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Marc Goldring | At the Edge of the Pond Virtual Artist Talk/Reception

Posted on January 16, 2021

We are pleased to be showcasing the work of Marc Goldring at our satellite gallery Griffin @ WinCam. At the Edge of the Pond is in Winchester’s WinCam gallery 13 February thru 16 April, 2021.

Join us on Thursday March 4th at 7pm EST for an evening reception and artist talk.

This event is FREE to Griffin Members. Not a Member? Get more information about our Membership levels.

This virtual offering will stream live from our Griffin Zoom Room for registrants to enjoy at home. Registrants will receive links to view this program via email within 24 hours of the event start time.

About At the Edge of the Pond – 

I’ve been walking around Boston’s Jamaica Pond for over twenty years, usually with mycamera. It’s a good way for me to stay present. I’ve watched people running, walking, sitting; children playing; and the landscape, land and water, always changing.

As time has passed, I have begun to let go of familiar ways of seeing and pay more attention to scenes I once ignored. I have found balance and beauty in reflections, visual confusions, accidental comings-together, debris, and castoffs.

Most recently, I have focused my attention on the edge of the Pond, the boundary between water and land, the place where one thing turns into another. In particular, I have noticed movement and light in the water; the reflections of low hanging branches and shrubs; and the sky with clouds and, occasionally, sun.

I delight in the questions – about perspective, reflection and, in a sense, reality – inherent in these images. What is “up” and what is “down”?  What is “real” and what is reflected?  It suits my sense of humor to ask these questions, to invite us to slow down, and to look deeply into these images to find answers.

About Marc Goldring – 

Marc Goldring makes photographs that capture the familiar in unfamiliar or unexpected ways. His recent work, At the Edge of the Pond, Boston, portrays a small slice of the natural world, particularly the edge where water meets land. He has shot in these places over the course of years, capturing reflections, colors and textures that form ambiguous and evocative images.

Goldring has exhibited in a solo show at the Cambridge Art Association’s satellite gallery in Harvard Square and at the Brookline Art Center, Brookline, MA. Recent group exhibitions include: The Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis, MN; Cape Cod Art Center, Bauhaus Prairie Art Gallery (online); and Cambridge Art Association. His self-published book, Discovering the Familiar, Selected Images and Words documents his photography and writing through 2008.

Goldring’s approach to photography echoes his artistic practice in an earlier career when he created sculptural forms in leather. His vessels are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City and the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg TN. During this time, he also received a Fulbright Lectureship to New Zealand and an Individual Artist Grant from the New Hampshire State Arts Council.

Tagged With: color, Griffin Satellite Exhibition, griffin zoom room, Griffin@WinCam, Landscape, WinCam

Virtual Reception and Talk Gary Beeber | Sylvester Manor – Griffin Museum @ WinCam

Posted on October 13, 2020

Join us for a special evening conversation and reception for artist Gary Beeber‘s exhibition at our satellite WinCam.

Spend an evening online in the Griffin Zoom Room, 7pm Eastern Time on November 17th to see a presentation about Sylvester Manor and the creativity of Gary Beeber.

This conversation is FREE to Members and $12 for Non Members. Not a member yet? Join the Griffin Community to support programming like this and to join us for future educational programming and special events.

About Sylvester Manor

I am always drawn to subjects I find to be incongruous, and have often been told that I see things that other people don’t pay attention to.  As I’m taking pictures I think a lot about the passage of time and how things evolve over the decades.  What happened to the people who lived in these places and what were they experiencing?   The images I capture speak to me in a variety of ways, fulfilling an insatiable curiosity about the world and everything in it.

picket gate

© Gary Beeber, “Gate to Nowhere”

Through the viewfinder the world is in color, but I imagine what I see in monotone.  I work with color as well, but feel that black and white gives my work a gravitas that can’t be achieved with color.  Black and white is solid, timeless.  I have studied the work of the great Parisian photographer Eugene Atget (1857-1927) and especially like his use of color (or non-color) that came from his printing process. It took me a long time to develop a similar palette, and I use it with my own ideas.

​As I photograph, I make adjustments with the composition and perspective.  I also make changes based on how I forsee the printed image.  I’ve used a lot of cameras over the years but have come to prefer digital because I like the quality and the immediate results.  Perhaps this is because when I started getting serious about photography digital cameras didn’t exist.  I used computers early on but they were primitive by today’s standards.

