professional artist pays taxes on sales it’s good for the community.

peace pjc

 

Choice thoughts on creating from 2009 

Categories // Art, Artificial Intelligience, Buy Local, Choice, Creativity, Creativity or photography by numbers., Emotion, Small Business Tags // Humanity, Olympia, Small Business

Decades

06.22.2016 by Peter J. Crowley // 6 Comments

Each decade had it’s highs and lows never boring. My vision shaped by the sea in the 70’s a couple miles each day walking, seeing, feeling, thinking The Journey begins.

A Life in Photographic Art

1970’s Cosey Beach

Cosey Beach Walk 27 19721980

Akin Babatunde Rites and Reason Theater Brown Univ. 

Trauma and Drama, Theater, Dance, Art and Artists many tales.

Sculpter David Hayes
Sculptor David Hayes

1990’s

Silver Gelatin
Silver Gelatin A Sad Pensive Muse. Seeking the Highlight finding the shadow. A muse for three years hundreds of images. The Muse is me.

2000’s Rasminko’s in Willi

bwFineArtRasminkoBooks-72-05-7-750453A large studio in Norwich the mill town residency tour continues. The past and present fuel Layered Life. Dance production on stage sorted re arranged to color abstracts in the studio.  Teaching Whidbey Island. Amtrak life on both sides of the tracks.  

2010’s

_DSC0431Life continues to be layered in Olympia the next chapter pulls out of the station.

enjoy pjc

Photographic Art   More from 70’s

 

 

 

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