Carole Glauber says of her series, 'The Dark Side of Hawaii', "This series reflects my interest in observing and capturing the light at night and manifests my experience in street photography.

Night light creates different effects that echo my attachment to soft focused photographs reminiscent of the Pictorial era in our photographic history, including the invention of the Autochrome, an early 20th century color process using glass plates coated with microscopic grains of potato starch and color dyes. In this series, the parameters of available light alter the product from its daytime vision, but still maintains the reality of what I saw.

Also, by using my cell phone camera, I experience a high level of spontaneity and I enjoy the aura of mystery and the ominous sensation that can result from this process. Even the darkness—what is concealed, hidden, unexplained— needs our light.

I am a long-time photographer with experience in many realms. I am probably one of the few photographers who is also a published photo historian, a confluence that influences the photographs I make. In recent years, I was a finalist for the Julia Margaret Cameron Award, and received honorable mentions at the Soho Photo Gallery International Krappy Kamera Competition and the Lightbox Photo Gallery while also exhibiting my work at ValidFoto Gallery in Barcelona, PH21 Gallery in Budapest, and the Center for Fine Art Photography, Blue Sky Gallery, ASmith Gallery, RayKo Photo Center, and PhotoPlace Gallery in the United States.

I am the recipient of the Peter E. Palmquist Photographic History Research Fellowship, a Winterthur Museum Fellowship, an Oregon Humanities Research Fellowship and grants from the National Coalition of Independent Scholars, Regional Arts and Culture Council, and Northwest Womens History Project. My book about the Pictorialist photographer and Photo-Secession member, Myra Albert Wiggins, and many published articles reflect my research in early women photographers, along with the occasional interview and book review."

Career Highlights:
AWARDS:

Pollux Awards, 11th Edition, Winner, Finalist, and Honorable Mention, 2018.
Julia Margaret Cameron Awards for Women Photographers, Honorable Mention & Finalist, 2018.
Julia Margaret Cameron Awards for Women Photographers, Finalist, 2017.
Soho Photo Gallery, International Krappy Kamera Contest, Honorable Mention, 2016.
Lightbox Photography Gallery, Plastic Fantastic VII, Honorable Mention, 2016.
Peter E. Palmquist Photographic History Research Fellowship, 2008.
Winterthur Museum Research Fellowship, 2007.
National Coalition of Independent Scholars Research Grant, 2004.
Regional Arts and Culture Council, Portland, Oregon, Literary Grant, 1994.
Northwest Women's History Project, Publishing Grant, 1994.
Oregon Council for the Humanities Research Fellowship, 1994.

EXHIBITIONS:

Griffin Museum of Photography, Lafayette Center, Portraits, Juror: Paula Tognarelli, Boston, 2018
Silicon Valley Plastic Camera Show, Juror: Ann Jastrab, Santa Clara University, California, 2018
Fifth Biennial of Fine Art & Documentary Photography, Barcelona, Spain, 2018
PH21 Gallery, Peripheral Vision, Curator: Zolt Batori, Budapest, Hungary, 2018.
Center for Fine Art Photography, Curator Jennifer Murray, Fort Collins, CO, Dec. 1017-Jan 2018.
Somerville Toy Camera Festival, The Nave Annex, Juror: Michael Kirchner, Somerville, MA 2017.
ValidFoto Gallery, Julia Margaret Cameron Award, Barcelona, Spain, 2017.
Blue Sky Gallery, Eclipse, Curator: Chris Rauschenberg, Portland, OR 2017.
PhotoPlace Gallery, Portals, Curator, Aline Smithson, Middlebury, Vermont, 2017.
ASmith Gallery, The Imperfect Lens, Curator, Susan Burnstine, Johnson City, Texas, 2017
Blue Sky Gallery Northwest Viewing Drawers, Portland, Oregon, 2017.
RayKo Photo Center, 10th Juried Plastic Camera Show, San Francisco, CA 2017.
Harvey Milk Photo Center, Nocturnes & Noir, San Francisco, California, 2017.
The Curated Fridge, Curator, Elin Spring. Somerville, MA, Dec 2016-Jan 2017.
The PhotoPlace Gallery, Personal Narrative, Middleton, Vermont, 2016.
PH21 Gallery, Contrast, Budapest, Hungary, 2016.
Gotthelf Gallery, Israel in Light and Shadow, Solo Exhibit La Jolla, California, 2016.
Soho Photo Gallery, International Krappy Kamera Contest, New York City, 2016.
 
