Amelia Vercauteren Borja says, "My work considers the fragmented experience: the fractured relationships between body and mind, the performed self and the internal (non-performed) self- expressed through integrated mediums of photography, painting and sculpture.

The photographs are performances of my-self, using the abject sculpture and painting as a symbolic object in my practice of rethinking self-portraiture. I create hyperreal parts of the body or abstract them to express the ways in which emotional experience is mediated by physical experience; and interpret trauma. Both mediums are my tools for displaying outcomes of my performances: reenacting moments where there’s dissonance between the physical and emotional, or the performed and the internal self; to underscore how the self is generally being performed to others."

Amelia Vercauteren Borja is an Queer American artist. Originally from Laramie Wyoming she now lives and works in Los Angeles California. She has created a portrait-based multidisciplinary body of work. Her drawings, photographs and sculptures are concerned with the fragmented experience, personal narrative, trauma and the body.


Career Highlights -
EDUCATION

MFA, Multidisciplinary Art ­­– Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA),

Baltimore, MD | Concentration in Critical Studies, Certificate in College Teaching of Art

BFA – University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY

HONORS, AWARDS

2019
 
Finalist, MANIFEST Grand Jury Prize, Manifest Gallery
Cincinnati,OH

2017

Best In Show, Captured Beauty Photography Exhibit
Alexandria,VA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018, Aug.: Virtual - Divided, Chameleon Gallery, virtual

2017, Oct.: The Ball and the Cross, Great White Wall Gallery, MICA, Baltimore MD

2015: Sept.: False Information, THAT Gallery, University of Wyoming, Laramie WY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019, March: Birthday Suit, SITE: Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY

2019, May: Compact Assembly, Walter Otero Contemporary Art, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2019, June: Liberation, FX One, New York, NY

2018, Nov.: Better Luck Next Time, Sheila & Richard Riggs Gallery, MICA, Baltimore, MD

2018, May: GradShow2018, Decker Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

2018, July: Master Pieces, MANIFEST Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

2017: Feb.: What To Do? Resistance Art for 2017, Re-Creative Spaces, Mt. Rainier, Washington D.C.

2017: Oct.: Captured Beauty Photography Exhibition, Del Ray Artisans Gallery, Alexandria, VA

2016, Oct.: Spitting Distance, Riggs & Leidy Gallery, MICA, Baltimore, MD

2016: Feb.: Laramie Art and Music Thing, The Gryphon Theater, Laramie, WY

2015: July: Beyond Borders; Laramie Independent artists, The Art Lab, Fort Collins, CO

2015: Sept.: Tarot Project (Wands), The Mercantile, Laramie, WY

2015: Oct.: New Horizons; Laramie Independent Artists, The Art Lab, Fort Collins, CO

2014: Aug.: Pop-Up Gallery, Harts Alley, Laramie WY

CURATORIAL PROJECTS

A Gate

2018, July - Sept.: DE Connector Landside International Art Gallery - Baltimore-Washington International (BWI) Airport, Baltimore, MD (Co-curator)

Laramie Independent Artists Collective

2015 - 2016: various venues, Laramie, WY (Co-Curator)

Laramie Art and Music Thing

2015 - 2016: The Gryphon Theater, Laramie WY (Art Director)

Laramie Independent Artists Collective

2015: various venues, Laramie WY (Co-Curator)

Laramie Art and Music Thing

2015: The Gryphon Theater, Laramie WY (Director)

“Pop-Up” Gallery

2014: Harts Alley, Laramie WY (Director)

COMMUNITY PROJECTS

2017: Hold You Foundation Auction, The Loft at Liz’s Fine Art Gallery, Los Angeles CA

2016: Laramie Independent Artists Collective, various venues, Laramie WY

2015: Le Retour de Jacques LaRamie, (Performance of artist Wayne White), University of Wyoming, Laramie WY

2015: Laramie Tarot Project, various venues, Laramie WY

2015: Laramie Independent Artists Collective, various venues, Laramie WY


BIBLIOGRAPHY

“INPHA 7,” MANIFEST DRAWING CENTER, Cincinnati, OH, Nov. 2019.

