THE 'I-A CALL FOR SELF-PORTRAITURE'- Ellen Friedlander > EXHIBITION #3
EXHIBITION #3
BODY I by MG Vander Elst
MG Vander Elst says, "How does my body hold me in this moment and time ?
With Significant changes happening in my life I am returning to myself to find answers.
How am I shifting and grappling with the change ? What is the language of my body?
What does this stillness mean ? How does my body hold me ?
How do I make peace with myself ?
This sustained attention to explore my body leads met study myself.
By this sustained attention to myself I am rekindling the lost friendship
I once had and I am accepting how my body holds me in this moment and time
A native of Belgium, I came to Atlanta to attend the Portfolio Center and majored in Advertising Photography.
My career path led me to NYC, where I have spent the last 30 years working as a photographer.
Portraiture has been my foundation and has evolved in creating Still Life, Landscape and Abstract work.
When photographing still lives and floral I work instinctively from an idea or an emotion that I am trying to convey.
The exposure I gained growing up in Antwerp surrounded by the Classic Masters and the emergence of Belgian contemporary Art shaped my style. This exposure was in part thanks to my parents love of Art.
Career Highlights -
An image I made in June of 2020 at George Floyd’s Memorial Rally at Cadman Plaza Park, Brooklyn NY was submitted to #ICPConcerned
and was selected for the exhibition #ICPConcerned: Global Images for Global Crisis and is now part of the exhibition’s book; #ICPConcerned : Global Images for Global Crisis. The project was an open call for image makers to share images of our daily lives in the year 2020 in the midst of global pandemic and deep political and social unrest."
www.mgvanderelst.com
https://www.instagram.com/mgvanderelst_images
With Significant changes happening in my life I am returning to myself to find answers.
How am I shifting and grappling with the change ? What is the language of my body?
What does this stillness mean ? How does my body hold me ?
How do I make peace with myself ?
This sustained attention to explore my body leads met study myself.
By this sustained attention to myself I am rekindling the lost friendship
I once had and I am accepting how my body holds me in this moment and time
A native of Belgium, I came to Atlanta to attend the Portfolio Center and majored in Advertising Photography.
My career path led me to NYC, where I have spent the last 30 years working as a photographer.
Portraiture has been my foundation and has evolved in creating Still Life, Landscape and Abstract work.
When photographing still lives and floral I work instinctively from an idea or an emotion that I am trying to convey.
The exposure I gained growing up in Antwerp surrounded by the Classic Masters and the emergence of Belgian contemporary Art shaped my style. This exposure was in part thanks to my parents love of Art.
Career Highlights -
An image I made in June of 2020 at George Floyd’s Memorial Rally at Cadman Plaza Park, Brooklyn NY was submitted to #ICPConcerned
and was selected for the exhibition #ICPConcerned: Global Images for Global Crisis and is now part of the exhibition’s book; #ICPConcerned : Global Images for Global Crisis. The project was an open call for image makers to share images of our daily lives in the year 2020 in the midst of global pandemic and deep political and social unrest."
www.mgvanderelst.com
https://www.instagram.com/mgvanderelst_images
BODY II by MG Vander Elst
BODY III by MG Vander Elst
BODY IV by MG Vander Elst
BODY V by MG Vander Elst
BODY VI by MG Vander Elst
HYSTERIA by Meghan Quinn
Meghan Quinn says of her series, 'Personal Growth', "I started photographing the work that would become “Personal Growth” in 2019. At the time it was purely about the strength and resilience exhibited in the women around me who weathered adversities with astounding bravery and grace. They were the flowers that bloomed out of the darkness. The work took on a deeper meaning as I found myself transitioning into perimenopause; a second puberty that has challenged my body and my psyche. Coming into another stage of womanhood, I am constantly amazed at the women who are walking this path with me and paved it before. I know we haven’t seen the full measure of our power yet even when we think we have no more to give."
Meghan Quinn is an artist living in Los Angeles, CA. She discovered photography while documenting protests and rallies growing up in the Washington, D.C. area. Due to an eye disease she is slowly going color blind, but continues to create meticulously colorful palettes to express her visions while she can still see the spectrum. She has exhibited all over the U.S. and has been profiled in numerous publications and annuals. Quinn is a member of the Los Angeles Art Association/Gallery 825.
