TOO COOL FOR SCHOOL Friends, collectors, seekers of thrills. It's scorching out there, and I sense unrest in the air. With the spirit of summer in mind, I've agreed to participate in some rather outlandish affairs. First: the Venice Institute of Contemporary Art & Gypsy Trails Gallery’s 2015 Museum Tour is crashing the party at the Torrance...

"Best Outdoor Media Website" "Best Outdoor Feature Photograph" "Best Nature Photograph" "Best Overall Photograph" Los Angeles, Calif. (June 23, 2015) - The Outdoor Writers Association of California (OWAC) honored High & Dry: dispatches from the land of little rain this week at their spring conference in Big Bear Lake in the "Best Outdoor Medi...

AND ON THE SEVENTH SHOW... This Friday the OUT THERE exhibition opens at Gallery 825, and while I can't guarantee you'll get lucky, the always-exuberant affair is an LA Weekly Art Party Pick of the Week. This is the 3rd year running I have work in the open, juried show celebrating the LGBT experience in partnership with West Hollywood's Pride Mo...

TWO DAYS ONLY AT CHUNGKING STUDIO! MAGIC AND REALISM, a Month of Photograph Los Angeles -Featured Event, is a two-person show with fellow photographer Bill Leigh Brewer, curated by art critic Shana Nys Dambrot, and featuring all new, never seen work. This will be a big night in Chinatown, with art openings at all the galleries on Chung King Ro...

SPRING EXHIBITION MANIA! This weekend marks the first of five art openings in the next two months. With one exception, all these exhibitions feature all new, never before shown images. That's exciting! But it also means I kinda need to get back to the printer in a minute here, so I’ll keep it brief. First, I have a piece in BUNNYMANIA, hosted...

GIVING UP SLEEP FOR LENT It’s difficult to complain about being crazy-busy when everything is so good – but may I just say, 2015 is already in contention for busiest year ever! January’s showing at Photo LA was an enlivening, inspirational, and educational whirlwind of an experience – especially with two other simultaneous exhibitions presented...

TWO GREAT SHOWS. ONE BUSY WEEK! First off, I'm excited to be exhibiting work at photo LA this Thursday-Sunday, January 15-18 at the LA Mart Building in Downtown Los Angeles. Come visit me at booth #529 (how cool is that?) I'm also one of four Los Angeles-based photographers selected to participate in the first annual Uniting the World tho...

GOODBYE 2014, HELLO 2015! WHERE DOES THE TIME GO? As hard as it is to believe, it's already time for a look back at 2014 and a look ahead to a shiny, alarmingly imminent 2015. Where does all the time you go, you ask? The year began earnest with my Solo Show at the Los Angeles Art Association / Gallery 825. The show was covered by the L...

BACK IN THE GROOVE! Back from seeing thousands of migrating wildebeest in Kenya's Maasai Mara National Park. Here's an image from a new portfolio which employs the same handheld, infrared technique I'm using to communicate a sense of moving though the California desert in Flirting with Disaster. Above: Wildebeests on the Run - Infrared Ex...

CARBON MIGRATIONS I'm traveling to the SERENGETI this weekend to join 'Spacetime' photographer Jay Mark Johnson on a project to document the Great Migration across the Maasai Mara. Seeing wildebeests, great cats and crocodiles will be breathtaking, no doubt, but I'm particularly intrigued to witness JMJ's ' collapsed timeline' process w...

SCA Project Gallery Exhibition RIGHT: Bathroom - Abandoned Caretaker's House - William 'Burro' Schmidt Tunnel - Last Chance Canyon, CA - 2009 I'm showing a new, never seen photograph along with other images from the High & Dry Desert Windows Series in 'The Life of Things' exhibition at SCA Project Gallery. August 9th - 30th Closing Re...

VIP guests at this year's Los Angeles Art Association Annual Benefit will receive an original, signed print from the Desert Window Series. Four different images are featured from my 2014 High & Dry solo show. LAAA's Annual Benefit Auction serves as an important survey exhibition and auction opportunity, featuring one of the most compelling pools...

Join us this Friday for the art opening and celebration of marriage equality in conjunction with West Hollywood's Pride Month. One of my new, never-exhibited photographs is featured in the 7th Annual 'Out There: I Do' exhibit at Gallery 825 Friday June 6th, 6-9pm. Exhibition runs through June 13th. This is the 2nd year in a row that my work...

High & Dry, my long-term collaboration with writer/historian Chrisopher Langley, has been picked up by KCET's award-winning, cross-platform, arts journalism program Artbound. Our first feature, describes the nature and goals of our ongoing collaboration, which will be a regular feature on Artbound: www.kcet.org/arts/artbound/counties/inyo/high-and...

I'm pleased to announce a photography exhibit at Chungking Studio Saturday, April 26th 7-10pm featuring new work by Mark Indig, Clay Lipsky, Aline Smithson, and Osceola Refetoff. It will be a Big Night on Chung King Road with openings at Red Pipe, Coagula Curatorial, Charlie James, and Good Luck Galleries. Come down and check out Chinatown's...