This month’s conceptual photography threads in a familiar geometric theme, with the winter landscape of a fresh heavy snow, with sun, shadows and icicles. The abstractions are made of realistic original photography, hence the title Abstract Realism. All of the pieces are a layering of views to create the effect of an abstract painting. “RootContinue reading “February 2026 Art: Winterscapes & Abstract Realism”
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Exploring Shape Memory With Conceptual Photography
This conceptual photography feature for January 2026 focuses on the natural phenomenon of shape memory. Shape memory occurs at the molecular and cellular level for example, to remember how to form and re-form, and how to make different patterns, responding to stimuli such as light and by extension even the “observer effect.” This is justContinue reading “Exploring Shape Memory With Conceptual Photography”
Winter 2025 Art: Geometric Expressionism, Cosmic & Urban Photography Fusion
The conceptual photography artworks blend a hi tech modern cubist approach with natural, cosmic, and urban subjects. The focus is on color brilliance with op art dimension, that seems to shift and warp, or fold. “The color of a unique moment in light.“ A few of these are inspired by and composed of searching theContinue reading “Winter 2025 Art: Geometric Expressionism, Cosmic & Urban Photography Fusion”
Featured Art Collection: Signal & Noise + Studio Multimedia Update
As 2025 begins, this mini collection “Signal & Noise” harkens back to 2022 and then to the end of 2024, year of the dragon, with strong medicinal associations in Chinese culture. The cubist / op art photo collages of glitching screens are put together in such a way as to make new patterns out ofContinue reading “Featured Art Collection: Signal & Noise + Studio Multimedia Update”
Colorfield Light Photography
Accompanying recent research and experimentation with light, this is a new series of photographs that look like abstract colorfield paintings, yet they are realistically the behaviors of light, or sunlight shining on reflective or diffractive surfaces. They can be produced in a few different formats, including digital. Here’s the shop link: https://studioshangrila.myshopify.com/collections/colorfield. These are alsoContinue reading “Colorfield Light Photography”
The Abstract Realism Of Nature
The colorful photography seen here looks abstract, yet it’s also realistic. “Light Angel” is sunlight shining on diffraction grating paper to produce beautiful spectral line patterns and accompanies current research; “Magentropy” is an edited close-up of cracking paint. While for many paintings the cracking effect would be considered degradation or breakdown that art restoration attemptsContinue reading “The Abstract Realism Of Nature”
Studio Shangri-La Fine Art Features: Color Block + New Mixed Media
The latest experimentation is with color block or color field style, inspired by the prominent painter Rothko. expander, named for the op art sort of shape here, concept of the broad color spectrum and dimensional universe, and also the chakras, the energetics centers, or loci of the body. The affect was achieved with an openContinue reading “Studio Shangri-La Fine Art Features: Color Block + New Mixed Media”
Studio Shangri-La Fine Art Feature: Hi Tech Botanical As ‘Religious Art’
Studio Shangri-La • Deep Tropic • windows and panels. Earth is the church — These are made to look like stained glass windows and panels, making use of beautiful symmetry & asymmetry, and making ‘religious art’ of nature, because we come from nature. One thing I find interesting about the process – When working withContinue reading “Studio Shangri-La Fine Art Feature: Hi Tech Botanical As ‘Religious Art’”
Star Core I & II by Studio Shangri-La
Conceptual abstract photography on the expression of light / photons, for me a form of reverence. This is duo is also formed from light reflections on metal. The abstraction imagines thermonuclear fusion, awesome cosmic power, and imagining stars as vast data transmission centers, since light carries information. I’m also inspired by my ongoing studies bothContinue reading “Star Core I & II by Studio Shangri-La”
Fabricate::Recreate — Mixed Media In The Studio
My latest mixed media in progress is titled “Fabricate::Recreate.” It’s a large 6’x3’x2” double repurposed, terraced canvas. The work is about the enjoyment and open-endedness of creation, how one thing or material can become another and keep on morphing. And everything has an underlying and even overlying fabric. The title also refers to the re-cyclicalContinue reading “Fabricate::Recreate — Mixed Media In The Studio”
Nature’s Abstraction • Studio Shangri-La Fine Art Photography
Today’s theme is abstraction in nature, and abstract ideas and forms being birthed from nature. DISPERSION is marbleized pollen in water. This effect can be achieved with paint, yet nature is the original artist.
