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Lost: Dianne Yudelson

Posted on July 14, 2020

Lost
Artist Statement

“With each loss of my 11 babies, I kept mementos. They are all kept pristinely stored in a white box in my closet, as are the memories of their short lives kept pristinely stored in my heart.”

My series Lost is based on my personal experience. It had been ten years since my last loss and I had never shared these mementoes with anyone as they were private and personal and go to the core of my emotions both heartwarming and heart wrenching simultaneously. I have read the assertion that meaningful art occurs when you share yourself and create from the depths of your soul. So I shared. Creating this series has both served to honor these precious lives, as well as bring a voice to my personal plight. I am hopeful that in sharing these images I will touch the lives of numerous women who have experienced or are in the midst of experiencing the painful loss of a baby. They are not alone in their journey.

I created my Lost images in a humble and pristine fashion in direct correlation to their short and pure lives.

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Bio

Dianne Yudelson is an award winning photographic artist and founder of New Eclecticism Photography. Her images have been published in over 50 countries on 6 continents. Publications include the Washington Post, International New York Times, The New Yorker, CNN, Musée, Slate Magazine, Self, MilionKobiet, Harper’s Bazar, Ladepeche, Linda, and the Daily Mail. Dianne is the creator and editor of The New Eclecticism Photography online magazine debuting in 2020.

Notable exhibitions which included Dianne’s work were in the Natural History Museum; National Geographic Museum; Griffin Museum of Photography; The FENCE in Photoville NY, Boston, Houston and Atlanta; The Center for Fine Art Photography; MOPLA Smashbox Studios; Espace Dupon, France; Chaing Mai Festival, China; Kolga Tbilisi, Georgia; The Warehouse Gallery, Malaysia; Rooftop Farmani Gallery, Thailand; St. Andrew’s University, Scotland; and the Municipal Heritage Museum, Spain.

Dianne’s top photographic honors include “Photographer of the Year” titles from three acclaimed international competitions; Black and White Spider Awards, International Color Awards, and World Photography Gala Awards. She is a two time Critical Mass Finalist who also received a Julia Margaret Cameron Award; First Place awards in Fine Art at the International Photography Awards; GOLD awards in Fine Art Paris Photography Prize; Grand Prize Winner in the New York Center for Photographic Arts; Gold medalist San Francisco International Exhibition; and honors in the London International Creative Competition for four consecutive years.

Dianne graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of California, Berkeley.

“My fascination with photography began upon the realization that, in addition to being a wonderful means of documentation, photography can also be used as a fine art medium. My style is eclectic. In the fine tradition of eclectic artists, from DaVinci to Uelsmann, I embrace the challenge of exploring varied subjects and forms of expression. By that I mean, neither subject matter nor genre solely defines my images; they are defined by my artistic aesthetic.”

“Throughout my life art has been the one true common thread, the stitches that bind my chapters together. As a photographic artist, I embrace the ability to spotlight my point of view and give a voice to my imagination.”

Images of Lost book photographed by Dianne Yudelson. May be purchased here for $450 plus tax and shipping.

View her website.

@dianneyudelson
@neweclecticismphotography

From Single Image to Sequence

Posted on July 9, 2020

This exhibition is a culmination of a class called From Single Image to Sequence taught by Emily Belz, with Dennis Geller as her teaching assistant, at the Griffin Museum of Photography. Emily’s description of the class began with a quote from Robert Adams.

“Thinking up a project and then making pictures that fit does not, in my experience, usually result in the best pictures. Most of the books I’ve published have started with just walking and photographing free of any plan.” – Robert Adams

To define the pedagogy of the class, Emily writes, “For many photographers, the path from creating a single, compelling image to creating a series or body of work can be challenging to navigate. This class will work to demystify the process of beginning a photography project, and sticking with it. Opening with a series of prompts, photographers will work to identify what motivates their work and areas of image making that they feel passionate about. From this foundation or concentration, students will explore helpful techniques for progressing through a project. Topics will include research; writing about your work; guided editing; and sequencing.”

We offer you a look at the results of this class that we are very proud to host as an exhibition and in a virtual reception on July 24, 2020 from 7-8 PM Eastern Time.

Artist Statement
Secrets of My City

If COVID-19 is teaching me anything as a photographer, it’s this: when there’s less to look at there’s more to see. This became abundantly clear when the imposed quarantine and the new practice of social distancing left usually busy streets and neighborhoods void of life.

In this strange, silent, empty moment, I have discovered captivating visual secrets in places usually unnoticed or disregarded. The commonplace seen in unfamiliar ways has revealed uncommon beauty. Marks, grit, splatter, cracks, reflections are transfigured into magical landscapes, ghostly cityscapes, coded messages. My creative vision is permanently changed.

It is as if the abandoned city itself wanted to be noticed, asking me to see what had always been there, but unseen.

Andrew Epstein, July 2020

Artist Statement
Single to Series

In April 2020, my supposedly emptying house was abruptly full again. My sons returned. Time rearranged, winding back to a long-past stage of life when my sons’ worlds were much smaller, circumscribed by home and family.

When I look at my work from this strange, heart-rending interval, I see time suspended. At a stage of life when the impetus is to go and do, circumstances compel my sons – and all of us – to wait, turn inward, reflect. We are all Hansel and Gretel searching for a trail of breadcrumbs in the woods, dreamers wondering about what might be next in an altered world. There is danger, but also opportunity. In these reflections, in the pensive mood of this work, I see my sons growing in patience and a tolerance for ambiguity – along with an oblique sense of humor; qualities necessary for creativity and resilience in a re-ordered world.

