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CANDELABRA by Jo Ann Chaus
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Jo Ann Chaus says, "This work references the scientific law that energy can neither be created nor destroyed and the power of the mind to imagine and create, dream and escape.  It recognizes the deepest states of being, conscious and unconscious, and the inherent potential present within to transform latent energy into ideas, gestures and art. 

Using my body as a universal being I transform myself mentally and physically, impose memories onto the present, expose deep thoughts and emerging ideas that form in relation to myself and the people in my garden of heart and home."

Jo Ann is a visual artist from and based in the New York metro area.  Her work documents her curiosity to explore and understand her own personal truths and to connect with others authentically, philosophically, emotionally and honestly.

She is an alumni of ICP in New York, has participated in over 40 group shows nationally and internationally, was a Critical Mass 2019 Top 200, PDN Emerging Artist, Fall 2019, finalist in Klompching Fresh 2019, winner in the non-pro category Pollux/Gala awards, with a solo show in Barcelona, spring 2019.

www.joannchaus.com
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FOX AND BAG by Jo Ann Chaus
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LIPS by Jo Ann Chaus
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CAMERA OBSCURA PLAYGROUND by Juergen Lechner
HONORABLE MENTION
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Jürgen Lechner says ,of his series, 'Camera Obscura', "In 2006 I decided to go back to the roots of photography, to rediscover pinhole photography with a "Camera Obscura“ – which 
has become my preferred means of taking photographs. I studied the works of different artists, including painters who 
influenced my current work. A good photograph takes time, I often visit places several times to find the conditions I need for a special photograph. 

Working with a pinhole camera means an immense depth of field, a huge image circle and a long exposure time. 

All has to be considered. I love this „slow“ photography, being one with nature, engaging in deep introspection, getting movement in the pictures, like the action of water or branches in contrast to non-moving objects to reach more tenseness. 
I do black and white pinhole photography only, as I think it is more mysterious, more insistent, more quiet and suits the method better than color photography."

Born in Nuremberg, Lechner now resides in Eckental in the south of Germany. He began his career as a photo lab technician apprentice, then moved onwards to an apprenticeship as a photographer, and is now a member of the Federal Association of Artist of the Fine Arts in Germany.

Jürgen’s creations reflect this journey; his efforts reflect what is possible by slowing down.

In a period characterized by technological advances, German photographer Jürgen Lechner looks to the earliest photographic techniques: pinhole photography with a camera obscura. In doing so, Lechner presents the spectator with contemporary scenes that highlight the often-overlooked viewpoints of our environment. Lechner’s abandon of digital photography may be unusual, but his aesthetic proves to be as 
innovative if not more so than any digitally based photographic style. His somber scenes have a quiet and meditative air that encourages the spectator to relish a world that seems comparable with yet far removed from our own.

Career Highlights:
Winner of the 25th Chelsea International Art Competition
Juried by Ms. Megan Fontanella, Assistant Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Gala Awards – 7th Pollux Award
Winner in section Architecture
Finalist in section Fine Art
Finalist in section Landscapes and Seascapes
One Eyeland Photography Awards
Finalist and Winner in section Fine Art

www.juergenlechner.de
jl@juergenlechner.de

 
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CAMERA OBSCURA LIGHT MATTERS by Juergen Lechner
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CAMERA OBSCURA WHITE LINE by Juergen Lechner
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CAUTION by Kathryn Dunlevie
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Kathryn Dunlevie says of her series, '
More Than Meets the Eye', "Inspired by a space, I photograph it from various vantage points. Next, I arrange and rearrange the images until a coherent composition emerges. In some cases, I add paint, blurring the borders between photos and smoothing the abrupt shifts in perspective.
 
This knitting together of the disjunctive parts seems to coax the space into giving up its secrets. It is as if a plateau's sunken river bed were to unfold and rise up into the viewer's line of sight, or as if a "mirror-on-a-stick" spy-toy allowed a look straight ahead to reveal details from outside the viewer's visual scan.
 
This new space is not merely a record of what we see, but includes elements that have appeared as if from beyond the customary four dimensions. The viewer catches sight of details not visible in the original space: details suggestive of the extra dimensions posited in contemporary theoretical physics. 

This new pictorial space is not just a composite of things we see as we move through space and time, but offers glimpses of what may actually exist around us that we do not see."

 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.

"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.

Dunlevie has received numerous awards and fellowships, including two Arts Council Silicon Valley Artist Laureate Fellowships and an International Photography Awards honorable mention. Her work has been exhibited at FotoFest International since 2002, at the Pingyao International Photography Festival in China, at Studio Thomas Kellner in Germany, in the US Art in Embassies Program in Moscow and in Saatchi Arts’ Best of 2014.

