Elizabeth Stone says of her series, '40 Moons', "Carl Sagan, astronomer and astrophysicist, reminds us that humans have evolved to wonder and to understand that we are actually “starstuff pondering the stars, that understanding is a joy, that knowledge is a prerequisite to survival.”

I hope to bridge the intensely personal with the universal by creating images that contemplate human existence in relation to our biological origin in the cosmos. 

Science has taught us that the gravitational pull of the moon tugs on the surface of our big, blue oceans until its surface rises up and outward.

Mythology and astrology has taught us that the moon is a symbol of subtlety, a luminary that provides light through reflection. The moon waxes and wanes, shifting and progressing through a cycle of light and dark.

A waning moon illustrates the ideas of release and contemplation where a waxing moon can represent growth. A new moon speaks of a rebirth and a full moon is symbolic of the height of power and the peak of clarity. 

My mom had Parkinson’s disease and dementia associated with this illness. Her disease progressed and like the cycles of the moon waxed and waned. As her death neared, she reflected more light. It is my hope that she reached a level of acuity and peace with her final breath. 

40 Moons was created to illustrate the last 40 months of my mom’s life. I photographed her daily records, some 3200 pages in notebooks. The words were written by her caregivers. They described the gentle patterns of her days, punctuated with laughter, hallucinations and worry.

Each image is a layered representation of a month, a blueprint to my mom’s existence as she returns to the stars."

Visual artist Elizabeth Stone explores perception, mark making and the passage of time by combining her study of photography and drawing with biology and digital technology.

The duality of art and science is a strong influence and she frequently looks to the natural environment as a point of departure when considering her own place ​in the world and the marks she makes. Influenced by artists as diverse as Harry Callahan, Cy Twombly and Agnes Martin, she uses a strict practice to push what  is expected of the photographic medium.

Stone’s studies of place and passage of time typically extends for years before she produces a ​portfolio of limited edition prints. She is grateful for the many artist in residence fellowships that she has been awarded which provide her with concentrated focus for creating original work while engaging in stimulating intellectual dialog with other artists.

Stone's work has been exhibited in art museums and galleries across the country and her images are held in both private and corporate collections. She lives and works in rural Montana where the sky is indeed big and the grass tall.                         

  
CV

EDUCATION:

1981 – 1985 Montana State University; Bozeman, MT, BS in Biology
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

1994 - 2012 Educator/Co-owner, Rocky Mountain School of Photography, Missoula, MT

EXHIBITS
Selected Works, The Curated Frig, Group Exhibit
Somerville, MA  Winter 2018

Negative/Positive,  Pictura Gallery, Two Person Exhibit                 
Bloomington, IN August - Sept. 2017

40 Moons in conjunction with In Other Words, Spartanburg Art Museum, Group Exhibit
Spartanburg, SC     Jan. - March  2017

40 Moons in conjunction with Enscribe, The Front Gallery, Group Exhibit
New Orleans, LA October 2016

40 Moons, The Granary Art Center, Solo Exhibit
Ephraim, UT October 2016

40 Moons, The Contemporary Art Center, Group Exhibit
Las Vegas, NV    July 2016

Skins, Shells & Meats, The New Orleans Photo Alliance Gallery, Solo Exhibit New Orleans, LA   Dec./Jan 2014/2015

The Beast Collaboration, The Sagebrush Gallery, Group Exhibit
Sheridan, WY,    Jan. 2014
10 Images from Death by Drowning Series

Blue Sky Gallery, The Drawers,
Portland, OR,   April 2013-2014

Clarence Strait 2, Atlantic Roll, David Weinberg Gallery, Light Exhibit            
Chicago, IL October 2012

Death by Drowning: Dragonfly, Moth & Mosquito Catcher

10x10x10 Tieton Arts, Group Exhibit,
Tieton, WA,    July 2012

Making Tracks, Ucross Gallery, Solo Exhibit Clearmont, WY      Feb. - May 2012

Caught, New Space Gallery, Group Exhibit Portland, OR       Feb. 2012


www.elizabethstone.com 

Ellen Jantzen says of her series, 'Losing Reality; Reality of Loss' "How does one experience loss? What does loss look like?

Catastrophic losses usually have a face; think war photos, photos from the World Trade Center, crashes of various sorts but I am interested in personal loss.

I have always been interested in alternate states of reality, but looking over my last few series, those initiated and completed since moving to the Midwest from California, I see that I am also dealing with "loss" in some form; loss of friends, home, youth, and the ultimate loss, loss of life. Death transforms us; reality shifts, but to what?

I am intrigued with how a person adapts to losses in their lives; how they are absorbed by events and changed; how they experience loss. I set about to address these issues through a photographic photosynthesis in this body of work; choosing photography as the medium to help me reveal reality while at the same time transform that reality to reflect a loss.           
In these images, I have placed my husband (Michael) in various environments where a loss of some sort has recently occurred. Some of the losses were very specific and personal and some were of a general, universal nature reflected in an inner state of anguish and eventual acceptance."

Ellen Jantzen was born and raised in St. Louis Missouri. Her early college years were spent obtaining a degree in graphic arts; later emphasizing fine art.

Ellen spent two years at FIDM (the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising) in downtown Los Angeles. Here, she obtained her advanced degree in 1992. After a few years working in the industry, including several years at Mattel Toy Company as a senior project designer, she became disillusioned with the corporate world and longed for a more creative outlet. Having been trained in computer design while at Mattel, Ellen continued her training on her own using mostly Photoshop software.

As digital technology advanced and the newer cameras were producing excellent resolution, Ellen found her perfect medium. It was a true confluence of technical advancements and creative desire that culminated in her current explorations in photo inspired art using both a camera to capture staged assemblages and a computer to alter and manipulate the pieces. Ellen has been creating works that bridge the world of prints, photography and collage.

Ellen is currently represented by
Susan Spiritus of the Susan Spiritus Gallery: www.susanspiritusgallery.com 
Bruno David of the Bruno David Gallery: www.brunodavidgallery.com
Qlick Editions, Amsterdam: www.qlickeditions.com

Awards

2017
SPECIAL PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR in the International Photography Awards.

1ST PLACE WINNER in the International Photography Awards, Digitally Enhanced Category.

HONORABLE MENTIONS for two series (Alternative Process Category) 10th Annual Pollux Awards, juror Julio Hirsch-Hardy managing director of The Gala Awards

HONORABLE MENTION for one series (Fine Arts Category 10th Annual Pollux Awards, juror Julio Hirsch-Hardy managing director of The Gala Awards

RUNNER UP in the 10th Julia Margaret Cameron Award honoring women in photography. 

SHORT LISTED Art Gemini PhotoX Award, exhibition in London, June

2nd PLACE NYC4PA Liquid 2017 Award, juror Debra Klomp Ching

NOMINEE (Fine Art Category) Fine Art Photography Awards

3rd PLACE Life-Framer open call, juror Brian Paul Clamp

NOMINEE (Abstract, Professional Category) 10th International Color Awards

FINALIST (Alternative Process Category) 9th Annual Pollux Awards, juror Julio Hirsch-Hardy managing director of The Gala Awards

2016
HONORABLE MENTION (Photomanipulation) for my piece “To Have and Have Not" ND Awards (Neutral Density Photography Awards)

BRONZE AWARD WINNER (Fine Art, Special Effects Category) 1st Tokyo International Foto Awards

FIRST PLACE WINNER (Fine Art, Special Effects Category) Moscow International Foto Awards 

LONGLISTED for the Aesthetica Art Prize (exhibited 04/14 - 05/29)

HONORABLE MENTION (Fine Art Category) for my piece “Committed to Memory, 2 - International Color Awards, 9th Annual

2015
WINNER of the 8th Julia Margaret Cameron Award honoring women in photography. Only 15 women were chosen world-wide by juror Laura Noble, UK.
WINNER-Alternative Process Category in the 8th Julia Margaret Cameron Award 

HONORABLE MENTION WINNER at the 10th Annual Black & White Spider Awards with in
Abstract Category for my piece “Finale”

HONORABLE MENTION (Fine Art Category) for my series "Unity of Time and Place" in the London International Creative Contest

SILVER AWARD WINNER for my piece, "A Resonant Chill" in Art Forward Contest, #3
2ND PLACE, MERIT OF EXCELLENCE AWARD, International Color Awards, 8th Annual 2014

GRANT-2014 INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS AWARD from the Santo Foundation, St. Louis Missouri


HONORABLE MENTION (Special Effects), in the Moscow International Foto Awards for my series "Place of Departure"

WINNER OF PX3, Prix de la Photographie, Paris awarded First Prize (Gold Medal) in Fine Art/Digitally Enhanced category for my newest series "Places of Departure".

GOLD MEDAL AWARD, in the San Francisco International Photography Exhibition, curated by Paula Tognarelli, Executive Director and Curator of the Griffin Museum of Photography... for my piece "Let The Others Follow"

HONORABLE MENTION, in Natural World exhibition at the Center for Fine Art Photography for my photo “Harmonic Progression”

HONORABLE MENTION, in The Life/Framer Beauty in Life exhibition for my photo “Remaining a Mystery”
2013

NOMINEE, for the 5th edition of the Julia Margaret Cameron Award for women photographers (Fine Arts Category).

HONORABLE MENTION, in The Texas Photographic Society's 26th Annual Members' Only show for my photo "Reaching The In-between"

WINNER, Landscape Section, in the Spring Awards at The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards

WINNER OF PX3, Prix de la Photographie, Paris awarded First Prize in category Fine Art, for the series "Transplanting Reality; Transcending Nature".... chosen from thousands of entries from 85 countries.

Recent Invitational Exhibitions

2017
THE HAND MAGAZINE's EXHIBITION,
OVERVIEW_2017, Group exhibition at the Bruno David Gallery, Clayton Missouri. June 24 -
August 12
FOTOGRAFICA BOGOTA, 7th International Biennial of Photography; Theme "Territories" at FOTOMUSEO, May. I am the featured artist.
 
"Mudras", opening July 7th at Leedy Voulkos Art
Center in Kansas City, MO. The show will run through August.
GRIFFIN MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY, http://griffinmuseum.org/show/disturbing-the-spirits/
2016

BERLIN FOTO BIENNALE, at Plazazzo Italia, Berlin - October 6-30 during the European Month of Photography
INVITATIONAL MOSCOW, at Na Kashirke Art Gallery, Moscow July 20-August 7th

2015
DEPTH OF FIELD, curated by RfotoFolio at Art Intersection Gallery in Gilbert, AZ September 8 - October 24
SUMMER SHOW, At Qlick Editions, Amsterdam. July 27-August 29
"and / or" A Group Exhibition, at Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis Missouri, May 1-August 22.
INCOGNITO, fund raising exhibition at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica CA. 05/02
POINT & SHOOT, solo exhibition at Qlick Editions, Amsterdam, opening March 6


2014
ART:314, at the Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis Missouri, November 14.
ELLEN JANTZEN, solo exhibition at Fontbonne University Fine Arts Gallery, St. Louis Missouri, August 29 - September 26
PORTRAIT/PROCESS Exhibition, at the International Photography Hall of Fame and Musuem, St. Louis Missouri, June 19-Sept 28.
OVERVIEW_2014, at the Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis Missouri, May 9 - June 21st
PROJECT ROOM, at the Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis Missouri.
PHOTO LA, featured in the Susan Spiritus Gallery booth, January 16-19
INCOGNITO, fund raising exhibition at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica CA. 04/26

Recent Juried Exhibitions

2017
SMALL WORKS, The Center For Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins CO. November 17 - Dec.16 

AMBIENT LANDSCAPES, Black Eye Gallery, Sidney Australia - October 30 - Nov 13

DECEPTION, Juried by Brian Paul Clamp, Filter Space at Filter Photo, Chicago Ill. September 15 - October 21
we like small things, (all images 10 x 10 or less) Filter Space at Filter Photo, Chicago Ill. September 15 - October 21

THE PRINT SWAP at PHOTOVILLE, Brooklyn Bridge Plaza, Dumbo New York, NY. Opens September 13

ANALOG v. DIGITAL, Foley Gallery, New York, NY. August 16 - August 26

DISAPPEARING WORLD, Edition One Gallery, Santa Fe. July 28 - Sept. 8 

ART AND OPPRESSION, CENTER Santa Fe, through September 15th

SOUTHERN LANDSCAPES, South X Southeast Photo Exhibition at Brickworks Gallery, Atlanta GA, Opening reception, March 11th

ROOTS, Second Place for my image, "Heritage"; La Photo Curator's on-line exhibition 2016

THE BILLBOARD CREATIVE, one of 45 billboards throughout the Los Angeles area, December 12-January 8, 2017

TRANSITIONS, at Edition One, Santa Fe NM; hosted by the America Society of Media Photographers. Opens October 11th.

TRANSIENCE, La Photo Curator's on-line exhibition

THE FENCE, an outdoor photography series, my work featured on the New Mexico

Photographer Showcase, opening July 9th
THE FRONTIER, at The New Mexico History Museum. Work selected by CENTER of Santa Fe. Opening June 10 - 30th

TRANSITIONAL LANDSCAPES at The Center For Fine Art Photography, May 6 - June 10, 2016, Curated by Natasha Egan
WINTER PICTURES, online at Humble Arts Foundation

 www.ellenjantzen.com 

Emily Belz says, "Forward From Where We Came is a series of digital color photographs taken in three houses: my husband’s childhood home, the home my parents shared until my father’s death, and my current home in Cambridge MA.

This two-year project is an inquiry into the immaterial aspects of inheritance. As I photograph I think about the lives lived in these homes, and the stories that survive. Many of the images bear traces of the people who occupy, or occupied, these spaces: hairpins, a handprint on a chalkboard, a piece of paper taped to the wall about to fall down.

I investigate these intangibles through the language of the lens."    

Emily Belz is a photographer and educator based in Cambridge, MA. Her work focuses on domestic still lifes, and many of her images bear traces of the people who occupy, or occupied, these spaces: hairpins, a handprint on a chalkboard, a piece of paper taped to the wall about to fall down."

Belz has exhibited her photographs both regionally and nationally. She was the recipient of a 2014 artist grant from the Cambridge Arts Council, and a 2015 Critical Mass Finalist.

