Griffin Museum of Photography

Lee W. Bass

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“In Arbor & Frost, Lee W. Bass creates photographs in nature that direct us to her intent using all of our senses,” says Paula Tognarelli executive director and curator of the Griffin Museum of Photography. “Bass offers a poet’s invitation to ponder the gestures of each captured moment, the gist of which seem to unfold in layers, ebbs and flows.”

Bass’ series,  Arbor & Frost, is featured in the Griffin Gallery at the Griffin Museum of Photography” from April 6th through May 28th, 2017. An opening reception will take place on Sunday, April 9th, 2017 from 4 – 6 PM.

Bass says of her work, “I make small, intimate photographs. I am drawn to the tactile, to the subtleties of light, shadow and mood. I often am revising the same subjects over time. They become old friends who slowly reveal their secrets to me…They are reminders, of who I am, my dreams and often something that cannot be described in words.”

Photographer and printmaker Lee W Bass has worn many different hats during her lifetime. She grew up playing outside from dawn to dusk. She was a young woman of the sixties and walked acres of alfalfa looking for the five leaflet leaf.

Later she took on the roles of wife and mother, painter, and worked for the University of Minnesota in raptor rehab and as a falconer. Today she can be found walking the bluffs of the rivers of the Midwest – or striving to transfer its essence to paper. Lee W. Bass resides in Bloomington, Minnesota.

 

24th Annual Juried Members’ Exhibition

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Griffin Museum of Photography Juror’s Choices for the 24th Juried Exhibition
Juror: Richard McCabe, Curator of Photography, Ogden Museum, New Orleans

Review Mark Feeney The Boston Globe
Review Suzanne Révy What Will You Remember
Elin Spring Curator Viewpoint Richard McCabe

24th Juried Show Catalog

 

 

 

 

 

 

Elizabeth Albert
Philip Augustin
Siobhan Beasley
Gary Beeber
Molly Block
Rachel Boillot
Cody Bratt, Honorable Mention
Edie Bresler, Director’s Prize
Terri Bright
Jeff Caplan
Lauren Ceike
Tom Chambers
Fehmida Chipty
David Clarkson
Martha Coe
Ashleigh Coleman, Honorable Mention
James Collins
Maura Conron
Emily Corbato
Robert Dash
Norm Diamond
Barbara Ford Doyle
Bill Franson
Ashley Gates
Danielle Goldstein
Susan kae Grant, Honorable Mention
Elizabeth Greenberg
William Hamlin
Frank Hamrick
Jeannie Hutchins
Paul Ivanushka
Jamie Johnson
Paul Johnson
Eleanor Owen Kerr
Stefanie Klavens
Molly Lamb, Griffin Award $500
Joseph Landry
JK Lavin
Joyce P. Lopez
Rhonda Lopez
James Mahoney
Darrell Matsumoto
Andy Mattern, Arthur Griffin Legacy Award $1000
Molly McCall, Honorable Mention
Katherine McVety
Alyssa Minahan
Judith Montminy
Rebecca Moseman
Nancy Newberry, Richards’ Family Trust Award $2500
Robin Radin
Paula Riff
Joshua Sarinana
Janet Smith
Ryan Steed
Susan Swihart
Paul Wainwright
Jacqueline Walters
Liza Wimbish
Cate Wnek
Jane Yudelman

24th Annual Juried Members’ Exhibitions
Exhibition dates: July 19 – September 2, 2018
Reception: July 19, 2018 7-8:30 PM
Richard McCabe gallery talk 6:15 PM, July 19, 2018
67 Shore Road, Winchester MA 01890

AWARDS: $2,500 Richards Family Trust Award, $1,000 Arthur Griffin Legacy Award, $500 Griffin Award, and Honorable Mentions. We will award 4 exhibitions that will take place next June and July 2019. We will award 1 Director’s prize that will result in a catalog and exhibition. We will produce a catalog of the 24th Juried exhibition. We will produce an online exhibition from photographs not chosen by the juror and it will run on Instagram as well. We will award a Member in Focus.