Ann Boese, July 2020

Artist Statement
What She Touched that Touches Me

I have lived my entire adult life missing my mother. I had just turned 21; my mother was only 47 when she died. After 50 years without her, I confess I can no longer hear her voice. I cherish memories of being on the cusp of adulthood when I longed to pull away, yet yearned to stay. Most palpably, I see and feel her in those things I have kept and can touch.

What She Touched that Touches Me began with recipes penciled in my mother’s distinctive script on scraps of paper yellowed with age, recipes, ironically, sometimes never made. The project has grown and expanded since that first seed of an idea. My photographs are a personal exploration of family memory and its vivid connection to the present. They are my musings on what Susan Orlean describes in The Library Book as “see[ing] your life reflected in previous lives and…imagin[ing] it reflected in subsequent ones….” What She Touched that Touches Me is a sensory legacy that begs to be carried forward, and invites the next chapter, “Who might be touched by me?”

Betty Stone, June 2020

Artist Statement
The Ancestors

When everything came to a standstill during the outbreak of COVID-19, I found I couldn’t. Cooped up at home, I began digging through old boxes, some of which I hadn’t opened in decades. What emerged surprised me: In lifting the stage curtain on family relics, I discovered new stories to tell, stories that would never have taken flight without the constraints of a lockdown. I play a role in these diptych tales, donning garments and fake hair, sipping from China cups and dodging forks. But who is really confronting the lens? And how, in the grip of a pandemic, will these stories end?

Coco McCabe, July 2020

Artist Statement
Somewhere Along the Curve

In Boston, a typical spring brings the city to life. Tourists clog the Freedom Trail. Students emerge from their dorms to sun themselves along the Charles River. The well-heeled residents of the Back Bay fill outdoor cafe tables along Newbury Street.

But when the pandemic struck, Boston changed overnight. The ubiquitous duck boats disappeared. Thousands of students never returned from spring break. And instead, empty streets, shuttered businesses and vacant subway cars became the new landscape. These stark, black and white images document the changed landscape as Boston began a new way of life Somewhere Along the Curve.

Edward Boches, July 2020

Artist Statement
Paper Houses

During the early lockdown months of Covid-19, I was unable to visit my mother who had lived gracefully with Alzheimer’s Disease for nearly a decade but was now nearing the end of her life in assisted-living. Feeling confined and powerless, I turned to my photography for some space. Using only paper, I constructed small sunlit structures: A page torn from a notebook became a roof, a faded pack of construction paper standing on end a courtyard, paper-cutter scraps an entryway. Observing the light in my imagined world comforts me while I wait.

Gail Samuelson, July 2020

Artist Statement
Metanoia

The title of this on-going project is ‘Metanoia’, an ancient Greek word meaning a fundamental change of philosophy or world view.

Before Covid 19, I traveled far or walked urban spaces in search of artistic inspiration. The Pandemic ended my usual practice and I was challenged to work within the confines of nearby woods or within my home.

Capturing images, from a radically different set of constraints, has changed my perspective and practice. I am excited to continue along this creative path of more personal exploration and discovery.

Helena Long, July 2020

Artist Statement
Particulars

I have always been drawn to subjects that first appear unremarkable but as I looked deeper I saw that I could reveal remarkable character unseen by others. So it was with buildings or large structures but now I am focusing on the Particulars of my day-to-day.

I take joy from the beautiful visual moments at home where I appreciate the fleeting existence of household still life’s all around me. A sudden shaft of light on a column or a piece of string anchored to a vine are significant domestic visual occasions now writ large in my mind.

Lee Cott, July 2, 2020

Artist Statement

After ten weeks of quarantine in a Boston apartment, surfacing into the openness of Cape Cod, I felt the dark mood of the pandemic lift. Stale air of confinement was exchanged for fresh cape air. Soft morning light filled the darkness of emptied streets. While warm afternoon light replaced ambulances’ flashing red lights and the echos of blaring sirens drowned out by waves washing onto the beach.

These images attempt to capture the cleansing of my spirit.

Ralph Freidin, July 2020

Artist Statement
American Vernacular

Many of the memorable events in our lives occur at night, a time filled with the thrill of darkness. American Vernacular is a series of photographs of ordinary locations suspended between that darkness and the brilliance of artificial light. Hanging there, the buildings and street corners tell a human story, though few people fill the frames. Instead, their absence helps to illuminate the beauty we often overlook in these familiar places. Luminous in the deep night, these locations become—suddenly—remarkable. Viewers are left to contemplate and reimagine ordinary places they visit during the day and reflect on their own special nighttime memories.

Anthony Attardo, July 2020

Lacus Plasticus in the Founder’s Gallery and Under Glass Gallery

Posted on July 8, 2020

Statement
For almost 40 years, I’ve been sailing off the beaches of Lake Michigan. As a kid and now a father with children, I’ve always loved the shore. As time has marched on, I’ve noticed the increase in plastics on the beach year after year. A few years ago, I started collecting and disposing of the plastic bits I would find. Now I collect plastic to create photogram photographs. The images depict plastic parts and pieces as underwater creatures. The pieces dramatize, for now, a fictitious state where plastics displace nature. I’ve been calling this series, “Lacus Plasticus”. RZ

Bio
My memory of a love for photography started early on. Using my father’s Pentax Spotmatic during a family road trip to Cape Canaveral, I clearly remember taking photographs of an early rocket sitting on its launch pad. By 14, I had my own darkroom and was very fortunate to have a very good photography department in my high school. This gave me the tools to move on to Rochester Institute of Technology, where I gained a solid technical background in photographic illustration. Wishing to explore photography as fine art and art in general, I moved on to study at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where I received a BFA in photography and sculpture in 1991.

