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EXHIBITION #2
CALIFORNIA HILLS VAR-1 by Debra Achen
CORRUGATED REDWOOD VAR-1 by Debra Achen
CRACKED MIRROR VIEW VAR-1 by Debra Achen
Debra Achen says, "Folding and Mending The hand-crumpled, folded, and stitched prints in my “Folding and Mending” series are a way of expressing “the world folding in on itself.” We are so focused on the tasks at hand in our daily lives that we are neglecting to care for our environment.
We have created an imbalance in which our world is collapsing. Coastlines erode and submerge as sea levels rise. Trees, stressed from years of drought, succumb to disease and fire as golden hills crack and crumble. While big solutions are needed to fix the damage we are doing, there are small things each of us can do every day to help slow the erosion, clear the air, mend the cracks, hold it together.
Mending consists of those domestic chores we do to care for, maintain, fix, and extend the life of the things we use in our everyday lives. At a higher level, we can apply these activities to mend our environment: earth, air, fire, and water – those things we use and depend on every day."
Born and raised near Pittsburgh, PA, fine art photographer Debra Achen developed a passion for art and a connection to nature as a young child. She majored in Art Education at Edinboro State University before completing her BA in Visual Arts and Communications at the University of California, San Diego. She studied a variety of studio arts, including drawing, painting, printmaking and sculpture in addition to her training in traditional film and darkroom photography.
Achen’s work has been featured in international juried exhibitions throughout the U.S. and in Europe.
She has also been invited to curated exhibitions, including “Fire and Water” at the Weston Gallery in Carmel, CA and “The Elementalists” with William Giles and Carol Henry at Carmel Visual Arts Gallery. A detailed exhibition history can be found in the CV on her website.
www.debraachen.com
"Folding and Mending” images are available for sale.
Hand-manipulated archival pigment prints
Limited edition of 6 (variable) + 2AP
Contact me directly for sizes and pricing.
debachen@comcast.net
Debra Achen says, "Folding and Mending The hand-crumpled, folded, and stitched prints in my “Folding and Mending” series are a way of expressing “the world folding in on itself.” We are so focused on the tasks at hand in our daily lives that we are neglecting to care for our environment.
We have created an imbalance in which our world is collapsing. Coastlines erode and submerge as sea levels rise. Trees, stressed from years of drought, succumb to disease and fire as golden hills crack and crumble. While big solutions are needed to fix the damage we are doing, there are small things each of us can do every day to help slow the erosion, clear the air, mend the cracks, hold it together.
Mending consists of those domestic chores we do to care for, maintain, fix, and extend the life of the things we use in our everyday lives. At a higher level, we can apply these activities to mend our environment: earth, air, fire, and water – those things we use and depend on every day."
Born and raised near Pittsburgh, PA, fine art photographer Debra Achen developed a passion for art and a connection to nature as a young child. She majored in Art Education at Edinboro State University before completing her BA in Visual Arts and Communications at the University of California, San Diego. She studied a variety of studio arts, including drawing, painting, printmaking and sculpture in addition to her training in traditional film and darkroom photography.
Achen’s work has been featured in international juried exhibitions throughout the U.S. and in Europe.
She has also been invited to curated exhibitions, including “Fire and Water” at the Weston Gallery in Carmel, CA and “The Elementalists” with William Giles and Carol Henry at Carmel Visual Arts Gallery. A detailed exhibition history can be found in the CV on her website.
www.debraachen.com
"Folding and Mending” images are available for sale.
Hand-manipulated archival pigment prints
Limited edition of 6 (variable) + 2AP
Contact me directly for sizes and pricing.
debachen@comcast.net
SHORING UP VAR-1 by Debra Achen
STITCHED UP VAR-1 by Debra Achen
TRUSSED VAR-2 by Debra Achen
Debra Achen says, "Folding and Mending The hand-crumpled, folded, and stitched prints in my “Folding and Mending” series are a way of expressing “the world folding in on itself.” We are so focused on the tasks at hand in our daily lives that we are neglecting to care for our environment.
We have created an imbalance in which our world is collapsing. Coastlines erode and submerge as sea levels rise. Trees, stressed from years of drought, succumb to disease and fire as golden hills crack and crumble. While big solutions are needed to fix the damage we are doing, there are small things each of us can do every day to help slow the erosion, clear the air, mend the cracks, hold it together.
Mending consists of those domestic chores we do to care for, maintain, fix, and extend the life of the things we use in our everyday lives. At a higher level, we can apply these activities to mend our environment: earth, air, fire, and water – those things we use and depend on every day."
Born and raised near Pittsburgh, PA, fine art photographer Debra Achen developed a passion for art and a connection to nature as a young child. She majored in Art Education at Edinboro State University before completing her BA in Visual Arts and Communications at the University of California, San Diego. She studied a variety of studio arts, including drawing, painting, printmaking and sculpture in addition to her training in traditional film and darkroom photography.
Achen’s work has been featured in international juried exhibitions throughout the U.S. and in Europe.
She has also been invited to curated exhibitions, including “Fire and Water” at the Weston Gallery in Carmel, CA and “The Elementalists” with William Giles and Carol Henry at Carmel Visual Arts Gallery. A detailed exhibition history can be found in the CV on her website.
www.debraachen.com
"Folding and Mending” images are available for sale.
Hand-manipulated archival pigment prints
Limited edition of 6 (variable) + 2AP
Contact me directly for sizes and pricing.
debachen@comcast.net
Debra Achen says, "Folding and Mending The hand-crumpled, folded, and stitched prints in my “Folding and Mending” series are a way of expressing “the world folding in on itself.” We are so focused on the tasks at hand in our daily lives that we are neglecting to care for our environment.
We have created an imbalance in which our world is collapsing. Coastlines erode and submerge as sea levels rise. Trees, stressed from years of drought, succumb to disease and fire as golden hills crack and crumble. While big solutions are needed to fix the damage we are doing, there are small things each of us can do every day to help slow the erosion, clear the air, mend the cracks, hold it together.
Mending consists of those domestic chores we do to care for, maintain, fix, and extend the life of the things we use in our everyday lives. At a higher level, we can apply these activities to mend our environment: earth, air, fire, and water – those things we use and depend on every day."
Born and raised near Pittsburgh, PA, fine art photographer Debra Achen developed a passion for art and a connection to nature as a young child. She majored in Art Education at Edinboro State University before completing her BA in Visual Arts and Communications at the University of California, San Diego. She studied a variety of studio arts, including drawing, painting, printmaking and sculpture in addition to her training in traditional film and darkroom photography.
Achen’s work has been featured in international juried exhibitions throughout the U.S. and in Europe.
She has also been invited to curated exhibitions, including “Fire and Water” at the Weston Gallery in Carmel, CA and “The Elementalists” with William Giles and Carol Henry at Carmel Visual Arts Gallery. A detailed exhibition history can be found in the CV on her website.
www.debraachen.com
"Folding and Mending” images are available for sale.
Hand-manipulated archival pigment prints
Limited edition of 6 (variable) + 2AP
Contact me directly for sizes and pricing.
debachen@comcast.net
EVEN SUPERHEROES TAKE A SNACK BREAK by Diana Cheren Nygren
IS ANYONE OUT THERE by Diana Cheren Nygren
HONORABLE MENTION
HONORABLE MENTION
I ONCE HAD A BAT CAVE by Diana Cheren Nygren
Diana Cheren Nygren says about her series, ‘“The World Needs a Superhero’,
"In this series, I transform memories of my children, when they were innocent and seized life with unjaded enthusiasm, into superheroes, and place them in abandoned and often desolate landscapes.
Society often turns to superhero narratives in times of unrest as a source of hope. In the superhero narrative, right and wrong are clearly defined, and right will always triumph. Children's tendency to play superhero has a slightly different significance. They imagine themselves as safe, strong, and in control. The more out of control reality, the more intense the need to believe that control is possible.
Children have a unique ability to harness imagination with uncompromising conviction. In this story I have given my children brightly colored capes, a celebration of the beauty of the confidence with which they seize life. They can play their games anywhere, imagination the only tool at their disposal. In fact, in these images, the settings are often bleak. The children are alone. Their enthusiasm for the roles they play belies their ultimate powerlessness. Grown ups have left them on their own, in a decaying world, facing challenges that are perhaps already lost.”
Diana Cheren Nygren is a fine art photographer from Boston, Massachusetts. Her work explores the relationship of people to their physical environment and landscape as a setting for human activity. Her photographs address serious social questions through a blend of documentary practice, invention, and humor.
Diana was trained as an art historian with a focus on modern and contemporary art, and the relationship of artistic production to its socio-political context. Her emphasis on careful composition in her photographic work, as well as her subject matter, reflects this training. Her work as a photographer is the culmination of a life-long investment in the power of art and visual culture to shape and influence social change.
Career Highlights
Group Exhibitions
2021
OpenImage Barcelona 2020, FotoNostrum Gallery, anticipated December, Barcelona, Spain
6th Biennial of Fine Art & Documentary Photo, FotoNostrum Gallery, December, Barcelona, Spain
Urban Photo 2021, Trieste Photo Days, October, Trieste, Italy
Catherine Couturier Selects, Atlanta Photography Group, Atlanta, GA, juror Catherine Couturier
Let’s Play, NYC4PA, New York, NY, juror Crista Dix
In Conversation with the Land, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO, juror Karen Haas
Passepartout Annual Exhibition, Fine Art Gallery 28 Piazza di Pietra, September, Rome, Italy
The Artist Intervenes, Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, juror Aline Smithson
Endless Summer, Atlanta Photography Group, Atlanta, GA, juror Jean Dykstra
Summer Show, The Curated Fridge, juror Michael Behlen
Second Annual Juried Members' Spotlight Exhibition, RICPA, Providence, RI, juror David H Wells
Photographic Visions Summer 2021, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2021 Emerging Artists' Exhibition, Cambridge Art Association, juror Erica b Hess
Exposure 2021, PRC Boston, juror Kris Graves
27th Annual Juried Exhib., Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA, juror Arnika Dawkins
Special Mention Solo Exhibition May 2021, All About Photo, juror Brooke Shaden
Spring Show, The Curated Fridge, Online, jurors Jon Feinstein and Roula Seikaly
the Staged Photograph, SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC, juror Richard Tuschman
Members' Juried Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA, juror Susan Burnstine
Third Annual Juried Members' Exhibition, RICPA, Providence, RI, juror Mary Dondero
Inner World, ArtDoc Magazine, online
Digits: A Parallel Universe, Lafayette City Center Passageway (Griffin Museum), Boston, MA
Atelier 33, Griffin Museum of Photography, WInchester, MA
Honors and Awards
2021
PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris, Best New Talent, First Place Fine Art, Gold Fine Art/Collage, “The Persistence of Family”
IMA Next "Change", shortlist, juror Hellen van Meene, "The Persistence of Family"
The Photo Review 2021 Competition winner, '"Hey Down There"
Youthhood, Life Framer, editor’s pick, “Lulu Saves the Day”
Critics’ Choice Award 2021, Lensculture, selected by Ada Takahashi, “The Persistence of Family”
Critical Mass 2021, Finalist, "The Persistence of Family"
Urban2021, Series, Finalist, "The Persistence of Family"
Creative Photo Awards 2021, Siena Awards, Commended Series, "When the Trees Are Gone"
16th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, 3rd Place, Digital Manipulation & Collage (series), "When the Trees Are Gone"
16th Pollux Awards, Honorable Mention, Digital Manipulation & Collage (series), "When the Trees Are Gone"
LICC, Official Selection, SHOOT (Photo/Video) Professional, "When the Trees Are Gone"
Urbanautica Institute Awards 2020, Special Mention, "When the Trees Are Gone"
OpenImage Barcelona 2020, Runner Up, "The Persistence of Family"
The Hopper Prize, Longlist, "When the Trees Are Gone"
Passepartout Prize, Exhibition Prize, "The Persistence of Family"Tokyo International Foto Awards, Juror Top 5, juror Susan Baraz
Tokyo International Foto Awards, Discovery of the Year, 1st Place Portfolio, Gold in Fine Art/Collage, Gold in Portfolio/Fine Art, Silver in Science/Environment, "When the Trees Are Gone"
This Land Is Your Land, LA Photo Curator, First Place, "Bottled Water", juror Dianne Yudelson
Press
Its Liquid Group, Interview, July 21, 2021
Dodho Magazine, Online Artist Feature, June 23, 2021
L'Oeil de la Photographie, Profile, June 5, 2021
Fraction Magazine, Issue 145 - 13th Anniversary Issue, 13th Anniversary Group Exhibition
Hopper Prize Journal, Interview, May 2021
Passepartout 2020 Annual Catalog
South x Southeast Magazine, Artist's Profile, February/March 2021
Rfotofolio, Feature Artist, January 31, 2021
F-Stop Magazine, "Constructed Image" issue, February 2021
Education
B.A. , Fine Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1990, Magna Cum Laude
M.A., History of Art, U.C. Berkeley, Berkeley, California, 1995
A.B.D., History of Art, U.C. Berkeley, Berkeley, California (Modern and Contemporary art with a focus on Soviet art in the 1920s and 1930s)
New England School of Photography, Griffin Museum, Maine Media, LaLuz Workshops, LA Photo Center, and Mass College of Art: workshops and courses
www.dianacherennygren.com
www.instagram.com/dianacherennygrenphotography/
@dianacherennygrenphotography
facebook: Diana Cheren Nygren Photography
"In this series, I transform memories of my children, when they were innocent and seized life with unjaded enthusiasm, into superheroes, and place them in abandoned and often desolate landscapes.
Society often turns to superhero narratives in times of unrest as a source of hope. In the superhero narrative, right and wrong are clearly defined, and right will always triumph. Children's tendency to play superhero has a slightly different significance. They imagine themselves as safe, strong, and in control. The more out of control reality, the more intense the need to believe that control is possible.
Children have a unique ability to harness imagination with uncompromising conviction. In this story I have given my children brightly colored capes, a celebration of the beauty of the confidence with which they seize life. They can play their games anywhere, imagination the only tool at their disposal. In fact, in these images, the settings are often bleak. The children are alone. Their enthusiasm for the roles they play belies their ultimate powerlessness. Grown ups have left them on their own, in a decaying world, facing challenges that are perhaps already lost.”
Diana Cheren Nygren is a fine art photographer from Boston, Massachusetts. Her work explores the relationship of people to their physical environment and landscape as a setting for human activity. Her photographs address serious social questions through a blend of documentary practice, invention, and humor.
Diana was trained as an art historian with a focus on modern and contemporary art, and the relationship of artistic production to its socio-political context. Her emphasis on careful composition in her photographic work, as well as her subject matter, reflects this training. Her work as a photographer is the culmination of a life-long investment in the power of art and visual culture to shape and influence social change.
Career Highlights
Group Exhibitions
2021
OpenImage Barcelona 2020, FotoNostrum Gallery, anticipated December, Barcelona, Spain
6th Biennial of Fine Art & Documentary Photo, FotoNostrum Gallery, December, Barcelona, Spain
Urban Photo 2021, Trieste Photo Days, October, Trieste, Italy
Catherine Couturier Selects, Atlanta Photography Group, Atlanta, GA, juror Catherine Couturier
Let’s Play, NYC4PA, New York, NY, juror Crista Dix
In Conversation with the Land, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO, juror Karen Haas
Passepartout Annual Exhibition, Fine Art Gallery 28 Piazza di Pietra, September, Rome, Italy
The Artist Intervenes, Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, juror Aline Smithson
Endless Summer, Atlanta Photography Group, Atlanta, GA, juror Jean Dykstra
Summer Show, The Curated Fridge, juror Michael Behlen
Second Annual Juried Members' Spotlight Exhibition, RICPA, Providence, RI, juror David H Wells
Photographic Visions Summer 2021, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2021 Emerging Artists' Exhibition, Cambridge Art Association, juror Erica b Hess
Exposure 2021, PRC Boston, juror Kris Graves
27th Annual Juried Exhib., Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA, juror Arnika Dawkins
Special Mention Solo Exhibition May 2021, All About Photo, juror Brooke Shaden
Spring Show, The Curated Fridge, Online, jurors Jon Feinstein and Roula Seikaly
the Staged Photograph, SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC, juror Richard Tuschman
Members' Juried Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA, juror Susan Burnstine
Third Annual Juried Members' Exhibition, RICPA, Providence, RI, juror Mary Dondero
Inner World, ArtDoc Magazine, online
Digits: A Parallel Universe, Lafayette City Center Passageway (Griffin Museum), Boston, MA
Atelier 33, Griffin Museum of Photography, WInchester, MA
Honors and Awards
2021
PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris, Best New Talent, First Place Fine Art, Gold Fine Art/Collage, “The Persistence of Family”
IMA Next "Change", shortlist, juror Hellen van Meene, "The Persistence of Family"
The Photo Review 2021 Competition winner, '"Hey Down There"
Youthhood, Life Framer, editor’s pick, “Lulu Saves the Day”
Critics’ Choice Award 2021, Lensculture, selected by Ada Takahashi, “The Persistence of Family”
Critical Mass 2021, Finalist, "The Persistence of Family"
Urban2021, Series, Finalist, "The Persistence of Family"
Creative Photo Awards 2021, Siena Awards, Commended Series, "When the Trees Are Gone"
16th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, 3rd Place, Digital Manipulation & Collage (series), "When the Trees Are Gone"
16th Pollux Awards, Honorable Mention, Digital Manipulation & Collage (series), "When the Trees Are Gone"
LICC, Official Selection, SHOOT (Photo/Video) Professional, "When the Trees Are Gone"
Urbanautica Institute Awards 2020, Special Mention, "When the Trees Are Gone"
OpenImage Barcelona 2020, Runner Up, "The Persistence of Family"
The Hopper Prize, Longlist, "When the Trees Are Gone"
Passepartout Prize, Exhibition Prize, "The Persistence of Family"Tokyo International Foto Awards, Juror Top 5, juror Susan Baraz
Tokyo International Foto Awards, Discovery of the Year, 1st Place Portfolio, Gold in Fine Art/Collage, Gold in Portfolio/Fine Art, Silver in Science/Environment, "When the Trees Are Gone"
This Land Is Your Land, LA Photo Curator, First Place, "Bottled Water", juror Dianne Yudelson
Press
Its Liquid Group, Interview, July 21, 2021
Dodho Magazine, Online Artist Feature, June 23, 2021
L'Oeil de la Photographie, Profile, June 5, 2021
Fraction Magazine, Issue 145 - 13th Anniversary Issue, 13th Anniversary Group Exhibition
Hopper Prize Journal, Interview, May 2021
Passepartout 2020 Annual Catalog
South x Southeast Magazine, Artist's Profile, February/March 2021
Rfotofolio, Feature Artist, January 31, 2021
F-Stop Magazine, "Constructed Image" issue, February 2021
Education
B.A. , Fine Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1990, Magna Cum Laude
M.A., History of Art, U.C. Berkeley, Berkeley, California, 1995
A.B.D., History of Art, U.C. Berkeley, Berkeley, California (Modern and Contemporary art with a focus on Soviet art in the 1920s and 1930s)
New England School of Photography, Griffin Museum, Maine Media, LaLuz Workshops, LA Photo Center, and Mass College of Art: workshops and courses
www.dianacherennygren.com
www.instagram.com/dianacherennygrenphotography/
@dianacherennygrenphotography
facebook: Diana Cheren Nygren Photography
LULU SAVE THE DAY by Diana Cheren Nygren
MILA KING OF THE HILL by Diana Cheren Nygren
ONE NATION INDIVISIBLE by Diana Cheren Nygren
Diana Cheren Nygren says about her series, ‘“The World Needs a Superhero’,
"In this series, I transform memories of my children, when they were innocent and seized life with unjaded enthusiasm, into superheroes, and place them in abandoned and often desolate landscapes.
