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Planting Roots : Growing Community

Posted on November 13, 2023

Planting Roots, Growing Community is a visual portrait of the powerful connection between the land and our local neighborhoods. In a world that often feels fast-paced and disconnected, community gardens and family farms offer us a sense of belonging, of being grounded in the soil and history of the places we call home. These green spaces represent not only the growth of flowers, crops and shared harvests, but also the growth of our relationship with the land and with each other. These four photographers, Greg Heins, Ellen Harasimowicz, John Rich and Leann Shamash, through their lenses, share the quiet moments, the landscape and beautiful detail of our shared landscape, discover the roots of our local farms, and to celebrate the growth of the communities that tend them.

Greg Heins – Fall in the Garden

©Greg Heins

“The photographs respond to the sucesses or failures of the ones that came before. The process is visual. The artistic impulse may be driven by age and loss, anger and regret, by a need for play and freedom but the statement is the photographs. 

We do well to remember that there is no part of our equipment and materials – cameras, printers, ink and paper – that is untouched by the exploitation of others. And that our opportunities were not always granted to others of equal or greater abilities. So it behooves us to create work that is as true and honest and faithful to ourselves as it can be. And to remember that the freedom to do this must be seized again and again.

Greed, hatred indifference and love – in wildly unequal proportions – have given us the world in which we live. Soon enough we will be gone from it, individually and collectively. And yet: can it be that something, like an echo, will remain of our attempts to give sense to it all? We must believe it true.” – Greg Heins

Ellen Harasimowicz – Living Like Grass

©Ellen Harasimowicz

“We all live in nature, but some live in it more intimately. Small-family farmers make their mark on the land, and the land provides nourishment and income for their families. They are the backbone of American agriculture, but earning a living wage is difficult, and finding hired help is nearly impossible. Operating expenses are rising, weather extremes are causing erratic crop yields, and farmers are aging out. For many, this way of life is vanishing.

I’ve been coming to Willard Farm in Still River, Massachusetts for almost three decades to buy sunflowers, corn, tomatoes, and pumpkins. For nearly 350 years, nine generations of Willards have lived and farmed here, rooted in the same soil as their ancestors going back to the Nashaway people. But three years ago, I noticed fewer offerings at the farm stand. Today, the primary farmer, Paul Willard, is 80 and moves slower. He shares the family farmhouse with his brother Wendell, a cabinetmaker, and Wendell’s wife, Elizabeth, a poet. The title of this project is from one of her poems.

For the last 20 years, I’ve photographed the farm, interested not only in the legacy of this land but also in the details of farm life. During the pandemic, when just about everything shut down, farmers still planted crops, and farm stands remained open. Willard Farm became my refuge and my muse. When I asked Paul what his plans were for the future, he said, “I don’t have any real plans. I think I’m just going to wind down. Keep doing what I’m doing, but less of it, and slower. And someday, slow will be indeterminable from still. And then we’ll be done.” That was three years ago. This spring, Paul sold vegetable plants that he grew in the greenhouses. Then he received some discouraging news from his doctor. Today, the fields are fallow except for a small kitchen garden. Their farm stand has closed. A few months ago, no one, not even Paul Willard, imagined the end was so close.” – Ellen Harasimowicz

John Rich – A Year Above the Gardens

©John Rich

“What I did during the pandemic (from mid-first wave through the Delta variant), was photograph the community gardens near my home in Brookline, from above, every two weeks for one year.

With their promise of growth and renewal, the gardens were truly an oasis for me during the isolation of lockdown. I piloted a camera/drone to shoot the terrain from the identical vantage point each time, showing the gardens in moments of bloom, decay, and rest.

By focusing on a landscape transformed through seasonal change and human intervention, these images allow us to connect to the earth and perceive the affirmative power of change.” – John Rich

Leann Shamash – Community Gardens

©Leann Shamash

“A piece of land, 12x by 12x, in the midst of other similarly parceled spots.

What to do in this puzzle of growing spaces? Community gardens are for growing things. Some use the space for bushes and small trees, some for fragrant herbs and many for vegetables.  Some grow a few flowers and add a chair to create a living space in the midst of the field. 

Community gardens are for gardeners, a special breed of people, who each year attempt to defy the odds and grow vegetables, despite attacks of unpredictable weather, insects, disease, and animals that tunnel and jump over fences.  Gardeners are eternal optimists, who love to share their challenges and successes with one another.

