Griffin Museum of Photography

Barbara Ford Doyle, Peaches and Penumbras

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Barbara Ford Doyle was inspired by her husband’s attempt to save his garden crops from freezing. Out of cutting peppers in half to make relish came the idea for “Peaches and Penumbras.”

"For my photographs in this series, I interpret the word penumbras to insinuate the secrets that nature hides within," says Barbara Ford Doyle..

All of Doyle’s photographs are photo transfers onto DASS Stone Paper, a heavy limestone and resin, waterproof substrate. Doyle applies gel solution directly to inked DASS film, similar to Polaroid emulsion transfers. The "skin" can be stretched and pushed while it is still fluid.

"Just as each of my subjects is unique by nature, each of my transfers has a peculiar characteristic," Doyle says.

Ms. Doyle is a resident of Chatham, MA. She attended the University of Massachusetts and Southern Connecticut University majoring in Art Education. A former art teacher in the Massachusetts public schools, Doyle gives workshops on contemporary photographic imaging processes. She is a member of ArtSynergies, Arts Foundation of Cape Cod, Provincetown Arts Association and Museum, Printmakers of Cape Cod, and Cotuit Center for the Arts.

Barbara Ford Doyle will be giving a workshop and talk at the Griffin Museum in February 2014.

Denyse Murphy will give a members’ talk at 6:15 PM before the exhibit opening on January 23, 2014 at 7 PM.

Jon Horvath: Stalking Michael Stipe: Another Prop to Occupy My Time

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Artist Statement

Commonly adapting systems-based strategies, my work embraces chance outcomes and sits at the intersection of new media, photography, and a performance act. Stalking Michael Stipe: Another Prop to Occupy My Time is an interactive multimedia installation detailing the accounts of a 36-hour photographic road trip through the Georgia landscape in pursuit of my one-time Rock n’ Roll idol. The project parameters were simple. When Michael emerged from his house the project began. When I lost his trail the project ended. All spaces I was led to in between became my photographic territory.

Stalking Michael Stipe is experienced in 3 parts: 30” x 35” color photographs, an interactive 35mm slide box experience referencing the research and events that brought me to Michael’s door in Athens, GA, and a performed lecture detailing the many moments of coincidence that happened along the way. This online gallery is an abbreviated reinterpretation of the original installation, integrating both research slides and the final photographic outcome into a new self-contained and nonlinear sequence. An expanded version of this project can be seen on my personal website.

Many have inquired about why I chose Michael Stipe as my subject. In short, for me, he was worth it.

Artists Bio

Jon Horvath is an artist and educator residing in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2008. Horvath’s work has been exhibited nationally in galleries including: The Print Center (Philadelphia), Macy Gallery at Columbia University (New York), Newspace Center for Photography (Portland), and The Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography. His work is currently held in the permanent collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Haggerty Museum of Art, and is included in the Midwest Photographers Project at MoCP . Horvath was a finalist for the The Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s 2009 and 2010 Mary L. Nohl Emerging Artist Fellowship. In 2011, he was named a US Flash Forward winner by The Magenta Foundation. Horvath currently teaches at The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

www.jonhorvath.net

Critic’s Bio

Greer Muldowney is an artist, photography professor and independent curator based in Boston, Massachusetts. She received an undergraduate degree in Political Science and Studio Art from Clark University, and an MFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design. She has acted as the Curator for the Desotorow Gallery in Savannah, GA and is the Regional Coordinator for the Flash Forward Festival on behalf of the Magenta Foundation. Muldowney also serves as an active member of the Board for the Griffin Museum of Photography, and currently teaches at Boston College and the New England Institute of Art.

Her work has been exhibited and published in North America, Hong Kong, Malaysia and France, and is a 2013 recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship.

Winter Solstice Member Show

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Tired of just hanging mistletoe and wreaths for the holidays? Well, come see something special on our gallery walls. The Griffin has added a members open exhibition for all its members.

All members are invited to exhibit a framed photograph at the Griffin Museum of Photography. It should be 16″ x 20″ and under in size. 2D and 3D photo based art accepted.

Sales encouraged and there is an option to donate all proceeds to the Griffin Museum!

Julia Beck Vandenoever – Sidelined

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The current economic crisis knocked on our door on October 28th, 2011. In one 24-hour period, life as we knew it came to a screeching halt when my husband and I were laid-off within hours of each other on the same day. In the morning, when I was told my longtime position in publishing had been eliminated, I froze. But when my husband texted me two hours later say he had also been cut loose, I went numb. It was on my drive home, with my personal possessions stuffed in a cardboard box beside me, that something broke. I had to pull the car over and absorb the shock. For three years, I’d been half-listening to the unemployment stories on NPR during my morning commute. And now, with one grand gesture of bad timing, I found myself with my own story of a husband and a wife who have become a part of the 13.3 million unemployed Americans.