“Commotion” Maryland Institute College of Art , Baltimore, MD, March 2017

“INPHA 5” MANIFEST DRAWING CENTER, Cincinnati, OH, Jan. 2018.

https://www.ameliavercauterenborja.com/

Cheryl Clegg says, "The photos of my daughter over the years have evolved into surreal worlds, in remote locations, some are eerie others not.  Each are meant to leave the viewer questioning what the story is that accompanies the visual."

Cheryl’s interest in photography started at a young age with a Kodak Instamatic.  She attended RIT, moved to Boston and is approaching 3 decades as a commercial photographer.  When not on a job, you can find her with a camera in hand, shooting one of her 5 kids sporting events.

Career Highlights:  

Recent Awards:
ASMP 2018 “Faces of the Rasin Foundation”- 2nd place for a series.

Recent Exhibitions: 
Vermont Center for Photography 2017
Open Juried Exhibition, Brattleboro, Vt. March 2017
Darkroom Gallery Black & White (& Blue) 2017, Essex Jct. Vt, March 2017
Photoplace Gallery, Intimate Portraits, curated by Joyce Tenneson, Middlebury Vt. May 2017
Daivs Orton Gallery 3rd Annual group Show, curated by Paula Tognarelli, Hudson, NY, August 2017
The Curated Fridge, Winter exhibition curated by J. Sybylla Smith, Winter 2018
The Wotiz Gallery, Milton MA, Faces of the Rasin Foundation February 2018
Photoplace Gallery, Celebrating Women, curated by Joyce Tenneson, Middlebury Vt. May 2018
Quincy Library, Quincy, MA, Faces of the Rasin Foundation February 2019
A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX, Black & White curated by Jennifer Schlesinger  February 2019
A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX, SHE curated Joyce Tenneson  March 2019: Juror’s Honorable A A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX,    SHE curated Joyce Tenneson  March 2019: Visitor’s Award.
A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX, open-theme|unconstrained, Juror | Catherine Couturier  June 2019
A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX, open-theme|Summertime, Juror | Jennifer Shaw  July 2019
Selected Publications work has appeared in
Book Cover, “The Other Side of the Bridge,” by Mary Lawson
Book Cover; Quench your Own Thurst:  Business Lessons Learned over a Beer or Two,” by Jim Koch
Boston Magazine, Wallstreet Journal, Impact Magazine, The Ellsworth American, Kids Fashions Magazine, BIDN Giving Magazine, Veja Magazine, Brazil
Selected Corporate Clients:
American Sugar Refineries, Atlantic Broadband, Appleton Partners, Alere Inc., Align Credit Union, Barrington Partners, Boston Private Bank, Cambridge Savings Bank, Houghton Mifflin, Fidelity Investments, John Hancock, Beth Isreal Deaconess Medical Center, Boston Medical Center, Reebok, Boston Beer, CVS Pharmacy, Mathworks,Stonyfield Farms, Massport Retirement System, Snip It’s,Dunkin Donuts.

www.cleggphoto.com
 

Diana Lundin says, "As a Los Angeles pet photographer, I am continuously looking for unique ways to express our relationship with our companion animals. Dogs and cats are majestic on their own, being who they are, but for my series Dog Noir, I imagine them with their owners in a style that looks like it could have been plucked from a 1940s classic film noir movie.

By reimagining the play of shadows and light in a contemporary time, I am able to show the full diversity of Los Angeles denizens and their pets. Even the Dog Noir series has a cat and birds. In keeping with the theme, all of the images in the series have been planned… from the wardrobe of the owners, to the locations — many of which required locations fees — to the lighting and the post-processing. Grain was added to the black and white images to give it a film look of an earlier era.