I love to garden and to see how things grow, knowing that I fail more than I succeed at growing things. I love to observe what gardeners bring from the world outside of the garden into their spaces to uniquely individualize their space, for isn’t that something we all do in our lives?

Last, gardens, both community and private are nothing more than canvases which we can design and paint how we wish.  These canvases offer us quiet and an escape from the world outside the garden, truly a place to meditate and a place to grow.” – Leann Shamash

Rendering Experiences

Posted on August 9, 2023

We are pleased to welcome the MFA students at Boston University’s department of Print Media & Photography to the Griffin’s satellite gallery at Lafayette City Center Passageway. These five students are the first cohort of the program, and we are thrilled to see their culminating work in this exhibition. On view from October 2, 2023 through January 7, 2024, “Rendering Experiences” combines five artists’ perspectives on how stories of the self are formed, shaped, interpreted, and valued in our world.

About the Artists

Sofia Barroso is an artist from Mexico. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Print Media and Photography from Boston University College of Fine Arts. In her work, Barroso explores the themes of self-discovery and present-moment awareness through an ongoing conversation between the fields of painting, photography, and printmaking. Barroso has presented her work both nationally and internationally including Paris Contemporary Art Fair and Art Basel Miami. Her work will be shown in an upcoming exhibition at the Griffin Museum in Boston and will be an artist-in-residency at the Fans Masereel Center in Belgium. Along with her artistic practice, Barroso holds an editorial photography business. She maintains studios in Boston, Massachusetts, and in Mexico City.

Sofia Barroso, Glare Instant, 2023

Julianne Dao completed her BFA with a concentration in Printmaking at University of North Texas and is currently earning her MFA in Printmedia and Photography at Boston University. Raised in suburban Dallas, Texas, she has consistently sought out the extraordinary in mundane environments. Drawing inspiration from nature and daily life experiences, she creates abstract works using printmaking  and photography.

Dao has exhibited in juried exhibitions nationally and  internationally, including the IMC Sumi-Fusion International Exhibition. Along with exhibiting and curating, she has taught  printmaking workshops and will be an artist-in-resident at the Fans  Masereel Centrum in Kasterlee, Belgium. She resides and maintains a  studio in Boston, MA.

Julianne Dao, Walking Shadows, 2023

Delaney C. Burns is a printmaker and bookmaker from Maine. She graduated with a BFA in Studio Art and a BS in Business Marketing from the University of Maine and is currently pursuing her MFA in Print Media and Photography from Boston University.

Burns has exhibited work at various locations, including Zillman Art Museum, the Lunder Gallery at Lesley University, and Piano Craft Gallery. She received a McGillicuddy Humanities Center Fellowship and a Charlie Slavin Research Grant. Burns has an upcoming show at the Griffin Museum at Lafayette City Center in Boston and a residency at the Frans Masereel Center in Belgium. She currently maintains her studio in Boston, Massachusetts.

Delaney C. Burns, One in Four, 2023

Emily Taylor Rice is an artist and an educator with a BS and MA in Art Education. She is a 2024 MFA candidate in Print Media + Photography at Boston University College of Fine Arts. Her teaching experience includes K-12 art education both nationally and internationally.

Rice has exhibited her work at Boston University, VanDernoot Gallery, Roberts Gallery, Ramp Collective, Piano Craft Gallery, and Griffin Museum at Lafayette City Center (Fall 2023), Boston, MA; the American International School of Kuwait; Indiana New Growth Arts Festival, Kipp Gallery, Indiana, PA; and the U.S. Capitol Building, Washington, DC. Rice has curated exhibitions in Boston, MA, and juried art competitions such as the YCIS Puxi Community Photography Competition in Shanghai, China. Her artist residencies include Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village, CO, and the Frans Masereel Center in Kasterlee, Belgium. Rice has garnered a variety of awards and honors for her scholarship and is a United States National Art Award Winner. She maintains a studio in Boston, Massachusetts.