– Director’s Prize, Edie Bresler
– 4 Exhibits for June and July 2019, Eleonora Ronconi, Kay Kenny, Richard Cohen and J. Felice Boucher
– Member in Focus, Sarah Anthony
– Virtual Gallery, Natalie Christensen
– Critic’s Pick, Kevin Hoth
– Instagram Exhibition, TBA

Juror’s Statement For 24th Annual Juried Exhibition: Griffin Museum of Photography

When asked to jury an open-call exhibition, I view the photographs online with an open mind, and let the work dictate the direction of the exhibition. By looking for consistent formal and conceptual threads throughout the submissions, and following visual clues or signifiers from the work submitted, I hope to jury a cohesive exhibition that also features the best work.

Visual storytelling seemed to be the dominant thread throughout the work submitted and selected for the Griffin Museum of Photography’s 24th annual juried exhibition. These images were made by photographers who use the camera to explore and make sense of their world through the traditional genres of portraiture, still life, and the natural and built landscape. Their stories – told with the camera – ranged from straight, documentary photographs to constructed narrative work made on site or manipulated post-production by the computer.

The work that resonated the most with me was the constructed reality or narrative photographs. These photographs reimagine the traditional photographic image through manipulation of the photographic process or the act of making a photograph. My top three award selections all counter the idea of photographic purity or truth in photography.

In first place, the Richards’ Family Trust Award goes to Nancy Newberry. Smoke Bombs and Border Crossings featured a constructed narrative revolving around the myths and history of the state of Texas. Her portraits feature subjects acting out scenes – real and imaged based on Texas-folklore.

In second place, the Arthur Griffin Legacy Award goes to Andy Mattern. His series, Average Subject / Medium Distance features Postmodernist images that are almost anti-photographic – made through computer manipulations of “found  objects” or materials usually associated with the average college photo darkroom. His work is painterly and clever,reflecting early 20th century constructionist painting.

In third place, the Griffin Award goes to Molly Lamb.Untitled, The Fog is a dreamy subjective visual manifestation of memories from childhood,constructed and re-imagined years later in the camera, and realized in the form of a 2-diminsional photographic print

What makes a successful photograph to me comes down to the image. Based on many factors including light, subject matter, and composition, I ask, “Does the image work?”. I really don’t care how the photographer arrived at the image; the only thing that matters is if the image resonates with my visual sensibilities, which are totally subjective.  

-Richard McCabe, Curator of Photography, Ogden Museum

ELIGIBILITY: This Call for Entries is open to all member photographers. Entrants must be members of the Griffin Museum of Photography (with an expiration after 4/1/2018). We do not advocate for members to join the museum for this juried opportunity only. We always welcome new members as part of our family and offer a broad range of member opportunities. While some opportunities are for long distance members like our on-line classes, we are working on increasing our offerings this year for distance members. The Griffin Museum invites member photographers working in all mediums, styles and schools of thought to participate. Experimental and mixed techniques are welcome. There is no theme. The juror will choose between 50 – 60 photographs. We ask the juror to TRY not to choose more than one photograph per photographer. The juror will choose the recipients of the monetary awards. We encourage submitting images from a singular, unified body of work for a cohesive selection for the Juried Exhibition. Artwork selected for gallery exhibition will be limited to FRAMED SIZE of 30×40 inches and under.

JUROR: Richard McCabe is the Curator of Photography for the Ogden Museum in New Orleans. He received an MFA in Studio Art from Florida State University in 1998. Also in 1998, he received a Fellowship to New York University to attend the American Photography Institute, National Graduate Seminar. From 1998 – 2005 he lived in New York City where he worked for numerous art galleries and museums including – The International Center for Photography, Robert Miller Gallery and the El Museo del Barrio. He was also an adjunct Photography Professor at Pratt Institute, New York City, Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut, and Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey.