Belz holds a BA in photography and art history from Hampshire College (1997), an MA in art and design education from the Rhode Island School of Design (2009), and an MFA from the New Hampshire Institute of Art (2017). She teaches classes and workshops at the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA.

When not making photographs she can be found sailing with her husband and young son, and chasing the light.Exhibition History:Exhibition Record

2017 
Catalyst: The Artist-Mentor Dialogue, 3S Artspace, Portsmouth, NH
23rd Griffin Museum Juried Exhibition, Instagram Exhibit, Paula Tognarelli, Juror 

MFA Thesis Exhibition, Sharon Arts Center, NHIA, Peterborough, NH
Stare, Boston City Hall, Boston, MA, Karen Haas, Curator

2016 
Home, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO, Kevin Miller, Juror
Danforth Art Annual, Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA, Jessica Roscio, Juror
Open Juried Exhibition, Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro, VT, Paula Tognarelli, Juror
Small Camera Bonanza, Panopticon Gallery, Boston, MA
From Black and White to Color: Three Generations ofFemale Artists, Z Gallery, Lowell, MA

2015 
New England Photo Biennial, Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA, Susan Nalband, Juror 

Photography Atelier at the Rockport Association, Rockport, MA

Photography Atelier 21, Griffin Museum ofPhotography, Winchester, MA
Classroom Conversations, Arlington Center for the Arts, Arlington, MA

Photography NOW, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA, Stephen Tourlentes, Juror 2012 Small Works, Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA

Liminal: The Space Between, Umbrella Center for the Arts, Concord, MA, Barbara Hitchcock,Juror

www.emilybelzphotography.com

Emma Sywyj says, " My artwork aims to capture and show life at it’s most vibrant & exciting.

The photographs I take encourage people to see the intricacies & beauty beyond the everyday. My artwork is often centered around my immediate environment and cultural identity. I celebrate culture in all its varied forms all over the world. I have photographed Europe and Asia capturing these countries and cultures as I experience them.

My work encourages viewers to feel awe and joy in the travelers quest and the rewards that experiencing other cultures can bring whilst developing my own cultural identity through photography.

I have been an artist for 14 years, 5 of those years I was based in London whilst studying photography at the Camberwell College of Arts at the UAL. From there I received a BA Honours in Photography and a Foundation Diploma in Art & Design.

I have exhibited my artwork internationally in the US in New York, LA & San Francisco and Athens in Greece and Budapest in Hungary and exhibited nationally in the UK and London several times where I currently live and work. I have also been published in several independent art magazines in the UK and exhibited my video art work in international film festivals around the globe."

CV:

Live and works in London, UK

b.1986, Nottingham, UK

Group Exhibitions

2017 GOLDTAPPED, The Newbridge Project, Newcastle upon Tyne

2017 The (Accidental) Marks Made While Making Art, Cultivate (on-line exhibition), London

2017 Breakdowns, Open Film Night, Hyde Park Picture Club, Leeds

2017 Blowing a Gail, Old Town House, Warrington

2017 Art Auction, Holy Biscuit Gallery, Newcastle

2017 Surprise 8, Organization Earth K44, Athens, Greece

2017 Street Photography, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

2017 Visualising The Home, The Vallum Gallery, Carlisle 

2017 Artistank Launch Party, Crypt Gallery, London

2017 Colour Assembly, Pop-up shop, London

2016 The China Connection, The Centre For Chinese Contemporary Art (CFCCA), Manchester

Filmography

2017    Screen Test: Part One, 13 Festival Transterritorial de Cine Underground, Spain

2017 Breakdowns, Open Film Night, Hyde Park Picture Club, Leeds

2012 The Glass Ceiling, Culture Unplugged, Humanity Explored Festival, India

2012 The Glass Ceiling, Festival of Nations, Austria

Teaching

2012 Guest Lecturer, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield 

2010 Macro Photography Workshop Tutor, The Site Gallery, Sheffield

Publications

2017 Magazine 43, Taiwan

2017 A5 Magazine, UK

2017 Average Art Magazine, UK

2017 Wotisart Magazine, UK

2017 Visualising the Home catalogue, The Vallum Gallery, Carlisle

2013 Agora Publication, London 

2010 Brixton Salon catalogue, Viewfinder Gallery, London

Online Publications

2018 Tepid Autumn Blog

2018 Anti-Heroin Chic Journal

2018 Wise Review

2018 C41 Magazine

2017 For Example

2017 PH21 Gallery

2017 Dodho Magazine

2017 Eyescape Magazine

2017 Fields Projects Gallery

2014 Soanyway

2012 Gola Blog

2012 Trebuchet Magazine

2009 Source Magazine

Competitions and Awards

2018 Los Angeles CineFest, Semi-Finalist, Los Angeles, USA

2018 Hollywood Art & Movie Awards, Nomination, Los Angeles, USA

2017 Los Angeles Photography Awards, 2nd Place, Los Angeles, USA

2017 Los Angeles CineFest, Semi-Finalist, Los Angeles, USA

2016 Family of Man : Old Age, International Photography Awards (IPA), Honorable Mention

2004 Channel 5 Big Art Challenge, South Yorkshire Regional Finals, Manchester 


Selected Talks

2017 Chair for a discussion about the subject of object trouve as part of the ‘All that glitters is not gold’ exhibition, Camden Arts Centre, London.


www.emmasywyj.com
 

Gary Beeber says, "The images I’ve chosen for this call represent grief to me on different levels.  

"Wall of Death, Dachau” was where prisoners were lined up, face to the wall, and shot.  “After the show, after the season” is about time passing, lives ended.

 “Abandoned pool, nobody enjoys it now” is about abandonment and death of the people who once lived and enjoyed this small decorative pool."

Gary Beeber is an award-winning American photographer/filmmaker who has exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the United States and Europe.  Solo exhibitions include two at Generous Miracles Gallery NYC and "Personalities" (summer, 2017) at Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA.  

Beeber’s work has also been included in juried exhibitions throughout the country.  Among Fortune 500 companies who collect his work are Pfizer Pharmaceutical, Goldman Sachs and Chase Bank.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2017:  PERSONALITIES, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
(curated by Paula Tognarelli, Executive Director and Curator, Griffin Museum of Photography)
PERSONALITIES, Providence Center for Photographic Arts, Providence, RI
             (curated by Paula Tognarelli, Executive Director and Curator, Griffin Museum of Photography)
2015:  Beauty is in the Details, Dodds & Eder, Sag Harbor, NY
2015:  Houston Center for Photography, online exhibition
2006:  Lonely Ride, Coney Island, Coney Island Museum
2005:  Happy Ride, Coney Island,  Coney Island Museum 
2004:  Happy Ride, pictures from Coney Island, Lyceum Gallery, Suffolk Community College, Riverhead, NY
2002:  Details of Sight, Egizio's Project, NYC
Photographs from the Jewish Cemeteries of the Saints, Morocco, Center for Jewish History, NYC
DACHAU, Photographs of the Concentration Camp, ALP Galleries, NYC
2001:  IMMORTAL REFLECTION, Recent Photographs by Gary Beeber, Generous Miracles Gallery, NYC
1998:  Time Passages, Generous Miracles Gallery, NYC

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS, 2018

First Annual Members Exhibition, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO, (curated by Brian Clamp) 
Black and White NOW,  South x Southeast PhotoGallery, Molena, Georgia (curated by Mark Steinmetz) 
HONORABLE MENTION:  response,  A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX (curated by Amanda Smith and Kevin Tully)
LENS 2018, Perspective Gallery, Evanston, IL  (curated by Paula Tognarelli, Director, Griffin Museum of Photography)

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS, 2017

The Creative Portrait, Los Angeles Center of Photography (curated by Ann Jastrab)
back/white, A. Smith Gallery, Johnson City, Texas (curated by Elizabeth Avedon)
New Directions, 17, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY,  (curated by Isaac Diggs, Rebecca Morse, Robert Stevens)
Photo Work, 2017, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY,  (curated by Ruth Erikson) 
DIRECTOR’S AWARD: The Invisible Made Visible, Photoplace Gallery, Middlebury, Vermont, (curated by Laurie Klein) 
Portals, Photoplace Gallery (Online Gallery) Middlebury, VT (curated by Aline Smithson)
Intimate Portraits, Photoplace Gallery, Middlebury, Vermont (curated by Joyce Tenneson)
HONORABLE MENTION: Nothing Special, L.A. Photo Curator (curated by Bree Lamb)
The Curated Fridge (curated by Brian Clamp)
The Curated Fridge (curated by Arlette Kayafas)
The Curated Fridge  (curated by Elin Spring)
Greetings from the Anthropocene, Gallery 110, Seattle (curated by Maiza Hixon)
Shades of Gray, Black Box Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Focus: Narrative Photography, Black Box Gallery, Portland, Oregon (juried by Christy Karpinski)
Black & White, Black Box Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Color: The Visual Spectrum, Black Box Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Unseen: Photography Beyond the Visible, PCPA, Providence, RI  (curated by Peter Miller & Laurie Klein)
3rd Open Call, PCPA, Providence, RI  (curated by Paula Tognarelli, Director, Griffin Museum of Photography)

www.garybeeber.com
 

Gary Beeber says of this work, "No matter how prepared you are for your mother’s death, it hits you hard when she dies. 

The reality that you’ll never see her again (she, who’s been with you for your whole life) sinks in. You might ask how is it that I could put this out there? 

My reply would be that my mother died several years ago and I could never look at these images till recently.  Somehow, putting the images out there somehow gives me a sense of closure.

www.garybeeber.com

Gary Beeber says, "No matter how prepared you are for your mother’s death, it hits you hard when she dies.  

The reality that you’ll never see her again (she, who’s been with you for your whole life) sinks in. You might ask how is it that I could put this out there?  

My reply would be that my mother died several years ago and I could never look at these images till recently.  Somehow, putting the images out there somehow gives me a sense of closure."

Gary Beeber is an award-winning American photographer/filmmaker who has exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the United States and Europe.  

Solo exhibitions include two at Generous Miracles Gallery NYC and "Personalities" (summer, 2017) at Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA.  

Beeber’s work has also been included in juried exhibitions throughout the country.  Among Fortune 500 companies who collect his work are Pfizer Pharmaceutical, Goldman Sachs and Chase Bank.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2017:  PERSONALITIES, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
(curated by Paula Tognarelli, Executive Director and Curator, Griffin Museum of Photography)
PERSONALITIES, Providence Center for Photographic Arts, Providence, RI
(curated by Paula Tognarelli, Executive Director and Curator, Griffin Museum of Photography)
2015:  Beauty is in the Details, Dodds & Eder, Sag Harbor, NY
2015:  Houston Center for Photography, online exhibition
2006:  Lonely Ride, Coney Island, Coney Island Museum
2005:  Happy Ride, Coney Island,  Coney Island Museum 
2004:  Happy Ride, pictures from Coney Island, Lyceum Gallery, Suffolk Community College, Riverhead, NY
2002:  Details of Sight, Egizio's Project, NYC
Photographs from the Jewish Cemeteries of the Saints, Morocco, Center for Jewish History, NYC
DACHAU, Photographs of the Concentration Camp, ALP Galleries, NYC
2001:  IMMORTAL REFLECTION, Recent Photographs by Gary Beeber, Generous Miracles Gallery, NYC
1998:  Time Passages, Generous Miracles Gallery, NYC

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
 
2018

First Annual Members Exhibition, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO, (curated by Brian Clamp) 
Black and White NOW,  South x Southeast PhotoGallery, Molena, Georgia (curated by Mark Steinmetz) 
HONORABLE MENTION:  response,  A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX (curated by Amanda Smith and Kevin Tully)
LENS 2018, Perspective Gallery, Evanston, IL  (curated by Paula Tognarelli, Director, Griffin Museum of Photography)
POSITIVE / NEGATIVE, Slocumb Galleries, Johnson City, TN  (curated by Margaret Winslow, Delaware Art Museum)

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2017
The Creative Portrait, Los Angeles Center of Photography (curated by Ann Jastrab)
back/white, A. Smith Gallery, Johnson City, Texas (curated by Elizabeth Avedon)
New Directions, 17, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY,  (curated by Isaac Diggs, Rebecca Morse, Robert Stevens)
Photo Work, 2017, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY,  (curated by Ruth Erikson) 
DIRECTOR’S AWARD: The Invisible Made Visible, Photoplace Gallery, Middlebury, Vermont, (curated by Laurie Klein) 
Portals, Photoplace Gallery (Online Gallery) Middlebury, VT (curated by Aline Smithson)
Intimate Portraits, Photoplace Gallery, Middlebury, Vermont (curated by Joyce Tenneson)
HONORABLE MENTION: Nothing Special, L.A. Photo Curator (curated by Bree Lamb)
The Curated Fridge (curated by Brian Clamp)
The Curated Fridge (curated by Arlette Kayafas),  The Curated Fridge (curated by Elin Spring)
Greetings from the Anthropocene, Gallery 110, Seattle (curated by Maiza Hixon)
Shades of Gray, Black Box Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Focus: Narrative Photography, Black Box Gallery, Portland, Oregon (juried by Christy Karpinski)
Black & White, Black Box Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Color: The Visual Spectrum, Black Box Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Unseen: Photography Beyond the Visible, PCPA, Providence, RI  (curated by Peter Miller & Laurie Klein)
3rd Open Call, PCPA, Providence, RI  (curated by Paula Tognarelli, Director, Griffin Museum of Photography)

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2016
The Curated Fridge, (curated by Paula Tognarelli, Executive Director and Curator, Griffin Museum of Photography)
A point of View: Contemporary Photography  Site: Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY,
(curated by Mitra Abbaspour, independent curator)
Narrative: People, Places and things  Black Box Gallery, Portland, Oregon,
(curated by Christy Karpinski, founder and editor of F-Stop Magazine)
Girls, Girls, Girls!  1650 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
How I Identify myself,  Las Laguna Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA  (featured artist)
Dudes, Bros & Gentlemen: The Man Show, 1650 GALLERY, Los Angeles, CA
"American Woman" Positive/Negative: 31st National Juried Art Exhibition,  Slocumb Galleries. Johnson City TN,
  (curated by Al Miner, Asst. Curator, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

www.garybeeber.com

Gregg Evans says, "I began working on A Setting Sun a few years ago shortly after turning 31, at a residency program in Upstate New York. 