“Photography,” The Cambridge Dictionary of Judaism and Jewish Culture, Cambridge University Press, 2011.
“Lily Edith White (1866-1944)” The Oregon Encyclopedia Project, The Oregon Historical Society, 2009.
“A Look at the Veracious Chronicles of the Cliff Cottage Club,” Oregon Historical Quarterly, Spring 2008. 
“Eyes of the Earth: Lily White, Sarah Ladd, and the Oregon Camera Club,” Oregon Historical Quarterly, Spring 2007.
“An Interview With Michael Kenna,” The Photo Review, Winter 2004.
“Isabella Bird Bishop: Korea, the Yangtze Valley, and Beyond,” The Photo Review, Summer 2002.          
“Songs of a Pagan: A Study of Anne Brigman’s Poetry,” The Photo Review, Spring 2000.
“Myra Albert Wiggins: Arts and Crafts Photographer,” Style 1900, May 1999.

www.caroleglauber.com
 

IF VIEWING ON COMPUTER-CLICK ON ARROW AT TOP OF PAGE TO CONTINUE

​IF VIEWING ON PHONE SCROLL DOWN

Chelle Delaney says, "These images are an exploration of Rachelle Clemons, my deceased mother's identity in portraits, one an oil painting by Leonebel Jacobs
(1883-1967) painted when my mother was in her 30s and the other a photograph taken by me some 30 years later when she was in her late 60s. When I was a small child, I saw the painted image as what my mother looked like.

When I took her picture as an adult, I saw a very different person from the one who
was hanging on the wall in paint. While it is the melding of two different mediums, it is also an examination of how and what we know from a representation at a moment in time and whether one piece of art is the more revelatory in its essence because one knew or had the most intimate
knowledge of a person at a particular moment in time. Of course then we have to ask, what does knowledge mean when it comes to art.

While I am jealous of Jacobs' adroit painterly brush strokes, each of us were portraying a different woman at
very different times. So what was the essence of my mother’s soul?  When I came back to these images, what I
saw most powerfully in both was her eyes, which always looked through time and into my soul."

Chelle Delaney graduated from the University of South Carolina where she studied English Literature. She later attended the School of Visual Arts and
the Southwest School of Arts in San Antonio, Texas, to study photography. Her interest in photography grew out of her
work as a print reporter and editor.
    
 

IF VIEWING ON COMPUTER-CLICK ON ARROW AT TOP OF PAGE TO CONTINUE

​IF VIEWING ON PHONE SCROLL DOWN

Collins Walker says, "My photomontages are like paintings. The actual setting of a picture looks far different from the final tableau represented in one of my works.

One aspect, of course has to with perspective.  Photomontage can add an element of cubism to photography.  But it can also add the element of time.  Nothing stays the same long in our world.  Clouds pass, tides fluctuate, winds reshape the dunes.  Trees sway, take on new colors, then lose their leaves.  And of course the light is always changing.

My experiments with photomontage go back over 30 years.  They are comprised of sometimes hundreds of individual photographs.  I often say that one can take an hour to shoot but months to put together into a coherent image.  These completed artworks can be quite large and impactful.  Their depth and texture can be hard to appreciate in a small format.  I have just completed a large group of photomontages that I am calling "The National Park Series" - some of which are represented here."

A life-long artist and photographer, Collins Walker originally hailed from South Carolina.  During college he spent a great deal of time in the Western United States, working two summers in Yellowstone National Park, and a winter skiing in Heavenly Valley, California. 

He also spent a summer talking an extensive film production class at UCLA.  After graduating from the University of South Carolina, Walker went immediately to Los Angeles and worked in film production and post-production for 40 years. 

During that time Walker continued to study art and photography, taking classes at Otis-Parsons and UCLA Extension.  He also continued to produce his own artwork.  In 1984 he married Keven Barrett, an elementary art educator.  Together they raised two children and kept in touch with the Los Angeles art scene.  Now retired from film production Walker is focusing his energies on his first artistic love, photomontage.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:

Collins Walker’s experiments with photomontage go back decades.  They explore a world between photography and painting.  Originally popularized by artist David Hockney, these artworks are comprised of sometimes hundreds of individual pictures arranged into a cohesive tableau.  Each picture is a unique achievement, like a painting.

EDUCATION AND RELEVANT EXPERIENCE:

Professional film experience in Hollywood working for such companies as Efilm/Deluxe Laboratories, Sony Columbia Tri-Star, Hammer Creative and Intralink.

Photography under Don Wooley, Steve Cohen, Linda Troller and Van Ditthavong.

Art and Painting under Florence Shennan, Nell Lafaye and Rachel Rosenthal.

