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EXHIBITION #1
FOG LIGHT by Alec Dann
FIRST PLACE
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FIRST PLACE
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Review by Curator Dulce Stein: "I chose your image as first place because it expressed the monumental beauty of nature opening it's arms to the infinite.
Can you tell me what inspired you to take this image?"
Alec Dann says, "Early morning fog with a bright blue sky above got me out of bed and down to the shoreline where I saw this fallen-over tree that I’d never paid much attention to previously. It’s form, outlined against the white of the fog, connect me to universal pattern that resonates within many living things.
One of the joys of photography for me is the possibility of moments like this, when what I might have passed by, unnoticed, can be captured in an evocative image."
Stein asks, "Do you usually shoot in nature and if so, what do you get out of that?"
Dann says, "I’m a fairly omnivorous photographer, but the work that is closest to my heart is done in natural settings. There are multiple parts of the experience that appeal to me.
While I’m shooting, I’m hyper-focused and aware of my senses. I’m living in 360 degrees, because, often, the best thing you can do as a photographer is turn around to see what’s behind you. I’m also trying to surface the underlying forms and patterns in what I see, which can be like a meditation.
Later, when I’ve brought the images into Lightroom I try to mold the raw clay of the original capture into a new experience, one that feels natural but has the vividness of an important memory. I seek out organic forms because the human eye is attracted to the shapes and structure of living forms and connects with them in a sensual, even sexual, way."
Additonal review by curator Peter Bennett:
"When I first viewed 'Fog Light' by Alec Dann, I found myself trying to get
my bearings. My initial take was I was looking up a tree, and as one would
expect, the sky. But as with great photos that make you dig a bit deeper,
the visual clues didn’t add up. Was that a tall cliff directly behind it,
joining the tree in its rise in the thick fog? What were those silhouettes
of trees doing in the background?
I realized I was looking at a tree that was extending out over a body of
water, stretching as far from the shoreline as it could, as if trying
reach the other side of what looks to be a foggy lake. The cliff is in
fact the shallow bottom of that body of water, and the silhouettes marks
that unreachable shoreline. A beautiful symbol of life extending out with
every branch it can grow, always unfulfilled, but the lapping sound of
water underneath, always there to soothe the spirit."
www.citizenoftheplanet.com
Additional review by curator Steve Zmak:
"This is a photo that quickly invites the viewer to enter its surreal world. The leading line is an extremely powerful invitation and then disperses into complete chaos. There’s harmony in the symmetry of the centered subject balanced with an equal dose of discord and asymmetry throughout the rest of the image. The soft color palette strengthens the invitation for the viewer to enter.
SteveZmak.com
MORE ABOUT DANN:
Can you tell me what inspired you to take this image?"
Alec Dann says, "Early morning fog with a bright blue sky above got me out of bed and down to the shoreline where I saw this fallen-over tree that I’d never paid much attention to previously. It’s form, outlined against the white of the fog, connect me to universal pattern that resonates within many living things.
One of the joys of photography for me is the possibility of moments like this, when what I might have passed by, unnoticed, can be captured in an evocative image."
Stein asks, "Do you usually shoot in nature and if so, what do you get out of that?"
Dann says, "I’m a fairly omnivorous photographer, but the work that is closest to my heart is done in natural settings. There are multiple parts of the experience that appeal to me.
While I’m shooting, I’m hyper-focused and aware of my senses. I’m living in 360 degrees, because, often, the best thing you can do as a photographer is turn around to see what’s behind you. I’m also trying to surface the underlying forms and patterns in what I see, which can be like a meditation.
Later, when I’ve brought the images into Lightroom I try to mold the raw clay of the original capture into a new experience, one that feels natural but has the vividness of an important memory. I seek out organic forms because the human eye is attracted to the shapes and structure of living forms and connects with them in a sensual, even sexual, way."
Additonal review by curator Peter Bennett:
"When I first viewed 'Fog Light' by Alec Dann, I found myself trying to get
my bearings. My initial take was I was looking up a tree, and as one would
expect, the sky. But as with great photos that make you dig a bit deeper,
the visual clues didn’t add up. Was that a tall cliff directly behind it,
joining the tree in its rise in the thick fog? What were those silhouettes
of trees doing in the background?
I realized I was looking at a tree that was extending out over a body of
water, stretching as far from the shoreline as it could, as if trying
reach the other side of what looks to be a foggy lake. The cliff is in
fact the shallow bottom of that body of water, and the silhouettes marks
that unreachable shoreline. A beautiful symbol of life extending out with
every branch it can grow, always unfulfilled, but the lapping sound of
water underneath, always there to soothe the spirit."
www.citizenoftheplanet.com
Additional review by curator Steve Zmak:
"This is a photo that quickly invites the viewer to enter its surreal world. The leading line is an extremely powerful invitation and then disperses into complete chaos. There’s harmony in the symmetry of the centered subject balanced with an equal dose of discord and asymmetry throughout the rest of the image. The soft color palette strengthens the invitation for the viewer to enter.
SteveZmak.com
MORE ABOUT DANN:
Dann says, "My image-making is fueled by an intense response to the forms and colors of the natural world.
I start with a factual statement about a place and time and make an image about a moment of vivid awareness. Form, color and subtle twisting of perspective resonate to create a deeper, subconscious connection to the natural world.
I seek out organic forms because the human eye is attracted to the shapes and structure of living forms and connects with them in a sensual, even sexual, way.
I want to arouse a visceral reaction from viewers, below the level of language, so they stop, look and are affected without knowing why."
Alec Dann is an artist working in digital photography. He lives and works in Washington DC.
Dann grew up in family of makers who were painters, potters, woodworkers. He didn’t find his own way to make art until he discovered photography.
From childhood, Dann felt a strong spiritual connection to natural settings. Photography gave Dann a way to connect with the natural world and something concrete came out of the process, an image that could precipitate a new experience on its own.
After an early focus on silver black and white prints, Dann focused on image sequencing and alternative presentation forms like books and offset lithography.
Dann developed a unique offset technique to create a multi-colored montage from monochrome photographic mezzotints printed over each other. This work explored sequencing, repetition and interwoven perspectives.
Dann’s digital color work initially centered on the land-, sea- and cloudscape of the Chesapeake Bay. His images of moving weather and open horizons have received recognition in several juried shows.
Inspired by the beauty and simplicity of classical sculpture encountered on a trip to Rome, Dann began work on a series of closely cropped shots of mature crape myrtles with thick, muscular trunks, shot as portraits with flash subtly added to bring out the curved surfaces and carefully processed to surface the variations in bark color.
The sensuality of the tree trunks is a note that Dann looks to sustain as he continues to explore this series.
Career Highlights
Selected Group Exhibitions
New York Center for Photographic Arts / Jadite Gallery, Trees 2019,
Juror Selection (Traer Scott, juror), September 2019
Black Box Gallery, Portland OR, Color Burst, June 2019
New York Center for Photographic Arts / Jadite Gallery, Primary Colors 2019,
Second Prize – Blue (Stephen Perloff, juror), April 2019
Loosen Art / MFR19 Festival, Rome, Italy, Perceptions Juried Exhibition, March 2019
Hill Center Gallery, Washington DC, 2019 Regional Juried Exhibition, January 2019
Black Box Gallery, Portland OR, Color, January 2019
The Photo Review, 2018 Competition Issue
Southeast Photography Center, Greenville, SC, Memory of Place (2 images), May 2018
Southeast Photography Center, Greenville, SC, Seasons, May 2018
Teaching / Community
Glen Echo Photoworks, Cabin John, MD, Instructor in digital photography techniques
Glen Echo Photoworks, Board of Directors
Education
Bachelor of Arts / American History, Cornell University
Master of Fine Arts, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester / SUNY Buffalo
TREE MUSIC 2 by Alex Dann
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TREE MUSIC 9 by Alec Dann
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ON BECOMING THE TREES by Anna Robertson
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Anna Robertson says, "In March of 2018, I was sitting under a large tree on an island off the coast of Georgia. I was recovering from my laparoscopic surgery that month for endometriosis, a chronic condition where tissue that grows within the uterus that is shed during a menstrual cycle instead grows outside the uterus and other organs. It was an invasive process for a painful disease, and I had not quite healed, but I insisted to be by the beach, armed with my camera, to photograph. My solace.