Her work has been reviewed in Spain’s La Fotografia Actual, Korea’s photo + and Germany’s Profifoto, as well as in The New York Times, Camerawork: A Journal of Photographic Arts, Photo Metro, Artweek, and Artlies.

Highlights of Career:

Eight solo exhibitions at FotoFest International (Houston) (2002 - 2020)

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

International Photography Awards (2015)

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 Germany'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)

Included in "Timekeepers", San Francisco Camerawork,  San Francisco, California (2000)


www.kathryndunlevie.com
 
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CREVASSE by Kathryn Dunlevie
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DOWN UNDER by Kathryn Dunlevie
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NORTHERN CARDINAL (CARDINALIS CARDINALIS)
FIRST PLACE
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Review by curator Michael Kirchoff:
"Kent Krugh’s photograph, Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis_cardinalis), is a blending of art and science that appeals to me on a deeper level for reminding me of some of my childhood curiosities. In fact, geology and paleontology were thought of as early career goals for me, before the lure of the camera and darkroom swayed me and took hold permanently. It was this reminder that immediately drew me in early in the process of finding a favorite among the plethora of amazing images submitted for this competition. Krugh’s image has the qualities and aesthetics inherent of an individual who seamlessly blends careers and blurs lines.

There is a lot to study in a photograph like this, much as if it were to be used in classroom study, but from a perspective of beauty and grace. With all of the different and varied species of birds in this world, it is clear that this approach towards the natural environment lends itself to an ongoing series, which I am curious about as well. The graphic nature seen in the composition of the image also has overtones of a religious nature, which only heightens the curiosity of the photograph. While all is laid bare in this image, it is still the air of mystery that captures my attention most of all. I will be looking for more to find the answers to these secrets, this I know, as my childhood curiosity has come roaring back."

Michael Kirchoff asks, "The winning image, Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis_cardinalis), has all of the elements born from a creator who is fully steeped in science as well as the arts. Is this indeed your background, and what drew you to creating this particular work?"

Kent Krugh says, "I am a practicing Medical Physicist working in a hospital based Radiation Oncology center.  We treat cancer patients with radiation. One part of my job is to calibrate and perform quality assurance procedures on the linear accelerators that produce the radiation that treats the patients. For the past ten years I have been using x-rays to make art.  First dolls, then cameras, and last year birds and other objects found in nature.  Actually, I X-ray anything that seems interesting to me and fits on a few pieces of film or the digital imager."

Kirchoff says, "Is this photograph from a body of work that is finished or ongoing? Are there any limitations to how or where you document the different species?"

Krugh says, "This piece, Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis_cardinalis), is a composite of a photograph and an x-ray.  It is part of a small series, Aviary X, of a dozen birds.  The series, for the most part, is finished."

Kirchoff says, "What was the spark of inspiration you had in beginning this work? Was it based upon a curiosity of the natural environment, or something more personal?"

Krugh says, "One day in December 2018 I heard a loud "thunk" coming from my deck.  A cardinal had slammed into the glass patio door and died.  I picked up the bird, still warm, and admired it's beauty.  I wondered what an X-ray would look like so I took it to work the next day.  I also photographed the bird in my studio.  So my inspiration was curiosity fueled by a love of all things natural.  The x-rays of the birds were surprisingly diminutive.  They are mostly feathers.  Not surprising when one marvels and considers how effortlessly they defy gravity and fly."

More about Kent Krugh:
Kent Krugh says, "I heard a crash near the kitchen patio door and saw a cardinal lying on the deck.  When I picked it up it was warm but lifeless.  The feathers glimmered in the sunlight with a sheen that I did not suspect, and the bird became something other than what I had always known at a distance.  Curious, I wondered how I might photograph it in a way that had not been tried before – a difficult assignment.

In medicine there are a variety of imaging modalities that can be used for diagnosis; different techniques that when juxtaposed will complement each other and provide a clearer understanding of the patient’s condition.  X-ray is a modality that produces a transparent picture and reveals the unseen internal structure.  With this in mind, I began a project in which I photographed the bird and then X-rayed it.  A composite was made so that both the delicate pattern and texture of the bird’s feathers and the internal skeleton can be seen.

Birds are often caged and kept from flying.  Whereas an aviary is a large enclosure that confines birds but allows them to fly -- a large environment that lets the soul soar.  Something we all long for and some of us pray to keep."

Kent Krugh is a fine art photographer living and working in Cincinnati. He holds a BA in Physics from Ohio Northern University and an MS in Radiological Physics from the University of Cincinnati.