My personal pursuits in photography have not waned through the years. Though my subject matter is varied, the intensity and thought put into each project is the same. While some work has been produced as digital prints from both color negatives and digital files, most of my work is done traditionally in a personal darkroom that I’ve maintained for the last 35 years. In the same time, I’ve used many alternative processes such as kallitypes, ambrotypes, cyanotypes, and orotones in my art. My work in orotones has been included in the Getty Conservation Institute’s Research on the Conservation of Photographs project.

My work has been a part of the Museum of Contemporary Photography’s Midwest Photographers Project in Chicago and is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Art in Houston, TX. A recipient of an Illinois Art Council Fellowship and a Buhl Foundation Grant, I have also been featured in publications including Black & White Magazine, Photography Quarterly, Diffusion Magazine, Camera Arts Magazine and Photo District News, as well as many others. I am currently represented by Etherton Gallery in Tucson, AZ and Obscura Gallery in Santa Fe, NM. -RZ

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Education
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, BFA, 1991,
Concentration: Photography, Sculpture

Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, May 1986–December 1987,
Concentration: Photographic Illustration

Collections
Capital One Corporate Art Collection, Capital One, Chicago IL, 2017
Joan Morgenstern Private Collection, Houston, TX, 2012
Museum Art Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX, 2008
Getty Conservation Institute, J Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, 2007
Collections, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO, 2008
Richard & Ellen Sandor Family Collection, Chicago, IL, 2007
Deloitte & Touche Corporate Art Collection, Deloitte Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2006
Museum Art Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX, 2005
Midwest Photographers Project, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL, 2003-05
Harris Bank Corporate Art Collection, Harris Bank, Chicago, IL, 2003
Sprint Corporate Art Collection, Sprint World Headquarters, Overland Park, KS, 2002
Multiple private collections, 1991-2019

Publication
Unconventional Photography, Diffusion Magazine Volume 10, 2019
Fotomagazine, Germany, 2017
Alternative Printing Process, Black & White Magazine, October 2016
The Hand Magazine, Issue 10, 2015
Black + White Photography, United Kingdom, 2015
The Hand Magazine, Issue 9, 2015
Fotomagazine, Germany, 2015
Unconventional Photography, Special Issue Volume #1 – Limited Edition, Diffusion Magazine, 2013
Understanding the Effect That Photographs Have on Us: Case Studies in Photographic Criticism, James R. Huginin, 2012
The Photo Review, 2012
Newspace Center for Photography, Retrospective, 2011
Unconventional Photography, Diffusion Magazine Volume 3, 2011
Photography Annual, Photo District News, May, 2007, 2008
Artist Showcase, CamerArts Magazine, March, 2007, 2008
Photography Now, Photography Quarterly #91, Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY, 2005
Spotlight Feature, Black & White Magazine, December, 2003

Grants/Awards
Third Place, Choice Awards, Center, Santa Fe, NM, 2014
Second Place, Annual Alternative Processes Competition, Soho Photo, New York, NY, 2007, 2012
Honorable Mention, Regional Exhibition, South Haven Arts Center, South Haven, MI, 2012
First Prize, The Photo Review International Photography Competition, The Photo Review, Boston MA, 2011
Illinois Arts Council Photography Fellowship Award, 2009
Featured Artist, 15th Annual Juried Show, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA, 2009
Winner, New Works Gallery Competition, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA, 2009
Honorable Mention, Singular Image Competition, Center, Santa Fe, NM, 2009
Third Place, Annual Alternative Processes Competition, Soho Photo, New York, NY, 2009
Jurors’ Choice, Alternative Process Show, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO, September, 2007
Critical Mass Top 50 Entries, Photolucida, 2006, 2007
Honorable Mention, International Photography Awards, 2004, 2007
Buhl Foundation 4th Biennial Grant, Buhl Foundation, New York, NY, 2004

Teaching/Speaking/Other
Board Member, Artist Representative, Bucktown Arts Fest, Chicago, IL 2007–present
Hosted photography camp for teens, summer 2012, 2015, 2016
Artist Lecture, Chicago Photography Center, 2005, 2011
Artist Lecture and Workshop, Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR, 2008
Juror: 3rd Annual Juried Photography Exhibit, Morpho Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2007
Instructor: Basic Darkroom Photography, Alternative and Historical Processes, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL, Fall 2007
A Career in Photography Workshop, Burley Elementary School, Chicago, IL, 2003, 2004, 2007
Photography Workshop, Ogden Elementary School, Chicago, IL, 2003