Society often turns to superhero narratives in times of unrest as a source of hope. In the superhero narrative, right and wrong are clearly defined, and right will always triumph. Children's tendency to play superhero has a slightly different significance. They imagine themselves as safe, strong, and in control. The more out of control reality, the more intense the need to believe that control is possible.
Children have a unique ability to harness imagination with uncompromising conviction. In this story I have given my children brightly colored capes, a celebration of the beauty of the confidence with which they seize life. They can play their games anywhere, imagination the only tool at their disposal. In fact, in these images, the settings are often bleak. The children are alone. Their enthusiasm for the roles they play belies their ultimate powerlessness. Grown ups have left them on their own, in a decaying world, facing challenges that are perhaps already lost.”
Diana Cheren Nygren is a fine art photographer from Boston, Massachusetts. Her work explores the relationship of people to their physical environment and landscape as a setting for human activity. Her photographs address serious social questions through a blend of documentary practice, invention, and humor.
Diana was trained as an art historian with a focus on modern and contemporary art, and the relationship of artistic production to its socio-political context. Her emphasis on careful composition in her photographic work, as well as her subject matter, reflects this training. Her work as a photographer is the culmination of a life-long investment in the power of art and visual culture to shape and influence social change.
Career Highlights
Group Exhibitions
2021
OpenImage Barcelona 2020, FotoNostrum Gallery, anticipated December, Barcelona, Spain
6th Biennial of Fine Art & Documentary Photo, FotoNostrum Gallery, December, Barcelona, Spain
Urban Photo 2021, Trieste Photo Days, October, Trieste, Italy
Catherine Couturier Selects, Atlanta Photography Group, Atlanta, GA, juror Catherine Couturier
Let’s Play, NYC4PA, New York, NY, juror Crista Dix
In Conversation with the Land, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO, juror Karen Haas
Passepartout Annual Exhibition, Fine Art Gallery 28 Piazza di Pietra, September, Rome, Italy
The Artist Intervenes, Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, juror Aline Smithson
Endless Summer, Atlanta Photography Group, Atlanta, GA, juror Jean Dykstra
Summer Show, The Curated Fridge, juror Michael Behlen
Second Annual Juried Members' Spotlight Exhibition, RICPA, Providence, RI, juror David H Wells
Photographic Visions Summer 2021, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2021 Emerging Artists' Exhibition, Cambridge Art Association, juror Erica b Hess
Exposure 2021, PRC Boston, juror Kris Graves
27th Annual Juried Exhib., Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA, juror Arnika Dawkins
Special Mention Solo Exhibition May 2021, All About Photo, juror Brooke Shaden
Spring Show, The Curated Fridge, Online, jurors Jon Feinstein and Roula Seikaly
the Staged Photograph, SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC, juror Richard Tuschman
Members' Juried Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA, juror Susan Burnstine
Third Annual Juried Members' Exhibition, RICPA, Providence, RI, juror Mary Dondero
Inner World, ArtDoc Magazine, online
Digits: A Parallel Universe, Lafayette City Center Passageway (Griffin Museum), Boston, MA
Atelier 33, Griffin Museum of Photography, WInchester, MA
Honors and Awards
2021
PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris, Best New Talent, First Place Fine Art, Gold Fine Art/Collage, “The Persistence of Family”
IMA Next "Change", shortlist, juror Hellen van Meene, "The Persistence of Family"
The Photo Review 2021 Competition winner, '"Hey Down There"
Youthhood, Life Framer, editor’s pick, “Lulu Saves the Day”
Critics’ Choice Award 2021, Lensculture, selected by Ada Takahashi, “The Persistence of Family”
Critical Mass 2021, Finalist, "The Persistence of Family"
Urban2021, Series, Finalist, "The Persistence of Family"
Creative Photo Awards 2021, Siena Awards, Commended Series, "When the Trees Are Gone"
16th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, 3rd Place, Digital Manipulation & Collage (series), "When the Trees Are Gone"
16th Pollux Awards, Honorable Mention, Digital Manipulation & Collage (series), "When the Trees Are Gone"
LICC, Official Selection, SHOOT (Photo/Video) Professional, "When the Trees Are Gone"
Urbanautica Institute Awards 2020, Special Mention, "When the Trees Are Gone"
OpenImage Barcelona 2020, Runner Up, "The Persistence of Family"
The Hopper Prize, Longlist, "When the Trees Are Gone"
Passepartout Prize, Exhibition Prize, "The Persistence of Family"Tokyo International Foto Awards, Juror Top 5, juror Susan Baraz
Tokyo International Foto Awards, Discovery of the Year, 1st Place Portfolio, Gold in Fine Art/Collage, Gold in Portfolio/Fine Art, Silver in Science/Environment, "When the Trees Are Gone"
This Land Is Your Land, LA Photo Curator, First Place, "Bottled Water", juror Dianne Yudelson
Press
Its Liquid Group, Interview, July 21, 2021
Dodho Magazine, Online Artist Feature, June 23, 2021
L'Oeil de la Photographie, Profile, June 5, 2021
Fraction Magazine, Issue 145 - 13th Anniversary Issue, 13th Anniversary Group Exhibition
Hopper Prize Journal, Interview, May 2021
Passepartout 2020 Annual Catalog
South x Southeast Magazine, Artist's Profile, February/March 2021
Rfotofolio, Feature Artist, January 31, 2021
F-Stop Magazine, "Constructed Image" issue, February 2021
Education
B.A. , Fine Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1990, Magna Cum Laude
M.A., History of Art, U.C. Berkeley, Berkeley, California, 1995
A.B.D., History of Art, U.C. Berkeley, Berkeley, California (Modern and Contemporary art with a focus on Soviet art in the 1920s and 1930s)
New England School of Photography, Griffin Museum, Maine Media, LaLuz Workshops, LA Photo Center, and Mass College of Art: workshops and courses
www.dianacherennygren.com
www.instagram.com/dianacherennygrenphotography/
@dianacherennygrenphotography
facebook: Diana Cheren Nygren Photography
"In this series, I transform memories of my children, when they were innocent and seized life with unjaded enthusiasm, into superheroes, and place them in abandoned and often desolate landscapes.
Society often turns to superhero narratives in times of unrest as a source of hope. In the superhero narrative, right and wrong are clearly defined, and right will always triumph. Children's tendency to play superhero has a slightly different significance. They imagine themselves as safe, strong, and in control. The more out of control reality, the more intense the need to believe that control is possible.
Children have a unique ability to harness imagination with uncompromising conviction. In this story I have given my children brightly colored capes, a celebration of the beauty of the confidence with which they seize life. They can play their games anywhere, imagination the only tool at their disposal. In fact, in these images, the settings are often bleak. The children are alone. Their enthusiasm for the roles they play belies their ultimate powerlessness. Grown ups have left them on their own, in a decaying world, facing challenges that are perhaps already lost.”
Diana Cheren Nygren is a fine art photographer from Boston, Massachusetts. Her work explores the relationship of people to their physical environment and landscape as a setting for human activity. Her photographs address serious social questions through a blend of documentary practice, invention, and humor.
Diana was trained as an art historian with a focus on modern and contemporary art, and the relationship of artistic production to its socio-political context. Her emphasis on careful composition in her photographic work, as well as her subject matter, reflects this training. Her work as a photographer is the culmination of a life-long investment in the power of art and visual culture to shape and influence social change.
Career Highlights
Group Exhibitions
2021
OpenImage Barcelona 2020, FotoNostrum Gallery, anticipated December, Barcelona, Spain
6th Biennial of Fine Art & Documentary Photo, FotoNostrum Gallery, December, Barcelona, Spain
Urban Photo 2021, Trieste Photo Days, October, Trieste, Italy
Catherine Couturier Selects, Atlanta Photography Group, Atlanta, GA, juror Catherine Couturier
Let’s Play, NYC4PA, New York, NY, juror Crista Dix
In Conversation with the Land, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO, juror Karen Haas
Passepartout Annual Exhibition, Fine Art Gallery 28 Piazza di Pietra, September, Rome, Italy
The Artist Intervenes, Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, juror Aline Smithson
Endless Summer, Atlanta Photography Group, Atlanta, GA, juror Jean Dykstra
Summer Show, The Curated Fridge, juror Michael Behlen
Second Annual Juried Members' Spotlight Exhibition, RICPA, Providence, RI, juror David H Wells
Photographic Visions Summer 2021, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2021 Emerging Artists' Exhibition, Cambridge Art Association, juror Erica b Hess
Exposure 2021, PRC Boston, juror Kris Graves
27th Annual Juried Exhib., Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA, juror Arnika Dawkins
Special Mention Solo Exhibition May 2021, All About Photo, juror Brooke Shaden
Spring Show, The Curated Fridge, Online, jurors Jon Feinstein and Roula Seikaly
the Staged Photograph, SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC, juror Richard Tuschman
Members' Juried Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA, juror Susan Burnstine
Third Annual Juried Members' Exhibition, RICPA, Providence, RI, juror Mary Dondero
Inner World, ArtDoc Magazine, online
Digits: A Parallel Universe, Lafayette City Center Passageway (Griffin Museum), Boston, MA
Atelier 33, Griffin Museum of Photography, WInchester, MA
Honors and Awards
2021
PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris, Best New Talent, First Place Fine Art, Gold Fine Art/Collage, “The Persistence of Family”
IMA Next "Change", shortlist, juror Hellen van Meene, "The Persistence of Family"
The Photo Review 2021 Competition winner, '"Hey Down There"
Youthhood, Life Framer, editor’s pick, “Lulu Saves the Day”
Critics’ Choice Award 2021, Lensculture, selected by Ada Takahashi, “The Persistence of Family”
Critical Mass 2021, Finalist, "The Persistence of Family"
Urban2021, Series, Finalist, "The Persistence of Family"
Creative Photo Awards 2021, Siena Awards, Commended Series, "When the Trees Are Gone"
16th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, 3rd Place, Digital Manipulation & Collage (series), "When the Trees Are Gone"
16th Pollux Awards, Honorable Mention, Digital Manipulation & Collage (series), "When the Trees Are Gone"
LICC, Official Selection, SHOOT (Photo/Video) Professional, "When the Trees Are Gone"
Urbanautica Institute Awards 2020, Special Mention, "When the Trees Are Gone"
OpenImage Barcelona 2020, Runner Up, "The Persistence of Family"
The Hopper Prize, Longlist, "When the Trees Are Gone"
Passepartout Prize, Exhibition Prize, "The Persistence of Family"Tokyo International Foto Awards, Juror Top 5, juror Susan Baraz
Tokyo International Foto Awards, Discovery of the Year, 1st Place Portfolio, Gold in Fine Art/Collage, Gold in Portfolio/Fine Art, Silver in Science/Environment, "When the Trees Are Gone"
This Land Is Your Land, LA Photo Curator, First Place, "Bottled Water", juror Dianne Yudelson
Press
Its Liquid Group, Interview, July 21, 2021
Dodho Magazine, Online Artist Feature, June 23, 2021
L'Oeil de la Photographie, Profile, June 5, 2021
Fraction Magazine, Issue 145 - 13th Anniversary Issue, 13th Anniversary Group Exhibition
Hopper Prize Journal, Interview, May 2021
Passepartout 2020 Annual Catalog
South x Southeast Magazine, Artist's Profile, February/March 2021
Rfotofolio, Feature Artist, January 31, 2021
F-Stop Magazine, "Constructed Image" issue, February 2021
Education
B.A. , Fine Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1990, Magna Cum Laude
M.A., History of Art, U.C. Berkeley, Berkeley, California, 1995
A.B.D., History of Art, U.C. Berkeley, Berkeley, California (Modern and Contemporary art with a focus on Soviet art in the 1920s and 1930s)
New England School of Photography, Griffin Museum, Maine Media, LaLuz Workshops, LA Photo Center, and Mass College of Art: workshops and courses
www.dianacherennygren.com
www.instagram.com/dianacherennygrenphotography/
@dianacherennygrenphotography
facebook: Diana Cheren Nygren Photography
SHADOW 11 by Diane Fenster
SHADOW 12 by Diane Fenster
SHADOW 14 by Diane Fenster
Diane Fenster says of her series, "Penumbral Epiphanies
(1) : a usually sudden manifestation or perception of the essential nature or meaning of something.
(2) : an intuitive grasp of reality through something (such as an event) usually simple and striking.
(3) : an illuminating discovery, realization, or disclosure.
---Definition of Epiphany from the Merriam-Webster dictionary
This series stems from an epiphany received while viewing the shadow of an “insignificant weed" through a skylight in our home. As self-isolation lumbers on due to COVID, the objects I see every day and would normally dismiss, now shine through my ordinary perceptions and become extraordinary. The shadows are seen in a new way and are a doorway to an awakening of the senses that widens my world.
I view myself as an alchemist, using digital, alternative process, and traditional photographic tools to delve into fundamental human issues.
My images are literary and emotional, full of symbolism and multiple layers of meaning. My work appears in many publications including #ICP CONCERNED: Global Images for Global Crisis published by the International Center Of Photography, DIFFUSION X photography journal, OneTwelve publishers, the APERTURE monograph METAMORPHOSES: PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE ELECTRONIC AGE, and WOMEN, ART, AND TECHNOLOGY published by MIT press."
CV
Extensive CV available for download as a PDF at https://www.dropbox.com/s/2qzqmlvgy8jt9mo/Diane_Fenster_CV_2021.pdf?dl=0
Recent Career Highlights
2021 Honorable Mention for COVID-19.23 from my series A Long History Of Dark Sleep in The Awakening exhibit, LightBox Photographic Gallery, Astoria, OR.
Juror Douglas Beasley, owner and publisher of SHOTS Magazine
2021 Honorable Mentions in the Portrait/Self-Portrait and Women Seen By Women categories
JULIA MARGARET CAMERON AWARDS 16th edition.
2021 ALLABOUTPHOTO.COM Merit Award for the Portrait Competition.
2021 Honorable Mention in the Fine Art Portrait category of the Moscow International Foto Awards (MIFA)
for my series ALL THESE FACES HAVE THEIR MOMENTS.
2021 Shortlist for the Conceptual Category, KOLGA TBILISI PHOTO Award for my series A Long History of Dark Sleep.
2021 Silver Award in the People/Self Portrait category of the Tokyo International Foto Awards (TIFA)
for A Long History Of Dark Sleep.
2020 Gold Award in the People-Self Portrait category and a SILVER Award in the Fine Art Portrait category
(Non-Professional) of the Budapest International Foto Awards (BIFA) 2020 for selections from A Long History Of Dark Sleep.
2020 Gold Award, Bay Area Month of Photography for Covid-19.06 from my series A Long History Of Dark Sleep."
www.lensculture.com/diane-fenster
https://www.instagram.com/dianefenster
All images are for sale as a limited edition of 5 plus 1AP each
unframed 14"H x 11” W
signed on verso
Archival pigment print on archival paper
$500 unframed
Contact: Diane Fenster
diane@dianefenster.com
(1) : a usually sudden manifestation or perception of the essential nature or meaning of something.
(2) : an intuitive grasp of reality through something (such as an event) usually simple and striking.
(3) : an illuminating discovery, realization, or disclosure.
---Definition of Epiphany from the Merriam-Webster dictionary
This series stems from an epiphany received while viewing the shadow of an “insignificant weed" through a skylight in our home. As self-isolation lumbers on due to COVID, the objects I see every day and would normally dismiss, now shine through my ordinary perceptions and become extraordinary. The shadows are seen in a new way and are a doorway to an awakening of the senses that widens my world.
I view myself as an alchemist, using digital, alternative process, and traditional photographic tools to delve into fundamental human issues.
My images are literary and emotional, full of symbolism and multiple layers of meaning. My work appears in many publications including #ICP CONCERNED: Global Images for Global Crisis published by the International Center Of Photography, DIFFUSION X photography journal, OneTwelve publishers, the APERTURE monograph METAMORPHOSES: PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE ELECTRONIC AGE, and WOMEN, ART, AND TECHNOLOGY published by MIT press."
CV
Extensive CV available for download as a PDF at https://www.dropbox.com/s/2qzqmlvgy8jt9mo/Diane_Fenster_CV_2021.pdf?dl=0
Recent Career Highlights
2021 Honorable Mention for COVID-19.23 from my series A Long History Of Dark Sleep in The Awakening exhibit, LightBox Photographic Gallery, Astoria, OR.
Juror Douglas Beasley, owner and publisher of SHOTS Magazine
2021 Honorable Mentions in the Portrait/Self-Portrait and Women Seen By Women categories
JULIA MARGARET CAMERON AWARDS 16th edition.
2021 ALLABOUTPHOTO.COM Merit Award for the Portrait Competition.
2021 Honorable Mention in the Fine Art Portrait category of the Moscow International Foto Awards (MIFA)
for my series ALL THESE FACES HAVE THEIR MOMENTS.
2021 Shortlist for the Conceptual Category, KOLGA TBILISI PHOTO Award for my series A Long History of Dark Sleep.
2021 Silver Award in the People/Self Portrait category of the Tokyo International Foto Awards (TIFA)
for A Long History Of Dark Sleep.
2020 Gold Award in the People-Self Portrait category and a SILVER Award in the Fine Art Portrait category
(Non-Professional) of the Budapest International Foto Awards (BIFA) 2020 for selections from A Long History Of Dark Sleep.
2020 Gold Award, Bay Area Month of Photography for Covid-19.06 from my series A Long History Of Dark Sleep."
www.lensculture.com/diane-fenster
https://www.instagram.com/dianefenster
All images are for sale as a limited edition of 5 plus 1AP each
unframed 14"H x 11” W
signed on verso
Archival pigment print on archival paper
$500 unframed
Contact: Diane Fenster
diane@dianefenster.com
SHADOW 15 by Diane Fenster
SHADOW 16 by Diane Fenster
SHADOW 20 by Diane Fenster
Diane Fenster says of her series, "Penumbral Epiphanies
(1) : a usually sudden manifestation or perception of the essential nature or meaning of something.
(2) : an intuitive grasp of reality through something (such as an event) usually simple and striking.
(3) : an illuminating discovery, realization, or disclosure.
---Definition of Epiphany from the Merriam-Webster dictionary
This series stems from an epiphany received while viewing the shadow of an “insignificant weed" through a skylight in our home. As self-isolation lumbers on due to COVID, the objects I see every day and would normally dismiss, now shine through my ordinary perceptions and become extraordinary. The shadows are seen in a new way and are a doorway to an awakening of the senses that widens my world.
