THE GREAT ESCAPE- Nancy Baron & Jennifer McClure > Exhibition #1
Exhibition #1
Pieter deKoninck/Hot Dog Stick
Pieter deKoninck/Rescue
Pieter deKoninck/ Shady Spot at the Beach
PIETER DE KONINCK
"I first picked up a camera at the age of 13, my father’s folding Zeiss. Soon, I had a small TLR that documented my teenage travels in Europe. I had a rudimentary bathroom darkroom where I taught myself developing and printing, guided by Andreas Feininger’s The Complete Photographer. A summer job allowed me to acquire a Nikon F. I aspired to be a photojournalist at the time.
My photographic ambitions were waylaid by a lack of formal training, plus I had the ability to make a decent living as a graphic designer and later as an advertising art director.
I learned a lot along the way working with top-tier commercial photographers as an art director for many print campaigns.
Although I have made a lot of staged, set-up photographs as an art director and later for my book The Purpose of Things with the poet Peter Serchuk, I prefer to make honest images of honest subjects. I meet the ordinary on its own terms, sometimes finding the enigmatic and the fascinating along the way. Perhaps the photos take me rather than the other way around.
I work in digital and film, mostly medium format, making modest-size gelatin silver prints in my darkroom. I make my own prints because they are the record of my hand in that moment, and there is no other hand that touched them that way.
Many of my photos are provocative, with a quiet wit. Each one asks the viewer to participate, to draw their own conclusions. They are quiet, thoughtful photos, pictures of the pauses between words."
"I first picked up a camera at the age of 13, my father’s folding Zeiss. Soon, I had a small TLR that documented my teenage travels in Europe. I had a rudimentary bathroom darkroom where I taught myself developing and printing, guided by Andreas Feininger’s The Complete Photographer. A summer job allowed me to acquire a Nikon F. I aspired to be a photojournalist at the time.
My photographic ambitions were waylaid by a lack of formal training, plus I had the ability to make a decent living as a graphic designer and later as an advertising art director.
I learned a lot along the way working with top-tier commercial photographers as an art director for many print campaigns.
Although I have made a lot of staged, set-up photographs as an art director and later for my book The Purpose of Things with the poet Peter Serchuk, I prefer to make honest images of honest subjects. I meet the ordinary on its own terms, sometimes finding the enigmatic and the fascinating along the way. Perhaps the photos take me rather than the other way around.
I work in digital and film, mostly medium format, making modest-size gelatin silver prints in my darkroom. I make my own prints because they are the record of my hand in that moment, and there is no other hand that touched them that way.
Many of my photos are provocative, with a quiet wit. Each one asks the viewer to participate, to draw their own conclusions. They are quiet, thoughtful photos, pictures of the pauses between words."
Pieter deKoninck/SM Beach Couple
Pieter deKoninck/SM Pier Couple
Jane Gottlieb/Bali High
Jane Gottlieb/Bridge of Dreams
Jane Gottlieb/Going Up & Up & Up
JANE GOTTLIEB
"I have been expressing my joy of art with paint, shapes, and colors since I was very young. I started as a painter, evolved into a photographer, and eventually began hand-painting on individual Cibachrome photographic prints over 35 years ago.
Before Photoshop, I found a way to express an unrealistic reality with vivid, saturated, and otherworldly colors.
For the past 40 years, I have been scanning my one-of-a-kind hand-painted prints and my library of 35mm Kodachrome color transparencies taken over the last 50 years while traveling the world.
I paint, combine, and enhance my photographs with the magical Photoshop, creating my own idyllic colorful world!
My art has been shown worldwide in many solo exhibitions, including:
Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio; Colarinda Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal; MAD Gallery, Milan, Italy;
Demenga Gallery, Paris, France & Basel, Switzerland; UCSB AD&A Museum, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA; Laguna Art Museum, CA; Petersen Automotive Museum, LA, CA; LA County Natural History Museum, CA; Monterey Museum of Art, CA; Nancy Hoffman Gallery, NYC, NY; L’Image Gallery, Rome, Italy;
Louis Stern Gallery, West Hollywood, CA; Wall Space Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA.
I have been included in countless group exhibits and Art Fairs worldwide over the last 30 years.
My art has been in many magazines, magazine covers, newspapers, book covers, two museum exhibition catalogues, and two Art books, Garden Talesand Car Tales."
"I have been expressing my joy of art with paint, shapes, and colors since I was very young. I started as a painter, evolved into a photographer, and eventually began hand-painting on individual Cibachrome photographic prints over 35 years ago.
Before Photoshop, I found a way to express an unrealistic reality with vivid, saturated, and otherworldly colors.
