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ABRAHAM by Heather Williamson

Heather Williamson says, "My work allows me to feel something other than me yet empowers me, seeing all that is me in everything. It delivers me from bondage, offering nothing. When I'm behind my work, no one knows the pain in my mind, but this pain gives way to understanding. When I no longer exist, I feel certain, completely grounded in who I am. This is the practice of myself—the process of standing."

Heather Williamson is a multifaceted artist based in the CA high desert whose practice includes photography, filmmaking, writing, installation, music, and sound. Her work (and her) are known for provoking thought and feeling. Invoking harmony. She studies under Jokai Blackwell Sensei.

Career Highlights
SOUNDPEDRO EARMAGINATIONS 2021
SOUNDPEDRO VBODOBV | DEVOLUTION 2021

GIANT ROCK SOLO EXHIBITION 2020

BLACKHEART STUDIO GROUP EXHIBITION 2019
NOCTUA ISSUE XII 5.19LGBTQ SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL OFFICIAL SELECTION 2019
THE LIFT-OFF SESSIONS OFFICIAL SELECTION 2019

www.goldsrite.com 
www.krop.com/aestheticthieves (photos only)
https://www.instagram.com/helloheat/
https://www.instagram.com/negroiscat
 
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UNTITLED 1 by Heather Williamson
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UNTITLED 2 by Heather Williamson
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UNTITLED 3 by Heather Williamson
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UNTITLED 4 by Heather Williamson
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UNTITLED 5 by Heather Williamson
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CHICKEN STEAK by Jason Tannen
HONORABLE MENTION

Jason Tannen says, "For over three decades my work has explored the urban landscape. An ongoing inspiration for me has been Film Noir, a genre of American film from the 1940s and 50s, usually set in the urban jungle and featuring desperate people in dire situations. Film Noirs took full advantage of their city locations and a low-key black and white style to create a mood of anxiety, mystery and anticipation.   
 
My photographs feature characteristically Noir settings, with stark light, dramatic shadows and characters whose faces are mask-like or without emotion. My interest in cinematic form and narrative structure extends to the type of images I created for this series, including establishing, reaction, and cutaway shots. Thus, these images can be sequenced to suggest any number of dark narratives."
 
Jason Tannen is a photographer, gallery curator and educator. He has exhibited his works widely in the United States and internationally, with recent exhibitions in Tucson, AZ, Sacramento, CA, Las Vegas, NV, New York, San Francisco, Portland, OR, Seattle, WA, Rome, Italy, and Budapest, Hungary.   
 
Tannen is represented in many public collections, including the Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL; the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; and San Francisco General Hospital Acute Care Building, San Francisco, CA.    

 From 1998 to 2014, he directed the University Art Gallery at California State University, Chico, where he also taught Film Studies and the History of Photography.  
 
He received his MFA in Photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and his BFA from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, PA.  
 
Recent Career Highlights:  

2021    
Jason Tannen + Tiera May: Remnants + Rituals, 1078 Gallery, Chico, CA  
In Between Moments, Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis, MN  
BLUE, Decode Gallery, Tucson, AZ  
Language, LoosenArt, Rome, Italy  
TWELVE: Hindsight 20|20, Viewpoint Photographic Art Center, Sacramento, CA  
Storied References, Northern Illinois University Art Museum, Dekalb, IL  
 
2020    
The Shadow Aspect, Praxis Gallery and Photographic Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN  
Silent Cities, LoosenArt, Rome, Italy  
Merced College Art Gallery, Merced, CA 
Color: The Visual Spectrum, Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR  
Trust the Story, The Baldwin Photographic Gallery, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN  
Viewpoint: Landscape and Architecture, Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR  
 
2019    
portal, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX  
Dusk to Dawn, New York Center for Photographic Art, Jadite Gallery, New York, NY   
Remnant, Charleston Heights Art Center, Las Vegas, NV  
 