I view myself as an alchemist, using digital, alternative process, and traditional photographic tools to delve into fundamental human issues. My images are literary and emotional, full of symbolism and multiple layers of meaning.
My work appears in many publications including #ICP CONCERNED: Global Images for Global Crisis published by the International Center Of Photography, DIFFUSION X photography journal, OneTwelve publishers, the APERTURE monograph METAMORPHOSES: PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE ELECTRONIC AGE, and WOMEN, ART, AND TECHNOLOGY published by MIT press."
CV
Extensive CV available for download as a PDF at https://www.dropbox.com/s/2qzqmlvgy8jt9mo/Diane_Fenster_CV_2021.pdf?dl=0
Recent Career Highlights
2021 Honorable Mention for COVID-19.23 from my series A Long History Of Dark Sleep in The Awakening exhibit, LightBox Photographic Gallery, Astoria, OR.
Juror Douglas Beasley, owner and publisher of SHOTS Magazine
2021 Honorable Mentions in the Portrait/Self-Portrait and Women Seen By Women categories
JULIA MARGARET CAMERON AWARDS 16th edition.
2021 ALLABOUTPHOTO.COM Merit Award for the Portrait Competition.
2021 Honorable Mention in the Fine Art Portrait category of the Moscow International Foto Awards (MIFA)
for my series ALL THESE FACES HAVE THEIR MOMENTS.
2021 Shortlist for the Conceptual Category, KOLGA TBILISI PHOTO Award for my series A Long History of Dark Sleep.
2021 Silver Award in the People/Self Portrait category of the Tokyo International Foto Awards (TIFA)
for A Long History Of Dark Sleep.
2020 Gold Award in the People-Self Portrait category and a SILVER Award in the Fine Art Portrait category
(Non-Professional) of the Budapest International Foto Awards (BIFA) 2020 for selections from A Long History Of Dark Sleep.
2020 Gold Award, Bay Area Month of Photography for Covid-19.06 from my series A Long History Of Dark Sleep."
www.lensculture.com/diane-fenster
https://www.instagram.com/dianefenster
All images are for sale as a limited edition of 5 plus 1AP each
unframed 14"H x 11” W
signed on verso
Archival pigment print on archival paper
$500 unframed
Contact: Diane Fenster
diane@dianefenster.com
(1) : a usually sudden manifestation or perception of the essential nature or meaning of something.
(2) : an intuitive grasp of reality through something (such as an event) usually simple and striking.
(3) : an illuminating discovery, realization, or disclosure.
---Definition of Epiphany from the Merriam-Webster dictionary
This series stems from an epiphany received while viewing the shadow of an “insignificant weed" through a skylight in our home. As self-isolation lumbers on due to COVID, the objects I see every day and would normally dismiss, now shine through my ordinary perceptions and become extraordinary. The shadows are seen in a new way and are a doorway to an awakening of the senses that widens my world.
I view myself as an alchemist, using digital, alternative process, and traditional photographic tools to delve into fundamental human issues. My images are literary and emotional, full of symbolism and multiple layers of meaning.
My work appears in many publications including #ICP CONCERNED: Global Images for Global Crisis published by the International Center Of Photography, DIFFUSION X photography journal, OneTwelve publishers, the APERTURE monograph METAMORPHOSES: PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE ELECTRONIC AGE, and WOMEN, ART, AND TECHNOLOGY published by MIT press."
CV
Extensive CV available for download as a PDF at https://www.dropbox.com/s/2qzqmlvgy8jt9mo/Diane_Fenster_CV_2021.pdf?dl=0
Recent Career Highlights
2021 Honorable Mention for COVID-19.23 from my series A Long History Of Dark Sleep in The Awakening exhibit, LightBox Photographic Gallery, Astoria, OR.
Juror Douglas Beasley, owner and publisher of SHOTS Magazine
2021 Honorable Mentions in the Portrait/Self-Portrait and Women Seen By Women categories
JULIA MARGARET CAMERON AWARDS 16th edition.
2021 ALLABOUTPHOTO.COM Merit Award for the Portrait Competition.
2021 Honorable Mention in the Fine Art Portrait category of the Moscow International Foto Awards (MIFA)
for my series ALL THESE FACES HAVE THEIR MOMENTS.
2021 Shortlist for the Conceptual Category, KOLGA TBILISI PHOTO Award for my series A Long History of Dark Sleep.
2021 Silver Award in the People/Self Portrait category of the Tokyo International Foto Awards (TIFA)
for A Long History Of Dark Sleep.
2020 Gold Award in the People-Self Portrait category and a SILVER Award in the Fine Art Portrait category
(Non-Professional) of the Budapest International Foto Awards (BIFA) 2020 for selections from A Long History Of Dark Sleep.
2020 Gold Award, Bay Area Month of Photography for Covid-19.06 from my series A Long History Of Dark Sleep."
www.lensculture.com/diane-fenster
https://www.instagram.com/dianefenster
All images are for sale as a limited edition of 5 plus 1AP each
unframed 14"H x 11” W
signed on verso
Archival pigment print on archival paper
$500 unframed
Contact: Diane Fenster
diane@dianefenster.com
HYPOTHETICAL LANDSCAPES 1 by Donna Bassin
HYPOTHETICAL LANDSCAPES 2 by Donna Bassin
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HYPOTHETICAL LANDSCAPES 21 by Donna Bassin
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Donna Bassin says, "Hypothetical Landscapes consists of a series of constructed fictive landscape portraits, reflecting my artistic reaction to the environmental crisis.
Many photographers since the 1970s have raised our consciousness by capturing the environment’s destruction by careless human involvement. The significance and visual impact of these influential records of our actions is undeniable.
My response to this ongoing issue is focused on efforts to care for our shared Earth through an artistic call for collective mobilization and communal stewardship. I am transforming real landscapes into fictional portraits of our shared world freed from narratives of place, becoming borderless, and transcending specific sites to suggest our interconnectedness and global interdependence. In part, this is a utopian vision, but the possibility of care and renewal of our planet is dependent on our relations with others.
In this series, photographs are constructed by combining and overlaying landscapes and elements from different environments. And, although grounded in the material reality of specific locations, ultimately, they aren’t about one particular place.
I rely on strategies of composition, color, and texture to suggest a fictive visual unification. Part of the landscape is printed on photo-sensitive rice paper and overlayed onto another photograph, attaching the two with Japanese Washi tape or antiquated photo corners. In some of the pictures, elements from one landscape are visibly ripped from their landscape of origin and then mended together with the tape.
These torn pieces of our natural world are fragilely held together to stop them from getting lost and engage the viewer with visceral materiality. The use of the photo corners with their associations to scrapbooks and souvenirs of past experiences suggests a warning that our unspoiled natural environments might become imaginary and nostalgic without collaborative care. That is, a wake-up call challenging our belief in the “going on being” of nature."
Donna Bassin, Ph.D., is an award-winning photographer, artist, author, professor, and filmmaker.
Influenced by her work as a clinical psychologist and her experiences working with war veterans and at Ground Zero, Donna uses art to explore the creative edge of collective loss, grief, mourning, and transformation.
She is known for her documentaries, Leave No Soldier and The Mourning After, and her series The Afterlife of Dolls – an exhibition that was featured on PBS' State of the Arts and received a Golden Bell and Gradiva Award. She was selected as a recipient for the 2021 New Jersey Council on the Arts Fellowship in Photography.
Her work has been shown in numerous group exhibitions stretching from New York City to Los Angeles. Her photographs have also been commissioned for book covers and private collections.
Donna has contributed portraits from her series, My Own Witness, to Smack Mellon Gallery for their exhibition of Bound Up Together: On the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment, and to the Her Flag project (www.herflag.com), where she created the stripe for New Jersey, which was displayed at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. on Flag Day of 2021.
Donna's current projects, My Own Witness: Rupture and Repair and Precious Scars, explore the human desire for reconciliation in the wake of social fractures. The former was recently featured in the Newark Museum for the 2021 New Jersey Arts Annual: ReVision and Respond as well as a solo exhibition at the Soho Photo Gallery in New York City.
By Our Own Hand, an installation designed by Donna in collaboration with Frontline Arts, will be shown at the Montclair Art Museum in September 2021. Inspired by Tibetan prayer flags, it will consist of handmade paper made from military uniforms to serve as a reflective space.
Career Highlights:
Education
B.A. Sociology, University of Michigan, 1971
M.P.S. Art Therapy and Creativity Development, Pratt Institute, 1978
Ph.D. Clinical Psychology, 1983. Union Graduate School and S.U.N.Y / Downstate Medical Center
Psychoanalytic Certificate, 1988. Institute of Psychoanalytic Training and Research
International Center of Photography
Current Professional Affiliations:
Assistant Clinical Professor, New York University, Post-Doctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
Faculty, Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies, New York, N.Y.
Co-founder and Member of the Board, Frontline Arts, New Jersey
Member of the American Psychological Association, Division 39 Section 9
Solo Exhibitions:
2021
My Own Witness: Rupture and Repair, Soho Photo Gallery, New York, NY
2004
Playing Around, Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ
Memories: Ascending/Descending, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
2003
The Afterlife of Dolls, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
Installations:
2021
By Our Own Hand: Frontline Arts in Collaboration with Donna Bassin, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ; September 2021 – August 2022
Her Flag, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
2020
Prayers for the Pandemic; Prayers for Progress; Prayers the Planet; Prayers for the Presidency!, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ
Bound Up Together: On the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
Art4Equality x Life, Liberty, & The Pursuit of Happiness, SaveArtSpace/Art4Equality; Billboard at McGuinness Blvd and Calyer St, Brooklyn, NY
Art Off-Screen, Neumeraki – curated by Eileen Jeng Lynch, D*FIT Studio, Montclair, NJ
2016
Cherry Blossoms in Winter, Rutgers – Newark, Branch Brook Park, Newark, NJ
Awards and Grants:
2021
New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation – Individual Artist Fellowship in Photography
2020
First Place – Los Angeles Center of Photography’s 5th annual juried exhibition: Exploring Humanity
Curator’s Choice – ProArts Jersey City
2018
Honorable Mention for Segregation and Human Rights in the 12th Julia Margaret Cameron Award, Photography Gala Awards
2017
NAAP Gradiva Award for “The Mourning After”
2014
Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing, Video Grant for “The Mourning After”
2008
Leave No Soldier, Director/Producer. Documentary. Official Selection of the Rhode Island International Film Festival, The Big Muddy, New Filmmakers Festival, Best Director at the First Glance Film Festival and Merit award at the Accolade Film Festival
2007
The American Psychological Association, Division 39 Section IX Achievement Award
Group Exhibitions:
2021
Transformed: Objects Reimagined by American Artists, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
New Jersey Arts Annual: ReVision and Respond, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
The Empowering, Pro Arts Jersey City, Jersey City, NJ
Privilege, Power and Everyday Life, Studio Montclair, Montclair, NJ
2020
For Which It Stands, Ford Foundation Gallery and Assembly Room, New York, NY
Exploring Humanity, 5th Annual Fine Art Exhibition, Los Angeles Center of Photography, Los Angeles, CA
Artists for Social Justice, Kupferberg Center for the Arts at Queens College, New York, NY
Artists for Social Justice, Arc Gallery & Educational Foundation, Chicago, IL
Portrait 2020, SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC
Art4Equality x Life, Liberty, & The Pursuit of Happiness, SaveArtSpace/Art4Equality; The Untitled Space, New York, NY
Her Flag, Old Barracks Museum, Trenton, NJ
2019
Little by Little, Art Intersection, Gilbert, AZ
State of the Art 2019, Studio Montclair, Montclair, NJ
Contemporary Portraiture: To See Each Other, Passaic County Arts Center, Hawthorne, NJ
ViewPoints 2019, Studio Montclair, Montclair, NJ
2018
Armistice Day 2018, Puffin Cultural Forum – Frontline Arts, Teaneck, NJ
Call & Response: The Art of Listening, 1978 Maplewood Arts Center, Maplewood, NJ
Natural Encounters, N.Y. Photo Curator – Global Photography Awards
Viewpoints 2018, Studio Montclair, Montclair, NJ
www.donnabassin.com
Many photographers since the 1970s have raised our consciousness by capturing the environment’s destruction by careless human involvement. The significance and visual impact of these influential records of our actions is undeniable.
My response to this ongoing issue is focused on efforts to care for our shared Earth through an artistic call for collective mobilization and communal stewardship. I am transforming real landscapes into fictional portraits of our shared world freed from narratives of place, becoming borderless, and transcending specific sites to suggest our interconnectedness and global interdependence. In part, this is a utopian vision, but the possibility of care and renewal of our planet is dependent on our relations with others.
In this series, photographs are constructed by combining and overlaying landscapes and elements from different environments. And, although grounded in the material reality of specific locations, ultimately, they aren’t about one particular place.
I rely on strategies of composition, color, and texture to suggest a fictive visual unification. Part of the landscape is printed on photo-sensitive rice paper and overlayed onto another photograph, attaching the two with Japanese Washi tape or antiquated photo corners. In some of the pictures, elements from one landscape are visibly ripped from their landscape of origin and then mended together with the tape.
These torn pieces of our natural world are fragilely held together to stop them from getting lost and engage the viewer with visceral materiality. The use of the photo corners with their associations to scrapbooks and souvenirs of past experiences suggests a warning that our unspoiled natural environments might become imaginary and nostalgic without collaborative care. That is, a wake-up call challenging our belief in the “going on being” of nature."
Donna Bassin, Ph.D., is an award-winning photographer, artist, author, professor, and filmmaker.
Influenced by her work as a clinical psychologist and her experiences working with war veterans and at Ground Zero, Donna uses art to explore the creative edge of collective loss, grief, mourning, and transformation.
She is known for her documentaries, Leave No Soldier and The Mourning After, and her series The Afterlife of Dolls – an exhibition that was featured on PBS' State of the Arts and received a Golden Bell and Gradiva Award. She was selected as a recipient for the 2021 New Jersey Council on the Arts Fellowship in Photography.
Her work has been shown in numerous group exhibitions stretching from New York City to Los Angeles. Her photographs have also been commissioned for book covers and private collections.
Donna has contributed portraits from her series, My Own Witness, to Smack Mellon Gallery for their exhibition of Bound Up Together: On the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment, and to the Her Flag project (www.herflag.com), where she created the stripe for New Jersey, which was displayed at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. on Flag Day of 2021.
Donna's current projects, My Own Witness: Rupture and Repair and Precious Scars, explore the human desire for reconciliation in the wake of social fractures. The former was recently featured in the Newark Museum for the 2021 New Jersey Arts Annual: ReVision and Respond as well as a solo exhibition at the Soho Photo Gallery in New York City.
By Our Own Hand, an installation designed by Donna in collaboration with Frontline Arts, will be shown at the Montclair Art Museum in September 2021. Inspired by Tibetan prayer flags, it will consist of handmade paper made from military uniforms to serve as a reflective space.
Career Highlights:
Education
B.A. Sociology, University of Michigan, 1971
M.P.S. Art Therapy and Creativity Development, Pratt Institute, 1978
Ph.D. Clinical Psychology, 1983. Union Graduate School and S.U.N.Y / Downstate Medical Center
Psychoanalytic Certificate, 1988. Institute of Psychoanalytic Training and Research
International Center of Photography
Current Professional Affiliations:
Assistant Clinical Professor, New York University, Post-Doctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
Faculty, Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies, New York, N.Y.
Co-founder and Member of the Board, Frontline Arts, New Jersey
Member of the American Psychological Association, Division 39 Section 9
Solo Exhibitions:
2021
My Own Witness: Rupture and Repair, Soho Photo Gallery, New York, NY
2004
Playing Around, Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ
Memories: Ascending/Descending, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
2003
The Afterlife of Dolls, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
Installations:
2021
By Our Own Hand: Frontline Arts in Collaboration with Donna Bassin, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ; September 2021 – August 2022
Her Flag, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
2020
Prayers for the Pandemic; Prayers for Progress; Prayers the Planet; Prayers for the Presidency!, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ
Bound Up Together: On the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
Art4Equality x Life, Liberty, & The Pursuit of Happiness, SaveArtSpace/Art4Equality; Billboard at McGuinness Blvd and Calyer St, Brooklyn, NY
Art Off-Screen, Neumeraki – curated by Eileen Jeng Lynch, D*FIT Studio, Montclair, NJ
2016
Cherry Blossoms in Winter, Rutgers – Newark, Branch Brook Park, Newark, NJ
Awards and Grants:
2021
New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation – Individual Artist Fellowship in Photography
2020
First Place – Los Angeles Center of Photography’s 5th annual juried exhibition: Exploring Humanity
Curator’s Choice – ProArts Jersey City
2018
Honorable Mention for Segregation and Human Rights in the 12th Julia Margaret Cameron Award, Photography Gala Awards
2017
NAAP Gradiva Award for “The Mourning After”
2014
Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing, Video Grant for “The Mourning After”
2008
Leave No Soldier, Director/Producer. Documentary. Official Selection of the Rhode Island International Film Festival, The Big Muddy, New Filmmakers Festival, Best Director at the First Glance Film Festival and Merit award at the Accolade Film Festival
2007
The American Psychological Association, Division 39 Section IX Achievement Award
Group Exhibitions:
2021
Transformed: Objects Reimagined by American Artists, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
New Jersey Arts Annual: ReVision and Respond, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
The Empowering, Pro Arts Jersey City, Jersey City, NJ
Privilege, Power and Everyday Life, Studio Montclair, Montclair, NJ
2020
For Which It Stands, Ford Foundation Gallery and Assembly Room, New York, NY
Exploring Humanity, 5th Annual Fine Art Exhibition, Los Angeles Center of Photography, Los Angeles, CA
Artists for Social Justice, Kupferberg Center for the Arts at Queens College, New York, NY
Artists for Social Justice, Arc Gallery & Educational Foundation, Chicago, IL
Portrait 2020, SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC
Art4Equality x Life, Liberty, & The Pursuit of Happiness, SaveArtSpace/Art4Equality; The Untitled Space, New York, NY
Her Flag, Old Barracks Museum, Trenton, NJ
2019
Little by Little, Art Intersection, Gilbert, AZ
State of the Art 2019, Studio Montclair, Montclair, NJ
Contemporary Portraiture: To See Each Other, Passaic County Arts Center, Hawthorne, NJ
ViewPoints 2019, Studio Montclair, Montclair, NJ
2018
Armistice Day 2018, Puffin Cultural Forum – Frontline Arts, Teaneck, NJ
Call & Response: The Art of Listening, 1978 Maplewood Arts Center, Maplewood, NJ
Natural Encounters, N.Y. Photo Curator – Global Photography Awards
Viewpoints 2018, Studio Montclair, Montclair, NJ
www.donnabassin.com
HYPOTHETICAL LANDSCAPES 23 by Donna Bassin
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HYPOTHETICAL LANDSCAPES 24 by Donna Bassin
CURATOR TOP THREE
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CURATOR TOP THREE
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HYPOTHETICAL LANDSCAPES 6 by Donna Bassin
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Donna Bassin says, "Hypothetical Landscapes consists of a series of constructed fictive landscape portraits, reflecting my artistic reaction to the environmental crisis.