His work has been exhibited in numerous exhibitions both national and international and in major festivals including FotoFest in Houston and the Festival de la Luz in Buenos Aires.

He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors in both national and international print and portfolio competitions and has been a Photolucida Critical Mass Finalist. His work is held in various collections including the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Portland Art Museum, and the Cincinnati Art Museum. A book of camera x-rays and essays by A.D. Coleman and Barbara Tannenbaum, Speciation: Still a Camera, was published in 2018 by Fraction Editions. 

Krugh curated the exhibition “New World: Refugees and Immigrants photograph the experience of new life in America” at the University of Cincinnati Clermont for the FotoFocus 2018 Biennial festival in Cincinnati, OH.

Career Highlights:
Solo Exhibitions
2018 Speciation: Still a Camera, Panopticon Gallery, Boston, MA
2016 Inside the Gate, Museo de Artes Plásticas Eduardo Sívori, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Angel Oak, Roberta Marx Gallery, Thomas Jefferson Unitarian, Louisville, KY
Artworks by Kent Krugh, Pop Revolution Gallery, Hamilton, OH
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 See the Music, Off Ludlow Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Auto/Update, The Carnegie, FotoFocus Exhibition, Covington, KY
32nd  Annual Juried Members Only Show, Texas Photographic Society, San Antonio, TX
Chania International Photo Festival, Chania, Greece
Unbound 8, Candela Books + Gallery, Richmond, VA
FOCUS Photo LA Summer Exhibition, 195 Chrystie Street, NY, NY
6th Annual Open Call, Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, Providence, RI
The Curated Fridge- Winter Show, Somerville, MA
Moscow International Fotography Awards, Moscow Photocenter, Moscow, Russia
2018 Hypotheses, Columbus Cultural Arts Center, Columbus, OH
Size Matters, Medium Festival of Photography, Sparks Gallery, San Diego, CA
Archive [photo], Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center, Cincinnati, OH
Sacred, LightBox Photographic Gallery, Astoria, OR
5th Biennial of Fine Art & Documentary Photography, Barcelona, Spain
Sacred, LightBox Photographic, Astoria, OR
31st Annual Juried Members Only Show, Texas Photographic Society, San Antonio, TX
Water, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VY
Tokyo Photo Awards Exhibiton, CA Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
The National: Best Contemporary Photography 2018, Ft. Wayne Museum of Art, Ft. Wayne, IN
Still Lifes, SxSE PhotoGallery, Molena, GA
Awards/Honors
2019 San Franscisco Bay International Photography Competition, Gold Award Winner
Moscow International Fotography Awards, Honorable Mention in Fine Art/Still Life, Moscow
2018 Hypotheses, Columbus Cultural Arts Center, Third Place
Critical Mass 2018 Finalist, Photolucida, Portland, OR
The National: Best Contemporary Photography, Ft. Wayne Museum of Art, Juror’s Merit Award
Tokyo Foto Awards, Tokyo, Gold, Fine Art Special Effects, Silver, Science-Technology
Collections
Ft. Wayne Museum of Art, Ft. Wayne, IN
Fundacion Luz Austral, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
The Christ Hospital, Cincinnati, OH
Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
Fitton Center for Creative Arts, Hamilton, OH
Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX
Private Collections

www.kentkrugh.com
www.instagram.com/kentkrugh/
 
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AMERICAN ROBIN (TURDUS MIGRATORIUS) by Kent Krugh
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DOWNY WOODPECKER (PICOIDES PUBESCENS) by Kenty Krugh
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CANDLESTICK by Laurie Peek
HONORABLE MENTION
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Laurie Peek says, "I am a wanderer and collector. Staying receptive to the light, the lines, the colors, the mood, I work with my images to bring out the ambiguity, the arresting power, the previously unseen — finding magic in the mundane, whether it be shadows of a candlestick on my mantlepiece, the vivid colors of a soap bubble in my kitchen, or the play of late afternoon light on a book I was reading."

Laurie Peek is an award-winning photographer with a knack for elevating the everyday.  With an MFA in Photography from The Visual Studies Workshop/SUNY Buffalo, she taught photography for two years, then moved to NYC and became a photo librarian for Sygma Photo News. Inspired by the issues of the day, Peek became a photojournalist covering politics, local news, and protest movements for: The Village Voice, The Brooklyn Paper, City Limits, and The Progressive. As a staff photographer for NYC, she documented community gardens, housing, and Mayor Ed Koch. As a freelancer she traveled the country covering national political races for political candidates.

After a second career selling creative services to corporations, in the last decade Peek resumed her fine art photography, winning awards and exhibiting her work across the country. Her work has appeared in photography publications Fraction Magazine and The Photo Review, and she is the Winner of the 14th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards (2020) in both the non-pro “Cell Phone” and “Nature” Series categories.

