It’s not every day that artists meet other artists who are interested in so many of the same things, and even have an appreciation for one another’s aesthetic.<\/p>\n
I have known Tokyo-based Colombian artist Klaus Fruchtnis<\/a> for many years, but it is just recently that we discovered our similar interests in using photography as a way to capture urban spaces, in particular public ones. We also seem to always end up in language-based exercises.<\/p>\n We first collaborated on<\/a> the Thing-a-Day<\/a> blog run by some great people over at Eyebeam<\/a>, and most recently decided to continue these ideas in a project we are calling Cross Urban<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n I also recently met Brooklyn-based artist Annie Leist<\/a>, (we were in a group show together at Broadway Gallery<\/a>) and when I read her artist statement, I had to make sure I was not reading my own.\u00a0 I’m sure we’ll find a way to work together as well – something I look forward to!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s not every day that artists meet other artists who are interested in so many of the same things, and even have an appreciation for one another’s aesthetic. I have known Tokyo-based Colombian artist Klaus Fruchtnis for many years, but it is just recently that we discovered our similar interests in using photography as a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cynthialawson.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cynthialawson.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cynthialawson.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cynthialawson.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cynthialawson.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cynthialawson.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cynthialawson.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cynthialawson.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cynthialawson.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}