So I sat on the beach under the giant tree, still healing, and stared up at the tree. As I did, I noticed the ferns and Spanish Moss growing from the bark of the tree, separate from the tree, but also part of it, strangling, and maybe painful, but the most beautiful thing I had seen.
And I thought, in a way, that was me. I was the tree with the strangling vines, alive, encompassed, and beautiful in a way.
I became fascinated with the mirror between humans and nature, the repetition of patterns between the two. We are all made of the collateral damage of dying stars, the same elements arranged just a little differently. There are repetitions, and I seek to show it in my photography. We have more in common than just what we see on the surface, we are micro galaxies, tiny forests.
My work is not about nature overpowering humanity, or humans overpowering nature, this is about our connection to the natural world. We are living in syncopation with one another, and my work is an attempt to view the mirror. What appears on trees can also appear in humanity, good or bad, like me.
We just have to notice the details."
Anna Robertson is a photography student at The Savannah College of Art and Design. She has been passionate about photography since she picked up a camera at age thirteen. Her work deals mostly with the harmony between humanity and the natural world. She can usually be found on the barrier islands of coastal Georgia with a camera. Anna lives in a little pink house in Savannah, Georgia with her fiancé, Dylan, and her collections of cameras and plants.
Career Highlights:
2017- Present: Photographer’s Assistant Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
September 2018 – December 2018: Writing Fellow Deep Center, Savannah, GA
June 2018 – August 2018: Collections Photographer SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
Awards
2016-2019 - SCAD Dean’s List
2016 - Gold Key, Scholastic Art and Writing Awards for Writing Portfolio
2014 - First Place, Young Southern Writer’s Project, Alabama Shakespeare Festival Montgomery, AL
Exhibitions and Publications
2019 - SCAD Lacoste Open Studio
2019 - SPE Women’s Caucus Instagram Takeover
2018 - SCAD Savannah Open Studio
2018 - Blue Door Art Gallery, New York, NY
2018 - Float Magazine Instagram Takeover
2016-2018 - SCAD District
2016 - Photographers Forum Best of College and High School Photography
Instagram: @anna_c_robertson
www.annarobertsonphotography.com
So I sat on the beach under the giant tree, still healing, and stared up at the tree. As I did, I noticed the ferns and Spanish Moss growing from the bark of the tree, separate from the tree, but also part of it, strangling, and maybe painful, but the most beautiful thing I had seen.
And I thought, in a way, that was me. I was the tree with the strangling vines, alive, encompassed, and beautiful in a way.
I became fascinated with the mirror between humans and nature, the repetition of patterns between the two. We are all made of the collateral damage of dying stars, the same elements arranged just a little differently. There are repetitions, and I seek to show it in my photography. We have more in common than just what we see on the surface, we are micro galaxies, tiny forests.
My work is not about nature overpowering humanity, or humans overpowering nature, this is about our connection to the natural world. We are living in syncopation with one another, and my work is an attempt to view the mirror. What appears on trees can also appear in humanity, good or bad, like me.
We just have to notice the details."
Anna Robertson is a photography student at The Savannah College of Art and Design. She has been passionate about photography since she picked up a camera at age thirteen. Her work deals mostly with the harmony between humanity and the natural world. She can usually be found on the barrier islands of coastal Georgia with a camera. Anna lives in a little pink house in Savannah, Georgia with her fiancé, Dylan, and her collections of cameras and plants.
Career Highlights:
2017- Present: Photographer’s Assistant Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
September 2018 – December 2018: Writing Fellow Deep Center, Savannah, GA
June 2018 – August 2018: Collections Photographer SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
Awards
2016-2019 - SCAD Dean’s List
2016 - Gold Key, Scholastic Art and Writing Awards for Writing Portfolio
2014 - First Place, Young Southern Writer’s Project, Alabama Shakespeare Festival Montgomery, AL
Exhibitions and Publications
2019 - SCAD Lacoste Open Studio
2019 - SPE Women’s Caucus Instagram Takeover
2018 - SCAD Savannah Open Studio
2018 - Blue Door Art Gallery, New York, NY
2018 - Float Magazine Instagram Takeover
2016-2018 - SCAD District
2016 - Photographers Forum Best of College and High School Photography
Instagram: @anna_c_robertson
www.annarobertsonphotography.com
ROOTS by Anna Robertson
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SWAMP by Anna Robertson
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STAY GROUNDED by Anushe Shoro
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Anushe Shoro says, “My eye for the perfect capture is inspired by my connection with nature. I am intrigued by the play of light and shadows that compliment nature’s rhythmic geometry.
My experience as a photographer is a celebration of my inner being, which includes my present thoughts and feelings and my outer being, which is the environment I perceive and create around me.
During this process, I do not identify the object as something apart from me, but rather a part of my being; I see a flower as a reflection of myself rather than a flower. This exploration recognizes the essence of being which brings to front emotions of joy and gratitude.”
Anushe is a published author, photographer, and mindfulness coach residing in Orange County. With a name like Anushe, which holds a meaning of happiness, she strives to encourage those around her to explore the essence of being through being happy.
Growing up, Anushe spent her childhood summers in a very special place in the mountains of Pakistan and built a strong connection to mother nature at a very young age. Living in California since the age of nine, she developed a relationship with her natural environment through her passion for writing and photography.
Finding herself to be her own source of inspiration in the everyday pursuit of happiness, Anushe is naturally inclined in spreading her mission. She is inspired to bridge people together to celebrate happiness, and facilitates workshops on mindfulness.
Anushe found Just Bee by Anushe to inspire happiness and mindfulness in people’s everyday lives. She led her first happiness workshop at a yoga studio in Panama in 2015, and has been leading mindfulness workshops and guided meditations ever since. Anushe has also been invited as a guest speaker to speak on mental wellness at various events.
She is a published author of The Essence of Being, and is also a poet and photographer residing in Irvine, California. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts from Soka University of America and a Masters of Arts in Social Entrepreneurship and Change from the School of Education and Psychology at Pepperdine University.
justbeebyanushe.com
My experience as a photographer is a celebration of my inner being, which includes my present thoughts and feelings and my outer being, which is the environment I perceive and create around me.
During this process, I do not identify the object as something apart from me, but rather a part of my being; I see a flower as a reflection of myself rather than a flower. This exploration recognizes the essence of being which brings to front emotions of joy and gratitude.”
Anushe is a published author, photographer, and mindfulness coach residing in Orange County. With a name like Anushe, which holds a meaning of happiness, she strives to encourage those around her to explore the essence of being through being happy.
Growing up, Anushe spent her childhood summers in a very special place in the mountains of Pakistan and built a strong connection to mother nature at a very young age. Living in California since the age of nine, she developed a relationship with her natural environment through her passion for writing and photography.
Finding herself to be her own source of inspiration in the everyday pursuit of happiness, Anushe is naturally inclined in spreading her mission. She is inspired to bridge people together to celebrate happiness, and facilitates workshops on mindfulness.
