Ernie Button’s “Back and Forth” in F-Stop Magazine

Posted on 26 August 2010 | No responses

Ernie Button’s portfolio, “Back and Forth” has been published in the online magazine, F-Stop Magazine.

According to Button, “Changes in society aren’t always obvious.  Sometimes they can be very subtle.  The grocery store rides that many of us enjoyed as children are slowly disappearing from the urban landscape.  That mechanical horse or the spaceship ride made a trip to the grocery store bearable as a child but now seems hard to find.” Five years ago, Button began his project of photographing these rides in black and white.  He has returned to the same locations and shot roughly the same frame in color – perhaps at a different time of day or slightly different perspective – all to suggest change and the passing of time.

F-STOP MAGAZINE is an online photography magazine featuring contemporary photography from established and emerging photographers from around the world. Each issue has a theme or an idea that the unites the photographs to create a dynamic dialogue among the artists. 
Published online, bi-monthly since 2002.

Button’s series, “Cerealism” is currently on view at the Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson NY

Judith Black in upcoming Davis Museum exhibit, Wellesley College

Posted on 19 August 2010 | No responses

Opening September 15 with an evening reception at The Davis Museum, “Calculated Risks: New Work by Faculty Artists”

For almost 30 years, Judith Black has been photographing her immediate family and self. Black says, “Using images of family as a touchstone for memories reveals a deep collective need to make our personal narratives and memoirs a true representation of the past, which of course they can never be.  The photographs I exhibit are my family album made public, or perhaps the reverse, my “art” made useful within the domestic space.”

Sylvia Plachy’s photograph of John Lurie in New Yorker Magazine

Posted on 14 August 2010 | No responses

Three photographs of John Lurie by Sylvia Plachy are in the online New Yorker blog, Photobooth, the view from the New Yorker Photo Department by  Photo Editor, Whitney Johnson.  Another Plachy portrait of Lurie accompanies Downtown Chronicles by Tad Friend in the August 16 edition of the New Yorker.

Sylvia Plachy will exhibit at the Davis Orton Gallery from September 23 to  October 17; Reception: October 2, 6-8 p.m.

Sylvia Plachy’s Photographs of Tilda Swinton and Sally Potter in Village Voice

Posted on 25 July 2010 | No responses

Sylvia Plachy who will exhibit at the Davis Orton Gallery from September 23 to October 17 has a series of  photographs of performer Tilda Swinton and writer-director, Sally Potter in the July 20 edition of the Village Voice. Online you will find a terrific slide show of seven images.  Also, Plachy’s photographs can be viewed in an  illustrated interview with Swinton and Potter by Melissa Anderson, on the occasion of the re-release, eighteen years later of  the film they did together, “Orlando.”

John Chervinsky in Houston, Philadelphia & Concord

Posted on 25 July 2010 | No responses

John Chervinsky, who will exhibit at the Davis Orton Gallery from August 26 to September 19, is in three major group exhibitions this summer:  ”In Review” at Gallery 339 in Philadelphia; “Seeing is Believing,” at the Concord Art Association, curated by Dana Salvo of the Clark Gallery and  in “Found: Discoveries at FotoFest and PhotoNOLA” at John Cleary Gallery in Houston.

This Summer, Meg Birnbaum’s Photographs North and South

Posted on 15 July 2010 | No responses

Meg Birnbuam’s photographs Nest and Night Flight (left) are featured in Vermont’s Photoplace Gallery (north) and Cow Girl and Circle Swing at the Houston Center for Photography (South).  Meg exhibited photographs from her series “Corn Dogs and Blue Ribbons” at the Davis Orton Gallery in 2009.

Ernie Button in Center for Photography at Woodstock SLIDELUCK POTSHOW

Posted on 14 July 2010 | 1 response

Work from Ernie Button’s series, “Cerealism,” has been selected for inclusion in the Center for Photography at Woodstock’s first Slideluck Potshow. At each event, the slideshow exhibition is preceded by a potluck-style dinner. SLIDELUCK POTSHOW is non-profit organization dedicated to building and strengthening community through food and art.

Lisa Kessler & Seeing Pink featured in Boston Sunday Globe

Posted on 11 July 2010 | No responses

Lisa Kessler’s series, “Seeing Pink” is the featured story in the Ideas section of  today’s Boston Sunday Globe. The first showing of this series was at the Davis Orton Gallery in June.

Andrea Rosenthal to Exhibit at Griffin Museum

Posted on 29 June 2010 | No responses

As part of the Griffin Museum of Photography’s 16th Juried Exhibition, two photographers have been chosen to showcase their work in a joint show in the Atelier Gallery. Andrea Rosenthal was chosen for her “Stations of the Scale,” a photographic memoir about her problem with overeating that uses text, family materials, and self-portraits to present a visual expression of her inner state.  Rosenthal says she was socialized at an early age about the importance of being thin, pretty, and nice. “From the time our pediatrician told my mother I was fat and prescribed a diet, I had a problem with distorted body image and secret eating,” she says. “My life became a long struggle with diet after diet, and I experienced supersized helpings of shame and frustration.” Using text and images of herself as a model, Rosenthal says, “I’ve tried to take an honest but ironic and humorous approach that makes visual what I feel and experience.

Rosenthal’s exhibition at the Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA runs from June 30 through August 29.  (Artist talk and reception 6:15 pm., July 1.) Rosenthal’s photobook, “Stations of the Scale,” can be purchased at the museum, from the artist, and in Hudson, NY at the Davis Orton Gallery and Davis Orton Gallery online.

Vaughn Sills images featured in Mobile Museum of Art

Posted on 29 June 2010 | No responses

Through July 18, the exhibition,”Shoot ‘n Southern,” at the Mobile Museum of Art examines the prominent role of women artists in fine art photography, in particular those with a Southern heritage or Southern experiences. Vaughn’s photographs of traditional African-American gardens of the South are featured.  Her book, “Places of the Spirit: Traditional African American Gardens,” published by Trinity University Press will be available in bookstores in September.

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