CV: (recent)
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
Laurie Peek Car Parts, Union Arts Center, Sparkill, NY - March - April 2018
Rockland Reverso, Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY - Sept. 2017
Pomona Cultural Arts Center, Pomona NY, Summer 2016 (semi-solo) Curator: Gde Arsa Artha
Art in the Park, Piermont, NY - September 2015
Artist of the Month, Edward Hopper House, Nyack, NY - August 2014

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2020 (scheduled):
Car Parts, RI Center for Photographic Arts, July, 2020 (semi-solo), Juror David DeMelim
14th Julia Margaret Cameron Award Exhibition, Gallery FotoNostrum, Barcelona, Spain - March, Jurors: Elizabeth Avedon, Rebecca Robertson and Analy Werbin (Winner: Cell Phone & Nature Series (non-pro), Honorable Mention: Alternative Processes & Fine Art Series (non-pro)

2019:
Brilliant Botanicals, ArtSuiteNY Gallery, Piermont, NY, Oct.-Dec. Curator: Nancy Loving
First Street Gallery National Juried Competition 2019, NYC
Small Works, Robert Anderson Gallery, Denver, CO, March - April, Jurors Margy Dudley & Wendi Schneider
Diptych, A. Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX, Jan. - March, Juror: Kevin Tully
black/white, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX, Jan. - Feb., Juror: Jennifer Schlesinger
The Naked Print, R.I. Center for Photography, Providence, RI, Jan. - Feb., Juror: Stephen Fisher
A Color Moment, PhotoPlace Online Gallery, Middlebury, VT, Juror: Arthur Meyerson
The Photo Review Magazine 2019 Competition Issue

2018:
Abstract, Center for Fine Art Photography, Ft. Collins, CO, Juror: Elizabeth Houston
Inside Small, Outside In Gallery,, Oct. - Nov. Piermont, NY,  Juror: Lisa D’Amico
Art is the Voice of CT, Silvermine Photographers, Hearst CT Media Group, Norwalk, CT, Nov.
Center for Photography at Woodstock Benefit Auction, Kingston, NY, Sept.
Light and Shadow, Rockland Center for the Arts, W. Nyack, NY April, Juror: Barbara Galazzo
Silvermine Artists Guild Pop-Up Exhibit, Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, CT March-April
Blue Door Art Center Juried Members Exhibit, Yonkers, NY, Jan. - Feb. 2018
Silvermine Guild New Members, Silvermine Art Center, New Canaan, CT, Jan. - Feb. 2018
From the Studio Exhibit, The Art School at Old Church, Demarest, NJ
Edward Hopper House Museum Members Exhibit, Union Arts Center, Sparkill, NY Jan.- March
2017:
Photography Now, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Nov. - Jan., Juror: William Ewing
Local Love, Volition Gallery, Bell-ans Center of Creative Arts, Orangeburg, NY,  June
All Art +, Van der Plas Gallery, NYC,  July
CameraWorks 2017, Ridgefield Guild of Artists, CT (Best in Show) Feb. - March,
  Juror:Rebecca Robertson, Photo Editor PDN
Eye of The Beholder: Art Though the Lens, My Own Little Gallery, Nyack, NY,  Feb.- March
Photography Takes Over 2017, Upstream Gallery, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY, Feb.

laurie@lauriepeek.com
www.lauriepeek.com
IG: @lauriepeek
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GLASSES by Laurie Peek
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SOAP BUBBLE by Laurie Peek
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CASCADE by Malcolm Easton
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Malcolm Easton says, "I collect well-used domestic objects—things discarded or set aside by their original owners. Though I have no direct personal connection with each piece, there is always something in my own experience that leads me to choose one and pass over another.

In my current project I draw on this store of artifacts to make temporary arrangements that exist only for the purpose of being photographed. I’m drawn to the shapes, colors and textures of each piece—along with the associations it may evoke. I place familiar objects in unfamiliar juxtapositions, sometimes defying gravity and sometimes defying logic.  The objects within a single image may suggest overlaid memories of childhood and adulthood. 

My approach to lighting plays a central role. I use only natural light, and I aim to emphasize the tactile qualities of each element. Working in a windowed studio, I use a handheld mirror to reflect a beam of sunlight onto my arrangement. While the shutter is open I move the mirror, adding a gestural component to the illumination. If something is in motion, the fleeting light catches it at more than one position, creating multiple impressions.

I invite viewers to examine their own store of objects, some still in use, others set aside, still others that reside only in memory."

