Art comes out of the closet

Ever since I had that great show with Mark Munson in that great space behind Marché, I've had a closet stacked full of framed, fine art prints. Crazy that they've been in the closet for two years... or is it three years. Three years I'm pretty sure. So I got some masonary anchors for some of my concrete walls and finally hung 14 prints on my wall. I've never had that much of my art on my walls before and it's nice to walk by it every day. Of course I still have a closet full of it, so maybe it's time for another show... or maybe a sale on the web.



Opening night at the "Three Art Show" at the space behind Marché. Two weeks before, this space looked more like a junkyard than an art gallery, complete with an abandoned van.



Some of the 50 photographs, that until recently had been sitting in my closet instead of on display. Of course, we did sell enough to help pay for the show, so they didn't ALL end up back in my closet!

It's been a long time since I opened GoLive....

Back in August of 2002, I spent pretty much a full week, designing and creating a new website for Billy Sheahan Photography. I finished the film editing side and a few months later, slapped up a temporary gallery of 12 images from my 2002 postcard mailings. And then it sat. I got caught up in the day job and managed to forget the programming I created to give the site it's look.

This week I managed to dive in again and posted 3 new (sort of) galleries. The first truly is new. It's select images from a photoshoot I did with a great friend, Melissa in the Graceland Cemetery in Chicago. The other two galleries are from my old site. They haven't been available to the internet clicking public for over a year now, and it's good to have them back up.

The good news is that I'm using a new bit of software that helps me to create new galleries much easier than in years past. In fact, as long as I have the photos scanned, I can usually have a new gallery up in a matter of an hour or two. Much better.

With any luck, there will be new galleries up every week and that will spur me on to get more negatives scanned and ready to see the world! Stay tuned.....



This image is from a trip I took to Florence Italy about ten years ago. The day was very overcast and I really had to push my film to get an image. It remains one of my favorite photographs.

Billy enters the Blog world.....

I had been keeping an old fashioned analog journal... you know on paper and everything... but it seems like a lot of people have been wondering about what I'm doing with my art these days, so I decided to make it a little more public. It will be interesting to see how honest I am here, or even if I keep it up for that matter... We'll see.