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15th Juried, Fritz and Sims

Posted on April 10, 2009

June 11, 2009 (Winchester, MA)__ Justin James King photographs an anonymous public standing in front of the landscape, which he calls “a manifestation of culture.” He says that what viewers see in the landscape “are preconceived notions and pre-experienced views.”  Catherine Edelman, juror for the Griffin’s 15th Juried Exhibition, awarded King this year’s Arthur Griffin Legacy Award. King’s winning images join 50 others as part of the juried exhibition on display in the Griffin’s Main Gallery July 8 through August 30. Approximately 400 photographers from around the world submitted more than 2000 images to Edelman, owner of the Catherine Edelman Gallery in Chicago, Illinois. King, of Brooklyn, New York, received the $1,000 Arthur Griffin Legacy Award for three pieces from his And Still We Gather with Infinite Momentum series. The prints are part of a conceptual project on landscape and culture.

“The void in each of King’s landscapes could be the dark abyss of the future,” says Paula Tognarelli, executive director of the Griffin Museum of Photography.” Each viewer’s interpretation of the scene before them is personal and contextual.”

Lauren Semivan of Royal Oak, Michigan, received the $500 Griffin Award for her photographs Black and White Rabbits and The Swan, which are part of a series called Weights and Measures.

Ryan Zoghlin of Chicago, Illinois, was awarded an exhibition on the web for the Griffin Museum’s Virtual Gallery. Greg Sand of Clarksville, Tennessee, was awarded an exhibition on the Critic’s Pick section of the Griffin Museum website.

In addition to the awards, two artists were selected to present a joint show in the museum’s Atelier Gallery. Dana Fritz of Lincoln, Nebraska, was chosen to exhibit her Terraria Gigantica: the World Under Glass. Fritz’s images examine the world’s largest landscape complexes; the Lied Jungle and Desert Dome at the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, Nebraska, Biosphere 2 near Tucson, Arizona, and The Eden Project near St. Austell, Cornwall, UK. Christopher Sims of Efland, North Carolina, was selected for his Home Fronts: The Pretend Villages of Taletha and Braggistan, a series of photographs portraying simulated Iraqi and Afghan villages on U.S. Army training bases in North Carolina and Louisiana.

 “This year for our 15th Juried Exhibition, Catherine Edelman has assembled a superb photographic display,’’ says Tognarelli. “The exhibition has a very compelling rhythm that demonstrates Edelman’s personal and unique vision.”

  Featured in the Griffin Gallery is the Joan Johnson Exhibition, showcasing the work of local high school seniors.  The winner of this year’s $1,000 Joan Johnson Scholarship was Lily Kupets, a recent senior at Winchester High School. Jurors were photographer Andrea Rosenthal of Boston and Rory Schuler, editor of the Winchester Star newspaper.

Workshop Exhibit

Posted on April 3, 2009

Nov. 2 to Nov. 8th

Hand to Hand

Posted on April 3, 2009

August 30, 2009  (Winchester, MA) With paper a rare and expensive commodity in the 19th century, books’ endpapers were often used as note pads to practice spelling, jot down lists, and record purchases.

As a girl, Zeva Oelbaum was fascinated with the Hebrew books in her family’s basement and the scribbles and markings she found in the endpapers.

Years later, as a photographer interested in found objects, she revisited her childhood preoccupation. Manipulating imagery from her family’s books and others from the Jewish community, she created a body of work that transforms markings in several languages – Latin, Russian, German, Polish, Aramaic, and Yiddish — into a coherent visual story.

Her series of photographs, Hand to Hand, is featured in the Atelier Gallery of the Griffin Museum September 10 through November 1. An opening reception is September 16. The exhibit is courtesy of the Hirschl + Adler Modern, NY.

“These orphaned tomes connected me to a time and place far beyond my Missouri upbringing,’’ Oelbaum says of her family’s books. “I imagined how they had traveled from hand to hand for centuries, like portable identities.’’

The photographs, which are toned gelatin silver prints, are intended to give the viewer a sense of scanning over a page; some are presented as diptychs and some as triptychs.

Oelbaum’s aim is to immortalize the inherent lyricism in a word, a scribble, and an inkblot. Composed of positive and negative images, the photographs can also be viewed as metaphors for life and death.

A New York-based photographer, Oelbaum has work included in numerous private and public collections, including the Museum of the City of New York, Brooklyn Museum, Museum of Jewish Heritage, National Museum of the American Indian, and the Polaroid Collection, as well as the Bibliotheque Nationale de France.

