Help Her Live Film
While it remorseful that Sam Kraft is no longer with us, the Rock N Roll legend that I knew her as - her exuberant brother has cathartically made a documentary following her heart beat to the donor, a family friend of the Kraft.
To learn more fully about the film please visit : http://www.helpherlivefilm.com/
It was an honor to see my old documentary footage of her appear on the silver screen in Hollywood, returning to my old stomping grounds.
Past Exhibitions
HELMS BAKERY IN CULVER CITY, Los Angeles
SAATCHI ART AND THE JEALOUS CURATOR HAVE PUT TOGETHER A VERY SPECIAL GROUP SHOW FEATURING MY PHOTOGRAPHY, IN COLLABORATION WITH FIVE OTHER FEMALE ARTISTS.
Saatchi Art Artist Spotlight Article : Erin Tengquist
One to Watch
Erin Tengquist’s underwater portraits allow for reflection.
Erin Tengquist views her underwater portraits as reflections of intimate moments and mortality. She enjoys the solitude she shares with her subjects underwater, often in swimming pools around Los Angeles, and is interested in exploring the female experience in this whimsical environment, aided by a play of light, shadow, and digital manipulation techniques.
Erin received a BA and BS in Digital Media from the Brooks Institute of Photography in Ventura, California. She’s exhibited her photographs in the US at galleries and fairs including Hive Gallery, I Love LA Gallery, Black Box Gallery, and Photo LA. Saatchi Art selected her works for our Cross Currents exhibition and California Girls exhibition in conjunction with the Jealous Curator. Erin’s works have also been featured in publications including The Jealous Curator and Unleashed Magazine.
What are the major themes you pursue in your work?
Magical realism juxtaposed with haunting reminders of mortality.
What was the best advice given to you as an artist?
Always tell yourself you are genius. Heart open, arms out, follow your intuition, and most importantly listen to yourself!
Prefer to work with music or in silence?
I love the zen of silence and if you’re gonna play it, better play it loud!
If you could only have one piece of art in your life, what would it be?
Depends on if this is a piece of art that I always travel with, or if it’s in my imaginary mansion. Travel with always art piece: My Journal – it always brings me back to my soul. My imaginary mansion : I Thought I Would Find Love. It’s absolutely stunning.
Who are your favorite writers?
I just finished Sally Mann’s memoir Hold Still and WOW – dare I say she’s just a good of a writer as a photographer. Tom Robbins, Susan Sontag, Robert Frost, Marianne Moore, early expedition sea novels, In Patagonia, Eat Pray Love, Adrienne Rich, Poetry glossaries. I go to the library a lot.
Back when I wanted to get movies made..... So in love with this book.
Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins.
There were days when I worshipped the language of Tom Robbins pouring over the pages of his novel, Skinny Legs and All. The animorfication of inanimate objects as they transformed from a can of soup, stick, sock into characters in the book is still my favorite part.
Sam Kraft - RIP
Sam Kraft. The Legend.
She was taken too soon. I miss her alot. She was a great musician. She would come over and play music in my living room for my roomate for the summer Mitch’s YouTube series.
She was so talented and so natural.
Inspiration and Poetry
This photograph reminds me of the poem I wrote : I want to live in a Museum.
I want to live in a museum
To live as a work of art.
As if my skin was stretched on the walls, and people would walk around take pictures
Of my armpit
or the like.
To feel as if my skin
Hung as the finest marble,
Having an Immortal hallowly glow as the bust of Venus by Rodin.
For those to walk around me,
As an inanimate object, piecing together their histories of me, just as I lie there.
A moving object, that has a frail morality that you should take a picture before I fade away.
I want others to walk around me,
A statue
An immortal object of beauty.
The white bust of the Greek goddess.
Inspiration - Abe Frajndlich
Abe Frajndlich
An innovative freelance photographer best known for his portraits, Abe (Abraham Samuel) Frajndlich was born in a displaced persons camp in Frankfurt, Germany.
Inspiration - Axel Hoedt
Axel Hoedt
Axel Hoedt was born in Freiburg in 1966 and studied photo design at the University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld. He has lived and worked in London since 1999. Axel Hoedt has received numerous awards such as the Gold Medal of Lead Awards in 2010 and the Otto-Steinert-Preis of the German Society of Photography in 2011.
Inspiration - Andreas Gurksy
Andreas Gurksy
Andreas Gursky is a German photographer and professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany. He is known for his large format architecture and landscape colour photographs, often using a high point of view. His works reach some of the highest prices in the art market among living photographers.
I was lucky to exhibit next to him at The Long Beach Aquarium at a Night Dive Exhibition.
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