I remember feeling my age, the oldest among a group who were only a few years out of school, like a chaperone making sure everyone was six inches apart at a high school dance.  I started making portraits of everyday objects from my day to day life, focusing on things which were often meant to be thrown away but would never really decay, or items recently bought at the store which somehow already looked dated; items which functioned as contemporary artifacts. 

Finding my Facebook feed suddenly cluttered with pictures of toddlers and announcements of first houses, I began thinking about my photographs in terms of aging, impermanence, and the passage of time.  What do we leave behind?  How will we be remembered?"

Gregg Evans is an artist working in Brooklyn, NY.  He holds an MFA in photography from Columbia College Chicago and a BFA in photography from the State University of New York at Purchase. 

Among other exhibitions, he has shown at the Aperture Gallery; New York, The Griffin Museum of Photography; Boston, White Columns; New York, and as part of the Pingyao Photography Festival in Pingyao, China.
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2017
A Setting Sun, The Gallery at C'Mon Everybody, Brooklyn, NY.

2010
The Things I Once Owned, Ebersmoore Gallery, Chicago, IL.

2009
Lucy said, ‘I don’t get it.’ And I said: ‘Word’., Envoy Enterprises, New York, NY.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2016
May I Introduce II, Curated by Hermes Payrhuber, Lantern Hall, Brooklyn, NY.

On The Shelf, Curated by Kelli Connell, Filter Space, Chicago, IL.

Appetite For Destruction, The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY.

2014
Aperture Summer Open, Curated by Chris Boot, Aperture Gallery, New York, NY.

20th Juried Exhibition, Curated by Aline Smithson, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA.

13th Annual Joyce Elaine Grant Photography Exhibition, Curated by Elizabeth Siegel, Texas Woman’s University Fine Art Galleries, Denton, TX.

2013
Midwest Contemporary, Curated by Karen Irvine and Natasha Egan, Lillstreet Gallery, Chicago, IL.

Recession Art Presents: Facts and Fictions, Curated by Ani Katz and Sara Winston, Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, NY.

Kinsey Institute 8th Annual Juried Art Show, Grunwald Gallery of Art, Bloomington, IN.

2013 Columbia College MFA Photography Thesis Exhibition, Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago, IL.

PUBLICATIONS

A Setting Sun, Vol. III, 5.5 x 8.5" perfect-bound softcover book, 68 pages, edition of 100, Published by +Kris Graves Projects, 2017.

A Setting Sun, Vol. II, 5.5 x 8.5" perfect-bound softcover book, 55 pages, edition of 125, Published by +Kris Graves Projects, 2016.

A Setting Sun, Vol. I, 5.5 x 8.5" saddle-stitched softcover book, 44 pages, edition of 125, Published by +Kris Graves Projects, 2015.

Gregg Evans: We Only See the Sky As It Was, Grant Gill, Lenscratch.com, 2013.

Don/Dean Interview, Dondeanblog.com, 2013.

FlakPhoto.com Feature, Flakphoto.com, 2013.

Magical Realism, Phillip A Hartigan, Hyperallergic.com, 2013.

At Home/Not At Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, Center For Curatorial Studies, Bard College, 2010.

Gregg Evans / Ebersmoore Gallery, New City, July 15, 2010.

Artist Statement: Gregg Evans, Lisa Baldini, Freewilliamsburg.com, 2009.

Winners, Juror of the GEISAI Prize, Marci Kwon, Whitewallmag.com, 2008.

AWARDS & RESIDENCIES

Wassaic Project Winter Residency, Wassaic, NY, 2014.

Honorable Mention, Camera Club of New York Juried Competition, Curated by Justine Kurland, 2013.

Albert P. Weisman Award, 2013.

Commissioned photographs for the CCS Bard Hessel Museum, 2010.

Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant Nominee, 2009.

COLLECTIONS:

MIT List Visual Art Center

The Joan Flasch Artist Book Collection

University of Chicago Library

The Perch Zine Library

www.greggevans.net

Jackie Dives says, "My dad died of a drug overdose in September 2017.

It had been over a year since we had seen each other. Three months earlier I had consciously decided, for the first time, not to call him on Father's Day.

I remember my dad as being compassionate. He cared for people and animals, he taught me how to change the oil in my car, and he was always singing. But his alcoholism and drug use had become so intense that there wasn't a time, morning or night, that I could call him when he wouldn't be intoxicated. I couldn't figure out how to communicate with him anymore, so I stopped.

A Room for the Pain is an intimate and unique look at the current overdose crisis told through a new lens. It is the story of the loss of my dad, and of the confusing and layered emotions that come with grieving a death caused by illicit drug use.

I turned to film and double exposures—photographic materials and techniques that physically and mentally slow me down, and focused on objects, mood, and colour.

Instead of showcasing people injecting drugs, dishevelled and on the streets, A Room for the Pain offers a counter-narrative to what is commonly perceived as addiction. Coming from a place of empathy and compassion, I am documenting the places my Dad and I visited when I was a kid, my trip to spread his ashes, and the people he was close to. 

This approach is intended to guide people towards thinking about drug use through a lens of harm reduction and human rights. Ultimately, I hope it will spark conversations that push the boundaries about the controversial decriminalization of drug use.

There is no doubt that there is a current public health crisis of overdose in Canada and the United States, but little is being done to actively stop it.

The Office of the Chief Coroner of British Columbia reported a 46% increase in illicit drug overdose deaths in 2017 from 2016, and The National Centre for Health Statistics reported in 2016 that the opioid crisis is linked to a two year drop in life expectancy among United States citizens.

According to The World Health Organization stigma is a major cause of discrimination which contributes to less access to harm reduction and other health services. Despite continued scientific evidence that proves medication and harm reduction treatments significantly contribute to fewer illicit drug-related deaths, stigma and moral judgement prevent these life-saving options to be supported by policymakers. I believe the only way to overcome this crisis is to reduce stigma by sharing more stories from the people behind the statistics."

Jackie Dives explores themes of identity and womanhood through the medium of digital and analog photography. Self-taught, Dives began taking photographs as a way to deal with her experience living with anxiety and depression. While working as a doula she began photographing women giving birth and this led to her interest in documenting social justice issues through the lens of the female gaze.

Inspired by photographers Nan Goldin, Francesca Woodman, and Mary Ellen Mark, Dives' photographs are diaristic, vulnerable, and sometimes confrontational.

Her work has been published internationally, including in Canadian Geographic, The Tyee, VICE, The Globe and Mail, and Maclean's.

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2017 Slow Like a Bruise, Quick Like Hunger | The Playground – Vancouver, B.C.
Photographs selected from 30 rolls of film that I had shot over 20 years but had not developed until 2017. I used the snapshots as a way to open a dialogue about anxiety and depression, as the photos were diaristic, never really intended to be on display, and therefore an innocent and honest reflection of my experience living with mental health issues.

2010 22 Proverbs | Libby's - Vancouver, B.C.
Mixed media work featuring text and collaged photos and magazines that were inspired by proverbs from the book Seven Hundred Chinese Proverbs translated by Henry H. Hart.

2004 Travel Me | Soma - Vancouver, B.C.
Diaristic and documentary portraits of my time living and working in Taipei, Taiwan.

2004 Other People's Property | The Whip - Vancouver, B.C.
Diaristic and documentary portraits of my time travelling and working in Europe.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2018 Photobase: Re-imagined Memories | CityScape Community Art Space – North Vancouver, B.C.
A Capture Photography Festival exhibition that explores what family photographs can represent.

2018 - On the Spot: Instant Stories | Science World - Vancouver, B.C.
A Capture Photography Festival exhibition that showcases the use of instant film to tell stories.

2013 Hot One Inch Action | Hot Art Wet City - Vancouver, B.C.
A one-night-only show of art reproduced on trading cards.

2011 Hot One Inch Action | Hand Eye Supply - Portland, OR
A one-night-only show of button art and social interaction.

2010 Carded | Jacana Gallery - Vancouver, B.C.

2007 Hot One Inch Action | Gallery Gachet - Vancouver, B.C.

AWARDS / SCHOLARSHIPS

2018 Recipient of the Uncharted Journalism Fund – Vancouver, B.C.

2013 12x12 Vancouver Photo Marathon | Award for “Impression” theme - Vancouver, B.C.

2012 12x12 Vancouver Photo Marathon | Best Photo Award - Vancouver, B.C.

2011 Metchosin International School of the Arts | Full Residency Scholarship - Victoria, B.C.

WORKS PUBLISHED

Tinderbox Publishing - USA

Canadian Geographic – Canada

The Globe and Mail - Canada

VICE - Canada & USA

Maclean's - Canada

True North Photo Journal - Canada

Brigitte Wir - Germany

The Tyee - Canada

Archer - Australia

Megaphone Magazine - Canada

The Establishment - USA

Green Parent - UK

Medical Observer - Australia

Squat Birth Journal - USA

Sad Mag - Canada

Disney - USA

Creavida Foundation - Argentina

Gesellschaft für Geburtsvorbereitung - Germany

PRESS

2017 – VICE

2017 – Aye Mag

2017 – The Georgia Straight

2015 – Feature Shoot

2015 – Beautiful Decay

2013 – Hot Art Wet City - Canada

2013 – My Modern Metropolis - USA

2013 – Daily Mail - UK

2013 – Huffington Post - Canada

EDUCATION

2010 Langara College, Vancouver, B.C. – Basic Digital Photography

2012 Langara College, Vancouver, B.C. – Basic Workflow

2017 Travel & Documentary Photography with Brett Grundlock, photographer for The New York Times

2015 Visual Journalism with John Lehmann, staff photographer at the Globe and Mail

2016 Portrait Masterclass with John Lehmann, staff photographer at the Globe and Mail

www.jackiedives.com
 

Jake Mosher says, "I believe that for those of us who climb the mountain, cross the river, and look around the bend, the world we find there is still a wonderful thing to see."

Mosher grew up in Northern Vermont, not far from the Canadian border and has lived in Montana for the past 23 years. He has worked as a miner, logger, substitute school teacher, prize fighter, novelist, and photographer. 

His photos have won awards from The Smithsonian and the National Wildlife Federation, been featured in galleries, and many magazines. With a focus on the natural world and its rapidly disappearing wilder places, Mosher tries to show that so much around us all is worth preserving. 

www.jakemosher.com

Jared Ragland says of his work, "As an homage to Alfred Stieglitz, the father of modern photography and creator of the renowned series of cloud pictures he first titled Songs of the Sky and later came to call Equivalents, I created a project-specific Instagram account in which I photographed and posted a picture of the sky nearly every day for an entire year. 

Just as Steiglitz’s cloud pictures were imbued with a symbolist aesthetic, and over time became increasingly abstract equivalents of his own experiences, thoughts, and emotions, so too did my pictures assume symbolic weight and personal meaning as the year passed.

Shortly after beginning the project on the Spring 2015 Equinox, my mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer, and the act of making these images quickly took on a kind of liturgical significance. Each picture became a brief meditation, a prayer, for mom as I marked the passage of another day and considered the nuances of light, space, form and texture overhead. The series includes images made on the day she was diagnosed and the days we spent together at home and in the hospital. They mark the day she died, the day she was buried, and the difficult days that followed."

The entire series can be seen at instagram.com/eequivalentss.
Jared Ragland is a fine art and documentary photographer and former White House photo editor.

He is the photo editor of National Geographic Books’ "The President’s Photographer: Fifty Years Inside the Oval Office" and has worked on assignment for NGOs in the Balkans, the former Soviet Bloc, East Africa and Haiti. In 2015 Jared was named one of TIME Magazine’s “Instagram Photographers to Follow in All 50 States” and in 2017 was awarded an Alabama State Council on the Arts fellowship. 

His work has been featured by Forbes, The Oxford American, and The New York Times and he has exhibited internationally with recent shows at Candela Books + Gallery in Richmond, Va., the In/Out Transylvania Foto Festival in Cluj, Romania, The National Geographic Society, Birmingham Museum of Art SHIFT space, Huntsville Museum of Art, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Mobile Museum of Art, Rayko Photo, the Los Angeles Center of Photography, Click! Photography Festival, and Filter Photo.

Jared is an alumnus of LaGrange College and a graduate of Tulane University with an MFA in Photography. He resides in his hometown of Birmingham, Alabama.

For more information, vist jaredragland.com follow @jaredragland on Instagram and Twitter.

CONTACT
www.jared ragland.com // instagram.com/eequivalentss // instagram.com/jaredragland

Jessica Paullus says, "My father died suddenly almost four years ago now.

The three images here are from an ongoing project where I address questions of what happens when we die, how is our memory of our loved one changed by their death and how death impacts the living or those left behind."

Paullus is predominantly self-taught and has been photographing since the age of ten. She redirected her career focus to pursuing photography as an art and profession several years ago after the sudden death of her father. 

Jessica specializes predominantly in portraiture, conceptual and documentary photography and has a strong interest in documenting the diverse range of the human experience and emotion.

 www.jessicapaullus.com

 

Paullus says, "Remembering: My father was a school teacher. I am looking at an album of school pictures of him through the years. Being a teacher was a huge part of his identity and is how many people remember him. I had him for Spanish class in the ninth grade and have fond memories of harassing him in class. 

Some days I would raise my hand and ask for lunch money in the middle of class. 

Other days I would whisper to my seatmates that he was going to trip over the transparency cord and it would inevitably happen. 

My dad was a bit of a clutz/absent-minded professor at times. 

​Or we would do obnoxious things like throw paper wads at each other while his back was turned. It was all in good fun. He had a great sense of humor and had to try hard not to laugh at our antics."

JP Terlizzi says of his series, 'Mother',  "The course of a life can be determined by a single, sharp moment; one that is inevitable and ultimately essential.

A moment of trauma, setback or challenge reverberates for years to come, daring us to keep moving forward, and shaping our capacity to connect and flourish. 
 
My mother was devastated by my father’s infidelity, which led to a bitter divorce that had a profound impact on our family. As I witnessed her life unravel, I thought about strength of character, and began to wonder whether it was an innate quality or a personal choice.

How is it that some emerge from the most difficult of moments better and stronger, while others find comfort in solitude, anger, jealousy and despair?
 