Anushe found Just Bee by Anushe to inspire happiness and mindfulness in people’s everyday lives. She led her first happiness workshop at a yoga studio in Panama in 2015, and has been leading mindfulness workshops and guided meditations ever since. Anushe has also been invited as a guest speaker to speak on mental wellness at various events.
She is a published author of The Essence of Being, and is also a poet and photographer residing in Irvine, California. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts from Soka University of America and a Masters of Arts in Social Entrepreneurship and Change from the School of Education and Psychology at Pepperdine University.
justbeebyanushe.com
TREE FLOWER by Anushe Shoro
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TREES LEGS by Anushe Shoro
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FALLEN TREE SYLVESTER MANOR by Gary Beeber
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Gary Beeber says, "I grew up in the Midwest in the 1950’s and some of my earliest memories are of drawing pictures. When I was 12 years old my parents bought me a little camera and I actively started taking photos. As I grew up I became aware of the work of Edward Hopper, Eugene Atget and Diane Arbus. I attended the University of Cincinnati and Miami University where I trained as a painter and also studied design and photography.
Influential in shaping how I see was the drawing class taught by Jack Potter, Drawing and Thinking, at SVA (New York City). He demanded we students see beyond the obvious and to be active interpreters of what we see. This dictate has been a major influence in my pursuit as a photographer. I engage with my world, led by my curiosity.
Prior to my work in photography, my career has included graphic design consultation and design of books, posters and catalogs for major arts institutions in Manhattan including the Whitney Museum and the Museum of Modern Art. I provided similar services to the photography organization Aperture.
I produced 3 documentary films which screened at over 75 film festivals. My documentary “Dirty Martini and the New Burlesque” led to my producing the off-Broadway show Gotham Burlesque at The Triad Theater, NYC.
I feel that my imagery is about the passage of time, what things were and what they are now. I have often reflected on the brevity of life, perhaps my photographs are a series of self-portraits by proxy as I contemplate my own demise and life cycle."
​Gary Beeber is an award-winning American photographer/filmmaker who has exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the United States and Europe. Solo exhibitions include two at Generous Miracles Gallery NYC and "Personalities" (summer, 2017) at Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA. Beeber’s work has also been included in juried exhibitions throughout the country. Among Fortune 500 companies who collect his work are Pfizer Pharmaceutical, Goldman Sachs and Chase Bank.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2018: LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, (installation), A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, Texas
2017: PERSONALITIES, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA(curated by Paula Tognarelli, Executive Director and Curator, Griffin Museum of Photography) PERSONALITIES, Providence Center for Photographic Arts, Providence, RI
(curated by Paula Tognarelli, Executive Director and Curator, Griffin Museum of Photography)
2015: Beauty is in the Details, Dodds & Eder, Sag Harbor, NY
2015: Houston Center for Photography, online exhibition
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2019
Photography Series and Repetition, Site:Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, (curated by Elisabeth Biondi)
Contemporary Portraiture, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
(curated by Ann M. Jastrab, Executive Director of the Center for Photographic Art)
Member Exhibition, 2019, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
(curated by Cecily Cullen, Director and Curator of the MSU Denver Center for Visual Art)
“What’s in Your World?” Fourth Annual “Fine Art” Exhibition, Los Angeles Center of Photography
(curated by Susan Spiritus, Director, Susan Spiritus Gallery, Newport Beach, CA)
Photowork, 2019, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
(curated by James A. Ganz, Senior Curator of Photography, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles)
Our Environment: Our Common Core, South x Southeast Photo Gallery, Molena GA
(curated by Susan Laney, Director of Laney Contemporary Gallery, Savannah, GA)
diptych, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX, (curated by Kevin Tully, co-Director, A Smith Gallery)
Sanctuary, Photoplace Gallery, Middlebury, Vermont, (curated by Laura Valenti, founder of Light Atlas Creative)
Intentional Spaces, Photoplace Gallery, Middlebury, Vermont, (curated by Laura Moya, Director of Photolucida)
SE Center Open, SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC, (curated by Richard Tuschman)
LENS 2019, Perspective Gallery, Evanston, IL, (curated by Natasha Egan, Executive Director, MoCP)
Context, 2019, Filter Space, Chicago, IL, (curated by Ariel Pate, Asst. Curator of Photography, MAM)
MiamiPhotoFest, Singles Competition, Top 20 Finalists
WINNER: 2019 Feature Shoot Emerging Photography Awards
(curated by Moshe Rosenzveig, Director, Head On Photo Festival, Sydney Australia)
Choice, Atlanta Photography Group
“25th Annual Juried Exhibition” Griffin Museum of Photography (curated Julie Grahame, Publisher of aCurator.com)
GOLD AWARD, the SF Bay International Photography Competition
(curated by Elizabeth Avedon, Julie Grahame, Ann. M. Jastrab, David Garnick)
MONO-KROMATIK, Praxis Gallery (curated by Sandrine Hermand-Grisel)
Summertime, Atlanta Photography Group (curated by Genie Gaither Jones & Scott Speakes, Okra Magazine)
Summertime, A Smith Gallery Johnson City, TX, (curated by Jennifer Shaw, creative director of PhotoNOLA Festival)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2018
DIRECTOR’S AWARD: Open Call, 2018, Photoplace Gallery, Middlebury, VT
(curated by Douglas Beasley)
Environmental Portraits, Photoplace Gallery, Middlebury, VT
(curated by Elizabeth Avedon)
Celebrating Women, Photoplace Gallery, Middlebury, VT
(curated by Joyce Tenneson)
Fifth Annual Member’s Exhibition, Los Angeles Center of Photography
(curated by Catherine Couturier)
24th Annual Member’s Exhibition, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
(curated by Richard McCabe)
First Annual Members Exhibition, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
(curated by Brian Clamp)
New Directions, 2018, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
(curated by Jennifer Inacio)
Winter Solstice Show, Griffin Museum of Photography
(curated by Paula Tognarelli, Director, Griffin Museum)
Quién? Qué? Dónde?, Lafayette City Center, Boston
(curated by Paula Tognarelli, Director, Griffin Museum of Photography)
Abstraction Attraction, Lafayette City Center, Boston
(curated by Paula Tognarelli, Director, Griffin Museum of Photography)
Matisos (Nuances), Artemesia Gallery, Barcelona
(curated by Cristina Requena and Pierre and Cathy Dutertre)
Black and White NOW, South x Southeast PhotoGallery, Molena, Georgia
(curated by Mark Steinmetz)
DIRECTOR’S HONORABLE MENTION: interiors, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX
(curated by Elizabeth Avedon)
HONORABLE MENTION: response, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX
(curated by Amanda Smith and Kevin Tully)
interiors, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX
(curated by Elizabeth Avedon)
LENS 2018, Perspective Gallery, Evanston, IL
(curated by Paula Tognarelli, Director, Griffin Museum of Photography)
POSITIVE / NEGATIVE, Slocumb Galleries, Johnson City, TN
(curated by Margaret Winslow, Delaware Art Museum)
Making Strange, Praxis Gallery. Minneapolis, MN
(curated by Chuck Avery)
MONO - KROMATIK, Praxis Gallery. Minneapolis, MN
Taking Pictures: 2018, Black Box Gallery, Portland, Oregon
(curated by Todd Johnson)
Small Works, A Benefit for Maddie's Big Heart Foundation, South x Southeast PhotoGallery
(curated by Anna Walker-Skillman)
www.garybeeber.com
https://www.instagram.com/beebergary
https://www.facebook.com/Garybeeber
Influential in shaping how I see was the drawing class taught by Jack Potter, Drawing and Thinking, at SVA (New York City). He demanded we students see beyond the obvious and to be active interpreters of what we see. This dictate has been a major influence in my pursuit as a photographer. I engage with my world, led by my curiosity.