IMAGES FOR SALE-
Anahata- 22"H x 17" W
Archival paper
$600 unframed
Limited edition of 15
Signed on back
Flower Gauntlet- 22"H x 17" W
Archival paper
$600 unframed
Limited edition of 15
Signed on back
Hysteria- 17"H x 22" W
Archival paper
$600 unframed
Limited edition of 15
Signed on back
Contact: Meghan Quinn
themeg@meghanquinn.com
https://www.instagram.com/meghanquinnfineart
www.meghanquinn.com
Meghan Quinn is an artist living in Los Angeles, CA. She discovered photography while documenting protests and rallies growing up in the Washington, D.C. area. Due to an eye disease she is slowly going color blind, but continues to create meticulously colorful palettes to express her visions while she can still see the spectrum. She has exhibited all over the U.S. and has been profiled in numerous publications and annuals. Quinn is a member of the Los Angeles Art Association/Gallery 825.
IMAGES FOR SALE-
Anahata- 22"H x 17" W
Archival paper
$600 unframed
Limited edition of 15
Signed on back
Flower Gauntlet- 22"H x 17" W
Archival paper
$600 unframed
Limited edition of 15
Signed on back
Hysteria- 17"H x 22" W
Archival paper
$600 unframed
Limited edition of 15
Signed on back
Contact: Meghan Quinn
themeg@meghanquinn.com
https://www.instagram.com/meghanquinnfineart
www.meghanquinn.com
FLOWER GAUNTLET by Meghan Quinn
ANAHATA by Meghan Quinn
THE UNTENDED GARDEN THRIVE by Mara Magyarosi-Laytner
They convinced me
I only had a few good years left
Before I was replaced by a girl younger than me
As though men yield power with age
But women grow into irrelevance
They can keep their lies
For I have just gotten started
An Excerpt from Timeless by Rumi Kaur
Mara Magyarosi-Laytner says of her series, "The Untended Garden", "The Untended Garden is an exploration of my own personal coming of age as a woman seen through the metaphor of a garden.
Throughout the beginning of my thirties, I’ve spent so much time questioning who I am and why I see myself in that way. Self-portraits paired with experimental photographic methods are how I am processing through those ideas. I’ve been told throughout my entire life that there was a certain set of “perfections” I had to uphold to be an ideal woman. Many of those ideas clash with my own, and this fracture of thought is where this exploration began.
My work emphasizes texture both through the recording of the initial photograph and the rerecording of the materiality of the image transfer in the print. Skin, hair, petals, and paper can parallel and the textural quality of each can be subdued or emphasized. By experimenting with different photographic methods and processes, I am using those processes to reinforce symbolically what a garden can be.
The garden continuously shifts throughout the season. Seeds, beginning growth, roots taking hold, stems and leaves reaching high, different flora throughout time, and then an eventual death, just to repeat again. Photography works in a similar way – the initial thought floating, capturing light physically, aesthetic choices, the materiality of the physical print, and then back to the thought, or new thoughts, again."
Mara Magyarosi-Laytner is a Detroit based artist, educator, and alternative process enthusiast. A graduate of the College for Creative Studies Photography and Art Education Departments, her work typically pairs experimental photography methods to explore identity and mental health through a symbolic and poetic lens.
She has spent the past few years advancing her education through graduate studies at the Savannah College of Art and Design – first, with her MA in Arts Administration in 2016 and currently as a MFA Candidate in the Photography department with an anticipated graduation date in June 2022.
Mara proudly is the founder of the Silver Water Collective, an all women artist collective celebrating the work of ten fine art photographers across North America.
