The current (September) issue of Black and White Magazine features an article by Susan Burnstine on my series Astra Velum. I appreciated Susan’s insight into my work, when she says: “In viewing all of Liedtke’s work, including his early portraits of children and his powerful colour series about women struggling with anorexia and bulimia, _Skeleton in the Closet,_ what appears…
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Hartwick College, in Oneonta, New York, is showing Skeleton in the Closet in their Foreman Art Gallery this month. I’m especially excited about this show, because the art gallery has collaborated with Hartwick’s Department of Social Issues and Welleness and the Department of Nursing, and the Foreman Institute for the Creative and Performing Arts. Together, they will be sponsoring various…
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Portland-based photographer and artist Fritz Liedtke will present ‘Skeleton in the Closet’ at the Kathrin Cawein Gallery of Art on Pacific University‘s Forest Grove campus Oct. 26 through Nov. 19. The exhibit is free and open to the public, and includes an opening reception with the artist on Friday, Oct. 29 from 12 to 1 p.m. The gallery is open…
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This month, RayKo Photo Center, in San Francisco, will be featuring images from my Skeleton in the Closet series in their show Por(trait) Revealed. I’ll be there for the opening on July 28, so if you are in the Bay Area, please join me! (Por)trait Revealed // A juried exhibition of portrait photography Reception: Wednesday, July 28th, 6-8p 7.28.10 –…
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How does an artist find time to make art, on top of juggling all of his other responsibilities? Why do so many art school graduates fail to go on to successful artmaking careers? How do you make a living and make art? These are questions I explore in my current article Buying Time: Balancing the Fine Art and the Financial,…
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Curator Leo Michelson and gallery owner Charles Froelick called me up last year with an intriguing idea. They were pairing up 17 painters with 17 photographers, asking them to create a portrait of one another. The resulting show is titled Two of a Kind. I was paired with local painter Shanon Playford, whose beautiful, often whimsical, portraits and paintings I…
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Pursuing any passionate endeavor in life—whether art or business or love—has its ups and downs, its highs and lows, its joys and disappointments. I’ve been pursuing the dream of being an artist since my senior year in high school, when an invaluable teacher helped me see that I was free to do so, that it was a worthwhile pursuit. I’ve…
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This is the final installment in my series on the Beneficio de Cafe of Abraham Castillo, shot in Esteli, Nicaragua. (Please view the previous two posts: The First, with introduction, and the Second.) If you’d like to see the series in full, please visit my Fine Art Photography Website. Abraham continued to open his shop and home to me, with…
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Abraham and his family and staff continue to welcome me with open arms to their coffee beneficio here in Esteli, and I continue to be enchanted by the beautiful light, the rustic building, and the hard-working team. And so I continue with my photo essay (view the previous post here), a bit of visual poetry from the highlands of Nicaragua:…
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I’ve been hard at work this past fall to design a new website for my artwork, and I’m pleased to announce it is ready for you to view. Over the past couple of years, I’ve also created a variety of bodies of new work that haven’t been shown. New work in my Freckles, Cimitiere, and Adolescent Superheroes series are featured,…
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This month, I’ll have a piece of my artwork in Newspace Center for Photography’s annual juried show, Carnival: CARNIVAL February 5th through 28th Monday-Thursday 10am-8pm Friday-Sunday 10am-6pm (First Friday’s 6-9pm) Opening Reception: Friday, February 5th 6-9pm Newspace Center for Photography is pleased to present our annual themed exhibition. This year’s theme is Carnival. The exhibition brings a diverse array of…