Thanks to our 2018 Exhibiting Artists for a great year!
Gallery Artists: Kev Filmore, Michal Greenboim, Vaughn Sills, Sarah Sterling, Margaret Saliske, David Drake, Tamara Staples, Kholood Eid, Edie Bresler, Nichole Washington
Portfolio Showcase Artists: Leslie Jean-Bart, Flynn Larsen, Lisa Redburn, Laurie Blakeslee, Barrack Evans, William Nourse, Deyva Arthur, Talya Arbisser, Gail Peachin, Anne Diggory
Annual Group Show Artists: Amy Anderson, Susan Anthony, Michael Bogdanffy-Kriegh,
Linda Cassidy, Frank Curran, Sandi Daniel, Harvey Davidowitz, Nina Weinberg Doran, Ken Dreyfack, Melissa Eder, Benjamin Ernest, Diane Fenster, Dennis Geller, Nadide Goksun, Paul Greenberg, John Harris, Susan Higgins, Rohina Hoffman, Leslie Jean-Bart, Marcy Juran, Karen Klinedinst, Pierre-Yves Linot, Joyce P Lopez, Jennifer Lothrigel, James Mahoney, Alina Marin-Bliach, John Matturri, Mahala Mazerov, Miao Miao, John Patrick Naughton, Diana Nicholette Jeon, Neil Nourse, Jane Paradise, Louise Pedno, Michael Prais, Russ Rowland, Joshua Sarinana, Andi Schreiber, Amy Shapiro, Leslie Sheryll, Rebecca Skinner, Larry Snider, Jean Sousa, Michael Stepansky, JP Terlizzi, Marie Triller, Allison Welch, Stephen Wicks, Caren Winnal, Carol Wontkowsky, Yelena Zhavoronkova
Moved to Act – Curated by Ellen Feldman and Marky Kaufmann
•Jane Fulton Alt •Gabriella Angotti-Jones •Amber Bracken •Edie Bresler •James Billeaudeau •Sheila Pree Bright •Lora Brody •Matthew Butkus •Nicole Buchanan •Gabriella Demczuk •Kelley Donnelly •Nina Weinberg Doran •Deena Feinberg •Colleen Fitzgerald •Lindsay Hite •Adriene Hughes •Sara Hylton •Luke Jordan •Tira Khan •Neil O. Lawner •Rusty Leffel •Emily Matyas •Annu Palakunnathu Matthew •Debi Milligan •Jeenah Moon •Maya Myers •Natalie Obermaier •Rachel Papo •Tristan Pinto •Jessica Pons •Denise Saldaña •Ellen Shub •Belinda Soncini •Sandra Steinbrecher •Candice Washington •David Whitney •Evan Whitney
9th Annual Photobook Show: Meghan Boilard, Sheri Lynn Behr, Vera Benschop, Leslie Hall Brown, Lucinda Bunnen , Jo Ann Chaus, Clara DeTezanos, Daniel Drake, Melissa Eder, Kev Filmore, Kay Kenny, Roddy Macinnes, Amanda Marchand, Linda Morrow, Jeremy Olson, Robert Pacheco, Louise Pedno, Antonio Perez Rio, Allison Stewart, Britland Tracy
Books and Readers Group Show Artists: Ellen Feldman, Marcy Juran, Charles Mintz, Linda Rogers, Lisa Stancati, Ellen Shub, Ken Tannenbaum
PhotoBooks, Books&Readers
9th Annual Self-Published Photobooks Show
plus Photographs of Books and Readers
Exhibition Dates: December 1 to December 23, 2018
Reception: NOTE SPECIAL TIME
Saturday, December 1, 1-3pm.
Followed by the Hudson Hall’s WinterWalk, 5-8:30pm
PHOTOBOOK JURORS
Paula Tognarelli
Executive Director & Curator of the Griffin Museum of Photography
Karen Davis
Curator/Co-Founder, Davis Orton Gallery
*April 2019, photobook show travels
to Griffin Museum of Photography Winchester, MA.
