Gary Justis says, "The subjects of these photographs originate with digital photographic captures of real-time light projections.  I use analog procedures (involving LED, incandescent, refracted and reflected light) finding strategies of capturing images that simulate life forms, objects and structures. I try to locate and record unfamiliar subjects that lie on the edge between still visual order and material displacement.

For the last few years, my photographic images depict Dream Reality showing the characters and events that define this reality. The dreams I can remember usually take place at night, or they involve objects that float in darkness…they are singular and located in the center of my vision. In most dreams I’ve experienced, there is an active consciousness outside of myself that directs the dream’s activity. The subjects of these photographs are depictions of that consciousness."                    

Gary Justis earned His Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1979. He has developed his work professionally in the area of sculpture, printmaking and photography for the last 39 years. He lived and worked in Chicago from 1977 to 1999. He currently resides in Bloomington Illinois where he continues his work in sculpture, printmaking, experimental photography and writing.

He holds a Professorship at Illinois State University. He has exhibited work at the Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, NY, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art.

He has also exhibited work in numerous exhibitions at private galleries in Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York. Gary Justis’ work is included in various collections throughout the country; most notably: The Museum of Modern Art Library, The New York City Library (special collections), The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Artist’s Books Collection, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC and JP Morgan Chase, New York, NY.


EDUCATION:
1979 MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1977 BFA, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2019 The Poetry of Light and Motion: Works by Gary Justis, The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design, Galena Annex, Galena, IL

2018 Gary Justis: Luminous Objects, Contemporary Art Center, Peoria, IL

2017 Heads on Horizon, sculpture and photographs by Gary Justis, Ramp-Arts, Bloomington, IL

2016 Emergence, New Digital Photographic works by Gary Justis, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles
2015 Light Play: Light Producing Objects by Gary Justis, Hiestand Gallery, Miami University, Oxford, OH

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2019, Open Source, International Members Exhibition, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA

Stories, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

2018 Electron Salon International Members Exhibition, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA

Corporealities, juried international photography exhibition, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

American Splendour, juried international photography exhibition, Lion Gallery, New York, NY

Peripheral Visions, juried international photography exhibition, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

2017

Cube Art Project, Public screening, July 2017-January 2017, Pinnacle Bank Arena, Lincoln, NB

Stories, PH21 Gallery, photographs, Budapest, Hungary

Electron Salon (December), Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA

Woman as Warrior, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, IL

What the World Needs Now, Photographic Exhibition, B Complex Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia

Electron Salon (September), Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA

Mobile Only, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Eddie Breitweiser, “Heads on Horizon at Ramp-Arts”,Site Specific (on-line), February, 2018, (ill).

David Roth, “Mechanical and Luminous, The Artwork of Gary Justis”, Esthetic Lens (on-line), January 2018, (ill).

Cassidy, Victor. “Gary Justis at the Elmhurst Art Museum”, Art in America, April, 2008, pg. 172, (ill.).


http://www.garyjustisphotography.com/

Harry Longstreet says, "No one just takes up space. The human condition is an entire canvas of thoughts, emotions and reactions to circumstances. 

I try to capture the truth about diverse people and how they live and reflect their respective spaces.

My subjects never know they’ve been photographed.  I don’t set-up or pose any shot and never shoot with anything but available light.

I’m retired after twenty-five years as a writer, producer and director of filmed entertainment, primarily for television.

Since retirement I work as a photographer  always looking for images that speak to the human condition and the world around me. I favor ambient light and unposed, unaware subjects. I’ve had a number of one-man shows and my work has appeared in more than two hundred national and international juried exhibitions."

Moses Lake Museum-Regal Award-2019

New York Center for Photographic Art- “Humans” – First Place-2018

Fusion Art Gallery - Black & White”-Best in Show-2018

Franke Tobey Jones-Senior Art Show-First Place Photography-2017

LA Photo Curator- “Senses Working Overtime”-First Place-2017

Allegany National Photography Competition-Second Place (Black & White)-2017

Washington State Juried Art Competition-First Place (Photography)-2017

Stories of Music Volume 2 –January 2017

www.harrylongstreet.com
 

Robin Ay says, "Life and death have always fascinated me. Shortly after the loss of my father I felt a need to explore deeper, more personal themes by turning my attention inward. My instincts led me to scenes seen only in dreams which I recreated by posing dolls with carefully chosen props in natural light.

These constructed scenes became a catharsis, helping me to keep depression at bay. My process was organic and at times impulsive, creating symbolic images that expose my innermost self while releasing my grief."

Constructing images drawn from dreams, world news and personal experience, Robin Ay takes the viewer on a personal life journey. Robin, a Fine Art Photography graduate of Academy of Art University in San Francisco, was recently featured in Photo Place Gallery's "State of America" and "Legends, Myths and Dreams" exhibits in Middlebury, Vermont. Her most recent published works are found in Creative Quarterly v. 53 January 2019.

Career Highlights-

"Sweet 16" Sleeve/Album design for Ghetto Dolls 2019
Creative Quarterly v. 52 Fall/Winter 2018
Photographer's Forum "Best Photography 2018"
Creative Quarterly v. 50 Spring/Summer 2018

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