27th Annual Members Juried Show | Edson, Goldstein, Jean-Bart & Royalty

Join us Thursday August 19 at 7pm Eastern for a conversation with four of the highlighted awardee’s from the Griffin Members show, juried by Arnika Dawkins of Arnika Dawkins Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia.

This event is FREE to Griffin Museum members. $10 for Non Members. Interested in Membership and its benefits? See more about what the Griffin offers here

The artists featured –

Steve Edson –

Photography is such a perfect medium for the 21st century. I am constantly amazed at a photographer’s ability to convey complex

information while telling engaging stories about people, places, and objects and their relationships to each other. I was born
 in NYC and spent much of my early years living in NYC and just north of NYC in a suburb in Westchester County. At 18 years of age, I bought my first car and began looking across state lines and national borders for photographs.

Danielle Goldstein –

I feel most like myself when behind the camera, and as I observe the world through my lens I am able to see things differently. I see beauty in abstract lines and geometric forms. I appreciate the linear definition of space, intersections of lines and shapes, textures creating curves and direction, patterns on buildings, and edges and borders. I often include people in my frame to add life and a sense of place to my images.  I try to capture interesting places and moments in time and make them beautiful, but also try to infuse them with the sense of vulnerability and fallibility that I believe is inherent in humanity and nature, as well as man-made forms.

Leslie Jean Bart – 

Leslie Jean-Bart is an artist who has been exhibited in the USA, and abroad.

Born in Haiti where he acquired his love for the ocean, the call to somehow combine the ocean or water and the camera was never far from his mind once he became involved with photography.

Being his mother’s caretaker, who suffered from dementia for over a decade, has been one of the two major factors that have been powering Leslie Jean-Bart’s creativity and his overall view of life these last few years.  The second is the magic of the ocean, and its ability to transport him to a place of calmness and beauty.

The opportunity to combine the ocean and the camera came about while being his mother’s caretaker.  In his process, Jean-Bart uses the movement of the tide and sand at the beach as a visual exploration of the interaction between the culture of a host country and the culture of the immigrant who lives permanently abroad.

He is honored to have been one of the artists asked by Art Alive Gallery in India to contribute to their Art For Hope initiative during the COVID-19 pandemic.

His work can be found in various private collections. He has been living in NYC for well over 30 years.

Ellen Royalty –

Ellen Royalty is a photographer from Bedford Mass whose interest in photography began in 1999 with the accidental acquisition of a very basic digital camera.  She is most interested in abstract and minimalist photography.  Her work is often but not exclusively colorful and geometric.  She is almost entirely self taught, having learned a great deal from a pre-social media online photography group. Ellen won the Roddy Award for photography in 2019 from the Concord Center for the Visual Arts.  She is currently a member of the Bedford Center for the Arts photo group and a contributing member of the Rockport MA Art Association.