She graduated summa cum laude from Brandeis University in Waltham, MA, in 1977 with a degree in anthropology.  She teaches at the International Center of Photography in New York and is the author of two books on photography.

Courtesy of Hirschl + Adler Modern NY

Empire of Glass

Posted on April 3, 2009

Empire of Glass  illuminates John D’Agostino’s photographs of the Abstract Sublime in the forgotten fragments of the stained glass of Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933).

World-renowned during the age of Art Nouveau (1890-1914), Louis Comfort Tiffany was America’s premier artist and designer of prized stained glass windows. But by the advent of The Great Depression, Tiffany’s work was openly derided as démodé, and readily assigned to trash heap. During the liquidation of Tiffany Studios in 1933, collector Vito D’Agostino (1898-1968) rescued the last fragments of broken glass as they were being smashed and thrown away into the East River.

Discovering his grandfather’s boxes of glass buried in his parent’s basement some 75 years later,  New York artist John D’Agostino reconstructs the broken pieces of Tiffany glass into large-scaled abstract photographs of biomorphic form and gestural rhythm.

Iridescent whirls of color preserved within the glass juxtapose with withering foil leaf and detritus on the surface of the glass, forming a joyous synthesis of decay and rebirth.

D’Agostino describes his working aesthetic as an imperative of The Abstract Sublime: the existential search for supernatural content disguised in the remnants of natural phenomena. Coined in 1961 by historian Robert Rosenblum, The Abstract Sublime describes the origins of Abstract Expressionism as a continuation of the sacred realms of the Romantic landscape painting of the 19th Century, from Caspar David Friedrich and Frederick Edwin Church to Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko.

Empire of Glass, an exhibition of D’Agostino’s unique photographic vision, will be on display in the Griffin Museum of Photography’s Atelier Gallery, May 13 – June 21st.

A limited edition monograph by the artist will accompany the exhibition.

Flash Forward 2008

Posted on April 3, 2009

March 20, 2009 (Winchester, MA)  The future of photography is on display in the three galleries of the Griffin Museum April 8 through May 8.

Flash Forward 2008, an exhibit of select images from the fourth photography competition and book produced by the Magenta Foundation, highlights the work of emerging talents from Canada, the United Kingdom, and United States.

The aim of the project and exhibit, displayed in the museum’s Main Gallery, Atelier Gallery, and Griffin Gallery, is to connect new artists with new audiences.

“The artists represented in this collection will usher photography into its third century,’’ said exhibit curator Sara Knelman, of the Art Gallery of Hamilton in Ontario, Canada. “The range of styles and approaches to the medium are remarkable, yet the images remain connected. They share a palpable vitality, a force that says, `these are not documents, this is life!‘ ‘’

The photographs range from images of an abandoned mental asylum, to the plight of displaced Serbian Croats, to portraits of people with autism, powerful landscapes, and dramatically lit chemical experiments.

“We are honored to be the fourth and final venue for this traveling exhibition of very fresh work as seen through the eyes of these young emerging photographers,” says Paula Tognarelli, executive director of the Griffin Museum of Photography. The Magenta Foundation is a charitable arts publishing house in Canada that promotes the work of Canadian and international contemporary artists through books and exhibitions. The exhibition is generously sponsored by TD Bank North

An opening reception is April 9, 7-8:30 PM. All are welcome.  Please RSVP by

April 2, 2009

Net

Posted on April 3, 2009

Jan. 29 to March 29

State School

Posted on April 3, 2009

Nov. 1, 2008  (Winchester, MA)  John Wesley Mannion, who uses various photographic approaches to explore the psychological affects of space, finds the perfect subject in the abandoned rooms of the Pennhurst State School and Hospital.

An exhibit of his images, State School, is featured in The Atelier Gallery at the Griffin November 13 through January 11.

Pennhurst was opened in a small Pennsylvania town in 1908 to care for adults and children with mental and physical disabilities. Years later, overcrowding and deplorable conditions prompted a class-action suit. In 1977, the institution was found guilty of violating patients’ constitutional rights. After a de-institutionalization process to relocate the patients, the facility was closed in 1987.

Mannion says the project “conveys the subtle texture and beauty of decay, while simultaneously confronting us with the reality of this time in our history.’’