All images were intentionally photographed with a Fujifilm X-T3 and Profoto lights."

Diana Lundin is a Los Angeles pet photographer whose book “Dogs Vs. Ice Cream” was published in August 2019 by Familius. Also in 2019, she has been awarded in several international competitions, including the Professional Photographers of America International Print Competition, the Animal Image Makers Image Competition, and the International Photo Awards.

She is a former reporter and website editor who began photographing dogs and cats in 2013.

www.dianalundin.com
www.thesecretworldofpets.com
www.dianalundinphotography.com

Jennifer Peters says, "The images in this series each serve as a tick on the timeline of a never-ending story. As our protagonist moves in and out of domestic spaces and nature, recurring symbols move with her and suggest a narrative of invasion and control. The ambiguity of whether she is the invader or the invaded speaks to our relationship with both nature and ourselves."

Jenny Peters is a photographer working both digitally and in analog. She uses photography as a tool to understand and communicate with her internal and external worlds. Jenny earned her undergraduate degree from Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois. She currently resides in Chicago.

 jennypetersphotography.com
 

J.J. L'Heureux says, "My Sir Ernest Shackleton Hut photographs are intended to illuminate and celebrate Shackleton’s time at Cape Royds.. 

This project is an unfinished chapter in a eighteen-year odyssey in Antarctica that contains 18 different expeditions. 

Like Frank Hurley, Shackleton’s expedition photographer, my first purpose was to photograph the rich environment of ice, the diversity of surprising colors, shapes and monumental sizes.  Along the way a larger insight into Antarctica and its history developed. 

To succeed in getting to such places as Cape Royds in the Ross Sea involves a long and difficult sea voyage as well as the high probability that one will not be able to land due to conditions such as sea ice or terrible weather. Once having landed there is a long, uphill climb in icy and windy conditions past a huge Adelie Penguin colony.  The small, unpainted hut is at the end of this struggle as it was for Shackleton and the men who lived there for more than a year.

Entering the hut and getting out of the constant wind and cold brought for me a sense of accomplishment.  Then there is the interior of the hut itself, stacked with the supplies and equipment necessary for the original expedition to survive. 

They left their supplies, clothing, coffee pot on the stove and other direct statements of what was going on physically at the moment of their departure.  I was immediately struck by the focal point of the hut…the stove. 

The stove was the sole generator of warmth and also the center of social as well as physical survival for the men. 

This Shackleton series is my homage and celebration to the spirit of the place."

Photographer, painter, adventurer and naturalist – these are the words that describe the artist J.J. L’Heureux.  Ms. L’Heureux made her first trip to Antarctica in 2000 where she collected digital images of ice and snow for a white-on-white color field series of “landscape” paintings. During this expedition she became fascinated by the pristine environment, history and animals she discovered there.

The Southern Ocean and its environs became living models for her in the wind-swept setting of the vast, fragile, icy wilderness that is Antarctica. Ms. L’Heureux would like these photos to connect the viewer to a distant region of the world they might never have the opportunity to visit. Her inspiration comes from her curiosity of the Southern Ocean and ways to engage people around  the  world  in  caring  for this  precious resource. Ms. L’Heureux’s goal is to convey her attraction to this fragile environment, its stark beauty and the spirit of Antarctica.

-CV

Selected Solo Exhibitions
    2019    Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, Connecticut. (Catalogue)
        Sun Lake Hotel Gallery, Pinghu, China.
        Ferris State University, Rankin Art Gallery, Big Rapids, Michigan. (Catalogue)
    2018    Jiao Tong University, University of Michigan Campus, Shanghai, China.
        Museum of Art & History-Cedar, Lancaster, California. (Catalogue)
        Mayborn Museum, Baylor University, Waco, Texas. (Catalogue)
        Henggang International Art Gallery, Wuzhen, China.
    2017    Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston, Texas. (Catalogue)
        New York Hall of Science, New York, New York. (Catalogue)
        Explorium, Lexington, Kentucky. (Catalogue)

