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Rakesh Sikder | Night Work

Posted on April 20, 2023

Despite the opportunities urban life offers, it is still chaotic. The constant cacophony of construction work and pestering pollution are sure to drive away one’s peace of mind. 

I live in a warm region where night weather is comparably pleasant. Besides, the apartment buildings here are congested leaving little to no space for roaming around freely. For me, the only solace left was on the roof at night. Therefore, I used to walk on our roof after sunset. Amidst the din and bustle of city life, that little quiet time was a cherished moment for me. 

Once, for a photo assignment, I shot long exposures of the dark surroundings from our roof. My photography mentor, Meg Birnbaum liked it so much that I decided to explore this idea further and thus, went to all the rooftops of my city that I could avail. The theme of horticulture in a limited space is one of the takeaways from this project. 

To the best of my recollections, I have never seen nightscapes of my city from such a vantage point. As I intend to focus on the calmness, barely two or three figures appear here looming in a seemingly noiresque manner. The final vision portrayed here is undoubtedly a lot more different than reality as it is an overpopulated area. Moreover, our eyes will not discern the amount of light in a second that is projected here in a single frame as human eyes process 60 frames per second. On the contrary, these frames were exposed to light for up to 30 seconds.

About the Artist –

Rakesh Sikder was born and brought up in Khulna, a remote city of Bangladesh. The majority of his works were made in and around that city. Both Sebastião Salgado and Bangladeshi photographer Nasir Ali Mamun’s monochromatic world has had such a profound impact on Sikder that his early works were mostly in monochrome. Sikder learned to embrace color and assemble a coherent photo project under Boston based photography teacher Meg Birnbaum’s mentorship.

His photos were exhibited and included in the Judge’s Pick section in national photographic contests ‘Encaging the Exposure: Season 1’ in 2018 and ‘Breakthrough: A Carnival for Efficient Works’ in 2020 respectively. Shutterhub, a UK based photography organization published his work in their yearbook for which he also received a Griffin Museum of Photography YEARBOOK AWARD 2021. In the same year, a selection of his early black and white photos were published in a local magazine Dead Metaphor. His work was displayed for three months at a Griffin Museum satellite gallery, USA in 2022 as a part of the curated exhibition ‘Vantage Point’, making it his first overseas appearance.

Previous Executive Director and Curator of Griffin Museum of Photography, Paula Tognarelli saw Sikder’s “photograph as a trompe-l’oeil illusion that invokes quiet and contemplation.” She also added that she “could live with this photograph for hours.” In Czech Photography Masterclass n.7, Prague based Art Director and Photographer, Bara Prasilova opined that Sikder’s “photo has amazing composition, amazing colors, I think that everything was captured at the right moment no matter if this photograph was a result of just coincidence or it was a result of just total concentration of the photographer and patient waiting for the right moment. The photo is just perfect.”

A note from Meg Birnbaum, Mentor – It has been a pleasure to work with Rakesh to further his vision. His dedication to his craft is evident in the outcome and vision of the project we worked on together. I believe that Rakesh has a good eye and strong graphic sensibilities. I can’t wait to see what he does next. 

Fern Nesson | E=mc²

Posted on April 20, 2023

Roland Barthes asserts that “a photograph is a witness [to] what has been. Every image is an image of death.” But Barthes is wrong. A photograph may speak to a moment now past if that is what is desired. But a photograph can create its own energy as well. Like Cezanne’s paintings, it can live; it can breathe.

I use my camera to create life and to defy death. My goal is create living works of art that embody the moment when mass becomes energy. They are never constructed. Everything in them is real.

These images capture a moment of transcendence. In that moment, we know ourselves to be infinite, inextricably a part of the universe. We perceive that, when we die, we will merely change in form. Nothing is ever lost. The energy of those we loved exists forever all around us. And we will too.

E=mc²

About Fern Nesson –

Fern L. Nesson is a fine art photographer who lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She received her MFA in Photography from Maine Media College (2018), a J.D. from Harvard Law School (1971.) She has had solo exhibitions abroad at the Politecnico University in Torino, Italy, Les Rencontres de la Photographie in Arles, France, Ph21 Gallery in Budapest, Hungary, the University of The West Indies in Jamaica and in the United States at the MIT Museum Lab, The MetaLab at Harvard, the Beacon Gallery in Boston, Massachusetts, the Pascal Gallery in Rockport, Maine, and Through This Lens Gallery in Durham, NC.