It’s been over 45 years since that traumatic event, yet my mother has never fully recovered nor has she felt the need to seek professional help for her mental stability. Instead, I witnessed a woman who thrived on self-pity and detached herself from loved ones. As a result, her extreme actions and behavior were a detriment to the entire family."
 
Mother explores the emotional and psychological terrain surrounding the ending of relationships and the loss of personal identity.

As a victim of a tattered family scarred by emotional trauma, I use photography as a means to reconnect with my mother and respond to a relationship that was non-existent for over two decades.

For me, the process was one of personal discovery, but more importantly, it provided closure. A therapeutic process emerged where the feelings of sorrow, disappointment and anger resurfaced, and I was able to tame those feelings through acceptance and forgiveness."

JP Terlizzi is a visual storyteller who uses photography to explore themes of memory, relationship, and identity. Drawing inspiration from his personal experiences he captures moments that convey narratives—whether the story is a framed moment that reveals something about family and home, or a poetic interpretation of a fading reality, the feeling of loss and detachment are recurring themes in his work.

Born and raised in the farmlands of Central New Jersey, JP currently lives in Manhattan.

His career spans thirty plus years as creative director for a boutique agency specializing in retail design. He earned a BFA in Communication Design at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania and has studied photography at the International Center of Photography in New York and Maine Media College.

His work has been exhibited in the United States and abroad including shows at The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO, Umbrella Arts Gallery, New York, NY, Soho Photo Gallery, New York, NY, The Griffin Museum, Winchester, MA, Tilt Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX, Project Basho Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, Municipal Heritage Museum, Malaga, Spain, and The Berlin Foto Biennale, Berlin, Germany, among others. He was named a Photolucida 2016 Critical Mass Finalist for his series Mother and was a 2015 Critical Mass Finalist for his series Hunter’s Calling which was also selected for the C4FAP Portfolio ShowCase Vol. 9 and ONWARD Compé '16. His work has been featured in PDN, Lenscratch, L'oeil de la Photographie, All About Photo, The Photo Review, F-Stop and Abridged Magazine.

He also finds writing in the third person a little strange. 

www.jpterlizziphotography.com
 

Jung S. Kim says, "‘Circle II’ series is a personal narrative inspired by negative emotional experiences and feelings that I faced in my childhood.

After my parents got divorced, I had to live with my aunt, a Buddhist shaman with severed sculptures of a Buddha, a monk and a spirit of mountain surrounded with primitive and colors of the ritual paintings on the alter in her room. I was a little girl in this unstable environment, and these unfamiliar and shocking scenes horrified me. But on the other hand, the colors of the paintings and the figures of the sculptures left a big impression on my soul. Hidden in my world, in quiet and melancholy mood, I would adopt and replace different characters in the Korean fairy tale with myself and dream their happy lives to escape from reality.

In this series, I bring the Korean folk tales and legends into my work and replace the fictional characters with myself. The personalities of the characters are reinterpreted from a subjective point of view. So their personalities are intentionally twisted and exaggerated.

I portray myself as a goblin, or an angel, a Taoist magician or a stepmother like a character of Cinderella.

In retrospect, I see it as a way of overcoming my traumatic experiences while also exploring and developing my own sense of self at the same time."

Jung S Kim was born and raised in Seoul, Korea & majored in Photography in Chung-Ang University in her mother country. After immigrating to the US in 2002, she has continued to build her career as a photographic artist.

Currently, nationally and internationally her work has been shown at Providence Center for Photographic Arts, Filter Photo Festival, Humble Art Foundation, The Center for Fine Art Photography, The Griffin Museum of Photography and New York Foundation for the Art, The 3rd Asian Women Photographer Showcase Obscura Festival, and also Daegu Photo Biennale.

She had been invited to attend The New York Times-Lens New York Portfolio Review and her work was chosen for inclusion in “Photography NOW 2014” at The Center for Photography at Woodstock.

Kim won the ‘The Grand Prix Juror Award of Merit winners’ Fine Art Photography Award, Director’s Choice Award of the C4FAP and AHL Foundation of Visual Arts Award.

Also, her “Circle” series has been published as “Zine Collection No10, Circle” by Editions Bessard in Paris.

Elsewhere she has participated in Arles Photo Festival in France, Kwangju Biennale, and Seoul Metropolitan Museum, Daelim Museum in Korea and Soho Photo Gallery, HERE Art Center, Elga Wimmer PCC, Dean Project in NYC, etc.

Her work can be seen in the collections of The Center for Photography at Woodstock in New York, FNAC (Fonds National d’Art Contemporian) in France, Luciano Benetton Collection in Italy, and Daelim Museum, Samtan Art Mine Museum in Korea.

www.jungskim.com
 

Justin Aversano says, "These images represent the irreparable grief that overtook me during the time of my mothers passing in January, 2014.

Photography helped me heal and cope with my loss; it is a therapeutic tool to see the truth in light and understand what life is after death. These images are not merely a mournful memory, they are documents of a mood from my human experience; grief."

Justin Aversano is an artist and curator working within the New York art scene. He has organized a number of shows in New York City, as well as public art exhibitions around the country.

Justin is also the owner and operator of Brooklyn Lightroom, a photo finishing, consulting, and scanning studio located in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Additionally, Justin is the founder of Artists Trading Art, and the co-founder and creative director of SaveArtSpace, a nonprofit dedicated to bringing community art to public spaces.

A humanist and a social entrepreneur, Justin connects his art with the world around him through capturing moments, faces, and communities that surround him, bringing them together through the lens of his camera.

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Education

Received a BFA from the School of Visual Arts Photography Program, 2014.

2010 - 2014 Dean's List.

Experience

Saveartspace — Co-founder and Creative Director, Bushwick, Brooklyn (January 2015-present)

Saveartspace is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit art organization founded in 2015, that transforms billboard advertisement space into public art installations. The mission of Saveartspace is two part: enrich local communities through public beautification and, foster creative culture by giving artists the opportunity to use our platform to display their work. Saveartspace works within the community, partnering with local and regional businesses to convert these languishing spaces into works of public art.

Brooklyn Lightroom — Owner and Operator, Bushwick, Brooklyn (November 2014-present)
Brooklyn Lightroom is a digital imaging lab servicing the artist community. Founded in late 2014, Brooklyn Lightroom offers professional fine art, studio, and event photography, large format printing, precision scanning, as well as creative consulting and an array of cross-media project services.

Artists Trading Art — Founder, Bushwick, Brooklyn (September 2017-present)

Artists Trading Art is a nonprofit art organization founded in 2017, that empowers artists to network, as well as exhibit, and trade artwork in a multitude of gallery settings. Artists Trading Art mission is simple: we foster communities founded upon the idea to support each other's creative energy and inspiration by sharing, trading, and bartering their art with one another. Artists Trading Art works within the local art community of New York City, partnering with local art spaces to provide new opportunities for artists to gather, connect, and exhibit their art.

Photographer’s assistant — Greater New York City (2010-2014)

Assisted and edited for professional photographers including: Steve Pyke, Kimberly Butler, and Lisa Berg. Expert knowledge of lighting setups, set design, color management, archiving, editing, & printing.
                                
Curated Exhibitions

Gallery

The Living Gallery - April 2015

Gallery Petite - September 2016

The Storefront Project - February 2017

Public Art

Bushwick, NY - June 2015, September 2016, August 2017, & December 2017

Wynwood, FL - December 2015

Manhattan, NY - March 2016, July 2017, November 2017, & December 2017

Flatbush, NY - April 2016

Los Angeles, CA - January 2017

Golden, CO - September 2017

Louisville, KY - June 2017

Detroit, MI - January 2018

Selected Group Exhibitions:

See/Exhibition Space - July, 2013

Michael Mutt Gallery - August 2013

1650 Gallery - November 2013 & November 2014

Verum Ultimum Art Gallery - February 2014

Bushwick Community Darkroom - April 2014, 2015, & September 2016

The Living Gallery - April 2014, June 2015, & April 2017

Black Box Gallery - September 2016

Gallery Petite - September 2016

www.justinaversano.com

 

Kev Filmore says of his series, "21 Magnolia Rd. is my childhood story about being raised by seemingly successful, but mentally ill parents in the 1960’s.

My mixed media work illustrates my search for the truth about my upbringing, which despite a happy facade, was riddled with addiction, sexual abuse and emotional neglect.

I realized early on that life did not have to be miserable. I had two worlds growing up, the one at home and the other one waiting just outside our front door and in my imagination.

I learned to see beauty where shadows loomed. Examining the stuff of my childhood has revealed, reinforced, and left some questions still unanswered. I put the past back together, along with myself in the process.

Telling stories about my family over the years, people would always ask,
“How did you turn out so normal?”
 “Every company needs a worrier and your mine, Mary Kevin!”

My father was a big exec in the music business and tried to run our family the same way.

He appeared to know everything and was a charismatic liar. Even at nine, I knew I was being handed a raw deal. My Mom described living with him as walking on eggshells and we ran like the dickens when we heard the garage door go up!

21 Magnolia Rd. was my childhood address in Briarcliff Manor NY, during the sixties.

People had no idea what went on in our house; and, most of the time, neither did we. My Mom was an artist who rarely made art and when she did, she was only fleetingly happy due to anxiety, depression, alcoholism and a myriad of physical ailments. I loved her very much and always tried my best to help.

Early on, I worked hard to become a good artist. I relied on art to escape the day to day. We were surrounded by dichotomies; creative brilliance wove its way through lies and stories. Beauty and ugliness were bed-partners and emotional chaos resulted. My parents seemed as good as they were bad. I was the oldest girl of four children and put in charge of the clan.

Rebelling against the misery and experiencing the sheer pleasure of making art has always been my lifeline. Art was my ticket to art school and adulthood where I have been left to ponder my beginnings.

Collaging together my past, I tell my childhood story using Polaroid’s, B&W prints, drawings, artifacts, and recreations from memory to build my narrative.

Mental illness was only whispered about when I was growing up. 21 Magnolia Rd. is my survival story of family love and hate, alongside the power of the arts to heal. In attempting to paint the picture my way, I find the strength to be myself, and the confidence to make new work."
"I was just lucky, I guess…"

Filmore began her lifelong love of exploring processes that mix media while earning a BFA from University of the Arts in 1976 for illustration.

She was featured in the New York Times, PDNEDU and PDN’s 2010 Annual for her work and teaching. Her Dreamers series received a 2005 Golden Light Award and her Abandoned series earned second place Portfolio from PIEA in 2009. Ms. Filmore was a Nationally Honored Educator in 2016, and was awarded a Vivian Pomex Sabbatical for 2017-2018.

Images from her current series, 21 Magnolia Rd. have been selected by jurors Marvin Heiferman, Cig Harvey, Hamidah Glasgow, Gordon Stettinius, Ashby Nickerson, J.Sybylla Smith and Brian Paul Clamp to be included in exhibitions at Garrison Art Center, Tilt Gallery, The Griffin Museum, Candela Gallery and on The Curated Fridge, 2014 through 2018.

The project was featured in October 2017 issue #18 of The HAND Magazine and is in the permanent PhotoPlace Online Gallery for Myths, Legends, and Dreams, juror Amy Holmes-George. Juror and curator Paula Tognarelli selected work from her Abandoned series for the Tree Talk exhibit at The Griffin Museum at Lafayette City Center in Boston through May 2018.

Ms. Filmore is thrilled to share that she will be exhibiting her series 21 Magnolia Rd., opening April 7 and on view through May 6 2018, at Davis Orton Gallery in Hudson NY.

www.kevfilmorephoto.com

​Image 'Got Out Alive' - When I left for art school I knew I would never live at home again. My art work had rescued me and I was finally free. The longing to have a sense of home and connection continues to this day, over forty years later. But, I am still glad I got out!

Little Nana Is Gone - My mother came home from the hospital and my grandmother died in the bathroom getting ready to go home to her house. When I came home from kindergarten, she was gone forever. I never really had anyone like her in my life again.

Visiting Mom In the Hospital - My mother started going to the hospital when we were very young and I remember visiting with her mother, Little Nana. She had come to take care of us and I was crazy about her. I loved her clothes, decor, strength and calm smiling face. Most of all she made me feel safe and loved.

Kristen Emack says of her series, 'You are Not a Story I Want to Tell', "On April 10th, 2017, I removed the Guardian Angel clip from above the driver's seat of my Honda, and dropped it in my bag. 

My best friend Gina gave it to me 20 years ago to keep me and my passengers safe. The very next day, Gina, and her beloved black lab, died in a fatal car accident when she unintentionally drove off a cliff and landed on the edge of the San Miguel River on a mattress of twigs, rocks and feathers.

This is a work in progress as I accommodate the nuisances of grief and denial in the face of sudden loss."

Kristen Emack is a photographer and educator who lives and works in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She holds a degree in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and although she took some undergraduate course work, she is primarily a self-taught photographer. 

Kristen has exhibited in group and solo shows in the Greater Boston area and was awarded a Women in Photography grant at Maine Media Workshops. In 2015, Scout Magazine named her Best Photographer in Cambridge. Her work has been published in PDN and Rangefinder, and was recently selected for The Fence; New England Annex, Call and Response: Art as Resistance exhibition hosted by Strange Fire Collective and The Curated Fridge.

Kristen's work also includes two long-term projects that look at childhood, family and visibility. 

CV

EDUCATION

1994 Umass Boston,B.A. in Latin American and Caribbean Studies

EMPLOYMENT

Owner of Kristen joy Emack Photography  since  2012 Specializing in portrait and event photography

Photography Teacher at Cambridgeport Community Schools 2003-2005

AWARDS/EXHIBITIONS


2003 Recipient of Honorable Mention in Smithsonian Magazine Photo Competition


2003-5 Participant in CAOS, Cambridgeport Open Studios, Cambridge, MA.