In 2005, He relocated to New Orleans, Louisiana and has worked within the curatorial department of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art for the past twelve years. In 2010, he became the Curator of Photography at the Ogden Museum. He has curated over 25 exhibitions in the past seven years including – Eudora Welty: Photographs from the 1930s and 40s, The Mythology of Florida, Mark Steinmetz: South, Self-Processing: Instant Photography, The Rising, and Seeing Beyond the Ordinary. (Photo of Richard McCabe by Patrick Barnes).

PROGRAMMING: Alongside the juried exhibition, the Griffin Museum is organizing a series of professional development workshops presented by a diverse range of thought leaders. These workshops will share instrumental ideas, methods and tools to help build the business and legal foundation of a thriving artistic practice.

HANDLING FEE: The handling fee is $25 for 5 images. We have kept our handling fee very low for many years. *The fee is waived for institutions who have Academic Memberships to the Griffin for their photo students and faculty.

SUBMISSION TIMELINE: February 20 – April 23, 2018 (We want to get the images to the juror in the last week of April.) Due to server crashes from high volume traffic, we have extended our submission period to April 24, 2018 at Midnight.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS:

  • Must be a member of the Griffin Museum of Photography through April 2018. Availability to renew membership on submission page.
  • All images must be submitted as jpeg files, sized to 1200 px on the longest dimension, 72 dpi is fine, and in Adobe RGB or sRGB color space only.
  • Files should be titled as follows: LastName_FirstName_Title_ImageNumber (Ex. Smith_John_Sunset_01, Smith_John_Flower_02)
  • All entries that do not adhere to the guidelines above will be rejected.
  • $25 Handling Fee
  • Upload through our portal  5 images. 8 images can be submitted for members at the dual level ($75) or above.
  • We ask for an artist project statement copied and pasted from word file or typed into application.

MAILED SUBMISSIONS:

Please include a title sheet, artist statement and information page including: Name, E-mail, Address, Phone and proof of membership or membership renewal form.

Prepare your images to the same specifications.

Burn images to CD and mail to:

Griffin Museum 24th Juried Submission

67 Shore Road

Winchester, MA 01890

ACCEPTANCE NOTIFICATION:
Selected artists will be posted on the website by May 28, 2018. Please do not call the Griffin Museum to inquire whether your images were chosen. We have very limited staffing.

IMPORTANT DATES:

  • Entries: February 20 – April 23, 2018
  • Notice of Acceptance: May 28, 2018
  • Final day framed works will be accepted to hang June 29, 2018 although earlier is appreciated.
  • Gallery Exhibition at the Griffin Museum: July 19 – Sept 2, 2018
  • Opening Reception: July 19, 2018 @ 7pm
  • Richard McCabe gallery talk 6:15 PM on July 19, 2018

EXHIBIT PRINTS: All accepted images submitted for exhibition must be printed and framed professionally with either glass or plexi. The Griffin Museum recognizes that some work is non-traditional and incorporates the framing as an integral part of the presentation. Artists will be responsible for shipping their framed images to The Griffin Museum in advance of the gallery show and for supplying a pre-paid return-shipping label. The FRAMED size may not exceed 30×40 in. We have found that images mounted on aluminum have a high damage rate. We cannot be held responsible for any damage to photographs mounted on aluminum.

SALES: All work accepted for the gallery show can be for sale. The Griffin Museum will retain a 35% commission on the sale of any work.

 USE RIGHTS: Artists maintain copyright on all of their work. By submission, artists grant The Griffin Museum the right to use their images for the purpose of marketing the exhibition and other Griffin Museum programs; and for reproduction online and in a print exhibition catalogue. Artists grant the use of their image(s) as stated without further contact or compensation from the Griffin. Artist’s recognition is provided with any use. Submitting artists will be added to The Griffin Museum’s monthly newsletter subscriber list. They may opt out using a link on each newsletter at any time.

Please retain this information and your filename information for your files until after announcement of the jury selection.

 

Charter Weeks

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Charter Weeks

Realometer: 50 Years of America

March 7 – May 12, 2017

reception is April 20, 2017 from 6-8

As an art student in the 1960’s studying with Harry Callahan at the Rhode Island School of Design, Charter Weeks got a fundamental grounding in the technical and structural elements of image making. The influences of Callahan, Steichen’s Family of Man, Walker Evans, Weston, Adams and others of the time “shaped every element of his photography and sustained his desire to say something useful with his photographs.”