2017    
Stories Six, 1078 Gallery, Chico, CA  
––SCAPES, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary  
Black and White, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO  
 
Titles and images for sale: 

Chicken Steak 9" H x 13.75" W
Archival pigment print
$250 unframed
Signed on back

 
Empty Phone 9" H x 13" W
Archival pigment print
$250 unframed
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Letter 9" H x 13" W
Archival pigment print
$250 unframed
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Station 9" H x 13.75" W
Archival pigment print
$250 unframed
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Trophy 9" H x 13.75" W
Archival pigment print
$250 unframed
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Witness 9" H x 13.75" W
Archival pigment print
$250 unframed
Signed on back

Contact: Jason Tannen
jtannen@csuchico.edu 
 
Website: www.jasontannen.com  
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jasontannen/ 
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EMPTY PHONE by Jason Tannen
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LETTER by Jason Tannen
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STATION by Jason Tannen
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TROPHY by Jason Tannen
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WITNESS by Jason Tannen
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ZIHUATANEJO BUS STOP by Jeff Moscow

Jeff Moscow says, "These photographs were taken during vacations in Zijuatanejo, Mexico.

I live in Washington DC. I worked as a news photographer for the Lawrence (KA) Journal-World and the Santa Fe (NM) New Mexican in the 1970’s and have continued exploring photography ever since. 

www.jeffmoscow.viewbook.com
 
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ZIHUATANEJO CATHOLIC MAN by Jeff Moscow
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ZIHUATANEJO MARKET by Jeff Moscow
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ATCHAFALAYA by Kathryn Dunlevie

Kathryn Dunlevie says of her series 'MISTICK KREWES', "In New Orleans in 1857 a newly formed secret society, the Mistick Krewe of Comus, began the tradition of celebrating Mardi Gras with a torch-lit procession of extravagant floats.

My series, Mistick Krewes, is an homage to the rich jumble of that city’s overlapping heritages and the still perceptible aura of its tempestuous history. Since its founding in 1718, New Orleans’ cultural, political and natural landscapes have been continually invaded and eroded, bought and sold, enriched and transformed.
 
A visitor to New Orleans might pass through districts, buildings and gardens that exhibit the intertwining of centuries of Native American, Spanish, French, African and American influences. City streets are named for Greek muses, native tribes and 18th-century French nobility. Surrounding swamplands are swallowed by encroaching gulf waters. The atmosphere is charged with an air of mystery, a strange sense of desire, and a whiff of something hazily remembered, beckoning from just around the next corner. It is a place where history is revered, and where it can sometimes be ‘mistickally’ re-experienced.
 
In these works I am combining my photographs with imagery from popular as well as archival sources. Adding layer upon layer, revisiting each composition again and again, I am working toward scenarios that compel even as they may mislead. Interweaving elements from nature, history and contemporary life conjures up landscapes populated with plants, wildlife, and otherworldly beings, evoking lost times and the Mardi Gras traditions that celebrate them."

Kathryn Dunlevie is a photography-based artist whose work has been exhibited throughout the U.S. and internationally. Cathy Kimball, former Executive Director of the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, writes of Dunlevie’s work: "Through brilliant compositional detail and manipulation, she creates disconcerting, inexplicable spaces and scenarios - streetscapes that elude mapmakers and interior settings that are almost, but not quite, right."

Born on the east coast, Dunlevie lived in six different states by the time she was 12, and in Paraguay when she was 16. She has a B.A. in fine arts from Rice University, and studied art history and film at the University of Paris, painting at California College of the Arts, and photography in Madrid. She lives in Palo Alto.

Dunlevie has received numerous awards and fellowships, including two Arts Council Silicon Valley Artist Laureate Fellowships. Her work has been exhibited at FotoFest International since 2002, at the Pingyao International Photography Festival in China, at Studio Thomas Kellner in Germany, in the US Art in Embassies Program in Moscow and in Saatchi Arts’ Best of 2014. 

