PhotoSynthesis VII
June 7 – July 8, 2012
Opening reception on Wednesday, June 13, 2012, 7 PM – 8:30 PM
Members Gallery talk 6:15 PM with Christopher Chadbourne
18th Juried Exhibition
18th Juried Exhibition
Juror – Paul Kopeikin of Kopeikin Gallery, Culver City, CA
July 19, 2012 – September 2, 2012
Opening reception July 19, 2012 7 PM
Members Gallery Talk with Alysia Macaulay 6:15 PM
Lynn Goldsmith
Lynn Goldsmith
The Looking Glass
September 27, 2012 – December 23, 2012
Opening reception September 27, 2012 7 PM – 8:30
Members talk with Jess T. Dugan Sept 27, 6:15 PM
Lynn Goldsmith talk Friday September 28 7 PM
Stein Workshop exhibit
Stein Workshop exhibit in Griffin and Atelier Galleries
December 6 – December 23, 2012
Opening reception December 6, 2012, 7 PM – 8:30 PM
Rosemarie Zens
On January 12, 2016, the Griffin Museum opens with “Beyond the Forest,” an exhibition of photographs by Loli Kantor. This exhibition is shown under the overarching idea of “Legacy. Migration. Memory.”. Two solo exhibits by Loli Kantor and Rosemarie Zens will be featured in the Main Gallery of the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA. Rosemarie Zens’ body of work is called “The Sea Remembers.”
Larry Volk, in the Atelier Gallery at the Griffin, will exhibit “A Story of Rose’s” and Priya Kambli, will exhibit “Kitchen Gods” in the Griffin Gallery. These two artists are also exhibiting work under the “Legacy, Migration. Memory.” umbrella.
“Beyond the Forest” and “The Sea Remembers” will showcase at the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA from January 12 – March 5, 2017. An opening reception takes place on Saturday, January 14, 2017, 7 – 8:30 p.m.
Paula Tognarelli, executive director of the Griffin Museum of Photography, says of the exhibitions, “The backdrop of family history and its memories inform identity. Through photographs the artists of “Legacy. Migration. Memory.” share familial resettlement stories. Customs, culture and the individual journeys vary but at heart, the passage to the present is all rooted in legacy.”
Berlin-based photographer, Rosemarie Zens was born in Bad Polzin in Pomerania in 1944, which now with Stalin redrawn borders is called Połczyn-Zdrój, Poland. The name Pomerania is derived from the Slavic word “po more” meaning “land at the sea.”
In March 1945 after World War II, due to a forced exile of all ethnic German inhabitants and the impending arrival of the Russian Army in Pomerania, Zens family zigzagged westward towards Berlin as refugees. Rosemarie’s mother carried her in her arms on horseback. Many succumbed to a frozen death or other dangers on this westerly trek towards their ethnic roots that wasn’t home.
After the Berlin wall fell in 1989, Zens’ mother wrote of her escape from Bad Polzin to Berlin. After translating the journal of her mother’s recollections, Rosemarie Zens decided to retrace those steps that she and her mother took many years ago. She made several journeys.
Zens had many questions about her journey. She asks, “What do images look like that stem from very early impressions, from memories that rise up from deep within, from that place that is at once forming and at the same time giving rise to the well of memories, that were long forgotten? In addition she asks, “Why do I avoid certain places or look beyond them, while other places call out to me?” Zens takes note that, “Images of longing push to the forefront, concealing something incomprehensible, trying to superimpose themselves over a mother’s grief, something the child has always experienced as a void, as a feeling occupied by something unspoken.”
In his review on the book, George Slade, a writer on photography, associated a quote by author W.G. Sebald with Zens’ “The Sea Remembers”. The quote begins, “Going home is not necessarily a wonderful experience. It always comes with a sense of loss, and makes you so conscious of the inexorable passage of time. If you’re based in two places, on a bad day you see only the disadvantages everywhere. On a bad day, returning to Germany brings back all kinds of spectres from the past.”