Prior to my work in photography, my career has included graphic design consultation and design of books, posters and catalogs for major arts institutions in Manhattan including the Whitney Museum and the Museum of Modern Art. I provided similar services to the photography organization Aperture.
I produced 3 documentary films which screened at over 75 film festivals. My documentary “Dirty Martini and the New Burlesque” led to my producing the off-Broadway show Gotham Burlesque at The Triad Theater, NYC.
I feel that my imagery is about the passage of time, what things were and what they are now. I have often reflected on the brevity of life, perhaps my photographs are a series of self-portraits by proxy as I contemplate my own demise and life cycle."
​Gary Beeber is an award-winning American photographer/filmmaker who has exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the United States and Europe. Solo exhibitions include two at Generous Miracles Gallery NYC and "Personalities" (summer, 2017) at Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA. Beeber’s work has also been included in juried exhibitions throughout the country. Among Fortune 500 companies who collect his work are Pfizer Pharmaceutical, Goldman Sachs and Chase Bank.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2018: LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, (installation), A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, Texas
2017: PERSONALITIES, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA(curated by Paula Tognarelli, Executive Director and Curator, Griffin Museum of Photography) PERSONALITIES, Providence Center for Photographic Arts, Providence, RI
(curated by Paula Tognarelli, Executive Director and Curator, Griffin Museum of Photography)
2015: Beauty is in the Details, Dodds & Eder, Sag Harbor, NY
2015: Houston Center for Photography, online exhibition
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2019
Photography Series and Repetition, Site:Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, (curated by Elisabeth Biondi)
Contemporary Portraiture, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
(curated by Ann M. Jastrab, Executive Director of the Center for Photographic Art)
Member Exhibition, 2019, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
(curated by Cecily Cullen, Director and Curator of the MSU Denver Center for Visual Art)
“What’s in Your World?” Fourth Annual “Fine Art” Exhibition, Los Angeles Center of Photography
(curated by Susan Spiritus, Director, Susan Spiritus Gallery, Newport Beach, CA)
Photowork, 2019, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
(curated by James A. Ganz, Senior Curator of Photography, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles)
Our Environment: Our Common Core, South x Southeast Photo Gallery, Molena GA
(curated by Susan Laney, Director of Laney Contemporary Gallery, Savannah, GA)
diptych, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX, (curated by Kevin Tully, co-Director, A Smith Gallery)
Sanctuary, Photoplace Gallery, Middlebury, Vermont, (curated by Laura Valenti, founder of Light Atlas Creative)
Intentional Spaces, Photoplace Gallery, Middlebury, Vermont, (curated by Laura Moya, Director of Photolucida)
SE Center Open, SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC, (curated by Richard Tuschman)
LENS 2019, Perspective Gallery, Evanston, IL, (curated by Natasha Egan, Executive Director, MoCP)
Context, 2019, Filter Space, Chicago, IL, (curated by Ariel Pate, Asst. Curator of Photography, MAM)
MiamiPhotoFest, Singles Competition, Top 20 Finalists
WINNER: 2019 Feature Shoot Emerging Photography Awards
(curated by Moshe Rosenzveig, Director, Head On Photo Festival, Sydney Australia)
Choice, Atlanta Photography Group
“25th Annual Juried Exhibition” Griffin Museum of Photography (curated Julie Grahame, Publisher of aCurator.com)
GOLD AWARD, the SF Bay International Photography Competition
(curated by Elizabeth Avedon, Julie Grahame, Ann. M. Jastrab, David Garnick)
MONO-KROMATIK, Praxis Gallery (curated by Sandrine Hermand-Grisel)
Summertime, Atlanta Photography Group (curated by Genie Gaither Jones & Scott Speakes, Okra Magazine)
Summertime, A Smith Gallery Johnson City, TX, (curated by Jennifer Shaw, creative director of PhotoNOLA Festival)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2018
DIRECTOR’S AWARD: Open Call, 2018, Photoplace Gallery, Middlebury, VT
(curated by Douglas Beasley)
Environmental Portraits, Photoplace Gallery, Middlebury, VT
(curated by Elizabeth Avedon)
Celebrating Women, Photoplace Gallery, Middlebury, VT
(curated by Joyce Tenneson)
Fifth Annual Member’s Exhibition, Los Angeles Center of Photography
(curated by Catherine Couturier)
24th Annual Member’s Exhibition, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
(curated by Richard McCabe)
First Annual Members Exhibition, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
(curated by Brian Clamp)
New Directions, 2018, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
(curated by Jennifer Inacio)
Winter Solstice Show, Griffin Museum of Photography
(curated by Paula Tognarelli, Director, Griffin Museum)
Quién? Qué? Dónde?, Lafayette City Center, Boston
(curated by Paula Tognarelli, Director, Griffin Museum of Photography)
Abstraction Attraction, Lafayette City Center, Boston
(curated by Paula Tognarelli, Director, Griffin Museum of Photography)
Matisos (Nuances), Artemesia Gallery, Barcelona
(curated by Cristina Requena and Pierre and Cathy Dutertre)
Black and White NOW, South x Southeast PhotoGallery, Molena, Georgia
(curated by Mark Steinmetz)
DIRECTOR’S HONORABLE MENTION: interiors, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX
(curated by Elizabeth Avedon)
HONORABLE MENTION: response, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX
(curated by Amanda Smith and Kevin Tully)
interiors, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX
(curated by Elizabeth Avedon)
LENS 2018, Perspective Gallery, Evanston, IL
(curated by Paula Tognarelli, Director, Griffin Museum of Photography)
POSITIVE / NEGATIVE, Slocumb Galleries, Johnson City, TN
(curated by Margaret Winslow, Delaware Art Museum)
Making Strange, Praxis Gallery. Minneapolis, MN
(curated by Chuck Avery)
MONO - KROMATIK, Praxis Gallery. Minneapolis, MN
Taking Pictures: 2018, Black Box Gallery, Portland, Oregon
(curated by Todd Johnson)
Small Works, A Benefit for Maddie's Big Heart Foundation, South x Southeast PhotoGallery
(curated by Anna Walker-Skillman)
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LATE MARCH by Gary Beeber
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PASSAGEWAY by Gary Beeber
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UNTITLED TREES 01 by Beth Herzhaft
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Beth Herzhaft says of her work,
“The Indecisive Moment” is a series of contemporary photographic landscapes.
The subject matter I gravitate toward is unspectacular, and the images are a mischievous reaction to “epic” photography. The images are stubbornly undramatic with no “decisive moment”. What is captured is a comma rather than an exclamation point.
Through the juxtaposition of spatial elements, use of color and light and choice of subject, a "discovered" narrative emerges, highlighting incompleteness as a condition of everyday life. This series is an exploration of the ephemeral, the images framed to appear incidental.
There is a tension between meaning and meaninglessness that is expressed in the work.
In these images there is a sense of idealism and anxiety (albeit a humorous one), with both the beautiful and the absurd coexisting in an uneasy truce."
Beth Herzhaft is a fine art and commercial photographer. She got her first break by sneaking into the art department at Capitol Records and cornering the art director. Shortly after that stunt, she shot her first album cover. Further music jobs followed. She branched out from there, photographing for numerous publications, advertising agencies, and digital media.The rest of the time Beth is shooting fine art. She maintains a studio in Los Angeles, CA. She deeply loves what she does.
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Beth Herzhaft says of her work,
“The Indecisive Moment” is a series of contemporary photographic landscapes.
