| Artists
Represented
Figurative Fine Art Limited Edition Prints
Background:
California born E. Eugene Day took his Bachelor of Science degree
in Landscape Architecture at California Polytechnic State University.
His design career spanned many years creating interior and garden
design in Europe, Asia and the United States. During that time he
was also interested in painting and drawing, but only began translating
that interest seriously into photography in 2003. Since then he
has been working full time on this pursuit - in developing and perfecting
his techniques and building up a significant corpus of finished
work primarily concerned with the male image. He now makes his home
in San Francisco.
Methods and Techniques:
After a picture from the photo shoot is selected,
the first step is to work up a retouched and corrected base photograph.
The interim result is a perfected black and white photograph which
can stand up beautifully on its own merits. From this stage the
image is painstakingly digitally hand-worked in very fine detail
over a period of several days. Like painting with virtual brushes,
Eugene works to build up the developing piece stroke-by-stroke,
tint-upon-tint, texture-upon-texture, until a patinated, often ethereal
or painterly image emerges which may sometimes be hardly recognizable
as a photograph.
Artist’s Statement:
"My work is usually concerned with the beauty of the male form
– I want it to be idealized, yet still approachable - certainly
I am not interested in the buff muscle god and his perfectly honed
six-pack. I prefer to use amateur models with a certain boy-next-door
familiarity and wholesomeness.
I am more interested in expressing the sensual rather than the merely
sexual, and the subtle qualities of feeling and emotion rather than
the merely physical. "
Compositionally I work with the play of light
and shadow, and the balance between negative and positive space,
both as methods of directing the viewers’ attention within
the picture plane and especially as a way to build mood and atmosphere.
Texture is very important in the composition, therefore I give much
time and attention to ensure that textures are working to reinforce
and develop the atmosphere.
Observers will find their own meaning in
my work, but my intent is to nudge the viewer beyond the physical
and into the intangible - the realm of memory, lost youth, attraction
and longing – desire and the quest for the unobtainable.
Ultimately my hope is that the sum of all the elements will create
wholeness and allow the observer to find a place of inner repose
in my work – a sense of stillness and serenity.”
Editions and Sizes:
Most pieces are available in two sizes – roughly 8 x 10 and
16 x 20.
They are issued as archival pigment ink prints
using the finest most durable inks and German paper available, and
are signed and numbered in limited editions of 10 in each of the
two sizes.
Oversize prints may be available upon request
for certain pieces.
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