Publications reviewing her work have included Spain’s La Fotografia Actual, Korea’s photo + and Germany’s Profifoto, as well as The New York Times, Camerawork: A Journal of Photographic Arts, Photo Metro, Artweek, and Artlies.
 
Highlights of Career:

SOLO EXHIBITS:

FotoFest 2020: Women of Wonder, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, Texas
FotoFest 2018: Imaginarium, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, Texas
FotoFest 2016: Mistick Krewes, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, Texas
 
JURIED GROUP EXHIBITS:
N.Y. Photo Curator TOP 40 of 2021 exhibition
Women’s History Month exhibition (2021), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA 
San Francisco PhotoAlliance Bay Area Current(ly) exhibition (2020), San Francisco, CA 
Don't Take Pictures.com School Days exhibition (2019)

Ping Yao International Photography Festival (2017), Ping Yao, China

Website: www.kathryndunlevie.com

Facebook: Kathryn Dunlevie Art

Instagram: www.instagram.com/kathryndunlevie
 
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AVOYELLES by Kathryn Dunlevie
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CHARYBDIS by Kathryn Dunlevie
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GOOSE GIRL by Kathryn Dunlevie
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HURRICANE by Kathryn Dunlevie
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PONTALBA by Kathryn Dunlevie
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EARTH DAY GAZE 17492 by Kevin Lyle

Kevin Lyle says, "As long as I can remember, I've been curious about incidental objects and environments and their potential for a sort of extraordinary/ordinary beauty. I find this quality in the work of photographer Eugene Atget, composer Erik Satie and singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie. These great artists are a constant source of inspiration.

My process is fueled by an innate hunter/gatherer impulse. Most of my
images are collected within walking distance of my home on Chicago's
north side. Contemplative wandering in the urban analog world, away from
the preponderance of drama delivered digitally via television and the
Internet, reveals evidence of real life- evidence of what may be may
have happened or may yet occur. Sometimes mundane, sometimes oblique,
askew or atypical. Mostly overlooked, until documented."

Recent Exhibitions:
04/2022 - Context 2022 - Juror Frances Jakubek - Filter Space - Chicago IL
01/2022 - All About Photo Magazine 22 - Streets - Juror Sandrine
Hermand-Grisel
12/2021 - Don't Make Me Laugh - Juror Laura Valenti - Praxis Gallery -
Minneapolis MN
09/2021 - We Like Small Things 4 - Juror Oriana Koren - Filter Space -
Chicago IL
08/2021 - The Streets - Juror Layne Kennedy - Praxis Gallery -
Minneapolis MN
07/2021 - Minimalist Photography Awards 2021 - Open Category - Honorable
Mention
07/2021 - Open Theme / Unbound - Juror Crista Dix - A Smith Gallery -
Johnson City TX
05/2021 - The Beauty In Madness - Juror Sarah Weiss - Praxis Gallery -
Minneapolis MN
05/2021 - Letters, Numbers & Symbols - Juror Dallas Crow - Praxis
Gallery - Minneapolis MN
05/2021 - Odyssey 2021 - Juror Stephanie Lisle - Pennsylvania Center for
Photography - Doylestown PA
05/2021 - Mercy Of The Moon - Juror Kevin Tully - A Smith Gallery -
Johnson City TX
04/2021 - The Found Object - Juror Elizabeth Flinsch - Praxis Gallery -
Minneapolis MN
02/2021 - The Abstract Image - Juror Aline Smithson - Praxis Gallery -
Minneapolis MN
12/2020 - After Dark - Juror Lance Keimig - Praxis Gallery - Minneapolis
MN - Honorable Mention
11/2020 - All About Photo Magazine 13 - Shapes - Juror Sandrine
Hermand-Grisel

Images for sale-

Earth Day Gaze 17492 - 18"H x 12"W
Archival paper
$300 unframed
Open edition
Signed on back