Mr. Walker’s photomontages are held in the collections of private patrons in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Berkley, San Diego, Atlanta and Jacksonville Florida.


Buonconvento #1 - Italy’s Buonconvento is one of the most idyllic spots in Tuscany.  A mid-summer thunderstorm rolled through the valley and I caught the elements for this scene out of the window of our room at the bed and breakfast where we were staying.

collins.walker@verizon.net  Photojoiners.com 
310-729-2757

Goodyear Blimp - This picture confuses many people at first.  How did you get two Goodyear Blimps? they wonder.  Of course there was only one blimp when I started shooting the tableau.  But the wind shifted and the blimp swung around to another position on the pole to which it was tethered.  I shot it in that position as well.  When I started to build the photomontage of a family about to go on a blimp ride it just seemed that two Goodyear Blimps were better than one.

Yosemite Sapling - I asked my friend, fellow photographer, former rock climber and current Yosemite resident, Chris Falkenstein when was the best time to visit the park.  He said, “Today!”  So I guess we were lucky enough to hit it just right.  I’ve always said that it’s hard to take a bad picture in Yosemite, as this montage will attest. 


IF VIEWING ON COMPUTER-CLICK ON ARROW AT TOP OF PAGE TO CONTINUE

​IF VIEWING ON PHONE SCROLL DOWN

Curator Bob Weil says, "I was intrigued about a number of elements in this image. The shadowy masculine presence in the middle distance with a bit of a swagger to his stance, the reclining female nude in the foreground with the crease running down the center of her body (as if she is internally divided about her next move), and the serene, even blissful look on her face that belied any concern about may happen next.

The background is a bit surreal and suggests a dream (is she subject or object?), and the textures and creases separate as much as they connect.

You can imagine any number of narratives to support what is happening in the scene – happy dreamer / imagined lover (but which is which), a moment before the rendezvous or minutes after, or unrequited attention (the man, after all, has his back to our heroine)? Works of art challenge and tantalize, and this collage accomplishes that and stays with you.
 
As part of the process of recognizing competition winners, I like to invite the artist to say something about the backstory underlying the artwork, and to share a bit of technical journey they took in creating the piece (if they’re willing to share this information).

Here is what Diane Kaye had to say about her inspiration in creating the piece:  “Her software matched her up with a handsome guy.  One night he came to dinner, but excused himself to go have a cigarette.  Hoping to seduce him, she dipped into the water.  Suddenly she had a psychic-intuitive vision of him far away, moving away, and she felt like hopelessly staying there in the deep pond, sinking.”
 
And because so many of us enter competitions to see if we can win, we also want very much to see how others achieve  their objectives in the hermetically sealed worlds they create, I like to ask a bit about technique. Because who wouldn’t like to know a bit about another artist’s creative process?

Here is what Diane has to say on this front:  “I searched in my archives for two existing 35mm negatives which would tell a story, and rather than totally overlap them, as I’d previously done, I trimmed most of the sprockets off the one and overlapped them partially, careful to keep the man in a dreamlike illusion, a smaller scale, suggesting further away than the girl. 

The cut edge is the 'water level.'  I held them together in a 4x5 glass negative carrier.”

Addional Review by curator Sandrine Hermand-Grisel:
"This image is really stunning!
It reminded me actually of the surrealist movement in France and the work of Man Ray and Lee Miller. Beautiful composition! I love it, great work!

http://www.hermandgrisel.com/index.php
Founder All-About-Photo
https://www.all-about-photo.com/

Diane Kaye says, "I fell passionately in love with photography one night in a darkroom class back in the film days, and that energy remains alive these many years later.  Pictorialism represents, for me, one of the important ways I have of getting away from literal reality while using the most literal tool, the basic camera.  I envy the fact that painters can wake up in the morning and paint their dreams, and that particular yearning pushes me to strive as far as I dare to make some wonderful non-literal sense with my work, whichever particular way I decide to plan my little escape from reality.  Sometimes, as is the case with these 3 images, I like to explore what I can do with film and the simplest of escape techniques.