Emily T. Rice, Something Must Give, 2023

Xinyan Kong is a Boston-based Chinese-born photographer who earned her BFA degree from California College of the Arts and is currently pursuing an MFA degree at Boston University. Her work has been exhibited in several galleries across the United States, including The Contemporary at Northern Waters Resort Art Gallery in Michigan and Las Laguna Art Gallery in California. Xinyan’s art explores the intersection between the natural world and man-made objects, using her images to depict the intricacy and subtlety of human emotions and feelings. Her artistic vision is inspired by a deep interest in both Eastern and Western aesthetics, and she is driven by a desire to capture the essence of sentimental moments through the lens. Examples of Xinyan’s work can be found on her website: www.xinyankong.com

Xinyan Kong, Snow Has Fallen for Months, 2023

Nine Conversations

Posted on February 1, 2023

Photography has always been a powerful medium for evoking an emotional response in the viewer -whether awe, revulsion, sadness, or joy. By framing the context and using light, shadow, focus and depth of field and visual imagination, the viewer is invited into the world of the artist. The juxtaposition of shapes and lines, the use or absence of color, the dimensionality of a piece, all contribute to creating a moment that can resonate deep within the viewer’s psyche. There is alchemy in both the creation of imagery and in the intimate engagement with a stranger who now views the work. No more interpretation is required; simply stop, notice and engage in self-inquiry. Like a modern-day Rorschach, each of the nine bodies of work begins a conversation of meaning between artist and viewer. As you transit this hallway, pause for a moment to enjoy that brief exchange and take it with you into your day.

The works of nine talented artists are included in this exhibition: Julia Arstorp, Anne Berry, Cathy Cone, Sandra Klein, Joan Lobis Brown, Marcy Palmer, Sara Silks, Vicky Stromee and Dawn Watson all present images to tell stories, ask questions and engage us in visual richness.

The Griffin @ Lafayette City Center Passageway is located at 2 Ave de Lafayette in Downtown Crossing, Boston. The passageway connects Macy’s, the Lafayette Tower offices and the Hyatt Regency, Boston.

Reception for the artists – July 15th, 2023

Artist talks –
September 6th, 2023: Sandra Klein, Anne Berry, Dawn Watson
September 13th, 2023: Marcy Palmer, Cathy Cone, Sara Silks
September 20th,2023: Vicky Stromee, Joan Lobis Brown, Julia Arstorp

Expanding The Pantheon : Women R Beautiful

Posted on January 12, 2023

The Griffin Museum is excited to bring Ruben Natal San Miguel to Lafayette City Center to celebrate his magnum opus, Women R Beautiful. This solo exhibition featuring the portraits of women Natal San Miguel crosses paths with are stunning. Frank and honest, the women are confident, self aware and direct with their gaze into the lens. This exhibition is featured during Women’s History Month, and we are excited to showcase the diversity and breadth of the female gaze and shared experience of portraiture at its most pure.

RUBEN NATAL-SAN MIGUEL is an architect, fine art photographer, curator, creative director and critic. His stature in the photo world has earned him awards, features in major media, countless exhibitions and collaborations with photo icons such as Magnum Photographer Susan Meiselas. Gallery shows include: Asya Geisberg, SoHo Photo, Rush Arts, Finch & Ada, Kris Graves Projects, Fuchs Projects, WhiteBox Gallery, Station Independent Projects Gallery, LMAK Gallery,  Postmasters Gallery  Rome  & NYC  and others. His work has been featured in numerous institutions: The New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Griffin Museum of Photography, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, African American Museum of Philadelphia, The Makeshift Museum in Los Angeles, University of Washington, El Museo del Barrio and Phillips Auction House and Aperture Foundation. 

International art fair representation includes: Outsider Art Fair, SCOPE, PULSE, Art Chicago, Zona Maco, Mexico, Lima Photo, Peru and Photo LA. and Filter Photo Festival in Chicago Ill.  His photography has been published in a long list of publications, highlights: New York Magazine, The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Time OUT, Aperture, Daily News, OUT, American Photo, ARTFORUM, VICE, Musee, ARTnet and The New Yorker, PBS and NPR. In 2016, Ruben’s Marcy’s Playground was selected for both the Billboard Collective and website for Apple. His photographs are in the permanent collections of El Museo Del Barrio in NYC, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY, The Contemporary Collection of the Mint Museum Charlotte, North Carolina, The Bronx  Museum for the Arts, School of Visual Arts, NYC, The Fitchburg Museum of Art, Massachusetts, The North Carolina Museum of Art at Raleigh, NC., The Minneapolis Institute of Art, The Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, The Studio Museum of Harlem and The Museum of The City of NY, The Provincetown Art Museum, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Museum Center at Vassar College and The Museum of Fine Arts , Boston, MA. 

