Review by curator SameSource:
"There is much in the work of Allan Peach that captures the flavor of No Happy Accidents. 

He finds well-trodden spaces that have been oft photographed by others and creates a completely fresh, often surreal take on them.  His Fantômas series is well known to anyone who frequents galleries in the Los Angeles fine art world.  

This collaboration with model Kristen Sperberg never disappoints, offering cinematic vignettes that often are set within iconic architecture.  A master of exposure, Peach is careful to provide a full dynamic range within every photo he takes.  A Tip of the Hat From Fantômas is a classical sepia-toned delight."

Allan Peach says, "I was born in Omaha, Nebraska, but moved to Lynwood, a suburb of Los Angeles, at the age of five.  I fell in love Los Angeles, when my family and I rode the Pacific Electric cars, past the Watts Towers, to downtown L.A. There, I discovered motion pictures on the screens of Broadway’s magnificent movie palaces.  These theaters were more spectacular than a five year old from Omaha could ever have imagined.

At the tender age of twelve, I saw Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, in a first run theater in Compton, California. The audience screamed in terror at every sequence, and I bnthgbvcfleft the theater in pure emotional exhaustion. The experience changed my life. I realized that Art could send emotional shock waves through the spectator, and I was giddy. 

A few years later, I listened to a recording of Marcel Duchamp, in which he spoke of how the audience, not the artist finishes a work of Art.

An Artwork can create the deepest emotions in an Audience, and the Audience can in turn finish the work through the emotions it experiences - these ideas exploded in my mind.

I encourage audience reaction in my work, and use elements of noir, pulp illustration, silent film expressionism, and Hollywood glamour photography as a shared launching pad for what I create."

Education-

Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Loyola Marymount University

Bachelor’s Degree, Motion Picture Production, U.C.L.A.

Allan Peach Consulting, Independent Consultant, Photographer, Writer and Producer 1980-Present

Clients have included: American Society of Cinematographers, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Moving Pictures Expert Group, Apple, Inc., Henson and Associates,  ONEHope Foundation, The Sam Francis Foundation, Netune Communications, Cannon Films, Advanced Media Networks, MGM Studios, The Boeing Company, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Hamilton Galleries, Fresh Paint Gallery, actors Tony Shalhoub and Brooke Adams, Blum and Poe Gallery, The Brentwood Art Center, DemoGraFX and the peakPRgroup.


Career Highlights

Storytellers Las Laguna Gallery Laguna Beach 2017

Day Dreamers bG Bleicher/Gorman Gallery Bergamot Station 2017

bG Anniversary Salon Exhibit bG Bleicher/Gorman Gallery Bergamot Station 2017

LA Art Fair, bg Bleicher/Gorman booth, Los Angeles 2018

Gray Scale Wonderland 3, FM Gallery with bg Gallery, Hollywood 2018

Women in Music, The Fab Factory, North Hollywood 2018

Spectrum Gestalt 5 bG Bleicher/Gorman Gallery Santa Monica 2018

Summer Exhibition, Duncan Miller Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica 2018

Open Source #1, Los Angleles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles 2018

Your Daily Photograph, Aug 25, 2018,www.yourdailyphotograph.com

Open Source #2, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles 2018

Open Source #3, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, 2018

Italy in Hollywood, Museo Salvatore Ferragamo, Florence, Italy, 2018-2019

Spectrum Gestalt 8 bG Bleicher/Gorman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2019

Your Daily Photograph, June 8, 2019, www.yourdailyphotograph.com

www.allanpeachphotography.com

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.

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/

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/

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