Recent Exhibitions
One-Of-A-Kind, Obscura Gallery, Albuquerque, NM, 2019
International Juried Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA, 2019
Alternative Process Photography Exhibition, Image Flow Gallery, Mill Valley, CA, 2019
Light Sensitive, Art Intersection Gallery, Gilbert, AZ, 2019
Alternative Visions, Lightbox Gallery, Astoria, OR, 2019
Alternative Perspective, The Art Center, Dover, NH, 2019
Light Sensitive, Art Intersection Gallery, Gilbert, AZ, 2018
13^thAnnual Alternative Process Competition, Soho Photo Gallery, New York, NY, 2017
Light Sensitive, Art Intersection Gallery, Gilbert, AZ, 2017
Remnants: On the Edge of Avant-Garde and Antiquarian Photography, Lightbox Photographic Gallery, Astoria, OR, 2016
74th Rockford Midwestern Biennial, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL, 2016
The Photography Show – Presented by AIPAD, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY, 2016
Light Sensitive, Art Intersection Gallery, Gilbert, AZ, 2016
Photography Re-imagined, Tilt Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ, 2016
Alternative Cameras: Pinholes to Plastic, Photoplace Gallery, Middlebury, VT, 2015
Space Oddity, Wallspace Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA, 2015
11^thAnnual Alternative Process Competition, Soho Photo Gallery, New York, NY, 2015
Alternative Process, Texas Photographic Society, Odessa TX, 2015
Light Sensitive, Art Intersection Gallery, Gilbert, AZ, 2015
Breaking Ground, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, 2014
The Curve Exhibition, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM, 2014
Photo LA, The 23rd Annual International Los Angeles Photographic Art Exposition, Los Angeles, CA, 2014
Photo Objects and Small Prints, photo-eye Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, 2013
Unconventional Photography, 15th Lishui International Photography Festival, Lishui, China, 2013
Under Glass, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA, 2013
8th Annual Alternative Processes Competition, Soho Photo, New York, NY, 2012
Regional Exhibition, South Haven Arts Center, South Haven, MI, 2012
Best of Show: The Photo Review 2011 Competition Prize Winners,
The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 2011
Solo Exhibition: Mixing it Up, Historically, Chicago Photography Center, Chicago, IL, 2011
Art Chicago, photo-eye Gallery, Chicago IL, 2010
Alternatives: Uncommon & Unconventional Processes, Minneapolis Center for Photography, Minneapolis, MN, 2010
Blue, Photoplace Gallery, Middlebury, VT, 2010
NIMBY, New Works Gallery Competition, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA, 2009
5th Annual Alternative Processes Competition, Soho Photo, New York, NY, 2009
15th Annual Juried Show, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA, 2009
BareWalls, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2001–2009
Photo Forum Exhibition, Museum of Fine Art Houston, Houston, TX, 2008
Second Annual Mary Beth Creiger Memorial Photo Exhibition,
Around the Coyote Gallery, Chicago IL, 2008
Our Environment; the Good, Bad, and the Ugly, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO, 2008
NIMBY, Flatfile Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2008
NIMBY Solo Exhibition, Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR, 2008
Elemental/Environmental: SPACE, New Orleans Photo Alliance, New Orleans, LA, 2008
Annual Photography Re-Imagined, Tilt Gallery, Phoenix, AZ, 2007, 2008
Found at fotofest, John Cleary Gallery, Houston, TX, 2008
Resurrection; A New Look at Old Photographic Processes, 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, OR, 2008
Evanston + Vicinity Biennial, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL, 1994, 2002, 2008
Third Annual Alternative Processes Competition, Soho Photo Gallery, New York, NY, 2007
Member’s Exhibition, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA, 2007
First Annual Mary Beth Creiger Memorial Photo Exhibition, Around the Coyote Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2007
Fotowerk 2007, Flatfile Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2007
Alternative Processes Exhibition, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO, 2007
13th Annual Juried Show, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA, 2007
DIA Art Exhibition, Denver International Airport, Denver, CO, 2007
Members’ Exhibition, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA, 2006
Members’ Exhibition, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO, 2006
Black & White, Flatfile Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2006
NIMBY, Mars Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2006
Photo Works of the 21st Century, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO, 2006
Positive Negative, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO, 2006
National Competition Exhibition, Soho Photo Gallery, New York, NY, 2005
1st Annual National Juried Exhibition, Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR, 2005
Online Onsite, photo-eye Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, 2005
Photo LA, photo-eye Gallery, Los Angles, CA, 2004
AAF Contemporary Art Fair, Meter Gallery, New York, NY,2004
Photo San Francisco, Lyonswier Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2004
Serial, Flatfile Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2004
Curators’ Choice, Flatfile Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2004
Rockford Midwest Exhibition, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL, 2004
Darkroom Only, Flatfile Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2003
Artist’s Open, Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago, IL, 2003
Anti-Spacesuit, The Dirty Future, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Alumni Association, Chicago, IL, 2003
Around the Coyote, Around the Coyote Arts Festival, Chicago, IL, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2001, 2003,
Curators’ Choice Award, 1999, 2001, 2003
Outside the Box, Flatfile Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2002
Momento Momenta, ART of the Central Coast Art Gathering, Morro Bay, CA, 2002
Unnatural Landscapes, Flatfile Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2002
4 Corners, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Alumni Association, Chicago, IL, 2001
Urban Archeology, Flatfile Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2001
In Transit, Flatfile Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2001
Modern Ruins, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2000
Emotional Landscape, Flatfile Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2000
Urban Views, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Alumni Association, Chicago, IL, 1997
Annual Show, Wilmette Arts Guild, Wilmette, IL, 1990–1997, Purchase Award, 1995, 1996
The Signature Show, John Hancock Building, Signature Lounge, Chicago, IL, 1994
18th Biennial Regional Art Competition, South Bend Regional Museum of Art, South Bend, IN, 1993
One Man Show, Izimbra, Chicago, IL, 1993
Amalgamations, Gallery 2, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Ill, 1992

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Song for my Father: A Daughter’s (W)Reckoning

Posted on June 29, 2020

Statement
Over the last 21 years I have had the privilege of organizing, inventorying and placing my father’s archive. Todd Walker was a pioneering photographic artist who began self-publishing artist books in 1965, was at the leading edge of historical photographic processes in the 1960’s and began printing his photographs as ink on paper (which is now how most images are printed) in 1970. In 1981 he began to explore digital photography long before photoshop existed, teaching himself machine language. He was my mentor, role model and encouraged me to dance at the edges of photography, just outside of my comfort zone.