We are a typical middle class American family: one mom, one dad, one girl, one boy, and one day. The five of us live in a one-story 1,100 square foot blue brick ranch in the foothills of Colorado. By nature an optimist, I’ve always endeavored to show the shimmer just below the surface of everything, but now I see that shimmer as a fragile illusion. Since October 28th, I have been photographing ordinary moments of family life, partly to remember, but also to document life living with the burden of worry and the struggle of two unemployed parents raising a family, while trying to remain hopeful. I’ve discovered that life does not stop with unemployment –or with children. Birthdays and holidays continue, breakfasts need to be made, laundry needs to be done, and each day we put on a brave face and try to find meaning in this experience.

In many ways, being unemployed has given me the ability to see the world differently and given me the power to bring voice to the ordinary.

Photographing People in Atelier Gallery

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This exhibition is a direct result of a workshop for the Griffin Museum led by photographer and educator Harvey Stein. The 3-day workshop took place in June 2013 on the streets of Boston. It focused on providing each student knowledge of and experience in photographing people in a variety of ways, including on the street, indoor locations, and in the subject’s environment. The workshop also focused on creating inventive portraits that are personally based and meaningful. Stein juried the images for this exhibition from photographs submitted by workshop participants.

The Griffin Museum will be offering Harvey Stein’s 3-day Photographing People workshop again in June 2014. Watch for details on our website.

Exhibitors include: Anne Brooks, Charlotte Donaldson, Danielle Goldstein, Nancy Hurley, Margarita Mavromichalis, Trish Neumeyer, Judy Panagotopulos, Elizabeth Scully, Karen Shulman, Cynthia Tokos, Joseph Turner, and Minglun Wang.

Photographing People

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This exhibition is a direct result of a workshop for the Griffin Museum led by photographer and educator Harvey Stein. The 3-day workshop took place in June 2013 on the streets of Boston. It focused on providing each student knowledge of and experience in photographing people in a variety of ways, including on the street, indoor locations, and in the subject’s environment. The workshop also focused on creating inventive portraits that are personally based and meaningful. Stein juried the images for this exhibition from photographs submitted by workshop participants.

The Griffin Museum will be offering Harvey Stein’s 3-day Photographing People workshop again in June 2014. Watch for details on our website.

Exhibitors include: Anne Brooks, Charlotte Donaldson, Danielle Goldstein, Nancy Hurley, Margarita Mavromichalis, Trish Neumeyer, Judy Panagotopulos, Elizabeth Scully, Karen Shulman, Cynthia Tokos, Joseph Turner, and Minglun Wang.

Intimate Details

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After her career as a psychotherapist, Stromee found refuge in the natural world and through photographing, turned chaos into satisfying connections.

A series of her photographs, Intimate Details, is featured at the Griffin Museum at Aberjona River Gallery in Winchester, MA, September 12 through November 7.

“When I slow down, watch, and wait, life unfolds its mysteries and things that are familiar to me give way to fields of color, shape, and texture.” says Stromee. “I begin as the observer, watching as ephemeral patterns emerge and dissolve, each moment a unique confluence of light and object. And then, life’s chaos resolves into a deeply satisfying feeling of connection.
She adds, “In this series I’ve created intimate portraits that give form to the magic and mystery that I feel, and challenge the viewer to experience the extraordinary that is in the ordinary.”

Vicky has lived in Tucson since 1976 when she moved there to pursue a Master’s Degree in Counseling at the University of Arizona. When she retired from a long career in counseling, she turned her attention to photography, ultimately finding her niche in photographing natural subjects. Growing up immersed in the arts, watching images emerge in the darkroom and spending afternoons lying under the baby grand piano feeling the resonance of sound waves, Stromee was influenced to make the images she does today.

Vicky’s work hangs in galleries, as well as in private and corporate collections from Vermont to Oregon. Her work has been featured at Waxlander Gallery in Santa Fe and she has gallery representation through PhotoPlace Gallery in Middlebury VT and art+interiors in New York.

Frank Yamrus, I Feel Lucky

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Frank Yamrus is a fine art photographer who, after twenty years of working, living and playing in San Francisco, moved to New York City in 2010. Yamrus, with mixed emotions, packed up his studio and returned to his East Coast roots. The I Feel Lucky collection of self-portraits is his first body of work completed since his move.

A series of his photographs, I Feel Lucky, will be featured in the Griffin Museum at the Stoneham Theatre in Stoneham, MA, November 14, 2013 through January 12, 2014
A reception is November 14, 2013, 6:30-8:00 p.m.

"Originally inspired by the onset of my first (and hopefully last) midlife crisis, I created the I Feel Lucky collection of self-portraits between my 47th and 53rd birthdays. Initially titled Less Than or Equal to 50, this series began with a looming deadline of my 50th birthday, as if on this milestone my midlife crisis would magically resolve itself. At the time, typical midlife crisis issues – relationships, faith, career, health and mortality – were producing classic midlife crisis symptoms – moodiness, exhaustion, the desire to make change and some deafening private politics of self-identity. With my camera, my constant companion during this time, I contemplated a lifetime of choices and created present-day images to evaluate my past with the hope of glimpsing my future."