Career Highlights:
SOLO EXHIBITS:
2022 The Untended Garden MFA Thesis Exhibition, Cedar House Gallery, Savannah, GA
2021 A Siren’s Call, Patch & Remington, Marcellus, MI
JURIED GROUP EXHIBITS:
2022 Auto Focus. A Portrait of the Self, LoosenArt Gallery, Rome, Italy
2022 Your Body Belongs To You, ShutterHub, St Gilles Croix de Vie, France
2022 Feminine / Masculine, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2022 Into the Open, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI
2021 Developed Work, Midwest Center for Photography, Wichita, KS
2021 GAZE, Arts To Hearts Project x All SHE Makes, International Virtual Exhibition
2021 Anthologies 2, Praxis Gallery and Photographic Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN
2021 Liquid-Sky, Praxis Gallery and Photographic Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN
2021 Bloom, Midwest Center for Photography, Wichita, KS
2021 #New Visions 2021, Texas Photographic Society, Houston, TX
2021 Contrasts, LoosenArt Gallery, Rome, Italy
2021 Spring Open Studio, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
IMAGES FOR SALE-
The Untended Garden – Adorn
Archival Pigment Print on Canson Rives BFK Pure White Paper
The Untended Garden – Echo
Archival Pigment Print on Canson Rives BFK Pure White Paper
The Untended Garden – Gaze
Archival Pigment Print on Canson Rives BFK Pure White Paper
The Untended Garden – Lush
Archival Pigment Print on Canson Rives BFK Pure White Paper
The Untended Garden – Temple
Archival Pigment Print on Canson Rives BFK Pure White Paper
The Untended Garden - Thrive
Archival Pigment Print on Canson Rives BFK Pure White Paper
Contact Mara Magyarosi-Laytner
for current edition and pricing information:
hello@maramagyarosilaytner.com
www.maramagyarosilaytner.com
I only had a few good years left
Before I was replaced by a girl younger than me
As though men yield power with age
But women grow into irrelevance
They can keep their lies
For I have just gotten started
An Excerpt from Timeless by Rumi Kaur
Mara Magyarosi-Laytner says of her series, "The Untended Garden", "The Untended Garden is an exploration of my own personal coming of age as a woman seen through the metaphor of a garden.
Throughout the beginning of my thirties, I’ve spent so much time questioning who I am and why I see myself in that way. Self-portraits paired with experimental photographic methods are how I am processing through those ideas. I’ve been told throughout my entire life that there was a certain set of “perfections” I had to uphold to be an ideal woman. Many of those ideas clash with my own, and this fracture of thought is where this exploration began.
My work emphasizes texture both through the recording of the initial photograph and the rerecording of the materiality of the image transfer in the print. Skin, hair, petals, and paper can parallel and the textural quality of each can be subdued or emphasized. By experimenting with different photographic methods and processes, I am using those processes to reinforce symbolically what a garden can be.
The garden continuously shifts throughout the season. Seeds, beginning growth, roots taking hold, stems and leaves reaching high, different flora throughout time, and then an eventual death, just to repeat again. Photography works in a similar way – the initial thought floating, capturing light physically, aesthetic choices, the materiality of the physical print, and then back to the thought, or new thoughts, again."
Mara Magyarosi-Laytner is a Detroit based artist, educator, and alternative process enthusiast. A graduate of the College for Creative Studies Photography and Art Education Departments, her work typically pairs experimental photography methods to explore identity and mental health through a symbolic and poetic lens.
She has spent the past few years advancing her education through graduate studies at the Savannah College of Art and Design – first, with her MA in Arts Administration in 2016 and currently as a MFA Candidate in the Photography department with an anticipated graduation date in June 2022.
Mara proudly is the founder of the Silver Water Collective, an all women artist collective celebrating the work of ten fine art photographers across North America.
Career Highlights:
SOLO EXHIBITS:
2022 The Untended Garden MFA Thesis Exhibition, Cedar House Gallery, Savannah, GA
2021 A Siren’s Call, Patch & Remington, Marcellus, MI
JURIED GROUP EXHIBITS:
2022 Auto Focus. A Portrait of the Self, LoosenArt Gallery, Rome, Italy
2022 Your Body Belongs To You, ShutterHub, St Gilles Croix de Vie, France
2022 Feminine / Masculine, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2022 Into the Open, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI
2021 Developed Work, Midwest Center for Photography, Wichita, KS
2021 GAZE, Arts To Hearts Project x All SHE Makes, International Virtual Exhibition
2021 Anthologies 2, Praxis Gallery and Photographic Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN
2021 Liquid-Sky, Praxis Gallery and Photographic Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN
2021 Bloom, Midwest Center for Photography, Wichita, KS
2021 #New Visions 2021, Texas Photographic Society, Houston, TX
2021 Contrasts, LoosenArt Gallery, Rome, Italy
2021 Spring Open Studio, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
IMAGES FOR SALE-
The Untended Garden – Adorn
Archival Pigment Print on Canson Rives BFK Pure White Paper
The Untended Garden – Echo
Archival Pigment Print on Canson Rives BFK Pure White Paper
The Untended Garden – Gaze
Archival Pigment Print on Canson Rives BFK Pure White Paper
The Untended Garden – Lush
Archival Pigment Print on Canson Rives BFK Pure White Paper
The Untended Garden – Temple
Archival Pigment Print on Canson Rives BFK Pure White Paper
The Untended Garden - Thrive
Archival Pigment Print on Canson Rives BFK Pure White Paper
Contact Mara Magyarosi-Laytner
for current edition and pricing information:
hello@maramagyarosilaytner.com
www.maramagyarosilaytner.com
THE UNTENDED GARDEN TEMPLE by Mara Magyarosi-Laytner
THE UNTENDED GARDEN LUSH by Mara Magyarosi-Laytner
THE UNTENDED GARDEN GAZE by Mara Magyarosi-Laytner
THE UNTENDED GARDEN ECHO by Mara Magyarosi-Laytner
THE UNTENDED GARDEN ADORN by Mara Magyarosi-Laytner
WEDDING DRESS by Lingxue Hao
Lingxue (Luna) Hao says, "Moon Phase: The Moments Between Wax and Wane is an interpretation of depression through the art of photography.