Featured Artwork + Concept: “Decision Tree”
With “Decision Tree” I was inspired by the evolutionary choices of species that leads to different adaptations. The overlapping Cubist style layout in both is an abstraction of overlapping decision trees, expressive of possible paths of one or more species or situations. These are photos I took of actual trees, so in that way thereContinue reading “Featured Artwork + Concept: “Decision Tree””
Studio Shangri-La Fine Art: MEDIA BLITZ Collection
MEDIA BLITZ is an electric collection for the new year. It’s an exploration, celebration and rumination on digital media as development of both art and consciousness. These photos and their digital processing are supposed to be hi-tech and psychedelic, in an enhanced realm of color, yet giving quirky nods to other past styles such asContinue reading “Studio Shangri-La Fine Art: MEDIA BLITZ Collection”
Ice Castle By Studio Shangri-La Fine Art
This latest batch is inspired by the winter season in Boston, the psychology and the magic, the coldness yet the warmth of (bio) tech, heart glowing through ice; multifaceted reflections of light on ice, the Celtics’ Jayson Tatum’s style, and the coming new year. These pieces will appear in the the “New in December 2022”Continue reading “Ice Castle By Studio Shangri-La Fine Art”
Check Out The Studio Shangri-La Portfolio Page
There are a lot of new works coming up from Studio Shangri-La! In fact, I have tons to process. In the meantime the existing portfolio is made up of different collections from Conceptual, Deco / Geometric to Realist, and Abstraction. Prices are dependent on the project and size. Please reach out on the contact page.
Self Knowledge Trio — Primitive Conceptual Painting (2018-2022)
Self Knowledge is a three canvas or panel work and each piece is 18” x 24.” They are: Lineage, Structure & Starwash. For more about the meaning, check the shop page where the group, sold together, is listed for direct sale. It’s also available through Saatchi Art. This is a project mostly completed in 2018,Continue reading “Self Knowledge Trio — Primitive Conceptual Painting (2018-2022)”
NEW Art In Tropical Pink + New Format
This is a funny title — in fact, the stuff dreams are made of. Yes, this phrase came in a dream, alongside a tropical pink 18 wheeler. If you’d like to find out more about the composition of this new abstract, check out the fall 2022 edition of AMAZING magazine . ; ) The newContinue reading “NEW Art In Tropical Pink + New Format”
Deco Bostonia Collection Has A Charlestown Moment
From top left going clockwise: Bunker Hill Monument, Bunker Hill St. details, Monument detail, industrial detail across from fire station, detail of Breed’s Hill building As you can see, some Charlestown scenery gets the Studio Shangri-La “Deco Bostonia” treatment — a collection devoted to Greater Boston. For more details on how to order please visitContinue reading “Deco Bostonia Collection Has A Charlestown Moment”
Art + Design: New Studio Shangri-La Hotel Collection
The latest and developing collection is inspired by just that — development. These pieces are urban textural studies that are interesting to look at and enhance ambiance. There is a definite rough yet modern esthetic here that I’m going for, with emphasis on texture and materials. These photographs are intended for the large market ofContinue reading “Art + Design: New Studio Shangri-La Hotel Collection”
Studio Shangri-La New Artworks: Autumn Passage, Winter Reeds, Peach Noise
**watermarked images shown** New uploads to my TurningArt portfolio: AUTUMN PASSAGE • “The whorl of leaves photos are tiled to resemble an hourglass shape with an orbital dimension, the hourglass being a structure used for telling stories and of course time.” • Forest Rapture Collection • WINTER REEDS • “Mirror photos of the underbrush inContinue reading “Studio Shangri-La New Artworks: Autumn Passage, Winter Reeds, Peach Noise”