Winchester

In the darkness of winter, we search for the light. Our Winter Solstice Members Exhibition brings together our community, lighting up the museum with images, ideas, and boundless creativity, celebrating the works of our photo community in all of its splendor.

This annual celebration highlights the medium of photography in all of its forms. We love sharing your vision with the world, and look forward to our annual gathering of images, ideas and vision.

This exhibition is also an online showcase, with multiple pages. Take a look at all of the talented artists and images that will fill the walls of the museum in December.

Edition 1 (this page) | Edition 2 | Edition 3 | Edition 4

This year’s Annual Winter Solstice Members Exhibition will be held in the main gallery from December 13, 2024 — January 12, 2025.

Participating Artists (Listed Alphabetically by First Name):
Adele Quartley Brown, Adrien Bisson, Alan Richards, Alexandra Frangiosa, Alison Lake, Allyson Ely, Amanda Heck, Anastasia Sierra, Angela Rowlings, Ania Moussawel, Ann Boese, Anna Litvak-Hinenzon, Audrey Gottlieb, Austin Bryant, Becky Behar, Beth Luchner, Betty Stone, Bill Clark, Bonnie Newman, Bremner Benedict, Brynne Quinlan, Caren Winnall, Cassandra Goldwater, Catherine Panebianco, Cathy Cone, Charles Maniaci, Charlotte Toumanoff, Chen Gao, Cheryl Clegg, Christopher Weikart, Connor Archambault, Corinne Adams, Cyd Peroni, Cynthia Smith, Dafna Steinberg, Dale Niles, David Donnelly, David Rabkin, Dawn Watson, Diana Cheren Nygren, Diana Nicholette Jeon, Diane Hemingway, Diana Noh, Donna Dangott, Donna Gordon, Donna Tramontozzi, Douglas Lutz, Duygu Aytaç, Edie Clifford, Elizabeth Corcoran-Hunt, Elizabeth Hopkins, Elizabeth Wiese, Ellen Feldman, Eric Luden, Erik Gehring, Erin Menatian, Fruma Markowitz, Gail Fischer, Gary Beeber, George Imirzian, Grant Halsey, Heather Pillar, Holly Worthington, Hope Schreiber, Jack Doerner, Jaimie Ladysh, Jaina Cipriano, James Collins, Jamie Hankin, Janice Koskey, Jane Waggoner Deschner, Janet Smith, Janis Hersh, Jeanette Pivor, Jeanne Carey, Jeff Larason, Jessica Cardelucci, Jeffrey Mark Dunn, Jen Bilodeau, Jennifer Erbe, Jessica Burko, Jesus Rios Cozzetto, Joan Kocak, Joe Greene, John Brenton, Jonathan Sachs, Jose Ney Mila Espinosa, Joseph S. Lieber, Joy Bush, Judi Iranyi, ​​Judith Montminy, Julia Arstop, Julia Buteux, Julia Cluett, Julianne Snow Gauron, Julie Broderick, Karen Elizabeth Baker, Karen Hosking, Karen Matthews, Karin Rosenthal, Kay Mathew, Kaya Sanan, Kelly Conlin, Ken Rothman, Kermit Lehman, Kevin Belanger, Khim Mata Hipol, Kiyomi Yatsuhashi, Larry Smukler, Laura Ferraguto, Law Hamilton, Lauren J Piper, Lawrence W. Osgood, Leann Shamash, Leanne Trivett S., Lee Cott, Lee Rogers, Lidia Russell,  Liliana Caruana, Linda Hammett Ory, Linda Haas, Linda Plaisted, Lisa Liberetto, Lisa McCarty, Lisa Paulette Silberman, Lisa R. Reisman, Lisa Redburn, Lisa Spencer, Lisa Tang Liu with J. David Tabor — Alchemy of the Unknowns) Laurie Peek, Lucia Ravens, Lynn Saville, Lynne Breitfeller, Marcy Juran, Meg Birnbaum, Marcie Alkema, Marky Kauffmann, Margaret Rizzuto, Mari Saxon, Marilyn Canning, Marjorie Gillette  Wolfe, Mark Eshbaugh, Mark Levinson, Martha Volcker, Martha Wakefield, Mary Pat Reeve, Mary Presson Roberts, Matthew Herrmann, Maura Conron, Megan Riley, Michael Brown, Michael Burka, Michael Lynch, Michael Stepansky, Nadira Gupta, Natalie McGuire, Naomi Soto, Neelakantan Sunder, Nicholas T. Jones (TEEJ), Nikita Mash, Nina Menconi, Pamela Pecchio, Parrish Dobson, Pat Corlin, Patricia Scialo, Peter J Baumgartner, Tony Loreti, Pip Shepley, Rachel Portesi, Ralph Mercer, Rebecca Skinner, Ricardo Pontes, Robert Morin, Bob Reasenberg, Robin Radin, Robin Z. Boger, Rohina Hoffman, Ronald D. Butler, R. Lee Post, Ryck Lent, Sally Ann Field, Sally Bousquet, Sally Chapman, Sally J. Naish, Sandra Pike, Sandra Chen Weinstein, Sandy Hill, Sara Silks, Sarah Christianson, Sarah Hughes, Sasha Fino, Scott Ludwig, Sean Sullivan, Shaheen Lakhani, Shara Hall, Sharon Schindler, Sheila Bodine, Sheri Lynn Behr, Síle Marrinan, Simone Brogini, Stefanie Klavens, Stephen Schmidt, Steve Dunwell, Steve Genatossio, Steve Jacobson, Steve Levin, Sue Anne Hodges, Suki Hanfling, Susan Collins, Susan Lapides, Susan Lirakis, Sue Michlovitz, Susan Moffat, Susan Rosenberg Jones, Suzanne Reasenberg, Suzanne Theodora White, Suzanne Williamson, Teresa Camozzi, Teri Figliuzzi, Terri Unger, Terry Rochford, Thomas E. Janzen, Thomas McCarty, Vicky Stromee, Wenda Habenicht, William Betcher, William P Feiring, William Steinfeld, William Zinn, Yat Chun Chan (Marco Yat Chun Chan), Yorgos Efthymiadis, Zoe Perry-Wood