Many photographers since the 1970s have raised our consciousness by capturing the environment’s destruction by careless human involvement. The significance and visual impact of these influential records of our actions is undeniable.
My response to this ongoing issue is focused on efforts to care for our shared Earth through an artistic call for collective mobilization and communal stewardship. I am transforming real landscapes into fictional portraits of our shared world freed from narratives of place, becoming borderless, and transcending specific sites to suggest our interconnectedness and global interdependence. In part, this is a utopian vision, but the possibility of care and renewal of our planet is dependent on our relations with others.
In this series, photographs are constructed by combining and overlaying landscapes and elements from different environments. And, although grounded in the material reality of specific locations, ultimately, they aren’t about one particular place.
I rely on strategies of composition, color, and texture to suggest a fictive visual unification. Part of the landscape is printed on photo-sensitive rice paper and overlayed onto another photograph, attaching the two with Japanese Washi tape or antiquated photo corners. In some of the pictures, elements from one landscape are visibly ripped from their landscape of origin and then mended together with the tape.
These torn pieces of our natural world are fragilely held together to stop them from getting lost and engage the viewer with visceral materiality. The use of the photo corners with their associations to scrapbooks and souvenirs of past experiences suggests a warning that our unspoiled natural environments might become imaginary and nostalgic without collaborative care. That is, a wake-up call challenging our belief in the “going on being” of nature."
Donna Bassin, Ph.D., is an award-winning photographer, artist, author, professor, and filmmaker.
Influenced by her work as a clinical psychologist and her experiences working with war veterans and at Ground Zero, Donna uses art to explore the creative edge of collective loss, grief, mourning, and transformation.
She is known for her documentaries, Leave No Soldier and The Mourning After, and her series The Afterlife of Dolls – an exhibition that was featured on PBS' State of the Arts and received a Golden Bell and Gradiva Award. She was selected as a recipient for the 2021 New Jersey Council on the Arts Fellowship in Photography.
Her work has been shown in numerous group exhibitions stretching from New York City to Los Angeles. Her photographs have also been commissioned for book covers and private collections.
Donna has contributed portraits from her series, My Own Witness, to Smack Mellon Gallery for their exhibition of Bound Up Together: On the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment, and to the Her Flag project (www.herflag.com), where she created the stripe for New Jersey, which was displayed at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. on Flag Day of 2021.
Donna's current projects, My Own Witness: Rupture and Repair and Precious Scars, explore the human desire for reconciliation in the wake of social fractures. The former was recently featured in the Newark Museum for the 2021 New Jersey Arts Annual: ReVision and Respond as well as a solo exhibition at the Soho Photo Gallery in New York City.
By Our Own Hand, an installation designed by Donna in collaboration with Frontline Arts, will be shown at the Montclair Art Museum in September 2021. Inspired by Tibetan prayer flags, it will consist of handmade paper made from military uniforms to serve as a reflective space.
Career Highlights:
Education
B.A. Sociology, University of Michigan, 1971
M.P.S. Art Therapy and Creativity Development, Pratt Institute, 1978
Ph.D. Clinical Psychology, 1983. Union Graduate School and S.U.N.Y / Downstate Medical Center
Psychoanalytic Certificate, 1988. Institute of Psychoanalytic Training and Research
International Center of Photography
Current Professional Affiliations:
Assistant Clinical Professor, New York University, Post-Doctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
Faculty, Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies, New York, N.Y.
Co-founder and Member of the Board, Frontline Arts, New Jersey
Member of the American Psychological Association, Division 39 Section 9
Solo Exhibitions:
2021
My Own Witness: Rupture and Repair, Soho Photo Gallery, New York, NY
2004
Playing Around, Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ
Memories: Ascending/Descending, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
2003
The Afterlife of Dolls, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
Installations:
2021
By Our Own Hand: Frontline Arts in Collaboration with Donna Bassin, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ; September 2021 – August 2022
Her Flag, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
2020
Prayers for the Pandemic; Prayers for Progress; Prayers the Planet; Prayers for the Presidency!, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ
Bound Up Together: On the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
Art4Equality x Life, Liberty, & The Pursuit of Happiness, SaveArtSpace/Art4Equality; Billboard at McGuinness Blvd and Calyer St, Brooklyn, NY
Art Off-Screen, Neumeraki – curated by Eileen Jeng Lynch, D*FIT Studio, Montclair, NJ
2016
Cherry Blossoms in Winter, Rutgers – Newark, Branch Brook Park, Newark, NJ
Awards and Grants:
2021
New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation – Individual Artist Fellowship in Photography
2020
First Place – Los Angeles Center of Photography’s 5th annual juried exhibition: Exploring Humanity
Curator’s Choice – ProArts Jersey City
2018
Honorable Mention for Segregation and Human Rights in the 12th Julia Margaret Cameron Award, Photography Gala Awards
2017
NAAP Gradiva Award for “The Mourning After”
2014
Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing, Video Grant for “The Mourning After”
2008
Leave No Soldier, Director/Producer. Documentary. Official Selection of the Rhode Island International Film Festival, The Big Muddy, New Filmmakers Festival, Best Director at the First Glance Film Festival and Merit award at the Accolade Film Festival
2007
The American Psychological Association, Division 39 Section IX Achievement Award
Group Exhibitions:
2021
Transformed: Objects Reimagined by American Artists, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
New Jersey Arts Annual: ReVision and Respond, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
The Empowering, Pro Arts Jersey City, Jersey City, NJ
Privilege, Power and Everyday Life, Studio Montclair, Montclair, NJ
2020
For Which It Stands, Ford Foundation Gallery and Assembly Room, New York, NY
Exploring Humanity, 5th Annual Fine Art Exhibition, Los Angeles Center of Photography, Los Angeles, CA
Artists for Social Justice, Kupferberg Center for the Arts at Queens College, New York, NY
Artists for Social Justice, Arc Gallery & Educational Foundation, Chicago, IL
Portrait 2020, SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC
Art4Equality x Life, Liberty, & The Pursuit of Happiness, SaveArtSpace/Art4Equality; The Untitled Space, New York, NY
Her Flag, Old Barracks Museum, Trenton, NJ
2019
Little by Little, Art Intersection, Gilbert, AZ
State of the Art 2019, Studio Montclair, Montclair, NJ
Contemporary Portraiture: To See Each Other, Passaic County Arts Center, Hawthorne, NJ
ViewPoints 2019, Studio Montclair, Montclair, NJ
2018
Armistice Day 2018, Puffin Cultural Forum – Frontline Arts, Teaneck, NJ
Call & Response: The Art of Listening, 1978 Maplewood Arts Center, Maplewood, NJ
Natural Encounters, N.Y. Photo Curator – Global Photography Awards
Viewpoints 2018, Studio Montclair, Montclair, NJ
www.donnabassin.com
Many photographers since the 1970s have raised our consciousness by capturing the environment’s destruction by careless human involvement. The significance and visual impact of these influential records of our actions is undeniable.
My response to this ongoing issue is focused on efforts to care for our shared Earth through an artistic call for collective mobilization and communal stewardship. I am transforming real landscapes into fictional portraits of our shared world freed from narratives of place, becoming borderless, and transcending specific sites to suggest our interconnectedness and global interdependence. In part, this is a utopian vision, but the possibility of care and renewal of our planet is dependent on our relations with others.
In this series, photographs are constructed by combining and overlaying landscapes and elements from different environments. And, although grounded in the material reality of specific locations, ultimately, they aren’t about one particular place.
I rely on strategies of composition, color, and texture to suggest a fictive visual unification. Part of the landscape is printed on photo-sensitive rice paper and overlayed onto another photograph, attaching the two with Japanese Washi tape or antiquated photo corners. In some of the pictures, elements from one landscape are visibly ripped from their landscape of origin and then mended together with the tape.
These torn pieces of our natural world are fragilely held together to stop them from getting lost and engage the viewer with visceral materiality. The use of the photo corners with their associations to scrapbooks and souvenirs of past experiences suggests a warning that our unspoiled natural environments might become imaginary and nostalgic without collaborative care. That is, a wake-up call challenging our belief in the “going on being” of nature."
Donna Bassin, Ph.D., is an award-winning photographer, artist, author, professor, and filmmaker.
Influenced by her work as a clinical psychologist and her experiences working with war veterans and at Ground Zero, Donna uses art to explore the creative edge of collective loss, grief, mourning, and transformation.
She is known for her documentaries, Leave No Soldier and The Mourning After, and her series The Afterlife of Dolls – an exhibition that was featured on PBS' State of the Arts and received a Golden Bell and Gradiva Award. She was selected as a recipient for the 2021 New Jersey Council on the Arts Fellowship in Photography.
Her work has been shown in numerous group exhibitions stretching from New York City to Los Angeles. Her photographs have also been commissioned for book covers and private collections.
Donna has contributed portraits from her series, My Own Witness, to Smack Mellon Gallery for their exhibition of Bound Up Together: On the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment, and to the Her Flag project (www.herflag.com), where she created the stripe for New Jersey, which was displayed at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. on Flag Day of 2021.
Donna's current projects, My Own Witness: Rupture and Repair and Precious Scars, explore the human desire for reconciliation in the wake of social fractures. The former was recently featured in the Newark Museum for the 2021 New Jersey Arts Annual: ReVision and Respond as well as a solo exhibition at the Soho Photo Gallery in New York City.
By Our Own Hand, an installation designed by Donna in collaboration with Frontline Arts, will be shown at the Montclair Art Museum in September 2021. Inspired by Tibetan prayer flags, it will consist of handmade paper made from military uniforms to serve as a reflective space.
Career Highlights:
Education
B.A. Sociology, University of Michigan, 1971
M.P.S. Art Therapy and Creativity Development, Pratt Institute, 1978
Ph.D. Clinical Psychology, 1983. Union Graduate School and S.U.N.Y / Downstate Medical Center
Psychoanalytic Certificate, 1988. Institute of Psychoanalytic Training and Research
International Center of Photography
Current Professional Affiliations:
Assistant Clinical Professor, New York University, Post-Doctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
Faculty, Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies, New York, N.Y.
Co-founder and Member of the Board, Frontline Arts, New Jersey
Member of the American Psychological Association, Division 39 Section 9
Solo Exhibitions:
2021
My Own Witness: Rupture and Repair, Soho Photo Gallery, New York, NY
2004
Playing Around, Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ
Memories: Ascending/Descending, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
2003
The Afterlife of Dolls, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
Installations:
2021
By Our Own Hand: Frontline Arts in Collaboration with Donna Bassin, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ; September 2021 – August 2022
Her Flag, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
2020
Prayers for the Pandemic; Prayers for Progress; Prayers the Planet; Prayers for the Presidency!, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ
Bound Up Together: On the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
Art4Equality x Life, Liberty, & The Pursuit of Happiness, SaveArtSpace/Art4Equality; Billboard at McGuinness Blvd and Calyer St, Brooklyn, NY
Art Off-Screen, Neumeraki – curated by Eileen Jeng Lynch, D*FIT Studio, Montclair, NJ
2016
Cherry Blossoms in Winter, Rutgers – Newark, Branch Brook Park, Newark, NJ
Awards and Grants:
2021
New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation – Individual Artist Fellowship in Photography
2020
First Place – Los Angeles Center of Photography’s 5th annual juried exhibition: Exploring Humanity
Curator’s Choice – ProArts Jersey City
2018
Honorable Mention for Segregation and Human Rights in the 12th Julia Margaret Cameron Award, Photography Gala Awards
2017
NAAP Gradiva Award for “The Mourning After”
2014
Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing, Video Grant for “The Mourning After”
2008
Leave No Soldier, Director/Producer. Documentary. Official Selection of the Rhode Island International Film Festival, The Big Muddy, New Filmmakers Festival, Best Director at the First Glance Film Festival and Merit award at the Accolade Film Festival
2007
The American Psychological Association, Division 39 Section IX Achievement Award
Group Exhibitions:
2021
Transformed: Objects Reimagined by American Artists, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
New Jersey Arts Annual: ReVision and Respond, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
The Empowering, Pro Arts Jersey City, Jersey City, NJ
Privilege, Power and Everyday Life, Studio Montclair, Montclair, NJ
2020
For Which It Stands, Ford Foundation Gallery and Assembly Room, New York, NY
Exploring Humanity, 5th Annual Fine Art Exhibition, Los Angeles Center of Photography, Los Angeles, CA
Artists for Social Justice, Kupferberg Center for the Arts at Queens College, New York, NY
Artists for Social Justice, Arc Gallery & Educational Foundation, Chicago, IL
Portrait 2020, SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC
Art4Equality x Life, Liberty, & The Pursuit of Happiness, SaveArtSpace/Art4Equality; The Untitled Space, New York, NY
Her Flag, Old Barracks Museum, Trenton, NJ
2019
Little by Little, Art Intersection, Gilbert, AZ
State of the Art 2019, Studio Montclair, Montclair, NJ
Contemporary Portraiture: To See Each Other, Passaic County Arts Center, Hawthorne, NJ
ViewPoints 2019, Studio Montclair, Montclair, NJ
2018
Armistice Day 2018, Puffin Cultural Forum – Frontline Arts, Teaneck, NJ
Call & Response: The Art of Listening, 1978 Maplewood Arts Center, Maplewood, NJ
Natural Encounters, N.Y. Photo Curator – Global Photography Awards
Viewpoints 2018, Studio Montclair, Montclair, NJ
www.donnabassin.com
HIDING V by Ellen Friedlander
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IT'S IMPORTANT TO BELIEVE by Ellen Friedlander
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TOGETHER by Ellen Friedlander
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Ellen Friedlander says, "In the often chaotic and overwhelming pace of life, I use my camera to create a visual diary of the places and experiences that I see before me. My process is one of simultaneous observation and reflection, and also integrated with elements of disruption. Ultimately, my style is fueled by curiosity and a commitment to a multiple point of view: I am drawn to the street, landscape, documentary photography and portraiture."
Ellen Friedlander is a Los Angeles-based fine art and documentary artist who uses a variety of in-camera and post processing techniques to reveal the unpredictable, idiosyncratic, inscrutable nature of the human condition.
Friedlander has exhibited her work internationally, including Hong Kong, London, Poland, Budapest, New York and Los Angeles.
She has been featured in Lenscratch, The Hand Magazine, and on The Candid Frame podcast, Episode #499. Friedlander was a Winter 2019 Focus PhotoLA Top 20 and her piece titled Hiding IV was the winner and cover photograph for APA-LA OFF THE CLOCK 2020.
During March-April, 2021, three of Friedlander’s photographs from her Betrayal: Shattered In A Moment series were in a group show at Austin Desmond Fine Art in London, as well as having her first solo show at The Photographer's Eye Gallery in Escondido, CA in which she exhibited her Extended Frame body of work.
https://www.ellenfriedlanderphotography.com/
Instagram @emfphoto59
http://www.ellenfriedlanderphotography.com
Instagram
https://www.ibarionex.net/thecandidframe/2020/1/20/the-candid-frame-499-ellen-friedlander
https://www.artsy.net/partner/the-contemporary-art-modern-project/artists/ellen-friedlander
Ellen Friedlander is a Los Angeles-based fine art and documentary artist who uses a variety of in-camera and post processing techniques to reveal the unpredictable, idiosyncratic, inscrutable nature of the human condition.
Friedlander has exhibited her work internationally, including Hong Kong, London, Poland, Budapest, New York and Los Angeles.
She has been featured in Lenscratch, The Hand Magazine, and on The Candid Frame podcast, Episode #499. Friedlander was a Winter 2019 Focus PhotoLA Top 20 and her piece titled Hiding IV was the winner and cover photograph for APA-LA OFF THE CLOCK 2020.
During March-April, 2021, three of Friedlander’s photographs from her Betrayal: Shattered In A Moment series were in a group show at Austin Desmond Fine Art in London, as well as having her first solo show at The Photographer's Eye Gallery in Escondido, CA in which she exhibited her Extended Frame body of work.
https://www.ellenfriedlanderphotography.com/
Instagram @emfphoto59
http://www.ellenfriedlanderphotography.com
https://www.ibarionex.net/thecandidframe/2020/1/20/the-candid-frame-499-ellen-friedlander
https://www.artsy.net/partner/the-contemporary-art-modern-project/artists/ellen-friedlander
MYSOLATION-APRIL 25 by Eva Mueller
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MYSOLATION-MAY 09 by Eva Mueller
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MYSOLATION-MAY 14 by Eva Mueller
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Eva Mueller says of her series, "'MYSOLATION is a month-long series of self-portraits I took while isolating in my studio during the lockdown in spring 2020. I wanted to create a visual diary of this unique time of global loneliness and connect with the viewer through
MYSOLATION. We were in this
together and shared the same fears and felt the same isolation.
MYSOLATION became my therapy, it made me look at myself, see myself and pay attention to myself. MYSOLATION is about gaining a deeper self-awareness by becoming vulnerable, becoming my own best friend, facing my fears and inner contradictions, expressing my emotions and fantasies, and radically accepting myself. The experience gave me a fresh perspective on my path ahead and re-evaluating my priorities."
Eva Mueller is a non-binary New York-based photographer and conceptual artist.
They studied graphic design in their native Germany and fashion and portrait photography at the International Center of Photography and Parsons School of Design in New York. After a career as a fashion and music photographer, Mueller shifted their focus to fine art and portraiture.
Most of Mueller's work takes a deeper look at our human existence's core constructs,
such as gender identity, race, and sexuality. Mueller tends to inject a fair amount of subtle wit into their stark, minimal compositions, which are strongly influenced by the German Bauhaus school. Being an active member of New York City's queer art and lifestyle community, many of their art projects revolve around the hidden and the unseen of those nonconforming
environments. Mueller challenges the viewer to reconsider their perspective and question their judgments. They work in photography, video, and installation.
Mueller's work has been exhibited internationally in museums and galleries.
They also received numerous photography awards and nominations.
Mueller currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Career Highlights
2017 GenderFuck
Portrait series of individuals outside the binary gender definition.
Leslie Lohman Museum Prince St Project Space, New York, NY
2018 Flowers & Chocolate
Lightbox installation about race, Black male sexuality and taboos
Art During the Occupation Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2019 Twisted Twins - XXY
Immersive Installation about gender, age and sexuality.
Satellite Art Fair NYC, Brooklyn NY
2020 MYSOLATION
Self-Portrait series created during lockdown
Gallery UNO Projektraum, Berlin, Germany
2021 SPERM.
Immersive installation, evoking the infamous and now historic SPERM party.