The subject matter I gravitate toward is unspectacular, and the images are a mischievous reaction to “epic” photography. The images are stubbornly undramatic with no “decisive moment”. What is captured is a comma rather than an exclamation point.
Through the juxtaposition of spatial elements, use of color and light and choice of subject, a "discovered" narrative emerges, highlighting incompleteness as a condition of everyday life. This series is an exploration of the ephemeral, the images framed to appear incidental.
There is a tension between meaning and meaninglessness that is expressed in the work.
In these images there is a sense of idealism and anxiety (albeit a humorous one), with both the beautiful and the absurd coexisting in an uneasy truce."
Beth Herzhaft is a fine art and commercial photographer. She got her first break by sneaking into the art department at Capitol Records and cornering the art director. Shortly after that stunt, she shot her first album cover. Further music jobs followed. She branched out from there, photographing for numerous publications, advertising agencies, and digital media.The rest of the time Beth is shooting fine art. She maintains a studio in Los Angeles, CA. She deeply loves what she does.
www.herzco.com
UNTITLED TREES 02 by Beth Herzhaft
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UNTITLED TREES 03 by Beth Herzhaft
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OBSERVATIONS IN OBSERVATION I by Caroline Minchew
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Caroline Minchew says, "I gravitate to image making as a practice to purposefully capture a moment in time as a means to explain, archive, or share, specifically, photographing landscapes methodically to create self-portraits using the environment in front of me as a muse.
Place loses importance and instead rests on the reflection that takes place behind the lens of the camera, in order to articulate and expose an interior truth. I photograph and walk to think, to turn off, and to probe, and make this unwritten and unexplainable confluence of thoughts concrete into an image.
Art allows us to articulate feelings through creating visual images. For me, this promotes healing and a deeper understanding of myself and how I can interact with the world around me. Photographing landscapes both archives the present moment in time of a place for permanence, but also serves as a method to go back in time and see myself within the scene.
I photograph with a large format camera in order to slow down the process of making images and to become fully consumed by this process. The view camera only heightens the feeling of getting lost, as I poke my head beneath the dark cloth and block out my surroundings.
Utilizing historic and analog photographic processes such as platinum-palladium printing or cyanotypes, I place and equally high importance on the printmaking and presentation of an archival print."
Caroline Minchew is a photographer working in analog and alternative photographic processes. Currently based in New York, she received her B.A. in Studio Arts from Sewanee: The University of the South in 2014. Actively working within the art of Platinum Printing, she is a published author and has exhibited throughout the mid-Atlantic region.
Career highlights include, becoming a published author and cover photographer in the publication Platinum and Palladium Photographs: Technical History, Connoisseurship, and Preservation (Constance McCabe, ed. Washington: American Institute for Conservation, 2017), residencies in New York (Carrie Able Gallery), Greece (Mudhouse Residency), and Ireland (Burren College of Art), and recent exhibitions at Carrie Able Gallery and the Texas Photographic Society.
Place loses importance and instead rests on the reflection that takes place behind the lens of the camera, in order to articulate and expose an interior truth. I photograph and walk to think, to turn off, and to probe, and make this unwritten and unexplainable confluence of thoughts concrete into an image.
Art allows us to articulate feelings through creating visual images. For me, this promotes healing and a deeper understanding of myself and how I can interact with the world around me. Photographing landscapes both archives the present moment in time of a place for permanence, but also serves as a method to go back in time and see myself within the scene.
I photograph with a large format camera in order to slow down the process of making images and to become fully consumed by this process. The view camera only heightens the feeling of getting lost, as I poke my head beneath the dark cloth and block out my surroundings.
Utilizing historic and analog photographic processes such as platinum-palladium printing or cyanotypes, I place and equally high importance on the printmaking and presentation of an archival print."
Caroline Minchew is a photographer working in analog and alternative photographic processes. Currently based in New York, she received her B.A. in Studio Arts from Sewanee: The University of the South in 2014. Actively working within the art of Platinum Printing, she is a published author and has exhibited throughout the mid-Atlantic region.
Career highlights include, becoming a published author and cover photographer in the publication Platinum and Palladium Photographs: Technical History, Connoisseurship, and Preservation (Constance McCabe, ed. Washington: American Institute for Conservation, 2017), residencies in New York (Carrie Able Gallery), Greece (Mudhouse Residency), and Ireland (Burren College of Art), and recent exhibitions at Carrie Able Gallery and the Texas Photographic Society.
VARIATIONS IN OBSERVATION II by Caroline Minchew
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VARIATIONS IN OBSERVATION III by Caroline Minchew
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RAIN FOREST by Catherine Marcogliese
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Catherine Marcogliese says, "I began my artistic career in painting after having obtained a BFA (Painting and Art History) at Concordia University in Montreal.
Since my arrival in France, where I now reside, my work has been concerned with the definition of the notion of the “real” in visual representation.
Early on this involved integrating 3-dimensional objects in my works, but later, with an obvious logic, I turned to photography. Combining found objects and photographs, I employed a multimedia approach that allowed me to question not only the notion of the real but also the role of photography in contemporary art.
Today my work is primarily photographic in nature. In conserving the plastic elements of painting such as form, line or color, etc., I manipulate my images in an attempt to push photography beyond a straightforward narrative representation in order to arrive at a freedom of expression which is more emotive and personal.
Consistently throughout the evolution of my career, the landscape has been my subject of choice, and specifically, our relationship to our environment. Fundamental in my treatment of landscape is that our view of nature is never direct, but is always construed from the perspective of our modern lives.
For example, my photographs are often taken from a moving car, resulting in images of the landscape which are impressionistic and distorted by speed or are views framed by man-made structures, or, yet again, images of reflections. Culture can also distort our perceptions of nature. In the end, it is impossible to separate our idea of nature from the context of living in modern urban society and from our knowledge concerning the precarious state of nature in the twenty-first century."
C.V.:
Solo Shows :
2017 Whiter than White (Paysages Domestiques), La Villa Tamaris Centre d’Art, La Seyne-sur-Mer
Night Sky, Galerie du Tableau, Marseille
2016 Histoires Naturelles : Spectres et Monstres, Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle de Marseille
2014 Au Bout du Regard, La Villa Tamaris Centre d’Art, La Seyne-sur-Mer
2009 Western Landscapes, Galleria Sangiorgi, Laigueglia, Italie
Arts in Situ, Printemps des Arts, Galerie àcentmètresducentredumonde, Perpignan
2004 Divers chemins à travers le paysage, Galerie Artena, Marseille
2000 Parterres III et IV, Galerie du CAIRN, Réserve Géologique de Haute Provence, Digne-les-Bains, oeuvre permanente sur le Musée Promenade
Group Shows :
2019 Présélection Prix Polyptyque, Centre Photographique de Marseille
2017 Sauver sa Peau, Galerie Zola, Aix-en-Provence
Nothing Special, L.A. Photo Curator, expo virtual, honourable mention
2016 Une (Re)Présentation, Villa Tamaris Centre d’Art
Haunted, Darkroom Gallery, Essex Junction, Vermont, U.S.A.
The Frontier, THE CENTER, Santa Fe, USA
Festival Focales, Villard de Lans
2015 Territoires & Architecture, Centre Culturel Saint-Raphaël, Conseil General du Var
2012 Paysages Urbains, La Croisée des Arts, Saint-Maximin
Futures Mémoires volet II, Association Perceptions Photographiques, Centre Culturel, Saint Raphaël
Futures Mémoires, volet I, Association Perceptions Photographiques, La Maison de la Photographie, Toulon
Littoral en Mutation, Festival Photo’med, Sanary-sur-Mer
2010 Carte Blanche, Association Perceptions Photographiques, Galerie Vrais Rêves, Lyon
Hôtel du Musée, Galerie Vrais Rêves, Rencontres d’Arles
2004 DIGIT.LAND.SCAPE, MAPRA, Lyon
2003 Paysages Horizontaux, Exposition Art Concept / Sud, Centre ABC, Dijon
2002 Symposium d’Art Contemporain, Baie Saint Paul, Québec, Canada
Public Collections :
Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle de Marseille
New Mexico History Museum, Palace of the Governors, Santa Fe, U.S.A.