My photographs explore my own experiences with this invisible disease. They represent the torment and pain that I navigate with major depression. They also record my constant struggle with mental health. This body of work acts as a visual diary about a depressive patient that I created as a photographer. The process of photographing and editing this project is also the process by which I find a productive way to communicate with the outside world.
The purpose of my work is to help those who may be indirectly impacted by depression to understand mental illness more comprehensively and establish an accurate portrayal of this very real concern. We live in a society where people still hold prejudices against those with mental health issues and misunderstand them. My photos serve as an invitation to viewers to raise awareness and support for the people around them who struggle with this widespread issue."
Lingxue (Luna) Hao is a photographer from China who is now based in LA. After working as a food photographer for two years, she turned her focus to telling stories through the camera. She is particularly interested in finding beauty from the ordinary and mundane and creating a virtual diary based on everyday love, loss, and reflection. She prefers photographic books to display her work; she is very experienced in making handmade books.
Career Highlights:
Education:
2012-2016 Beijing Film Academy Photography BFA
2017-2021 Savannah College of Art and Design Photography MFA
Exhibition, Publication, and Award:
Cedar House Gallery - group exhibition “Possibilites” VI - Savannah, GA, USA, May 2021.
Float Magazine, group online exhibition “How I See You”. Top 10 feature and portfolio review session on the website, August 2021.
Observica Contemporary Art Magazine, featured artist, 13th issue, August 2021.
Praxis Gallery, group exhibition "The Shape of Things". Juror’s Choice section, September 2021.
Praxis Gallery, group exhibition "In Between Moments", September 2021.
Cedar House Gallery, solo Exhibition “Moon Phase: The Moments Between Wax and Wane”, Savannah, GA, October 2021.
JKC Gallery, group exhibition “Homecoming 2021”, December 2021.
Color Tag Magazine, featured artist, Vol IV, January 2022.
Create! Magazine, featured artist, issue #28: Five Year Anniversary Edition, January 2022.
IMAGES FOR SALE:
Hair Style- 16"H x 20" W
Archival paper
$300 unframed
Limited edition of 15
Signed on back
On the Beach- 16"H x 24" W
Archival paper
$300 unframed
Limited edition of 15
Signed on back
Peeling- 24"H x 16" W
Archival paper
$300 unframed
Limited edition of 15
Signed on back
Take a Rest- 16"H x 24" W
Archival paper
$300 unframed
Limited edition of 15
Signed on back
Wedding Dress- 16"H x 20" W
Archival paper
$300 unframed
Limited edition of 15
Signed on back
New Clothes- 16"H x 20" W
Archival paper
$300 unframed
Limited edition of 15
Signed on back
Contact: Lingxue Hao
lunahao515@gmail.com
www.lunahao.com
https://www.instagram.com/luna___hao
My photographs explore my own experiences with this invisible disease. They represent the torment and pain that I navigate with major depression. They also record my constant struggle with mental health. This body of work acts as a visual diary about a depressive patient that I created as a photographer. The process of photographing and editing this project is also the process by which I find a productive way to communicate with the outside world.
The purpose of my work is to help those who may be indirectly impacted by depression to understand mental illness more comprehensively and establish an accurate portrayal of this very real concern. We live in a society where people still hold prejudices against those with mental health issues and misunderstand them. My photos serve as an invitation to viewers to raise awareness and support for the people around them who struggle with this widespread issue."