Nesson’s solo show, Tilt!, will open in September, 2023 at the Beacon Gallery in Boston, Massachusetts. Additionally, Nesson’s work has been selected for numerous juried
exhibitions in the U.S., Barcelona, Rome and Budapest. Her photobooks, Signet of Eternity and WORD, won 10th and the 12th Annual Photobooks Awards from the Davis-Orton Gallery.

Rolls & Tubes Collective

Posted on April 20, 2023

The commodification of the commonplace became a running theme of the COVID-19 pandemic. Having made homebodies of us all, COVID-19 created absurd rolling shortages, of flour, hair dye, and of course, toilet paper. This was the genesis of the work by the Rolls & Tubes Collective. In this work, each of the four artists reinterpreted a known photograph in the arc of contemporary, and the history of photography, utilizing toilet paper as an element of the image.

The artists who comprise the collective –

Colleen Mullins is a photographer and book artist. She has garnered numerous grants and fellowships, including two McKnight Fellowships, four Minnesota State Arts Board Grants, and in 2020, she was a nominee for the Leica Oskar Barnack Award for her project “Expositions are the timekeepers of progress”. Additionally, she has been an artist in residence at the Vermont Studio Center, the Penland School of Crafts Winter Residency, and In Cahoots Residency. Mullins’ work is in the collections of the US Embassy in Moscow, Ogden Museum of Southern Art and Southeast Museum of Photography, among others. Her publications include Photo District News (PDN), The Oxford American Eyes on the South, The New York Times Lens Blog, and numerous textbooks. She has authored articles for Afterimage and PDNedu. Recent exhibitions include Griffin Museum of Photographic Art, the North Carolina Museum of Art, and Tilt Institute for the Contemporary Image with the Rolls & Tubes Collective.

Jenny Sampson was born and raised in San Francisco and currently resides in Berkeley, California. She earned a B.A. in Psychobiology in 1991 at Pitzer College and has since dedicated her time to her photographic endeavors: wet plate collodion, traditional black and white photography and commissioned portraits. Sampson is a member of The Rolls and Tubes Collective. Her first monograph, Skaters, was published in October 2017 by Daylight Books and Jenny’s Skater Girls in September 2020.

Nicole White is a Bay Area artist and curator. White uses historical and contemporary photographic processes to examine the medium’s varied functionality while looking at the American cultural landscape. She holds a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art (2002), a MA in Art History from the University of Connecticut (2010) and a MFA in Studio from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2012). She is a Professor of Art (Photography) at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill, CA. In 2021, she published a book, Rolls & Tubes: A History of Photography, in collaboration with Christy McDonald, Colleen Mullins, and Jenny Sampson.

Christy McDonald uses photography as a way of engaging with the world and exploring the varied cultural and social conditions she encounters. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Christy holds a B.A. in Art (photography) from UC Berkeley, is a member of the Rolls and Tubes Photographic Collective, and has ongoing personal projects in parts of the Middle East and the California Central Valley.

Stephanie Shih | Open Flowers Bear Fruit

Posted on April 3, 2023

The Eurocentric tradition of still life has a long history of appropriating elements from cultures that it considered “exotic” while maintaining  authoritative artistic dominance on the practice. In response, Open Flowers Bear Fruit (Asian American Still Life) is an on-going project that claims space in this venerated tradition for Asian American cultural experiences, directly from an Asian American perspective. The project creates an overdue dialogue between the symbology of Eurocentric still life with that of Asian diaspora traditions.

On a personal level, the series features home comfort foods from my upbringing as a Taiwanese-Chinese American—foods that are derided as “strange” in the U.S. but hold quotidian significance in Chinese culture. At the same time, the series questions the ideals of the nostalgic “All-American” experience as a daughter of immigrants, asking to what extent immigrant experiences can dovetail with notions of Americanness. On a community level, I partner with Asian American small business owners throughout the series, foregrounding their food practices that make up the now multicultural culinary landscape that pervades California. These partnerships have allowed me to present perspectives and lived experiences from the numerous cultures that feed the otherwise monolithic label of “Asian American.”

