Next Meeting: Saturday, June 27th, 2009

Meetings are generally held at the first Saturday of every month at the Art Institute Of California - San Diego. We start at 12:00pm and continue to 3:00pm, Attendance & membership is free and open to all interested. For directions page for location/map details just click on the "Directions" link. 

Stephen Burns (http://www.chromeallusion.com) will host the meeting.

Saturday's Meeting: 

Presenter 1: Creating Brushed Aluminum Images by Joe Nalven

Joe Nalven has been putting his images on brushed aluminum for the past two years. He will discuss and compare three approaches using the same image. His metal images are currently on display at the Spirituality show at the Art Institute of California-San Diego, at the Forever Temporary show at Gallery 21 in Spanish Village, Balboa Park, and at the Synthesis show at the Escondido Municipal Gallery. The larger images represent a laminate on brushed/patina'd aluminun from Pixel2Editions and an infused metal print from MagnaChrome.

David will present some powerful tools in creating both Panoramic and Mosaic photographs.  Come and see how he uses programs like PT Gui and Photoshop to composite several images into a single panoramic photographs.  Bring lots of paper to take notes.  This in not to be missed.

About  David King

David King has drawn and painted and taken pictures since grade school. In High School (in Blue Springs, Mo) he was awarded an Art Scholarship to Missouri State University, at Warrensburg. Instead, he went to work for Hallmark Cards as an engraver and attended classes at the famous Kansas City Art institute.

His involvement with photography became more intense when he entered the Art School at the University of Denver with a double major in Art and Philosophy and discovered that at a time when "Conceptual Art" was the rage and was sweeping the academic art world he was viewed as being at a major disadvantage: he could draw. So he returned to an old interest and started using photography as an increasingly important aspect and element of his art work. 

When he returned to the University of Denver, following 4 yrs with AIS (Army Intelligence and Security) and 3 yrs of Law School, to work on an MFA in printmaking, he realized the situation had not changed much when he was asked, in front of a class, if he did not think his expertise was a shackle to his creativity. Believing rather that technical skill frees creativity to express itself, he returned to the world of professional photography and was co-owner of "The Darkroom," a combination rental lab, school of photography (26 courses/22 instructors) and gallery (the first in Denver to show the works of Brett Weston and Morley Baer). Since then he has been involved in professional photography as well film and video production, including a few years (1982 - 1984) working first as an Art Director and then Creative Director for an ad agency in Denver, (Eastburn and Associates) before forming "King II Productions," his own still and video production company.. 

Over the ensuing years his work has won numerous awards, including an Emmy nomination as Producer for an anti-gang music video. His documentary and lyric outdoor images in still photography have been featured in regional and national magazines and his work among the northern New Mexico Pueblos was the subject of a PM Magazine featured TV segment. That project, "TEWA," on the Tewa-speaking Pueblos of New Mexico is in the permanent collection of Mesa Verde National Monument and frequently travels throughout the country. A collection of portraits of Denver’s “Movers and Shakers” was commissioned by and featured at the Colorado Celebration of the Arts. His work has been exhibited in galleries and private collections around the country.