Images from: Homage to Rothko, Sequoia Trees and Neogenesis Three

Homage to Rothko

This series is an amalgam of collaged images taken of the sky in Malibu. The second part are images based on imagination.

Neogenesis Three

Photography has migrated from a mimetic discipline to a conceptual art form. This series of images are an amalgam of multiple disparate photographs recombined to produce  entirely new images-mirroring Duchamp's concept of art works as "definitively unfinished."

Neogenesis 3 extends these concepts with composite abstract images from an amalgam of  disparate photographs constructed from an extensive data base of prior projects.


Who is Richard Ehrlich…

Photography has been an abiding passion for me since childhood. After many years of taking intra-operative surgical photographs, I began focusing on landscape photography. A life-long infatuation with the Impressionist painters, who depended more on feeling than fact, led to my overall desire to capture provocative images that describe how I feel when visualizing a scene rather than simply representing what is actually seen.

A natural curiosity for the visually unusual led me to photograph abandoned houses in Namibian desert, and long abandoned diamond mining camps that had not been visited for over 50 years. The desire to capture these almost surreal images of nature reclaiming the desert fostered similar projects such as the abandoned Cook County Hospital in Chicago, built in 1845, and Belmont Park in downtown Los Angeles, centered around a graffiti park undergoing demolition.

The Homage to Rothko series is a paean to my favorite painter whose work has been an inspirational foundation for many years. Anatomia Digitale (Nazraeli Press 2009) represents permutations and interpretations of radiological based images as a basis for artistic expression and celebration of the exquisite beauty of the human form.

Reverie focuses on images reminiscent of dream states, while The Other Side of The Sky is a conceptual project inspired by Yves Klein "signing" the sky as his first work in 1947. The images are based on actual Malibu sky images that have been reinterpreted and rendered into pure abstraction, implying what might exist on the other side of the sky. 

Face-The Music (Steidl 2016)  captures, in portraiture, how musicians feel while listening to music of their choice.

Faces of Promise: Looking Beyond Autism photographs children on the autism spectrum with notations from their parents. It serves to counteract uninformed and erroneous stereotypes of autism and portrays these children with promise, dignity and hope.

 
My passion for making photographs, much like a painter’s passion to lay down marks, comes from a desire to express how I feel rather than to simply depict what is seen.
— Richard M. Ehrlich
 

Neogenesis 1, combines disparate photographs to form completely new images, mirroring Duchamp's credo that all art is in reality "definitively unfinished".

Neogenesis 2 - takes this one step further with Neogenesis 1 as a starting point and applying inkjet gel transfers to the underlying image, again resulting in a new aesthetic sensibility.

What's Past is Prologue: That Was Then, This is Now - The title is derived from Shakespeare's TEMPEST-Act II Scene 1. The past is the predicate for the present which in turn sets the stage for the future. Mirroring the ancient Greek concept that art is always in a state of "becoming," this series portraying iconic paintings and photographs demonstrates that artistic expression can recontextualize art from the past . The series  serves as the basis of a continuum of unique permutations and iterations, acting as a bridge from the past to the present.

Surface Aria: Inside The Outside - Meticulous attention to surface rendering has preoccupied sculptors for millennia. This project captures coned-down macro views of iconic sculptural surfaces that when isolated portray fascinating abstract designs and patterns.

Out of the Fire documents the devastation from the Woolsey- Malibu Fire of 2018. The fire destroyed 100,00 acres of land, 1600 structures and led to an evacuation of 295,000 people. Abstract images from the sides of burned cars form the basis of this project.

IN LIBRIS XI chooses eleven seminal works of literature which are described with text by Lowell Gallagher Professor of English at UCLA and accompanying illustrations. We chose works that exemplified iconicity, excellence, popularity and diversity over the ages.

Arolsen Holocaust Archives published by Steidl in 2021 - a compilation of photographs from the Holocaust Archives in Bad Arolsen, Germany.These were the first images allowed to be released showing the inner workings of the infamous archives documenting meticulous records of German imprisonment.

Ars Scientifica a series of images, illustrating various permutations of scientific illustrations.

Mark Making is the basis of all art. A series of images illustrating the concept of marks as the basis of all drawing and painting.

Sequoia Reimagined capturing the majesty of the sequoia giants in a series of images, utilizing creativity and imagination in color.

Windmills of My Mind This project  is divided into two parts, a continuation of the concept of combining original work into new transformations. Part 1. Original drawings and paintings and Part 2. Transformation of the original images into a new artistic expression and aesthetic.


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