Villa Tamaris Centre d’Art
Hôtel des Arts, Conseil Général, Toulon
Reserve Géologique de Digne-les-Bains
Ville de Roquebrune Cap Martin
Project statement:
Series: Arboreal Reflections, 2016 -2019
Water is an essential element of the forest eco-system. The reflective surfaces of forest ponds offer a visual opportunity to play with the photographic image in order to express the magic and mystery inherent in the forest environment: lush foliage is multiplied, trunks and branches are elongated, and the reflected light bounces off surfaces to create a cosmos within a terrestrial paradise.
www.http://www.marcogliese.orgmarcogliese.org
Since my arrival in France, where I now reside, my work has been concerned with the definition of the notion of the “real” in visual representation.
Early on this involved integrating 3-dimensional objects in my works, but later, with an obvious logic, I turned to photography. Combining found objects and photographs, I employed a multimedia approach that allowed me to question not only the notion of the real but also the role of photography in contemporary art.
Today my work is primarily photographic in nature. In conserving the plastic elements of painting such as form, line or color, etc., I manipulate my images in an attempt to push photography beyond a straightforward narrative representation in order to arrive at a freedom of expression which is more emotive and personal.
Consistently throughout the evolution of my career, the landscape has been my subject of choice, and specifically, our relationship to our environment. Fundamental in my treatment of landscape is that our view of nature is never direct, but is always construed from the perspective of our modern lives.
For example, my photographs are often taken from a moving car, resulting in images of the landscape which are impressionistic and distorted by speed or are views framed by man-made structures, or, yet again, images of reflections. Culture can also distort our perceptions of nature. In the end, it is impossible to separate our idea of nature from the context of living in modern urban society and from our knowledge concerning the precarious state of nature in the twenty-first century."
C.V.:
Solo Shows :
2017 Whiter than White (Paysages Domestiques), La Villa Tamaris Centre d’Art, La Seyne-sur-Mer
Night Sky, Galerie du Tableau, Marseille
2016 Histoires Naturelles : Spectres et Monstres, Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle de Marseille
2014 Au Bout du Regard, La Villa Tamaris Centre d’Art, La Seyne-sur-Mer
2009 Western Landscapes, Galleria Sangiorgi, Laigueglia, Italie
Arts in Situ, Printemps des Arts, Galerie àcentmètresducentredumonde, Perpignan
2004 Divers chemins à travers le paysage, Galerie Artena, Marseille
2000 Parterres III et IV, Galerie du CAIRN, Réserve Géologique de Haute Provence, Digne-les-Bains, oeuvre permanente sur le Musée Promenade
Group Shows :
2019 Présélection Prix Polyptyque, Centre Photographique de Marseille
2017 Sauver sa Peau, Galerie Zola, Aix-en-Provence
Nothing Special, L.A. Photo Curator, expo virtual, honourable mention
2016 Une (Re)Présentation, Villa Tamaris Centre d’Art
Haunted, Darkroom Gallery, Essex Junction, Vermont, U.S.A.
The Frontier, THE CENTER, Santa Fe, USA
Festival Focales, Villard de Lans
2015 Territoires & Architecture, Centre Culturel Saint-Raphaël, Conseil General du Var
2012 Paysages Urbains, La Croisée des Arts, Saint-Maximin
Futures Mémoires volet II, Association Perceptions Photographiques, Centre Culturel, Saint Raphaël
Futures Mémoires, volet I, Association Perceptions Photographiques, La Maison de la Photographie, Toulon
Littoral en Mutation, Festival Photo’med, Sanary-sur-Mer
2010 Carte Blanche, Association Perceptions Photographiques, Galerie Vrais Rêves, Lyon
Hôtel du Musée, Galerie Vrais Rêves, Rencontres d’Arles
2004 DIGIT.LAND.SCAPE, MAPRA, Lyon
2003 Paysages Horizontaux, Exposition Art Concept / Sud, Centre ABC, Dijon
2002 Symposium d’Art Contemporain, Baie Saint Paul, Québec, Canada
Public Collections :
Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle de Marseille
New Mexico History Museum, Palace of the Governors, Santa Fe, U.S.A.
Villa Tamaris Centre d’Art
Hôtel des Arts, Conseil Général, Toulon
Reserve Géologique de Digne-les-Bains
Ville de Roquebrune Cap Martin
Project statement:
Series: Arboreal Reflections, 2016 -2019
Water is an essential element of the forest eco-system. The reflective surfaces of forest ponds offer a visual opportunity to play with the photographic image in order to express the magic and mystery inherent in the forest environment: lush foliage is multiplied, trunks and branches are elongated, and the reflected light bounces off surfaces to create a cosmos within a terrestrial paradise.
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SUBMERSION by Catherine Marcogliese
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THE EDGE by Catherine Marcogliese
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CLEARING AHEAD by Debra Achen
BEST SERIES
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BEST SERIES
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Debra Achen says, "At dawn, the misty air and dim light created an almost moonlit quality in the forest, accentuating the contorted and entangled branches that extended in all directions.
Born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA, my passion for art began at a very young age. I majored in Art Education at Edinboro State University before completing my BA in Visual Arts and Communications at the University of California, San Diego. Originally trained in traditional darkroom techniques, my photographic creative practice has shifted more to digital processing and printing. I now live on the scenic Monterey Peninsula, an environment that provides endless inspiration for my work.
As a photographer, I am attracted to the underlying structure of things, and to the way the forces of nature – Earth, Air, Fire, Water, Gravity, Light, and Time - imprint the material world with their magic. Some of my images border on the abstract. By extracting, isolating, or separating out" a certain element of a photographic subject, it becomes simplified to a more basic, fundamental form. Other work examines the relationship between objects, space, time, and light. Slow-capture images blur the borders between objects and the space that surrounds them. Movement of the subject or the camera adds the element of time, creating a more impressionistic interpretation of the subject."
Selected Exhibitions:
2019 - Juried Exhibition, "Water 2019, Online Gallery," PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT. Juror: Elizabeth Avedon
2019 - Juried Exhibition, "The Window," N.Y. Photo Curator. Juror: Deb Schwedhelm. Honorable Mention. View Online Exhibition.
2019 - Juried Exhibition, "Momentum 2019," New York Center for Photographic Art. Juror: Debra Klomp Ching, Klompching Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. Juror's Selection & Honorable Mention. View Online Exhibition.
2019 - Juried Exhibition, "Center for Photographic Art, 2019 Members' Juried Exhibition," Carmel, CA. Jurors: Connie and Jerry Rosenthal of Rfotofolio. View Online.
2018 - Juried Exhibition, "Center for Photographic Art, 2018 International Juried Exhibition, Online Gallery" Carmel, CA. Juror: Eve Schillo, Curator of Photography, Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
2018 - Juried Exhibition, "Celebrating Women, Online Gallery," PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT. Juror: Joyce Tenneson
2018 - Group Exhibition, "Fire and Water" at The Weston Gallery, Carmel, CA.
2017 - Group Exhibition, "The Elementalists," Three-artist exhibition with William Giles and Carol Henry at Carmel Visual Arts, Carmel, CA.