Lingxue (Luna) Hao is a photographer from China who is now based in LA. After working as a food photographer for two years, she turned her focus to telling stories through the camera. She is particularly interested in finding beauty from the ordinary and mundane and creating a virtual diary based on everyday love, loss, and reflection. She prefers photographic books to display her work; she is very experienced in making handmade books.
Career Highlights:
Education:
2012-2016 Beijing Film Academy Photography BFA
2017-2021 Savannah College of Art and Design Photography MFA
Exhibition, Publication, and Award:
Cedar House Gallery - group exhibition “Possibilites” VI - Savannah, GA, USA, May 2021.
Float Magazine, group online exhibition “How I See You”. Top 10 feature and portfolio review session on the website, August 2021.
Observica Contemporary Art Magazine, featured artist, 13th issue, August 2021.
Praxis Gallery, group exhibition "The Shape of Things". Juror’s Choice section, September 2021.
Praxis Gallery, group exhibition "In Between Moments", September 2021.
Cedar House Gallery, solo Exhibition “Moon Phase: The Moments Between Wax and Wane”, Savannah, GA, October 2021.
JKC Gallery, group exhibition “Homecoming 2021”, December 2021.
Color Tag Magazine, featured artist, Vol IV, January 2022.
Create! Magazine, featured artist, issue #28: Five Year Anniversary Edition, January 2022.
IMAGES FOR SALE:
Hair Style- 16"H x 20" W
Archival paper
$300 unframed
Limited edition of 15
Signed on back
On the Beach- 16"H x 24" W
Archival paper
$300 unframed
Limited edition of 15
Signed on back
Peeling- 24"H x 16" W
Archival paper
$300 unframed
Limited edition of 15
Signed on back
Take a Rest- 16"H x 24" W
Archival paper
$300 unframed
Limited edition of 15
Signed on back
Wedding Dress- 16"H x 20" W
Archival paper
$300 unframed
Limited edition of 15
Signed on back
New Clothes- 16"H x 20" W
Archival paper
$300 unframed
Limited edition of 15
Signed on back
Contact: Lingxue Hao
lunahao515@gmail.com
www.lunahao.com
https://www.instagram.com/luna___hao
TAKE A REST by Lingxue Hao
PEELING by Lingxue Hao
ON THE BEACH by Lingxue Hao
NEW CLOTHES by Lingxue Hao
HAIR STYLE by Lingxue Hao
STIPPLED by Lee Musgrave
Lee Musgrave says, "When it comes to portrature I enjoy images that explore creative interpretations that allude to more than directrepresentation of the individual".
IMAGES FOR SALE:
Reflection, 2021, 16"x16", $100.
Stippled, 2019, 16"x16", $100.
Blue Radiant, 2019, 16"x16", $100.
Contact Lee Musgrave-
www.leemusgrave.com
Lee Musgrave_art
https://www.instagram.com/lee@leemusgrave.com
IMAGES FOR SALE:
Reflection, 2021, 16"x16", $100.
Stippled, 2019, 16"x16", $100.
Blue Radiant, 2019, 16"x16", $100.
Contact Lee Musgrave-
www.leemusgrave.com
Lee Musgrave_art
https://www.instagram.com/lee@leemusgrave.com
REFLECTION by Lee Musgrave
BLUE RADIANT by Lee Musgrave
TERRIFIED by Leanne Trivett
Leanne Trivett says, "I am a visual artist that uses photography to narrate identity in Experimental Self Portraiture and to create images that show how details and color interact in the world.
My theatrical and vocal performance background inspires me to explore self and create characters with dynamic stories. I like to capture scenes from my play, and I also like the out takes.
It is my desire to connect to the viewer in a meaningful and emotional way by exploring multiple sides of me: the light and dark, the quiet and the movement, and the smooth and textured. I use my camera and eye for detail to visit the complicated fringe of my personality and my relationships. Every image I make is a part of my double inner world. I seek a connection to self and the audience in that space of duality, building a bridge through emotion and humanity. "
She graduated with a BFA in Theatre from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University in NY, NY.
Her background in musical theatre and her years of performing as a professional singer have inspired her creation of characters and self expression through images and photography. She is best known for her colorful and current self portraits and her attention to details.