2012 Winner of Featured Online Image, Confessions of a Prop Junkie

2013 Winner of Featured Online Image, Project 12

2014 Awarded Best Photographer in Cambridge, SCOUT Magazine, Cambridge, MA.

2015 Winner of FACES Gallery, PDN Magazine/Photo District News. Published September 2015

2016 Winner of Best Friends Gallery, Rangefinder Magazine, Published January 2016

2016 Participant in CAOS, Cambridge Open Studios, Cambridge, MA

2016 Group Show, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA.

2017 Strange Fire Collective: Call and Response: Art as Resistance

2017 The Curated Fridge, Wonder, curated by Arlette Kayafas

2017 The Griffin Museum of Photography 23rd Juried Exhibition for Instagram,  curated by Hamidah Glasgow

2017 New England Regional Photographer’s Showcase, an annex exhibition to The Fence.

GRANTS

2004 Recipient of Grant for Women in Photography, Maine Media Workshops 1997

www.kristen-emack.format.com 

Laura Williams says, "In 2008, my husband passed away.

There were few words that could lighten my burden and the deeply physical hold grief had on me. I was utterly lost. These photographs map my travels with grief and helped me find my way to a new and unimagined life.

I sought images that evoked a clear physical “feeling”—and those feelings began to articulate the emotions and memories that I could not verbally express.

Looking for the right photograph was a journey and the sensation of composing the image was like the recalling of a dream that lies just under the surface as you wake. 
These images are populated with organic materials – insect bodies, spider webs, twigs, leaves and moss – that I collected on my daily walks and observed over time. 

As they dried and decayed, these scraps of natural detritus twist and curl, culminating in increasingly gestural forms.  I cultivated a mode of photographing these materials designed to bring the viewer into a mindset of wonder – an almost vertiginous reframing of natural elements. 

I work through the photographic process from the perspective of painterly abstraction, harnessing a visceral fascination with the unseen world. I am interested in how we navigate the unknown and are driven by a sensorial engagement with visual perception, My aim is to produce images that evoke sense memories and somatic responses to the visual worlds which I create."

Laura Williams is originally from Boston, MA and is a multidisciplinary artist; a painter, a photographer, a collagist-textualist-colorist and graphic designer.

Her recent work has a focus on photography and is driven by a sensorial engagement with visual perception–seeking to produce images that evoke sense memories and somatic responses to the visual worlds she creates. 
Laura Williams received a BFA from the University of Vermont and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She is now the Art Director for Algonquin Young Readers in Chapel Hill, NC.

CV:

Solo exhibit, Room 100 Durham Arts Guild, Durham, NC
2015-16   Group Exhibition, M E T A L,, LIGHT Art+Design, Carrboro, NC
2015   Solo Exhibition, I Walk I See I Feel I Think, Off the Radar PopUp/Click Triangle Photography show at Golden Belt Arts, Durham, NC.
2015   Juried Exhibition, 61st Annual Juried Exhibition, ( Juror: Alice Gray Stites, Museum Director and Chief Curator of 21c Museum Hotels) Durham Arts Guild, Durham, NC.
2015   Juried Exhibition, 9th Photographic Image Biennial Exhibition, ( Juror: Burk Uzzle, photographer, Wislon,NC) 
Wellington B. Gray Gallery, Eastern Carolina University, Greenville, NC.
2014   Group Exhibition, The Contemporaries/Photography, LIGHT Art+Design, Carrboro, NC2014   Juried Exhibition, Pixel to Grain, Jurors Prize-First Place, ( Juror: Jeff Whetstone, photographer, Durham,NC) 
Durham Arts Guild, Durham. NC 
2014   Juried Exhibition, Still Life With Juror Rebecca Senf, The Center for Fine Art Photography, 
Fort Collins, CO2014   Solo Exhibition, Under Botanical Influence, Durham Arts Council, Durham, NC 

2013   Solo Exhibition, Botanically Influenced, The Framer’s Corner, Carrboro, NC
2013   Group Exhibition, Winter Show, GreenHill, A Space for NC Art, Greensboro, NC
2013   Juried Exhibition, Botanicals, Juror’s Choice Winner, The Kiernan Gallery, Lexington, VA
2013   Juried Exhibition, Sixth Juried Annuale, The Light Factory Contemporary Museum of 
Photography and Film, Charlotte, NC

2012   Group Exhibition, METAL, LIGHT Art+Design, Carrboro, NC
2012   Group Exhibition, Alumni Show, University of Vermont, Davis Center, Burlington, VT

2011   Two Person Exhibition, Patterns, with Todd Tinkham, Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill, NC
2011    Juried Exhibition, Gardens and the Natural World, Hillsborough Arts Council, Hillsborough, NC

2008   Solo Exhibition, Repetitive Nature, Nested, Carrboro, NC
2006   Solo Exhibition, Illustrations, Sofia’s, Carrboro, NC

Bibliography

Artist Profile “Photographs, Laura Williams”, Catamaran Literary Reader, Issue 7, Fall 2014

Kat Kiernan, “Botantical Winners: Laura Williams”, (blog) October 24, 2013. 7:09 pm. 
kiernangallery.blogspot.com/2013/10/botanicals-winners-laura-williams.html      

Artist Profile, “Illustration: Laura Williams”, DPI Magazine, vol. 92: 2007: 74-77.

Employment

Present Employment:2008-present: Art Director, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
1990-present: Freelance Illustrator and DesignerTeaching

2015-2016   Teaching Artist, Community in the Schools Orange County

1981-1982   Artist-in-Residence/Residential Life, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Community2015-2018   Chapel Hill Public Arts Commission

www.repetitivenature.com
​www.laura-williams.com

Lee Kilpatrick says of  this series, 'Photos from A Case Of You', "My sister died at the beginning of 2014 after a short illness.

Her death was unexpected, but not surprising. For the previous 30 years, she had experienced mental health issues and related alcoholism.

When she was 12, her Raggedy Ann doll began telling her that she was worthless and a bad person; around this time she started drinking.

This show spans the second half of her life, including her difficult last eight years. At holiday gatherings, she often exhibited quiet disconnection and unease due to some combination of paranoia, depression, alcohol and mind-clouding medication. She rarely went out in public. These photos show how small her world had become, a situation that, despite my family's hopes, never improved.

In the photos submitted, two of them depict my sister's room; one, shortly after she died, and one about a year later.  The first one shows her room in basically the same state it was in when she was taken to the hospital. 

The trunk and stool in the foreground of the photo were set up so her cat could get on the high bed.  They were pushed out of the way into the position you see them by the paramedics. 

The second photo of her room shows it as it appeared about about a year later; my mother had switched almost all the furniture and had removed most of my sister's belongings.

Separately, there is a drawer in my childhood room that contains some clothing my sister received as gifts on her last Christmas that she never wore; the tags are still on them."

Lee Kilpatrick is a fine art photographer and the director of the Washington Street gallery and studios in Somerville, MA. His primary focus is documentary candids in both digital and film.

His work usually depicts people in everyday but intimate situations; the subjects seem to be in their own private worlds, conscious of neither the camera nor themselves. Along with conventional formats, he also uses panoramic photography, presenting a closer view of the subject set in a wide view of the environment.

CV

EDUCATION

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 1991

BS in Computer Science; minor in literature

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Director, Washington Street Gallery, Somerville, MA 2002-present

Responsible for high-level planning and execution of the gallery & studios direction,
structure, events, and maintenance. Leads monthly meetings of the membership at
large, and also the steering committee.

GRANTS

LCC Grant from Somerville Arts Council 2016

LCC Grant from Somerville Arts Council 2006

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Washington Street Gallery, Somerville, MA April 2017

More than One (exhibition with sculptor Jill Comer)

Washington Street Gallery, Somerville, MA November 2015

A Case Of You
Washington Street Gallery, Somerville, MA November 2014

Corn Maze: An Eye For An Ear

Gallery 321, Washington Street Art Center, Somerville September 2013

Backyard BBQs And Other Social Gatherings

Gallery 321, Washington Street Art Center, Somerville October 2012

Splendid Isolation: Late Summer In Northern Maine

Gallery 321, Washington Street Art Center, Somerville July 2011

Forever Hold Your Peace (exhibition with photographer Gretchen Graham)

Gallery 321, Washington Street Art Center, Somerville June 2010

Unnatural Habitats
Gallery 321, Washington Street Art Center, Somerville July 2009

Spatial Relations
Gallery 321, Washington Street Art Center, Somerville November 2008

Meet Me In The Dark
Gallery 321, Washington Street Art Center, Somerville November 2007

Entanglement: Strange Interaction At A Distance

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Washington Street Gallery, Somerville, MA August 2017

Secret Santa

Nave Gallery Annex, Somerville, MA April-May 2017

#RESIST (juried by Susan Berstler and Greg Cook)

New England School Of Photography, Boston, MA March-April 2017

Intimate View (juried by David Hilliard)

The Curated Fridge, Somerville, MA March-April 2017

Spring Show (juried by Jessica Roscio)

Cōlson Gallery, Easthampton, MA February-April 2017

The All-Too-Human Condition (juried by Paula Tognarelli & Rick Colson)

The Griffin Museum At Digital Silver Imaging, Belmont, MA Dec. 2016

New England Portfolio Review 2016 Exhibition

Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA December 2016

Winter Solstice 2016 Exhibition

Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA September-October 2016

Somerville Toy Camera Festival (juried by Christopher James)

Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson, NY September-October 2016

2nd Annual Group Show (juried by Paula Tognarelli)

Griffin Museum of Photography, Instagram Feed July-August 2016

22nd Annual Instagram Show (juried by Paula Tognarelli)

The Curated Fridge, Somerville MA July-August 2016

July-August Show (juried by Paula Tognarelli)

Danforth Art, Framingham, MA June-August 2016

2016 Juried Exhibition (juried by Jessica Roscio)

Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA December 2015

Winter Solstice Member Show

Peter Miller Fine Art Photography Gallery, Providence, RI October 2015

2nd Open Call (juried by Paula Tognarelli)

Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA September 2015

Photography Atelier 22

Washington Street Gallery, Somerville, MA September 2015

Somerville Toy Camera Festival (juried by Aline Smithson)

Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA July-August 2015

21st Annual Juried Show (juried by Jim Caspar)

Rockport Art Association, Rockport, MA May-June 2015

The Griffin Museum of Photography Atelier 21 Exhibit

Photography Center of Cape Cod, Barnstable, MA March-April 2015

Fluent In Photography (juried by Caleb Cole)

Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA March 2015

Photography Atelier 21

Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA December 2014

OTHER

Somerville Toy Camera Festival 2014 Juror June 2014
With Meg Birnbaum, juried work for 4 galleries across Somerville – Brickbottom
Gallery, Nave Gallery, Nave Gallery Annex, and Washington Street Gallery.
Festival consisted of these galleries plus a student project at the Somerville
Museum. Participating photographers were from 7 countries and 26 states.

ARTSomerville Artist of the Month January 2006
Panel Discussion, Mary Baker Eddy Library December 2005
Abelardo Morell, Melanie Stetson-Freeman, and Lee Kilpatrick discussed their
photography of everyday life in conjunction with an exhibit of photography of the
Mary Baker Eddy household.

Somerville Open Studios participating artist 2000-2015

www.leekilpatrick.com
 

Leslie Sheryll says, "My work explores identity specifically dealing with women.

I use anonymous 19th century tintypes which I appropriate and alter. This era strictly delineated the roles of males and females in society. I give each of these women a name commonly used in 19th century, thus giving each an a personal identity."

CV

Exhibitions

2018 The Photography Gala Awards, Women Seen By Women, Runner Up, Series: Antidote
2018 Artless Bastard, Broken Hearts Exhibition, Group Show, De Pere, Wisconsin
2018 The Untitled Space, One Year of Resistance, Group Show, New York, New York

2017 APhotoEditor, Jonathan Blaustein, The Best Work I Saw at Review Santa Fe: Part 1
2017 Alfa Art Gallery, Fall Salon, New Brunswick, New Jersey
2017 Griffin Museum of Photography, Gray Matters, Group online exhibition
2017 Gallery Vivid Foto in Barcelona 10th Edition of the Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers
2017 The Gala Awards 10th Pollux Award winner for Children category Series: Sugar and Spice
2017 Arts Council of Princeton,Group Show Princeton, New Jersey
2017 Float Photo Magazine, Female Gaze, Series: Botanicals https://issuu.com/floatphotomagazine/docs/float_photo_magazine_female_gaze
2017 Bent But Unbroken, Group Exhibition, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, Mi
2017 10th Edition of the Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers, winner alternative process
2017 L'Oeil de la Photographie Series:Pick Your Poison http://www.loeildelaphotographie.com/en/2017/04/22/article/159947873/leslie-sheryll-pick-your-poison/ 2017 Riverview, article/interview by Sally Deering “Superwoman Soars at 107 Bowers
2017 The Untitled Space, She Inspires, Group Show New York, New York
2017 A Stitch in Time, Finalist Art Scene Today online competition http://artscenetoday.com/juried-exhibitions/stitch-time/
2017 107 Bowers Gallery & ArtSpace , Group Show, SUPERWOMAN, Jersey City, N.J.
2017 Nasty Women Group Show/Fundraiser, Knockdown Center, Queens, New York

2016 Impressa Magazine,On Line Publication http://www.impressaphoto.com/voided-leslie-sheryll/ 2016 Berlin Foto Biennale, Berlin, Germany
2016 Underexposed Magazine, Series: Botanicals https://underexposedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/149883917509/leslie-sheryll
2016 L'Oeil de la Photographie Series Mother Nature
http://www.loeildelaphotographie.com/en/?s=leslie+sheryll
2016 Houston Center for Photography, 34th Annual Juried Membership Exhibition, Houston, Texas 2016 Der Greif Magazine, Series: Mother Nature, 9th Edition
2016 Magna The Working Large Show, Group Show, Tivoli Artists Gallery, Tivoli, New York 2016 Heaven Art and Antiques, Group Show, Asbury Park, New Jersey
2016 Picturing The Garden State (Now), Gallery Bergen, Group Show, Paramus, New Jersey
2016 Finalist Focus, Photo l.a. exhibition, Los Angeles, California

2015 L'Oeil de la Photographie Series The Cult of Womanhood
http://www.loeildelaphotographie.com/en/?s=leslie+sheryll
2015 The 8th Edition of the Julia Margaret Cameron Awards For Women Photographer - Cult of Womanhood Series Finalist
2015 Finalist Charles Dodgson Black & White Award
2015 The 7th Edition of the Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers, Portrait finalist, Berlin Germany
2015 Focus l.a. Finalist

2014 Viridian Gallery, Juried Show, New York, New York

2012 Mana Fine Art, Group Show, Jersey City, New Jersey

2010 Newark Museum, Juried Show, Make Something Beautiful, Newark, New Jersey

2009 Viridian Artists Gallery, Juried Show, First Place Winner, New York, New York
2009 Vermont Photo Workplace, Group Show, Middlebury, Vermont
2009 Causey Contemporary, Group Show, Brooklyn, New York

2008 Jersey City Museum, SPRAWL, Group Show, Jersey City, New Jersey

2007 Hoxie Gallery, Group Show, Westerly, Rhode Island
2007 About Photography, Group Show, Victory Hall, Jersey City, New Jersey
2007 Crossroads Gallery, Group Show, Kansas City, Missouri.
2007 Ch’i Contemporary Fine Art Gallery, Group Show, Brooklyn, New York


Re: Cleo and Cassie
The two images from the series Without deal with the end of a marriage. The loneliness of being one when you are used to two and the feeling of a void in your life. At the same time te images are about the need to be to fill the void and move on.
 