2017 - Juried Exhibition, "The Photographic Nude 2017," LightBox Photographic Gallery, Astoria, Oregon. Juror: Kim Weston View Online Gallery
2016 - Juried Exhibition, "Night Photography: Dusk to Dawn, Online Gallery," PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT. Juror: Lance Keimig
www.debraachen.com
Born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA, my passion for art began at a very young age. I majored in Art Education at Edinboro State University before completing my BA in Visual Arts and Communications at the University of California, San Diego. Originally trained in traditional darkroom techniques, my photographic creative practice has shifted more to digital processing and printing. I now live on the scenic Monterey Peninsula, an environment that provides endless inspiration for my work.
As a photographer, I am attracted to the underlying structure of things, and to the way the forces of nature – Earth, Air, Fire, Water, Gravity, Light, and Time - imprint the material world with their magic. Some of my images border on the abstract. By extracting, isolating, or separating out" a certain element of a photographic subject, it becomes simplified to a more basic, fundamental form. Other work examines the relationship between objects, space, time, and light. Slow-capture images blur the borders between objects and the space that surrounds them. Movement of the subject or the camera adds the element of time, creating a more impressionistic interpretation of the subject."
Selected Exhibitions:
2019 - Juried Exhibition, "Water 2019, Online Gallery," PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT. Juror: Elizabeth Avedon
2019 - Juried Exhibition, "The Window," N.Y. Photo Curator. Juror: Deb Schwedhelm. Honorable Mention. View Online Exhibition.
2019 - Juried Exhibition, "Momentum 2019," New York Center for Photographic Art. Juror: Debra Klomp Ching, Klompching Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. Juror's Selection & Honorable Mention. View Online Exhibition.
2019 - Juried Exhibition, "Center for Photographic Art, 2019 Members' Juried Exhibition," Carmel, CA. Jurors: Connie and Jerry Rosenthal of Rfotofolio. View Online.
2018 - Juried Exhibition, "Center for Photographic Art, 2018 International Juried Exhibition, Online Gallery" Carmel, CA. Juror: Eve Schillo, Curator of Photography, Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
2018 - Juried Exhibition, "Celebrating Women, Online Gallery," PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT. Juror: Joyce Tenneson
2018 - Group Exhibition, "Fire and Water" at The Weston Gallery, Carmel, CA.
2017 - Group Exhibition, "The Elementalists," Three-artist exhibition with William Giles and Carol Henry at Carmel Visual Arts, Carmel, CA.
2017 - Juried Exhibition, "The Photographic Nude 2017," LightBox Photographic Gallery, Astoria, Oregon. Juror: Kim Weston View Online Gallery
2016 - Juried Exhibition, "Night Photography: Dusk to Dawn, Online Gallery," PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT. Juror: Lance Keimig
www.debraachen.com
IN THE THICKET by Debra Achen
BEST SERIES
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YOGI TREE by Debra Achen
BEST SERIES
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BEST SERIES
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DEEP PINK by Diane Cockerill
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Diane Cockerill says, "When photographing the sprawling urban landscapes of Los Angeles, my eye is attracted to the grit, color and flavor of the street, from towering architecture to pavement and curbs. I strive to create a visual narrative with a unique perspective capturing detritus, abandoned furniture, textured walls, and street scenes."
A third-generation Angeleno, Diane Cockerill studied Fine Art at UCLA and has shown work at several local and national galleries, Griffin Museum of Photography in Massachusetts as well as in Paris, Hungary, and the International Pink Art Fair in Seoul, Korea. After receiving her first point-and-shoot at the age ten, she later transitioned to a 35mm camera with a more serious interest in photography.
A thirty-year career in advertising provided the opportunity to work with many photographers and image sourcing for print materials. New technology brought Diane into the digital world and an appreciation of the immediacy it provided which suited her shooting style. She is now fully immersed in photographing her native Los Angeles.
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A third-generation Angeleno, Diane Cockerill studied Fine Art at UCLA and has shown work at several local and national galleries, Griffin Museum of Photography in Massachusetts as well as in Paris, Hungary, and the International Pink Art Fair in Seoul, Korea. After receiving her first point-and-shoot at the age ten, she later transitioned to a 35mm camera with a more serious interest in photography.
A thirty-year career in advertising provided the opportunity to work with many photographers and image sourcing for print materials. New technology brought Diane into the digital world and an appreciation of the immediacy it provided which suited her shooting style. She is now fully immersed in photographing her native Los Angeles.
www.dianecockerill.comhttp://www.dianecockerill.com
LOVE TREE by Diane Cockerill
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SHADES by Diane Cockerill
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A NEW VIEW by Diane Kaye
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Diane Kaye says, "I am devoted to exploring a lot of the many unusual possibilities of the photographic medium.
Moving camera, moving subject, moving scanner beam, all can and do record beautifully on digital, some even on film.
“Luscious Forest” was made in a speeding car; an approaching car made “Bushy Tree”; a hand-held moving camera made “A New View”.
I am particularly inspired by the inherent emotion in some tree forms, and I take the liberty of using some of these more unusual approaches to exaggerate them and express my own emotions. In countries which do have them, trees provide an iconic early childhood memory. I fondly remember trying unsuccessfully to eat the leaves of maple trees."
CV
"Associate Distinction Award" (ARPS), The Royal Photographic Society
2019 AWARDS
13th Annual Pollux Awards: Honorable Mentions in "Alternative Process" for the 2 Series - "Photograms" and "Lumen"
Honorable Mention in "Architecture: Interiors" for the Series - "In Awe: Impressions of the English Cathedral"
Invitation to show these in Barcelona, Spain
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"8x10" Invitational fundraiser: Center for Photographic Art, Carmel (Original GSP Photogram "Homage a Man Ray")
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Invitation to exhibit 6 urban photos at Santa Maria in Valle" monastery, UNESCO site (Cividale del Friuli, Udine, Italy) and Trieste Photo Days: "Urban" Group Show
Pajaro Valley Arts, Watsonville: "Mirrors": member group exhibit (scan of a GSP nude)
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Invitation to "The 13th Julia Margaret Cameron Award Exhibition", Gallery Valid Foto in Barcelona, October 2019
13th Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women in Photography: Honorable Mention, Alternative Processes (a Lumen-Print Series)
My work will be included in: opening reception of the 12 Julia Margaret Cameron Award's Exhibition. May 8 at 7pm; Gallery Valid Foto, Buenaventura Muñoz 6, Barcelona, Spain; the Exhibition will be open until May 25, 2019.
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International Color Awards: Nominee in Abstract | "Organic Balance"
Nominee in Food | "Abstract with Jello"
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13th Annual Black & White Spider Awards: "Nominee in Fine Art" and "Nominee in Silhouette”
2018 SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Somerville Toy Camera Festival, 3 Images in Group Show, Somerville, MA
Dodho Magazine 05 - https://www.dodho.com/death-and-transfiguration-by-diane-kaye/
Center for Fine Art Photography, Invitational 8x10 Fundraiser Show (also 2019)
"Seeing Red" group show, Gray Loft Gallery, Oakland, CA
"Abstract", Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis, MN - Juror: Ross Harrison
"Silicon Valley Toy Plastic Camera", Art Department, University of Santa Clara, CA
Center for Fine Art Photography, Members Show, Carmel, CA - Juror Charles Cramer
www.DianeKaye.com
www.FineArtBotanicals.net
Moving camera, moving subject, moving scanner beam, all can and do record beautifully on digital, some even on film.
“Luscious Forest” was made in a speeding car; an approaching car made “Bushy Tree”; a hand-held moving camera made “A New View”.