Art Club, Brooklyn, New York
IMAGES FOR SALE-
MYSOLATION-May09 - 11"H x 14" W
Archival pigment print
$500 unframed
Limited edition of 10
Signed on back
MYSOLATION-April25 - 11"H x 14" W
Archival pigment print
$500 unframed
Limited edition of 10
Signed on back
MYSOLATION-May14 - 11"H x 14" W
Archival pigment print
$500 unframed
Limited edition of 10
Signed on back
Contact: Eva Mueller
evamuellerart@gmail.com
www.evamueller-art.com
https://www.instagram.com/evamueller
MYSOLATION. We were in this
together and shared the same fears and felt the same isolation.
MYSOLATION became my therapy, it made me look at myself, see myself and pay attention to myself. MYSOLATION is about gaining a deeper self-awareness by becoming vulnerable, becoming my own best friend, facing my fears and inner contradictions, expressing my emotions and fantasies, and radically accepting myself. The experience gave me a fresh perspective on my path ahead and re-evaluating my priorities."
Eva Mueller is a non-binary New York-based photographer and conceptual artist.
They studied graphic design in their native Germany and fashion and portrait photography at the International Center of Photography and Parsons School of Design in New York. After a career as a fashion and music photographer, Mueller shifted their focus to fine art and portraiture.
Most of Mueller's work takes a deeper look at our human existence's core constructs,
such as gender identity, race, and sexuality. Mueller tends to inject a fair amount of subtle wit into their stark, minimal compositions, which are strongly influenced by the German Bauhaus school. Being an active member of New York City's queer art and lifestyle community, many of their art projects revolve around the hidden and the unseen of those nonconforming
environments. Mueller challenges the viewer to reconsider their perspective and question their judgments. They work in photography, video, and installation.
Mueller's work has been exhibited internationally in museums and galleries.
They also received numerous photography awards and nominations.
Mueller currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Career Highlights
2017 GenderFuck
Portrait series of individuals outside the binary gender definition.
Leslie Lohman Museum Prince St Project Space, New York, NY
2018 Flowers & Chocolate
Lightbox installation about race, Black male sexuality and taboos
Art During the Occupation Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2019 Twisted Twins - XXY
Immersive Installation about gender, age and sexuality.
Satellite Art Fair NYC, Brooklyn NY
2020 MYSOLATION
Self-Portrait series created during lockdown
Gallery UNO Projektraum, Berlin, Germany
2021 SPERM.
Immersive installation, evoking the infamous and now historic SPERM party.
Art Club, Brooklyn, New York
IMAGES FOR SALE-
MYSOLATION-May09 - 11"H x 14" W
Archival pigment print
$500 unframed
Limited edition of 10
Signed on back
MYSOLATION-April25 - 11"H x 14" W
Archival pigment print
$500 unframed
Limited edition of 10
Signed on back
MYSOLATION-May14 - 11"H x 14" W
Archival pigment print
$500 unframed
Limited edition of 10
Signed on back
Contact: Eva Mueller
evamuellerart@gmail.com
www.evamueller-art.com
https://www.instagram.com/evamueller
A KNOWING by Heather Williamson
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BOB by Heather Williamson
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LOVE by Heather Williamson
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Heather Williamson says, "My work allows me to feel something other than me yet empowers me, seeing all that is me in everything.
It delivers me from bondage, offering nothing. When I'm behind my work, no one knows the pain in my mind, but this pain gives way to understanding. When I no longer exist, I feel certain, completely grounded in who I am. This is the practice of myself—the process of standing. Not easy, but I do it anyway. I'm not entirely free now, and I wasn't before either. I don't pass myself off as holy because I know I'm not. I think in ways I'm not taught, and I'm here to find out what it is I'm here to learn. My actions are the result of something happening inside of me. Now forget everything I say. I’ll show you…"
Heather Williamson is a multifaceted artist based in the CA high desert whose practice includes, photography, filmmaking, writing, installation, music, and sound. Her work (and her) are known for provoking thought and feeling. Invoking harmony. She studies under Jokai Blackwell Sensei.
Career Highlights
SOUNDPEDRO EARMAGINATIONS 2021
SOUNDPEDRO VBODOBV | DEVOLUTION 2021
GIANT ROCK SOLO EXHIBITION 2020
BLACKHEART STUDIO GROUP EXHIBITION 2019
NOCTUA ISSUE XII 5.19LGBQT SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL OFFICIAL SELECTION 2019
THE LIFT-OFF SESSIONS OFFICIAL SELECTION 2019
www.goldsrite.com (all of me)
www.krop.com/aestheticthieves (only photos)
https://www.instagram.com/helloheat/
It delivers me from bondage, offering nothing. When I'm behind my work, no one knows the pain in my mind, but this pain gives way to understanding. When I no longer exist, I feel certain, completely grounded in who I am. This is the practice of myself—the process of standing. Not easy, but I do it anyway. I'm not entirely free now, and I wasn't before either. I don't pass myself off as holy because I know I'm not. I think in ways I'm not taught, and I'm here to find out what it is I'm here to learn. My actions are the result of something happening inside of me. Now forget everything I say. I’ll show you…"
Heather Williamson is a multifaceted artist based in the CA high desert whose practice includes, photography, filmmaking, writing, installation, music, and sound. Her work (and her) are known for provoking thought and feeling. Invoking harmony. She studies under Jokai Blackwell Sensei.
Career Highlights
SOUNDPEDRO EARMAGINATIONS 2021
SOUNDPEDRO VBODOBV | DEVOLUTION 2021
GIANT ROCK SOLO EXHIBITION 2020
BLACKHEART STUDIO GROUP EXHIBITION 2019
NOCTUA ISSUE XII 5.19LGBQT SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL OFFICIAL SELECTION 2019
THE LIFT-OFF SESSIONS OFFICIAL SELECTION 2019
www.goldsrite.com (all of me)
www.krop.com/aestheticthieves (only photos)
https://www.instagram.com/helloheat/
UNTITLED by Heather Williamson
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UNTITLED by Heather Williamson
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UNTITLED by Heather Williamson
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Heather Williamson says, "My work allows me to feel something other than me yet empowers me, seeing all that is me in everything.
It delivers me from bondage, offering nothing. When I'm behind my work, no one knows the pain in my mind, but this pain gives way to understanding. When I no longer exist, I feel certain, completely grounded in who I am. This is the practice of myself—the process of standing. Not easy, but I do it anyway. I'm not entirely free now, and I wasn't before either. I don't pass myself off as holy because I know I'm not. I think in ways I'm not taught, and I'm here to find out what it is I'm here to learn. My actions are the result of something happening inside of me. Now forget everything I say. I’ll show you…"
Heather Williamson is a multifaceted artist based in the CA high desert whose practice includes, photography, filmmaking, writing, installation, music, and sound. Her work (and her) are known for provoking thought and feeling. Invoking harmony. She studies under Jokai Blackwell Sensei.
Career Highlights
SOUNDPEDRO EARMAGINATIONS 2021
SOUNDPEDRO VBODOBV | DEVOLUTION 2021
GIANT ROCK SOLO EXHIBITION 2020
BLACKHEART STUDIO GROUP EXHIBITION 2019
NOCTUA ISSUE XII 5.19LGBQT SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL OFFICIAL SELECTION 2019
THE LIFT-OFF SESSIONS OFFICIAL SELECTION 2019
www.goldsrite.com (all of me)
www.krop.com/aestheticthieves (only photos)
https://www.instagram.com/helloheat/
It delivers me from bondage, offering nothing. When I'm behind my work, no one knows the pain in my mind, but this pain gives way to understanding. When I no longer exist, I feel certain, completely grounded in who I am. This is the practice of myself—the process of standing. Not easy, but I do it anyway. I'm not entirely free now, and I wasn't before either. I don't pass myself off as holy because I know I'm not. I think in ways I'm not taught, and I'm here to find out what it is I'm here to learn. My actions are the result of something happening inside of me. Now forget everything I say. I’ll show you…"
Heather Williamson is a multifaceted artist based in the CA high desert whose practice includes, photography, filmmaking, writing, installation, music, and sound. Her work (and her) are known for provoking thought and feeling. Invoking harmony. She studies under Jokai Blackwell Sensei.
Career Highlights
SOUNDPEDRO EARMAGINATIONS 2021
SOUNDPEDRO VBODOBV | DEVOLUTION 2021
GIANT ROCK SOLO EXHIBITION 2020
BLACKHEART STUDIO GROUP EXHIBITION 2019
NOCTUA ISSUE XII 5.19LGBQT SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL OFFICIAL SELECTION 2019
THE LIFT-OFF SESSIONS OFFICIAL SELECTION 2019
www.goldsrite.com (all of me)
www.krop.com/aestheticthieves (only photos)
https://www.instagram.com/helloheat/
BUSEY WOODS by Jeff Evans
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NO PARKING RESERVED PARKING by Jeff Evans
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WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS by Jeff Ends
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Jeff Evans says, "These are absurd, yet serious, times we live in. We’re recovering from a president who threw temper tantrums, “fake” news and politicians who enacted laws against science they didn’t like. Meanwhile, there’s millions of people unemployed, rising economic inequality, over 600,000 COVID19 deaths and intensified disasters due to climate change.
People try to go about their lives as if everything’s normal, but it’s not. I’ve been photographing everyday subjects that appear normal at first glance, but are out of the ordinary and absurd. They’re more relevant now than ever."
When Jeff Evans discovered that his job as a rocket scientist wasn’t as exciting as he thought it was going to be, he took some photography classes as a creative outlet. Soon he was going to galleries and museums and had collected 300 photo books to learn more. But the best way of learning he found was taking lots of pictures.
Career Highlights 2021:
“Around the Block III”, Giertz Gallery, Parkland College, Champaign, IL
“Ephemera: The Power of Impermanence”, Art Center of Highland Park, IL
“LENS 2021”, Perspective Gallery, Evanston, IL
Juror: J. Gibran Villalobos, Associate Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
2020:
“Spring Show 2020”, The Curated Fridge, Somerville, MA
IMAGES FOR SALE-
"Busey Woods", 11 x14" framed, $200, signed on back
"No Parking Reserved Parking", " 14" x 11" framed, $200, signed on back
"Where the Sidewalk Ends", 11" x14" framed, $200, signed on back
Contact:
Jeff Evans
jd_evans@att.net
http://www.jeffevansphoto.com
People try to go about their lives as if everything’s normal, but it’s not. I’ve been photographing everyday subjects that appear normal at first glance, but are out of the ordinary and absurd. They’re more relevant now than ever."
When Jeff Evans discovered that his job as a rocket scientist wasn’t as exciting as he thought it was going to be, he took some photography classes as a creative outlet. Soon he was going to galleries and museums and had collected 300 photo books to learn more. But the best way of learning he found was taking lots of pictures.
Career Highlights 2021:
“Around the Block III”, Giertz Gallery, Parkland College, Champaign, IL
“Ephemera: The Power of Impermanence”, Art Center of Highland Park, IL
“LENS 2021”, Perspective Gallery, Evanston, IL
Juror: J. Gibran Villalobos, Associate Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
2020:
“Spring Show 2020”, The Curated Fridge, Somerville, MA
IMAGES FOR SALE-
"Busey Woods", 11 x14" framed, $200, signed on back
"No Parking Reserved Parking", " 14" x 11" framed, $200, signed on back
"Where the Sidewalk Ends", 11" x14" framed, $200, signed on back
Contact:
Jeff Evans
jd_evans@att.net
http://www.jeffevansphoto.com
BAG DAD by Joyce P Lopez
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CLATTER OF MEMORIES COPY by Joyce P Lopez
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MAO GOES TO US by Joyce P Lopez
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Joyce P. Lopez says, "I am thinking about death. Recently, in one year my husband of 55 years, my youngest sister and my best friend all died. Tumultuous. But honestly, I am thinking about death on a larger scale. The death of species, the death of kindness, and civility,....the death of humankind, the death of the planet."
EXHIBITIONS--selections:
“Splash” exhibition, 2021, Griffin Museum, Boston, MA
15th Pollux Exhibition, 2021, Awards, Barcelona
PX3 de La Photographie Paris, 2020, Awards
PH21 Contemporary Photography Gallery, “Significant Color” 2020, Budapest
Fence 2020, the outside photo exhibition, 9th edition Regional Photographers Showcase, Sarasota, FL
Florida Museum of Photography, Award Winner, 2020, Tampa, FL
13th International Color Awards, 2020
IPA Awards 2020, One Shot, 2 Honorable Mentions
International Juried Photography Exhibition, “The Still Life,” Praxis Gallery, MN, 2020
14th Annual Black and White Spider Awards International, 2020
Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, 2020 Barcelona, Spain
17th International Photography Awards, 2 Awards, 2019, LA,CA.
12th International Color Awards, 5 Awards, 2019, LA, CA
The Center for Fine Art Photography, 2019, Center Forward, Fort Collins, CO
The Center for Fine Art Photography, 2019, Life of Water, Fort Collins, CO
TPS 28 The International Exhibition, 2019,Texas Photographic Society, TX
The Fence 2019, Sarasota, FL
Soho National Competition, 2019 , NYC
Pollux Awards 2019, 2020, Barcelona, Spain
Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, 2018 Barcelona, Spain
Griffin Museum, 24th Juried Exhibition 2018, Winchester, MA
Tokyo International Foto Awards, Bronze Award, 2018, Tokyo, Japan
Center for Fine Art Photography, Black/White Exhibition 2018, Fort Collins, CO
Soho National Competition, 2018, NYC
11th Anniversary Edition of the Julia Margaret Cameron Award 2018, Barcelona
SOHO Photo Gallery National Competition 2017, NYC
www.joyceplopez.com
https://www.instagram.com/joycep.lopez/
EXHIBITIONS--selections:
“Splash” exhibition, 2021, Griffin Museum, Boston, MA
15th Pollux Exhibition, 2021, Awards, Barcelona
PX3 de La Photographie Paris, 2020, Awards
PH21 Contemporary Photography Gallery, “Significant Color” 2020, Budapest
Fence 2020, the outside photo exhibition, 9th edition Regional Photographers Showcase, Sarasota, FL
Florida Museum of Photography, Award Winner, 2020, Tampa, FL
13th International Color Awards, 2020
IPA Awards 2020, One Shot, 2 Honorable Mentions
International Juried Photography Exhibition, “The Still Life,” Praxis Gallery, MN, 2020
14th Annual Black and White Spider Awards International, 2020
Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, 2020 Barcelona, Spain
17th International Photography Awards, 2 Awards, 2019, LA,CA.
12th International Color Awards, 5 Awards, 2019, LA, CA
The Center for Fine Art Photography, 2019, Center Forward, Fort Collins, CO
The Center for Fine Art Photography, 2019, Life of Water, Fort Collins, CO
TPS 28 The International Exhibition, 2019,Texas Photographic Society, TX
The Fence 2019, Sarasota, FL
Soho National Competition, 2019 , NYC
Pollux Awards 2019, 2020, Barcelona, Spain
Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, 2018 Barcelona, Spain
Griffin Museum, 24th Juried Exhibition 2018, Winchester, MA
Tokyo International Foto Awards, Bronze Award, 2018, Tokyo, Japan
Center for Fine Art Photography, Black/White Exhibition 2018, Fort Collins, CO
Soho National Competition, 2018, NYC
11th Anniversary Edition of the Julia Margaret Cameron Award 2018, Barcelona
SOHO Photo Gallery National Competition 2017, NYC
www.joyceplopez.com
https://www.instagram.com/joycep.lopez/
SUPERMAN by Joyce P Lopez
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TOMORROW by Joyce P Lopez
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TRACES by Joyce P Lopez
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Joyce P. Lopez says, "I am thinking about death. Recently, in one year my husband of 55 years, my youngest sister and my best friend all died. Tumultuous. But honestly, I am thinking about death on a larger scale. The death of species, the death of kindness, and civility,....the death of humankind, the death of the planet."
EXHIBITIONS--selections:
“Splash” exhibition, 2021, Griffin Museum, Boston, MA
15th Pollux Exhibition, 2021, Awards, Barcelona
PX3 de La Photographie Paris, 2020, Awards
PH21 Contemporary Photography Gallery, “Significant Color” 2020, Budapest
Fence 2020, the outside photo exhibition, 9th edition Regional Photographers Showcase, Sarasota, FL
Florida Museum of Photography, Award Winner, 2020, Tampa, FL
13th International Color Awards, 2020
IPA Awards 2020, One Shot, 2 Honorable Mentions
International Juried Photography Exhibition, “The Still Life,” Praxis Gallery, MN, 2020
14th Annual Black and White Spider Awards International, 2020
Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, 2020 Barcelona, Spain
17th International Photography Awards, 2 Awards, 2019, LA,CA.
12th International Color Awards, 5 Awards, 2019, LA, CA
The Center for Fine Art Photography, 2019, Center Forward, Fort Collins, CO
The Center for Fine Art Photography, 2019, Life of Water, Fort Collins, CO
TPS 28 The International Exhibition, 2019,Texas Photographic Society, TX
The Fence 2019, Sarasota, FL
Soho National Competition, 2019 , NYC
Pollux Awards 2019, 2020, Barcelona, Spain
Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, 2018 Barcelona, Spain
Griffin Museum, 24th Juried Exhibition 2018, Winchester, MA
Tokyo International Foto Awards, Bronze Award, 2018, Tokyo, Japan
Center for Fine Art Photography, Black/White Exhibition 2018, Fort Collins, CO
Soho National Competition, 2018, NYC
11th Anniversary Edition of the Julia Margaret Cameron Award 2018, Barcelona
SOHO Photo Gallery National Competition 2017, NYC
www.joyceplopez.com
https://www.instagram.com/joycep.lopez/
EXHIBITIONS--selections:
“Splash” exhibition, 2021, Griffin Museum, Boston, MA
15th Pollux Exhibition, 2021, Awards, Barcelona
PX3 de La Photographie Paris, 2020, Awards
PH21 Contemporary Photography Gallery, “Significant Color” 2020, Budapest
Fence 2020, the outside photo exhibition, 9th edition Regional Photographers Showcase, Sarasota, FL
Florida Museum of Photography, Award Winner, 2020, Tampa, FL
13th International Color Awards, 2020
IPA Awards 2020, One Shot, 2 Honorable Mentions
International Juried Photography Exhibition, “The Still Life,” Praxis Gallery, MN, 2020
14th Annual Black and White Spider Awards International, 2020
Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, 2020 Barcelona, Spain
17th International Photography Awards, 2 Awards, 2019, LA,CA.
12th International Color Awards, 5 Awards, 2019, LA, CA
The Center for Fine Art Photography, 2019, Center Forward, Fort Collins, CO
The Center for Fine Art Photography, 2019, Life of Water, Fort Collins, CO
TPS 28 The International Exhibition, 2019,Texas Photographic Society, TX
The Fence 2019, Sarasota, FL
Soho National Competition, 2019 , NYC
Pollux Awards 2019, 2020, Barcelona, Spain
Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, 2018 Barcelona, Spain
Griffin Museum, 24th Juried Exhibition 2018, Winchester, MA
Tokyo International Foto Awards, Bronze Award, 2018, Tokyo, Japan
Center for Fine Art Photography, Black/White Exhibition 2018, Fort Collins, CO
Soho National Competition, 2018, NYC
11th Anniversary Edition of the Julia Margaret Cameron Award 2018, Barcelona
SOHO Photo Gallery National Competition 2017, NYC
www.joyceplopez.com
https://www.instagram.com/joycep.lopez/
BOY by Karen Amy Finkel Fishof
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BREATHE by Karen Amy Finkel Fishof
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LETS ROCK by Karen Amy Finkel Fishof
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Karen Amy Finkel Fishof says of her series, 'PHOTOGRAMS', "By pushing the boundaries of conventional black and white photography, I produce large scale, life size, one-of-a-kind photograms. The work is thought-provoking, visually compelling and a challenge to norms grounded in integrity.