Malcolm Easton has been a collector and tinkerer all his life. Born in New York, he's a longtime resident of Berkeley, California. His still life photographs reflect our consumer culture and the life cycle of objects that pass through it. He draws on many historical influences, including Robert Rauschenberg’s Combines, Joseph Cornell’s assemblages, the Unmonumental Sculptures exhibit at The New Museum, as well as classic Dutch and Flemish still lifes. His work is represented by Walker Fine Art in Denver.

CV -RECENT HIGHLIGHTS

AWARDS

Wide Open 8, Best in Show-Gold, (Juror: Cara Manes),   BWAC
Gallery,  Brooklyn, NY (2017)

TWO-PERSON AND FEATURED EXHIBITIONS

Portfolio Showcase-Objects, Davis Orton Gallery,
Hudson, NY (2019)
Uncanny, Walker Fine Art, Denver, CO (2018)
Keepsakes of Strangers, Viewpoint Photographic Art Center
Sacramento, CA  (2016)

JURIED SHOWS

The Qualities of LIGHT,(Jurors: Rebecca Senf, et.al.), Center for
Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson. (2019-2020)
2019 LA Artcore 3rd Annual Photographic Competition and
Exhibition, (Jurors: Sarah Lee, Sarah Hadley, Aline Smithson), Los  
Angeles, CA (2019)
The Still Life, (Juror: Kimberly Witham),
Southeast Center for Photography, Greenville,  SC (2018)

www.easton.photo
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CLOSE TO THE EDGE by Malcolm Easton
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NOT NEWTON'S APPLE by Malcolm Easton
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ALCHEMY by Mariana Bartolomeo
HONORABLE MENTION
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Mariana Bartolomeo says, "My artwork is a means of exploring the nature of mystical experiences that are at once personal and universal. I seek to express the rich and uncanny mysteries of interior life in contrast to the stark wonders of the external world. I am guided by my own imagination, memories, reflections, and technical challenges of materials and methods, in order to develop visual, contemplative metaphors. Often I am searching for expressed documentary.

My motivation, regardless of photographic methods, theme or subject, is to investigate the question: “What is it like to...?"
I also enjoy the challenges of working across mediums in analogue, alternative processes,  printmaking,  installation, hand-made books, narrative documentary
and textiles.

I have been a professional artist for 45 years.My father gave me my first camera in 1960 when I was 6 years old; A Kodak Brownie Hawkeye. One year later he began to show me how to use chisels and engraving tools in his shop. Two years later he passed along an Argus 75TLR, a Polaroid Swinger and  roll of blueprint paper.

I still make good use of all three cameras and the hand tools. My mother instilled in me a love of learning, museums and books. My formal education began with the Foreign Student Study League in Florence, Italy. I have my MFA (printmaking and art history) from the University of Kansas graduating with honors and 5 academic awards. I completed a two year residency with Master Printer John Talleur at Holiseventh Press and Master Book Artist Linda Samson-Talleur of Genestra Press . During undergrad and graduate school I worked as a Sports Photographer, scientific illustrator and adjunct faculty.

VITAE:
I spent 15 years teaching in university settings, am a published author, and proprietress of Virtu Studio, LLC. and Thunderhead Press. I exhibit my work internationally. Private collections include parties in the USA, Canada, Mexico, Ireland, Taiwan, the Cathedral Foundation, the Beijing Natural Cultural Center and the Center for Fine Art Photography.

Publications:
The Photo Review; Hand Magazine; Diffusion Magazine: The Matter of Light

Exhibits: 
Texas Photographic Society, The Print Center - Philadelphia, Center for Fine Art Photography, Professional Women Photographers-NYC, Griffin Museum of Art, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Art Intersection Gallery,  Baren Printmakers Forum , F295, Nolo Photo Alliance, Filter Photo Festival, Seities Gallery, and Los Angeles Center of Photography, Southeast Center for Photography,
New York Center for Photographic Arts, 1650 Gallery NYC,
ASmith Gallery TX

I am represented by Primo Piano Livingallery, Lecce, Italy and Bob Carlson Fine Art, Kansas City, MO."