I am particularly inspired by the inherent emotion in some tree forms, and I take the liberty of using some of these more unusual approaches to exaggerate them and express my own emotions. In countries which do have them, trees provide an iconic early childhood memory. I fondly remember trying unsuccessfully to eat the leaves of maple trees."
CV
"Associate Distinction Award" (ARPS), The Royal Photographic Society
2019 AWARDS
13th Annual Pollux Awards: Honorable Mentions in "Alternative Process" for the 2 Series - "Photograms" and "Lumen"
Honorable Mention in "Architecture: Interiors" for the Series - "In Awe: Impressions of the English Cathedral"
Invitation to show these in Barcelona, Spain
*
"8x10" Invitational fundraiser: Center for Photographic Art, Carmel (Original GSP Photogram "Homage a Man Ray")
*
Invitation to exhibit 6 urban photos at Santa Maria in Valle" monastery, UNESCO site (Cividale del Friuli, Udine, Italy) and Trieste Photo Days: "Urban" Group Show
Pajaro Valley Arts, Watsonville: "Mirrors": member group exhibit (scan of a GSP nude)
*
Invitation to "The 13th Julia Margaret Cameron Award Exhibition", Gallery Valid Foto in Barcelona, October 2019
13th Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women in Photography: Honorable Mention, Alternative Processes (a Lumen-Print Series)
My work will be included in: opening reception of the 12 Julia Margaret Cameron Award's Exhibition. May 8 at 7pm; Gallery Valid Foto, Buenaventura Muñoz 6, Barcelona, Spain; the Exhibition will be open until May 25, 2019.
*
International Color Awards: Nominee in Abstract | "Organic Balance"
Nominee in Food | "Abstract with Jello"
*
13th Annual Black & White Spider Awards: "Nominee in Fine Art" and "Nominee in Silhouette”
2018 SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Somerville Toy Camera Festival, 3 Images in Group Show, Somerville, MA
Dodho Magazine 05 - https://www.dodho.com/death-and-transfiguration-by-diane-kaye/
Center for Fine Art Photography, Invitational 8x10 Fundraiser Show (also 2019)
"Seeing Red" group show, Gray Loft Gallery, Oakland, CA
"Abstract", Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis, MN - Juror: Ross Harrison
"Silicon Valley Toy Plastic Camera", Art Department, University of Santa Clara, CA
Center for Fine Art Photography, Members Show, Carmel, CA - Juror Charles Cramer
www.DianeKaye.com
www.FineArtBotanicals.net
BUSHY TREE by Diane Kaye
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LUSCIOUS FOREST by Diane Kaye
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GUMBO LIMBO by Don Agnello
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Don Agnello says, "Photographing nature is of big interest to me, and living in Florida surrounded by a botanical collection I have created is a dream come true. I love tropical plants and Palms, the more exotic adaptations have my interest, and being a member of the Palm Society lets me share this passion with others.
The trees I share here are the Gumbo Limbo- native to the Florida Keys, the Piccabeen Palm in flower- from Australia, and the Royal Palm,- native to Cuba.
A lifetime of studying Art is my background, and creating with the medium of photography is my passion. I regard the making of images through the lens as my form of “painting”, using light, color and form to make a carefully chosen composition."
CV:
2017 Image City Photography Gallery- Rochester, NY- Portfolio Show
2018 Sohn Fine Arts- Lenox Mass.- Portfolio Show- First Place
2019 Plaxall Gallery- Long Island City- "Urban Dance" Group show
Instagram: donagnello
www.donagnello.com
The trees I share here are the Gumbo Limbo- native to the Florida Keys, the Piccabeen Palm in flower- from Australia, and the Royal Palm,- native to Cuba.
A lifetime of studying Art is my background, and creating with the medium of photography is my passion. I regard the making of images through the lens as my form of “painting”, using light, color and form to make a carefully chosen composition."
CV:
2017 Image City Photography Gallery- Rochester, NY- Portfolio Show
2018 Sohn Fine Arts- Lenox Mass.- Portfolio Show- First Place
2019 Plaxall Gallery- Long Island City- "Urban Dance" Group show
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PICCABEEN PALM by Don Agnello
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ROYAL PALM by Don Agnello
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JANUARY 12 by Emma Holzer
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Emma Holzer says, "A handwritten letter that expresses love creates a connection between two souls. Words jumbled together feel like an immediate hug from afar.
A window is looked through, opened up, closed in, or broken. It stands as its own other times it falls forgotten. Nothing truly is meant to last forever yet sometimes it manages to outlast all outside forces.
I hold onto those moments that make my heart rise or my stomach sink. The ones where you can't remember the date but you know exactly what was said. When you feel thousands of little butterflies. Where the heart is really talking."
Emma is an artist using photography to communicate an emotion to evoke a new thought or change in one's life. she embraces innovativeness in her work and seeks out ways where her passion can transform a blank canvas into something that tells the best story possible.
She focuses on moments where our internal thoughts and feelings shine in capturing portraits of people to the complexity of a still life. In the technical aspect, She has worked with 35mm, 4x5, and 8x10 film in her most recent project, Xoxo. You could find her fixing up an old camera, updating her dogs Instagram, or at a new vegan restaurant.
Career Highlights:
Graduated from Savannah College of Art and Design in Spring of 2019, with BA in Fine Art Photography.
Exhibitions:
In This Moment- A co-partnered gallery show displaying a series of mine alongside the other partner.
Spring 2019, Savannah, Georgia
This Too Shall Pass- A group exhibition was curated through a class at Savannah College of Art and Design showcasing new ideas with an 8x10 camera and alternative processes.
Winter 2019, Savannah, Georgia
Small Works- A photograph was curated by the Gutstein Gallery showcasing a wide variety of small work from students and alumni of Savannah College of Art and Design.
Fall 2018, Savannah, Georgia
Open Studio- Several photographs were chosen to be exhibited along with student photography of Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia and while studying in Lacoste, France.
June 2018, Lacoste, Frence
Fall 2018, Savannah, Georgia
A window is looked through, opened up, closed in, or broken. It stands as its own other times it falls forgotten. Nothing truly is meant to last forever yet sometimes it manages to outlast all outside forces.
I hold onto those moments that make my heart rise or my stomach sink. The ones where you can't remember the date but you know exactly what was said. When you feel thousands of little butterflies. Where the heart is really talking."
Emma is an artist using photography to communicate an emotion to evoke a new thought or change in one's life. she embraces innovativeness in her work and seeks out ways where her passion can transform a blank canvas into something that tells the best story possible.
She focuses on moments where our internal thoughts and feelings shine in capturing portraits of people to the complexity of a still life. In the technical aspect, She has worked with 35mm, 4x5, and 8x10 film in her most recent project, Xoxo. You could find her fixing up an old camera, updating her dogs Instagram, or at a new vegan restaurant.
Career Highlights:
Graduated from Savannah College of Art and Design in Spring of 2019, with BA in Fine Art Photography.
Exhibitions:
In This Moment- A co-partnered gallery show displaying a series of mine alongside the other partner.
Spring 2019, Savannah, Georgia
This Too Shall Pass- A group exhibition was curated through a class at Savannah College of Art and Design showcasing new ideas with an 8x10 camera and alternative processes.
Winter 2019, Savannah, Georgia
Small Works- A photograph was curated by the Gutstein Gallery showcasing a wide variety of small work from students and alumni of Savannah College of Art and Design.
Fall 2018, Savannah, Georgia
Open Studio- Several photographs were chosen to be exhibited along with student photography of Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia and while studying in Lacoste, France.
June 2018, Lacoste, Frence
Fall 2018, Savannah, Georgia
MARCH 20 by Emma Holzer
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MARCH 8 by Emma Holzer
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TREES HOME:
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HONORABLE MENTIONS:
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