Hidden Gaze 16898 - 18"H x 12"W
Archival paper
$300 unframed
Open edition
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Xray Gaze 18990 - 18"H x 12"W
Archival paper
$300 unframed
Open edition
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Contact: Kevin Lyle
klyle2006@gmail.com
www.kevinlylephotos.com
www.instagram.com/klyle2006
 
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HIDDEN GAZE 16898 by Kevin Lyle
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XRAY GAZE 18990 by Kevin Lyle
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ARTIST ENTRANCE by Leanne Trivett

Leanne Trivett says, "I am a visual artist that uses photography to narrate identity in Experimental Self Portraiture, explore subjects in Black and White, and to create images that show how details and color interact in the world. 

My theatrical and vocal performance background inspires me to explore self and create characters with dynamic stories.  I like to capture scenes from my play,  and I also like the out takes.  It is my desire to connect to the viewer in a meaningful and emotional way by exploring multiple sides of me: the light and dark, the quiet and the movement, and the smooth and textured.  I use my camera and eye for detail to visit the complicated fringe of my personality and my relationships.

Every image I make is a part of my double inner world. I seek a connection to self and the audience in that space of duality, building a bridge through emotion and humanity."

Leanne Trivett is a visual artist using photography to explore experimental self portraiture, obscure elements around her, and how color interacts in the world.  

She graduated with a BFA in Theatre from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University in NY, NY.  Her background in musical theatre and her years of performing as a professional singer have inspired her creation of characters and self expression through images and photography.  She is best known for her colorful and current self portraits and her attention to details.

Her work has been exhibited nationally in venues like Los Angeles Center for Photography, the Griffin Museum of Photography in Boston, SE Center for Photography in South Carolina, and her work can be seen in the latest Art Ascent International Magazine and displayed in businesses in the city in which she lives. 

She is currently a Gather Pro at Gather Academy, the Host of the Masters Group at the Gather Academy Online, presenting “Unfiltered for the Creative and the Curious”  Zoom monthly, and working on several photography series.

CV

International Juried Group Exhibits: 

2021
6th Annual Creative Portrait Exhibition, - Los Angeles Center of Photography in Los Angeles, CA, Juried by Aline Smithson
Open Theme Exhibition 2021- Praxis Gallery and in Minneapolis, MN, Juried by Laura Valenti
Once Upon a Time: Photographs that Inspire Tall Tales Exhibition- Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA, Juried by Paula Tognarelli
Got the Shot! Now Get Creative Exhibit Online Honorable Mention- New York Center for Photographic Arts, Juried by Ellen Denuto
Landscape Photo Exhibition- The Praxis Gallery and Photographic Arts Center in Minneapolis, MN, Juried by Wendi Schneider
Vistas Exhibition - A Smith Gallery in Johnson City, TX, Juried by George Nobechi

2022
Narrative ~ Figments or Fragments Exhibition - The Praxis Gallery and Photographic Arts Center in Minneapolis, MN, Juried by Emma Powell
In Color - The Decode Gallery - Tucson, Arizona, Juried by Holly Hart
Annual Praxis Member Showcase - Praxis Gallery and Photographic Arts Center in Minneapolis, MN, Installed by Jonathon Pavlica 
Pair Exhibition - Lenscratch, Curated by Aline Smithson
2022 Portrait Show International - Grey Cube Gallery, Juried by Grey Cube Directors
Light Exhibition - A Smith Gallery in Johnson City, TX, Juried by Aline Smithson
Motion > Blur Exhibition - Praxis Gallery and Photographic Arts Center in Minneapolis, MN, Juried by the Praxis Directors
Silence Exhibition - PH21 Gallery in Budapest, Hungary juried by Zsolt Bátori
Dynamic: Shadow and Light exhibition - The Black Box Gallery in Portland, OR juried by Todd JohnsonAll About the Light - SE Center for Photography in Greenville, SC, Juried by Susan Burnstine
Open Theme - The Decode Gallery in Tucson, AZ, Juried by Holly Hart 
Monochrome - PH21 Gallery in Budapest, Hungary juried by Zsolt Bátori
Forgotten - A Smith Gallery in Johnson City, TX, Juried by Sal Taylor Kydd and Dawn Surratt
Transience - Praxis Gallery and Photographic Arts Center in Minneapolis, MN.  Juried by Aline Smithson