I stage scenes on photo paper in the darkroom, expose them to light, and then develop them traditionally with black and white chemistry. Photograms provide the medium I need to tell my stories. Through them, I can communicate.
I love the creative process of these works, from the exposure to the development. The magic of seeing the image appear when the photo paper is placed in the chemistry, knowing it was a moment captured with no negative, and the anticipation in the darkroom of seeing how various objects live in the light and how light wraps around them, fascinates me. I then capture that living dance on 2D, still, photo paper. Unlike conventional photography, each piece is a one-of-a-kind, like a painting and bears a painterly feel.
I consider the process drawing with light. It gives me the strong imagery and narrative, with hidden subtleties. Each piece is premeditated to a degree with a window left open for spontaneous improvisation by applying self-imposed strategic constraints to disrupt the histories and conventions of modern photography.
I start with what interests me, not just ideas, but the relationship between ideas. My work merges socio cultural content into expressive, gestural figures that defy gravity.
I am influenced by all artistic mediums including interior design, film, music, fashion and social media. I've worked in all these areas professionally and draw from their current trends. Inspiration may come from current events, personal experiences or from found objects. Creating photograms allows me to collage these areas together into one cohesive image statement.
Figures occupy not only a physical space, but a psychological one as well. These theatrical stills, evoke a story for us to participate in, and invite us into their surreal, fantastic reality. The characters are firmly planted in their own distorted space.
All persons and objects serve a double role. Not only are they instruments in imagery, but also declare a statement about the medium itself. We are forced to recognize a new aspect of the person or object touching the surface, the form itself.
There is something about facing a replica of life-sized human, to scale that warrants our own personal reflection and bids the question; “What do I see of myself in this?”
There is a presence that remains of the people and objects, sort of like when you see the handprints on the Hollywood "Walk of Fame". You know that the person had physical contact with the paper, unlike conventional photography or portraiture. Not only are the figures actors in a drama, but they are also portraits of the models and reflect their inherent personalities.
The work makes one cognizant of the relationship we have with objects. We almost always have an object in our hands, whether it be a phone, pen, fork, cup, remote control, gun, bible or flowers. We are dependent on them and they define us.
I am influenced by all artistic mediums including interior design, film, music, fashion, and social media. I've worked in all these areas professionally and draw from their current trends. My work champions the here and now in a dramatic dialogue of the current, deliberately testing the limits of legibility, challenging the viewer with unexpected aesthetic and thematic constructs."
Born in the Bronx, NY, Karen attended Syracuse University where she received a BFA in painting. She studied a year abroad at St. Martins School of Art, London, UK, where she first started creating photograms under the same professors as Gilbert and George and showing her work in New York.
Karen has designed window displays for Macy’s, Lord & Taylor, Dress Barn Stores and major music labels, Sony, BMG, Universal, Warner, album art for Ringo Starr, backdrops for celebrity appearances as well as fashioned licensed products for Kraft Foods, Simon Malls, Crayola, Nickelodeon, Imax, Cartoon Network and Gameboy after receiving a second degree in Graphic Design.
Karen is active in the Los Angeles art scene, exhibiting frequently and pushing the boundaries of conventional black and white photography producing large scale, life-size, one-of-a-kind photograms, exploring themes of parenting, politics and the intersection of gender and religion, confronting stereotypes and moving between the secular and the sacred. The work engages the viewer to explore the definition of photography as well as examine their pre-existing ideas of the various content.
“An exhibition of large-scale photograms by Los Angeles artist Karen Amy Finkel Fishof, will engage and challenge you from the get-go.”
- EDWARD GOLDMAN - ART CRITIC, NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO & HUFFINGTON POST
The final works are carefully curated and the vault of images she has amassed and have at the ready, permits her to collage the best images together to obtain sensational results.
“Karen’s entire body of artwork is extremely original.”
- PAMELA SCHOENBERG - OWNER dnj GALLERY
Karen’s work has a whimsical energy whether it be her black and white photograms, or her colorful digital pieces. Her work is playful, uplifting, and inspirational.
CV -
EDUCATION
BFA SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, College of Visual and Performing Arts
Major PAINTING, Minor PHOTOGRAPHY
St. Martin's School of Art, London, England - Semester Abroad
SUNY Purchase - Summer Art Courses
Certification in Computer Arts, SUNY WCC - Center for Digital Arts- GPA 3.96
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
2021 Grant Recipient of the City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs, Corona Memorial Project
​2020 Recipient of the James Northcutt Scholarship in Interior Design Architecture at UCLA
EXHIBITIONS
​2021
​San Diego Museum of Art 2021 Online International Summer Exhibition - Juror Anita Feldman
"Black and White" Group Exhibition - Site:Brooklyn - Juror - Shana Nys Dambrot
"Stratosphere" Group Exhibition - Neal Digital Gallery - Beijing, China
Featured Artist at inaugural NFTs.Tips curated digital art NFT exhibit pop-ups throughout Miami in Wynwood in crdination with The Bitcoin Conference
"Art In The Time Of Corona" - Group Exhibition - Dab Art, LA
"Open Show - Alternative Process" - Pasadena Photography Arts
2020
"Into The Light", Group Exhibition - curated by Nicholas Barlow | Hammer Museum
Orange County Center For Contemporary Art, CA
"Photo LA", Art Fair
with dnj Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019
"PULSE, The Next Generation" - curated by PULSE Art Fair Director, Cristina Salmastrelli
Miami Beach, FL
"Art Vs Cancer", Group Exhibition
Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, CA
"Radiate", Solo Exhibition
dnj Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
​
"The Other Art Fair", curated by Saatchi
Los Angeles, CA
​
"Brand 47, National Juried Exhibition of Works on Paper", Group Show -
curated by Alma Ruiz | MOCA | Museum Of Contemporary Art Los Angeles
Brand Library and Art Center, Burbank, CA
​
IMAGES FOR SALE-
Boy 80”x64”
Photogram mounted on Sintra Board with wooden support mount
One Of A Kind
Signed on Front
Breathe 80”x64”
Photogram mounted on Sintra Board with wooden support mount
One Of A Kind
Signed on Front
Let’s Rock 80”x80”
Photogram mounted on Sintra Board with wooden support mount
One Of A Kind
Signed on Front
Love Is In The Air 80”x64”
Photogram mounted on Sintra Board with wooden support mount
One Of A Kind
Signed on Front
Moonshot 80”x48”
Photogram with Collage mounted on Sintra Board with wooden support mount
One Of A Kind
Signed on Front
Selfie 80”x32”
Photogram with Acrylic Paint mounted on Sintra Board with wooden support mount
One Of A Kind
Signed on Front
Contact: Karen Fishof
info@finkeland.com
@FinkeLand
https://linktr.ee/finkeland
914-536-8617
https://www.finkeland.com
https://www.instagram.com/finkeland/
https://twitter.com/finkeland/
https://www.facebook.com/Finkeland/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/karen-amy-fishof-a51507/
I stage scenes on photo paper in the darkroom, expose them to light, and then develop them traditionally with black and white chemistry. Photograms provide the medium I need to tell my stories. Through them, I can communicate.
I love the creative process of these works, from the exposure to the development. The magic of seeing the image appear when the photo paper is placed in the chemistry, knowing it was a moment captured with no negative, and the anticipation in the darkroom of seeing how various objects live in the light and how light wraps around them, fascinates me. I then capture that living dance on 2D, still, photo paper. Unlike conventional photography, each piece is a one-of-a-kind, like a painting and bears a painterly feel.
I consider the process drawing with light. It gives me the strong imagery and narrative, with hidden subtleties. Each piece is premeditated to a degree with a window left open for spontaneous improvisation by applying self-imposed strategic constraints to disrupt the histories and conventions of modern photography.
I start with what interests me, not just ideas, but the relationship between ideas. My work merges socio cultural content into expressive, gestural figures that defy gravity.
I am influenced by all artistic mediums including interior design, film, music, fashion and social media. I've worked in all these areas professionally and draw from their current trends. Inspiration may come from current events, personal experiences or from found objects. Creating photograms allows me to collage these areas together into one cohesive image statement.
Figures occupy not only a physical space, but a psychological one as well. These theatrical stills, evoke a story for us to participate in, and invite us into their surreal, fantastic reality. The characters are firmly planted in their own distorted space.
All persons and objects serve a double role. Not only are they instruments in imagery, but also declare a statement about the medium itself. We are forced to recognize a new aspect of the person or object touching the surface, the form itself.
There is something about facing a replica of life-sized human, to scale that warrants our own personal reflection and bids the question; “What do I see of myself in this?”
There is a presence that remains of the people and objects, sort of like when you see the handprints on the Hollywood "Walk of Fame". You know that the person had physical contact with the paper, unlike conventional photography or portraiture. Not only are the figures actors in a drama, but they are also portraits of the models and reflect their inherent personalities.
The work makes one cognizant of the relationship we have with objects. We almost always have an object in our hands, whether it be a phone, pen, fork, cup, remote control, gun, bible or flowers. We are dependent on them and they define us.
I am influenced by all artistic mediums including interior design, film, music, fashion, and social media. I've worked in all these areas professionally and draw from their current trends. My work champions the here and now in a dramatic dialogue of the current, deliberately testing the limits of legibility, challenging the viewer with unexpected aesthetic and thematic constructs."
Born in the Bronx, NY, Karen attended Syracuse University where she received a BFA in painting. She studied a year abroad at St. Martins School of Art, London, UK, where she first started creating photograms under the same professors as Gilbert and George and showing her work in New York.
Karen has designed window displays for Macy’s, Lord & Taylor, Dress Barn Stores and major music labels, Sony, BMG, Universal, Warner, album art for Ringo Starr, backdrops for celebrity appearances as well as fashioned licensed products for Kraft Foods, Simon Malls, Crayola, Nickelodeon, Imax, Cartoon Network and Gameboy after receiving a second degree in Graphic Design.
Karen is active in the Los Angeles art scene, exhibiting frequently and pushing the boundaries of conventional black and white photography producing large scale, life-size, one-of-a-kind photograms, exploring themes of parenting, politics and the intersection of gender and religion, confronting stereotypes and moving between the secular and the sacred. The work engages the viewer to explore the definition of photography as well as examine their pre-existing ideas of the various content.
“An exhibition of large-scale photograms by Los Angeles artist Karen Amy Finkel Fishof, will engage and challenge you from the get-go.”
- EDWARD GOLDMAN - ART CRITIC, NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO & HUFFINGTON POST
The final works are carefully curated and the vault of images she has amassed and have at the ready, permits her to collage the best images together to obtain sensational results.
“Karen’s entire body of artwork is extremely original.”
- PAMELA SCHOENBERG - OWNER dnj GALLERY
Karen’s work has a whimsical energy whether it be her black and white photograms, or her colorful digital pieces. Her work is playful, uplifting, and inspirational.
CV -
EDUCATION
BFA SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, College of Visual and Performing Arts
Major PAINTING, Minor PHOTOGRAPHY
St. Martin's School of Art, London, England - Semester Abroad
SUNY Purchase - Summer Art Courses
Certification in Computer Arts, SUNY WCC - Center for Digital Arts- GPA 3.96
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
2021 Grant Recipient of the City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs, Corona Memorial Project
​2020 Recipient of the James Northcutt Scholarship in Interior Design Architecture at UCLA
EXHIBITIONS
​2021
​San Diego Museum of Art 2021 Online International Summer Exhibition - Juror Anita Feldman
"Black and White" Group Exhibition - Site:Brooklyn - Juror - Shana Nys Dambrot
"Stratosphere" Group Exhibition - Neal Digital Gallery - Beijing, China
Featured Artist at inaugural NFTs.Tips curated digital art NFT exhibit pop-ups throughout Miami in Wynwood in crdination with The Bitcoin Conference
"Art In The Time Of Corona" - Group Exhibition - Dab Art, LA
"Open Show - Alternative Process" - Pasadena Photography Arts
2020
"Into The Light", Group Exhibition - curated by Nicholas Barlow | Hammer Museum
Orange County Center For Contemporary Art, CA
"Photo LA", Art Fair
with dnj Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019
"PULSE, The Next Generation" - curated by PULSE Art Fair Director, Cristina Salmastrelli
Miami Beach, FL
"Art Vs Cancer", Group Exhibition
Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, CA
"Radiate", Solo Exhibition
dnj Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
​
"The Other Art Fair", curated by Saatchi
Los Angeles, CA
​
"Brand 47, National Juried Exhibition of Works on Paper", Group Show -
curated by Alma Ruiz | MOCA | Museum Of Contemporary Art Los Angeles
Brand Library and Art Center, Burbank, CA
​
IMAGES FOR SALE-
Boy 80”x64”
Photogram mounted on Sintra Board with wooden support mount
One Of A Kind
Signed on Front
Breathe 80”x64”
Photogram mounted on Sintra Board with wooden support mount
One Of A Kind
Signed on Front
Let’s Rock 80”x80”
Photogram mounted on Sintra Board with wooden support mount
One Of A Kind
Signed on Front
Love Is In The Air 80”x64”
Photogram mounted on Sintra Board with wooden support mount
One Of A Kind
Signed on Front
Moonshot 80”x48”
Photogram with Collage mounted on Sintra Board with wooden support mount
One Of A Kind
Signed on Front
Selfie 80”x32”
Photogram with Acrylic Paint mounted on Sintra Board with wooden support mount
One Of A Kind
Signed on Front
Contact: Karen Fishof
info@finkeland.com
@FinkeLand
https://linktr.ee/finkeland
914-536-8617
https://www.finkeland.com
https://www.instagram.com/finkeland/
https://twitter.com/finkeland/
https://www.facebook.com/Finkeland/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/karen-amy-fishof-a51507/
LOVE IS IN THE AIR by Karen Amy Finkel Fishof
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MOONSHOT by Karen Amy Finkel Fishof
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SELFIE by Karen Amy Finkel Fishof
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Karen Amy Finkel Fishof says of her series, 'PHOTOGRAMS', "By pushing the boundaries of conventional black and white photography, I produce large scale, life size, one-of-a-kind photograms. The work is thought-provoking, visually compelling and a challenge to norms grounded in integrity.
I stage scenes on photo paper in the darkroom, expose them to light, and then develop them traditionally with black and white chemistry. Photograms provide the medium I need to tell my stories. Through them, I can communicate.
I love the creative process of these works, from the exposure to the development. The magic of seeing the image appear when the photo paper is placed in the chemistry, knowing it was a moment captured with no negative, and the anticipation in the darkroom of seeing how various objects live in the light and how light wraps around them, fascinates me. I then capture that living dance on 2D, still, photo paper. Unlike conventional photography, each piece is a one-of-a-kind, like a painting and bears a painterly feel.
I consider the process drawing with light. It gives me the strong imagery and narrative, with hidden subtleties. Each piece is premeditated to a degree with a window left open for spontaneous improvisation by applying self-imposed strategic constraints to disrupt the histories and conventions of modern photography.
I start with what interests me, not just ideas, but the relationship between ideas. My work merges socio cultural content into expressive, gestural figures that defy gravity.
I am influenced by all artistic mediums including interior design, film, music, fashion and social media. I've worked in all these areas professionally and draw from their current trends. Inspiration may come from current events, personal experiences or from found objects. Creating photograms allows me to collage these areas together into one cohesive image statement.
Figures occupy not only a physical space, but a psychological one as well. These theatrical stills, evoke a story for us to participate in, and invite us into their surreal, fantastic reality. The characters are firmly planted in their own distorted space.
All persons and objects serve a double role. Not only are they instruments in imagery, but also declare a statement about the medium itself. We are forced to recognize a new aspect of the person or object touching the surface, the form itself.
There is something about facing a replica of life-sized human, to scale that warrants our own personal reflection and bids the question; “What do I see of myself in this?”
There is a presence that remains of the people and objects, sort of like when you see the handprints on the Hollywood "Walk of Fame". You know that the person had physical contact with the paper, unlike conventional photography or portraiture. Not only are the figures actors in a drama, but they are also portraits of the models and reflect their inherent personalities.
The work makes one cognizant of the relationship we have with objects. We almost always have an object in our hands, whether it be a phone, pen, fork, cup, remote control, gun, bible or flowers. We are dependent on them and they define us.
I am influenced by all artistic mediums including interior design, film, music, fashion, and social media. I've worked in all these areas professionally and draw from their current trends. My work champions the here and now in a dramatic dialogue of the current, deliberately testing the limits of legibility, challenging the viewer with unexpected aesthetic and thematic constructs."
Born in the Bronx, NY, Karen attended Syracuse University where she received a BFA in painting. She studied a year abroad at St. Martins School of Art, London, UK, where she first started creating photograms under the same professors as Gilbert and George and showing her work in New York.
Karen has designed window displays for Macy’s, Lord & Taylor, Dress Barn Stores and major music labels, Sony, BMG, Universal, Warner, album art for Ringo Starr, backdrops for celebrity appearances as well as fashioned licensed products for Kraft Foods, Simon Malls, Crayola, Nickelodeon, Imax, Cartoon Network and Gameboy after receiving a second degree in Graphic Design.
Karen is active in the Los Angeles art scene, exhibiting frequently and pushing the boundaries of conventional black and white photography producing large scale, life-size, one-of-a-kind photograms, exploring themes of parenting, politics and the intersection of gender and religion, confronting stereotypes and moving between the secular and the sacred. The work engages the viewer to explore the definition of photography as well as examine their pre-existing ideas of the various content.
“An exhibition of large-scale photograms by Los Angeles artist Karen Amy Finkel Fishof, will engage and challenge you from the get-go.”
- EDWARD GOLDMAN - ART CRITIC, NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO & HUFFINGTON POST
The final works are carefully curated and the vault of images she has amassed and have at the ready, permits her to collage the best images together to obtain sensational results.
“Karen’s entire body of artwork is extremely original.”
- PAMELA SCHOENBERG - OWNER dnj GALLERY
Karen’s work has a whimsical energy whether it be her black and white photograms, or her colorful digital pieces. Her work is playful, uplifting, and inspirational.