All books are for sale in our
Davis Orton Gallery Online-Catalog-Gallery
20 Photobooks at Davis Orton Gallery and Griffin Museum
Meghan Boilard Press Enter To Search
Sheri Lynn Behr Be seeing you
Vera Benschop Fingerprints In The Dirt
Leslie Hall Brown Muse
Lucinda Bunnen Gathered
Jo Ann Chaus Sweetie & Hansom
Clara DeTezanos Piedra-Padre, Universo
Daniel Drake The Mystery Of The Jewish New Year Valentines
Melissa Eder Fake Foods/Fake News
Kev Filmore 21 Magnolia Rd.
Kay Kenny Mirrors Of The Moment, Casting Shadows
Roddy Macinnes Family Album
Amanda Marchand Because The Sky
Linda Morrow Looking For Bobby Clackett
Jeremy Olson Grotto
Robert Pacheco Sun And Cellophane
Louise Pedno Hair Matters
Antonio Perez Rio Masterpieces – Obras Maestras
Allison Stewart. Bug Out Bag: The Commodification Of American Fear
Britland Tracy Show Me Yours
Also at Griffin Museum
Sara Anthony/Meghan Bollard The Somerville Collection Agency
Clarice Barbato-Dunn The Spaciousness Project
Michael Callaghan What Battle Exactly
Andrew Cohen Fuel Islands
David Curtis Auto-Reflections: Metropolis
Geoff Delanoy Trees
Jeff Evans Jeff Evans’ Guide
Arnold Clayton Henderson Urban Illlusions
Kevin Jones Nuestro Cometa
Sandy Lloyd Requiem For A Son
Dan Mccormack The Nude At Home – Pinhole Camera Images
Bruce Morton Forgottonia – The Suburbs
Thomas Pickarski Floating Blue
Thomas Whitworth Constructed Realities
Plus Davis Orton Gallery’s
First Annual “Books and Readers” Group Show
Ellen Feldman, Marcy Juran, Charles Mintz, Linda Rogers,
Lisa Stancati, Ellen Shub, Ken Tannenbaum
Demonstrations, Marches, Political Actions
MOVED TO ACT!
curated by
Ellen Feldman & Marky Kauffmann
See Moved to Act! Catalog HERE
and
Portfolio Showcase
Marjorie Nichols and David Whitney
plus
Slide Show of Hudson Area Actions
Exhibition Dates:
October 27 to November 25, 2018
Reception for Artists: Saturday, October 27, 5-7 pm
An exhibition of photographs by outstanding artists across the US that serves as an important statement of our determination and power to fight for justice for ourselves, and all people, in all our differences.
The exhibit will bring together photographs from the Women’s March, January 21, 2017, and other recent events in the United States, including Black Lives Matter, Standing Rock Movement and March for Our Lives.
Participating Artists
•Jane Fulton Alt •Gabriella Angotti-Jones •Amber Bracken •Edie Bresler •James Billeaudeau •Sheila Pree Bright •Lora Brody •Matthew Butkus •Nicole Buchanan •Gabriella Demczuk •Kelley Donnelly •Nina Weinberg Doran •Deena Feinberg •Colleen Fitzgerald •Lindsay Hite •Adriene Hughes •Sara Hylton •Luke Jordan •Tira Khan •Neil O. Lawner •Rusty Leffel •Emily Matyas •Annu Palakunnathu Matthew •Debi Milligan •Jeenah Moon •Maya Myers •Natalie Obermaier •Rachel Papo •Tristan Pinto •Jessica Pons •Denise Saldaña •Ellen Shub •Belinda Soncini •Sandra Steinbrecher •Candice Washington •David Whitney •Evan Whitney
About the Curators
Ellen Feldman is a long-time street photographer, photo-artist, and book maker; her work has appeared in many solo and group exhibits. She is Photography Editor of Women’s Review of Books and holds a Ph.D. in Cinema Studies from NYU.
Marky Kauffmann has been working as a fine art photographer, educator, and curator for over thirty years, including curating “Outspoken: Seven Women Photographers,” currently touring schools and colleges throughout the Northeast. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship in Photography.
