In just a few short hours, I have my 15 credit review. A review of the work that I have been making for the last semester by graduate faculty from the photography department as well as the departments from around Tyler. Seeing the work that I've made over the last 3+ months and its progression, I really feel as though I've pushed past my comfort zone in the way I present my photographs as well as why I make them. All of this progress and the trajectory of my work at this point in time feels right and reaffirms that graduate school was the right decision.
Barring a major catastrophe (and the half-done paper due Saturday by 9am), I am done for the semester. Now on to 5 weeks of making.
I've been trying to deal with the scale of my photographs. While I am truly in love with the intimacy of a contact print and the richness and detail that can come with it, they are somewhat counter to the goal of photographs which is to allow the viewer to enter the scene. To that end I've made a series of large prints and created situations in which the viewer can experience the space. Here are two:
The other thing that I'm working on involves making tiny prints that are designed to travel with its viewer and allow the viewer to be transported, consciously or subconsciously, into nature simply by referencing the photograph. One of the first iterations of this idea is a series of small notebooks with a small landscape photograph on the cover (available here). The viewer/user now lives with and uses this object, choosing whether or not to interact with the image on the cover.
Above is a panoramic view the Unami Creek at Hart Scout Reservation's Boat House.
This is where I attended my first summer camp, where I went through my Ordeal to become a member of the Order of the Arrow.
Hey Everyone
Welcome to the blog for my new project, the S10 Gallery and Print Sales.
The Concept:
Sell framed and unframed photographs out of my pickup truck at low prices, this serves 2 purposes. 1. This frees up some storage on my end and 2. helps you to decorate your homes and offices.
The Idea:
The idea came to me while I was transporting work from a show back to my home and realized that I know had a ton of work that I now needed to find a place to store.
The Goal:
Sell off some of my overstock framed and unframed work at affordable prices to help make art more widely available.
Please feel free to email me or text/call me with places you'd like to see the S10 Gallery show up
Joseph@JosephHocker.com
Good morning Ladies and Gents,
A lots happened since my last post (which has made a liar out of me because I said that I would post more frequently). First, I am going to Tyler School of Art as an MFA Candidate. I'm making lots and lots of photographs and exploring a few antiquated processes, all of which I hope to put a few examples up soon. Second, I've had a couple of shows. No major galleries, but still pretty awesome, the first was a smaller coffee shop solo show with 7 pieces up for a month and the second was a solo hospital show with 17 pieces and that was up for 3 months. I was also in the Sande Webster Tribute show at UArts, a wonderful chance to catch up with former faculty and friends. And the MFA Works in Progress show with 7 of my new 8x10 pieces. As a Tyler grad student, I worked with two other photo grads to develop a show of recent graduates of the University of the Arts. This show was designed to open up conversation between the schools.
I'm working on a lot of exciting stuff right now and when some of it becomes a true manifestation it's going to be up here. I'm going to be posting much more on here now (and I mean it this time) because my current website contract finally broke but of course I didn't have a new one to drop in its place.
On December 20, 2011, my grandmother, Judith Ann Carr Cholewiak passed away. She slipped silently away looking over the city she spent nearly her entire life in from her one of her favorite places to see it from. I commonly referred to her apartment as the swankiest place I'd been or swankadelphia complete with a big tv on which she watched her Blu rays, played wii and watched EVERY eagles and Phillies game. A wealth of knowledge would be an unjust descriptor for her vast array of interests an skills. She was truly one of the most intelligent; tough as nails women I've ever had the pleasure of knowing.
She always said the she had positively perfect grandchildren and made her top priority to take interest in the interests of all 9 of us. From newspaper clippings about Michael's football games or any new detail she could find about Philadelphia to ask or talk to me about on our trips to 3 Brothers pizzeria or the newest changing technology. She forever had new information about the topics that interested each of her grandchildren. While I'm biased on the topic I believe she was right about her grandchildren, but that is only true because she was a positively perfect grandmother.
The last memory of my grandmother is a particularly fond one, just two days before she passed away my family was doing what we call “family shopping day” which is on the Sunday before Christmas we all get together and shop for families in need and soup to nuts supply their Christmas.On that day she sat on the floor and helped me box up the clothes for the young girl that I was shopping for, saying that it was the first time all year that she sat on the floor wrapping presents.While sitting on the floor we talked about Stephen Girard and his school and what he did for the city of Philadelphia and general Philly fun facts. I think as far as final memories go, that’s a pretty great one.