Re: Cleo and Cassie
The two images from the series Without deal with the end of a marriage. The loneliness of being one when you are used to two and the feeling of a void in your life. At the same time te images are about the need to be to fill the void and move on.

Re: Hattie
As a child my mother would sometimes say she was feeling blue...
A color that refers to a feeling of sadness, melancholy, loneliness, isolation.
The color blue was related to rain in Greek mythology. It was believed that the god Zeus would make it rain when he was sad.
The genre of music referred to as The Blues came to mean agitation or depression. And when Picasso sank into a deep depression he began what was to become known as his Blue Period when the color blue dominates his paintings. 

Linda Sandow says about her series, "Energies from Within", "People react uniquely to different kinds and intensities of grief. 

But those introspections result in changed energies which are emanated to everyone and everything around us.  The extent and levels of those introspective energies and interactions change and determine our trajectory.  Our vision and path to our future.

This series “Energies from Within” explores the energies between us and those surrounding us as we resolve our sorrows and move forward.  And that new energy propagates to all around us. 

We should not let our fear of moving forward in a different light prevent us from following our deepest instinct to a richer life.  We can allow our energy and creativity to shine thru."

Linda Sandow is a Fine Art Photographer focusing on infrared, metaphorical and abstract photography. She expressed her artistic talents early, becoming an accomplished musician, playing Principal Flute with the Canadian Opera, Royal Winnipeg Ballet and Bolshoi Ballet.

Moving on, she developed more analytically, overseeing software development for traders at 2 major financial institutions. Then she turned to photography.

She studied photography at the International Center for Photography  (ICP) in New York but John Paul Caponigro has been her primary influence.   

Her photography blends her artistic side with her technological precision. The results are photographs that capture moods and feelings, drawing the viewer into the scene, beyond what is literally there on first hand observation.

In 2017, Linda joined the Artist Roster of Soho Photo Gallery in downtown NYC.  She will be exhibiting images from her series "Energies from Within" in 2018.
Ms. Sandow currently lives in New York City where she photographs and exhibits in galleries throughout the Northeast US.  

Linda has been selected to exhibit in 30 juried group exhibitions since 2006. She has been published in magazines,  developed 2 books and  had her images used on two book covers, most recently by the Carolina Academic Press.    

Linda holds a bachelor’s degree in Flute Performance from The Juilliard School and an M.B.A. in Finance from N.Y.U. Stern School of Business.

Solo Gallery Work

2017 - Soho Photo Gallery - Joined Artist Roster
2018 - Soho Photo Gallerry - Solo Exhibition of "Energies from Within" series which deals with energy transformations as we transform (September 2018)
Awards
2017 - Black & White Spider Awards - Nominee in the Fine Art Category 
2015 - Julia Margaret Cameron International Competition - 2 Honorable Mentions in each of the Fine Art and Abstract categories
2015 - 10th Annual Black & White Spider Awards - Honorable Mentions in the Abstract category
2014 – NYC4PA  International Competition– 1st Place Black & White Exhibition
2014 – NYC4PA  International Competition– 2nd Place and also Honorable Mention – Transportation-themed Exhibition
2013 - Pollux International Photography Competition – Finalist, Fine Art category
2009 - Lucie International Photography Competition – 8 Honorable Mentions
Juried Group Exhibitions
2018
•   Umbrella Arts Gallery - Let There Be Light (And Shadow) - juried by Harvey Stein  
2017        
•   Garrison Art Center - PHOTOcentric Exhibition - juried by Francis M. Naumann  
2016        
•   Berlin Biennale Gala Awards - invited to exhibit based on Julia Margaret Cameron Competition Achievements  
•   Soho Photo Gallery - curated by Lois Youmans and Sandra Carrion
•   National Arts Club - Structure in the City - Juried by Dr. Stanley Burns.  Three images selected for exhibition, one image selected for the    Exhibition Book Cover 
2015
•   The National Arts Club – Whims of Weather – juried by Dr. Stanley Burns, Chairperson of the Photography Committee of the National Arts Club
•    New Century Artists Gallery, New York, NY – Black & White International Competition for NYC4PA – juried by Dan Burkholder
•    The Atlantic Gallery, Chelsea  - Colors
2014
•    PhotoPlace Gallery – Middlebury, Vt. – Water: Elemental and fundamental – juried by Laura Moya
•    Site 109 for NYC4PA – Transportation –2nd Place winner and also Honorable Mention– juried by Lester Lefkowitz
•    New York University – The Decisive Moment – 5 images selected for exhibition - curated by Pam Tinnen
2013
•    PhotoPlace Gallery – Middlebury, Vt. – Curiouser and Curiouser: Photographic Dreams and Fictions”– juried by Blue Mitchell
•    Garrison Art Center, Garrison, N.Y. – “PhotoCentric” – juried by Cig Harvey and Robin Rice
•    Photoplace Gallery, Middlebury, Vt.  – “Car Culture” – juried by David Wells
•    PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, Vt. – “Mountains and Sea”
•    Constellation Gallery, Portland, Me. – “Art Beyond Borders”
•    NOoSPHERE Gallery – “A Fly on the Wall”
•    Grady Alexis Gallery – “Women Inspired” – juried by Andrea Arroyo
2012
•    Center for Cuban Studies (non-juried)
•    25 CPW – “Cuba” (non-juried)
2011
•    Durst Gallery – “New Visions”
2010
•    Pen and Brush Gallery – “Body Image” – juried by Michele Kort
•    Manhattan Borough President Gallery – “Art of Commerce”
     
Publications
2017 - Book cover - image selected by Carolina Academic Press for one of their publications
2016 - Image selected for Exhibition Book Cover ("Structure In the City" Exhibition) at the National Arts Center, NYC
2016 - 10th Annual Black & White Spider Awards Journal
2013 - Book Designer for “A Fly on the Wall”  Exhibition at NOoSPHERE Gallery
2013 - Imprints Magazine – “Urban Landscapes” – juried by Charles Traub
2008, 2006 – PWP Magazine


Her work is held in private collections internationally and can be viewed on her website: www.lindasandow.com and on Instagram: lindasandow99.

 

LI Plato says, "I have had a lot of loss in my short life, which has caused me to reflect on what comes after, and the divine.

I have always been captivated by the solitude of nature, and untamed desert and wilderness.

I have a similar connection to places of remembrance and legacy—cemeteries, memorials, and antiquities—as well as spiritual places and places of pilgrimage.

For me, these places provide a connection to what is larger than us during our brief, mortal time on earth. I am also drawn to the textures, patterns, and abstracts found in nature and landscapes. I aspire to capture the wildness and spirit of desolate places, as well as the desolation sometimes found in urban environments. I am recently intrigued by documentary photography and storytelling, and have been photographing political protests and moments.

I am based in the northeast-US, my country of origin. After many decades, however, I still note that I am originally from the west coast.

As a younger person, I traveled the western US deserts with my friend and mentor, a photographer and folklorist. Lee taught me large format photography and darkroom processing, and together we sought high desert vistas, ghost towns, and frontier cemeteries.

These landscapes were a familiar view into rural childhood landscapes in the high desert, and memory, and my first introduction to photography.

I specialize in landscapes, nature, and travel.  I am continually inspired by what is around the bend, and spend a lot of time fantasizing about my next walkabout.  In the last couple years—and for an assortment of reasons—I have been trying to find inspiration closer to home, and to appreciate the full concept of home, rootedness, and place.

As an avid wanderer, I am always amazed at the multitude of ways people experience life, and how they explain the spiritual world and afterlife. As a former archivist and former chef, I am always intrigued by the experience, social history, and food behind the moments and shots. Thus far, the connection in my work is documenting what is beyond us and larger than us, the interconnectedness of life, and what makes us human."   

www.liplato.com

Instagram          @liplato
Google+             http://bit.ly/2EMSwdN
Twitter               @li_photos


 

Lodiza Lepore says, "If a new thought can enter the mind, even for the briefest moment, then change has a chance.

Through this work my aim is to deconstruct the American 'fog' & other fairy tales by exposing a critical view of the actual state of things, to reveal the true nature of human life stripped of pretenses that hide authentic feelings of loneliness, isolation & insecurity. Inspired by the notion that every split second is unique, I seek to expose the extraordinary from the ordinary.

This photographic vision has been featured in several publications, including B & W, The Photo Review & Creative Quarterly and shown in U.S. galleries from coast to coast, including European venues."

CV

PUBLICATIONS: 

2018 --   “As Above, So Below” by Edward Lent, book cover 2017 -- “Laban Movement” book cover for Geomantics

Dance Analysis 2016 --   Street Photography Magazine: December Issue 2016 -- “Flight” Blurb Books/PhotoPlace Gallery
2016 --   “Changes” Blurb Books/Blank Wall Gallery 2016 -- ArtAscent: “Heat” Art & Literature Journal
2016 --   “Three Plays” by D. Harlan Wilson/Black Scat Books: cover

2015 --   “Animal World” Harvey Stein/Umbrella Arts, NYC
2015 --   Street Photography Magazine: Issue 26
2015 --   The Photo Review

2014 --   Street Photography Magazine: Issue 18 
2014 --   Creative Quarterly Issue 35

2013 --   B&W Magazine “Spotlight” Issue #97 -- ‘Circus on Broken Boulevard'
 
2012 --   B&W + Color Magazine Issue Issue 88 
2012 --   Outdoor Artisans Book Project 
2012 --   Blurb Books “Window & Mirrors” 

2011 --   Creative Quarterly Issues [24 & 25] 

AWARDS:

2014   PH21      Gallery [Budapest] "Associate's Choice Award" 

2011 & 2014     CQ35 Magazine – Award of Excellence 

2011 & 2013     Black & White Magazine Portfolio- Spotlight & Merit awards 

2012                 WPGA Gala Awards (Street Photography) Honorable Mention - Publication Date: January 2013 

2006                 Women In Photography International [WIPI] “Decisive Moments” - exhibitor and honorable mention. 

Gallery Group Shows

2018   “Peripheral Visions” PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2018   “Raised Voices” River Garden Gallery, Brattleboro, VT
2018   “Street Photography” Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, Greece

2017   “Travel” Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, Greece
2017   “Monochrome” Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, Greece
2017   “Punctum” PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2017   “Sacred & Profane” Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2016   “Streetscapes” 1650 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2016   “Flight” PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT
2016   “Summer Rome” Domus Romana Gallery Via Quattro Fontane, Roma, Italia 
2016   “Change” Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, Greece

2015   “Animal World” Umbrella Arts, NYC
2015   “Solstice” Haggus Society, Los Angeles, CA
2015   “The Festival Reimagined” Bennington Museum, VT
2015   “Fine Art” Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, Greece
2015   “Fading” PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2015   “Stories” PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2015   “Edges & Curves” Haggus Society, Los Angeles, CA
2015   “Wish You Were Here 14” A.I.E. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2015   “Light & Shadow” Gallery 25N International Fine Art
2015   “One Year On” PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2015   “A World Beyond” PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2015   “Unexpected” PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2015   “Vignettes” Haggus Society, Los Angeles, CA
2015   “Stivers Arts Auction” Stivers Arts, Dayton, OH
2015   “Black & White” PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2015   “Tiny Divas” Non-Fiction Gallery, Savannah, GA
2015   “UN” Haggus Society, Los Angeles, CA
2015   “City” PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

2014   “Personality” PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2014   “Stories” PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2014   “BitchFest” Haggus Society, Los Angeles, CA
2014   “Inside Out” PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2014   “Edges & Curves” Haggus Society, Los Angeles, CA
2014   “Stivers Arts Auction” Stivers Arts, Dayton, OH
2014   “GLAAD ART AUCTION” Metropolitan Pavilion, NYC

2013   “Make Believe” Darkroom Gallery, Burlington, VT
2013   “Windows & Mirrors” PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT
2013   “Prime, Primal, Primary” Saranac Gallery, Spokane, WA
2013   “Exposure” Stivers School for the Arts, OH
2013   “BitchFest” Haggus Society, Los Angeles, CA
2013   “GLAAD ART AUCTION” Metropolitan Pavilion, NYC

2012   “BitchFest” Haggus Society, Los Angeles, Ca
2012   “Edges & Curves” Haggus Society, Los Angeles, CA
2012   “Occupy” Branch Gallery, North Adams, MA
2012   “The Surrealist Influence” The HideOut Theatre, Austin, TX
2012   “Her Love Made Visible” Arts East New York, NYC
2012   “You’ll Find This Offensive” Red Door Space, Pittsburgh, PA
2012   “Fears & Phobias” Torpedo Factory Art Center/Target Gallery, Alexandria, VA 

2011   “Spooky Show III” Lightbox Gallery, Astoria, OR 
2011   “Edges & Curves, Nothing in Between” Haggus Society, CA
2011   “Be Seen In Washington DC” [Lensbaby] Washington, DC
2011   “Humanity” Powerhouse Arena DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY
2011   “Black & White-Black, White, & All Points in Between”  MPLS Photo Center, Minneapolis, MN
2011   “Bed I” Harvey Stein/Umbrella Arts, NYC
2011   “Saratoga Inside & Out” Saratoga Arts Center, NY 

2010   “Spooky Show II” Lightbox Gallery, Astoria, OR
2010   “Bed I” Harvey Stein/Umbrella Arts, NYC

2009   “Spooky Show I” Lightbox Gallery, Astoria, OR

Recent Solo Exhibitions

2015   “The Circus Continues” Williamstown, MA 2013 “Circus on Broken Blvd” Photo Biennial/Open; Louisville, KY 

2013   “Circus on Broken Blvd II” Bennington Museum, VT 

2012   “We are the 99% of ONB” Williamstown, MA 

2011   “Portrait of an Occupation” Williamstown, MA 2011 “Circus on Broken Boulevard I” Williamstown, MA 

2010   “Captive Beauty” Williamstown, MA

Contact:  lodiza@comcast.net 
             
 

Luis Lazo says, "Mainly concerned with the fragility of time and memory, this work attempts to place some of my mother’s final ephemeral words into the physical world.