Also: Slide shows of political actions, demonstrations and related events in and around Hudson NY. Contributing photographers to be announced Oct 25.
Portfolio Showcase
Selected through our Portfolio Showcase Call for Entries,
the gallery will also feature two portfolios
David Whitney, March For Our Lives
Marysville, Springfield, Columbine, Sandy Hook, Parkland, Santa Fe….part of the horrific list of mass shootings in American schools. Thousands of young people across the country marched on 24 March 2018 for political action to stem this gun violence. David Whitney documented the March for Our Lives in Boston. . He intersperses the Boston photographs with images of the graves of some of the children who died in the Sandy Hook shooting. His march scenes show both the solidarity of the group and the strength, grief, passion and determination of the individual students. The question Whitney’s photographs do not answer is whether this activism can produce advocates and voters who will effect real change and what that changes will ultimately be — or if their voices will fade away as the news cycle rolls on?
Bio: David Whitney is a Boston-based photographer with an interest in street and documentary photography. His work has been exhibited at several museums and galleries, including the Danforth Museum, The Griffin Museum of Photography, the Garner Center at the New England School of Photography, the Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, the Concord Center for Visual Arts and the Bromfield Gallery.
Marjorie Nichols, We’ll Fix You
The various marches that drew Marjorie Nichols to them almost fifty years ago were those that were anti-war, anti-Nixon and pro ERA. At the anti-war/anti-Nixon actions, she marveled at the unheard of coalition of farmers, laborers and “longhairs”, all against the policies of the Nixon Administration.
At the ERA demonstrations were women, children and some men demanding to pass the Equal Rights Amendment and a smaller counter demonstration, the “Stop ERA” group. Among the arguments of the Stop ERA supporters were those that had been made by lawyer and anti feminism leader Phyllis Schlafly: the ERA would force women to be drafted into military service and, that in a divorce women would not receive alimony.
Bio: Portrait photographer Marjorie Nichols has been photographing the things around her as well as commissioned black and white portraits since a carpe diem moment in college 50 years ago. She has volunteered to photograph adults to help them get sweat equity housing and older children who were waiting for adoption into “forever homes”. Others commission her to photograph their personal histories in their homes or vacations. Some of the kids in those early photos are now contacting her to have in their own homes and histories documented. Their moms sometimes call to have coffee or invite her to their book signings and art receptions.
On the Photograph
paint, text, stitches and more
Edie Bresler
Nichole Washington
and
Portfolio Showcase
Anne Diggory & Gail Peachin
Exhibition Dates:
September 22 to October 21, 2018
Reception for Artists: Saturday, September 22, 5-7 pm
Edie Bresler, Anonymous
See FlatFile for all Edie Bresler images in show
Picturing Mental Illness
design, portraits, still lifes, interiors
Tamara Staples
Kholood Eid
and
Portfolio Showcase
Talya Arbisser & Deyva Arthur
Exhibition Dates: August 18 to September 16, 2018
Reception for Artists: Saturday, August 25, 5-7 pm
Tamara Staples, Side Effects May Include
Fourth Annual Group Show
Juror: Paula Tognarelli
Executive Director & Curator: Griffin Museum of Photography
Reception for Artists
Saturday, July 14, 5-7 pm
Exhibition Dates: July 14 – August 12, 2018
SHOW CATALOG
•Amy Anderson •Susan Anthony •Michael Bogdanffy-Kriegh
•Linda Cassidy •Frank Curran •Sandi Daniel
•Harvey Davidowitz •Nina Weinberg Doran •Ken Dreyfack
•Melissa Eder •Benjamin Ernest •Diane Fenster
•Dennis Geller •Nadide Goksun •Paul Greenberg
•John Harris •Susan Higgins •Rohina Hoffman
•Leslie Jean-Bart •Marcy Juran •Karen Klinedinst
•Pierre-Yves Linot •Joyce P Lopez •Jennifer Lothrigel
•James Mahoney •Alina Marin-Bliach •John Matturri
•Mahala Mazerov •Miao Miao •John Patrick Naughton
•Diana Nicholette Jeon •Neil Nourse •Jane Paradise
•Louise Pedno •Michael Prais •Russ Rowland