BIO - 3 Typical Years of Awards 

2018
Award for "Double Infinity", Black & White Magazine: "Looking Back—Looking Forward 2018 contest", Pinhole/Plastic Camera category, December 2018 Magazine
2 Honorable Mentions: The International Photographic Salon of Japan, The Asahi Shimbun, The All-Japan Ass'n of Photographic Societies, Tokyo, Japan for "Church, Santa Fe" Panoramic Infrared Lith Print
2017 Monochrome Awards - announced 2018 - Honorable Mentions: in Abstract for "Olancha", in Conceptual for "5 Red Balls", in Landscape for "Woman in the Dunes"
2nd Prize, "Still Life": "Chromatic Photography Awards International Color Photography Contest 2017" (for a Lumen Print -announced 2018)
2017
Chromatic Photography Awards, 2nd Place, Still Life, for "Bottles in the Rain" Lumen Print
2017 MonoVisions Honorable Mention for "Skin on SIlver" Series "Nude" Category
2017 MonoVisions Honorable Mention for "The Intimacy of the Photogram" Series "Fine Art" Category
12th Annual Black & White Spider Awards:
Honorable Mention: Abstract Category for "Spontaneous Dance"
Nominee: Abstract Category for "Raindrops on Lumen Print"
10th Annual Pollux/Gala Awards:
Finalist, Fine Art "The Long Moment" Color Series
Honorable Mention, Still Life, "The Flow" BW Series 
Invitation to show at: 5th Biennial of Fine Art & Documentary Photography, Barcelona
10th Annual International Color Awards: Nominees in Abstract ("Birds of Paradise"), in Fine Art ("English Cathedral", and in Still Life ("Blondes Have More Fun")
Honorable Mention, The 77th Inernational Photographic Salon of Japan, The All-Japan Ass'n of Photographic Societies and the Asahi Shimbun, Honorable Mention
Honorable Mention, New York Center for Photographic Art, "Liquid", Juror: Debra Klomp Ching, Owner of Klompching Gallery, NYC
International Photographer of the Year 2017:
Fine Art - Abstract "His and Hers" 
Nature - Trees "Arboretum of the Imagination Series" 
Category: Open Theme "Glass I Series"; in addition, "Organic Whoosh Series"
2016
IPA 2016, Honorable Mention, Still Life for "Sehnsucht - 3D Lumen Print"
"Pannonia Reflections Salon of Photography" International Exhibition
"The 77th Annual International Photographic Salon of Japan" "The All-Japan Assoc. of Photographic Societies"
Honorable Mention for "Heel and Toe", to tour various Japan cities for 2 years starting March 2017.
"Monochrome Awards": 7 Honorable Mentions in Landscapes, Conceptual, Nude, Abstract, and Fine Art
11th Annual Black & White 
Spider Awards:
Nominee in Abstract | Dune Goddess 
Nominee in Abstract | Spontaneous Dance 
Nominee in Fine Art | Sweet Dreams 
Nominee in Nature | Achafalaya #1 
Nominee in Nature | Storm, Monument Valley 
Nominee in Silhouette | Into the Light 
Nominee in Still Life | Equivalences 
Nominee in Still Life | Medusa's Bouquet 
9th Annual International Color Awards:
Nominees in Abstract: "Yellow Whoosh" and "Red from Lumen Series"; Nominees in Still Life: "Organic Purple Heart" and "Dance of the Trumpets from 'The Beauty of Decay'"
"ND Awards 2016" Honorable Mentions in "Fine Art Other" and "Fine Art Abstract"
Finalist, International Photography Competition "NAKED" at Soho Gallery, NYC
Short-listed: Magnum Photography Awards 2016
Prix de la Photographie Paris, Honorable Mentions for 2 Series: "Alternative Process Reds" and "The Blink of an Eye"
Piazza Italiano, Berlin, Germany (5 Images): "4th International Biennial of Fine Art and Documentary Photography”

EDUCATION

Liberal Arts Degree, University of California, Berkeley: Edward Frank Kraft Scholarship Prize; Distinction in General Scholarship, Phi Beta Kappa
Karl August Universitaet, Goettingen, Germany
Studies with Ruth Bernhard, Michael Kenna, Jerry Uelsmann, Ray McSavaney, Ansel Adams, Rod Dresser, and other master photographers ”

www.DianeKaye.com
www.FineArtBotanicals.net  
 

IF VIEWING ON COMPUTER-CLICK ON ARROW AT TOP OF PAGE TO CONTINUE

​IF VIEWING ON PHONE SCROLL DOWN

Curator Bob Weil says, "Ellen Jantzen's "To Have and Have Not" is stunning in its simplicity, and despite the fact that a fire rages in the center of the scene, it is a beautiful image that conjures up magic and the arrival of a thunderbolt as much as it does immolation and destruction.

In fact, it could be that we are witnessing some sort of sacrifice to the gods, based on the aureole with which the artist encircles the flames."