About Stephanie Shih –

Stephanie Shih is a visual still life artist, known for her painterly use of shadow applied to playful perspectives on food. Shih started making photographs with her dad’s half-frame camera on childhood road trips, but only took up photography seriously later in life while in graduate school. At the time, she moonlighted as a caterer, and translating the experience of food to the visual image has been a driving through line of her work ever since.

As a second generation Taiwanese-Chinese American, Shih explores themes of cultural dynamics—belonging,alienation, appropriation, celebration—through her still life photographs. Shih’s photography has been featured in print outlets including Elle Girl Korea, 7×7, and Gastronomica, and online on Gourmet Live,, Saveur, Fine Cooking, and Buzzfeed.

Shih is from the San Francisco Bay Area and currently lives in Los Angeles. When not in the studio or kitchen creating, she is a professor at University of Southern California.

The Griffin @ WinCam is located in Winchester, at 32 Swanton Road, Winchester, MA 01890

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Photoville x Winchester

Posted on April 2, 2023

Photoville x Winchester

Various Artists

June 13 – September 8, 2023

It’s time for the 4th Annual Photoville x Winchester!

Winchester is bursting with art and photographic goodness this summer! Creating a photographic walking trail around the town of Winchester, where the Griffin Museum is located, Photoville x Winchester is a public art installation showcasing national, international and New England photo based artists. Downtown Winchester is filled with sidewalk art, featuring the students of local Winchester schools and contemporary New England based photographic artists.

The Griffin Museum is pleased to partner with Photoville and the Winchester Cultural District to bring this installation featuring 13 exhibitions with the artists lens focused on our changing planet, climate and cultures around the world. This year we highlight photographs by artists Corey Arnold, Alejandro Duran, Emeke Obanor, Marilene Ribero, Amy Sacka, Camille Seaman, Amy Vitale. Additional images and series from the Network for Social Justice, Case Art Fund and Social Documentary Network are on display.

Now in it’s 19th year, the Photosynthesis program artworks hangs on a banner in the Town Common. The students of Winchester and Burlington High Schools have worked this spring to develop visually engaging personal portfolios about their family, community and world around them. This program is sponsored by the John & Mary Murphy Foundation and the En Ka Society. We are grateful for their support of this project each year.

In a community initiative, Our Town is a featured on the walls at the Town Common as well. We asked the local community for a vision of their family and community. We showcase many views of Winchester and the people that inhabit our neighborhood.

We are thrilled to have the creativity of the Winchester Community Music School curate music to enhance the visual experience. Each cube has a QR code that links to a specially composed soundtrack for the photographs.

Surrounding the museum are banners from Dawn Watson, part of Nine Conversations, an exhibition at our Griffin @ Lafayette City Center Place. Liz Hickok has created a site specific work, Submerged, an interactive piece using AR technology, activating the space, hanging on the exterior of the museum.

A full map of all the exhibits in Winchester is here.

We want to thank our producing partner Photoville for bringing the Fence to Winchester. We couldn’t continue without our fiscal sponsors, the Winchester Cultural District, EnKa Society, Winchester Cultural Council and the Mass Cultural Council. We are grateful to our contributing partners, the Town of Winchester, John and Mary Murphy Educational Foundation,  Winchester Community Music School, Winchester High School, Burlington High School , The Jenks Center, The Network for Social Justice and Case Art Fund.

Photosynthesis XVIII

Posted on April 1, 2023

PhotoSynthesis XVII is a collaboration between Burlington High School and Winchester High School facilitated by the Griffin Museum of Photography.

Join us on Thursday June 8th from 6 to 8pm for an Artist Reception to celebrate these talented student works and meet their instructors and supporters.

Now in its eighteenth year, this 5-month program connects approximately 20 students with each other and professional photographers, artists and curators. Using photography as a visual language, student’s increase their vocabulary to communicate about themselves and the world around them. Interacting with fellow students from different programs, backgrounds and schools the students create a capsule of who they are in this moment, learning from each other to create a united exhibition showcasing all they have learned during the program.