The Griffin @ Lafayette City Center Passageway is located at 2 Ave de Lafayette in Downtown Crossing, Boston. The passageway connects Macy’s, the Lafayette Tower offices and the Hyatt Regency, Boston.

My Favorite Things | Still Life

Posted on November 8, 2022

In history and art, the still life image is ubiquitous and synonymous with masterworks of art. A collection of objects, filled with meaning, beauty, life and transition. This collection of images looks at how we value our things, how we engage with our objects, craft them into art.

Stephanie Shih’s Asian American Still Life and Matt Siber Collective Consciousness look at the way we imbue preconceived notions of what the object holds, and how we re-envision that object in a new context.

We see objects of importance through family lines with the works of Parrish Dobson and Beth Galton. Yorgos Efthymiadis looks at how a singular object can obtain mythic proportion in both personal and public persona. Rebecca Horne’s constructions defy dimension, organic and structural textures at odds but also symbiotic. Stefanie Klavens series How We Live looks at our surroundings, and Vicente Cayuela‘s Juvenilia explores the way we gravitate to objects at any age, especially as we grow in an emotional and intellectual context. Jo Ann Chaus uses object as introspection. Her use of images and object create entire personas we as viewers can indulge in, question and dream of the possibilities of who we are and who we want to be.

Crafting a typology, Jennifer Booher shows us Beachcombing, while Marcy Juran‘s Humble Beauty takes a closer look at what is often discarded or missed in simple organic form.

The eleven artists who share their work with us look at the myriad ways of showcasing objects of importance. In a world of clutter, we find beauty, in a landscape of objects we see a microcosm of identity, statements of personality and ultimately open to interpretation the items we hold close. In each photograph, each visual construction and unique still life animates ideas, invent connections, shares ideas and showcases a depth of understanding of the photographer illuminating their subject.

The Griffin @ Lafayette City Center Passageway is located at 2 Ave de Lafayette in Downtown Crossing, Boston. The passageway connects Macy’s, the Lafayette Tower offices and the Hyatt Regency, Boston. Hours are open between 9am and 9pm. Saturday and Sunday access is limited by entry through Macy’s and the Hyatt Regency.

Photography Atelier 36

Posted on August 17, 2022

We are pleased to present the portfolios of the Photography Atelier 36 creative artists.

Photography Atelier is a portfolio and project building course for emerging to advanced photographers taught by Elizabeth Buckley. Participants engage in supportive critical discussions of each other’s work and leave with a better understanding of the industry and an 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 Spring 2022 program and we are thrilled to see their work on the walls of the Lafayette City Center Passageway.

Scot Langdon – Finding Home

Ann Peters – In the Shadows

Anne Piessens  – Origin Stories

Vanessa R Thompson – The Spoils

Michael Rodriguez Torrent – Short Stories

Sean Sullivan – Eighty-Sixed

Heather Walsh – Breathwork

Vantage Point | The View from Here

Posted on May 17, 2022

How does X mark a spot? How do we navigate our own surroundings? At what point do we walk, run or fall? Vantage Point seeks to illuminate our vision and create a point of contact to the land. This collection of images brings us together with a view of not just data points on a map, but locations of meaning, of remembrance, of identity.

Miriam Webster defines a vantage point as a position or standpoint from which something is viewed or considered especially a point of view. These sixty artists bring us sixty unique points of view.

Artists featured in alphabetical order –

Silvana Agostoni, Eliot Allen, Laurel Anderson, Susan Annable, Jan Arrigo, Julia Arstorp, Peter Balentine, Robin Boger, Rachel Boillot, Adele Quartley Brown, Linda Bryan, Ron Butler, Cynthia Clark, Jeff Corwin, Alexa Cushing, Angela Douglas Ramsey, Sean Du, Dena Eber, Dean Forbes, Erik Gehring, Paul Gilmore, Carole Glauber, Bob Greene, Diana Gubbay, Maureen Haldeman, Charles Haynes, John Heymann, Bill Hickey, Sandy Hill, Al Hiltz, Mark Indig, Matthew Kamholtz, Robbie Kaye, Cindy Konits, Teresa Kruszewski, Jaimie Ladysh, Catherine LeComte, Susan Lirakis, Joan Lobis Brown, Joni Lohr, Bruce Magnuson, Margaret McCarthy, Natalie McGuire, Howard Meister, Olga Merrill, Janet Milhomme, Doris Mitsch, Judith Montminy, Yuxiao Mu, Hank Paper, Wandy Pascoal, Ric Pontes, John Rich, Lydia Rogers, Katya Rosenzweig, Leann Shamash, Rakesh Sikder, Joshua Tann, Robin Venturelli, Dan Weingrod, Marjorie Wolfe and Holly Worthington