Her work has been exhibited nationally in venues like Los Angeles Center for Photography, the Griffin Museum of Photography in Boston, SE Center for Photography in South Carolina, and her work can be seen in the latest Art Ascent International Magazine and displayed in businesses in the city in which she lives.
She is currently a Gather Pro at Gather Academy, the Host of the Masters Group at the Gather Academy Online, presenting “Unfiltered for the Creative and the Curious” Zoom monthly, and working on several photography series.
www.leannetrivettsphotography.com
https://www.instagram.com/leannerockstar
My theatrical and vocal performance background inspires me to explore self and create characters with dynamic stories. I like to capture scenes from my play, and I also like the out takes.
It is my desire to connect to the viewer in a meaningful and emotional way by exploring multiple sides of me: the light and dark, the quiet and the movement, and the smooth and textured. I use my camera and eye for detail to visit the complicated fringe of my personality and my relationships. Every image I make is a part of my double inner world. I seek a connection to self and the audience in that space of duality, building a bridge through emotion and humanity. "
She graduated with a BFA in Theatre from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University in NY, NY.
Her background in musical theatre and her years of performing as a professional singer have inspired her creation of characters and self expression through images and photography. She is best known for her colorful and current self portraits and her attention to details.
Her work has been exhibited nationally in venues like Los Angeles Center for Photography, the Griffin Museum of Photography in Boston, SE Center for Photography in South Carolina, and her work can be seen in the latest Art Ascent International Magazine and displayed in businesses in the city in which she lives.
She is currently a Gather Pro at Gather Academy, the Host of the Masters Group at the Gather Academy Online, presenting “Unfiltered for the Creative and the Curious” Zoom monthly, and working on several photography series.
www.leannetrivettsphotography.com
https://www.instagram.com/leannerockstar
JOKING by Leanne Trivett
I KNOW by Leanne Trivett
HEART EXPLOSION by Leanne Trivett
ARTIST ENTRANCE by Leanne Trivett
CHALK SOUL by Leanne Trivett
VENEZIANA by Kathryn Dunlevie
Kathryn Dunlevie says of her series,
'FEMMES FUTURISTES', "These Femmes Futuristes are viewed as if with x-ray vision - their patchwork interiors hinting at what they might have lived; their silhouettes offering clues as to how they have proceeded through time.
They are pieced together from fragments of our shared visual history, then situated in anonymous venues from my photographic archive. Suggesting new possibilities and surprising narratives, they inspire unapologetic authenticity and a sense of daring.
All these works are in some sense self portraits - though more often than not - in an aspirational sense."
Kathryn Dunlevie is a photography-based artist whose work has been exhibited throughout the U.S. and internationally. Cathy Kimball, former Executive Director of the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, writes of Dunlevie’s work: "Through brilliant compositional detail and manipulation, she creates disconcerting, inexplicable spaces and scenarios - 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. 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.
Publications reviewing her work have included Spain’s La Fotografia Actual, Korea’s photo + and Germany’s Profifoto, as well as The New York Times, Camerawork: A Journal of Photographic Arts, Photo Metro, Artweek, and Artlies.
Highlights of Career:
SOLO EXHIBITS:
FotoFest 2020: Women of Wonder, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, TexasFotoFest 2018: Imaginarium, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, Texas
FotoFest 2016: Mistick Krewes, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, Texas
JURIED GROUP EXHIBITS:
Women’s History Month, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco PhotoAlliance Bay Area Current(ly) exhibition, San Francisco, CA
Don't Take Pictures.com School Days online exhibition (2019)
PingYao International Photography Festival, Ping Yao, China
www.kathryndunlevie.com
Facebook: Kathryn Dunlevie Art
https://www.instagram.com/kathryndunlevie
Contact: kathryn.dunlevie@gmail.com
'FEMMES FUTURISTES', "These Femmes Futuristes are viewed as if with x-ray vision - their patchwork interiors hinting at what they might have lived; their silhouettes offering clues as to how they have proceeded through time.
They are pieced together from fragments of our shared visual history, then situated in anonymous venues from my photographic archive. Suggesting new possibilities and surprising narratives, they inspire unapologetic authenticity and a sense of daring.
All these works are in some sense self portraits - though more often than not - in an aspirational sense."
Kathryn Dunlevie is a photography-based artist whose work has been exhibited throughout the U.S. and internationally. Cathy Kimball, former Executive Director of the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, writes of Dunlevie’s work: "Through brilliant compositional detail and manipulation, she creates disconcerting, inexplicable spaces and scenarios - 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. 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.