Photographer Rosemarie Zens is also a poet and essayist. She received her PhD in Modern German Literature at the University of Munich and pursued additional psychoanalytic training in Zurich. She attended the Neue Schule für Fotografie in Berlin. Her work has been represented in photo magazines, at several exhibitions, and in photo books. Her poetry, essays as well as scientific writings have been published in literary magazines, individual volumes and audio-CDs. She has produced five books. Her book “The Sea Remembers: Landscape and History“ was printed in English and German by Kehrer Verlag (Heidelberg) in 2015. It is available in our gift shop and online.
Larry Volk
In “A Story of Rose’s,” Larry Volk tells the story of his mother, Rosette Volk, a Holocaust survivor. He explores his mother’s life experiences during and after the Holocaust as an act of remembrance and investigation.
Volk’s series, “A Story of Rose’s,” is featured in the Atelier Gallery at the Griffin Museum of Photography as part of “Legacy. Migration. Memory.” from January from January 12th through March 5th, 2017. An opening reception will take place on January 14thth, 2017 from 7-8:30pm.
Volk explains, “As an artist I am interested in personal narratives, not as ends unto themselves but rather, as vehicles for larger ideas that extend beyond the life of a particular individual. The exploration of my mother’s complex story finds identity, loss, adaptation and rebuilding.”
Larry Volk is an artist, educator, lecturer and author. He received his MFA in Photography from the Rhode Island School of Design. Currently, Volk is a professor of photography in the School of Visual and Performing Arts at Endicott College. Volk has lectured on subjects like digital imaging, portfolio production and art practice. He has served as a portfolio reviewer and juror to multiple national photo competitions.
As an artist, Volk has been in numerous group shows including the Flash Forward Festival and “[Photo]gogues 2014.” Most recently he has had a solo exhibition at the Bromfield Gallery in Boston, Massachusetts. Volk’s work is included in private and museum collections.
Volk has also served as president of the Endicott College Faculty association and has now been a member of the Executive Board of the Association since 2007.
Priya Kambli
Startling childhood memories and pierced family photographs have created a reference point and inspired Priya Kambli’s, new work, “Kitchen Gods.” Although, disturbed by these artifacts as an image-maker, Kambli is also drawn to the visual aesthetics and the stories each tells.
Kambli’s series, “Kitchen Gods,” are featured in the Griffin Gallery at the Griffin Museum of Photography as part of “Legacy. Migration. Memory.” from January 12th through March 5th, 2017. An opening reception will take place on January 14thth, 2017 from 7-8:30pm.
Kambli says, “My need to decipher and address my family photographs is personal. My work is rooted in my fascination with my parents—both of whom died when I was young.” She continues to explain, “In my work I labor to maintain my parents the way Indian housewives do their kitchen deities. I also strive to connect the generations, my ancestor and my children, who have separated by death and migration. ……….. I alter these photographs to modify the stories they tell.”
Kambli was born in India and at age 18 moved to the United States, where she began her artistic career. She completed her BFA degree in the University of Louisiana and continued on to receive a MFA degree in Photography from the University of Houston. She is currently and art professor at Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri. In 2008, PhotoLucida awarded her a book publication prize for her project “Color Falls Down“.
Priya Kambli is represented by Wallspace Gallery, Santa Barbara CA
Loli Kantor
On January 12, 2016, the Griffin Museum opens with “Beyond the Forest,” an exhibition of photographs by Loli Kantor. This exhibition is shown under the overarching idea of “Legacy. Migration. Memory.”. Two solo exhibits by Loli Kantor and Rosemarie Zens will be featured in the Main Gallery of the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA. Rosemarie Zens’ body of work is called “The Sea Remembers.”
Larry Volk, in the Atelier Gallery at the Griffin, will exhibit “A Story of Rose’s” and Priya Kambli, will exhibit “Kitchen Gods” in the Griffin Gallery. These two artists are also exhibiting work under the “Legacy, Migration. Memory.” umbrella.
“Beyond the Forest” and “The Sea Remembers” will showcase at the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA from January 12 – March 5, 2017. An opening reception takes place on Saturday, January 14, 2017, 7 – 8:30 p.m.
Paula Tognarelli, executive director of the Griffin Museum of Photography, says of the exhibitions, “The backdrop of family history and its memories inform identity. Through photographs the artists of “Legacy. Migration. Memory.” share familial resettlement stories. Customs, culture and the individual journeys vary but at heart, the passage to the present is all rooted in legacy.”
