February at Some Space Gallery
Dan Carrillo, Seattle Artists Portrait Project
This project has been just an idea for a few years but only recently came together and consumed me. It all began when I became fascinated with portraiture and the use of a view camera which immense detail and focal plane manipulation. Last year I traded up to an 8 x 10 camera and set out to take pictures of friends and artists and create some silver gelatin contact prints. About the time the 8 x 10 showed up, Jenny Sampson showed me some Tintypes and I was amazed at the delicate beauty of the silvery images. She later gave some one on one instruction and I was completely and utterly addicted.
I set out to create some wet-plate images of my own and the 8 x 10 gave me the ability to create a 7 x 9 inch clear glass ambrotype(wet-plate collodion on plate glass). Fortunately for me, John Jenkins of Decode Publishing, who works upstairs from Some Space, had taken a wet plate class from the incredible John Coffer many years back and had all the beakers and most of the chemistry for wet-plate. He simply gave me everything he had and lent me a couple of lights too! So I say a million thanks to John.
There will be no opening for this show as it is still in the works but It will be open for viewing until Feb. 19th Tuesday- Sat 9:30- 5:30. Any wet-plate collodion image is best viewed in person and up close to really enjoy the rich silvery goodness.
I will be attending the opening at Davidson Gallery for a mezzotint group show. I consider it an honor to have my work hanging in one of the best galleries in the country so I will be at that opening most of the time on February the 4th.
I will also have a show of prints and wet-plate collodion ambrotypes at Gage Academy.
Coming Soon to the Entry Gallery: Prints and Ambrotypes
by Daniel Carrillo
February 26 – March 22
Artists’ Reception: Friday February 26, 6:00-8:00pm