Celebrate Art!
SIERRA ART TRAILS 2014
Yosemite Foothills Open Studio Tour
Friday, Saturday and Sunday, October 3rd, 4th, & 5th, 2014
This years 2014 Sierra Art Trails open studio tour has many talented artists. The Sierra Sun Times will be featuring a sampling of area artists leading up to the show. Check back regularly to see who the next featured artist will be.
Gay Abarbanell
Digital Art, Photography
Nature is full of magical abstracts, capturing that essential magic excites me and keeps me walking through the world, camera in hand.
Line, color, shape expand the fun as I try to find new ways to express that excitement. I particularly enjoy ‘abstracting’ the vision. Sometimes I do it subtly, as by softening an image, at other times by capturing a small part of a whole or by adding motion. I find the most fun in finding the actual abstract ‘live’ in the world I see.
My artist father taught me darkroom techniques from a ‘footlocker’ as we traveled by ship from Guam to the US, I was 9. This started me on my journey as a photographer and since then I have studied with contemporary professionals such as George Lepp and DeWitt Jones.
During the intervening years I progressed from my “Brownie” camera and film to pro Canon equipment and ultimately to digital. I love digital for the many conveniences it offers and the many things we can do with such ease.
I have also explored poetry writing, watercolor and fabric painting, ceramics, sculptures and other three dimensional work from various materials. I found each provided another avenue for self-expression and fun. They also give me new techniques to incorporate into my photography.
Though I still strive to capture the image and produce the picture ‘as I saw it’. I have recently, for fun, been ‘modifying’ images. These “Digital Photo Paintings” have given me another path for my ‘Creativity Unlimited’.
Gay can be reached at: (559) 877-4867 or email gaya926@gmail.com.