Ellen Jantzen says, "These pieces are from my series “Unity of Time and Place”
    
Some say, all time exists at once; the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future are regarded as a whole. As     always, I am vastly interested in reality... so this cohesion is mesmerizing to me.
After spending the last several years immersed in the past I am ready to embrace the future. But as I set out, the past is with me, transformed. All the losses are still there but there is a brightness forming that allows me to see the entirety, the unity of time and place.

I don’t consider myself a "photographer" but an image-maker, as I create work that bridges the world of photography, prints and collage. As digital cameras began producing excellent resolution, I found my perfect medium. It was a true confluence of technical advancements and creative desire that culminated in my current explorations in photo-inspired art using both a camera to capture imagery and a computer to alter, combine and manipulate the pieces.

I was awarded “Special Photographer of The Year” in the 2017 International Photography Awards.

I was 1st place winner in the 2017 International Photography Awards, Digitally Enhanced Category

I was one of 15 women photographers chosen to receive the Julia Margaret Cameron Award!!!  This is quite a distinction in the photography world honoring women photographers!!!

Along with the honor, I participated in the Berlin Biennial that took place in October 2016.

I was also awarded First Place (Fine Art, Special Effects Category) in the Moscow International Foto Awards, 2016 and First Prize, Fine Art in the prestigious PX3, Prix de la Photographie Paris for my series "Transplanting Reality; Transcending Nature""

www.ellenjantzen.com/
www.artsy.net/artist/ellen-jantzen
facebook.com/ellen.jantzen
twitter.com/#!/FissionFoto
www.instagram.com/ellenjantzen/

representation:
http://susanspiritusgallery.com/
http://www.brunodavidgallery.com/
http://www.qlickeditions.com/
https://www.editionone.gallery/

IF VIEWING ON COMPUTER-CLICK ON ARROW AT TOP OF PAGE TO CONTINUE

​IF VIEWING ON PHONE SCROLL DOWN

Eva Weiss says, "The work represented in this entry are portraits. Portraits of Places is a body of work I will always be working on. As I consider myself to be primarily a portraitist, I approach my landscapes in the same manner.  I want to describe a place in the same way I would a face or a character. It’s a portrait. A portrait of place."

Eva Weiss is an internationally exhibited and published fine art photographer. Her original images have often been
described as classical, theatrical, and dreamlike. 

Eva grew up in Philadelphia and received her BFA from Rochester Institute of Technology in 1971. 

Eva's work has been exhibited and published internationally since 1972. She received a Creative Arts Program Services
Grant in 1976. Her creative collaboration with Split Britches performance troupe - Peggy Shaw - Lois Weaver - Deb
Margolin-  has been exhibited extensively in NYC, Amsterdam, and London. 1984- 2015

Eva has been photographing the Gay and Lesbian community for over thirty years. Creating a body of work that focuses on
performance artists on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Lois Weaver - Peggy Shaw - Holly Hughes - Carmelita Tropicana - David Cale- Lisa Kron-Deb Margolin. This work has appeared on three book covers Butch/Femme 1995. Intimate Acts 1997. And Must 2008. A complete body of her work on Lois Weaver including the back and front cover appears in the definitive book on the artist. The Only Way Home is Through the Show. It includes images from a thirty five year photographic collaboration with performance artist, writer, and director Lois Weaver. 

The Museum of The City of New York features four of Ms. Weiss’s images of W.O.W performers at the exhibit Gay
Gotham. 2017. 

evaweissphotography.com
 

IF VIEWING ON COMPUTER-CLICK ON ARROW AT TOP OF PAGE TO CONTINUE

​IF VIEWING ON PHONE SCROLL DOWN

Henry Driftwood says, "I've always been impressed with what happens when Nature interplays with the printed image.

Discovering some strange leftover or forgotten image on the ground is like a detective story- 
how did the image end up left out in the open? What happened to it since then? Rain, snow, sun, fire? Wonderful stories, and if the image itself is inticing, all the more mysterious as to why it was left alone... "

Henry Driftwood is a photographer with a background in fine art. He has exhibited  mainly in shows in the southern California area. An uprooted Southerner with a degree in art from the USM, he has continued to adapt to the beautiful dry California air. 

 

IF VIEWING ON COMPUTER-CLICK ON ARROW AT TOP OF PAGE TO CONTINUE

​IF VIEWING ON PHONE SCROLL DOWN

Jane Schultz says, "As a self-taught photographer and artist, over recent years, I have immersed my passions into a newer art movement, visual art created almost exclusively using mobile devices.

I would describe my images as expressive or emotive, many with an element of the abstract. I use a lot of blending and distortion techniques. Unusual or disproportioned body shapes can be unsettling, and draw the eye. I also like to shoot in slow shutter, which gives an innate distortion to the capture. I also use collage work and blending and painting techniques to "showcase" distorted facial elements.