For the past 40 years, I have been scanning my one-of-a-kind hand-painted prints and my library of 35mm Kodachrome color transparencies taken over the last 50 years while traveling the world.
I paint, combine, and enhance my photographs with the magical Photoshop, creating my own idyllic colorful world!
My art has been shown worldwide in many solo exhibitions, including:
Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio; Colarinda Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal; MAD Gallery, Milan, Italy;
Demenga Gallery, Paris, France & Basel, Switzerland; UCSB AD&A Museum, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA; Laguna Art Museum, CA; Petersen Automotive Museum, LA, CA; LA County Natural History Museum, CA; Monterey Museum of Art, CA; Nancy Hoffman Gallery, NYC, NY; L’Image Gallery, Rome, Italy;
Louis Stern Gallery, West Hollywood, CA; Wall Space Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA.
I have been included in countless group exhibits and Art Fairs worldwide over the last 30 years.
My art has been in many magazines, magazine covers, newspapers, book covers, two museum exhibition catalogues, and two Art books, Garden Talesand Car Tales."
Jane Gottlieb/ Up Up & Away
Jane Gottlieb/Cherry Red T-bird
He Haochen/Dot Matrix Identity Escape, 1
HE HAOCHEN
"Dot Matrix Identity Escape explores how individuals employ concealment as a means of psychological escape. Each image was created in collaboration with the subject, who selected their own hiding technique, such as blending into the shadows, concealing their features with delicate materials, or draping themselves in fabric. These vanishing gestures evolve into acts of resistance, an effort to evade scrutiny, imposed identities, and demands for visibility. The dot matrix's visual language highlights incompleteness and fragmentation, implying that identity is a dynamic and fragile concept. The human need to withdraw, change, and find temporary freedom in becoming invisible is reflected in the hazy distinction between presence and absence in these pictures.
I am an architectural designer and photographer based in Kansas City, MO. I received my Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University. In my professional work, I contribute to the design of major NFL stadiums and related projects, while I continue to pursue my photographic practice.
My photographs Square Exit and Thread Over Horizon were exhibited at Decode Gallery (Tucson, 2025), and my works will also be featured in group exhibitions during Trieste Photo Days (Italy, 2025). In the same year, I received three Platinum Awards and sixteen Gold Awards at the European Photo Awards. I am also pursuing recognition through major international design awards such as the MUSE Design Awards and the NY Design Awards, as well as international photography competitions. My writings have been published in Ju She (March 2018, China) and MARU (Vol. 196, Korea), and I was part of a team selected as one of the Top 50 in Archasm’s 2020 Dreamhome Design Competition.
I remain committed to advancing both architecture and photography in parallel, allowing these two practices to inform and enrich each other."
"Dot Matrix Identity Escape explores how individuals employ concealment as a means of psychological escape. Each image was created in collaboration with the subject, who selected their own hiding technique, such as blending into the shadows, concealing their features with delicate materials, or draping themselves in fabric. These vanishing gestures evolve into acts of resistance, an effort to evade scrutiny, imposed identities, and demands for visibility. The dot matrix's visual language highlights incompleteness and fragmentation, implying that identity is a dynamic and fragile concept. The human need to withdraw, change, and find temporary freedom in becoming invisible is reflected in the hazy distinction between presence and absence in these pictures.
I am an architectural designer and photographer based in Kansas City, MO. I received my Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University. In my professional work, I contribute to the design of major NFL stadiums and related projects, while I continue to pursue my photographic practice.
My photographs Square Exit and Thread Over Horizon were exhibited at Decode Gallery (Tucson, 2025), and my works will also be featured in group exhibitions during Trieste Photo Days (Italy, 2025). In the same year, I received three Platinum Awards and sixteen Gold Awards at the European Photo Awards. I am also pursuing recognition through major international design awards such as the MUSE Design Awards and the NY Design Awards, as well as international photography competitions. My writings have been published in Ju She (March 2018, China) and MARU (Vol. 196, Korea), and I was part of a team selected as one of the Top 50 in Archasm’s 2020 Dreamhome Design Competition.
I remain committed to advancing both architecture and photography in parallel, allowing these two practices to inform and enrich each other."
He Haochen/Dot Matrix Identity Escape 2
He Haochen/ Dot Matrix Identity Escape 3
Peter Kahn/Big Lagoon 4-26-25_0013
Peter Kahn/Fern Canyon 101723_0083
Peter Kahn/Mono Lake 10.06.24_2513
PETER KAHN
"I am most at ease outdoors—beneath the open sky, among towering trees, and by a shifting tide—finding serene moments in our Man–Machine age where an older awareness surfaces and reminds me of my bond with the living world.
