Two of my photographs from a new series are included in the Black & White exhibition in the current issue of F-Stop Magazine, available online.
The time of breathtaking vulnerability #5
The time of breathtaking vulnerability #8
The exhibition showcases a diverse range of photographs in black and white.
Work from two film swaps that I’m part of is included in the East Bay Photo Collective’s exhibition Swaptastic! Best of EBPCO Film Swap at the Oakland Photo Workshop.
I’ve been lucky to work with two extremely talented artists to make this work, which includes a single image and a triptych from my swap with Jenny Sampson of EBPCO.
Here is the single image:
…and here is the triptych:
The exhibition also includes “Beyond the visible world” from the series Tales from a Non-Existent Land, a long-term, ongoing, transatlantic/transcontinental collaboration with Al Brydon:
Swaptastic! runs from January 20 through February 19, with a reception scheduled for Friday, February 3, from 5:00 - 8:00 p.m. Gallery hours are Fridays, noon - 6:00 p.m.; Saturdays, noon - 6:00 p.m.; and Sundays, noon - 3:00 p.m.
The Oakland Photo Workshop is located at 312 8th st. Oakland, CA 94607 and can be reached by phone at 510- 922-8476.
My photograph, “The beginning of hope/The hope of beginning,” from the series The Maybe Lakes, is included in the exhibition Shades of Gray at Gray Loft Gallery.
Shades of Gray, the final celebration of Gray Loft Gallery’s 10th anniversary year, is a group exhibit selected by Ann Jastrab, executive director of Center for Photographic Art, and Jan Watten, founder of Gray Loft Gallery. This dynamic group photography show includes a vast array of elegant, cool, and mysterious examples of the color gray - photographs in cool neutrals, sophisticated deep charcoal gray images, glimmers of gray in a color landscape, and the beautiful mid-tones of perfect gelatin silver prints. Mixed media, alternative processes, color imagery, and traditional black and white photographs will be on view.
Examples of photographs in the show can be viewed here.
Participating photographers are Laurel Anderson Malinovsky, Norman Mark Aragones, Minerva Amistoso, Ryn Arnold, Francis Baker, Jayne Biehn, Rose Borden, Maria Budner, Kimberley A. Campisano, Jessica Chen, Sara Chieco, Norma Córdova, Jeffrey Cullen, Anthony Delgado, Tony Devarco, Ann Donahue, Gene Dominique, Bonnie Drucker, Rory Earnshaw, Allyson Ely, Diane Fenster, Robel Fessehatzion , David Gardner ,J. M. Golding, Marsha Guggenheim, Najib Joe Hakim, Chuck Harlins, Brenton Haslam, Richard Hay Jr., Matthew Hoang, Christine Huhn, Candice Jacobus, Becky Jaffe, Phoenix Kanada, Ellen Konar and Steve Goldband, Nadine Levin, Richard Lohmann, Ernie Luppi, Erik Mathy, Sonia Melnikova-Raich, Don Melandry, Melina Meza, Charles Moulton, Eric Murphy, Steve Napoli, Charlotte Niel, Deborah O’Grady, Eben Ostby, Mark Overgaard, Ginny Parsons, Anne Rabe, Steven Raskin, Mary Curtis Ratcliff, Charles Reilly, Philip T. Sager, Jenny Sampson, Neocles Serafimidis, Ellen Shershow, Douglas Stinson, Styrous, Gordon Szeto, Alison Taggart-Barone, Michael Teresko, Vince Thomas , George Tomberlin, Jeff Weston, Susan West, Stephanie Williamson, Nick Winkworth, and Yelena Zhavoronkova.
The exhibition runs from December 10, 2022 through January 21, 2023. An opening reception is scheduled for Saturday, December 10, from 4:00 – 6:30 p.m., and a closing reception for Saturday, January 21, from 4:00 – 6:30 p.m..
Gray Loft Gallery is located at 2889 Ford Street #32 (third floor), Oakland, CA 94601.
My photograph, “Wholeness of the heart/The heart of wholeness,” from the series The Maybe Lakes, is included in the first issue of Common Ground, a zine of work by female and non-binary artists.
This issue was juried by photographer and Borderline Press publisher Alyson Bowen and multidisciplinary artist Kory Jean Kingsley.
My cyanotype photogram, Mandala 373 (medicine for a broken heart), from the series Mandalas for the blues, is included in the 2022 Alternative Processes Competition exhibition at Soho Photo.
The exhibition runs from November 16 through December 3, 2022, with an opening reception on Thursday, November 17 from 6:00 to 8:00 p. m.
Soho Photo is located at 15 White Street, New York, NY 10013 and can be reached by phone at 212-226-8571.
You can preview the exhibition here - just click on any image and follow the arrows.