The participating student artists from Winchester High School:

Neave Bunting | Claire English | Avery Robinson

The participating student artists from Burlington High School:

Madison Bairos | Lindsay Bullock | Kirsten Dew | Georgia Doherty | Samantha Goneau | Lindsey Lavoie | Alyssa LoCicero | Alex McGillivray | Lily Passaretta | Ava Restivo | Caroline Sciarratta

The students are given the task of creating a body of work that communicates a sense of self and place.  They were encouraged to explore the importance of props, the environment, facial expression, metaphor, and body language in portrait photography.

This year, three photo based artists, Donna Garcia, Anne Eder, Jeremy Dennnis spoke to the students via zoom conference and in person workshop. Donna Garcia will meet the students for an in person review during the exhibition opening at the museum.

Image of Donna Garcia

Donna Garcia is lens-based artist, filmmaker, curator, art director and educator based in Atlanta, Georgia. Originally from Boston, her work often illustrates a semiotic dislocation that has been organically reconstructed in a way that gives her subjects a voice in the present moment; something they often did not have in the past.  Her images rise above what they actually are and become empathic recreations in a fine art narrative. She often utilizes self-portraiture with motion to provide an indication of the other in her work; a surplus threat to the perpetuity of our modern day grand narratives in defining elements like gender and race.

She has worked as an art director for Ogilvy, NYC, an adjunct faculty member at the Art Institute in Atlanta, a contributing editor of LENSCRATCH and founded the Garcia | Wilburn Fine Art Gallery, where she directed and curated a number of influential exhibitions highlighting the work of emerging and established artists. Garcia and her partner, Darnell Wilburn launched the Modern Art and Culture Podcast. In their first year, they were chosen to become the official podcast of the Atlanta Celebrates Photography Festival, the United States largest, month-long photography festival, held annually in October.

She has exhibited internationally and has had her work published worldwide (donnagarcia.com). She is a 2019 nominee of reGENERATION 4: The Challenges of Photography and the Museum of Tomorrow. Musee de l’Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland. Emerging Artists to Watch.

Donna Garcia has a Master of Fine Art from the Savannah College of Art and Design and a Master of Science in Communications from Kennesaw State University.

DONNAGARCIA.COM

image of Anne Eder

Anne Eder is an interdisciplinary artist and educator, working in photography, sculpture, and fiction writing. She has been internationally exhibited, awarded, and published, including multiple Julia Margaret Cameron awards in alternative process photography. She is currently faculty at Harvard University, Penumbra Foundation, and is guest faculty at Princeton University, co-teaching with Guggenheim fellow, Deana Lawson. She holds a master’s degree in Photography and Integrated Media from Lesley University College of Art and Design where she studied with Christopher James. Much of her work is experimental and research based, combining historic processes, science, and contemporary conceptual thinking.

Throughout her career she has been an advocate for increased access to the arts, cofounding and operating artist run galleries and programming in the Philadelphia metro area, and the creation of public art is a dedicated part of her practice. She lives in Boston writing fairy tales and catering to her fabulous chihuahua, The Brain.

www.anneeder.com Instagram @darcflower

Jeremy Dennis (b. 1990) is a contemporary fine art photographer and a tribal member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation in Southampton, NY. In his work, he explores indigenous identity, culture, and assimilation.

Dennis was one of 10 recipients of a 2016 Dreamstarter Grant from the national non-profit organization Running Strong for American Indian Youth. He was awarded $10,000 to pursue his project, On This Site, which uses photography and an interactive online map to showcase culturally significant Native American sites on Long Island, a topic of special meaning for Dennis, who was raised on the Shinnecock Nation Reservation. He also created a book and exhibition from this project. Most recently, Dennis received the Creative Bursar Award from Getty Images in 2018 to continue his series Stories.

In 2013, Dennis began working on the series, Stories—Indigenous Oral Stories, Dreams and Myths. Inspired by North American indigenous stories, the artist staged supernatural images that transform these myths and legends to depictions of an actual experience in a photograph.

Residencies: Yaddo (2019), Byrdcliffe Artist Colony (2017), North Mountain Residency, Shanghai, WV (2018), MDOC Storytellers’ Institute, Saratoga Springs, NY (2018). Eyes on Main Street Residency & Festival, Wilson, NC (2018), Watermill Center, Watermill, NY (2017) and the Vermont Studio Center hosted by the Harpo Foundation(2016).