With great power comes great responsibility.

The power of visual images and the unregulated dynamic of AI have created a world untethered from reality. Disinformation and misinformation in this election year is at an all time high. The ability to think critically is challenged. The general public being swayed or falling into rabbit holes or the digital abyss is not only possible but probable. Artificial intelligence, taking data sets to perform complex tasks to mimic human behavior including the various virtual assistants like ChatGPT or Gemini, or art generators Mid-Journey, Dall-E all scrape data in a large feast, learning, growing, expanding. The programs complex computations become better at anticipating behaviors and inevitably rewrite our history based on the information exchange. 

This exhibition, focused on Artificial Intelligence, includes five artists all looking at the complexities of the visual image as truth, fiction, muse and outlier. All use technology to inform their work, stretch their truth, follow myths and legends, rewrite history and manufacture new realities.

Josh Azzarella

I create still images, video, and objects from important cultural images by altering or removing the punctual event in the image. The works explore the power of authorship in collective memory. This multidisciplinary studio practice is rooted in the scrutiny of popular historiography and the indexical document. Through various methods I seek to interrupt, displace or interfere with the images that make up our personal and shared histories. This practice of arrogation allows me to confuse, append, or create a new memory for the viewer. In this way I interrupt the stream of information and imagery that is disseminated, filtered, and collected. The works find context in our personal memory and in the larger postmodern conversation about what is real. We often note, in trying to understand our own history, that the photographs which signify the events we experience come to replace or complicate our own memories. In this way, I intend the works I produce to further alter those collective memories. Moreover, the works often seek a meditative or still moment during which the viewer can stand transfixed. This contemplative moment is an opportunity to introduce the larger context in which we collect and chronicle our communal history. — Josh Azzarella