Week’s series, Realometer: 50 Years of America, is featured in the Griffin’s satellite gallery, The Griffin@Digital Silver Imaging from March 7 through May 12, 2017. A reception will take place on April 20, 2017 from 6­-8pm. The reception is free and open to the public.

Independent Curator J. Sybylla Smith has been working with Charter Weeks to bring this exhibition to the gallery. “Charter and I met during the New England Portfolio Reviews where he introduced me to his expansive curiosity via an eclectic batch of black and white images spanning years, continents and subjects,” Smith said. “Charter gladly furnished back-stories with a sharp memory for detail and an obvious delight. Fast-forward a year of culling his vast archives, and you have, Realometer: 50 Years of America, a glimmer of Charter’s empathic eye,” she said.

In his book Walden, Hendy David Thoreau writes about the existence of an imagined instrument called the realometer that is capable of measuring the extent of reality inherent in one’s perceptions. He says the purpose of the instrument is to move us beyond the “mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, and delusion, and appearance … to a hard bottom.” Smith says, “Weeks’ photographs are this hard bottom.” She continues, “Charter Weeks has spent 50-plus years mining, illuminating and recording from vantage points around the globe. From the window of his lower East Side tenement in New York during the 1960’s to the back roads of the Carolinas where he made it his mission to chronicle the impact of the 2008 recession, Charter has consistently kept a measured eye on the evolving landscape of his homeland, America. Here is a multi-decade glimpse of his honed humanistic vision – full of our shared painful, wonderful, absurd reality.”

Charter Weeks studied with Harry Callahan in 1961. He graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1964 with a degree in art and went on to study film making at the London School of Film Technique. He returned to the US and worked as a commercial photographer in New York City in the late 1960s shooting for ad agencies, magazines and the music industry. He was also a partner in Chicago Films producing documentaries and working for the BBC shooting news and documentary subjects. Weeks lived in Japan for 18 months teaching design and photography at Friends World College in Hiroshima and returned to the US in 1972 to build his own home in a rural community. He had various jobs from framing carpenter to film editor and in 1981 started his own business as a free lance photographer and owner of Isinglass Marketing, an Industrial and Business to Business marketing and communications company, which he still runs.

Found in Collection: Contemporary Photography from the Danforth Art Permanent Collection Part II

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The second install of Found in Collection: Contemporary Photography from the Danforth Art Museum Permanent Collection will be presented in two parts at the Griffin Museum of Photography. Both paintings and photographs will be exhibited, including work by John Brook, Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Julie Melton, Jesseca Ferguson, Samuel Quinn, David Prifti, Jaclyn Kain, Molly Lamb, Gail Samuelson, and Ruth Thorne-Thomsen, among others. The first install of exhibitions took place at the Griffin Museum of Photography during the month of December 2016. In Part Two Memory will be shown in the Atelier Gallery and Mirrors will be exhibited in the Griffin Gallery as part of Found in Collection: Contemporary Photography from the Danforth Art Museum Permanent Collection from March 9th through March 31st, 2017. An opening reception will take place on March 9, 2017 from 6:30-8:30pm. The will be a curator’s talk, with Roscio on March 16, 2017 at 7 PM at the Griffin Museum.

“Memory and absence wind their way through the second part of Danforth Art’s two-part exhibition Found in Collection,” writes Jessica Roscio, curator for the Danforth Art Museum. “Imagined travel narratives, lost places, and remembered spaces are envisioned in photographs, paintings, and drawings from the late nineteenth century to today…… [and] is apparent in works throughout this exhibition,” she says. Roscio goes on to say that the works in Mirror “comment on the surreal aspects of one’s interior life, and its collision with an often fantastical and disturbing reality. In turbulent, uncertain times, the allure of an alternate reality, or simply the belief in illusion, appeals to our need for escapism.”