In “Beyond the Forest,” Loli Kantor explores personal and cultural memory. As the daughter of holocaust survivors, Kantor visited Poland and Ukraine from 2004 until 2012. Kantor says that she “documents the lives of the disappearing population of Holocaust survivors and the reemergence of Jewish life beginning to slowly transform some of the communities in Poland and Ukraine today.” Loli lost both of her parents by the time she was fourteen.
Kantor uses a variety of photographic processes to tell her story. She says that in “using color photographs to examine home life, religion and tradition, Jewish lives and rituals emerge as vibrant and colorful representations of struggle, identity, and strength.” Kantor also says she “uses black and white prints to reveal another layer in one’s consciousness about Jewish presence and absence there.” Her small intimate works in palladium “show little stories, similar to snap shots, referring back to a timeless look at a people and a culture. They also create a private space in which she could process the emotional impacts that this world unveiled to me.”
Born in Paris, France and raised in Tel Aviv, Israel, Kantor emigrated to the U.S. in 1984 and lives in Fort Worth Texas. Kantor’s work has won numerous awards, including Critical Mass top 50, PhotoNOLA Reviewers choice award and Lishui award of excellence for her solo exhibition in Lishui, China. Her photographs are in private and museum collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin; Lishui Museum of Photography in China and Lviv National Museum in Ukraine, among others.
Kantor’s monograph “Beyond The Forest: Jewish Presence in Eastern Europe, 2004-2012”, was published by the University of Texas Press in 2014. The book is available in our gift shop and online.
Ghosts Who Now Dance Photographs by Sandy Alpert and Arthur Griffin
Sandy Alpert’s photographs resemble detached figures, ghostly shadows within shadows that represent her own ghosts from the past. These beautiful figures created by negative space and light are visually similar to the long shadows dancing across the frames captured by our very own founder, Arthur Griffin.
Sandy Alpert’s, Ghosts Who Now Dance, will be featured in the Griffin Museum at Colson Gallery in Easthampton, MA, December 11 through January 15, 2016. Alongside Alpert’s work, three of Arthur Griffin’s pieces will be exhibited. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, December 15th, 2016 from 6:00-8:00 PM at Colson Gallery, Ste. 246 Eastworks, 116 Pleasant Street, Easthampton, MA 01027.
“When I began this project in 1998, I was haunted by the ghosts of my past, Feelings of isolation and loss infused these images. I was too close to it. It was too close to me. I had to leave it—unexpressed,” says Sandy Alpert. “As I now reflect upon these images, I see a sense of grace. I see fluidity. I see a silent rhythm. I see ghosts who now dance. The realization of this work is, in itself, an act of forgiveness. Forgiveness of others and of myself,” she goes on to say.
Sandy Alpert is an award-winning photographer and composer. Her photographs have been exhibited in many national and international; galleries, and are in many public and private collections including The Museum of the City of New York and the International Center of Photography School/ Education Gallery Collection, NYC. Her scores for musical theater productions have been produced off-Broadway.
By mid 1930s, Arthur Griffin became the exclusive photographer for the newly created Boston Globe, Rotogravure Magazine and the New England photojournalist for Life and Time Magazines. He went on to become a pioneer in the use of color film and provided the first color photographs to appear in the Saturday Evening Post—a two-page layout on New England. One of Arthur’s biggest gifts to photography was the non-profit Arthur Griffin Center for Photographic Art, or as it is now call, The Griffin Museum of Photography. The Griffin Museum houses his archives of over 75,000 images and provides gallery space for rotating exhibitions devoted to the art of photography.
NEPR 2016 Exhibition
Roger Archibald, Ben Arnon, Bill Betcher, John Bunzick, Christopher Chadbourne, Bill Clark, Cattie Coyle, Margo Cooper, Joe Greene, Beth Hankes, Cynthia Johnston, Greg Jundanian, Uday Khambadkone, Lee Kilpatrick, Eliot Schildkrout, Andy Schirmer, Jean Schnell, Dianne Schaefer, Ellen Slotnick, Cindy Weisbart, Lincoln Williams, and Kalman Zabarsky
