A reception for the artists, Doug King and Brian Osgood, will be held Saturday, June 9, at the arts center located at 334 Highway 9 North. The show runs through June 30. Both King and Osgood are local artists.
The reception for King's "Faces of Dawson County" will be held from 1-3 p.m., while the reception for Osgood's "Photo Imagery" will be held from 2-4 p.m.
King was born in 1950 and lives in Dawsonville. He is a self-taught artist who works in several media. His favorites include woodturning and photography. In his woodturnings, King likes to make functional pieces as well as fine art pieces. Over the years he has grown to adding enhancements to his woodturnings, from painting dragonflies or botanicals on them to his latest love of pyrography. The piece in this latest show titled "Four Horses" is a prime example of pyrography - by burning the horse pictures into the wood as our earliest ancestors did with their cave paintings.
Local citizens whose images appear in King's "Faces" exhibit include: Margie Weaver, Bindy Auvermann, Nancy Stites, Jean Greenway, Grace Privette, Helen Taylor, Marcia Chelf, Claudia Gibson, Dr. Brandon Mills, Dr. Paul Behrmann, Ken Newell, Nicky Gilleland, Dave Hinderliter, Billy Carlisle, Billy Thurmond and Lanier Swafford.
Osgood, who resides in Big Canoe, was born in 1960 in Atlanta. He got his first camera, a Polaroid Swinger, when he was 8-years-old and began to take a serious interest in photography during high school. He received his associate arts degree from the Art Institute of Atlanta in 1980 and has worked in the field ever since.
His "Photo Imagery" exhibit showcases shots captured with a Diana camera, a plastic-bodied camera that utilizes 120 roll-film. It's known for its soft focus and quirky characteristics; its low-quality lens offers blurred focus and light leaks - all qualities that have made the Diana a popular one for its artistic effects in photographs.
In addition, Osgood used cross processing and projection in this show's work. Cross processing is the procedure of deliberately processing film in a chemical solution intended for a different type of film; results vary from odd colors and low or high contrast. Projection is Osgood's method that uses slides projected onto panels, cylinders, boards, fabrics and other objects. The surfaces are placed at different depths to achieve various results.
"I have found that an ordinary image can be given new life with this procedure," Osgood says.
For more information about the artists, visit www.dougkingphotographer.com and www.brianosgood.com. Call 706-216-2787 or visit www.dawsonarts.org to learn more about the exhibits or the reception June 9.
Examples of Doug King's work (l) and Brian Osgood's (r)
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