To simultaneously heighten their personal meaning and empower them with new ones as they are placed and displayed in new locations.

Their simplicity, I hope, encourages interaction, reflection and personal interpretation.

Born in Chile, grew up in England. 
Worked in France for nine years, before relocating to the US. 

Studied Art History and Photography at Bourneville School of Art, before gaining 1st Class Honours Degree 

in Visual Communication from the University of Wolverhampton, U.K.
 
Began as a stills photographer on feature films, as well as shooting  portraits
for publications such as Harpers & Queens, The Telegraph Magazine and Premiere Magazine among others. 

Also photographed for fashion publications including British GQ, Twill in Paris, 
and So-In in Japan. 

Two Books of new work will be published by Another Place Press Spring 2018"

Exhibition History 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 

2016          Distant Fields,  & Gallery, solo show, Miami

2012   When You're a Boy, Dina Mitrani Gallery, Solo show, Miami 

2010   All that you leave, Kahmann Gallery, Solo show, Amsterdam, Holland 

2007   Weeds, Chateau La Thibaudier, Arts Festival, France 

2006   Un Voyage Intemporel, Chateau d’Hardcourt, France 

2005          Instants Fugaces, Chateau d’Hardcourt, France

GROUP EXHIBITION

2017          RAW Pop Up - Art Basel Miami 2017
2017          Robert Fontaine Gallery : Miami Beach Pop-Up Gallery Opening. 
2017          Snap Space and Flying Horse Editions : LIMITED EDITION  
2017          With Each passing Moment RISE Gallery, UK
2017          Snap! Space : ‘LE SALON 2017
2017          Captiva Island Group show
2017          Time & Place Robert Fontaine Gallery  

2016          CONTEXT Art Fair, Miami art week
2016          Decadent City, Robert Fontaine Gallery, Miami
2016          Form In Light,  SNAP! DOWNTOWN, Orlando

2015          Plus On, Deering Estate, Miami  
2015          Structure and Perspective, Snap Orlando, Orlando

2014          All About Warhol, CU-1 Gallery, Miami 
2014          Sweat II Martin and Pat Fine Center for the Arts, Miami 

2012          Featuring Photography, Deering, Miami 
2012          Paradise : Lost or Found, Studio 18, Pembroke pines 

2010          Figuratively Speaking, Studio 18, Pembroke Pines 
2010          Disposable, Dina Mitrani Gallery, Miami 

www.luislazophotography.com
 

 

Luke Jordan says, "Talking to Myself: A Conversation with Images Posted to Facebook and Instagram, Prompted by the Occasion of My Mother’s Death.

I try to post images to Instagram and Facebook on a regular basis (phone pics almost exclusively) and I prefer not to write much (if anything at all). These platforms have provoked me in ways that may not have been possible otherwise, by creating threads and grouping images in ways that I might night have imagined. For me, they are a bittersweet reminder and reconstruction of recent events."
 
Luke Jordan has taught at the University of Kansas since 1988, and currently he is a Lecturer and Academic Program Associate in the Department of Visual Art, KU School of the Arts. He has been an active artist and teacher since receiving a BFA in Art and an MFA in Photography from the University of Michigan, and over the years, his work and effort as an artist and a teacher have become inextricably linked. 

His research is concentrated in photography and video, and in making work he has explored a range of issues, media, processes, and technologies. In addition to traditional darkroom and digital processes, his experience includes large format color photography, video installation, alternative/historical printing processes, and pinhole photography; more recently, he has thought a lot about Instagram and the influence Social media are playing in shaping photography. 

In addition to teaching, Luke works at the University of Kansas Spencer Museum of Art as a Specialist in Photography/Works of Art on Paper, providing his expertise to the SMA program known as Walk-Ins Welcome Fridays, and consulting on other issues related to photographs and the history of photography. Luke has also been the staff photographer for the KU University Theatre since 1997.
 
mini CV


T E A C H I N G   E X P E R I E N C E
2007 - present   Lecturer and Academic Program Associate
University of Kansas CLAS, Department of Visual Art
Lawrence, Kansas

1988 – 2013   Lecturer, PhotoMedia
 University of Kansas School of Architecture, Design Department
Lawrence, Kansas

1988 – 1997  Lecturer, Photography
Kansas City Art Institute, Photography/Video Department
Kansas City, Missouri

1992  Lecturer, History of Photography
University of Kansas, Kress Foundation Department of Art History
Lawrence, Kansas

1987 – 1989  Lecturer, Photography
University of Missouri-Kansas City, Department of Art & Art History
Kansas City, Missouri
 
P R O F E S S I O N A L   E X P E R I E N C E

2008 - present   Specialist, Photography/Works of Art on Paper
Spencer Museum of Art
Lawrence, Kansas

1997 – present   Staff Photographer, University Theatre
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

1984 – 1986   Photographic Technician, Dye Transfer and Mural Printer
Kibby Photographic Laboratories
Hazel Park, Michigan
 
S E L E C T E D   E X H I B I T I O N S  &  S C R E E N I N G S

2018     Memory
 Midwest Center for Photography Gallery, Wichita, KS

2017    Metamorphosis of Identity
E.B. White Art Gallery, Butler County Community College, El Dorado, KS
Developed Work: 9th Annual National Photography Fellowship Competition
Midwest Center for Photography Gallery, Wichita, KS
[selected as the 2017 Developed Work Fellowship Award Recipient]

2016     Size Matters: Medium Festival of Photography
Low Gallery, San Diego, CA
University of Kansas Faculty Exhibition
Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, KS

2015   Size Matters: Medium Festival of Photography
Low Gallery, San Diego, CA

The Nude as Art
LA Photo Curator/online exhibition (www.laphotocurator.com)
 
2014   The Middle: Photo-Based Works by Artists Living in Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa
University of Kansas Art & Design Gallery, Lawrence, KS
 
 www.luke-jordan.format.com
 
www.lensculture.com/luke-2
 
IG: biz_lukie
 

Marie Triller says, "I  documented each 9.11 anniversary at ground zero for a decade and this work culminated in my book Ten Years: Remembering 9.11 (John Isaacs Books, New York, 2011).  

My annual pilgrimage became a ritual of documenting the thousands who gathered beyond the fences and barricades of ground zero - there to pay their respects and remember those who perished in the terrorist attacks of September 11. To me, they represented millions more who shared their sorrow.

in 2016 I returned to photograph the 15th anniversary of 9.11. 

Inside the Memorial on September 11 for the first time (though I have visited other times in recent years), I soon found myself photographing the flowers, not the crowds. 

It was a new experience and I responded to it in a way which surprised me and moved me, as well. These were not simply flowers. These were symbols representing families and their pain. Precious memories of a victim's child. Honor and respect from fellow firefighters.  As I  photographed the flowers which lined the name-filled stretches of granite, I sought to convey these emotions and I discovered that a flower can speak volumes about love, loss and the fleeting wonder of life."

Marie Triller is a photographer residing in New York’s Hudson Valley. Her book, Ten Years: Remembering 9/11 (John Isaacs Books, New York) chronicles a decade of September 11 observances at ground zero. Her work is in the permanent collections of George Eastman House and the National 9/11 Museum & Memorial. 

Triller received her MFA in Photography from the State University of New York at New Paltz. She has taught photography at several institutions including Union College, The College of St. Rose and Albany College of Pharmacy.

An actively exhibiting artist for over thirty years, Triller’s work has been shown in numerous group and solo exhibitions, both nationally and internationally. Her work has been featured online at Your Daily Photograph, AI-AP ProPhotoDaily and Professional Photographer. Triller is a member of WPA (Women’s Photo Alliance, NYC.)

CV 

MONOGRAPHS

Ten Years: Remembering 9/11
John Isaacs Books, New York, 2011
Foreword by NY Senator Kirsten Gillibrand
Afterword by Eleanor Heartney of Art in America magazine  

Border Witness: Youth Confront Nafta 
New York State Labor-Religion Coalition, 2001
Author Maureen Casey, Photographer Marie Triller

SELECTED PRINT COLLECTIONS

National  9/11 Memorial and Museum, New York, NY 

George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, NY

The New-York Historical Society, New York, NY
(Here is New York – A Democracy of Photographs, 9.11 archives)

The New York Public Library, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Collection, New York, NY
(September 11 Photo Project archives)

Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY

The College of St. Rose, Albany, NY

Center for Photography, National Center for the Arts, Bombay, India

Private Collections

SELECTED LIBRARY COLLECTIONS
(Ten Years: Remembering 9/11)

International Center of Photography Library, New York, NY

National Museum of American History/Smithsonian Libraries,
Washington, DC

Tim Hetherington Photobook Library Collection at Bronx Documentary Center, Bronx, NY

Patricia D. Klingenstein Library, New-York Historical Society, 
New York, NY

John Cleary Library at Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

East Fishkill Community Library, East Fishkill, NY, Ten Years: Remembering 9.11, 2015

College of St. Rose, Massry Center for the Arts, Albany, NY, Ten Years: Remembering 9.11, 2011

The Image Factory, Belize City, Belize, Observing Blindness In Belize, 2009

The People’s Gallery at City Hall, El Paso, TX, Sin Lugar (Without a Place), 2009

University of California, Center for Community Service – Learning, San Diego, CA, 
Remembrance: A 9.11 Exhibition, 2005

Gulisi Garifuna Museum, Dangriga, Belize, Secrets of Belize, 2005

Siena College, Yates Gallery, Loudonville, NY, Secrets of Belize, 2004
(Guest Lecturer)

TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

Martinez Gallery, Troy, NY,  Cuba y Puerto Rico - Marie Triller and Roxanna Melendez, 2017

Spectrum Theatres, Albany, NY, Uruguay: Photographs by Michael Oakes/MarieTriller, 2011

Firlefanz Gallery, Albany, NY, Harold Lohner & Marie Triller, 2004

Gallery 402, New York, NY, Places In Time: Madeline Wilson & Marie Triller, 1999

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson, NY, 3d Annual Juried Group Show, 2017

Griffin Museum of Photography (at Lafayette City Center), 
Boston, MA, Aviary, 2017

Pop-Up Exhibit, NYC, You, The People: A Night of Photography and Film, 2017

Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY, Photowork: 

30th Annual National Juried Photography Exhibition, 2017

Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson, NY, 2nd Annual Juried Group Show, 2016
Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA, 
Winter Solstice Show, 2016

Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR, Framed: Shadow and Light, 2016

Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA, 
Winter Solstice Show, 2015

Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA,
21st Annual Juried Show, 2015

University of North Florida, Gallery of Art, Jacksonville, FL,
Regarding Leisure, 2015

ONLINE

American Illustration -American Photography, Latin American Photograph 6, 2017

The Curated Fridge, The Curated Fridge Spring Show, 2017
www.thecuratedfridge.com

PRO PHOTO DAILY/American Photography (AI-AP)

Spotlight: Finding a New Way to Mark 9.11 (9.20.2016)
www.prophotodaily.com

Your Daily Photograph/ Duncan Miller Gallery
Marie Triller, featured Emerging/Contemporary Photographer 
(11.22.2014, 5.28.15, 9.29.15, 1.30.2016, 3.19.2017)
www.yourdailyphotograph.com...

www.marietriller.com

Marna Bell says, "When our memories distort and fade over time we can look to our belongings to help fill in the blanks of our elusive past.

My current series, "Mementos", was inspired while visiting 
the home of a childhood friend. The ambience of the morning light illuminated and transformed the precious objects in her home, giving them a new kind of presence. 
My series slowly evolved, after visiting estate sales. Photographing heirlooms and personal property of deceased strangers helped me to try to understand loss. 
Although these objects and spaces are filled with anonymity and sadness, each object reflects a personal history that was left behind."

Marna Bell is an award-winning American photographer whose work has been featured in international publications, solo and group exhibitions in museums and galleries, including Clarion State College, the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, Munson Williams Proctor Arts Inst., Utica, NY, and Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY. She received a New York State Council of the Arts Grant and a Ruth and Harold Chenven Foundation award, and has been featured in Black and White magazine. Her book, “Hudson Past/Perfect” is in Howard Greenberg’s Gallery in New York City. Bell received a BFA from Pratt Institute and an MFA from Syracuse University in painting.

www.marnabell.com
 

Martha Clarkson says, "Grief can take all matter of forms.

It is the times you want to huddle away from the world, it is the times you think things can't get worse and you're grieving better times and wondering how things changed with relative quickness, it's loss, always loss, of something or someone, or control. As C.S. Lewis said, "No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear." And that fear compels one to pick up by the bootstraps and grab hold of life."

Martha Clarkson manages corporate workplace design in Seattle. Her poetry, photography, and fiction can be found in monkeybicycle, F-Stop Magazine, Ours, Clackamas Literary Review, Seattle Review, Alimentum, Hawaii Pacific Reivew. 

She is a recipient of a Pushcart Nomination, and is listed under “Notable Stories,” Best American Non-Required Reading for 2007 and 2009. She is recipient of best short story, 2012, Anderbo/Open City prize, for “Her Voices, Her Room.” [list of published photos available]


www.marthaclarkson.com 

 

Mayu Nagaoka says, "I document and archive moments in my daily life. Things I see, people I interact with, the food I eats, and even my pets. 

Recording these moments is a practice of collecting and studying.  By photographing these quiet moments in my life, with no ulterior motive but to document, I create quiet and honest images."

Mayu Nagaoka is a visual artist who was born in Minneapolis. After taking a few photography courses at a community college, she chose to pursue photography. She moved to Chicago and transferred to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. After graduating, she made her way to Tampa, FL where she lived for five years before taking an opportunity to move to Austin, TX where she now resides.