CV -
EDUCATION
BFA SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, College of Visual and Performing Arts
Major PAINTING, Minor PHOTOGRAPHY
St. Martin's School of Art, London, England - Semester Abroad
SUNY Purchase - Summer Art Courses
Certification in Computer Arts, SUNY WCC - Center for Digital Arts- GPA 3.96
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
2021 Grant Recipient of the City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs, Corona Memorial Project
​2020 Recipient of the James Northcutt Scholarship in Interior Design Architecture at UCLA
EXHIBITIONS
​2021
​San Diego Museum of Art 2021 Online International Summer Exhibition - Juror Anita Feldman
"Black and White" Group Exhibition - Site:Brooklyn - Juror - Shana Nys Dambrot
"Stratosphere" Group Exhibition - Neal Digital Gallery - Beijing, China
Featured Artist at inaugural NFTs.Tips curated digital art NFT exhibit pop-ups throughout Miami in Wynwood in crdination with The Bitcoin Conference
"Art In The Time Of Corona" - Group Exhibition - Dab Art, LA
"Open Show - Alternative Process" - Pasadena Photography Arts
2020
"Into The Light", Group Exhibition - curated by Nicholas Barlow | Hammer Museum
Orange County Center For Contemporary Art, CA
"Photo LA", Art Fair
with dnj Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019
"PULSE, The Next Generation" - curated by PULSE Art Fair Director, Cristina Salmastrelli
Miami Beach, FL
"Art Vs Cancer", Group Exhibition
Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, CA
"Radiate", Solo Exhibition
dnj Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
​
"The Other Art Fair", curated by Saatchi
Los Angeles, CA
​
"Brand 47, National Juried Exhibition of Works on Paper", Group Show -
curated by Alma Ruiz | MOCA | Museum Of Contemporary Art Los Angeles
Brand Library and Art Center, Burbank, CA
​
IMAGES FOR SALE-
Boy 80”x64”
Photogram mounted on Sintra Board with wooden support mount
One Of A Kind
Signed on Front
Breathe 80”x64”
Photogram mounted on Sintra Board with wooden support mount
One Of A Kind
Signed on Front
Let’s Rock 80”x80”
Photogram mounted on Sintra Board with wooden support mount
One Of A Kind
Signed on Front
Love Is In The Air 80”x64”
Photogram mounted on Sintra Board with wooden support mount
One Of A Kind
Signed on Front
Moonshot 80”x48”
Photogram with Collage mounted on Sintra Board with wooden support mount
One Of A Kind
Signed on Front
Selfie 80”x32”
Photogram with Acrylic Paint mounted on Sintra Board with wooden support mount
One Of A Kind
Signed on Front
Contact: Karen Fishof
info@finkeland.com
@FinkeLand
https://linktr.ee/finkeland
914-536-8617
https://www.finkeland.com
https://www.instagram.com/finkeland/
https://twitter.com/finkeland/
https://www.facebook.com/Finkeland/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/karen-amy-fishof-a51507/
I stage scenes on photo paper in the darkroom, expose them to light, and then develop them traditionally with black and white chemistry. Photograms provide the medium I need to tell my stories. Through them, I can communicate.
I love the creative process of these works, from the exposure to the development. The magic of seeing the image appear when the photo paper is placed in the chemistry, knowing it was a moment captured with no negative, and the anticipation in the darkroom of seeing how various objects live in the light and how light wraps around them, fascinates me. I then capture that living dance on 2D, still, photo paper. Unlike conventional photography, each piece is a one-of-a-kind, like a painting and bears a painterly feel.
I consider the process drawing with light. It gives me the strong imagery and narrative, with hidden subtleties. Each piece is premeditated to a degree with a window left open for spontaneous improvisation by applying self-imposed strategic constraints to disrupt the histories and conventions of modern photography.
I start with what interests me, not just ideas, but the relationship between ideas. My work merges socio cultural content into expressive, gestural figures that defy gravity.
I am influenced by all artistic mediums including interior design, film, music, fashion and social media. I've worked in all these areas professionally and draw from their current trends. Inspiration may come from current events, personal experiences or from found objects. Creating photograms allows me to collage these areas together into one cohesive image statement.
Figures occupy not only a physical space, but a psychological one as well. These theatrical stills, evoke a story for us to participate in, and invite us into their surreal, fantastic reality. The characters are firmly planted in their own distorted space.
All persons and objects serve a double role. Not only are they instruments in imagery, but also declare a statement about the medium itself. We are forced to recognize a new aspect of the person or object touching the surface, the form itself.
There is something about facing a replica of life-sized human, to scale that warrants our own personal reflection and bids the question; “What do I see of myself in this?”
There is a presence that remains of the people and objects, sort of like when you see the handprints on the Hollywood "Walk of Fame". You know that the person had physical contact with the paper, unlike conventional photography or portraiture. Not only are the figures actors in a drama, but they are also portraits of the models and reflect their inherent personalities.
The work makes one cognizant of the relationship we have with objects. We almost always have an object in our hands, whether it be a phone, pen, fork, cup, remote control, gun, bible or flowers. We are dependent on them and they define us.
I am influenced by all artistic mediums including interior design, film, music, fashion, and social media. I've worked in all these areas professionally and draw from their current trends. My work champions the here and now in a dramatic dialogue of the current, deliberately testing the limits of legibility, challenging the viewer with unexpected aesthetic and thematic constructs."
Born in the Bronx, NY, Karen attended Syracuse University where she received a BFA in painting. She studied a year abroad at St. Martins School of Art, London, UK, where she first started creating photograms under the same professors as Gilbert and George and showing her work in New York.
Karen has designed window displays for Macy’s, Lord & Taylor, Dress Barn Stores and major music labels, Sony, BMG, Universal, Warner, album art for Ringo Starr, backdrops for celebrity appearances as well as fashioned licensed products for Kraft Foods, Simon Malls, Crayola, Nickelodeon, Imax, Cartoon Network and Gameboy after receiving a second degree in Graphic Design.
Karen is active in the Los Angeles art scene, exhibiting frequently and pushing the boundaries of conventional black and white photography producing large scale, life-size, one-of-a-kind photograms, exploring themes of parenting, politics and the intersection of gender and religion, confronting stereotypes and moving between the secular and the sacred. The work engages the viewer to explore the definition of photography as well as examine their pre-existing ideas of the various content.
“An exhibition of large-scale photograms by Los Angeles artist Karen Amy Finkel Fishof, will engage and challenge you from the get-go.”
- EDWARD GOLDMAN - ART CRITIC, NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO & HUFFINGTON POST
The final works are carefully curated and the vault of images she has amassed and have at the ready, permits her to collage the best images together to obtain sensational results.
“Karen’s entire body of artwork is extremely original.”
- PAMELA SCHOENBERG - OWNER dnj GALLERY
Karen’s work has a whimsical energy whether it be her black and white photograms, or her colorful digital pieces. Her work is playful, uplifting, and inspirational.
CV -
EDUCATION
BFA SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, College of Visual and Performing Arts
Major PAINTING, Minor PHOTOGRAPHY
St. Martin's School of Art, London, England - Semester Abroad
SUNY Purchase - Summer Art Courses
Certification in Computer Arts, SUNY WCC - Center for Digital Arts- GPA 3.96
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
2021 Grant Recipient of the City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs, Corona Memorial Project
​2020 Recipient of the James Northcutt Scholarship in Interior Design Architecture at UCLA
EXHIBITIONS
​2021
​San Diego Museum of Art 2021 Online International Summer Exhibition - Juror Anita Feldman
"Black and White" Group Exhibition - Site:Brooklyn - Juror - Shana Nys Dambrot
"Stratosphere" Group Exhibition - Neal Digital Gallery - Beijing, China
Featured Artist at inaugural NFTs.Tips curated digital art NFT exhibit pop-ups throughout Miami in Wynwood in crdination with The Bitcoin Conference
"Art In The Time Of Corona" - Group Exhibition - Dab Art, LA
"Open Show - Alternative Process" - Pasadena Photography Arts
2020
"Into The Light", Group Exhibition - curated by Nicholas Barlow | Hammer Museum
Orange County Center For Contemporary Art, CA
"Photo LA", Art Fair
with dnj Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019
"PULSE, The Next Generation" - curated by PULSE Art Fair Director, Cristina Salmastrelli
Miami Beach, FL
"Art Vs Cancer", Group Exhibition
Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, CA
"Radiate", Solo Exhibition
dnj Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
​
"The Other Art Fair", curated by Saatchi
Los Angeles, CA
​
"Brand 47, National Juried Exhibition of Works on Paper", Group Show -
curated by Alma Ruiz | MOCA | Museum Of Contemporary Art Los Angeles
Brand Library and Art Center, Burbank, CA
​
IMAGES FOR SALE-
Boy 80”x64”
Photogram mounted on Sintra Board with wooden support mount
One Of A Kind
Signed on Front
Breathe 80”x64”
Photogram mounted on Sintra Board with wooden support mount
One Of A Kind
Signed on Front
Let’s Rock 80”x80”
Photogram mounted on Sintra Board with wooden support mount
One Of A Kind
Signed on Front
Love Is In The Air 80”x64”
Photogram mounted on Sintra Board with wooden support mount
One Of A Kind
Signed on Front
Moonshot 80”x48”
Photogram with Collage mounted on Sintra Board with wooden support mount
One Of A Kind
Signed on Front
Selfie 80”x32”
Photogram with Acrylic Paint mounted on Sintra Board with wooden support mount
One Of A Kind
Signed on Front
Contact: Karen Fishof
info@finkeland.com
@FinkeLand
https://linktr.ee/finkeland
914-536-8617
https://www.finkeland.com
https://www.instagram.com/finkeland/
https://twitter.com/finkeland/
https://www.facebook.com/Finkeland/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/karen-amy-fishof-a51507/
ASCENSION by Kathryn Dunlevie
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MIGRATION by Kathryn Dunlevie
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SANCTUARY by Kathryn Dunlevie
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Kathryn Dunlevie says of her series, 'ENTANGLEMENT', "Recent human activity has unleashed environmental change on a colossal scale. As increased levels of carbon dioxide in our air create abnormal weather patterns, the ecosystems upon which animals and plants depend suffer along with all our natural and built environments.
We can no longer avoid the fact that all aspects of the physical world are inescapably interrelated. Revelations in quantum physics, moreover, suggest that even at the subatomic level the building blocks of our material world are also interdependent and affected by each other’s behavior, a phenomenon referred to as quantum entanglement.
To illustrate this inter-connectedness, I am combining my photos of zoos and natural history museums with those of contemporary urban settings. The compositions suggest our planet’s current state of disruption and the strange bedfellows this disruption creates.
As I add layer upon layer, interweaving elements from the natural world with images from manmade spaces, animal harbingers materialize in anomalous locations. Stunned to find themselves in alien surroundings – disoriented, mistrustful, even forlorn – they mutely proclaim their vulnerability."
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, surprising, inexplicable spaces and scenarios – swimming pools that have many points of entry, 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 and an International Photography Awards honorable mention. 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.
Her work has been reviewed in Spain’s La Fotografia Actual, Korea’s photo + and Germany’s Profifoto, as well as in The New York Times, Camerawork: A Journal of Photographic Arts, Photo Metro, Artweek, and Artlies.
Highlights of Career:
Nine solo exhibitions at FotoFest International (Houston) (2002 - 2020)
Included in San Francisco MoMA Artists Gallery, Women’s History Month (2021)
Included in PhotoAlliance Bay Area Current(ly) (2020)
Included in China's PingYao International Photography Festival (2017)
Included in International Photography Awards (2015)
Included in Saatchi Art's "BEST of 2014"
Reviewed in Korea's Photo+ magazine, (2013)
Included in "Parallax Views", San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, California (2013)
Included four times in Germany's Photographers Network Selection (2006-2013)
Included the US Art in Embassies Program in Moscow (2012)
Two time Arts Council Silicon Valley Artist Laureate Fellow with cash awards and solo exhibitions at the Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California (2001 and 2005)
Included in "Fresh Work IV: Actualities", Southeast Museum of Photography, Florida (2004)
Included in "Timekeepers", San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, California (2000)
www.kathryndunlevie.com
Contact: kathryn.dunlevie@gmail.com
We can no longer avoid the fact that all aspects of the physical world are inescapably interrelated. Revelations in quantum physics, moreover, suggest that even at the subatomic level the building blocks of our material world are also interdependent and affected by each other’s behavior, a phenomenon referred to as quantum entanglement.
To illustrate this inter-connectedness, I am combining my photos of zoos and natural history museums with those of contemporary urban settings. The compositions suggest our planet’s current state of disruption and the strange bedfellows this disruption creates.
As I add layer upon layer, interweaving elements from the natural world with images from manmade spaces, animal harbingers materialize in anomalous locations. Stunned to find themselves in alien surroundings – disoriented, mistrustful, even forlorn – they mutely proclaim their vulnerability."
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, surprising, inexplicable spaces and scenarios – swimming pools that have many points of entry, 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 and an International Photography Awards honorable mention. 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.
Her work has been reviewed in Spain’s La Fotografia Actual, Korea’s photo + and Germany’s Profifoto, as well as in The New York Times, Camerawork: A Journal of Photographic Arts, Photo Metro, Artweek, and Artlies.
Highlights of Career:
Nine solo exhibitions at FotoFest International (Houston) (2002 - 2020)
Included in San Francisco MoMA Artists Gallery, Women’s History Month (2021)
Included in PhotoAlliance Bay Area Current(ly) (2020)
Included in China's PingYao International Photography Festival (2017)
Included in International Photography Awards (2015)
Included in Saatchi Art's "BEST of 2014"
Reviewed in Korea's Photo+ magazine, (2013)
Included in "Parallax Views", San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, California (2013)
Included four times in Germany's Photographers Network Selection (2006-2013)
Included the US Art in Embassies Program in Moscow (2012)
Two time Arts Council Silicon Valley Artist Laureate Fellow with cash awards and solo exhibitions at the Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California (2001 and 2005)
Included in "Fresh Work IV: Actualities", Southeast Museum of Photography, Florida (2004)
Included in "Timekeepers", San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, California (2000)
www.kathryndunlevie.com
Contact: kathryn.dunlevie@gmail.com
THE BEAST WITHOUT by Kathryn Dunlevie
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THE GATHERING STORM by Kathryn Dunlevie
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WASHED UP by Kathryn Dunlevie
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Kathryn Dunlevie says of her series, 'ENTANGLEMENT', "Recent human activity has unleashed environmental change on a colossal scale. As increased levels of carbon dioxide in our air create abnormal weather patterns, the ecosystems upon which animals and plants depend suffer along with all our natural and built environments.
We can no longer avoid the fact that all aspects of the physical world are inescapably interrelated. Revelations in quantum physics, moreover, suggest that even at the subatomic level the building blocks of our material world are also interdependent and affected by each other’s behavior, a phenomenon referred to as quantum entanglement.
To illustrate this inter-connectedness, I am combining my photos of zoos and natural history museums with those of contemporary urban settings. The compositions suggest our planet’s current state of disruption and the strange bedfellows this disruption creates.
As I add layer upon layer, interweaving elements from the natural world with images from manmade spaces, animal harbingers materialize in anomalous locations. Stunned to find themselves in alien surroundings – disoriented, mistrustful, even forlorn – they mutely proclaim their vulnerability."
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, surprising, inexplicable spaces and scenarios – swimming pools that have many points of entry, 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 and an International Photography Awards honorable mention. 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.
Her work has been reviewed in Spain’s La Fotografia Actual, Korea’s photo + and Germany’s Profifoto, as well as in The New York Times, Camerawork: A Journal of Photographic Arts, Photo Metro, Artweek, and Artlies.
Highlights of Career:
Nine solo exhibitions at FotoFest International (Houston) (2002 - 2020)
Included in San Francisco MoMA Artists Gallery, Women’s History Month (2021)
Included in PhotoAlliance Bay Area Current(ly) (2020)
Included in China's PingYao International Photography Festival (2017)
Included in International Photography Awards (2015)
Included in Saatchi Art's "BEST of 2014"
Reviewed in Korea's Photo+ magazine, (2013)
Included in "Parallax Views", San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, California (2013)
Included four times in Germany's Photographers Network Selection (2006-2013)
Included the US Art in Embassies Program in Moscow (2012)
Two time Arts Council Silicon Valley Artist Laureate Fellow with cash awards and solo exhibitions at the Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California (2001 and 2005)
Included in "Fresh Work IV: Actualities", Southeast Museum of Photography, Florida (2004)
Included in "Timekeepers", San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, California (2000)
www.kathryndunlevie.com
Contact: kathryn.dunlevie@gmail.com
We can no longer avoid the fact that all aspects of the physical world are inescapably interrelated. Revelations in quantum physics, moreover, suggest that even at the subatomic level the building blocks of our material world are also interdependent and affected by each other’s behavior, a phenomenon referred to as quantum entanglement.
To illustrate this inter-connectedness, I am combining my photos of zoos and natural history museums with those of contemporary urban settings. The compositions suggest our planet’s current state of disruption and the strange bedfellows this disruption creates.
As I add layer upon layer, interweaving elements from the natural world with images from manmade spaces, animal harbingers materialize in anomalous locations. Stunned to find themselves in alien surroundings – disoriented, mistrustful, even forlorn – they mutely proclaim their vulnerability."
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, surprising, inexplicable spaces and scenarios – swimming pools that have many points of entry, 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 and an International Photography Awards honorable mention. 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.
Her work has been reviewed in Spain’s La Fotografia Actual, Korea’s photo + and Germany’s Profifoto, as well as in The New York Times, Camerawork: A Journal of Photographic Arts, Photo Metro, Artweek, and Artlies.
Highlights of Career:
Nine solo exhibitions at FotoFest International (Houston) (2002 - 2020)
Included in San Francisco MoMA Artists Gallery, Women’s History Month (2021)
Included in PhotoAlliance Bay Area Current(ly) (2020)
Included in China's PingYao International Photography Festival (2017)
Included in International Photography Awards (2015)
Included in Saatchi Art's "BEST of 2014"
Reviewed in Korea's Photo+ magazine, (2013)
Included in "Parallax Views", San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, California (2013)
Included four times in Germany's Photographers Network Selection (2006-2013)
Included the US Art in Embassies Program in Moscow (2012)
Two time Arts Council Silicon Valley Artist Laureate Fellow with cash awards and solo exhibitions at the Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California (2001 and 2005)
Included in "Fresh Work IV: Actualities", Southeast Museum of Photography, Florida (2004)
Included in "Timekeepers", San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, California (2000)
www.kathryndunlevie.com
Contact: kathryn.dunlevie@gmail.com
MOTHER DAUGHTER JAIPUR by Kip Harris
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MOTHER DAUGHER KERALA by Kip Harris
CURATOR TOP THREE
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CURATOR TOP THREE
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MOTHER DAIGHTER MATANCHERRY by Kip Harris
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"Childhood: These Days Go By As Though They Knew Where They Were Going”
Kip Harris grew up in a small farming community in Idaho. He holds degrees in English literature from Dartmouth College, in humanities from the University of Chicago, and architecture from the University of Utah. He was a principal of FFKR Architects in Salt Lake City for nearly 30 years.
A serious photographer since the late 80s, he has exhibited in the United States, Canada, Australia, and Europe with four solo and over a hundred group shows. He has been published in Shots Magazine, The Photo Review, Black and White, Smithsonian.com, Street Photography Magazine, Barren Magazine, aCurator, Life Force, and a number of on-line photographic sites.