Color Theory

Posted on February 26, 2022

Everyday, we engage with color. We immerse ourselves in moments and memories that are shaped by color. Everyday, we react to color in ways great and small– and we don’t just react to images with color, but to color itself. Color shapes our emotions. It floods our recollections. It can be both the stimulus and the response.

Color Theory is our reaction to this moment in which we are coming out of darkness, winter to spring, in which we collectively navigate from pandemic to endemic. This moment where we try to bring life and balance back to our souls.

The artists included in Color Theory are featured artists Deborah Bay and Jay Tyrrell, with images from Vicente Cayuela, Cheryl Clegg, Donna Dangott, Yorgos Efthmiadis, Carol Eisenberg, Ellen Konar & Steve Goldband, Maureen Haldeman, Linda Haas, Leslie Jean Bart, Marcy Juran, Deborah Kaplan, Marky Kauffmann, Ann Leamon, Sheri Lynn Behr, Bruce Magnuson, Ralph Mercer, Olga Merrill, Sue Michlovitz, Julie Mihaly, Judith Montminy, Lisa Mossel Vietze, Maureen Mulhern White, Randy Otto, Lori Pond, Susan Rosenberg Jones, Lisa Ryan, Geralyn Shukwit, Vicky Stromee, Sean Sullivan, Neelakantan Sunder, Stefanie Timmermann, Donna Tramontozzi, Suzanne Williamson, Jenn Wood and Dianne Yudelson.

For more information about the photographs of Color Theory, or to see pricing download our Price and Edition Information.

The Griffin @ Lafayette City Center Passageway is located at 2 Ave de Lafayette in Downtown Crossing, Boston. The passageway connects Macy’s, the Lafayette Tower offices and the Hyatt Regency, Boston.

 

Once Upon a Time: Photographs That Inspire Tall Tales

Posted on October 2, 2021

The Exhibitors for Once Upon a Time: Photographs That Inspire Tall Tales are:
Mary Aiu, Jan Arrigo, Joan Barker, Carson Barnes, Andrea Birnbaum, Meg Birnbaum, Lora Brody, Sally Chapman, Diana Cheren Nygren, Jaina Cipriano, Cheryl Clegg, Ashley Craig, L. Aviva Diamond, Suzette Dushi, Steven Edson, Diane Fenster, Kev Filmore, Alexa Frangos, William Franson, Carole Glauber, Nadide Goksun, Elizabeth Greenberg, Marsha Guggenheim, Sarah Hadley, Maureen Haldeman, Julie Hamel, Joan Haseltine, Sandy Hill, Mark Indig, Carol Isaak, Leslie Jean-Bart, Diana Nicholette Jeon, Marcy Juran, Asia Kepka, Karen Klinedinst, Anne Kornfeld, Teresa Kruszewksi, Anna Litvak-Hinenzon, Marcia Lloyd, Joni Lohr, Bruce Magnuson, George McClintock, Yvette Meltzer, Ralph Mercer, Judith Montminy, Charlotte Niel, Steven Parisi-Gentile, Ave Pildas, Russ Rowland, Ellen Royalty, Lisa Ryan, Nathalie Seaver, Sarah Silks, Felice Simon, Elin O’Hara Slavick, Zachary Stephens, Vicky Stromee, Stefanie Timmermann, Leanne Trivett, Vicki Whicker, Suzanne Williamson, Dianne Yudelson, Nina Weinberg Doran, Joanne Zeis, Mike Zeis and Charlyn Zlotnik.

See review by What Will You Remember.

This exhibition in our Lafayette Gallery is to be called Once Upon a Time: Photographs That Inspire Tall Tales.

A catalog is available.