He has been part of several group and solo exhibitions, including Stories—Dreams, Myths, and Experiences, for The Parrish Art Museum’s Road Show (2018), Stories, From Where We Came,The Department of Art Gallery, Stony Brook University (2018); Trees Also Speak,Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, SUNY College at Old Westbury, NY (2018); Nothing Happened Here, Flecker Gallery at Suffolk County Community College, Selden, NY (2018);On This Site: Indigenous People of Suffolk County, Suffolk County Historical Society, Riverhead, NY (2017); Pauppukkeewis, Zoller Gallery, State College, PA (2016); and Dreams, Tabler Gallery, Stony Brook, NY (2012).

Dennis holds an MFA from Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, and a BA in Studio Art from Stony Brook University, NY.

He currently lives and works in Southampton, New York on the Shinnecock Indian Reservation.

The Griffin Museum is grateful to all of our tremendous sponsors. Photosynthesis is generously supported by grants from The John and Mary Murphy Foundation, The ENKA Society, and The Winchester Cultural District.

29th Annual Members Exhibition | Online

Posted on April 1, 2023

We are pleased to highlight members of our creative community. Of the 1250 images from over 250 creative artists we selected 60 prints for the walls in Winchester, and highlight another 60 artist works here. The theme for submissions was “Under the Mask”, looking introspectively at the last three years and how we sustained ourselves as artists under the circumstances that we have endured. How do we clarify our thoughts in a visual medium? There were many great images, it was hard to narrow the field to 60. This exhibition is a portrait of who we are, where we connect, and how we move forward from here. Thank you to everyone who shared their work and their creative souls with us.

The artists highlighted in this online are –

Karen Baker, Sheri Lynn Behr, Meg Birnbaum, Adrien Bisson, John Blom, Robin Boger, Lynne Breitfeller, Joan Lobis Brown, Joy Bush, Ronald Butler, Richard Chow, Donna Dangott, Parrish Dobson, Sally Ann Field, Kev Filmore, Paul Goldberg, Liam Hayes, Elizabeth Hopkins, Judi Iranyi, Kay Kenny, Tira Khan, Frasier King, Sandra Klein, Carolyn Knorr, Neil Kramer, Julia Kuskin, Margaret Lampert, Elizabeth Libert, Sile Marrinan, Randy Matusow, Laila Nahar, Colin O’Hearn, Allison Plass, Ric Pontes, David Quinn, Robin Radin, Angela Ramsey, Astrid Reischwitz, John Rich, Nancy Roberts, Susan Rosenberg Jones, Gordon Saperia, Rebecca Sexton-Larson, Carla Shapiro, Paula Shur, Anastasia Sierra, Sara Silks, Emi Sisk, Janet Smith, Skip Smith, David Sokosh, Robert Sulkin, JP Terlizzi, Donna Tramontozzi, Jacqueline Walters, Mark Warner, Becky Wilkes, Lincoln Williams, Torrance York and Yelena Zhavoronkova

Liz Hickok | Submerged

Posted on March 1, 2023

The Griffin is pleased to present the second in the series of works from Liz Hickok, bringing photography off the walls and surrounding our view with Augmented Reality visions.

As part of our overarching public art summer exhibitions focused on the waters that surround us as well as our changing climate, Submerged activates the space facing Judkin’s Pond at the museum in Winchester.

About Submerged

This mural is part of my Ground Waters series, in which I construct scale models of urban spaces, flood the tiny ecosystem with a crystal solution, and record the ephemeral deterioration with photography and video. As time passes, the crystals engulf the structures, transforming them into otherworldly scenes. While the colors are inviting, the sharp formations are clearly chemical in nature, referencing the pollutants that seep into, even saturate, our environment.
Through the use of augmented reality technology, the still photograph comes alive as you, the viewer, witness the crystals growing. You can move closer and further away from the mural, while the video and sound continue to play, evoking the invisible forces at work around us.

Augmented reality interface by Phil Spitler

About the Artists –

San Francisco-based artist, Liz Hickok, works in an innovative creative style, mixing low and high tech to create immersive artworks that bring viewers into a whimsical and wondrous space. Using playful materials and intersecting photography, sculpture, video, and installation, Hickok makes art that intermingles science and nature. Her most recent projects use augmented reality and other interactive technologies, inviting her spectators to take a more personal approach to her art, and closing the gap between artist and viewer.