Found in Collection: Contemporary Photography from the Danforth Art Permanent Collection Part II

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Mirrors

March 9 – March 31, 2017

Reception March 9th 6:30 – 8:30

February 20, 2017 (Winchester, MA)__ The second install of Found in Collection: Contemporary Photography from the Danforth Art Museum Permanent Collection will be presented in two parts at the Griffin Museum of Photography. Both paintings and photographs will be exhibited, including work by John Brook, Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Julie Melton, Jesseca Ferguson, Samuel Quinn, David Prifti, Jaclyn Kain, Molly Lamb, Gail Samuelson, and Ruth Thorne-Thomsen, among others. The first install of exhibitions took place at the Griffin Museum of Photography during the month of December 2016. In Part Two Memory will be shown in the Atelier Gallery and Mirrors will be exhibited in the Griffin Gallery as part of Found in Collection: Contemporary Photography from the Danforth Art Museum Permanent Collection from March 9th through March 31st, 2017. An opening reception will take place on March 9, 2017 from 6:30-8:30pm. The will be a curator’s talk, with Roscio on March 16, 2017 at 7 PM at the Griffin Museum.

“Memory and absence wind their way through the second part of Danforth Art’s two-part exhibition Found in Collection,” writes Jessica Roscio, curator for the Danforth Art Museum.  “Imagined travel narratives, lost places, and remembered spaces are envisioned in photographs, paintings, and drawings from the late nineteenth century to today…… [and] is apparent in works throughout this exhibition,” she says. Roscio goes on to say that the works in Mirror “comment on the surreal aspects of one’s interior life, and its collision with an often fantastical and disturbing reality.   In turbulent, uncertain times, the allure of an alternate reality, or simply the belief in illusion, appeals to our need for escapism.”

7th Annual Photobook Exhibit (2016)

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Davis Orton Gallery and Griffin Museum of Photography

March 9 – March 31, 2017

Reception March 9, 2017 6:30 – 8:30

Visit: http://davisortongallery.com/7th-annual-photobook-catalog/

February 21, 2017 (Winchester, MA) — PHOTOBOOK 2016 is an annual competition open to photographers in the United States and abroad who have self-published a photobook. This competition was offered by Davis Orton Gallery in Hudson NY for the seventh year. The competition results were exhibited at Davis Orton Gallery and thirty-one books are now traveling to the Griffin Museum of Photography. Karen Davis, co-director of the Davis Orton Gallery in Hudson, NY and Paula Tognarelli, executive director and curator of the Griffin Museum of Photography were the jurors for Photobook 2016.

7th Annual Photobook Exhibition 2016 is featured in the Main Gallery at the Griffin Museum March 9 through March 31, 2017. An opening reception with the artists takes place on March 9, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

For the 7th Annual Photobook Exhibition, jurors Karen Davis and Paula Tognarelli chose 20
Photobooks to be exhibited at the Davis Orton Gallery:  The authors are: Angela Jimenez, Diane Cassidy, Ellen Slotnick, Georgia Landman, Graeme Williams, Jeanny Tsai. Jeff Evans, Juergen Buergin, Kyoko Yamamoto, Lawrence Schwartzwald, Lydia Panas, Mark Indig. Martin Desht, Mike Callaghan. Miska Draskoczy, Mo Verlaan, Patricia Barry Levy, Sharon Lee Hart, William Glaser and Yoichi Nagata/

The book artists above plus the following artists will exhibit at the Griffin Museum. The artists are
Andrew Child, David Loble, Linda Morrow, Manda Quevedo, Eric Myrvaagnes, Ruth Lauer Manenti, Stephen J. Albair, William Betcher, William Chan, William Gore and William Fuller for a total of 41 books. The book titles and catalog can be viewed here http://davisortongallery.com/2016-davis-orton-gallery-exhibitions/.