He now lives on the South Shore of Nova Scotia in an 1823 cottage overlooking the St. Margaret’s Bay. He and his wife created Company X Puppets (a highly portable puppet, dance, theater group established to present intimate mixed media works).
Recent Career Events:
Black & White Magazine, “Portfolio Contest 2020,” Spotlight Award, October 2021, Cover
Dek Unu Magazine, “Featured Artist: Kip Harris,” October 2021
Street Photography Magazine, “On Being Seen,” sometime before December 2021
IMAGES FOR SALE:
Mother and Daughter, Jaipur
16” h x 20” w, Archival Pigment Print
$400 unframed
Limited Edition of 5
Signed on Back
Mother and Daughter, Kerala
24” h x16” w, Archival Pigment Print
$400 unframed
Limited Edition of 5
Signed on Back
Mother and Daughter, Matancherry
20” h x 16” w, Archival Pigment Print
$400 unframed
Limited Edition of 5
Signed on Back
Mother and Daughter, Vermont
16” h x 16” w, Archival Pigment Print
$400 unframed
Limited Edition of 5
Signed on Back
Two Angels, Queretaro
16” h x 16” w, Archival Pigment Print
$400 unframed
Limited Edition of 5
Signed on Back
School Girls, Kerala
16” h x 20” w, Archival Pigment Print
$400 unframed
Limited Edition of 5
Signed on Back
Contact: kharris130@me.com
www.kharrisphoto.com
IG: www.instagram.com/kharris902/?hl=en
Kip Harris grew up in a small farming community in Idaho. He holds degrees in English literature from Dartmouth College, in humanities from the University of Chicago, and architecture from the University of Utah. He was a principal of FFKR Architects in Salt Lake City for nearly 30 years.
A serious photographer since the late 80s, he has exhibited in the United States, Canada, Australia, and Europe with four solo and over a hundred group shows. He has been published in Shots Magazine, The Photo Review, Black and White, Smithsonian.com, Street Photography Magazine, Barren Magazine, aCurator, Life Force, and a number of on-line photographic sites.
He now lives on the South Shore of Nova Scotia in an 1823 cottage overlooking the St. Margaret’s Bay. He and his wife created Company X Puppets (a highly portable puppet, dance, theater group established to present intimate mixed media works).
Recent Career Events:
Black & White Magazine, “Portfolio Contest 2020,” Spotlight Award, October 2021, Cover
Dek Unu Magazine, “Featured Artist: Kip Harris,” October 2021
Street Photography Magazine, “On Being Seen,” sometime before December 2021
IMAGES FOR SALE:
Mother and Daughter, Jaipur
16” h x 20” w, Archival Pigment Print
$400 unframed
Limited Edition of 5
Signed on Back
Mother and Daughter, Kerala
24” h x16” w, Archival Pigment Print
$400 unframed
Limited Edition of 5
Signed on Back
Mother and Daughter, Matancherry
20” h x 16” w, Archival Pigment Print
$400 unframed
Limited Edition of 5
Signed on Back
Mother and Daughter, Vermont
16” h x 16” w, Archival Pigment Print
$400 unframed
Limited Edition of 5
Signed on Back
Two Angels, Queretaro
16” h x 16” w, Archival Pigment Print
$400 unframed
Limited Edition of 5
Signed on Back
School Girls, Kerala
16” h x 20” w, Archival Pigment Print
$400 unframed
Limited Edition of 5
Signed on Back
Contact: kharris130@me.com
www.kharrisphoto.com
IG: www.instagram.com/kharris902/?hl=en
TWO SCHOOLGIRLS KERALA by Kip Harris
HONORABLE MENTION
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HONORABLE MENTION
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"Childhood: These Days Go By As Though They Knew Where They Were Going”
Kip Harris grew up in a small farming community in Idaho. He holds degrees in English literature from Dartmouth College, in humanities from the University of Chicago, and architecture from the University of Utah. He was a principal of FFKR Architects in Salt Lake City for nearly 30 years.
A serious photographer since the late 80s, he has exhibited in the United States, Canada, Australia, and Europe with four solo and over a hundred group shows. He has been published in Shots Magazine, The Photo Review, Black and White, Smithsonian.com, Street Photography Magazine, Barren Magazine, aCurator, Life Force, and a number of on-line photographic sites.
He now lives on the South Shore of Nova Scotia in an 1823 cottage overlooking the St. Margaret’s Bay. He and his wife created Company X Puppets (a highly portable puppet, dance, theater group established to present intimate mixed media works).
Recent Career Events:
Black & White Magazine, “Portfolio Contest 2020,” Spotlight Award, October 2021, Cover
Dek Unu Magazine, “Featured Artist: Kip Harris,” October 2021
Street Photography Magazine, “On Being Seen,” sometime before December 2021
IMAGES FOR SALE:
Mother and Daughter, Jaipur
16” h x 20” w, Archival Pigment Print
$400 unframed
Limited Edition of 5
Signed on Back
Mother and Daughter, Kerala
24” h x16” w, Archival Pigment Print
$400 unframed
Limited Edition of 5
Signed on Back
Mother and Daughter, Matancherry
20” h x 16” w, Archival Pigment Print
$400 unframed
Limited Edition of 5
Signed on Back
Mother and Daughter, Vermont
16” h x 16” w, Archival Pigment Print
$400 unframed
Limited Edition of 5
Signed on Back
Two Angels, Queretaro
16” h x 16” w, Archival Pigment Print
$400 unframed
Limited Edition of 5
Signed on Back
School Girls, Kerala
16” h x 20” w, Archival Pigment Print
$400 unframed
Limited Edition of 5
Signed on Back
Contact: kharris130@me.com
www.kharrisphoto.com
IG: www.instagram.com/kharris902/?hl=en
Kip Harris grew up in a small farming community in Idaho. He holds degrees in English literature from Dartmouth College, in humanities from the University of Chicago, and architecture from the University of Utah. He was a principal of FFKR Architects in Salt Lake City for nearly 30 years.
A serious photographer since the late 80s, he has exhibited in the United States, Canada, Australia, and Europe with four solo and over a hundred group shows. He has been published in Shots Magazine, The Photo Review, Black and White, Smithsonian.com, Street Photography Magazine, Barren Magazine, aCurator, Life Force, and a number of on-line photographic sites.
He now lives on the South Shore of Nova Scotia in an 1823 cottage overlooking the St. Margaret’s Bay. He and his wife created Company X Puppets (a highly portable puppet, dance, theater group established to present intimate mixed media works).
Recent Career Events:
Black & White Magazine, “Portfolio Contest 2020,” Spotlight Award, October 2021, Cover
Dek Unu Magazine, “Featured Artist: Kip Harris,” October 2021
Street Photography Magazine, “On Being Seen,” sometime before December 2021
IMAGES FOR SALE:
Mother and Daughter, Jaipur
16” h x 20” w, Archival Pigment Print
$400 unframed
Limited Edition of 5
Signed on Back
Mother and Daughter, Kerala
24” h x16” w, Archival Pigment Print
$400 unframed
Limited Edition of 5
Signed on Back
Mother and Daughter, Matancherry
20” h x 16” w, Archival Pigment Print
$400 unframed
Limited Edition of 5
Signed on Back
Mother and Daughter, Vermont
16” h x 16” w, Archival Pigment Print
$400 unframed
Limited Edition of 5
Signed on Back
Two Angels, Queretaro
16” h x 16” w, Archival Pigment Print
$400 unframed
Limited Edition of 5
Signed on Back
School Girls, Kerala
16” h x 20” w, Archival Pigment Print
$400 unframed
Limited Edition of 5
Signed on Back
Contact: kharris130@me.com
www.kharrisphoto.com
IG: www.instagram.com/kharris902/?hl=en
MOTHER DAUGHTER VERMONT by Kip Harris
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TWO ANGELS QUERETARO by Kip Harris
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ALLEE by Lori Pond
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SOMEONE KNOWS YOU'RE COMING by Lori Pond
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PATHWAY by Lori Pond
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Lori Pond says, "The photographs I’ve chosen to submit are my reaction to the unprecedented times we are all living through right now.
The project came to be when I despaired at being locked down, so I roamed around with my camera at the local arboretum and various botanical gardens throughout Southern California, which were some of the only places open during the early days of the pandemic lockdown. To crystallize my vision and also to make things simple, I shot with only one lens (a Lensbaby) and treated each photograph the same way in my post-production process.
The resulting images help me express my oftentimes deeply held, subconscious feelings toward the pandemic and its resulting isolation and uncertainty.
Ultimately, my project aims to ask where do we go from here, but also to provide room for contemplative thought and possible action, whether that action be internal or external."
Lori Pond (MA, University of Southern California) is a photographic artist based in Los Angeles, California. Her photography encompasses themes such as fear, good versus evil, life and death, and the impermanence of all things.
She studied Music and Spanish language at Indiana University, and Broadcast Journalism at University of Southern California, before embarking on a career in television, where she was a graphic artist at Conan O’Brien’s talk show, “Conan.” She has now embarked on a real estate career after Conan ended his show.
Her interest in photography has been lifelong, starting with using a Polaroid camera for her junior high school newspaper. Her work has been shown at the Griffin Museum of Photography, Oceanside Museum, MOAH, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Photographic Gallery in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, and many galleries throughout the United States and Europe. Along the way, she has accumulated accolades and awards, most recently including winning a merit award from the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, California.
RECENT CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
2020--Winner, the Cornel/Henry Art Artist Award
2020--Winner, 15th Julia Margaret Cameron Award for non-professional series--Architecture and Interiors. Elizabeth Avedon, juror
2021--Merit Award, Members' Juried Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, for "Someone Knows You're Coming" Susan Burnstine, juror
2021--Honorable Mention for "Allee" at "The Awakening" exhibit, Lightbox Gallery. Douglas Beasley, juror.
IMAGES FOR SALE-
Diana--22" H x 17" W, Archival Pigment paper, $550 unframed
Ferns--22" H x 17"W, Archival Pigment paper, $550 unframed
Allee--22" H x 17" W, Archival Pigment paper, $550 unframed
Someone Knows You're Coming--11" H x 8.5" W, Vellum, backed with silver leaf, $550 unframed
Pathway--22" H x 17" W, Archival Pigment paper, $550 unframed
Kouros--22" H x 17" W, Archival Pigment paper, $550 unframed
Contact Lori Pond-
@loripondphotography
https://www.loripond.com
The project came to be when I despaired at being locked down, so I roamed around with my camera at the local arboretum and various botanical gardens throughout Southern California, which were some of the only places open during the early days of the pandemic lockdown. To crystallize my vision and also to make things simple, I shot with only one lens (a Lensbaby) and treated each photograph the same way in my post-production process.
The resulting images help me express my oftentimes deeply held, subconscious feelings toward the pandemic and its resulting isolation and uncertainty.
Ultimately, my project aims to ask where do we go from here, but also to provide room for contemplative thought and possible action, whether that action be internal or external."
Lori Pond (MA, University of Southern California) is a photographic artist based in Los Angeles, California. Her photography encompasses themes such as fear, good versus evil, life and death, and the impermanence of all things.
She studied Music and Spanish language at Indiana University, and Broadcast Journalism at University of Southern California, before embarking on a career in television, where she was a graphic artist at Conan O’Brien’s talk show, “Conan.” She has now embarked on a real estate career after Conan ended his show.
Her interest in photography has been lifelong, starting with using a Polaroid camera for her junior high school newspaper. Her work has been shown at the Griffin Museum of Photography, Oceanside Museum, MOAH, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Photographic Gallery in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, and many galleries throughout the United States and Europe. Along the way, she has accumulated accolades and awards, most recently including winning a merit award from the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, California.
RECENT CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
2020--Winner, the Cornel/Henry Art Artist Award
2020--Winner, 15th Julia Margaret Cameron Award for non-professional series--Architecture and Interiors. Elizabeth Avedon, juror
2021--Merit Award, Members' Juried Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, for "Someone Knows You're Coming" Susan Burnstine, juror
2021--Honorable Mention for "Allee" at "The Awakening" exhibit, Lightbox Gallery. Douglas Beasley, juror.
IMAGES FOR SALE-
Diana--22" H x 17" W, Archival Pigment paper, $550 unframed
Ferns--22" H x 17"W, Archival Pigment paper, $550 unframed
Allee--22" H x 17" W, Archival Pigment paper, $550 unframed
Someone Knows You're Coming--11" H x 8.5" W, Vellum, backed with silver leaf, $550 unframed
Pathway--22" H x 17" W, Archival Pigment paper, $550 unframed
Kouros--22" H x 17" W, Archival Pigment paper, $550 unframed
Contact Lori Pond-
@loripondphotography
https://www.loripond.com
FERNS by Lori Pond
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DIANA by Lori Pond
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KOUROS by Lori Pond
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Lori Pond says, "The photographs I’ve chosen to submit are my reaction to the unprecedented times we are all living through right now.
The project came to be when I despaired at being locked down, so I roamed around with my camera at the local arboretum and various botanical gardens throughout Southern California, which were some of the only places open during the early days of the pandemic lockdown. To crystallize my vision and also to make things simple, I shot with only one lens (a Lensbaby) and treated each photograph the same way in my post-production process.
The resulting images help me express my oftentimes deeply held, subconscious feelings toward the pandemic and its resulting isolation and uncertainty.
Ultimately, my project aims to ask where do we go from here, but also to provide room for contemplative thought and possible action, whether that action be internal or external."
Lori Pond (MA, University of Southern California) is a photographic artist based in Los Angeles, California. Her photography encompasses themes such as fear, good versus evil, life and death, and the impermanence of all things.
She studied Music and Spanish language at Indiana University, and Broadcast Journalism at University of Southern California, before embarking on a career in television, where she was a graphic artist at Conan O’Brien’s talk show, “Conan.” She has now embarked on a real estate career after Conan ended his show.
Her interest in photography has been lifelong, starting with using a Polaroid camera for her junior high school newspaper. Her work has been shown at the Griffin Museum of Photography, Oceanside Museum, MOAH, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Photographic Gallery in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, and many galleries throughout the United States and Europe. Along the way, she has accumulated accolades and awards, most recently including winning a merit award from the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, California.
RECENT CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
2020--Winner, the Cornel/Henry Art Artist Award
2020--Winner, 15th Julia Margaret Cameron Award for non-professional series--Architecture and Interiors. Elizabeth Avedon, juror
2021--Merit Award, Members' Juried Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, for "Someone Knows You're Coming" Susan Burnstine, juror
2021--Honorable Mention for "Allee" at "The Awakening" exhibit, Lightbox Gallery. Douglas Beasley, juror.
IMAGES FOR SALE-
Diana--22" H x 17" W, Archival Pigment paper, $550 unframed
Ferns--22" H x 17"W, Archival Pigment paper, $550 unframed
Allee--22" H x 17" W, Archival Pigment paper, $550 unframed
Someone Knows You're Coming--11" H x 8.5" W, Vellum, backed with silver leaf, $550 unframed
Pathway--22" H x 17" W, Archival Pigment paper, $550 unframed
Kouros--22" H x 17" W, Archival Pigment paper, $550 unframed
Contact Lori Pond-
@loripondphotography
https://www.loripond.com
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HONORABLE MENTIONS-
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EXHIBITION #1-
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EXHIBITION #2-
https://laphotocurator.com/what-lies-ahead-susan-spiritus/exhibition-2/1
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https://laphotocurator.com/what-lies-ahead-susan-spiritus/exhibition-3/1
EXHIBITION #4-
https://laphotocurator.com/what-lies-ahead-susan-spiritus/exhibition-4/1
The project came to be when I despaired at being locked down, so I roamed around with my camera at the local arboretum and various botanical gardens throughout Southern California, which were some of the only places open during the early days of the pandemic lockdown. To crystallize my vision and also to make things simple, I shot with only one lens (a Lensbaby) and treated each photograph the same way in my post-production process.
The resulting images help me express my oftentimes deeply held, subconscious feelings toward the pandemic and its resulting isolation and uncertainty.
Ultimately, my project aims to ask where do we go from here, but also to provide room for contemplative thought and possible action, whether that action be internal or external."
Lori Pond (MA, University of Southern California) is a photographic artist based in Los Angeles, California. Her photography encompasses themes such as fear, good versus evil, life and death, and the impermanence of all things.
She studied Music and Spanish language at Indiana University, and Broadcast Journalism at University of Southern California, before embarking on a career in television, where she was a graphic artist at Conan O’Brien’s talk show, “Conan.” She has now embarked on a real estate career after Conan ended his show.
Her interest in photography has been lifelong, starting with using a Polaroid camera for her junior high school newspaper. Her work has been shown at the Griffin Museum of Photography, Oceanside Museum, MOAH, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Photographic Gallery in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, and many galleries throughout the United States and Europe. Along the way, she has accumulated accolades and awards, most recently including winning a merit award from the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, California.
RECENT CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
2020--Winner, the Cornel/Henry Art Artist Award
2020--Winner, 15th Julia Margaret Cameron Award for non-professional series--Architecture and Interiors. Elizabeth Avedon, juror
2021--Merit Award, Members' Juried Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, for "Someone Knows You're Coming" Susan Burnstine, juror
2021--Honorable Mention for "Allee" at "The Awakening" exhibit, Lightbox Gallery. Douglas Beasley, juror.
IMAGES FOR SALE-
Diana--22" H x 17" W, Archival Pigment paper, $550 unframed
Ferns--22" H x 17"W, Archival Pigment paper, $550 unframed
Allee--22" H x 17" W, Archival Pigment paper, $550 unframed
Someone Knows You're Coming--11" H x 8.5" W, Vellum, backed with silver leaf, $550 unframed
Pathway--22" H x 17" W, Archival Pigment paper, $550 unframed
Kouros--22" H x 17" W, Archival Pigment paper, $550 unframed
Contact Lori Pond-
@loripondphotography
https://www.loripond.com
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HOME PAGE-
https://laphotocurator.com/what-lies-ahead-susan-spiritus
FIRST PLACE-
https://laphotocurator.com/what-lies-ahead-susan-spiritus/first-place-mara-zaslove/1
TOP THREE-
https://laphotocurator.com/what-lies-ahead-susan-spiritus/top-three-mara-zaslove-dispersing-the-clouds-kip-harris-mother-and-daughter-matancherry-and-donna-bassin-hypothetical-landscapes-24-/1
HONORABLE MENTIONS-
https://laphotocurator.com/what-lies-ahead-susan-spiritus/honorable-mentions-diana-cheren-nygren-is-anyone-out-there-mara-zaslove-peeking-out-kip-harris-two-school-girls-kerla-/1
BEST SERIES-
https://laphotocurator.com/what-lies-ahead-susan-spiritus/best-series-kip-harris-mother-and-daughter/1
EXHIBITION #1-
https://laphotocurator.com/what-lies-ahead-susan-spiritus/exhibition-1/1
EXHIBITION #2-
https://laphotocurator.com/what-lies-ahead-susan-spiritus/exhibition-2/1
EXHIBITION #3-
https://laphotocurator.com/what-lies-ahead-susan-spiritus/exhibition-3/1
EXHIBITION #4-
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