Hickok exhibits nationally and internationally; her work is included in such collections as the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Blue Shield of California, and Mills College Art Museum. Hickok’s series, Fugitive Topography: Cityscapes in Jell-O, attracted widespread media attention, receiving coverage in The New York Times, a feature on CBS’s The Early Show, and NPR.

Hickok has developed photomurals for Facebook and Google’s San Francisco offices, as well as for UCSF and Sutter Hospitals. In 2019, she created a site-specific installation for the Surreal Sublime exhibition at the San Jose ICA, and had a large solo exhibition at the Longview Museum of Fine Arts in Longview, TX. In 2020, she was part of the Center of Photographic Art in Carmel’s 8×10 Fundraising Exhibition. She currently has an outdoor photomural on display in Palo Alto, CA which integrates three-dimensional layers of augmented reality video and sound. Liz’s most recent project was an interactive large-scale video projection for Palo Alto’s Code:ART2 festival in October 2021. In 2022, she will have a solo show at Chung Namont Gallery in Noe Valley, San Francisco.

Phil Spitler is a creative technology artist based in San Francisco. He has gained a reputation for his ability to create innovative and unique light-based art, as well as augmented reality and other creative technology installations. Originally from the UK, Phil has always been fascinated by the interplay between art and technology, and has spent much of his career exploring this intersection. He has a keen eye for using light and color to create immersive environments, often incorporating cutting-edge technology to create truly transformative installations.

Yukimi Akiba | Timeless Knot

Posted on March 1, 2023

The Griffin Museum is pleased to introduce Yukimi Akiba showcasing her unique work Timeless Knot.

Timeless Knot is the first project after Yukimi stepped away from self-portraits using Polaroids. Focusing on unknown women (in vintage postcards) who lived and died in the past, and using countless French Knot stitches that looks like blooming colorful threads. 

Akiba takes time to “talk” with all the creatures in the vintage photographs, and carefully stitch and revive them, stitch by stitch, with a great amount of respect towards the portrait sitter, the original print and us as viewers of the work.

Yukimi Akiba lives in Japan, working with mixed media and embroidery as her main medium. She created a series of Polaroid self-portraits, Creative ‘Self’ Destruction, from 2019-2021. Her work played an important role as a way to reconstruct what she lost in her life due to illness and trauma, which led to her current style that allows her to relate herself to others and reality.

Since spring 2019 Yukimi Akiba has thrown herself into her creative/emotional world but isolated herself from people and the real world instead. For Yukimi, art played an important role as therapy for illness, a way of not physically harming herself or others, a way of rebuilding what she had lost in her life by trauma, and now it helps relate her and the realities.

To see more of Yukimi’s work, log onto her website. You can find her on Instagram @ykm_12.44_

Lisa Ryan | Becoming Light

Posted on March 1, 2023

I like to explore the world at night. Night lighting with its mix of sources and colors, makes the commonplace magical. There is often a peace and serenity in the dark: An opportunity to see and experience things differently.
I add lighting to my images. Sometimes I add flourishes of light or draw in elements. Sometimes the subjects are so dark that I need to light them, for the camera to capture them. Sometimes the light itself becomes the subject.
These images are from a project titled “Becoming Light”. They show transformation from stillness to motion, from dark to light, from body to energy.
Light painting has a performance element to it; in that respect it is like dance. Gesture and awareness of body in space are important. My movements and my lighting bring different elements to life, painting the picture.

About the Artist –

Lisa Ryan is a night photographer and light painter.  The influence of her fine arts education can be seen in her use of light to draw and paint. Working with various light tools she incorporates gestures and movement. In addition to lighting landscapes at night, she creates scenes, including clothing the figure and creating night gardens from light.

Ryan’s photographs have been exhibited in shows presented by the Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester MA, the Center for Photographic Art, Carmel CA and in many juried exhibits throughout the US.  She has curated group exhibits of night photography at the Front Street Gallery, Scituate MA and at the Art Complex Museum, Duxbury MA.

Her images have been featured in print and digital publications including NASA’s APOD, “RechargeTheArts”, a juried group exhibition on Instagram, Fraction Magazine, and The Literate Image.

Ryan has been co-organizer of the Greater Boston Night Photographers Meetup since 2014.

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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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