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Dan Novakowski Lake Street Gallery Preview

A couple of paragraphs from a piece in the June 25th Post Tribune by Michael Gonzalez. Dan will be showing at Isabella Bean thru September and October 2009.

“I just love photography, and I admit I tend to go to extremes in my work,” said Novakowski, a Miller artist who has, at times, been a poet, a painter, a newspaper reporter and graphic designer. “This is just so different, you wonder what their stories are or what’ll happen next.”

Most of Novakowski’s works contain traditional compositional elements of good photography — the straight edge of a butcher’s knife and a man’s tattooed arms framing a woman’s face or manes of blond hair flowing like raging rivers across prints — but it’s the splashes of thickly layered, water color painted features that jump start the life of their models.

Rest of the article here

Dan Novakowski at Lake St Gallery

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Interesting show at Lake Street Gallery

“Blue Prints,” Original Cyanotypes by Dan Novakowski and Judy Schlosser.
Artist Reception: Saturday, August 30 at 7 p.m.
Show runs through September 18, 2008

At: Lake Street Gallery, Miller Beach, Gary, Indiana.

I have just put up a page on the Lake Street Gallery web site advertising this show. From the page:

Cyanotype is an old monochrome photographic printing process that produces a cyan-blue print.

The process uses two chemicals that result in a photo-sensitive solution, which is used to coat paper. Positive images are produced by placing a negative on the paper then exposing it to sunlight. The UV light triggers a reaction of the chemicals, resulting in an insoluble, blue dye known as Prussian blue.
The water-soluble salts are washed away by flowing water, while the non-water-soluble Prussian blue remains in the paper. This gives the picture its typical blue color.