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/
 

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
 

Barbara Hazen says, "Nothing is permanent. The things we attach ourselves to today are only a mirage of beautiful and enchanting illusions of lastingness. After today what remains is the nostalgic memory of a time, a place, a person or object.

I have collected or saved discarded objects for years, for what I consider intrinsic, rustic, simplicity and beauty. As I photograph an item, I re-live old memories I have repressed, giving each item new life and meaning, while also sharing something about myself that I may never have before.

As a young adult I was a pastry chef and entrepreneur in the food industry. In 2011 I set aside cooking and put my creative talents into my long time passion of photography.  Although I have pursued many genera’s of photography over the years, I continue to come back to figure work, and still lives of my many collections of things. Although most of my work has been printed as archival digital prints, I now work primarily in alternative platinum palladium and cyanotype photography.


Highlights:
  www.barbarahazen.com

Instagram: @BarbaraHazen


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