[alt-photo] Re: cyanotype [Triangle]

[Diana Bloomfield]

Hi Trevor,

Check out the Nasher Art Museum, on Duke's campus:  http://www.nasher.duke.edu/exhibitions.php 
   Not alt process, but interesting contemporary Chinese art exhibit  
right now (including photographs), as well as CDS, though not sure  
what they have going on right now.  Check out all the art galleries in  
downtown Raleigh, some relatively new:  Flanders (South West St); Adam  
Cave (Hargett Street-- I have alt process work on exhibit there now,  
including some new tri-color gums); Lee Hansley Gallery (Glenwood  
Ave); The Collectors Gallery (Fayetteville Street); ArtSpace (Davie  
Street-- I can't stand the stuff there-- way too commercial for my  
tastes-- but most people seem to love it); Lump Gallery (S Blount  
Street- interesting exhibit now, featuring video work); and be sure  
and visit the newly renovated and reopened NC Museum of Art (Blue  
Ridge Rd)-- it's spectacular.

All of those places have websites, so you can look them up for more  
information.  Not much in the way of photography-- alt or otherwise--  
but those places above are worth visiting.

With regard to humidity issues, I've actually never had a problem with  
too much humidity here in NC-- believe it or not.  Where I work-- in  
my house-- the room is cooled by air conditioning in the summer, or  
heated in the winter.  So even though it's a very humid climate, that  
doesn't seem to matter much.  I actually keep a humidifier where I  
work-- so a cyanotype emulsion, for instance, won't just go sliding  
off the paper once put in a water development.  Without the added  
humidity from a humidifier, emulsions just don't seem work all that  
well for me.

I'm guessing you're not working in air conditioning up there in the  
mountains, Chris?   I would guess it's not a humidity issue, though;  
rather, when I get odd colors like that, the reason is usually the  
choice of paper, or possibly expired chemistry.

On Jun 2, 2010, at 3:43 PM, Trevor Cunningham wrote:

> Things keep coming back to North Carolina. Here in Saudi, I have NO  
> issues with humidty, or benefit from it at that matter...unless you  
> count prints drying indoors in less than an hour as a bonus. I'll be  
> in Raleigh on the 11th. If anyone knows of something interesting alt- 
> wise or photographic in general in the Triangle area over the next  
> month, I'd love to know.
>