Published
ArtAscent: ArtAscent 53 People January 2022 Magazine - Distinguished Artist with four page spread of Self Portraits titled Haunted Self, Orchid Me, and Joking

Leanne Trivett S. Floral Calendar for 2022 Featuring My Flower Images Published in various group exhibitions book 
‘The 27” - Limited edition hard bound book of the Light Exhibition at A Smith

“The 27” - Limited Edition hard bound book of the Forgotten Exhibition at the A Smith Gallery

ArtAscent: ArtAscent 54 Cold April 2022 Magazine - distinguished Artist with the back cover and three page spread with Self Portraits 

www.leannetrivettsphotography.com
Instagram: www.instagram.com/leannerockstar

 
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BEEN TO SEA BEFORE by Leanne Trivett
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BROOKFIELD DR. #3 by Leanne Trivett
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INTERNALLY BRUISED by Leanne Trivett
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JOKING by Leanne Trivett
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SHOCKED by Leanne Trivett
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A PRESERVATION OF CHARACTER 1 by Megan Sinclair

Megan Sinclair says, "I long to see the world as I once did. I long to feel the world as I once did.

In 'A Preservation of Character' I use the act of removal to incite vulnerability. In the search for a memory of identity, I shed a cold exterior and ground myself with what remains. I remove my clothing, a physical layer of protection. I remove the hair from my head, a totem of gender. I attempt to let go of protective behavior, expression, and thought. What I feel shields me from danger in the outside world has become a part of who I present myself as.

Here I am neighbored only by textures, shapes, and light, leaving me to observe and interact with myself. In these moments I recognize that which I’ve internalized, and consider unguarded experience. Who am I without these defenses? I look at the changes in my character and remember this vulnerability as something that once came easily. 

This is an exercise in honesty, and a longing for innocence. These are intimate moments of self reflection, and are presented to the viewer out of a longing to share unguarded experience.
Bio:

Growing up in California, I found solitude in the landscape that I was surrounded by and explored that intimacy through self portraiture.

My work is a discussion on identity, consciousness, and connection to place. It is an ongoing conversation about my relationship with my body, mind, and environment and how I find and build home in those spaces. The majority of my work is analog, large format, self portraiture where I use my body to reflect on and challenge the ties between mental and physical presence. I place myself in chosen settings and analyze what role the environments play in my experience there.

My work is inspired by existentialist literature that approaches themes of “being” and “home,” and I allow myself to be guided by these topics while in front of the camera."

Career Highlights:

2022

Center Forward 2022 Juried Exhibition - Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, Colorado

2021

PHOTOcentric 2021 Juried Exhibition - Garrison Art Center, Garrison, New York
Trees and Water Juried Exhibition - Black Box Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Milford Photo Juried Exhibition - Milford Photo Lab, Online
Open Show Alumni Collection - Viewpoint Photographic Art Center, Sacramento, California

2020

Spring Show - CSUS, Sacramento, California
Sound of Art - Classy Hippie Tea Co., Sacramento, California
Quaranzine - Online

Images for sale-

A Preservation of Character 1 - 16”H x 20”W
Archival Paper
$300 unframed
Limited Edition of 25
Signed on Back



A Preservation of Character 10 - 16”H x 20”W
Archival Paper
$300 unframed
Limited Edition of 25
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A Preservation of Character 18 - 16”H x 20”W
Archival Paper
$300 unframed
Limited Edition of 25
Signed on Back

Contact: 
Megan Sinclair
meganrina@gmail.com

www.megansinclair.com
www.instagram.com/_megan.sinclair
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A PRESERVATION OF CHARACTER 10 by Megan Sinclair
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A PRESERVATION OF CHARACTER 18 by Megan Sinclair
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ABLUTION by Michael Pelech

John Michael Pelech says, "My submission to "The Gaze" includes (3) disparate views: One from friends, one from a creature and one from an inanimate object.