During his 25-year photographic career Yamrus has produced many significant portfolios addressing such topics like his relationship with his father, the loss of multiple friends to HIV/AIDS, and love, romance, sex and rapture. Yamrus’ images can be found in many public and private collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art, The Kinsey Institute of Indiana University, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, Austin, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. He is represented by ClampArt in New York City, the Albert Merola Gallery in Provincetown, MA and the Catherine Couturier Gallery in Houston, TX.

Adam Magyar Kontinuum

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In his series, Kontinuum, Magyar uses an unconventional, high-performance digital camera that relies on scanning technology to speak about our urban world and people living an urban life.

Magyar has a fascination with the high-tech tools of our time, but remains devoted to the values of traditional photography.

Operating a machine-vision camera used in mass-production for scientific and industrial image processing, "Magyar catches moments in time and place that can neither be seen with the bare eye nor conventional optical camera," says Hannah Frieser, former Director of Light Work in Syracuse, NY. "The beautiful images combine the aesthetics of classic photography with a technology that redefines our understanding of linear time and singular space in a perfect blend of science and art."

Magyar explains, "The subway trains seemingly suspended in the tunnel are in fact arriving at the station at a at stunning speed. I could capture them moving with my high-speed slit camera that also enables me to achieve complete objectivity. The light is evenly distributed on the carriages, adding an unearthly glow to this urban underworld."

Magyar sees subways as the arteries of a city. "Through these temporary groups of passengers, I wonder about our transiency, see people immersed in their thoughts, but avoiding to reveal anything about themselves. They are stainless to the curious eye. The subways are just as stainless as their passengers."

Taking the Kontinuum project a step further, Magyar uses video and reverses his view. Instead of photographing from the subway platform, Magyar photographs from within the subway car, capturing people with a slow motion camera waiting for the train.

Magyar describes the images as, "An endless row of living sculptures brought together by the same subway line, the same direction, the same intention of taking the train to get caught and carried away by the urban flow. All their motions slowed down, they are graceful and stainless holding their breath, waiting for their train to pull into the station."

Magyar’s works have been exhibited in various solo and group shows internationally including Helsinki Photography Biennial in Finland; Museum of Fine Arts Houston (MFAH) Mixed Media event, the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University; Berlin Selected Artists exhibitions in Germany; the Ethnographic Museum Budapest; Faur Zsofi Gallery in Hungary; Rhubarb Rhubarb in the UK; and Karin Weber Gallery in Hong Kong.

His works are part of collections worldwide, such as Deutsche Bank, the Hong Kong Heritage Museum, and the Bidwell Projects. His photographs have been published in the book Life of Cities by the Graduate School of Design Harvard University, Light and Lens by Robert Hirsch, and in photography magazines including PDN and PQ Magazine in the USA, Flash Art in Hungary, Digital Camera Magazine in UK, and Katalog in Denmark. He lives in Berlin. His work can be viewed at www.magyaradam.com.

Jane Fulton Alt The Burn

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"The elements of the burn—the mysterious luminosity, the smoke that both obscures and reveals—suggest a liminal space, a zone of ambiguity where destruction merges with renewal."

Jane Fulton Alt photographs controlled prairie burns."A controlled burn is deliberately set; its violent, destructive force reduces invasive vegetation so that native plants can continue to prosper," says Alt.

Her series of photographs, The Burn, is featured in the Atelier Gallery of the Griffin Museum October 3, 2013 through December 8, 2013. A reception with the artist is October 10, 2013 at 7pm.

In 2007, Fulton Alt began this series after witnessing her first controlled burn. She says, "I was immediately struck by the burn’s visual and expressive potential, as well as the way it evoked themes that are at the core of my photographic work."

She continues, "These images of regenerative destruction have a personal significance—I photographed my first burn at the same time my sister began a course of chemotherapy—yet they constitute a universal metaphor: the moment when life and death are not contradictory but are perceived as a single process to be embraced as a whole."

Jane Fulton Alt is a fine art photographer based in the Chicago area. Numerous awards include Photolucida’s Critical Mass Award and the Humble Arts 31 Women in Art Photography.

She has published Look and Leave: Photographs and Stories of New Orleans’s Lower Ninth Ward about the aftermath of Katrina in 2009. Alt’s work is in numerous permanent collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Smithsonian National Museum of American History, New Orleans Museum of Art, De Paul; Center for Photography, Woodstock.

Prior to the public reception, at 6:15 p.m., Jane Fulton Alt will give a informal gallery talk to members about her series, The Burn, featured in the Atelier Gallery of the Griffin Museum of Photography.

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