Selected Group Exhibitions
    2019    “Crocker Kingsley Exhibition,” Blue Line Arts, Roseville, California.
        “Janson’s History of Art Collaborative Book Project,” Jaffrey, New Hampshire.
        “What’s In Your World,” Los Angeles Center of Photography, Los Angeles, California.
        “All Media Exhibition 2019,” Museum of Art & History, Lancaster, California.
    2018    “Memory and Perception,” Marin MOCA, Novato, California.
        “Bunk,” Gallery 825, Los Angeles Art Association, Los Angeles, California.
        “Odyssey II,” Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, California.
        “A Sense of Place,” Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Augusta, Georgia.
    2017     “at the Museum 2017,” Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, California.
        “2017 At The Walker,” Walker Art Gallery, Garnett, Kansas.
        “Personal Narratives,” Annenberg Beach House, Santa Monica, California.
        “Wage On! Women, Art, and Money,” Ceres Gallery, New York, New York. (Catalogue)
   
Attended:    San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California.
        Academy of Art, San Francisco, California.
        Parsons School of Design, New York, New York.
        Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan.                 
                                                   
Selected Talks & Presentations:
    2019    Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, Connecticut.
        MOAH Museum:Cedar, Lancaster, California.
        Sun Lake Hotel Gallery, Pinghu, China.
    2018    Moorpark College, Moorpark, California.
        Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
        Los Angeles Center for Photography, Los Angeles, California.
    2017    Annenberg Beach House, Santa Monica, California.
        2017 World Internet Conference, Wuzhen, China.
        Henggang International Art Gallery, Wuzhen, China.

http://www.jjlheureux.com/

Jo Ann Chaus says, "These images are a selection from a large body of performance based self-portraiture work in which I embody an assortment of women, some versions of myself, as an homage to women past and present who have struggled to maintain the freedom and dignity of selfhood as they juggle the demands of family and marriage, striving to emerge from the shadows imposed by society."

Jo Ann is a visual artist based in the New York area.  she explores her identity as a woman of today examining her roles of wife, mother and individual in this present state of society, drawing on her personal and historical past, mirroring the effects of navigating the subtle discord she's observed and experienced since the mid 50's/ . She is influenced by her background in fashion, interest in psychology, relationship dynamics and the general human condition.

Career highlights:  2019 Klompching Fresh! finalist, 2019 Candela Unbound!, Center for Fine Art Photography Member Exhibit, Juror's select, Center for Fine Art Photography Self and Family, Honorable Mention, Gala Pollux Award Portfolio Winner 2019.

www.joannchaus.com
 

Laura Noel says, "I am disturbed by the transient nature of life. Experience is fleeting; memory alone is not enough.
All these passing sights cry out for examination.

Making photographs is like waking up in the middle of the night from a fantastical dream and trying to write it all down before the experience fades. The complexity and beauty of the dream diminishes even as the words hit the pages of the little notebook on the nightstand. I am motivated by the inherent failure in this task. The glances keep coming and there is always too much to get down on paper before the light slips away.

Working in the studio is one small way to commit these sights to paper. Taking pictures is my nod to time’s supremacy and also a peace offering that I might elude its ravages."

Laura Noel is a photographer, bookmaker and installation artist based in Atlanta. Noel’s work often explores different ways photography can be expressed as a transformational form of language, as well as aspects of her personal history.