These images have been in the making for over 50 years, representing a posthumous collaboration with my father and an investigation of the materiality and impermanence of the photographic object. The film emulsion has been subjected to fluctuations in temperature and moisture now barely clinging to the base it’s transparent substrate.

Before my father left commercial photography in 1970 to become an artist and professor, he was a highly successful free-lance advertising photographer in Los Angeles and worked for many notable clients. Frequently a child model in these constructed photographic ‘realities’, I grew up with a healthy skepticism of the images utilized in advertising. My father was at moral odds with advertising work, knowing that the images he was making were to be used for corporate gain and lies. Many of these early commercial negatives done in a rush, were nothing that he was particularly proud of and were not cared for properly. The images I include in this exhibition are some of what I have discovered in my detective work coming to terms with the loss of my father. These distressed negatives bear witness to the interaction of time, heat, and moisture as they transform into resemblances of reality. They serve as a critique of the marketing construct that was named The American Dream and bear witness to a history reconsidered. – MW

Bio
Melanie Walker has been a practicing artist for over 50 years. Her expertise is in the area of alternative photographic processes, digital and mixed media as well as large scale immersive photographic installations as well as public art. She attended San Francisco State University for a Bachelor’s degree in Art and Florida State University for an MFA. She has received a number of awards including an NEA Visual Arts Fellowship, Colorado Council on the Arts Fellowship, Polaroid Materials Grants and an Aaron Siskind Award. She has taught at a number of universities including San Francisco State University, SUNY Albany, Alfred University and the University of Kentucky, Lexington. She currently teaches in the Media Arts Area at the University of Colorado Boulder and has work in over 100 collections including LACMA, Center fro Creative Photography, Princeton Art Museum and San Francisco Museum of Art.

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GALLERY REPRESENTATION

Walker Fine Art, Denver, CO

Tilt Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

SELECTED AWARDS

Judith Rothschild Foundation Grant, 2003

Colorado Council for the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship, 1996

National Endowment for the Arts – Photography Fellowship, 1995

Aaron Siskind Foundation Fellowship, 1992

Al Smith Fellowship in New Genres, 1992

Southern Arts Federation Sculpture Fellowship, 1991

NEA Inter-Arts Grant, Administered by New Langton Arts, San Francisco, Calif., 1989

Polaroid Materials Grant, 1987 and 1988

SELECTED PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

SMITHSONIAN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, Washington, DC

PRINCETON ART MUSEUM, Aaron Siskind Archive, Princeton, NJ

LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART, Los Angeles, Calif.

FRIENDS OF PHOTOGRAPHY, San Francisco, Calif.

CENTER FOR CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY, Tucson, Arizona.

POLAROID CORPORATION, Cambridge, Massachusetts

CHRYSLER MUSEUM OF ART, Norfolk, Virginia

SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF ART, San Francisco, Calif.

PETERSBURG MUSEUM OF ART, St. Petersburg, Florida

GRAHAM NASH COLLECTION. Los Angeles, Calif.

SELECTED COMMISSIONS:

Information can be found at www.airworks-studio.com

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

2020: Ghost Forest, Walker Fine Art, Denver, CO

Leaves of Absence, Denver Botanical Gardens, Denver, CO

2019: GRACE: Gender, Race & Identity, Lawrence Miller Gallery, NYC

PROGRESSION, dnj Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Imago Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

Diffusion, SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC

2018: Tilt Gallery, Walker & Walker, Scottsdale, CA

Depth of Field, Center for Photographic Arts, Carmel, CA

Double Vision, Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass Village, CO

Murmuration, VAE, Raleigh, NC

2017:ReMix, Sync Gallery, Denver, CO (Best in show)

Positive Manipulation, Rembrandt’s Yard, Boulder, CO (Best in show)

The Big Picture, Month of Photography Denver, Public Art Project, Denver, CO

Summer, Southeast Center for Photography, Molina, GA

2016: Fine Art Center for Photography, One person show, Ft. Collins, CO

2013: HOUSEWORKS – Western Colorado Center for Visual Arts, Grand Junction, CO

Invitational – 5×7 – dnj Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

PhotoPlace Gallery – International Juried Exhibition, Middlebury, VT.

LAND Exhibition – Invitational exhibition organized through Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder,CO

Republic Plaza curated invitational exhibition in conjunction with the Denver Month of Photography, Denver, CO

Denver Month of Photography juried exhibition – work was exhibited in Paris, France

Snap to Grid, Los Angeles Center for Digital Arts, Los Angeles, CA

2012: Museum of Outdoor Arts, Englewood, CO

dnj Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Snap to Grid, LACDA, Los Angeles, CA

Invitational Group Exhibition – Stag & Deer, Cork, Ireland

Alternatives 2012 – Invitational Group Exhibition – New Zealand

Invitational Group Exhibition – Republic Plaza, Denver, CO

Invitational Group Exhibition – Airborne, Otis School of Art, LA, CA

iWorld! – Colorado Photographic Art Center, Lakewood, CO

iWorld! 2 – Denver Public Library Denver, CO

The Printed Surface – Aims Community College, Greeley, CO

The Veil – Gardner Gallery, Bartlett Center for the Visual Arts, Stillwater, OK

Tbilisi History Museum (Karvasla) Tbilisi, Georgia (Russia)

5×7 – dnj Gallery – Santa Monica, CA

2011: Grand Junction Arts Center-Grand Junction, CO

Haskell Gallery, Jacksonville International Airport-Jacksonville, Florida.