Rashed Haq — Plausible Presidents

“Plausible Presidents” explores the complex interplay between perception, imagery, and history, underscored by the pervasive contemporary issue of disinformation in our digital era. This project presents a series of digitally crafted photographs of the first sixteen US Presidents, covering a time period from before the invention of photography until photography was fairly prevalent. The portraits, while visually plausible, are intellectually known as fabrications, challenging viewers to confront their immediate acceptance of photographic information as factual — sometimes allowing critical thinking to be overlooked in the face of compelling imagery

Each photographic portrait is crafted using generative AI, drawing from historical textual descriptions,
paintings, sculptures, and where available, photographs, to resonate with the persona and epoch of the respective presidents. Generative AI is adept at creating images with perceptual realism using multimodal input of text and images. This process, blending historical accuracy with artistic interpretation, aims to materialize the unseen and question the seen. The text descriptions are also created with generative AI, with its potential for bias and inaccuracy in the captions.

In an age where digital manipulation is seamless and widespread, “Plausible Presidents” serves as a mirror reflecting our vulnerabilities in discerning truth from fabrication, including mine. It reminds us how easily our perception can be swayed by images with perceptual realism, and a call to critically evaluate the authenticity and implications of the visuals we encounter.

Hayley Lohn — Capital Gains

Hayley Lohn was born in Vancouver, Canada. She is an artist, photographer, and videographer currently based in Vancouver. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Psychology from the University of Western Ontario and graduated from the International Center of Photography’s Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism program in 2021. Her work explores topics related to technology, nature, and psychology.

Orejarena & Stein — American Glitch

American Glitch examines the slip between fact and fiction and its manifestation in the physical landscape of the United States, the duo’s adopted home. Orejarena & Stein lead us to examine that amidst an overwhelming sea of unending information available in an instant, society is left asking what is real and what’s fake. What can the world trust, and what is a ‘glitch’?

To Orejarena & Stein, screen dominance, conspiracy theories, fake news, and the advent of the Metaverse call to question our reality and our potential existence in a ‘simulation,’ a term employed as a satirical collective protest against late-stage capitalism and an increased dependence on technology. To exist in an online community is to bear witness to the ‘simulation’, where images are posted as personal evidence of spotting a ‘glitch in our reality.’ A concept initially explored in films such as ‘The Matrix’ and ‘The Truman Show,’ a ‘glitch’ reflects a generation’s collective experience wherein the digital and physical worlds have merged; a world in which five senses seem inadequate against campaigns of conspiracy.

The artists spent years treating the internet as our collective subconscious, collating posts on social media and Reddit threads of ‘evidence of glitches in real life’. These threads and images become a place for a new form of community and connection across time and space. Orejarena & Stein then photograph sites around the US which remind them or people on the internet of real-life glitches. Such locations include California City – the blueprint of a perfect town – replete with ‘paper roads,’ avenues, and cul-desacs, which were never completed; or a staged Iraqi village at Fort Irwin, the U.S. Army base in the Mojave Desert.

About the Artists
Orejarena & Stein (b. Colombia, 1994 & UK, 1994) are a multimedia artist duo based in New York. Their work examines the intersection of technology, memory, and the duo’s desire to explore American mythologies and narratives. Fascinated with the emergent properties inherent to photographing as a pair using only a single camera, their practice explores collaboration in an individualistic medium. Orejarena & Stein conduct extensive research into collective image production within a world saturated by visual images. Their work has been exhibited internationally and can be found within public and private collections.

Phillip Toledano — Another America

Another America is an invented history of New York City from 1940-1950, with accompanying short stories by New Yorker writer John Kenney.

Truth in America has been slowly dying over the last decade. The country is consumed with conspiracy theories. For millions, facts are a choice. For millions, history is a choice. The arrival of AI is the next stage in the demise of truth. We can recreate the world as it never was. For every conspiracy theory, there can be visual proof. Convincing evidence that makes the lie real.