Curator’s Essay Once Upon a Time

 

 

We were looking for photographs that inspire story telling. It could be fiction. It could be fact. We were looking for photographs that are fodder for formulating a narrative.

From photographs chosen  for the Once Upon a Time: Photographs That Inspire Tall Tales exhibition for the wall at our Lafayette City Center Passageway Gallery, our audience and invitees will then be asked to visit the exhibition, and write stories inspired from a photograph in the Once Upon a Time: Photographs That Inspire Tall Tales exhibition and to submit the stories to the Griffin Museum. We will also invite area schools (all levels) and colleges to participate in the writing exercises as well as the general public.

Deadline for writing submissions is January 14, 2022 at Midnight Pacific Time. We will feed the stories to the jurors as we get them.

Where the submissions of writings will be sent is to photos at griffin museum dot org.

We will invite selected authors of stories (chosen by jurors Cassandra Goldwater and Jill Frances Johnson) to read or speak their stories in an event held on March 6th during the closing reception at Lafayette City Center.

There will be 3 cash awards of $100 chosen from photographs and 3 cash awards chosen by writing juror(s) from written narratives. The award money is from an anonymous donor.

The jurors for the writing exercises are Cassandra Goldwater and Jill Frances Johnson.

woman with glassesCassandra Goldwater is a former adjunct professor at Lesley University where she taught Creative Nonfiction, freshman English and survey literature classes to undergraduates for almost 10 years. Additionally, she mentored students in the Low Residency MFA program in word image projects. Partnering with Karen Davis, she co-taught Word Image in the extension program at Lesley. She holds an MFA from Lesley University, an MBA from Simmons College, and a BA from the University of New Hampshire.

Goldwater’s commentary on the photographic work of Jennette Williams and Hellen van Meene appeared in the Women’s Review of Books. Her essay “Then What?” was published in the former online journal Perceptions.

woman with arms crossedJill Frances Johnson is the Assistant Nonfiction Editor at Solstice Literary Magazine. Jill earned her MFA in Creative Nonfiction at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA in 2017 after graduating from Smith College in the Ada Comstock Scholars Program for nontraditional (older!) students. Her work appears in Under the Gum Tree and Clockhouse and SolsticeLitMag. Her current project is a memoir Water Skiing in Kashmir about her expat life during the ‘60’s.

Jill blogs at vermontwritercooks and @jillvtbrat on Twitter and Instagram. She divides her time between the green hills of Vermont and the artsy city of St Petersburg, Fl.

Photography Atelier 34

Posted on July 26, 2021

Photography Atelier is a 12-session portfolio and project building course for emerging to advanced photographers offered through the Griffin Museum of Photography. Now in its 25th year, the Atelier class 34 was led by photographer Molly Lamb.

Exhibiting photographers of Photography Atelier 34 are:

Lora Brody  Sisters

My hand-made Ziatype photographic images explore relationships between sisters, opening a window into their personal narratives.

Joy Bush Places I Never Lived

While photographing the facades of houses in a sleuth-like fashion, I fantasize about who lives there and what life is like on the inside. It is about imagining my life, and who I would be, in a different place.

Marcy Cohen The Birds, the Sky and the Sea

This series is about escaping the loneliness and horror of the pandemic through an enhanced connection with the natural world. The subject matter birds, the sky and the sea are metaphors for a world beyond everyday concern and are intended to provoke positive emotions during dark times.

David Comora The Space Between is both stimulus and response – a space to
experience the world anew.

Kathy DeCarlo-Plano Quiet

Images that find the tranquility, quietness and peace that is to be found in the world.  

Miren Etcheverry My Father’s Story

This project is about my father’s story. In 1940, when he was 15 years old, he escaped German occupied France to join General de Gaulle’s Free French forces.

Eric Frere  Color at the End of the Tunnel is a series of images taken at Maverick T Station over the pandemic during the winter and spring. It captures the transition from a sense of despair to a glimmer of hope.

Cassandra Goldwater Surface Tensions

Goldwater’s project explores surfaces as boundaries.

Deborah Kaplan Syllabary for a Natural World

It has been said that if we do not have a word for something, it is unacknowledged, hard to bring into consciousness as an actual thing in the world. This series, Syllabary for a Natural World, reaches back to prehistoric expressions of mark making to explore the innate complexity and language of the natural world, to restart a process of abstraction and understanding.