The Best of Show awards were given to Yoichi Nagata, Lawrence Schwartzwald, Jeanny Tsai, and Graeme Williams.
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There are growing options available for self-publishing a book such as on-demand (blurb, lulu, viovio, iphoto, etc.); small run offset or web printing/publishing firms, binderies. For the
competition if photobooks submitted had been hand-made/bound, they had to be available in multiples of at least 25. Entrants could submit up to three different titles that are self-published photography books of any size, format, or style: hard cover, soft cover, case-wraps, landscape, portrait, square, color, black and white. Submissions were judged on the basis of: cover design, strength of the photography, subject matter of the book, page layouts, editing and sequencing and emotional impact of the overall book. All Submissions had to be original works of authorship
created by the photographer who submitted the book.

“A photobook relies on the image to form visual sentences,” says Paula Tognarelli, executive director and curator of the Griffin Museum of Photography. “A photobook that is produced well can transport us in time and place just as any book produced with the written word.”

Photography Atelier 25

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PHOTOGRAPHY ATELIER 25 EXHIBITION

February 12, 2017 (Winchester, MA) — The Photography Atelier 25 will present an exhibit of student artwork from March 9th to March 31, 2017. The Atelier is a course for intermediate and advanced photographers offered by the Griffin Museum of Photography. You are invited to come view the photographs at the Griffin Museum, 67 Shore Road, Winchester, MA 01890.

On Thursday, March 9th, the public is invited to attend the artists’ opening night reception from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Griffin Museum.

Photography Atelier Instructor and Photographer Meg Birnbaum shared, “The Photography Atelier has such a long and rich history, I’m honored to be leading this workshop for emerging photographers with Amy Rindskopf assisting. The talent among the 12 members of this group show is varied and inspiring — from our relationship with nature to memory, portraits, poetry and architecture — the show is very satisfying feast for the eyes and soul.”

Work by 2017 Photography Atelier 25 members includes:
Amy Rindskopf: Terra Novus, discovers territory unseen by the casual observer. Akari Hosokawa: Silhouette, articulates a Japanese minimalist aesthetic derived from Zen philosophy that too much information prevents us from seeing the essence of objects, ideas and the real beauty behind them. Cynthia Johnson: While You Sleep is a series of landscapes showcasing night photography. Donna Tramontozzi: Regarding Bhutan examines the people of Bhutan as they go about their everyday lives. Gregory Jundanian: The Spoken Word, is meant to be a visual open-mic into the Boston area poetry community. James Hunt: Lost in the Water by James Hunt explores the experience of losing one’s self through immersion during a time of personal struggle. Kevin Ting uses unique methods to capture unseen perspectives. Over Familiar utilizes drones, while Depth Perception uses the technique of stereoscopic photography. Lisa Neville Ambler: Le Quai des brumes brings us back to the days of film noir with the dramatic facial lighting. Mark Levinson: Extracts of the Ordinary reveals curious fragments of commonplace public spaces. Meghan Cronin: La Familia observes the importance of family and the continuation of tradition. David J. Poorvu: After Hours shows us that while many small town business districts are failing, they continue to offer places to live, shop, and conduct the business of everyday life. Tonee
Harbert: Dispatches From Terra Incognita (latin “unknown land”) a project where photographs are like clues from a dream, re-assembled to comprehend a world obscured through distant memory and interpretation.

About the class:
Photography Atelier, in its twenty-first year, is a unique portfolio-making course for emerging to advanced photographers. In addition to guidance and support in the creation of a body of work, the class prepares artists to market, exhibit, and present their work to industry professionals.

Each participant in the Photography Atelier presents a final project in the form of a print portfolio, a photographic book or album, a slide show, or a mixed media presentation. In every Photography Atelier, students hang a gallery exhibition and produce work for their own pages on the Atelier website. To see the photography of present and past Atelier students and teachers, please visit www.photographyatelier.org. Instructor Meg Birnbaum will be happy to discuss the Photography Atelier at the reception on March 9th with anyone interested in joining the class.

The Photography Atelier was conceived by Holly Smith Pedlosky in 1996 and taught by Karen Davis for 7 years. The workshop was previously offered at Radcliffe Seminars, Harvard University and Lesley Seminars and in the Seminar Series in the Arts, The Art Institute of Boston (AIB), both at Lesley University.