Publications reviewing her work have included Spain’s La Fotografia Actual, Korea’s photo + and Germany’s Profifoto, as well as The New York Times, Camerawork: A Journal of Photographic Arts, Photo Metro, Artweek, and Artlies.
Highlights of Career:
SOLO EXHIBITS:
FotoFest 2020: Women of Wonder, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, TexasFotoFest 2018: Imaginarium, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, Texas
FotoFest 2016: Mistick Krewes, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, Texas
JURIED GROUP EXHIBITS:
Women’s History Month, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco PhotoAlliance Bay Area Current(ly) exhibition, San Francisco, CA
Don't Take Pictures.com School Days online exhibition (2019)
PingYao International Photography Festival, Ping Yao, China
www.kathryndunlevie.com
Facebook: Kathryn Dunlevie Art
https://www.instagram.com/kathryndunlevie
Contact: kathryn.dunlevie@gmail.com
TORERA by Kathryn Dunlevie
PAX by Kathryn Dunlevie
LANDING by Kathryn Dunlevie
CROSSING by Kathryn Dunlevie
COWBOY BOOTS by Kathryn Dunlevie
SELF-PORTRAIT 01 by Karen Hochman Brown
Karen Hochman Brown says, "I like to bend the rules. The pieces I am presenting here are photographic in origin, but then take a turn with the help of digital tools. Some of my work falls in the realm of digital collage where I am distorting and otherwise manipulating a photograph. I make many variations that are stitch together in layers to create a cohesive and balanced finished works.
Using a totally different technique, photographs are used as a starting point to transform them into something that looks more hand painted. The software for these works use the photograph is a direct reference to apply custom paint brushes.
Much of the work I do focuses on botanical elements, but creating portraits give me a chance to emphasize my subject's personality. I accept commissions gladly."
Karen Hochman Brown [USA, b. 1958] is an award-winning Los Angeles-based digital artist who uses her own photography as a base for manipulation in two-dimensional formats and animations.
Explorations in this field have also led to projects involving prints on fabric married to laser-cut wood elements as well as purely digital forays based in line, shape and movement. The work is sensitive to the inherent beauty of the subjects she captures as she strives to magnify that quality of beauty through focus and repetition. The resulting forms resonate in harmony and discord, creating unique energies.
Hochman Brown studied art at Pitzer College, California College of Art and Art Center College of Design, but self-developed her processes through experimentation, relying heavily on skills learned as a graphic designer. She finds inspiration from Georgia O’Keeffe, Frank Stella, Salvador Dalí, Hilma af Klint and Agnes Pelton.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
TAG Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Shoebox Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
The Wolf Museum of Exploration + Innovation, Santa Barbara, CA
Museum of Art and History (MOAH), Lancaster, CA
Yuma Art Center, Yuma, AZ
California Center for Digital Art, Santa Ana, CA
JURIED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
MOAH:CEDAR, Lancaster, CA
San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, San Luis Obispo, CA
Launch LA at the Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
bG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Studio Channel Islands, Camarillo, CA
Shockboxx Gallery, Hermosa Beach, CA
Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
Loft at Liz’s, Los Angeles, CA and Museuem of Art and History, Lancaster, CA
Ronald H Silverman Fine Arts Gallery, Cal State University LA
The Brand, Glendale, CA
Association of Hysteric Curators, Tiger Strikes Asteroid Los Angeles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
LA ArtCore Brewery Annex, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA
Self Portrait-01
14 x 11 inches
Archival pigment print
NFS
My Pomegranate Whine
12 x 12 inches
Archival pigment print
NFS
Hair Flip
14.66 x 11 inches
Archival pigment print
NFS
CONTACT INFO:
www.hochmanbrown.com
https://www.instagram.com/hochmanbrown
Using a totally different technique, photographs are used as a starting point to transform them into something that looks more hand painted. The software for these works use the photograph is a direct reference to apply custom paint brushes.
Much of the work I do focuses on botanical elements, but creating portraits give me a chance to emphasize my subject's personality. I accept commissions gladly."
Karen Hochman Brown [USA, b. 1958] is an award-winning Los Angeles-based digital artist who uses her own photography as a base for manipulation in two-dimensional formats and animations.