The juror for the 2022 Alternative Processes Competition was fine art photographer, master printer, curator, and educator Ann Jastrab, who is Executive Director of the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, CA.
My photograph, Misty, August 27, 2018 is included in the exhibition Best Friends in Analog Forever magazine.
The exhibition was dedicated to images of artists’ pets, created using analog photographic processes.
Best Friends was juried by fine art photographer and founder of Analog Forever magazine, Michael Behlen.
My photograph, Doc Watson, July 10, 2011, is included in Where Would I Be Without You?. In this exhibit, twenty-eight photographers who are members of the East Bay Photo Collective explore the meaning of family.
The exhibition runs from November 11, 2022 through January 6, 2023, with an opening reception on Friday, November 11 from 5:00 to 8:00 p. m.
Photograph by Douglas Stinson
The Oakland Photo Workshop is located at 312 8th Street, Oakland, CA 94607, in Oakland’s Chinatown neighborhood.
Gallery hours are Fridays and Saturdays from noon - 6:00 p.m. and Sundays from noon - 3:00 p.m..
Saturday, September 24 was World Cyanotype Day. Every year on the last Saturday of September, photographers and artists worldwide gather to connect, create, and celebrate this antiquarian photographic process. The theme this year was “Enlighten.” The history of World Cyanotype Day is summarized here.
I made this photogram, titled “Mandala 425 (enlighten),” on September 24.
You can see the World Cyanotype Day online gallery at alternativephotography.com. It includes work by 333 artists from 40 countries! My cyanotype is on page 5.
My photograph, Revealed in a whisper, is included in the online gallery exhibition The Life of Water.
The exhibition runs from September 28 through October 21, 2022, 2022. A reception is scheduled for Friday, September 30, from 4:00 - 7:00 p.m..
PhotoPlace Gallery is located at 3 Park Street, Middlebury, VT 05753, and can be reached by email at photos@photoplacegallery.com
You can view the online gallery here, and preview the gallery exhibition here.
The juror for The Life of Water was fine art photographer, master printer, curator, and educator Ann Jastrab, who is Executive Director of the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, CA.
Two of my photographs are included in the exhibition, The Found Still Life, the 2022 FotoFest Juried Exhibition of the Art League of Baytown.
Improbable and undeniable
The cap in the gap
The exhibition runs from September 24 through November 5, 2022, with a reception on Saturday, October 1, from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
The Art League of Baytown is located at 110 West Texas Avenue, Baytown, TX, and can be reached by phone at 281-427-2222. The exhibition is also available for online preview here.
The juror for The Found Still Life was photographic artist, educator, and Shots magazine owner-publisher Douglas Beasley.
Two of my cyanotype works from the series Mandalas for the Blues are included in the exhibition Out of the Blue at ACCI Gallery.
Together is all kinds of magic
Mandala 278 (together)
The exhibition is on view from September 1 through 25, 2022, with an opening reception on Saturday, September 3, from 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. and a closing reception on Saturday, September 24, World Cyanotype Day.
ACCI Gallery is located at 1652 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA, and can be reached by phone at 510-843-2527. Gallery hours are 11:00 - 6:00 Monday through Saturday and 12:00 - 5:00 Sunday.
The cyanotype, also known as a blueprint, is an early camera-less photographic printing process invented 180 years ago in 1842. The name cyanotype was derived from the Greek name cyan, meaning "dark-blue impression."
The earliest practitioner of the cyanotype process was Anna Atkins in 1843, producing Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions, the first book to be fully illustrated with photographs. A relatively simple process, the cyanotype requires merely sensitized paper, sunlight, and water to create remarkable photographic images. In recent years we have seen a renewed appreciation of the blueprint process and other antiquated photographic formats.
Arts & Crafts Cooperative, Inc. invited artists to experiment with cyanotypes to create something "Out of the Blue." In homage to Anna Atkins, the challenge here was to use the 19th century historical blueprint process (incorporating nature and the environment) and alter the practice with a mix of media, combining and layering alternative materials and textiles, resulting in a contemporary vision.
World Cyanotype Day is Saturday September 24, 2022. Every year on the last Saturday of September, photographers and artists worldwide gather to connect, create, and celebrate this antiquarian photographic process.
Three of my photographs from the series Lost Connections are included in this year’s Somerville Toy Camera Festival.
Portal
Peaceful reminds me of you
Here the light finds us
The Somerville Toy Camera Festival is being held at two galleries: the Nave Gallery at 155 Powder House Road, and the Washington Street Gallery at 321 Washington Street, both in Somerville, MA. My work is at the Washington Street Gallery.
