Pataphysics

Vija Clemins...

2012-01-31T09:22:00.000-05:00

©Vija Clemins, Strata, 1982

©Vija Clemins, Big Sea II, 1969

Fall, Part II, 2012

2012-01-27T02:04:00.000-05:00

January 27, 2012

2012-01-27T01:20:00.003-05:00

Glass, January

2012-01-22T23:24:00.001-05:00

January 13

2012-01-21T23:17:00.002-05:00

December 3

2011-12-04T01:16:00.003-05:00

Spectrum

2011-11-29T00:46:00.003-05:00

Found Photograph

2011-11-20T19:35:00.000-05:00

Columbus, OH

Birthday

2011-11-11T10:23:00.005-05:00

Tributaries

2011-10-30T00:00:00.003-04:00

New Exhibition at David Klein Gallery

2011-10-25T18:23:00.000-04:00

An exhibition featuring my recent work, along with the work of Liz Cohen and Brittany Nelson, opens on November 5th at David Klein Gallery. You can visit the gallery website here.

Rebuilding

2011-10-16T00:56:00.009-04:00

Studio has finally settled from recent move to Columbus, Ohio...

Detroit Center For Contemporary Photography

2011-07-19T00:18:00.000-04:00

I recently spoke about my work in an interview with Jason Keen of the Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography. You can read our conversation here...

Elipse, April 2007

2011-07-14T21:04:00.000-04:00

Robert Musil

2011-07-14T19:52:00.000-04:00

"To pass freely through open doors, it is necessary to respect the fact that they have solid frames."

-Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities, (1942)

Aaron Siskind, Martha's Vineyard, 1939

2011-07-14T19:47:00.000-04:00

©Aaron Siskind, Martha's Vineyard, 1939

Recent Work in Cyanotype

2011-06-22T10:07:00.001-04:00

Matter

2011-06-04T21:17:00.007-04:00

May 30, 2011

2011-05-30T13:03:00.001-04:00

May 14

2011-05-16T01:21:00.001-04:00

Wishbones

2011-03-05T00:16:00.004-05:00

"Intelligence can never penetrate the mystery, but it, and it alone can judge the suitability of the words which express it. For this task it needs to be keener, more discerning, more precise, more exact, and more exacting than for any other." Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

February 19

2011-02-20T14:08:00.003-05:00

Sentinel

2011-02-06T00:34:00.003-05:00

Watershed

2011-01-29T15:55:00.000-05:00

The Banquet

2011-01-22T11:16:00.002-05:00

Penelope, Max Klinger, 1895

2011-01-04T22:49:00.000-05:00

Penelope Weaving

2011-01-03T23:54:00.001-05:00

The Waves

2010-12-08T12:07:00.002-05:00

André Kertész, Fortune Teller, 1930

2010-11-30T17:45:00.000-05:00

James River

2010-11-07T10:45:00.002-05:00

Estuaries

2010-10-18T14:20:00.000-04:00

Magnolia Box

2010-10-04T16:23:00.000-04:00

Seeing

2010-09-23T02:18:00.003-04:00

Critical Mass 2010

2010-09-16T18:41:00.001-04:00

Work from my recent series Inheritance was selected for Critical Mass 2010, Photolucida's international portfolio competition. The Photolucida website can be found here, and a list of the 150 finalists is posted on the Photolucida blog...

©Lauren Semivan, Clay Street, Detroit, 2010

An Exhibition of New Work in Philadelphia

2010-09-03T21:22:00.002-04:00

This friday, September 3rd, Pulp: Works on Paper, opens at Meltem Birey Gallery in Philadelphia. The show features four of my new images, along with work by Jaime Alvarez, Danielle Wyckoff, Carlos Molina, Liz Chalfin, Irmak Birey, Tommy Reynolds and Matthew Alden Price. The exhibition runs from Sept. 3rd through Sept. 30th, 2010.

©Jaime Alvarez/Lauren Semivan: Courtesy Meltem Birey Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Photographer Unknown

2010-06-27T22:19:00.000-04:00

Radiology Unit, Military Hospital, Grand Palais, Paris, 1914-16

Picasso Self Portrait, 1940

2010-06-26T18:40:00.000-04:00

Interview with Darren Campion

2010-06-09T13:11:00.003-04:00

A few weeks ago, photographer and writer Darren Campion was kind enough to interview me about my work and process for his blog The Incoherent Light. Based in Dublin, Ireland, Campion writes contemporary fine art criticism about work that interests him most. You can read our interview here.

Instruments II

2010-06-09T12:58:00.004-04:00

Hinged

2010-06-09T12:56:00.005-04:00

Clay Street, Detroit, MI 2010

2010-06-09T12:49:00.002-04:00

On Finding

2010-04-11T13:13:00.000-04:00

End of March, 2010

2010-03-30T11:05:00.002-04:00

Maya Deren

2010-03-28T22:11:00.000-04:00

"Ritual in Transfigured Time" 1946

land

2010-03-01T23:32:00.000-05:00

Clarence John Laughlin

2010-02-16T23:40:00.000-05:00

"Anatomical Cascade" 1940

by halves

2010-02-07T14:25:00.000-05:00

balancing

2010-01-23T01:13:00.000-05:00

eclipse, drawings

2010-01-12T00:01:00.001-05:00

Ornament

2009-12-28T11:12:00.000-05:00

December 22, 2009

2009-12-22T10:37:00.000-05:00

Interview with Paul Giguere

2009-12-06T17:00:00.000-05:00

I was recently interviewed by Paul Giguere, photographer and creator of Thoughts on Photography. You can listen to our interview, as well as many others here.

Photography in Detroit

2009-12-02T15:41:00.000-05:00

This week, Ariadne, from my recent series Observatory was published in The Detroit Metro Times Arts Feature on Self-Portraiture.

The Waves

2009-11-08T21:27:00.000-05:00

Queen Anne's Lace

2009-11-02T16:14:00.000-05:00

Decoration, 1894

2009-11-02T16:10:00.000-05:00

Lilacs

2009-08-29T01:22:00.000-04:00

The Sleeping Venus - Paul Delvaux (1944)

2009-08-12T19:43:00.000-04:00

Ariadne

2009-07-09T02:05:00.001-04:00

The End of May

2009-06-01T00:03:00.001-04:00