Music Walk returns to downtown Fort Myers on Friday, February 17, 2012 with a line-up of exciting new bands, groups and solo performers and fascinating exhibitions in the River District's art galleries and boutiques. For example, at Hideaway Sports Bar on Dean Street, it's live music by Rob Matson and at the Indigo Room, rockabilly band Memphis 56 entertains.
Memphis 56 plays Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, and some very old country music. Founder Todd Fadely told Florida Weekly in 2007 that "Rockabilly started in the south. A hillbilly guitar player trying to play rock and roll. A lot of the early rockabilly didn't have a drummer. A lot of them are covered songs: bluegrass songs or old standard songs. Rockabilly could almost be called the first punk rock. It was never really a mainstream music." But it is mainstream during Music Walk at the Indigo Room.
An Alternative View: Rebecca Sexton Larson & Matt Larson is on exhibit at In One Instant Gallery.
Matt Larson has 27 years of corporate marketing and photography experience. "I'm all about marrying contemporary photography with developing processes from the 1840s. Like salt printing, the dominant paper-based photographic process for producing positive prints from 1839 through approximately 1860.
Created by British photographer William Henry Fox Talbot, the technique involves coating sheets of paper with silver salts. Salt prints could be made from either paper or glass negatives. Paper negatives produce a grainy and slightly mottled image. Glass negatives produced a sharp, crisp image. Both have white highlights.
"It's a technique I learned at a workshop in Pittsburgh," Matt explains, pointing to the results of the process hanging on the walls of In One Instant.
An award-winning artist with three Florida Artist Fellowships and 12 years as a museum educator, Rebecca Sexton Larson was designated Tampa’s Photo Laureate in 2005.
"I use a pinhole camera with no viewfinder," Rebecca said of her mixed media works at In One Instant. "The characteristic of this type of photography is that there is no focal point. Rather, the image is sharp from top to bottom, which gives it an ethereal look."
Rebecca prints her images on a fiber-based paper, "which allows me to paint over them." But perhaps the most interesting aspect of Rebecca's mixed media pieces is that they are stitched together. "To make the larger works, I had to piece together pieces of fiber paper with stitches."
Matt and Rebecca are also co-founders of the Boxfotos Airstream. That’s a 23-foot 2008 International Flying Cloud RV that serves as their home away from home for location/travel shoots as well as their moving gallery/studio, office and classroom. Interestingly, the Larsons built their Boxfotos.com website (which originated as a blog) before they even bought the RV. When the concept caught a lot buzz from friends, collectors and art organizations, they had to follow through and make the purchase. “It was one of those cases where we acted as if we were up and running in the Airstream, but we hadn’t even purchased it yet. Once we started getting requests to bring it to various cities, we knew we were onto something special,” said Matt.
The couple now teaches photography (historical processes) on location, offers portfolio reviews and travels to show their works of art out of their Boxfotos Airstream gallery/studio. Their work can be seen at boxfotos.com or you can friend them on Facebook (Boxfotos Airstream).
In One Instant Gallery of Photography is located at 1526 Jackson Street, just around the corner from French Connection restaurant and cafe.
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