I could never have imagined where mobile artistry has taken me or the creative possibilities it has provided. Staying pure to mobile pushes me to produce a higher level image, to create with less to start with and from within. The ability to share both within a community and publicly in an instant is revolutionary and fundamental to the mobile art movement."

Jane Schultz is an award winning mobile artist from Pennsylvania, USA. Her work embodies a visual illustration of art created from mobile devices which manifest as expressive or emotive images many with an element of the abstract. Jane's images have been exhibited in museums, art centers, and galleries on an international basis, including in Florence, Rome, and Paris, and featured in numerous publications for photography and mobile artistry.

As NEM Artist, she curates the main submissions for the New Era Museum and, additionally, administers @ig_artistry and Edit from the Soul, Instagram and Facebook groups which promote originality, creativity, and emotive art.
 
RECENT CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:

Most Recent Honors (late 2017-2018):

    2017 MOBILE PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS - FIRST PLACE: Visual Fx  HONORABLE MENTIONS in 5 categories

-  TZIPAC 4th GoPix Exposee ( www.tzipac.com): 2nd Place Fine Art & Open 

      MIRA Mobile Prize, 4th Edition Shortlist 

      Wayne Art Center, Reflections of Radnor: Best in Show

    2018  EXHIBITIONS: 

-      Digital Originals, Community Art Center, PA;  9 pieces  (May-June 2018)

-      Radnor Reflections, landscape photography exhibition, Wayne Art Center, PA;  Nature’s Pallet (June 2018)

-      Monsters, Artelier Oblik, Paris, Fr; Migraine 1 (May 2018)

-      MAJE - Mobile Art Jazz Experience, a multi-sensory performance of jazztronica and visual arts, Florence & Rome, Italy; Superbug plus numerous pieces digitally  (May 2018)

-      iPhoneography Exhibition, SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC; Don’t Breathe (March 2018)

-      Phonographer Creatives Expo, Amsterdam, NA: Robotic (pinned) (Jan-Feb 2018)

    Juror: The EQUINOX EXPERIENCE, an immersive photo exhibition project of the New Era Museum, CROSSMEDIA GROUP and the Florence International Photography Awards (March 2017)

-  Docent: Pop Up Gallery, Celebrating Israel Through Art (Feb 2018)

-  Instructor: Main Line Night School and Community Art Center for Smartphone based classes (continuing)

-  Owner/Administrator: Curated art submission pages @ig_artistry (Instagram) and Edit from the Soul (Facebook) (continuing)

-  NEM Artist & Curator: New Era Museum (continuing)

www.janeschultzart.com

 Flickr and Instagram as @before.1st.light     

IF VIEWING ON COMPUTER-CLICK ON ARROW AT TOP OF PAGE TO CONTINUE

​IF VIEWING ON PHONE SCROLL DOWN

Karen Hochman Brown says, "My kaleidoscopic fascination goes back to my childhood days. I take a simple tube of cardboard and mirror, looking with one eye while closing the other. All is reflected light; the world goes away.

Computer software and hardware now replace my toy. I sit with a stylus and keyboard, watching the show unfold as I turn, layer, and spin reflections of my photographs. Not restricted to a flat mirror, I romp through polar space, fiddle with fractals, and play in the realm of infinite images.

I get great satisfaction spinning my digital kaleidoscope, creating each of the bits of the piece as a whole. But the real fun is weaving the many kaleidoscopic layers of my art into a single image. The finished piece should hold a cohesive energy and balance. Shading each layer creates depth. I want the viewer to be drawn into the singular world encased in the artwork."

Karen Hochman Brown [American, b.1958] is a Los Angeles-based nature photographer using software to manipulate her images into multi-layered kaleidoscopic constructs.

Her work is sensitive to the inherent beauty of the subjects as she strives to magnify that quality through focus and repetition. The resulting geometric forms resonate in harmony and discord, creating unique energies.

She studied art at Pitzer College, California College of Art and Art Center College of Design, but self-developed her processes through experimentation, relying heavily on skills learned as a graphic designer. Inspirations include Georgia O’Keeffe, Piet Mondrian, Frank Stella and the Geometric Abstraction movement.