Career Highlights:
1. CHARTER MEMBER: Women in Photography International
(BEINECKE LIBRARY / YALE COLLECTION)

2. (Featured Photographer) -
Cyanotype: The Blueprint in Contemporary Practice (Contemporary Practices in Alternative Process Photography) 1st Edition by Christina Z. Anderson, 2019

3. JUROR/CURATOR:exhibits and installations at Tilt Gallery, Scottdale, AZ; Art Intersection Gallery, Gilbert, AZ; University of Kansas;

4. ART DIRECTOR: Shootapalooza Womens Photography Collective

5. Texas Photographic Society -National Photography Award
      (Top Ten) 2019

www.instagram.com/virtustudio58
www.mariana-bartolomeo.com
www.facebook.com/mariana.bartolomeo.9
www.lensculture.com/mariana-bartolomeo-2
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mbartolomeo/sets/

Images:
1. "Winter Gales" - Cyanotype on Linen
2. "Alchemy" - Cyanotype on Linen
3. "Lewis & Clark County, MT" - Polaroid Tryptich

 
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LEWIS AND CLARK COUNTY by Mariana Bartolomeo
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WINTER GATES by Mariana Bartolomeo
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LYRICAL CHIVES by PD Packard
SECOND PLACE
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PD Packard says, "My work is committed to bringing attention to the power Nature has to influence our perception of art, and design. Without the use of shock, shame or guilt I use Nature’s beauty as a protest to Love more for every hate.

Specializing in color, I am passionate about teaching inventive ways to demystify color by creating decorative patterned paper for book and box art, sculpture, and installation. To expand this craft further I use my original artwork, video clips, and photography to create animated vignettes that share my thirst for color, nature, and unconditional love, not conditional romance."

PD Packard is a multi-media artist living in Brooklyn, New York. Awarded a scholarship to Central St Martins, in London, England she obtained a BFA degree in Fashion and Textile Design. When she returned to the states she developed packaging, graphics, and original textiles and surface designs primarily for the cosmetic industry.

Packard also designed exclusive lines of travel and cosmetic bags for the department stores Barneys New York, Neiman Marcus, Henri Bendels, and Bergdorf Goodman that were sold nationally and internationally. Many of the principles in printmaking are similar to fabric and surface design making an easy and natural transition for her into fine art printmaking in 2009. She continues to expand her mediums to express her love for color, pattern, nature and to Love more for every hate.

PD Packard’s work has been exhibited throughout the United States and internationally. She recently completed a Fellowship Residency at Scuola Internazionale di Grafica Venezia, Italy that was sponsored in part by The Boston Printmakers and Speedball Art Products.

Animated vignettes: thirst to LOVE more
Exhibiting in Digital Art Screenings at Davidson College, NC.
January 31 - March 31, 2020
Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eU3aKDGjI8

www.pdpackardLOVEmore.com
Contact: pdpackard@pdpackard.com
Instagram: @pdpackard
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ECLIPSING MONEY PLANT by PD Packard
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L.A. Photo Curator: Global Photography Awards - 'Where Photography & Philanthropy Meet' EXHIBITION #2
FOR THE LOVE OF BLOODROOT by PD Packard
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L.A. Photo Curator: Global Photography Awards - 'Where Photography & Philanthropy Meet' EXHIBITION #2
BELIZEAN BLOOM by Rachel Robinson
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Rachel Robinson says, "Showing the grace among the rubble, the joy in hard times, and the peace in a chaotic world. The people and pieces that show poverty outwardly, but internal satisfaction that we can not comprehend. Zealous colors that excite the heart, and open eyes to the world.

My name is Rachel Robinson, I am a junior at Milligan College in Johnson City TN. I am a psychology major with a Photography minor. I am currently loving color film photography and have been printing from my recent travels to Belize."

Instagram: @lynnephotography
L.A. Photo Curator: Global Photography Awards - 'Where Photography & Philanthropy Meet' EXHIBITION #2
BETRAYED BIKE by Rachel Robinson
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L.A. Photo Curator: Global Photography Awards - 'Where Photography & Philanthropy Meet' EXHIBITION #2
CHILDLIKE WONDER by Rachel Robinson
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RESONANCE OF THE MACHINIST I by Rebecca Zeiss
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Rebecca Zeiss says, "These images are from a body of work I call Aura Objecta.

The tool chest was a gift from my parents who had stored it after my step-grandfather’s passing. They had cared for it and now it was my turn. I felt apprehension and obligation to maintain the shiny surfaces and beautiful patina. As I held the artifacts, I found myself reminded of how little I knew about their owner, Oakley Dobbins. He was a machinist at the Allison Engine Company making and designing early premier jet engines. He came to our family late, born in Indianapolis in 1903, married my grandmother in 1978 at the age of 75, and lived to the age of 90 near the Indianapolis Speedway.

The images I created were conceived through a variety of camera formats exploring the objects through the lens with its infinite possibilities of what is revealed and/or concealed. I approached this project with no preconceptions or expectations of what the narrative could be, only an idea of how I would look for it. In the end I find myself surprised at my visual conclusions and new questions brought to these stories. I have printed this work in a variety of formats including metal but gravitate to the platinum palladium and the photo polymere gravure."

