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EMS : CELEBRATING 800 ART FILMS AND COUNTING

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Channel: ERIC MINH SWENSON ART FILMS · 2016 · Education

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Film by Eric Minh Swenson.

Eric Minh Swenson (EMS) has been celebrating the art and culture of Southern California since he moved to area in 2001. After producing and directing three feature films, he began work as as a full-time photojournalist and film documentarian. Since 2011, Swenson has produced over 800 short films on artists and exhibitions as part of his Take 1 Art Series, now numbered as a body of work. The films serve as a current cultural documentation of artists’ process and studio practice, while the exhibition films, recorded within the space of the gallery or museum institution exhibiting works, further the historical context.  Swenson has also relentlessly photographed art openings across the Southland, ardently bringing the milieu to the public eye while capturing artists, collectors and enthusiasts in situ. He continues to work with many galleries, museums, and art fairs, bringing to public awareness the vibrancy of the ever-burgeoning art scene in Los Angeles and surrounding areas. Through photography and film, EMS has chronicled the arts at a professional and popular level never before seen. His passion for art and his facility with both traditional and social media has increased awareness of Southern California, and especially Los Angeles, as an international arts city.

EMS blogs for Huffington Post Arts as an ongoing photojournalism survey of art exhibition openings titled EMS N(art)rative. Through his lens he documents a photographic essay or visual "N(art)rative" that captures the happenings, personalities, collectors, gallerists, artists and the art itself; all elements that form the richly varied and textured fabric of the SoCal art world. This reconnaissance offers a unique view for serious art world players to obtain news and information on the current pulse of what's in the now, yet capturing timeless indelible images for posterity and legacy.

He has recently started painting his “Flora Series” after a 10-year hiatus. The series of flowers represents a timeless universal language which all generations of people can identify with…flowers. 

EMS is also a contributor to Art LTD, Artillery Magazine, Malibu 90265 Magazine, Autre, and Cartwheel and Getty Images. 

For more info on Eric Minh Swenson visit his website at thuvanarts.com. His art films can be seen at thuvanarts.com/take1

Eric Minh Swenson also covers the international art scene and his writings and photo essays can be seen at Huffington Post Arts : http://m.huffpost.com/us/author/eric-minh-swenson/

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