2010:

El Espiritu de las hermanas,Mante, Mexico

Polaroid en Peril, Mus¿e de l’Elys¿e, Lausanne – Switzerland

Selections From the Polaroid Collection, Espace Van Gogh, Arles, FRANCE

FLIGHT, Gallery 115, University of Central Missouri Gallery of Art and Design,Warrensburg, MO

2009:The Human Canvas-Center for Fine Art Photography, Ft. Collins, CO

Print Walls Gallery-University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

Alexey VonSchlippe Gallery-University of Connecticut, Avery Point, Conn.

Indiana University East Galleries, Richmond, Indiana

Drury Univerisity, Springfield, MO

2008: Soho Photo – Alternative Photography Exhibition (2^ND Place Award) New York, NY

Pocatontas Meets Hello Kitty Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York.

OUT OF TUCSON – International Invitational – Galerie Lichtblick, Koln, Germany

BLINK Gallery – Boulder, CO

Revisioning the Middle East – Evergreen State University, Ellensburg, WA

The Veil: Visible & Invisible Spaces Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, CO

Visible & Invisible Spaces-University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR

Visible & Invisible Spaces-University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI

2007: WEATHER REPORT – Artists on Climate Change – Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art & National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado

2006: Khalil Sakikini Center, Ramallah, Palestine

International Center of Bethlehem, Bethlehem, Palestine

Central Arizona College Gallery, Coolidge, AZ

Soho Photo – Alternative Photography Exhibition, New York, NY

Transformations – Space 301, Mobile. Alabama

El Mirador Gallery, Tucson, AZ

Wilde Meyer Gallery, Tucson, AZ

University of North Florida Galllery, Jacksonville, FL

Memorial Hall Gallery – Chadron State College , Chadron, NE

2005: The Corcoran College of Art & Design, Washington, DC

Orfali Gallery, Amman, Jordan

Sisson Gallery, Henry Ford Community College, Dearborn, MI

Broken Telephone, Galerma de Arte Fotografico Melitsn Rodriguez., Instituto de Artes, Medellin, Colombia

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Online Exhibition 26th Juried Show

Posted on June 21, 2020

A selection of images were chosen to accompany the 26th Juried Exhibition in our Main Gallery that was assembled by Alexa Dilworth. These images will run on a computer in the Main Gallery space. They will also be released on the Griffin’s Instagram page (with permissions from the authors) by Elizabeth, our intern. These images are not sequenced but run alphabetically by last name. Elizabeth will gain experience sequencing a handful of your images each day and we broaden exposure for you on Instagram.

There are 91 images included here. There are so many more images I would have liked to include but had to draw the line somewhere. As it is, 91 is a bit over the top. But isn’t that what we do here.

Here is a list of the photographers featured in this exhibition:

Mary Aiu, Julia Arstorp, Karen Baker, Pamela Baker, William Balsam, Gary Beeber, Sheri Lynn Behr, Emily Belz, Patricia Bender, Diane Bennett, Beth Galton, Edward Boches, Kim Bova, Todd Bradley, John Bunzick, Jessica Burko, Erin Carey, Wen-Han Chang, Sally Chapman, Diana Cheren Nygren, Jaina Cipriano, Bill Clark, Karen Davis, Heidi Davis, Barbara Ford Doyle, E.C. Libert, Andrew Epstein, Mark Farber, Diane Fenster, Kev Filmore, Fran Forman, John Gallagher, Marshall Goff, Tessa Gordon, Bill Gore, Tamar Granovsky, Law Hamilton, Jackie Heitchue, David Hiley, Sandy Hill, Michael Hintlian, Cyndee Howard, Asher Imtiaz, Gregory Jundanian, Marky Kauffmann, Paul Kessel, Tira Khan, Karen Klinedinst, Frank Lopez, Landry Major, Shari Marcacci, Randy Matusow, Ronnie McClure, Kate Miller Wilson, Michael Mirabito, Amy Montali, C. E. Morse, Eric Myrvaagnes, Rita Nannini, Charlotte Niel, Alyssa O’Mara, Jara Orman, Roger Palframan,, Jaye Phillips, Lori Pond, R. Lee Post, Jari Poulin, Rosie Prevost, Abby Raeder, Marwaha Ravneet, Suzanne Revy, Katherine Richmond, John Rizzo, Karin Rosenthal, Elizabeth Ryan, Gail Samuelson, Mike Slurzberg, Leland Smith, Larry Smukler, David Spink, Susan Swihart, Joshua Tann, Kathleen Tunnell lHandel, Jane Craig Walker, Suzanne Williamson, Amy Wilton, Jon Wollenhaupt, Holly Worthington, Mitsu Yoshikawas, Jane Yudelman and Michal Zimmermann.

Thank you to all who submitted. – PT

PhotoSynthesis XV

Posted on June 13, 2020

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

By creating photographic portraits of themselves and their surroundings, students from Burlington High School and Winchester High School have been exploring their sense of self and place in a unique collaborative program at the Griffin Museum.

In its fifteenth year, the 5-month program connects approximately 20 students – from each school – with each other and with professional photographers. The goal is to increase students’ awareness of the art of photography, as well as how being from different programs and different schools affects their approach to the same project.

The students were 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.