Rebecca Zeiss works with her eclectic photographic images often using antiquarian processes to create ethereal and enigmatic imagery which she exhibits internationally. Originally a painting and drawing major she received her BFA from University of Michigan School of Art then shifted the focus of her work to photography with her MFA from Central Michigan University. Rebecca teaches printmaking and photography at the University of Michigan-Flint.

Some Recent Career Highlights 

2019
LightBox Alternative Visions Exhibition Juried by Christina Anderson

Midwest Center for Contemporary Photography: Finalist in Developed Work
Midwest Center for Contemporary Photography: Flat File Feature

Light Sensitive, Art Intersection; Gilbert Arizona Juried by Christopher James Honorable MentionThe Handmade Photograph: Contemporary Photographers working in Historic Processes, sponsored by Bostick and Sullivan; Santa Fe, New Mexico Juried by Christopher James

Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, 12th Polux Awards in Barcelona, Spain Open Theme single and seriesJuried by Andrea Star-Reese, Julia Fullerton-Batten, and Laura Pannack

2018

Julia Mae Cameron Awards, 5th Biennial of Fine Art & Documentary Photography in Barcelona, Spain
Juried by Analy Werbin                

Finalist in Open Theme and Honorable Mention in Fine Art.www.zeissworks.com
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RESONANCE OF THE MACHINIST III by Rebecca Zeiss
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RESONANCE OF THE MACHINIST V by Rebecca Zeiss
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BEIRUT by Robert Johnson
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Robert Johnson says, "After 40 years of saying I was going, I finally visited Lebanon this fall. A tiny land full of massive contradictions, in the midst of a peaceful thawra against the architects of the civil war and their descendants who still mismanage the country and steal its wealth. A country with a long history (Byblos is widely acknowledged as the longest continuously occupied human habitat) riven by sectarianism. A country which has close to 25% of the people living within its borders refugees from 20th and 21st century wars. A country with a Civil War happening just across one border, an implacable foe building a 79 mile wall on the other with the Mediterranean everywhere else.

A country of stillness and beauty; long remembered history and partial amnesia; a country destroyed and a country rebuilt. Here are just a few small corners of a pulsing and vibrant land."

Robert S Johnson was born and raised on the grounds of the Boston State Hospital which was founded in 1839 under the name “Boston Lunatic Hospital”. He returned to work on the locked wards for his gap year and for summers while in college. The first image he remembers taking was of a bear climbing on the family car in Yellowstone Park. The adults were frozen but he grabbed his mom’s Brownie and shot away.

After five careers, ranging from Artistic Director of THECO, a theater company, to Regional Vice President of a for-profit, after-school education company, he turned to photography fulltime in 2008.

He lives in New York City and Wellfleet MA with his wife, Katherine, and their son, Asher, a (very recent) 2018 graduate of Smith College.

www.robertsjohnsonphotography.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robert_s_johnson_photography/  
Robert S Johnson


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BUNKER KITCHEN by Robert Johnson
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BYBIOS CASTLE by Robert Johnson
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A PHOTOGRAPH OF GRASS by Ruth Lauer Manenti
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Ruth Lauer-Manenti says, "Ideas of impermanence have always compelled me as my parents were refugees from Europe, each having lost mostly everything. My father was very frugal and always wore shirts with holes in them. With a spirit of acceptance, pointing to the hole he would say, “This is life.” My mother grew up in Berlin in a wealthy family of artists and intellectuals, with sixteen servants and two nannies, one to braid the right side and the other to braid the left side of her hair. In 1939 my mother was put on a train by herself to Holland with two potatoes in her overcoat pocket. Perhaps because of this, my photographs evoke feelings of loss. I grew up aware of the sorrows of my parents, and their stories are undertones in my work. Yet, a lighter side of loss is there too. Like a dandelion that has gone to seed, one wanderer’s exhale or one light wind and the weed disappears forever.
The grass implies air and light; weightless and passing. The necklace belonged to my mother and has lasted over decades of time, remaining beautiful; significant of survival. The gems tell a story of days of grandeur... long gone yet always remembered by her. The table with nothing on it is the still life, empty, yet calls for attention.