She was a 2015-2016 Walthall Fellow at the WonderRoot Arts Center and recipient of a 2016 Idea Capital Grant. Her work is in the collection of The High Museum of Art, The George Eastman Museum, The Ogden Museum in New Orleans, North Carolina State’s Gregg Museum of Art and Design, MOCA GA and a number of private and public collections. She received a BA in Public Policy Studies from Duke University and a MFA in Photography with Distinction from the University of Georgia. Her prints been featured in exhibitions at the Pingyao International Photography Festival in China, the Contemporary American Photography exhibition at the Internationale Fototage Festival in Mannheim, Germany, Gallery 24 in Berlin, United Photo Industries in New York City, The Rhode Island School of Design Museum, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia, The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Davis Orton Gallery in upstate New York and Gallery 1401 in Philadelphia. Her photographs have appeared on-line and in print in Photography Now, Hot Shoe (United Kingdom), Photography Quarterly, PHOTONEWS (Germany), Slate Magazine’s Behold Photo Blog, CNN Photo Blog, Lens Culture, Planet, Art News Daily, The Humble Arts Foundation, F-Stop Magazine, One One Thousand, South X Southeast, La Lettre de la Photographie, Conscientious, aCurator, Fraction Magazine and many others. In 2012, her All’s Fair series inaugurated Fall Line Press’ Free Fall series of quarterly magazines featuring the work of one photographer. Recently, Scotland’s Aglu Books published Withdrawn, a study of discarded library books. Her artist books are in the collections of the International Center of Photography library in New York, the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University, the Savannah College of Art Design’s ACA Library of artist books, The Houston Museum of Fine Art, The Cleveland Art Institute, The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas and many private collections.

Recent installations include a commission, called Kaleidoscope, from Atlanta Celebrates Photography and the Metro Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority to convert a subway car into an art gallery, To Do at the Spruill Gallery, The Enchanted Forest of Books on the Atlanta Beltline, Give/Swap/Receive at Emory University, and The Empathy Experiment at ArtFields in the summer of 2017.

Career Highlights:
Curating a group exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia in late 2018 called called Far From Home: Stories of Refugee Girls , which was in honor of International Day of the Girl. The exhibition included still photographs and video by several artists and two large installations, Will Tomorrow Never Come and Lost Locked that I created for the space. Other highlights include having my work chosen for inclusion in the permanent collections of the Eastman House Museum, The High Museum of Art Atlanta, The Ogden Museum, and many others.


www.amaterialwitness.com  (home)
www.allsfairpress.com (book store)

Lotta Lemetti says, "Kekta is an exploration of cultural blending and national identity in an era when people are not anymore bounded by geographical borders. The fluidity of immigration today challenges us to reconsider the old ways of thinking about national and cultural identities. Kekta is a word that means two in the original Finnish language. I chose this word as the name for my project because these photographs originate from my own experience of living between two cultures. 

I created scenes that are inspired by the immemorial beliefs of unity between humans and nature, and cultural traditions that have been passed on for generations in the form of oral folk tales about Finnish mythology. I took the Finnish stories and photographed them in a variety of American landscapes, with people from different ethnic backgrounds, creating a new narrative of polycultural identity."

Lotta Lemetti is an emerging photographer from Finland. At this point of her career she has refined an unique vision which embraces the beauty of the simple and mundane. Her minimal aesthetic carries through the diverse work she loves to make and she’s not afraid to use alternative processes, mixed media and graphic design in her image making. She has been working alongside with graphic designers and art directed the latest two issues of FAYN magazine.

She prefers shooting with film in any format, but is also familiar with top of the industry digital cameras. Her positive attitude, ambition and work moral led her to be selected as one of the three Finnish undergraduate students to come study in the US as a Fulbright Scholar. Her work has already been exhibited in group shows in New York City, Los Angeles and Finland.

Career Highlights
2019 Winner of Latitude Life APS Photographer of the year title

2019 CCC Ad Open Call Winner

2018 Artist Grant, City of Vantaa

2016 Artist Grant, City of Vantaa

2015-2019 Fulbright Grantee


http://www.lottalemetti.com/

Dr. Martin Hoerning says, "Photopraphy is an essential part of my daily life.

I think, simplicity is key to my photographic approach.

I love black and white images.

I do not use lighting gear. I only use two lenses. 35 and 75 mm."

Hightlight in 2019: Honorable Mention Winner in  PX3 - Prix de la
Photographie Paris

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