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Posted on October 22, 2009

Superheroes
Group
October 22 – November 22, 2009

An opening reception is October 22, 6-7:30 p.m.

  • Spiderman hanging on a cliff
  • Four children in superhero costumes in a doorway.

In an exhibition loosely based on the theme of the superhero, nine invited photographers unveil their unique super powers through their photographs.

Superheroes, is featured in The Atelier Gallery at the Stoneham Theatre in Stoneham, MA, October 21 through November 22nd. An opening reception is October 22, 6-7:30 p.m. The exhibit runs parallel to the theater’s production of The Sparrow.

Participating photographers are Russ Ford and Reyn Soffe, Heather McDonough, Reiner Riedler, Danielle Picard-Sheehan, Tanit Sakakini, Betsy Schneider, Harvey Stein, and Gregg Segal

Russ Ford and Reyn Soffe are a photography team based in New York City. They say of their work that they “express a false super natural strength by pausing motion through a lens. Is this a Super Power? Not even. Are we Invisible? Not at all. How about Bionic? You laugh. Are we Clever? We don’t know. But we will take what little super power we possess and talk to it, love it and give it a cape because one day it will fly. Go humans go.” Four of their collaborative photographs appear in the exhibition.

London-based photographer Heather McDonough was asked to submit several images of superhero graffiti she found in the urban landscape of France on a trip in 2007. Her work is often about memory and location, obsession and curiosity, and fuelled by the need to keep and collect. The objects of her photographs surround our everyday lives. McDonough is currently a visiting photography lecturer at London Metropolitan University.

Reiner Riedler of Vienna, Austria, is a documentary photographer who deals with present day topics that center on people and their surroundings. Riedler’s work has been exhibited worldwide. His most recent photography project and soon-to-be-released book, Fake Holidays, is dedicated to the topic of simulation. His image, Superman over Red Square, Turkey 2006, depicts what happens when wishes are out of reach and simulation takes over our leisure time and holidays.

For Danielle Picard-Sheehan of Newtown, PA, family has always been at the center of her photography. Dreaming 2008 is a photograph of the artist’s sleeping son dreaming of superheroes. Picard-Sheehan says her images of family “contain narratives, which weave fantasy and imagination with current issues that impact our society.” She uses the Ambrotype (an antique wet-plate colloidon process) coupled with digital imaging to produce a wistful and thoughtful effect in her photographs.

Tanit Sakakini’s superheroes are not from Gotham City but are all from Boston. The photograph on exhibit was created on August 11, 2007, when a group of artists gathered at the Design Center in Boston for a photo shoot. The Superheroes Project, created by Brian Burkhardt and Tanit Sakakini, consisted of 18 artists dressed as superheroes to be used in an ad campaign that celebrates the arts in New England.

Betsy Schneider is a photo-based artist and educator. Her image in Superheroes is from her body of work called Scenes. With her photograph, Baracuda, Schneider says her “artistic concerns range from trying to understand time, decay, and the body to exploring childhood, culture, and relationships and looking very closely at strange visceral things such as candy, placentas, and the mouth.” Schneider was an assistant to Sally Mann and studied with Catherine Wagner and Larry Sultan. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Society for Photographic Education in the US and is an associate professor of art at Arizona State University in Tempe.

Harvey Stein is a professional photographer, teacher, lecturer, and author based in New York City. He currently teaches at the International Center of Photography and in the Master of Professional Studies Program in Digital Photography at the School of Visual Arts. His image in Superheroes was photographed in the 1980s and is shown courtesy of the Bruce Silverstein Gallery, NY.

Los Angeles-based photographer Gregg Segal followed home costumed entertainers dressed as superheroes to highlight the contrast of the fantastic and mundane. Though in costume, the superheroes from his Ordinary Heroes series are unmasked by the ordinariness of their apartments and routine chores.

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Floor Plan

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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