Another America takes this idea and creates a history that never existed. A world complete with people, events, and disasters, couched in the veracity of the past. Did this really happen? Is this real history? The images are simultaneously familiar and strange, much like the world in which we live.

We are pleased to present the portfolios of the Photography Atelier 38 creative artists.

Photography Atelier is a portfolio and project-building course for emerging to advanced photographers taught by Emily Belz and Jennifer McClure

Participants engage in supportive critical discussions of each other’s work and leave with a better understanding of the industry and the ability to edit and sequence their own work.

Instruction in the Atelier includes visual presentations based around an assignment which is designed to encourage experimentation in both subject matter and approach. Students learn the basics of how to approach industry professionals to show their work and how to prepare for a national or regional portfolio review. There is discussion of marketing materials, do-it-yourself websites, DIY book publishing and the importance of social media. Students learn the critical art of writing an artist’s statement and bio.

The students here were part of our year long portfolio development program from Fall of 2023 to Spring 2024 and we are thrilled to see their work in the main gallery at Winchester.

Students of Jennifer McClure 

Donna Delone | Kym Ghee | Kay McCabe | Corinne Cobabe | Victor Rosansky | Becca Screnock | Li Shen | Carrie Usmar | Janice Weichman | Laura Wolf |

Students of Emily Belz

Ann Boese | Michael Burka | Julia Cluett | CoCo McCabe | Linda Hammett Ory | Lisa Redburn | Hope Schreiber | Betty Stone | Pip Shepley | Martha Volcker |

We are pleased to showcase the artistry of our community in the 30th Annual Members Juried Exhibition. This exhibition showcases the wide diversity of our creative community in style, craft and vision. Juried by Mazie Harris, Assistant Curator of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum, sixty-one photographs chosen from over 1,300 submitted images were selected to be exhibited in this show.

Join us in Saturday June 22nd at 6pm Eastern in Winchester for a celebration of the artists showcased in this exhibition.

An exhibition catalog of images from our in person exhibition, and our online showcase is available here.

Arthur Griffin Legacy Award: Barbara Peacock, “Cai and Claire”

Griffin Prize: Elizabeth Stone, “Negative / Positive NS44”

Directors Prize: Alina Saranti

Exhibition Award: Francisco Gonzalez Camacho

Honorable Mentions: Jennifer Bilodeau, “Perspective”, Sally Chapman, “Wave”, Francisco Gonzalez Camacho, “Diced”, Susan Moldenhauer, “Implosion, June 23, 2023”, Lisa Tyson Ennis, “Dontavius Williams, Public Historian“

Artists featured here:

Paul Adams, Mariette Allen, Robert David Atkinson, Mark Bargen, Donna Bassin, William Betcher, Jennifer Bilodeau, Philip Borden, Ronald Butler, Teresa Camozzi, Sally Chapman, Jo Ann Chaus, Fehmida Chipty, James Collins, Maura Conron, Seth Cook, Roy Crystal, Sharon Draghi, Amy Durocher, Yorgos Efthymiadis, Carol Eisenberg, Andrew Epstein, Laura Ferraguto, Teri Figliuzzi, Monique Fischer, Fran Forman, Andrew Foster, Suzanne Gainer, Hank Gans, Francisco Gonzalez Camacho, Amy Heller, Douglas Hill, Eric Kunsman, Margaret Lampert, Patricia Mcelroy, Susan Moldenhauer, Amy Montali, Hunter O’Hanian, Jane Paradise, Barbara Peacock, Linda Plaisted, Allison Plass, Robin Radin, Mary Reeve, Katherine Richmond, Karin Rosenthal, Angela Rowlings, Mari Saxon, Alina Saranti, Carla Shapiro, Anastasia Sierra, Frank Siteman, Elizabeth Stone, Lisa Tyson Ennis, Terri Unger, Carrie Usmar, Larry Volk, Babs Wheelden, Joan Wolcott, Holly Worthington and Andrew Zou.