Their presentations are below

Rory Golden – BHS

Piper Ladd – BHS

Kacey Pustizzi – BHS

Bridget Conceison – BHS

Amanda Tsai – WHS

Anna Robinson – WHS

Audrey Fitzgerald – WHS

Beaujena Stoyanchev – WHS

Kaitlin Collins – WHS

Kathryn Degnan – WHS

Lulu Girotti – WHS

Mackenzie Murray – WHS

Molly Bannon – WHS

Nicole Mazzeo – WHS

Seamus Slattery – WHS

Sophie Farnhill – WHS

Valerie Ngo – WHS

Vivian Zander – WHS

Students met with mentors Suzanne Révy in November and Bill Franson in February.

After graduating from high school in Los Angeles, Suzanne Révy (b. 1962) moved to Brooklyn, NY and earned a BFA in photography from the Pratt Institute where she was immersed in making and printing black and white photographs. She studied with Phil Perkis, Bill Gedney, Ann Mandlebaum, Christine Osinski, and Judy Linn among others. Following art school she worked as a photography editor for U.S.News & World Report magazine in Washington, DC and later as acting picture editor for Yankee magazine in Dublin, NH.With the arrival of two sons, she left the world of publishing and began to make pictures of her children, their cousins, and friends rekindling her interest in making and printing black and white pictures in a traditional wet darkroom. The resulting monochrome series, Time Let Me Play is an exploration of the nature and culture of childhood and childhood play. A second portfolio, To Venerate the Simple Days, was made using a simple plastic camera with color film; it pictured the time spent during the summers with her pre-teen aged children. The images represent an emotional response to that brief moment between childhood and adulthood. She continued to work with color film in the final series of visual family diaries, I Could Not Prove the Years Had Feet. This last portfolio was begun while earning her MFA in photography from the New Hampshire Institute of Art, and it chronicled the shifts and changes of her growing boys as they navigated their teen years.

While pursuing her MFA, she was mentored by photographers a Cheryle St. Onge, a former professor Christine Osinski, Edie Bresler, Stephen Dirado, and independent curator Francine Weiss. Anticipating the imminent departure of her children, she also turned her attention to the mundane in a series of mobile phone images featured in A Certain Slant of Light, which led to an interest in making landscape diptychs and triptychs using medium format and color film seen in a work in progress tentatively titled A Murmur in the Trees.

Her work has been shown at the Newport Art Museum in Newport, RI, the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA, the Fitchburg Art Museum in Fitchburg, MA, the Danforth Art Museum, and the Garner Center Gallery at the New England School of Photography among others. She is on the faculty of the Institute of Art and Design at New England College and the Associate Editor for the online magazine What Will You Remember?

Bill Franson worked as a staff photographer at several production houses in the Boston area until going out on his own in the mid 90s. Clients include Johnson & Johnson Innovations, Polaris Venture Partners, Paul Russell and Co., Classic Cars Magazine UK, Childrens’ Hospital-Boston, Brigham and Womens’ Hospital, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare, Lahey Clinic, Massachusetts General Hospital, The Peabody Essex Museum, The Boston Globe, Genuine Interactive, and The Governors Academy. He’s exhibited in numerous solo and group shows in Massachusetts, Michigan, New York and NYC, New Hampshire, Vermont, Virginia, Texas, and Toronto Canada. Personal highlights have been the Danforth Museum New England Photographers Biennial in 2015, 2011, and 2003, Strange Days at Philips Exeter in 2015, A Nickel and a Kopek at the NESOP Center for Photographic Exhibitions in 2008, Calvin College in 2011, and Panopticon Gallery in 2013. His work resides in various institutional and private collections.

In 2006 New England School of Photography offered Bill a teaching position. He never looked back. Teaching has reconnected him with those who are passionate about image making and actively exploring its possibilities. He taught his last class at NESOP in their 2019 Spring semester, finishing up two days before the school announced that it will close in 2020.

He is currently a professor of photography at Gordon College in Wenham, MA. and is represented by Gallery Kayafas in Boston.

Alison Nordstrom, the former curator of the George Eastman House in Rochester, N.Y., and photographer Sam Sweezy usually gather with students for a one-on-one discussion of their work and a final edit was created for the exhibition at the museum. This year the critique and the exhibition were cancelled due to the pandemic and social distancing requirements. As student couldn’t access the darkrooms the teachers Robert Gillis and Lexi Djordjevic worked independently from home with students and developed projects and created powerpoint presentations. These have been created as reduced pdf’s to present on-line for our public. Our regrets to these students that they have had such losses this school year. I hope they know we are still watching out for them.

“In collaboration and through creative discourse these students have grown,” said Paula Tognarelli, executive director of the Griffin Museum. “We are very pleased to be able to share this year’s students’ work. We thank the mentors and teachers for providing a very meaningful experience for the students. We also want to thank the Griffin Foundation and the John and Mary Murphy Educational Foundation, whose continued commitment to this project made learning possible. To paraphrase Elliot Eisner, the arts enabled these students to have an experience that they could have from no other source.’’

Memento Vivere- Remember to Live

Posted on June 13, 2020

Statement
Memento Vivere- Remember to Live

My recent work expands an ongoing investigation of the interaction of memory, the passage of time, and of identity. I am keenly interested in how memory forms our sense of being and how that can be affected by the contradictions that the past and the present pose. In the act of remembering there is a point where reality and the interpretation of reality cross, and it’s that intersection that I wish to explore.

As a visual artist, I have found the qualities of photography, darkroom manipulation, and the malleability of paint to be uniquely sympathetic to this search. They allow me to intercede in the moment that a fixed image presents, juxtaposing within it a deeply subjective view of reality, formed in the shadow of remembrance.

