Griffin Museum of Photography

Online Exhibition 26th Juried Show

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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

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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

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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 5th 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.

Sequin Fix

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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

CV

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

2018 Portraying Pets and People 311 Gallery, Raleigh NC

2017 Winter Solstice Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester MA

2017 Griffin Museum of Photography juried members exhibition, Winchester MA

2017 Inner Space & Outer Limits juried exhibition CVPA Gallery UMass Dartmouth, New Bedford MA

2016 Griffin Museum of Photography juried members exhibition, Winchester MA

2016 Earth Matters Meeting Hall Gallery, Townsend MA

View Lauren Ceike’s website.

Lacus Plasticus

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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

CV
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
13th Annual 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
11th Annual 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

Check out Ryan Zoghlin’s website

Corona: It’s All About the Light

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The Griffin is a state of mind, so let it all shine!

We’re all about the light!

This show is about manifesting light. Illumination is the name of the game.  Physical or metaphorical, let the light shine in. Let’s brighten and reframe our outlook on “Corona”.

In science terms, a “corona” is a usually colored circle often seen around and close to a luminous body (such as the sun or moon) caused by diffraction produced by suspended droplets or occasionally particles of dust.

We asked you to share your light with us and to send us your images of sunshine, light and spring. Metaphor, abstraction and suggestion of sunlight in addition to representational concepts were welcomed.

It’s Spring, and we are all physically distanced and living via the virtual world to have shared experiences. At a time of renewal and the time of reawakening, we are all yearning to break free. We hope to get outside, see the blooms on the trees, breathe deeply of fresh air, unafraid of life in the time of Corona. And you sent the photos our way.

There are 161 photographs in the online exhibition provided by 160 photographers. Every photographer that submitted* is included in this on-line exhibition.

 

 

* There were some submissions that we felt didn’t fit our prospectus description. Of those, a few chose not to submit an alternative photograph.

Minny Lee: Encounters

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Encounters

Photographs and text by Minny Lee

Critical essay by Gabriel Bauret

2015
5.5 x 7.5 inch, Soft Cover, Accordion Binding, 33 pages
Limited edition of 100 numbered copies, each copy includes an original print (inkjet print on rice paper by the artist).

Printed and bound by Datz Books

Self-published

Encounters contains portraits of trees taken on winter nights when the silhouettes of trees become more distinctive and human senses more acute. Minny Lee sees each tree as having as its own personality. She photographed trees in the wetlands of New Jersey and during travels in France. The images are reflections of her inner state and childhood memories. For this edition, Datz Press of South Korea painstakingly connected each sheet of paper to make a 176-inch long accordion book, following the artist’s original design. Tucked inside of the back cover is a critical essay by renowned curator and critic, Gabriel Bauret. Each book of the limited edition of 100 copies is signed, numbered, and comes with a 5×7-inch original print on rice paper made by the artist.

Book photographs courtesy of Datz Press.

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Minny Lee’s bookstore website

Minny Lee’s fine art website

Saba Sitton: Journeys in Between and Distances Near Away

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Artist Statement
My work explores the transitory instances of time when one’s awareness is threaded between the present and a similar moment remembered from the past. At times, these threaded moments have hard juxtapositions due to differences from the change of context, the passage of time, or a change of place. Other times, they blend and fuse a sense of continuity that are more fluid and often share a moment of contemplation. Oftentimes my work is a reflection on the poetics of migration and the stories of exile. As an Iranian-American artist, my work is informed by idealized landscapes and intricate designs of early Persian art. Persian miniature paintings are adorned with intricate depictions of flowers, plants, and tightly woven patterns of imaginary gardens. In Persian poetry, a flower often symbolizes a fleeting moment, a poetic remembrance of life’s transience and fragility. In my work, a flower becomes a visual metaphor for a sense of connection with a remembered past. I often include poems in my work. These poems become an accompanying voice within the work. Sometimes the poems echo a sense of hope or longing, other times they evoke a sense of disorientation or doubt, as might be felt by an immigrant or an exile, on a life’s journey, of being in-between.

Image list Journeys in Between

Image list Distances Near Away

Bio
Saba Sitton is part of the present day Persian diaspora. Her work explores transitory instances of time, either shared or solitary, visceral or recalled. Originally from Tehran, and having lived in Asia, Europe and the United States, Saba has firsthand experience living between cultures, languages, and traditions. Her work is often influenced by Persian art and literature as experienced and shared in a modern multicultural society. Saba studied art and design at the California Institute of the Arts and the University of Oregon where she received her MFA. She has worked on art and design commissions, and has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions. Most recently, Saba’s work was on exhibit at the Ten by Ten: Ten Reviewers Select Ten Portfolios from the Meeting Place 2018, FotoFest 2020 Biennial, and will be a part of the upcoming exhibition The Blue Planet, at H2 – Center for Contemporary Art, Glass palace, Kunstsammlungen und Museen, Augsburg, Germany. Saba lives in the United States and spends her time between California and Texas.

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