Lost Venice

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Sarah Hadley

Lost Venice

Feb 28, 2017- May 2, 2017

Reception April 7, 2017 6-8 PM

 

Sarah Hadley’s project, Lost Venice, articulates nostalgic memories and her long history with the city. For over 20 years, Hadley has photographed the architecture and landscapes of Venice, gathering photographs that not only show its overwhelming beauty, but also how she sees the life in Venice rapidly evolving as the foundations gradually crumble.

Hadley’s series, Lost Venice, will be on display in the Griffin’s satellite gallery, The Griffin@SoWa at 530 Harrison Ave from February 28 through May 2, 2017. A reception will take place on April 7th, 2017 from 6-8 PM.

Hadley explains, “I chose Venice because of my long history with the city- one that began when I was four years old in Boston, Massachusetts, and we moved to a house modeled on a Venetian Palace – the Gardner Museum. We lived in the Director’s apartment above it for most of my childhood and we traveled to Venice often, as it was a place my family loved. Years later, I was photographing there on a foggy November night and I saw a man that looked just like my father walking over a bridge and I felt as if I’d seen a ghost. The sadness in this work is about the loss of my father, who died suddenly when I was 25, and it is also my feelings about the loss of my childhood home, that Venetian Palace, and about the fragility and impermanence of things.”

Sarah Hadley tells Jim McKinniss of The Photo Exchange, “My current work revolves around the feeling of longing. I love to travel but want to be everywhere at once, even at home. I yearn for the past, yet love daydreaming about the future. I work in sepia and often blur the edges, both as a nod to antique photographs and as a way to draw more depth and feeling out of a black and white image. I want the places to seem dream-like and otherworldly, as if the place is both familiar and unknown.”

As a child, Hadley had an interesting introduction to art at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum where her father was director. She spent 18 years surrounded by art in a Venetian palazzo. She studied both art history at Georgetown University and photography at the Corcoran College of Art. She then spent time living and working in Venice, Italy at the Guggenheim Museum and the Venice Biennale. Subsequently, she worked at the National Gallery of Art, the Library of Congress and as a photojournalist for a small town newspaper in Virginia. She then chose to move to Chicago, where she founded the Filter Photo Festival in 2009. Sarah Hadley has participated in many exhibitions, including: Fotofever (Paris), the Lishui Photo Festival (China), the Worldwide Photography Biennial (Buenos Aires) and the Ballarat Festival (Australia) and in galleries and museums around the US. She has been featured in many publications and online blogs including “B+W Magazine” (UK), “ArtTribune,” “Shots Magazine”, Lenscratch.com, and “F-Stop Magazine”. Hadley currently resides in Los Angeles.

The Griffin thanks GTI Properties and SoWa Boston for their continued support of the Griffin Museum in bringing this exhibit to the public.

Aviary

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Lafayette Gallery

March 21 – July 21, 2017
Reception June 24, 2017 4:30 – 6 PM

Aviary

Group exhibition

Aviary

 

March 3, 2017  (Winchester, MA)__ What draws us to the birds? Is it the carefree flight or energetic purpose? Is it the avian song that thrills us, their soft flicks and twitches, or the knowing cocked head and one watchful eye? The Griffin Museum brings 64 photographs by 61 photographers to Downtown Crossing to spark an interest in the birds of “Aviary.”

 

The “Aviary” exhibition will run at our satellite gallery, Griffin Museum @Lafayette City Center Passageway in Downtown Boston, MA. “Aviary” will be ongoing from March 21, 2017 until July 21, 2017. A reception will take place on June 24, 2017 4:30 – 6 PM.

 

The Executive Director of the Griffin Museum of photography Paula Tognarelli is the curator of the exhibition “Aviary.” She says, “Birds can represent both the crises and jubilations of the times. For example, the “caged bird” is a metaphor for being trapped or confined.” Tognarelli says more about birds that “Poets invoke them. Filmmakers cast them. Writers describe them. Even the Post Office has a stamp of them. The bird long ago wove its way into man’s daily experience.”