This series is personal and explores my memories of my brother- searching for that intersection between the memory of him visually and the memory of him viscerally. My process involves a push and a pull rhythm- fluctuating between the photographic act, which creates an emotional distance with the camera as a barrier, and an intimate physical process (printing and painting the image), which connects me even closer to his memory in a tangible way.

In the series Memento Vivere, I am presenting a solitary protagonist in a narrative that plays out across the series. Various objects and symbols are combined with the figure portraying conceptual themes of memory, a sense of being, loss, identity, empathy, and the passage of time evoking an intimate visual language echoing personal dreams and childhood memories. – MM

Bio
Born in Monterey California, Molly McCall was surrounded by infamous photographers and the West Coast Landscape tradition. With a family influence in clothing, she began her creative career designing her own label and selling to numerous specialty boutiques including Henri Bendel in New York, Fred Segal in Los Angeles, and Nordstrom, where she was awarded their most favored designer in California.

Molly’s earliest influence on art making came from her great grandfather, an illustrator for the New York Times, and grandfather, a professional watercolorist in Southern California. She started painting and photography at an early age, and later attended Laguna Beach School of Art. After nearly two decades as a designer in the fashion industry, Molly returned to painting and darkroom photography.
Molly McCall’s work has been recognized with several awards including the Abstract Art Award by the Julia M. Cameron Awards for Women Photographers, as well as Honorable Mention awards for her work represented at the 5^th Barcelona Biennial of Fine Art & Documentary, Best in Show Award from the Colorado Photographic Art Center, the EMERGE Award from the Midwest Center for Photography, and the Griffin Museum of Photography Solo Show Award. Several print publications have also featured her work including Architectural Digest Magazine, Diffusion Magazine, and The Hand Magazine. Recent exhibitions across the US include the Los Angeles Center for Photography, Griffin Museum of Photography, Midwest Center for Photography, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Center of Fine Art Photography, the Martin Museum of Art, The Center for Contemporary Arts, Houston Center for Photography, SohoPhoto, the Center for Photographic Art, and the Museum of the Big Bend. Her work has recently been exhibited Internationally in shows in Spain and United Kingdom. Molly resides in Carmel Valley California with her husband Gordon and their German Shorthaired Pointers.

View Molly McCall’s website.

We have closed our gallery at the Greater Boston Stage Company

Posted on May 17, 2020

The Main Gallery is closed until we install the 26th Juried Exhibition

Posted on May 17, 2020

Sequin Fix

Posted on May 16, 2020

Statement
I never knew that drug bags were drug bags.

I see them on the ground everywhere I go: nice neighborhoods, “bad” neighborhoods, big cities, and family-friendly parks in small towns. I always thought they were for craft supplies, hardware, buttons, etc. I didn’t question their purpose, I knew exactly what they were, until it hit me one day. I suppose my naiveté should be embarrassing, but I think it’s endearing.

My family has been haunted by drug abuse for more than half my life. In some ways my adolescence was robbed from me. Memories I thought didn’t exist suddenly came to me when I discovered the truth of these bags; I now recall a bag floating in my family’s pool, at the time I figured it was for nuts & bolts. Most of the items I put in these bags are things I have saved from childhood, I often tried to limit use of things special to me as a way to preserve them. Even as a kid I felt nostalgia for being a kid; maybe I somehow knew innocence wasn’t as easy to hang on to as I hoped.

The bags in this collection were predominately acquired from the streets in the city where I live, Providence, Rhode Island. There are a few from exciting places like NYC and Miami, and, unsurprising to me, from my small hometown of Townsend, Massachusetts. – LC

Bio
Creating artwork for me is deeply personal and perhaps selfish. It is therapy, a compulsion to create something as a way to express a feeling. Often and regrettably my work is never seen by others, but it has performed its purpose and I feel satisfied. I want it to be appealing to other people, of course, but I’m not always sure if it is. In this way I feel like a true artist: I process emotions and experiences through art. While my formal education is in photography, I enjoy using any medium that I feel best helps me reach a destination, including performance, which can be difficult for a person like me who considers herself shy. One of my personal artistic philosophies is to make creations that little kids would have fun looking at. I am attracted to bright colors, kitsch, and silliness, and I’m happy for my viewers to enjoy those things on a surface level, yet with a closer look there is more to be revealed. My work is typically variations on the themes of family and nostalgia, and may suggest sadness, though I like to think of it more as heavy-hearted. I often have the sense of missing someone or something, even in the presence of those things.

I received a BFA in Fine Art Photography from Rochester Institute of Technology in 2004. I currently reside in Providence, RI where I work a day job as a devoted animal caregiver. – LC

Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2020 Sequin Fix, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA (Upcoming)

2018 Time’s Winged Chariot AS220 Main Gallery, Providence RI

2018 Blowing Bubbles at Dogs Julian’s Gallery, Providence RI

2017 Sequin Fix Ugly Duck Gallery, Rochester NY

2017 Common Lint/Sequin Fix participatory project CVPA Gallery UMass Dartmouth, New Bedford MA

2016 Time’s Winged Chariot Meeting Hall Gallery, Townsend MA

2014 Chippers exhibition, publication, and performance Mmuseum, New York NY

2010 Heavy Heart The Hive Gallery, Providence RI

2008 Heavy Heart Lawrence Gallery, Pepperell MA

Group Exhibitions
2019 Juror’s Prize, members exhibition, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester MA

2018 Honorable Mention, Santa Fe Photographic Workshops Diversity contest, Santa Fe NM

2018 Griffin Museum of Photography juried members exhibition, Winchester MA