Hochman Brown's work has been shown mainly in California and New York. In addition to the kaleidoscopic art, she works in digital painting and animation techniques.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:

Special Projects
               2017-18       Through the Eyes of Artists poster series, LA Metro, Los Angeles, CA 

Selected Solo Exhibitions
                      2018       Botanic Geometry, Crain Art Gallery, San Marino, CA
                     Shoreline Symmetry, The Main Gallery, Santa Clarita, CA
                     Elementals, Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA                      
                         Tidal Parity, California Center for Digital Art, Santa Ana, CA
                     Solo Show, Yuma Art Center, Yuma, AZ

                      2016       Reflections In The Garden, The Gallery at The Arboretum Library, Arcadia, CA
                     Alta/Pasa/Dena Open Studios Solo Show, Altadena, CA
                       Judaic Iterations, Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center, Pasadena, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions
                      2018       Blue Roof Studios Arts Festival, Blue Roof Studios, Los Angeles, CA
                     PØST: Kamikaze - Let Me Eat Cake, PØST Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
                     Soft Bytes: a feminist and female identified animation festival, Association of Hysteric Curators, Tiger Strikes Asteroid Los Angeles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
                     Abstraction, Art@The Six, Calabasas, CA­
                     2nd Annual Photographic Competition and Exhibition, LA ArtCore Brewery Annex, Los Angeles, CA

                      2017       Phenomena, Southern California Women’s Caucus for Art, Neutra Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
                     Off The Wall, Shoebox Projects, Los Angeles, CA
                     The Sunniest Place on Earth, Yuma Art Center, Yuma, AZ
                     Creactivaction, Art Landing Gallery, Inglewood , CA

                      2016       LACDA Top 40, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA
                     COLOR, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY
                     8th Annual 50|50 Show, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA

Artist-In-Residence
                          2016       The Gallery at The Arboretum Library, Arcadia, CA
                          2018       Crowell Public Library, San Marino, CA


Contact info:
hochmanbrown@gmail.com
(626) 222-9940
www.hochmanbrown.com
twitter.com/HochmanBrown
instagram.com/hochmanbrown
pinterest.com/KHochmanBrown
linkedin.com/in/karenhochmanbrown
facebook.com/KarenHochmanBrownArtist
 

CLICK ON ARROW AT TOP OF PAGE TO CONTINUE

Kathryn Dunlevie says of her series, 'MISTICK KREWES', "In New Orleans in 1857 a newly formed secret society, the Mistick Krewe of Comus, began the tradition of celebrating Mardi Gras with a torch-lit procession of extravagantly designed floats.

​My series "​Mistick Krewes​"​ is an homage to the rich jumble of that city’s overlapping cultures and the still perceptible aura of its tempestuous history. Since its founding in 1718, New Orleans’ cultural, political and natural landscapes have been continually invaded and eroded, bought and sold, enriched and transformed.

A visitor to New Orleans might pass through districts, buildings and gardens that exhibit centuries of intertwining Native American, Spanish, French, African​ ​and American influences. City streets are named for Greek muses, native tribes and 18th-century French nobility. Surrounding swamplands are swallowed by encroaching gulf waters.

The atmosphere is charged with an air of mystery, a strange sense of desire, and a whiff of something hazily remembered, beckoning from just around the next corner. It is a place where history is revered and where it can sometimes be ‘mistickally’ re-experienced.

In these works I am combining my photographs with images from the internet, print media and old photo albums. Adding layer upon layer, revisiting each composition again and again, I am working toward scenes that compel even as they may mislead.

Interweaving elements from nature, history and contemporary culture conjures up landscapes inhabited by plants, wildlife, and otherworldly beings, evoking lost cultures and the Mardi Gras costumes that celebrate them."

Kathryn Dunlevie is a photography-based artist whose work has been exhibited throughout the U.S. and internationally. Cathy Kimball, Executive Director of the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, writes of Dunlevie’s work:

"​Through brilliant compositional detail and manipulation, she creates disconcerting, surprising, inexplicable spaces and scenarios – swimming pools that have many points of entry, cloisters with multiple arched domes, streetscapes that elude mapmakers, and interior settings that are almost, but not quite, right.​"​

​Dunlevie has always been intrigued by spatial and temporal inconsistencies, and by each individual’s particular and shifting sense of reality. She fragments, reassembles and layers photographs to suggest the intrusion of alternate worlds. Her photographs of everyday images are transformed into compositions that hint at mysterious underlying structures and intangible extra dimensions.