​I like to come back to themes.  I’ve been working on the “Passages” and “Sylvester Manor” series for several years.  For me, it’s exciting to see how places and things change over time and sometimes disappear altogether.  I prefer quiet places where I can spend time thinking about each subject without interruption, but sometimes that’s not possible.  Some places I know about and some places I find by accident. I think I’m most successful with what I find by chance.

About Gary Beeber 

Gary Beeber is an award-winning American photographer/filmmaker who has exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the United States and Europe.  His documentary films have screened at over 85 film festivals.  Solo (photography) exhibitions include two at Generous Miracles Gallery (NYC), two at the Griffin Museum of Photography, and upcoming exhibitions at PRAXIS Photo Arts Center, and the Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts.  Beeber’s work has also been included in juried exhibitions throughout the world. Among Fortune 500 companies who collect his work are Pfizer Pharmaceutical, Goldman Sachs and Chase Bank.

Tagged With: Gary Beeber, Griffin Satellite Exhibition, Photographers on Photography, WinCam

Atelier 32 | Shelby Meyerhoff

Posted on September 25, 2020

We close out our Atelier 32 artist series with Shelby Meyerhoff. Shelby’s series Paper Playroom is her newest work created during the pandemic, and now on the walls during the Griffin’s Atelier 32 exhibition. We are thrilled to have Shelby as a member of our Griffin artist community showcasing her work here at the Atelier. We are also pleased to announce her upcoming exhibition in October at our satellite venue, Griffin @ WinCam. Her Zoomorphics exhibition will open on September 28th and run through November 5th, 2020.  We talked to this prolific multidisciplinary artist about Paper Playroom and how the Atelier is an incubator for creativity. 

Which of these images was the impetus for this series? How did it inform how you completed the series?

under the bed

© Shelby Meyerhoff – Under the Bed

When the coronavirus pandemic arrived in Boston, I started taking care of my toddler daughter Moxie for much of the workday. Before COVID, my artistic practice had been to paint intricate designs on my own face and body, and then photograph myself. The whole process required hours of uninterrupted time. It had been my plan to do a new face and body painting series over the course of the spring Atelier. But with Moxie by my side, I knew I’d need to find a different way of making art.

sm - song wind

© Shelby Meyerhoff – A Song to the Wind

One afternoon, we painted with washable paints and cheap printer paper, which crumpled as it dried. Looking at the peaks and valleys, illuminated by the sunlight streaming into the playroom, I was inspired to create sculptures out of ordinary paper products.

I took this photograph, “A Song to the Wind,” early in the semester. I was struck by the liveliness of this image, and the way the paper bag looked almost like a classical sculptural medium. Seeing this piqued my curiosity about the possibilities of paper.

Over the weeks that followed, I experimented with other ways of photographing the sculptures I was making. In particular, I tried backgrounds with loud patterns and bold colors, which were speaking to me at the time, but didn’t ultimately work well for this series. 

Towards the end of the program, I circled back to the approach shown in “A Song to the Wind,” limiting the backgrounds for the series to blacks and greys. With fewer competing elements, the emphasis of the images was on light and form. It was a simple and elegant approach, but sometimes those can be the most daunting to undertake. I don’t think I would have arrived there without the encouragement of our instructor Meg Birnbaum and our Atelier group, who gave thoughtful feedback on every iteration of this project.

How has Atelier helped you hone your vision as an artist?

sm - forgooten language

© Shelby Meyerhoff – Forgotten Language

The Atelier was the perfect space to experiment with different ideas for how the project could go. Meg gave excellent feedback at every step in the process – not only during the regular class meetings, but also throughout the summer as further questions arose. 

I was also blown away by the talent and experience of my classmates. Seeing their weekly submissions made me want to bring my very best work to class. And every week they were able to identify what was working well in my photographs and where I needed to improve, always in the spirit of helping me make the series stronger. 

I felt safe bringing experimental work to class, but at the same time, I moved faster towards a completed series than I would have expected, because of the quality of our weekly conversations. 

Tell us what is next for you creatively.

