Preview of Dan Novakowski show

Rest of the article here

“I just love photography, and I admit I tend to go to extremes in my work,” said Novakowski, a Miller artist who has, at times, been a poet, a painter, a newspaper reporter and graphic designer. “This is just so different, you wonder what their stories are or what’ll happen next.”

A couple of paragraphs from a piece in the June 25th Post Tribune by Michael Gonzalez. Dan will be showing at Isabella Bean thru September and October 2009.

Most of Novakowski’s works contain traditional compositional elements of good photography — the straight edge of a butcher’s knife and a man’s tattooed arms framing a woman’s face or manes of blond hair flowing like raging rivers across prints — but it’s the splashes of thickly layered, water color painted features that jump start the life of their models.