CV:

Exhibitions:

2018     Group Exhibition - Ethereal, Sixth Street Gallery, Austin, TX

2016     Group Exhibition - ARCC Alumni Show, Great River Gallery, Coon Rapids, MN

2015     Group Exhibition - Field Study, David Weinberg Photography, Chicago, IL

2015     Group Exhibition - Time, Streit House Space, New York, NY

2015     Group Exhibition - MobileMagic XIX, Lightbox Gallery, Astoria, OR

2015     Group Exhibition - Color Show: Photography Now, Blackbox Gallery, Portland, OR

2012     Group Exhibition - Intersections, MCAD Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

2011     Group Exhibition - SAIC Undergraduate Exhibit, The Sullivan Galleries, Chicago IL

2009     Group Exhibition - AFA Candidates Show, Great River Gallery, Coon Rapids, MN

www.mayunagaoka.com

Michael Joseph's series, 'Lost and Found' is a portrait series that examines the individual souls of lost youth who abandon home to travel around the country by hitchhiking and freight train hopping. 

Within their personal journey driven by wanderlust, escapism or a search for transient jobs, they find a new family in their traveling friends.  They are photographed on public streets using natural light, in the space in which they are found.
 
Like graffiti on the walls of the city streets they inhabit and the trains they ride, their bodies and faces become the visual storybook of their lives.  

Their clothing is often a mismatch of found items.  Jackets, pants and vests are self-made like a patchwork quilt, using fabric pieces of a fellow traveler’s clothing embellished by metal bottle caps, buttons, safety pins, lighter parts, syringe caps, and patches. 

The high of freedom however, does not come without consequence. Their lifestyle is physically risky and rampant with substance abuse and deaths resulting from addiction and overdose.  As much as their lives are filled with joy they are frequently met with loss.
 
Each traveler’s story is different, but they are bound by a sense of community.  Often unseen and mistaken by their appearances, they are some of the kindest people one might meet.   Their souls are open and their gift is time.  As one states, “They will give you their time because time is all they have.” And in some cases, in the family they have lost, they have found each other.

Michael Joseph is a street portrait and documentary photographer.  Raised just outside of New York City, his inspirations are drawn from interactions with strangers on city streets and aims to afford his audience the same experience through his photographs.  His portraits are made on the street, unplanned and up close to allow the viewer to explore the immediate and unseen.
 
Michael’s project “Lost and Found” has been featured on CNN.com, Vice.com, AllAboutPhoto.com and published in magazines internationally.  He has been exhibited nationally, notably at Daniel Cooney Fine Art (New York, NY) in the Aperture Gallery (New York, NY), Project Basho Gallery (Philadelphia, PA) as well as the Rayko Gallery (San Francisco, CA). 

He has lectured for Amy Arbus at the International Center of Photography (New York, NY) in portraiture classes at the New England School of Photography (Boston, MA) and taught at the Light Factory (Charlotte, NC). 

His portraits are held in the permanent collection in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houstob, the Fort Wayne Museum of Art in Indiana and private collections.  He is a 2016 Photolucida Top 50 winner, LensCulture Portrait Award Finalist and a recipient of the fellowship in photography from the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

    
www.michaeljosephphotographics.com

IG: @michaeljosephphoto
FB: @michaeljphotographics


Photos - information:
Mo-  
"I've been traveling for 5 years going on 6. I'm tired of friends dying and I'm tired of being treated like the scum of earth. I'm probably one of the nicest people you'll ever meet. Just because I look like a piece of sh*t, doesn't mean I'm not a piece of gold."

Spoons II
"My fiance died in my arms three years ago. She was the love of my life... if you're lucky to get one, you know it. She taught me so much. VOID is on my heart because I am faulty hardware.... They should have sent me back to the manufacturer."

 Morgan III
"She was still warm when we got to the hospital. She didn't look like my gorgeous, smiling sister. She had a tube down her throat, a mask on her face. She left us... no more Jessie, no more hugs, no more of her strength, love, smiles, nothing but f#&king memories that are slowly slipping away each day. I lost my sister, best friend and soulmate to a drug. It was a tragic, f#$king preventable accident. Jessie and I left home early this year after our father figure died. Mom told us that she was the sun and I was the moon. We have always been outcasts and partners in crime. I tell people I am different now. When I was around Jessie, I was at home. She was my home."

Michael Manning says, "I’ve experienced deep grief several times in my life.

That suffering has been different each time and my process through the grief, the grieving, has changed greatly over time. But I believe there is a shared, deeply common feeling we all experience when we grieve.

In a way all of my art is in some way an attempt at dealing with grief and loss. When I saw the call for images I decided to work with some of that emotional content. These images are the result of that process."

@michaelmanningphoto
 

Molly Lamb says of her series, 'Take Care of Your Sister', "My first recollection of inheriting the belongings of someone in my family is when I was five years old.

Consistently, throughout the years since, I have inherited the belongings of most of my family. This history permeates my experiences and perspectives, and it also now ends with my life. When I pass away, all that I hold dear - my stories, my belongings, and those of my family - will dissolve into a world that does not speak the language of our nuances. 

Take Care of Your Sister is a meditation on the emotional resonance of loss, family history, and family future through the land – a landscape that is grounded in reality yet also distorted through time and displacement. It is the third chapter in a longer, ongoing narrative and was inspired by visiting the Mississippi Delta where my father grew up and where my brother and I spent time with our grandparents when we were very young. When my father was a child there, he was asked to take care of his younger sister. When I was a child, the last words my father said to my brother were, “Take care of your sister.” 

Without a family home to return to, the landscape becomes the place that harbors history and memory. The land engulfs and it provides respite. It haunts nightmares and it eases them away. I now live far away from the landscapes that make sense to me and give substance to my past, but I look for them here anyway. And I always return to them."

Moths circling and circling
uneasy yellow light
suspended 
in speckled black
below the stars
and cicada silence.
Strong wind on the bridge –
dirt in the air, in my hair,
in the shades of darkness
where the light laps against
the water’s whirling
solid,
where they caught
moths
when they were young.
That is not cotton.
He is not him.
Fields
rows
divides
dirt
cracks 
where there is no rain.
Thick summer
clings to my skin 
quietly urging 
its way into my bones.
Ghosts in my eye
under the shroud cry
leave me here no more.

Molly Lamb holds an MFA in Photography from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and a BA in American Studies from the University of Massachusetts, Boston. 

Her work has been exhibited nationally, most recently at Rick Wester Fine Art, the Griffin Museum of Photography, the Danforth Art Museum, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and the Photographic Resource Center. In 2016, she was selected for the Critical Mass Top 50 and in 2015, she was named one of Photo District News’ 30 New and Emerging Photographers to Watch as well as one of LensCulture’s 50 Emerging Talents.

Her work has been featured in Photograph, Musée Magazine, Oxford American, Harper’s Magazine, Aint-Bad Magazine, Photo District News, and the Boston Globe, among others. She is represented by Rick Wester Fine Art, New York.

Solo Exhibitions

2017
Ghost Stepping, The Garner Center for Photographic Exhibitions at the New England School of Photography, Boston, Massachusetts

2016
Home and Away, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York 
Ghost Stepping, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, Massachusetts

2015
The Memory Palace: Domesticity, Objects, and the Interior, Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, Massachusetts

Selected Group Exhibitions

2017
Stare, Boston City Hall Scollay Square Gallery, Curated by Karen Haas, Boston, Massachusetts
Exposure: The 21st Annual PRC Juried Exhibition, Photographic Resource Center, Juried by Sarah Kennell, Boston, Massachusetts
Critical Mass Top 50 Exhibition, Artwork Network, Curated by David Rosenberg, Denver, Colorado
Now: Southern Photography Today, University of Mississippi, Oxford, The Do Good Fund: A Celebration of Southern Photography, Oxford, Mississippi
16th Annual Joyce Elaine Grant Photography Exhibition, Texas Woman’s University, Juried by Julia Dolan, Denton, Texas
Of Women By Women, The Light Factory, Curated by Lili Corbus, Charlotte, North Carolina
Aviary, Griffin Museum of Photography at the Lafayette City Center Gallery, juried by Paula Tognarelli, Boston, Massachusetts
Found in Collection: Contemporary Photography from the Danforth Art Museum Permanent Collection, Griffin Museum of Photography, curated by Jessica Roscio, Winchester, Massachusetts
Building a Lineage, Piano Craft Gallery, Curated by Allison Cekala and Sarah Pollman, Boston, Massachusetts
The Female Lens: Photography from The Do Good Fund, Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia
AIPAD, The Photography Show, Pier 94, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York

2016
Lost In Space: Contemporary Photographers And The New Landscape, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York
Center Forward, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Juried by Aline Smithson and Hamidah Glasgow, Fort Collins, Colorado 
Griffin Museum of Photography 22nd Annual Juried Exhibition, Juried by Elizabeth Avedon, Winchester, Massachusetts
Danforth Art Annual: 2016 Juried Exhibition, Juried by Jessica Roscio, Framingham, Massachusetts
Elsewhere, Eye South Symposium at Columbus State University, Co-Curated by Hannah Israel and Rylan Steele, Columbus, Georgia  
The Do Bad Barn: A Directory of Southern Culture, Slow Exposures Festival, Co-Curated by Aint Bad and The Do Good Fund, Zebulon, Georgia 
2016 Open Juried Exhibition, Vermont Center for Photography, Juried by Paula Tognarelli, Brattleboro, Vermont
27th Annual Benefit Art Auction, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Juried by Committee, Boston, Massachusetts

2015
Currents 2015: New Orleans Photo Alliance Members Showcase, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Juried by Alexa Dilworth, New Orleans, Louisiana
33rd Annual Juried Exhibition, Houston Center for Photography, Juried by Russell Lord, Houston, Texas
Center Forward 2015, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Juried by Hamidah Glasgow, Fort Collins, Colorado
Photography Now, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Juried by David Bram, Woodstock, New York
Emerging, Annenberg Space for Photography, an exhibition of Photo District News’ 30 New and Emerging Photographers to Watch, Los Angeles, California
LensCulture Emerging Talents 2015 Exhibition, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, California
Community of Artists, Danforth Art Museum, Juried by Jessica Roscio, Framingham, Massachusetts
Photowork ’15, The Barrett Art Center, Juried by Katherine Ware, Poughkeepsie, New York
Slow Exposures 2015, Juried by Jerry Atnip and John Bennette, Pike County, Georgia
Marvelous Things: The Art of Still Life, PhotoPlace Gallery, Juried by Aline Smithson, Middlebury, Vermont
Tall Tales: An Investigative Look into the Surreal, Light Leaked and Canopy Collective, Juried by Caitie Moore, Ashley Kauschinger, Erica Durham, and Anthony Koch, Cleveland, Ohio
Sky, Griffin Museum of Photography at the Lafayette City Center, Juried by Paula Tognarelli, Winchester, Massachusetts
Inventory of Reverie: Five Women Photographers, Pine Manor College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
Projections, Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Juried by Committee, Ballarat, Australia
26th Annual Benefit Art Auction, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Juried by Committee, Boston, Massachusetts
AIPAD, The Photography Show, Park Avenue Armory, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, New York
PULSE Miami Beach, Rick Wester Fine Art, Miami, Florida

2014
Griffin Museum of Photography 20th Annual Juried Exhibition, Juried by Aline Smithson, Winchester, Massachusetts
Community of Artists, Danforth Art Museum, Juried by Katherine French, Framingham, Massachusetts
Boston Young Contemporaries, 808 Commonwealth Gallery, Juried by Pieranna Cavalchini, Josephine Halvorson, and Kenji Nakayama, Boston, Massachusetts
Massachusetts, Gallery 263, Juried by Dina Deitsch, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Shadow and Light, Black Box Gallery, Juried by Julia Dolan, Portland, Oregon
25th Annual Benefit Art Auction, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Juried by Committee, Boston, Massachusetts
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Massachusetts

Awards and Grants

2016
Critical Mass Top 50
Daylight Photo Awards Juror’s Pick – Clara de Tezanos of GuatePhoto, Guatemala City

2015
Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship in Photography
Photo District News’ 30 New and Emerging Photographers to Watch
LensCulture’s 50 Emerging Talents
New Orleans Photo Alliance’s Clarence John Laughlin Award Finalist
Critical Mass Finalist
Honorable Mention Award – Center Forward 2015, The Center for Fine Art Photography
Honorable Mention Award – Slow Exposures 2015

2014 
Review Santa Fe, Center, Juried by Maarten Schilt, Alec Soth, and Amber Terranova
Critical Mass Finalist

2013
Elisa and Bill Warner Discovery Award, Massachusetts College of Art and Design

Selected Press

2017
The Boston Globe – The Photographic Resource Center’s Exposure 2017

2016
Photograph Magazine – Portfolio Feature
The Boston Globe – Memory Palace at the Danforth Art Museum 
Elin Spring – Ghosts In My Eye: Home and Away at Rick Wester Fine Art
Photo District News – Photo of the Day – Surveying New Landscapes

2015
Photo District News – 30 New and Emerging Photographers to Watch
LensCulture – Emerging Talent

2014
Light Leaked – Aline Smithson’s Five Favorite: Photographers to Watch
Elin Spring – Ghost Stepping with Molly Lamb
Artscope Magazine – An Inventory of Reverie

Selected Publications

2018
Aspect Initiative – Molly Lamb / Essay by Jessica Roscio

2017
Aint-Bad Magazine – Issue No. 12 – Curator’s Choice / Interview with Richard McCabe

2016
Lenscratch – Molly Lamb: Take Care of Your Sister
Musee Magazine – Issue No. 15: Place
Fraction Magazine – The Eighth Anniversary Issue

2014
Lenscratch – Molly Lamb: Ghost Stepping

Collections

Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, Massachusetts
JPMorgan Chase Art Collection, New York, New York
TMCB Art Collection, New York, New York
The Do Good Fund: Southern Photography Initiative, Columbus, Georgia
Private Collections, Boston, Massachusetts
Private Collection, New York, New York
Private Collection, New Orleans, Louisiana

Gallery Representation
Rick Wester Fine Art, New York

www.mollylamb.com