Artist

From Dec. 6th through  Dec. 30th , Blue Sky, 122 NW 8th Avenue, will present “Isolated Gesture” by Bil Zelman of San Diego and “Isleton” by Kirk Thompson of Berkeley.  An opening reception will be held on First Thursday, Dec 6th from 6 - 9 pm.  

Bil Zelman and Kirk Thompson will present artist lectures on Saturday, December 8th,  at 3pm. These lectures are free of charge and open to the public. Blue Sky is open at its new location in the DeSoto Building, on the east side of the North Park Blocks between Davis and Couch, from noon to 5 pm Tuesday through Sunday.  For further information call (503) 225-0210.

Bil Zelman and Kirk Thompson will present artist lectures on Saturday, December 8th,  at 3pm. These lectures are free of charge and open to the public. Blue Sky is open at its new location in the DeSoto Building, on the east side of the North Park Blocks between Davis and Couch, from noon to 5 pm Tuesday through Sunday.  For further information call (503) 225-0210.  

The phrase “in your face” could’ve been coined to describe Bil Zelman’s portraits. Edgy, raw and bracing, Zelman captures us the way we were never meant to be seen. At parties, festivals, on the street, at galas and at gatherings of all sorts, young and old are frozen with Zelman’s off-kilter lens, with little concern for context, personal connection or the emotional artificiality we assume when we compose ourselves for the camera.

Likened to the styles of Garry Winogrand and William Klein, Zelman delivers common people in a black-and-white, high flash, high tension manner – the ordinary rendered mysterious by the way the camera paralyzes time.