I live in a cabin in the woods in the Catskill Mountains of New York. My background is in painting and drawing, but fifteen years ago I inherited a K.B. Canham large format camera from someone I greatly admire. I taught myself how to use the camera and gradually accomplished what I was striving for in drawing and painting, through photography. I gather much of my inspiration from looking at drawings and paintings continuously over decades. My mother was also an artist. She had a wealth of talent and worked steadily throughout her life, yet her number one role was to take care of her family. Sadly, she left behind a legacy of unwanted, unpublished, unknown work. I realize, now that she has passed away, that part of my determination to receive acknowledgement and support from the art world is to reward her for her efforts and to create a continuum. Since breaking my neck in a car crash at the age of twenty, I have developed a strong spiritual life and practice for which I have made annual trips to India for the last thirty-five years to study yoga, meditation and Sanskrit and to adapt a way of life simpler and more ritualistic than I had known before. I received a BFA from SVA in NYC and an MFA in drawing, printmaking and painting from the Yale School of Art in 1994, where I later taught. I also taught at Dartmouth College. I have exhibited at the Bill Maynes Art Gallery, the Lower East Side Printshop, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Paula Cooper Gallery, The Griffin Museum of Photography, John Davis Gallery, and Le Salon Vert in Switzerland. My work has been collected by the New York Public Library as well as many private collections including Lois Conner, Louise Fishman, An-My Lê, Frances Barth and Sylvia Mangold.CV:
2019 - International Portfolio winner in the Soho Photo Gallery competition
2018 - Featured Artist - Art Photo Index
2017- The Photobook (group show) - Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA.
2017- Small is Beautiful (group show) - Le Salon Vert, Geneva, Switzerland.
2016- New York Foundation for the Arts grant in photography"


www.ruthlauermanenti.com
 
L.A. Photo Curator: Global Photography Awards - 'Where Photography & Philanthropy Meet' EXHIBITION #2
MY MOTHER'S NECKLACE by Ruth Lauer Manenti
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TABLE WITH TABLECLOTH by Ruth Lauer Manenti
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FROZEN DAYS PAST by SameSource
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SameSource says, "This work is not from a series.  The three pieces I submitted are unrelated, but all of them were captured with the ideas in mind that Michael Kirchoff laid out for Introspective Matter."

SameSource is a photographic artist with over two decades of professional experience recording images. 

SameSource fine art photography spans both landscape and bodyscape, often exploring human sexuality and its relationship with art.  With recent showings from the FotoFever, Paris, France, to Art Basel, Miami Beach, SameSource was recently featured in a major show of the series, Reinterpreted, at Fabrik Projects Gallery for summer 2019.  Honors include being named an Artist in Residency for 2019 by GilsfjordurArts in Westfjords, Iceland, the international Lumiere Award for fine art nude photography, 2017, and Coagula Gallery’s Los Angeles Ten Top Artists exhibition for 2016 in a show curated by Tulsa Kinney of Artillery Magazine.  In addition to being included in over 100 exhibitions in galleries and fairs around the world, SameSource work has been featured in The Huffington Post, Artillery Magazine, American Photo, two documentary films by EMS ARTS, and has twice been profiled by Silvershotz International Magazine of Contemporary Photography, as well as being one of 25 international artists featured in the magazine’s 2017 Folio of Fine Art Photography (ISBN: 9781642049985).  In addition to being featured in numerous photography books, SameSource is the author of five fine art photography books, Reinterpreted (ISBN 9780464052890), Objects of Ruin (ISBN: 9781320134194), Apples (ISBN: 9781366155986), Apples Reinterpreted (ISBN: 9781366155856), and The Green Dress (ISBN: 9781388795016).
 
With origins in the rural Midwest, the artist studied music and philosophy in a liberal arts education before traveling to Italy and becoming immersed in the works of the Renaissance.  A return to the US brought the pursuit of graduate work in music and cinema, with an eventual arrival on the west coast via the prestigious University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts.  In addition to full-time work in photographic fine art, SameSource output has included notable works as a recording artist, writer, and filmmaker. SameSource is represented by Fabrik Projects Gallery in Los Angeles and SeeMe Gallery in New York.  Learn more at SameSourceFineArt.com and follow SameSource on Artsy, Facebook, Vero, & Instagram; SameSourcePhoto on Twitter.
SameSource Fine Art Exhibition Highlights
Recent Solo Shows:
Reinterpreted, June – July 2019 (Fabrik Projects Gallery, Los Angeles)
Reinterpreted, FotoFever Paris, November 2018 (Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France)
Bodyscapes: The Fine Art of SameSource, October 2017 (Pure Pleasure Gallery, Santa Cruz, California)
SameSource Works at LA Emerging Designers, October 2015 (LA Fashion Week at the Dream Factory, Los Angeles)
Objects of Ruin, November 2014 – January 2015 (Main Street Gallery, Kansas City)
Objects of Ruin, September – October 2014 (Hamilton Galleries, Santa Monica)
Residency:
Artist in Residency for 2019 by GilsfjordurArts at Gilsfjarðarbrekka in Gilsfjordur, Westfjords, Iceland.

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NON-OBJECTIVE VIEW #9 by SameSource
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