The Gallery

We have selected new aluminum sheet for this series of gallery exhibit quality photographic enlargements.
These are by far the most dynamic reproductions for these images.
Each Automotive Gallery Art piece is individually produced in the signature size of 24” x 17”
from the original 35mm slide or digital exposure.
You can examine some of the enlargements on metal below.

Only 5 enlargements will be made from each photograph.
$950 for each signed print.
production time is two to three weeks.

You'll find the purchase link to paypal on the Gallery pages next to the selected composition.

  In a gallery setting there is always a discussion with the artist about his work. Lift your glass of wine, single malt, or micro brew, here goes…
   Having trained as a technical illustrator during the art school years, I saw photography as my abstract medium. A visual platform upon which shape and color, light and shadow could be examined for its own sake, as opposed to a representational photographic portrayal of instantaneous journalistic storytelling.
In moving into automotive photography a few decades ago I saw the potential of bringing the two worlds together: portraying the near abstract compositions, while clearly, if subtly, expressing in one frame, the design, engineering, performance and history of the subject car.
   If we were to look deeply into the compositional structure of the automotive photographs we would find that the term abstract would lean toward the geometric conceptions of the Bauhaus and artists like Malevich and Lissitzky. Industrial age dynamism of geometric shape and color.
   Additionally here we have an inherent sculptural aspect. This latter element implies another compositional, or photo session strategy specific to automotive photography. Having spent a professional life in the photo studio, art directing product photography, my photographic style clearly states that it is only beneath natural light that the automobile truly reveals itself.
   Why have I gone into photographic philosophy here? To discuss the photographic product on offer for these images. I have been in photographic art reproduction since photo enlargements from 35mm E6 slides required an inter-negative. The hyphen is used here for reading clarity. So yes, I've spent my time in the darkroom, and been on the cutting edge of gallery quality photo reproduction as it has advanced, in fits and starts, into the digital age. As such I have chosen for this series of reproductions to produce them all on aluminum sheet. This very modern exhibit material lends itself dynamically to the subject.
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   Humorous side note to many of these compositions: There were many excellent reasons to use a hand held light meter during the film emulsion era when photographing something as complex as a car under natural light, from getting precise readings of the interior to the many sculptural details of bodywork or shadowed engine bay.
   Though arguably one of the best was this: when I began walking around the car placing the meter in different locations for diverse readings and there were, say, a dozen people standing there, some with cameras, everyone would politely step back and out of frame until I was done bracketing my shots. Sometimes a couple dozen or more shots of perhaps four different compositions.
   Thanks to all those conscientious people at Pebble, Concorso, Laguna Seca, Road America, and the many other automotive enthusiast locations where these were taken.