I’m looking forward to finding out! One of the strengths of the Atelier program is that it takes students all the way through the lifecycle of a project: trying out various possibilities, honing the work into a series and developing the series further, and then producing, marketing, and showing the work. Now that our show is up, I’m excited to begin experimenting again this fall.

sm - paper years are short

© Shelby Meyerhoff – The Years are Short

I’ll start by picking up paper again, folding and twisting, and seeing where that leads. I’m also interested in doing more painting. And I’m curious if I can find a successful way to combine painting, sculpture, and photography in a new body of work.

duck

© Shelby Meyerhoff, “Zoomorphic #1 (Mallard Duck)”

At the same time, this fall also marks the culmination of my series of photographs created through face and body painting. The solo show for my Zoomorphics series is opening at the Griffin’s WinCAM gallery on September 28. I am thrilled about the opportunity to show and discuss that work, and it will be all the more fun to do so while in the midst of creating something new.

Join us on October 1st at 7pm Eastern for an engaging conversation with Shelby about creativity and Zoomorphics. 

About Shelby Meyerhoff – 

Shelby Meyerhoff is a multidisciplinary artist based in the Boston area. She works with a variety of media, including photography, painting, sculpture, and body art, often combining multiple techniques to create her images. Meyerhoff’s work has been exhibited at venues across the country, including the Griffin Museum of Photography (MA), the Mosesian Center for the Arts (MA), the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (GA), and the LH Horton Jr. Gallery at San Joaquin Delta College (CA). Her Zoomorphics series has also been featured in UU World, the national magazine of the Unitarian Universalist Association.

She has studied visual arts at the Griffin Museum of Photography, the New England School of Photography, and MassArt. Before becoming a fine artist, Meyerhoff worked in nonprofit communications, promoting environmental initiatives.

To see more of Shelby Meyerhoff‘s work, log onto her website. Find her on Instagram at @shelbymeyerhoff

Filed Under: Atelier, Blog, Exhibitions, WinCam Tagged With: Atelier, Atelier 32, Griffin Exhibitions, Paper, Self Portrait, Still life, WinCam, Zoomorphics

Katalina Simon | Online Artist Talk – Land Beyond the Forest

Posted on July 20, 2020

Katalina Simon is a British/Hungarian photographer whose work centers on the passage of time and cultural memory. Her interest in photography began when, as a child, she was told that taking pictures was not allowed in many public spaces in communist Hungary and she observed how precious photographs were to her family separated by the Iron Curtain.

We are thrilled to present an online conversation with Katalina about her exhibition, Land Beyond the Forest,  hanging at our Griffin @ WinCam satellite gallery.

woman at the door of the kitchen

© Katalina Simon, “Ana’s Kitchen“

Join us online in the Griffin Zoom Room on  August 20th, 2020 at 7pm Eastern Time for a overview of her work, her creativity and what is next for her photographically.

Simon’s photography emphasizes her strong connection with history and the mood of the environments she photographs. Her image making is only part of a larger goal of experiencing a place, learning about a new culture or community.

Katalina holds a BA in Russian from the University of Bristol in England and is a graduate of the Professional Photography Program at the New York Institute of Photography. She is an exhibited member of the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA, PhotoPlace Gallery in Middlebury, Vermont and Fountain Street Gallery in Boston, MA.

About Land Beyond the Forest – 

The Land Beyond the Forest is an ongoing series depicting a fading way of life in rural Transylvania. This mountainous and remote region of Eastern Europe is steeped in history and lore. The rugged Carpathian Mountains kept invaders at bay and kept the remote villages isolated from the passage of time.

child with fowl

© Katalina Simon, “Time with Bunica“

I am drawn time and again to this region and these people because it reminds me of a way of life that I experienced at my grandparent’s village in Hungary every summer. As a child, I was oblivious to the hardships that people faced and experienced only kindness and warmth. With my camera I work to recapture this feeling of storybook wonder and show domestic tableaux and rural people as I remember them.

For this exhibition I am focusing on the last generation of women who live this traditional rural life. My hope is to show the magic and poetry of the women who inhabit the “The Land Beyond the Forest.”

Tagged With: color, documentary photography, Landscape, portrait, Satellite Gallery, WinCam, Winchester

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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

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