•Joshua Sarinana •Andi Schreiber •Amy Shapiro
•Leslie Sheryll •Rebecca Skinner •Larry Snider
•Jean Sousa •Michael Stepansky •JP Terlizzi
•Marie Triller •Allison Welch •Stephen Wicks
•Caren Winnal •Carol Wontkowsky •Yelena Zhavoronkova
Margaret Saliske
David Drake
Portfolio Showcase
Barrack Evans and William Nourse
Exhibition Dates:
June 16 to July 8, 2018
Reception for Artists: Saturday, June 16, 5-7 pm
Margaret Saliske – mixed media
for all Margaret’s works in exhibition, see FlatFile- Margaret Saliske
“Site 1″, 14″ x 19”, inkjet, masonite, plexiglas by Margaret Saliske
David Drake – mixed media, painting
for all David’s works in exhibition, see FlatFile – David Drake
Portfolio Showcase
Selected through our Portfolio Showcase International Call for Entries,
the gallery will also feature two portfolios
Barrack Evans, Iceland, the road to Höfn
for all Barrack’s photographs in exhibition, see FlatFile – Barrack Evans
William Nourse, Detachment
for all William’s photographs in exhibition, see FlatFile – William Nourse
About the Artists
Margaret Saliske, Recent Work
Artist Margaret Saliske of Hudson NY is interested in manipulating how we see the natural world and man made objects that reside in it. How structure can alter depth of field and create a new setting for what is familiar.
Saliske uses photographic images of landscapes, architecture and industrial sites . The landscapes, though flat photographic images, become 3 dimensional again by cutting, folding, creating new planes and spaces that juxtapose the natural imagery.
Most recently she has become interested in how architecture and industrial structures are situated in the landscape. She has been photographing sites and then removing, reiterating and reimagining elements in a new format . They are abstracted yet still relate to the initial image generating a new space devoid of landscape.
Bio: Margaret Saliske lived and worked in New York City until moving to the Hudson River Valley in 1989. Recent group exhibitions include Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz NY; Opalka Gallery, Albany NY, Graficas Gallery, Nantucket MA; Carrie Haddad Photographs and Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson NY. Saliske has been represented by Stafford Contemporary and Graficas Gallery. She has a B.A. degree from Bennington College and attended the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program in Studio Art.
David Drake, Recent Work
Having studied printmaking, David Drake is more attracted to the drawing process as a way in to both his drawings and paintings. For him, drawing is a way of interpreting the world; the importance of “feeling” what you are drawing as it comes to life is paramount. Moving back and forth between drawing and painting, Drake will stay with a single object or idea, expanding or contracting the world around it through a series of works.
Drake’s recent work started out as an exercise in improvisation that evolved into “something like “landscape.” Drake prefers not to plan but rather, be open and receptive—to improvise, to start something before he knows what it’s going to be.
Drake likes to leave clues to his thought processes—like when he decides to move a line that he has drawn in pencil, creating a sense of motion because you can still see the pale shadow of the old line. “You can erase a line, but it leaves a ghost.” He likes the chaotic feeling that comes from all the apparent indecision and ambiguity as he works, but he also likes the resolution that comes as its final state evolves out of what were just squiggles and patience.
Thanks to Stephen Leon for sharing info with the gallery. For an extended interview with Drake, see Stephen Leon Blog
Bio: David Drake of Catskill NY, and longtime resident of Hudson NY, received his BFA in printmaking with a minor in photography from the Cleveland Institute of Art where he studied with Carroll Cassil, Ralph Woehrmann and Robert Jergens. After graduating, he taught photography in Cleveland Public Schools and began a life long practice of painting and drawing. While earning his degree in printmaking, Drake waited tables and bartended, skills that carried him through the financial ups and downs of life as an artist. (Currently he bartends at the restaurant Rive Gauche Bistro in Athens).