The Washington Street Gallery exhibition runs from September 10 - October 8. The Nave Gallery exhibition runs from August 27 to September 24, 2022. Both shows have opening receptions on September 17 - from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. at the Washington Street Gallery and from 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. at the Nave Gallery.
Online galleries are also available for both the Washington Street Gallery and Nave Gallery exhibits.
Since 2013, the Somerville Toy Camera Festival has celebrated the quirky and creative results that can happen when photographers loosen their controls, submit to the light, and embrace the accidental. Each year since, the Festival has brought a wide range of toy camera photography by US and international artists together in simultaneous shows at galleries throughout the city, and featured related programming.
The juror for the 2022 Somerville Toy Camera Festival was photographer Laidric Stevenson.
My photograph, “To be seen by another,” is included in the Open Theme exhibition at Praxis Gallery.
The exhibition runs from August 27 through September 10, 2022.
A closing reception is scheduled for Saturday, September 10, 2022, from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m., in conjunction with the Green Way Glow festival.
Praxis Gallery is located at 2637 27th Avenue S., Minneapolis, MN, 55406, and can be reached by phone at 612-345-5571. A 3D virtual tour of the exhibition is available here (updated 8/27/22).
The juror for the Open Theme exhibition was fine art photographer, master printer, curator, and educator Ann Jastrab, who is Executive Director of the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, CA.
Two of my photographs are included in the exhibition In My Backyard at GearBox Gallery.
Raspberries for breakfast
The beginning of hope/The hope of beginning
The show runs from August 18 through September 12, 2022. An opening reception is scheduled for Saturday, August 20, from 1:00 - 4:00 p.m., with a juror’s talk at 2:00. A closing reception is scheduled for Friday, September 2, from 5:00 - 8:00 p.m., during Oakland’s First Friday celebration of the arts.
GearBox Gallery is located at 770 West Grand Avenue, Oakland, CA 94612, and can be reached by phone at 510-271-0822.
You can preview the show here.
The jurors for In My Backyard were Gallery Curator Eric Murphy and owner Joyce Gordon of Joyce Gordon Gallery. Eric Murphy wrote of this exhibition:
The selection process focused on the literal and obvious backyard references first, of course nature and climate change fit in between. Then in the expressed version we often use, “It happened in our own backyard,” as in being close to us in one capacity or another. Next, we moved further out to the social and political experience of what “happens in our own backyard.” Other works are more about abstract interpretations of “In My Backyard” in a virtual sense or a place of mental comfort. Ultimately the selections are eclectic, intended to encompass the various interpretations of the theme.
My photograph, “Song for the vulnerable self,” is included in the online exhibition of Shutter Hub’s 2022 Yearbook.
Yearbook is Shutter Hub’s annual directory of photographers, now in its third year. Work by over 300 photographers from around the world is included.
Shutter Hub is a U.K.-based photography organization.
My photograph, “Trail and contrail,” is included in the exhibition Click! at the Village Theatre Art Gallery. Click! is the gallery’s 12th Annual Juried Exhibit featuring work by photographers from the Western United States.
The exhibition opens with a reception on Thursday, June 9, from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m., and runs through Friday, August 12.
The Village Theatre Art Gallery is located at 233 Front Street, Danville, CA 94526 and can be reached by phone at 925-314-3460.
There’s a virtual tour of the exhibit here, and the work can also been seen on the gallery’s website.
The juror for Click! was Heather Snider, Executive Director at PhotoAlliance in San Francisco.
Two of my photographs are among 300 selected, from 3000 submitted, for F-Stop Magazine’s annual Open Exhibition of photography.
Trail and contrail
Sunrise, January 1, 2022
The exhibition includes a wide range of photographic styles and subjects from around the world.
My photograph, “I dreamed you to me,” from the series Lost Connections, is included in the online exhibition Waiting, at Analog Forever Magazine.
The jurors for Waiting were Amanda Smith and Kevin Tully, Directors of A Smith Gallery. They wrote,
Waiting for spirits?
Waiting for spirits of longing, love, healing, desire, laughter, peace…
The magical, transcendent thing about waiting is its kinship with hope.
A collaborative project by Al Brydon and me, Tales from a non-existent land, is featured in the spring 2022 issue of Shots magazine.
The presence of the unseen
To make these photographs, we each expose a roll of film in a plastic Holga camera, send it to the other, and re-expose it - not knowing what is already present in the latent image. As a result, the images hold the random magic of two unconscious processes and two Holgas.
The spring issue of Shots is devoted to the theme of collaborations in photography.
Some of my botanical lumen prints from the series Lost Connections are included today as a guest contribution to The Daily Lumenbox, a blog by Sonny Rosenberg. The Daily Lumenbox features Sonny’s dreamlike photographs with his unique Lumenbox camera.
You can see my lumen prints here.