Explorations in this field have also led to projects involving prints on fabric married to laser-cut wood elements as well as purely digital forays based in line, shape and movement. The work is sensitive to the inherent beauty of the subjects she captures as she strives to magnify that quality of beauty through focus and repetition. The resulting forms resonate in harmony and discord, creating unique energies.
Hochman Brown studied art at Pitzer College, California College of Art and Art Center College of Design, but self-developed her processes through experimentation, relying heavily on skills learned as a graphic designer. She finds inspiration from Georgia O’Keeffe, Frank Stella, Salvador Dalí, Hilma af Klint and Agnes Pelton.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
TAG Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Shoebox Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
The Wolf Museum of Exploration + Innovation, Santa Barbara, CA
Museum of Art and History (MOAH), Lancaster, CA
Yuma Art Center, Yuma, AZ
California Center for Digital Art, Santa Ana, CA
JURIED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
MOAH:CEDAR, Lancaster, CA
San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, San Luis Obispo, CA
Launch LA at the Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
bG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Studio Channel Islands, Camarillo, CA
Shockboxx Gallery, Hermosa Beach, CA
Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
Loft at Liz’s, Los Angeles, CA and Museuem of Art and History, Lancaster, CA
Ronald H Silverman Fine Arts Gallery, Cal State University LA
The Brand, Glendale, CA
Association of Hysteric Curators, Tiger Strikes Asteroid Los Angeles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
LA ArtCore Brewery Annex, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA
Self Portrait-01
14 x 11 inches
Archival pigment print
NFS
My Pomegranate Whine
12 x 12 inches
Archival pigment print
NFS
Hair Flip
14.66 x 11 inches
Archival pigment print
NFS
CONTACT INFO:
www.hochmanbrown.com
https://www.instagram.com/hochmanbrown
MY POMEGRANATE WHINE by Karen Hochman Brown
HAIR FLIP by Karen Hochman Brown
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THE 'I-A CALL FOR SELF-PORTRAITURE' EXHIBITION #1:
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THE 'I-A CALL FOR SELF-PORTRAITURE' EXHIBITION #2:
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THE 'I-A CALL FOR SELF-PORTRAITURE' EXHIBITION #3:
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THE 'I-A CALL FOR SELF-PORTRAITURE' EXHIBITION #4:
https://laphotocurator.com/the-i-a-call-for-self-portraiture-ellen-friedlander/exhibition-4/1
THE 'I-A CALL FOR SELF-PORTRAITURE' HOME:
https://laphotocurator.com/the-i-a-call-for-self-portraiture-ellen-friedlander
THE 'I-A CALL FOR SELF-PORTRAITURE' FIRST PLACE:
https://laphotocurator.com/the-i-a-call-for-self-portraiture-ellen-friedlander/first-place-eileen-hohmuth-lemonick-death----/1
THE 'I-A CALL FOR SELF-PORTRAITURE' SECOND PLACE:
https://laphotocurator.com/the-i-a-call-for-self-portraiture-ellen-friedlander/second-place-karen-crouse-weathered----/1
THE 'I-A CALL FOR SELF-PORTRAITURE' HONORABLE MENTIONS:
https://laphotocurator.com/the-i-a-call-for-self-portraiture-ellen-friedlander/honorable-mentions-anne-berry-choices-carrie-usmar-actively-listens-ian-wright-self-2-yulia-morris-looking-diane-fenster-night-heart----/1
THE 'I-A CALL FOR SELF-PORTRAITURE' BEST SERIES:
https://laphotocurator.com/the-i-a-call-for-self-portraiture-ellen-friedlander/best-series-susan-kaufer-carey/1
THE 'I-A CALL FOR SELF-PORTRAITURE' EXHIBITION #1:
https://laphotocurator.com/the-i-a-call-for-self-portraiture-ellen-friedlander/exhibition-1/1
THE 'I-A CALL FOR SELF-PORTRAITURE' EXHIBITION #2:
https://laphotocurator.com/the-i-a-call-for-self-portraiture-ellen-friedlander/exhibition-2/1
THE 'I-A CALL FOR SELF-PORTRAITURE' EXHIBITION #3:
https://laphotocurator.com/the-i-a-call-for-self-portraiture-ellen-friedlander/exhibition-3/1
THE 'I-A CALL FOR SELF-PORTRAITURE' EXHIBITION #4:
https://laphotocurator.com/the-i-a-call-for-self-portraiture-ellen-friedlander/exhibition-4/1