Previous solo exhibitions include Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson NY and Cabane Gallery, Phoenicia NY. Among the galleries he has exhibited are the Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis MD; Neville Sargeant Gallery, Chicago IL; Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester VT. His work is represented in private and corporate collections throughout the country.
Portfolio Showcase
Barrack Evans, Iceland, the road to Höfn
In 2012, Barrack Evans saw the James Balog documentary, Chasing Ice, about photographing receding glaciers all over the world. He knew he needed to see these massive rivers of ice before their wonder melted into the oceans. Five years later, he travelled to Iceland to drive 500 km along it’s southeast coast past Vatnajökull Glacier, Europe’s largest glacier, to Vestrahorn Mountain near Höfn and photograph some of the same glaciers that so dramatically demonstrate the effects of global warming on our planet. He drove the ring road, living out of a camper with no schedule to keep except a midweek reservation for a zodiac boat tour on the Jökulsárlón lagoon. The landscapes are not only glaciers but also lagoons and icebergs left behind as a result of glacial retreat. Vatnajökull National Park is surrounded by the black sand beaches of Diamond Beach and getting there takes you along moss covered lava fields, past ancient sea cliffs, waterfalls, rivers and canyons formed by progressive erosion. Vatnajökull has deglaciated by about 10% since the end of the 19th century, 3% lost in just the last 10 years. Any return to Iceland would be to a new and altered landscape of diminished glaciers.
Bio: After over 30 years of managing Non-Profit and Off-Broadway theatre companies, Barrack Evans has returned to his home state, Vermont, where he is a fine art photographer based in Dorset and the proud new owner/operator of Battenkill Bicycles in Manchester, VT. Balancing life as an artist and bicycle shop owner/cyclist, he photographs a range of subjects in Vermont and travels when he can to locations from Yosemite National Park to Vatnajökull National Park in Iceland. His photographs have been exhibited in solo and group shows at the Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, Vermont.
Barrack Evans is a graduate of Ithaca College with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre Production Arts. He has studied photography at the International Center for Photography in New York City and the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA.
William Nourse, Detachment
While landscape photography often concentrates on showing beauty or drama with context such as a grand landscape in the mountains, William Nourse is deliberately focused on taking that context away from the viewer. Shot in the Gobi Desert in November 2017, there is no sense of scale, and orientation of the images feels arbitrary, rather than conforming to traditional landscape standards. By detaching the images from their context, he forces the viewer to ask the question ‘what am I looking at?’ and come to her own conclusions.
Bio: Will Nourse is a landscape photographer known for his use of color and texture to bring his outdoor experiences to life.
His work reflects a lifetime of hiking, backpacking, climbing, skiing and sailing, all of which have given him a deep appreciation for the wonders of the natural world. He was a featured artist in the exhibition ‘Expeditions: From Iceland to the Gobi’ at the Paula Estey Gallery, Newburyport, MA. In 2017 he was selected for the Cambridge Art Association’s National Prize Show (2017), and his image ‘Seljalandsfoss #2’ was selected as Best in Show for Photography in the NAA’s 20th Annual Regional Juried Show (2017). Nourse resides in Amesbury, MA.
Vaughn Sills
Sarah Sterling
Portfolio Showcase
Laurie Blakeslee and Lisa Redburn
Exhibition Dates:
May 12 to June 10, 2018
Reception for Artists: Saturday, May 12, 5-7 pm
Vaughn Sills, Places for the Spirit:
Traditional African American Gardens in the South
for all images in Vaughn Sill’s show: Vaughn Sills FlatFile
Sarah Sterling, Cultivated Chaos
For all images in Sarah Sterling’s show, Sarah Sterling FlatFile
Portfolio Showcase
Laurie Blakeslee, 40 Year Garden
For all images in Laurie Blakeslee’s portfolio: Laurie Blakeslee Flatfile
Lisa Redburn, Water Tapestries
For all the images in Lisa Redburn’s Portfolio: Lisa Redburn Flatfile
About the Artists
Vaughn Sills, Places for the Spirit:
Traditional African American Gardens in the South
One early September afternoon in 1988, Vaughn Sills found herself on the porch of Bea Robinson’s house in Athens, Georgia. While her friend and Bea chatted about their lives, she looked around and became entranced by Bea’s garden. “Something came over me – or through me – as I stood in the garden, looking, feeling, sensing the energy or magic or spirit, call it what you will, that surrounded me.” On that warm, soft, sunny day, Sills took the first of what became a series of photographs, from throughout the South, that she worked on for nearly twenty years.