I believe that nature isn’t apart from us or something to observe at a distance; it is the quiet partner of our lives, the stable foundation beneath everything, no matter how far modern technologies carry us or how complex our societies become.
In my large-scale images—whether it’s a redwood grove or fog drifting across a coastal ridge—I try to convey a sense of stillness, an immersive feeling of being present, that helps me step away from the constructed world and return, even briefly, to something enduring. I hope each image can serve as a gentle reminder of where we all come from, what sustains us, and why these places matter."
IMAGES FOR SALE
Mono Lake_10.06.24_2513 40” H x 60” W
Lumachrome Print Optical Acrylic Surface Mount
$4000
Signed on the back
Moonstone Beach 10.13.24_0978 20” H x 30” W
Lumachrome Print Optical Acrylic Surface Mount
$1200
Signed on the back
Prairie Creek_04.22.25_0027 40” H x 60” W
Lumachrome Print Optical Acrylic Surface Mount
$4000
Signed on the back
Fern Canyon_101723_0083 40” H x 60” W
Lumachrome Print Optical Acrylic Surface Mount
$4000
Signed on the back
Big Lagoon_4.26.25_0013 36” H x 72” W
Lumachrome Print Optical Acrylic Surface Mount
$5000
Signed on the back
Tolowa Dunes_10.21.23. 32” H x 48 “W
Lumachrome Print Optical Acrylic Surface Mount
$3000
Signed on the back
Contact: Peter Kahn
info@peterkahnphotography.com
"I am most at ease outdoors—beneath the open sky, among towering trees, and by a shifting tide—finding serene moments in our Man–Machine age where an older awareness surfaces and reminds me of my bond with the living world.
I believe that nature isn’t apart from us or something to observe at a distance; it is the quiet partner of our lives, the stable foundation beneath everything, no matter how far modern technologies carry us or how complex our societies become.
In my large-scale images—whether it’s a redwood grove or fog drifting across a coastal ridge—I try to convey a sense of stillness, an immersive feeling of being present, that helps me step away from the constructed world and return, even briefly, to something enduring. I hope each image can serve as a gentle reminder of where we all come from, what sustains us, and why these places matter."
IMAGES FOR SALE
Mono Lake_10.06.24_2513 40” H x 60” W
Lumachrome Print Optical Acrylic Surface Mount
$4000
Signed on the back
Moonstone Beach 10.13.24_0978 20” H x 30” W
Lumachrome Print Optical Acrylic Surface Mount
$1200
Signed on the back
Prairie Creek_04.22.25_0027 40” H x 60” W
Lumachrome Print Optical Acrylic Surface Mount
$4000
Signed on the back
Fern Canyon_101723_0083 40” H x 60” W
Lumachrome Print Optical Acrylic Surface Mount
$4000
Signed on the back
Big Lagoon_4.26.25_0013 36” H x 72” W
Lumachrome Print Optical Acrylic Surface Mount
$5000
Signed on the back
Tolowa Dunes_10.21.23. 32” H x 48 “W
Lumachrome Print Optical Acrylic Surface Mount
$3000
Signed on the back
Contact: Peter Kahn
info@peterkahnphotography.com
Peter Kahn/Moonstone Beach 10.13.24,0978
Peter Kahn/Prairie Creek_4-22-25_0027
Marna Bell/Coney Island on my Mind-1
Marna Bell/Coney Island on my Mind-2
Marna Bell/Coney Island on my Mind-3
MARNA BELL
"My process of creating Coney Island on my Mind was one of discovery. I found myself implicitly drawn to environments that invoked my sense of nostalgia. Coney Island has seen its decline and its history has been erased, along with its past splendor, by the development of the high rise. The State Fair offered me a connection to the kinetic atmosphere of Coney Island. Colors appear heightened and magical, like the Kodachrome postcards of the past. The sky is a perfect blue and the people seem to be stuck in another dimension of reality.
In this microcosmic realm, everything seems perfect, unlike the world of today with its fears and consequences. Here, consequence is not an issue and excitement is guaranteed."
Marna Bell is an award-winning American photographer whose work centers around nostalgia and reclaiming memories through parallels of light and shadow. Bell's images represent semi-fictionalized narratives, taking form between what's real and what's imagined.
Bell was raised in Brooklyn, NY; she returns here both physically and figuratively throughout her career. In this fantasy world of the past, she finds excitement and escape.
Her work has been featured in international publications, solo and group exhibitions in museums and galleries, including Clarion State College, the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, Munson Williams Proctor Arts Inst., Utica, NY, and Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY.
