Prepping for my gallery show Sunday!!

Outtake from the shoot I am premiering at the show tomorrow!
Models: Alexandra Mathews & Yellow Strange
MUA: Matthew Richards
Hair: Jeanna Kier
Wardrobe: Mother of London

Wasteland at 522 Wilshire Blvd, Santa Monica CA 90401 Renee's Courtyard Cafe.

Showing a number of pieces from previous shows as well as some brand new images freshly shot yesterday... nothing like leaving it for the last minute.

Here is the release info:

Fleeting Projects for March 28th is very excited to present a group show of photography. Titled "Wasteland" these three photographers each explore a different path into fractured, deceptively empty and occasionally forbidding realms. Saryn's haunting images of groups of eclectically clad youthful figures at play in the middle of nowhere evokes echos of fashion photography as might be carried out after a particularly apocalyptic turn of events in the Phillip K. Dick novel. Greg's stoic imagery looks at the various sites around us as surrogate places, vacant sets perhaps, at once latent with the desires and fantasies, but also as coldly inanimate. Eron's characteristically heterogeneous installation exploits humor, glitches, and broad knowledge of photographic history to interrogate our ambivalent relationship to virtual landscapes and cutting edge entertainment.

From the artists:

Saryn's images are particularly inspired by the idea of a fashionable apocalypse. Each image has a feeling of being alone in the world, and a timeless quality. Her fascination stems from the quality and details you see in vintage inspired wardrobe, and the idea that even after the world we know ends, there will still be a place for fashion.

Greg De Stefano will be showing two projects of desolation and future wastelands. Kuugeki is a series of panorama creations in the "What If" of an empty Japan devoid of people, and the second is a documentation homage to the lost souls and pursuit machines of the Road Warrior Event.

In Eron's sprawling installation "A Land to Die In" panoramas of corpses, gnarled trees, aged cyanotyopes, flickering lanterns, as well documentary images of fans from BlizzCon twine together to delve into the virtual landscapes of Massive Multiplay Online Role-Playing Games such as "World of Warcraft." By standing in the middle of the maelstrom via his gnomish warlock Guydebord his work looks at the way that these cutting edge technologies are entwined with a history of photography from the 1800's wilderness and how the swagger of adventure, both in geographical and technological terms, affects our relationship to art, imagination and society.

Fleeting Projects Presents:
Wasteland
Works by Saryn Christina, Greg De Stefano and Eron Rauch

March 28, 2010
7PM-Midnight

@ Renee's Courtyard Cafe
522 Wilshire Blvd.
Santa Monica, CA 90401

Drop on by, talk with the artists, have a beer, listen to some music, argue about art and forget that you have to be up for work.

*** Fleeting Projects is now accepting open submissions for shows! Please e-mail fleetingprojects@gmail.com for more information. ***

Fleeting Projects is an ultra-temporary experiment in presenting art hosted monthly by Renee's Courtyard Cafe. Artists has twelve hours to arrive, display, and remove the work from the space. Renee's Courtyard Cafe is one of the oldest buildings in Santa Monica, and a former home that has been converted for different uses over nearly 100 years. Fleeting Projects attempts to push at the assumptions and boundaries to traditional art display and focuses on installation, intervention, performance, video and site-specific projects.