Sills’ series, Places of the Spirit, documents a tradition that is a way of using the land that is both historically significant and aesthetically resonant. Scholars have studied African American gardens and traced many of their traits to Africa, pointing out similar uses of the land and finding that slaves brought with them not only plant seeds, but agricultural expertise, some of it still in evidence today.
These gardens speak a certain language – a language, Sills is convinced, that is about the earth, about beauty, and about spirit.” Some of the vocabulary of this language is about belief and spiritual knowledge – the empty bottles, the pipes sticking upright out of the ground, dolls – and have specific meanings that relate to the spirits of ancestors or magical powers and that go back centuries and across an ocean; some of the vocabulary is functional, practical, born of necessity – the vegetable gardens, the chicken coops; and some is quite simply of beauty – the impatiens and petunias and pinks, the rose bushes, prickly pears, and canna lilies. The way the vocabulary is put together is based on tradition, custom, function, and each gardener’s sense of what looks pleasing – in a special and recognizable style. This style becomes the structure of the language; this structure is aesthetic; and this aesthetic is beauty.
The Book: Places for the Spirit
Places for the Spirit
Trinity University Press
San Antonio TX
“Looking at these black and white images sometimes feels like dropping paper flowers in a glass of water and watching them expand. Vaughn Sills’s images make the mind expand like a rose, fragrant with vision…. [Her] humility in the face of the order she finds in these various gardens is touching – and enlightening.” –Hilton Als
“Sills, who took these photographs in Georgia, the two Carolinas, Louisiana, [Mississippi], and Alabama, includes the location in each title. How could she not, these images are so idiosyncratically — so wondrously — specific. That said, they also convey a sense of being beyond place — and outside of time. Humanity, the Bible says, started in a garden. Looking at these photographs, one can see how it continues in gardens, too.”
–Mark Feeney, The Boston Globe
Two photographs from this body of work are in the gorgeous new book,
The Photographer in the Garden,
published jointly by Aperture and the George Eastman House
Bio: Vaughn Sills’ work has been has been exhibited widely, in museums and galleries; the galleries of botanic gardens; and are in the collections of the DeCordova Museum, Harvard Art Museum, the Eaton Vance Collection, among others. Sills has received several significant awards — twice she received the Artist’s Fellowship in Photography by the Massachusetts Cultural Council; other grants and awards have come from the Artadia Dialogue for Art and Culture, the Polaroid Foundation, and The New England Foundation for the Arts.
Her photographs and books, Places for the Spirit, Traditional African American Gardens (2010) and One Family (2001) earned awards from the Garden Writers Association and the Magazine Association for the Southeast.
Vaughn is a Visiting Scholar at Brandeis University’s Women’s Studies Research Center and Associate Professor Emerita of Photography at Simmons College. She lives and works in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Prince Edward Island, Canada.
Sarah Sterling, Cultivated Chaos
In Cultivated Chaos, Sarah Sterling documents the ongoing evolution of her Hudson NY garden—its metamorphoses through the seasons, along with its avian and insect visitors. As she seeks out the often unseen mysteries of the garden—ephemeral moments of exuberance and reflection, she creates unusual compositions and color combinations that suit her painterly vision. Sterling has learned over the years that her photographs, no matter how carefully planned, must yield to the plants which have their own agenda, creating the cheerful chaos that becomes the foreground, or background, of each composition.