Matthew Kaufman Barren Riches

My images focus on the beauty inherent in the variety of un-adorned structure of trees and the relation of trees to their surroundings.

Carole LoConte Tedesco – They Existed

This project arose out of my lifelong interest in the visual language of death, having grown up around colonial New England cemeteries and the powerful imagery carved on gravestones. I photograph them as a way of honoring those lives and remembering, even in a small way, the people who lived them.

Rebecca Loy Reflections

This series uses flowers to represent our humanity and how we seek to come to terms with our reflections, both inside and out.

Maureen McKeon Passing Through is a contemplation of transition, impermanence, and remembrance as I enter the final stage of my life.

Camille Neville In ‘Musings’ I used my love of music and my own experiences as a musician to help spark creativity in my photography.

Hope Pashos – Ordered Chaos

Long exposure photography takes many moments of chaos and synthesizes them into one, singular, moment of order. Each is a series of movements captured as one frozen split second, never to be captured the same way again.

Anne Piessens  Origin Stories

These handmade collage images interpret fragments of my family ancestry, as experienced by girls and women.

Anne Smith Duncan Are You Listening? Do You See Me?

Research indicates that trees communicate with each other through scent, vibrations, and underground symbiotic networks. Their “wood-wide-web” mimics our human neural and social networks.

Mike Slurzberg  Greenscapes looks at green energy devices, and considers their influence on the world we see.

Lynne Stuart Lamson Reflecting on Water explores the rippled reflections on the water and the intricate designs within the water’s surface in an effort to be present in the moment, to gain new perspectives, and to wonder.

Aimee Towey-Landry Wandering Along the Horizon is an exploration of constructed color, light, and shadow evoking sculptural qualities and movement.

Maria A. Verrier Can’t You Hear Me

A buried voice comes alive in the making of these images, piecing together subconscious rumblings. Like a dream, the succession of images attempts to reconstruct the ideas, emotions, and sensations of a seventeen-year-old’s chaos.

Andrew Wang  Always an Outsider is a visual exploration of how the feeling of racism has become a pervasive thought in my life.

Jeanne Widmer The Longing of Silence

With this series, I am exploring some of the feelings of the pandemic: hemmed in with no end in sight, longing for family, for one on one contact with friends, for freedom from fear, and for ways I could comfort the many children and teenagers struggling and losing so much during those long days.

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Amy Rindskopf's Terra Novus

At the market, I pick each one up, pulled in by the shapes as they sit together, waiting. I feel its heft in my hand, enjoy the textures of the skin or peel, and begin to look closer and closer. The patterns on each individual surface marks them as distinct. I push further still, discovering territory unseen by the casual observer, a new land. I am like a satellite orbiting a distant planet, taking the first-ever images of this newly envisioned place.

This project started as an homage to Edward Weston’s Pepper No. 30 (I am, ironically, allergic to peppers). As I looked for my subject matter at the market, I found that I wasn’t drawn to just one single fruit or vegetable. There were so many choices, appealing to both hand and eye. I decided to print in black and white to help make the images visually more about the shapes, and not about guessing which fruit is smoothest, which vegetable is greenest.

Artistic Purpose/Intent

Artistic Purpose/Intent

Tricia Gahagan

 

Photography has been paramount in my personal path of healing from disease and

connecting with consciousness. The intention of my work is to overcome the limits of the

mind and engage the spirit. Like a Zen koan, my images are paradoxes hidden in plain

sight. They are intended to be sat with meditatively, eventually revealing greater truths

about the world and about one’s self.

 

John Chervinsky’s photography is a testament to pensive work without simple answers;

it connects by encouraging discovery and altering perspectives. I see this scholarship

as a potential to continue his legacy and evolve the boundaries of how photography can

explore the human condition.

 

Growing my artistic skill and voice as an emerging photographer is critical, I see this as

a rare opportunity to strengthen my foundation and transition towards an established

and influential future. I am thirsty to engage viewers and provide a transformative

experience through my work. I have been honing my current project and building a plan

for its complete execution. The incredible Griffin community of mentors and the

generous funds would be instrumental for its development. I deeply recognize the

hallmark moment this could be for the introduction of the work. Thank you for providing

this incredible opportunity for budding visions and artists that know they have something

greater to share with the world.

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