Satellite Coffee (Nob Hill) Featuring:
Daniel Tasselmyer

Artist’s Statement
I am an artist fairly new to Albuquerque, I moved hear about six months ago and have found a very rich artistic environment here. Originally from Trucksville, Pennsylvania I have found great joy in the mountains and deserts of New Mexico. Over the past two years I have been shooting photography of whatever finds me. Compiling various artwork, films, and recording numerous works. Before my move I had been apart of helping run an art space/venue called Test Pattern in Scranton, PA as well as working at the record store Embassy Vinyl associated with managing the space and booking events. I have been a part of the multiple galleries in Scranton, PA. Including the Scranhattan Festival 2008, and Test Patten Art Space 2008. I have been playing live music for seven years over the east coast, while making films for some festivals and friends along the way. Participating in local activism and skatepark fundraising with the North East Skatepark Association. I also participated in numerous local benefit shows for various causes. I currently work for Public Affairs Media Inc. A non profit organization doing various work in assistant editing and web page/multimedia design on the topic of linking Vaccines and Autism. Currently working on another short film, an album for friends, and acquiring numerous pictures of New Mexico.

Satellite Coffee (Alameda) Featuring:
Evan Travnicek

Artist Bio
I invite you to look at my artwork, and tell me what you think. The works you see here were done while I was taking art classes in California. They are a selection of my early work. I moved to Nebraska in 2001, and there I explored a variety of mixed media on the picture plane. Please take a business card or just note my websites on the titles to see a further selection of my work. the deepest motive for all this experimentation is freedom. I want to open up new possibilities in art with traditional media. Many contemporary artists construct large and cumbersome installations. While these can sometimes be inspirational, they cannot be taken home and put on a wall to ponder, and then passed on to subsequent generations.

Having lived in various parts of the country definitely influences my evolving style. I'm deeply moved by all the people and places I've met and experienced. I work with the unconscious as I let my surroundings give me cues and directions when I work. These renderings are suited to make a harmonious addition to any household, while still maintaining an independent uniqueness.

I moved to Albuquerque from a retired farm in Eastern Nebraska in November 2006. As I grow with the rich and diverse culture of Albuquerque, I aim to be an influence in the development of this growing metropolis. Wherever true soul is welcome, my artwork can provide a piece of wonder, excitement, love and sometimes even fear. I thank the management and associates at Satellite Cafe for providing the space to show my work. And I thank each and every one of you viewers for taking the time to read this and look at my art.

It is the viewers who take part in the creation of all art.

Click here to see Evan Travnicek’s work displayed at
Flying Star: http://www.flyingstarcafe.com/localart.htm.

Satellite Coffee (Montgomery) Featuring:
Kiernan Holliday

Artist Statement
One day, when I was in a coffee shop in Santa Fe—my Hasselblad was on the table in front of me—a man stopped at my table and rudely demanded to know why I didn’t “use digital.” I ignored his rudeness and told him that I used film because that’s what I want to do. I told him that I take black and white pictures of people I meet on the street. He went off in a huff, but that’s his problem and not mine.

Black and white is different. Exposure is different for black and white photography. For the pictures that I take outside, I usually increase the exposure and reduce the negative development time. For inside shots, I generally give normal exposure and increase the development. These are two technical ways of putting an extremely wide range of brightnesses on paper that doesn’t have that range of brightness, or of expanding a brightness range to fit the paper. We should all do what we want to do. I don’t have to make a living taking pictures, so I do what I enjoy. I hope you enjoy my pictures.

Artist Bio
I studied at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina, but I didn’t study art or photography. I’m a civil engineer and a lawyer. I’ve worked in government most of my life— California, Alaska, Denver, and in Santa Fe. For a time I worked rebuilding roads in national parks and national forests around the west; I spent a year and a half in Sequoia National Park. People tell me that it must be wonderful to work in such beautiful places like national parks. It is, but I never got to work where my favorite view is in a national park: My father’s office at Crissy Field at the Presidio of San Francisco looking out at the Golden Gate Bridge.

I was born in New York City and grew up mostly near San Francisco, although I spent time at Army posts in the United States and Europe. I have taken black and white pictures for as long as I can remember. There have been a few forays into color slides, but I’ve always come back to black and white. I carry a camera with me most of the time because you never know when you might see a picture.

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