Bio: Sarah Sterling of Hudson NY is an award winning photographer who has exhibited her work widely in the Hudson Valley region. Venues include Spencertown Academy galleries, John Davis Gallery, Hudson Area Library, Earle Mitchell Gallery, Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson Opera House, Berkshire Museum and Columbia Green Community College. Among her projects are “The Meadow”, an ongoing photo essay, Flower/Garden Abstract Series, and, individually, Birds, Dragonflies, and Insects.
Selected through our Portfolio Showcase International Call for Entries,
the gallery is also featuring portfolios by
Laurie Blakeslee & Lisa Redburn
Laurie Blakeskee, 40 Year Garden
The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.
— May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude, 1973
For more than four decades, my mother-in-law Fritz has been gardening the same plot of land (approximately an 1/8 acre) behind her home in Boise, Idaho. Her children say they can hardly believe she maintained such a huge garden when she worked full time. Despite their protests to scale back the ambitious planting, each year the garden seems to expand. In the tremendous heat of late summer, even Fritz will admit she is overwhelmed by the work. Fortunately, my partner Stephanie shares her mother’s love of gardening and works alongside her.
For Fritz, this vegetable garden not only provides food for her family (and her lucky neighbors), it also allows a space for meditation through the ritual of daily maintenance. It is clear that, as Fritz, now in her mid 80s, grows older, this garden provides a way to maintain her vitality. With the series “40-Year Garden” I am photographing a garden in all its seasons of transformation and the beauty of Fritz with her resilience and determination.
Bio Laurie Blakeslee has worked in photo-based media for over 20 years. She has exhibited nationally and internationally. Her work is held in many collections including: Boise Art Museum, Center for Creative Photography UA Tucson AZ, Colorado University, Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Laurie is currently an Associate Professor of Art at BSU, where she teaches photography and coordinates the undergraduate Art Foundations program. She received a BFA from Boise State University with an emphasis in painting and an MFA in photography from the University of Arizona in Tucson.
Lisa Redburn, Water Tapestries
Lisa Redburn is drawn to water where the boundaries between real and reflected are fluid. Water Tapestries began as she wandered in nature, observing swamps and streams. She focused on the relationships among reflected light, decaying plant material, surface texture, and the mysteries hiding below. She saw these images as “water tapestries.”
Over time the series evolved into more intentional work, in her own garden. She made a ritual of gathering a handful of buds, petals, leaves, and seedpods, then scattering them over a basin of water. She watched them bob and sink, gently floating into and away from each other. The process of creating these images in her garden wove together two strands of her creative life: gardener and photographer. “The botanica mingling in the water and the trees reflected there were old friends, seen in new ways.” Through this series, Redburn explores the tension between fluid and fixed, visible and invisible, control and serendipity, what is passing and what is to come. She has since moved, but ephemera from the garden she created live on in her photography.
Bio: Lisa Redburn is a fine-art photographer whose work explores the fluid boundaries between the real, reflected, and remembered. She finds layered stories in the puddles of Paris, ponds and bogs, botanica, and the patina of time.
Lisa’s work has appeared in numerous juried shows, nationally, including Monmouth Museum, Monmouth NJ and the Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester MA. She has received international recognition including: finalist in both the Pollux Awards and in the Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers; Juror’s Award of Merit in the Grand Prix de la Decouverte 2013 International Fine Art Competition; Best of Show in Reflections 2014 at the Photography Center of Cape Cod, and 3rd place in Viewpoints 2016 at Aljira Gallery, Newark NJ. Her images have appeared in Photo Review, Lens Work’s “Seeing in Sixes,” YourDailyPhotograph.com and donttakepictures.com.
Lisa has work in the Sloan Kettering Ambulatory Care Center in Lincroft, NJ, and in private collections. She recently moved to Plymouth, MA from Montclair, NJ.
Memories of Childhood
Michal Greenboim
Kev Filmore
Portfolio Showcase
Flynn Larsen and Leslie Jean-Bart
Exhibition Dates:
April 7 to May 6, 2018
Opening Reception:
Saturday, April 7, 5-7 pm
Michal Greenboim, Orchard Trail
(see all Greenboim prints in show)
Kev Filmore, 21 Magnolia Road
(see all Filmore work in show)