She received a New York State Council of the Arts Grant and a Ruth and Harold Chenven Foundation award, and has been featured in Black and White magazine. Her book, “Hudson Past/Perfect” is in Howard Greenberg’s Gallery in New York City. Bell received a BFA from Pratt Institute and an MFA from Syracuse University in painting.
"My process of creating Coney Island on my Mind was one of discovery. I found myself implicitly drawn to environments that invoked my sense of nostalgia. Coney Island has seen its decline and its history has been erased, along with its past splendor, by the development of the high rise. The State Fair offered me a connection to the kinetic atmosphere of Coney Island. Colors appear heightened and magical, like the Kodachrome postcards of the past. The sky is a perfect blue and the people seem to be stuck in another dimension of reality.
In this microcosmic realm, everything seems perfect, unlike the world of today with its fears and consequences. Here, consequence is not an issue and excitement is guaranteed."
Marna Bell is an award-winning American photographer whose work centers around nostalgia and reclaiming memories through parallels of light and shadow. Bell's images represent semi-fictionalized narratives, taking form between what's real and what's imagined.
Bell was raised in Brooklyn, NY; she returns here both physically and figuratively throughout her career. In this fantasy world of the past, she finds excitement and escape.
Her work has been featured in international publications, solo and group exhibitions in museums and galleries, including Clarion State College, the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, Munson Williams Proctor Arts Inst., Utica, NY, and Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY.
She received a New York State Council of the Arts Grant and a Ruth and Harold Chenven Foundation award, and has been featured in Black and White magazine. Her book, “Hudson Past/Perfect” is in Howard Greenberg’s Gallery in New York City. Bell received a BFA from Pratt Institute and an MFA from Syracuse University in painting.
Marna Bell/Coney Island on my Mind-4
Marna Bell/Coney Island on my Mind-5
Nadine Levin/Creating Water Reflection Abstracts
Nadine Levin/Escaping to the Deep Blue Sea
Nadine Levin/Peaceful Time Alone
NADINE LEVIN
"When I want to escape,for a time, from personal or external matters that cause me internal turmoil I look for environmental elements that bring me peace. Usually, there is an element of water involved in my mental and or physical escape. The series of images presented in this entry have an element of water and levity. My escapism needs to have some humor and abstraction for it to feel complete. The definition of water is broadly interpreted (for example clouds) in these images."
Nadine Levin is primarily a lens-based artist residing in San Mateo California. Nadine began her photographic pursuit in her mid-career years using an inherited film camera. She fell in love with the versatility of telling stories and seeing life through a lens. While her love is film and making and collecting black and white images, she adapted to digital platforms and processing due to the lack of darkroom accessibility. In moving to the digital world her work began to include color.
Mostly self-taught, she has sought opportunities to learn from well-known contemporary photographers and by studying the work of illustrative 20th and 21st century photographers.
Nadine’s work focuses on conceptual, documentary and abstract photography. The themes, capture and printing methods are varied and develop as life unfolds before her. Of late she has focused on personal narrative work and uses self-portraiture as a significant element in her story telling.
She has displayed her work in both juried and invitational group shows. Nadine’s work is held in private and public collections, and she is the recipient of recognition at the local, regional, national, and international level.
All images are for a sale at $425 per image.
"When I want to escape,for a time, from personal or external matters that cause me internal turmoil I look for environmental elements that bring me peace. Usually, there is an element of water involved in my mental and or physical escape. The series of images presented in this entry have an element of water and levity. My escapism needs to have some humor and abstraction for it to feel complete. The definition of water is broadly interpreted (for example clouds) in these images."
Nadine Levin is primarily a lens-based artist residing in San Mateo California. Nadine began her photographic pursuit in her mid-career years using an inherited film camera. She fell in love with the versatility of telling stories and seeing life through a lens. While her love is film and making and collecting black and white images, she adapted to digital platforms and processing due to the lack of darkroom accessibility. In moving to the digital world her work began to include color.
Mostly self-taught, she has sought opportunities to learn from well-known contemporary photographers and by studying the work of illustrative 20th and 21st century photographers.
Nadine’s work focuses on conceptual, documentary and abstract photography. The themes, capture and printing methods are varied and develop as life unfolds before her. Of late she has focused on personal narrative work and uses self-portraiture as a significant element in her story telling.
She has displayed her work in both juried and invitational group shows. Nadine’s work is held in private and public collections, and she is the recipient of recognition at the local, regional, national, and international level.
All images are for a sale at $425 per image.
Nadine Levin/Shower Fantasy
Nadine Levin/Silence
HONORABLE MENTION
HONORABLE MENTION
Nadine Levin/Escaping to a Skyline in the Clouds
www.nadineplevin.com
www.instagram.com/nlevin68
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