He adds, “At first glance these images are beautiful and rich with subtle color and streaming sunlight, not unlike the interiors published in design magazines. On closer inspection, the images give way to a chaotic reality that looks neglected and ruinous.’’

Mannion is Digital Imaging Manager at Light Work/Community Darkrooms in Syracuse, NY, and teaches digital photography at Syracuse University. He has an MFA in photography and has exhibited nationally and internationally.

After a Certain Age

Posted on April 3, 2009

April 14, 2009 through June 21, 2009
Opening May 12, 2009 (6 at 7:30)

Pins

Posted on April 6, 2008

August 22, 2008  (Winchester, MA)  To create a picture, Pelle Cass pages  through magazines, tears out images that conform to a preconceived idea, cuts and positions the snippets on cardboard, sticks colored map pins into the assemblage, and then he photographs the end product of all his efforts.

An exhibit of his work, Pins, is featured in The Atelier Gallery at the Griffin Museum September 11 through November 2.

“Among other things, there is a story about color itself here; how the color of the pins match up to the color in the pieces of paper I stick them into,’’ says Cass. “And how the pins also match up to the names of colors as they appear in several of these pictures. Other pictures are monochrome; all blue magazine snippets with only blue pins, for example. In other pictures, I deliberately mismatch the pins to the areas of color I place them in. Sometimes, I think of the pins as pixels, and by placing them here and there in a pattern, it is as if I am balancing the color of my composition.’’

Cass says the pins “can suggest aerial views and maps, color coding, the human figure, vegetation, taxonomy and collecting, and naturally, pain.’’ He adds that the magazine imagery often evokes “a foreign world of luxury and ease that seems deeply strange to me.’’

“Pelle Cass’ creative journey is as interesting to me as his final photographs,” says Paula Tognarelli, executive director of the Griffin Museum of Photography. “Each photograph seems to grow out of the nourishment supplied by Cass’ experience of the creative process.”

Cass, of Brookline, MA, studied photography at the University of New Mexico; the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and the Minneapolis College of Art. He holds a B.A. in art history from the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

After a hiatus of more than a decade, he resumed photographing in 2002. He is represented by Gallery Kayafas in Boston and has participated in many group and solo shows. His work is held in the collections of many museums, as well as in private collections. It can be seen at www.pellecass.com.

Cass has been a Polaroid Collection Fellow. He also has been nominated for the ICA, Boston, Artist’s Prize and the Santa Fe Center for Photography Artist’s Prize.

Marla Sweeney Salisbury

Posted on April 3, 2008

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Floor Plan

Amy Rindskopf's Terra Novus

At the market, I pick each one up, pulled in by the shapes as they sit together, waiting. I feel its heft in my hand, enjoy the textures of the skin or peel, and begin to look closer and closer. The patterns on each individual surface marks them as distinct. I push further still, discovering territory unseen by the casual observer, a new land. I am like a satellite orbiting a distant planet, taking the first-ever images of this newly envisioned place.

This project started as an homage to Edward Weston’s Pepper No. 30 (I am, ironically, allergic to peppers). As I looked for my subject matter at the market, I found that I wasn’t drawn to just one single fruit or vegetable. There were so many choices, appealing to both hand and eye. I decided to print in black and white to help make the images visually more about the shapes, and not about guessing which fruit is smoothest, which vegetable is greenest.

Artistic Purpose/Intent

Artistic Purpose/Intent

Tricia Gahagan

 

Photography has been paramount in my personal path of healing from disease and

connecting with consciousness. The intention of my work is to overcome the limits of the

mind and engage the spirit. Like a Zen koan, my images are paradoxes hidden in plain

sight. They are intended to be sat with meditatively, eventually revealing greater truths

about the world and about one’s self.

 

John Chervinsky’s photography is a testament to pensive work without simple answers;

it connects by encouraging discovery and altering perspectives. I see this scholarship

as a potential to continue his legacy and evolve the boundaries of how photography can

explore the human condition.

 

Growing my artistic skill and voice as an emerging photographer is critical, I see this as

a rare opportunity to strengthen my foundation and transition towards an established

and influential future. I am thirsty to engage viewers and provide a transformative

experience through my work. I have been honing my current project and building a plan

for its complete execution. The incredible Griffin community of mentors and the

generous funds would be instrumental for its development. I deeply recognize the

hallmark moment this could be for the introduction of the work. Thank you for providing

this incredible opportunity for budding visions and artists that know they have something

greater to share with the world.

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