Born on the east coast, Dunlevie lived in six different states by the time she was 12, and in Paraguay when she was 16. She has a B.A. in fine arts from Rice University, and studied art history and film at the University of Paris, painting at California College of the Arts, and photography in Madrid. She lives in Palo Alto.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:

Eight solo exhibitions at FotoFest

​International (​Houston​​)​ (2002 - 2018)

Included in China's PingYao International Photography Festival (2017)

Included in Saatchi Art's "BEST of 2014"

Reviewed in Korea's Photo+ magazine, (2013)

Included in "Parallax Views", San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, California

​ (2013)​
​Included ​​four times ​in Germ​​any's  Photographers Network Selection (2006-2013)
Included the US Art in Embassies Program in Moscow (2012) 

Two​-​time Arts Council Silicon Valley Artist Laureate Fellow with cash awards and solo exhibitions at the Triton Museum of Art,​ ​Santa Clara, ​California (2001 and 2005)
Included in "Fresh Work IV: Actualities", Southeast Museum of Photography, Florida (2004)

www.kathryndunlevie.com
 

CLICK ON ARROW AT TOP OF PAGE TO CONTINUE

Kathy Curtis Cahill series- 'Moonlight Fantasies'

PHOTOGRAPHY SHOWS:

Feature Artist Voyage LA  4/23/18
TAG Gallery Solo Show Sept 2017
Keystone Gallery Solo Show Jan 2017
A Smith Gallery Juried show “She” May 2017
LA ArtCore 1st Annual Photographers Competition & Exhibition Feb12-28 LA Ca.
Solo Show “Make Believe” Jan 21-31 Keystone Gallery Los Angeles Ca .
TAG Gallery New Artists Showcase Jan 3-21 Santa Monica Ca.
Photowork 2017 National Juried Photo Exhibition Jan21-March 4 Barrett Art Center Poughkeepsie NY
iMotif  National Juried iPhone photo competition Jan 27-March 20 Sohn Fine Art Lenox MA
fotofoto gallery 12th Annual Competition Juried Show Nov 30, 2016 -Jan 7, 2017 Huntington NY
National Juried Show “I Live Here” Dec 1-23 Fabulon Gallery Charleston SC
Black Box Gallery Juried show “ Colorburst” August 2016 Portland Oregon
A Smith Gallery Johnson City TX Juried Show “Alphabet” July 2016
Gallery 825 Los Angeles Juried show “Out There” June10-18 2016
Rolling Hills Estates CC Juried April-June 2016
Solo Show AC Gallery “Culture Of Beauty”  Los Angeles April 2016
A Smith Gallery Johnson City TX Juried Show  RED (April-May 2016)
Oddville Gallery Los Angeles Juried Show (April 2016)
Solo Show “Memories and Demons”- Artists Corner Gallery-Los Angeles,Ca, (July 11-August 8, 2015)
Curators Pick-Your Daily Photograph-Duncan Miller on line Gallery (5/15/2015)
Left Coast Juried Show- Sanchez Art Center- Pacifica, Ca. (April 2014)
Solo Show “Night Echoes” Calumet Gallery, Los Angeles Ca. (January 2014)
Featured Emerging Artist-Your Daily Photograph-Ducan Miller on line Gallery  (January 10, 2014)

ON LINE PUBLICATIONS:

ArtQuench Magazine Featured Artist in Jan 8, 2017 issue
Dotphotozine finalist for Excellence in Photography Award 2016  July 11, 2016 edition
Silvershotz Magazine Feature Article “Culture of Beauty” Aug 16 2016 Vol.19 Ed. 11 
L’Oeil de la Photographie Portfolio of the Weekend May 7-8 2016 

www.KathyCurtisCahillFineArtPhotography.com

CLICK ON ARROW AT TOP OF PAGE TO CONTINUE

Marcie Rich says, "March 2017. I moved from Southern California to Northern California after 26 years an Angeleno. I gave no thought to how difficult such a move might be. The following photos Migraine, Clown and Dummy, were taken three months after moving.

Lately I’m thinking this could be the start of my midlife crisis."

Marcie is currently working on a series of self-portraits. 

CAREER HIGHTLIGHTS:

Print/Electric Exhibition

2018, Wunderkammer, a Galerie Sehnsucht Rotterdam exhibition of prints. 

2017, Boundaries, an LA Photo Curator electronic Feature, Review and Q&A. 

Bound Publication

2018, Blur Magazine, Issue 60, April/May,
The Photographic Nude. (Croatia)

2018, LoosenArt, Conceptual Issue. (Italy)

www.marcierich.com
 

​

--------------------------------------------------




Exhibition #2:
http://www.laphotocurator.com/the-pictorialist-photograph-curator-bob-weil/exhibition-2/1

Exhibition #3:
http://www.laphotocurator.com/the-pictorialist-photograph-curator-bob-weil/exhibition-3/1