 

The selected artists are: Roger Archibald, Rick Ashley, Karen Bell, Patricia Bender, Meg Birnbaum, Melissa Borman, Jenna Mulhall-Brereton, Kelly Burgess, Patty Carroll, Rebecca Clark, Heidi Clapp Temple, Robert Dash, Cori DiPietro, Alex Djordjevic, Tsar Fedorsky, Diane Fenster, Fran Forman, Conrad Gees, Steve Gentile, Daniel George, Aubrey Guthrie, Barbara Hayden, Janet Holmes, John Holmgren, Carol Isaak, Ellie Ivanova, Paul Jett, Doug Johnson, Paul Kessel, Molly Lamb, Laurie Lambrecht, Honey Lazar, Daniel Long, Ingrid Lundquist, Kerry Mansfield, Denise Marcotte, Alysia Macaulay, Cheryl Medow, Bibiana Medkova, Yvette Meltzer, Donna Moore, Paul Murray, Rebecca Palmer, Jane Paradise, Lori Pond, Esther Pullman, Becky Ramotowski, Katherine Richmond, Paula Riff, Joshua Sarinana, Wendi Schneider, Sara Silks, Felice Simon, Vicky Stromee, Don Swavely, Donna Tramontozzi, Marie Triller, Emily Vallee, Ellen Wallenstein, Dianne Yudelson, and Andrea Zampitella.

 

The Griffin Museum is thankful to these 60 photographers for sharing their 63 birds’ eye views. The Griffin Museum is also thankful to Lafayette City Center and the Boston Downtown Business Improvement District for their ongoing support.

 

The Lafayette City Center Passageway is located
at 2 Ave De Lafayette
Boston, MA 02111. The exhibition is brought to the public courtesy of the Lafayette City Center and Boston Downtown Business Improvement District and the Griffin Museum of Photography.

 

Elizabeth Stone

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Critic Statement

Elizabeth Stone’s imagery is a pursuit of observation, reflection and wonder. Diligent and patient she courageously lets her work lead her through discovery to understanding. We are the beneficiaries of her keen insights and meticulous unearthing of inscriptions in plain sight as she lends her viewer a breath-taking glimpse into the magnitude of the order of things. Like a Mary Oliver poem, an image composed by Stone, holds sacred secrets, a loving awareness of the infinity of the natural world and all creatures that move upon it. Stone reflects our place in the wild awe of it all.

The following compilation features work from four separate series; Positive/Negative, Making Tracks, At the Horizon,  and 40 Moons. Each full series is available to view at  http://www.elizabethstone.com.

Artist Bio

Elizabeth Stone is a Montana based visual artist whose work explores perception and mark making by combining her study of photography and drawing with biology and digital technology. The duality of art and science is a strong influence and she frequently looks to the natural environment as a point of departure when considering her own place  in the world and the marks she makes. Influenced by artists as diverse as Harry Callahan, Cy Twombly and Agnes Martin, she uses a strict practice to push what  is expected of the photographic medium.

Elizabeth’s studies of place and passage of time typically extends for years before she produces a

portfolio of limited edition prints. She is grateful for the many artist in residence fellowships that she has been awarded which provide her with concentrated focus for creating original work while engaging in stimulating intellectual dialog with other artists.

Critic Bio

Sybylla Smith is an independent curator, educator and consultant of fine art photography. Smith has curated over 25 solo and group exhibitions featuring work by 75 international photographers in exhibitions in Boston, New York, Mexico, and Columbia. As an adjunct professor, guest lecturer and thesis advisor Smith has taught at Emmanuel College, Hofstra University, Wellesley College, Snow College, Harvard University, School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts and School of Visual Arts/New York. She teaches a unique curriculum focused on creativity and concept development for photographers. As a consultant to arts and educational organizations Smith recently worked with Lesley University College of Art and Design on developing and implementing event and educational programming for Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty, a traveling exhibition of 148 images originating from the Smithsonian Museum of American Art. Smith collaborates with individual photographers to edit, sequence and write about their work.

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