"There is a joy in seeing beauty and great design in everyday images".
What do I want to say with my art?
I guess small things do matter.
I am a fine art photographer.
The vast majority of my photos are a portrait of my city, New York City, 
made-up of a lifelong commitment to image and photo making.

Most scenes, not all, are of my fellow New Yorkers, people considered my extended kin. Most images are dense with description. More recent images are digital, archival analog images are drum transferred.
Printing at Laumont, framing at Dryden in N.Y.

Aspect ratio always gives way to cropping; only to enhance the composition;
like a piece of sculpture to its pedestal.
A six point pinstripe border is important to delineate the composition space.

My work moves within different aesthetic sensibilities, atmosphere, the mood and the feeling of place. They are esoteric and reflective of the way I feel about the moment. They are about the human condition on a more personal level, which explores my feelings and thoughts.

I have a connection with life on the street and its contradictions. I'm trying to add to the subject and create a more harmonic aesthetic motif and compile a coherent body of work."

John Michael Pelech was born in New York City, received a B.S. from N.Y.U. 
and a B.F.A. from School of Visual Arts in Media Arts.

He says, "I studied design with Milton Glaser and worked In commercial television and video as a Director of Photography, also as the MTV cameraman during the start-up years (1981-1984).
I worked with avant garde artists: Nam June Paik, Peter Gabriel and Lorie Anderson,
lighting Director on Zibigniew Rybczynski’s “Steps”.

While at CBS part of the Emmy-winning team for live coverage of the Boston Marathon Bombing (2013) I explored the day-to-day visual cacophony of the city and enjoys solving graphic design problems. 

I currently live in the East Village of New York City and am developing my fine art photography practice."

Career Highlights

Professional Awards:

Monitor Award, Best Lighting Director for Merrill Lynch corporate music video: "Remember NYSE rule 37" (1986)
Museum of Modern Art, N.Y, permanent collection Director of Photography: "Sharkey's Day" by Laurie Anderson (1986)
National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, News and Documentary Emmy: Boston Marathon Bombings (2013)
Shows:
Amanda Smith Gallery, Johnson City Texas, Vista, group show (2017)
Salmagundi Club N.Y.C, group shows, (2018-2021) and award: "Outstanding work in photography" (2019)
Griffith Museum of Photography, Winchester Massachusetts, panelist (2020)
The Photo Review Newsletter, show announcements (2019-2022)
Karen Manax Contemporary, Southampton N.Y., "Love and Passion", group show (2021)
New York Center for Photographic Art, group show, judges selection, "Architecture" award (2021) 
Foley Gallery N.Y., "Print Swap Exhibition", group show (2021) 
Max Planck Institute, Zürich Switzerland, "Retouching as an Art" second place (2021)
Salmagundi Club N.Y. exhibition and auction (2021); "Black and White Show" (2022)
New York Center for Photographic art, "Flash" honorable mention (2021)
Photographs in private collections and (2) student works in Milton Glaser's collection.
Publications:
American Cinematographer Magazine, interview the making of "Simple Minds, All the Things She Said", music video (1986)
American Cinematographer Magazine, interview the making of "Steps", long form broadcast video (1987)
Self-published, (3) books of my photography.

https://blinkbox.photoshelter.com/index
www.facebook.com/john.m.pelech
www.instagram.com/john.m.pelech/?hl=en


 
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ROOSTER by Michael Pelech