Two Exhibitions:
12th Annual Photobook Show
and
4th Annual Books & Readers
Group Photo Show
November 20 to December 19, 2021
Davis Orton Gallery
12th Annual Self-Published Photobook Show
Juried by Paula Tognarelli, Griffin Museum of Photography
and Karen Davis, Davis Orton Gallery.
For covers, two-page spreads and information about each photobook in this exhibition
ONLINE CATALOG
The 43 photobooks selected by Jurors Paula Tognarelli and Karen Daviswill be displayed in gallery and display shelves. November 20 to December 4 Part 1: 22 books in gallery; December 5 to December 19: Part 2: 21 books in gallery. Each time, the remaining books will be presented on display shelves
Part 1: Nov 20 to Dec 4
Debra Achen • Stephen Albair • Stan Banos • Gary Beeber • Bruce Berkow • Mike Callaghan • Nicholas Costopoulos • Maureen Drennan • Melissa Eder • Mark Farber • Jake Foster • Samantha Goss • Joe Greene • Anita Harris • Timothy Hearsum • Samantha Herbert • Judi Iranyi • Doug Johnson • Kevin B Jones • Kate& Geir Jordahl • Matthew Kamholtz • Stella Kramer
Part 2: Dec 5 to Dec 19
Philip Malkin • Andy Mattern • Forest McMullin • Meryl Meisler • Linda Morrow • Laila Nahar • Fern Nesson • Donna Oglesby • Robert Pacheco • Robert Palumbo • Betty Press • Keron Psillas • Renato Rampolla • Joanne Ross • Patricia Scialo • Ron Snider • Benjamin Tankersley • Sal Taylor Kydd • Julia Vandenoever • Thomas Whitworth • Sharon Wickham
2022: Exhibition Travels
Griffin Museum of Photography,
Winchester, MA.
Exhibition: JANUARY 6 – FEBRUARY 27
4th Annual
Books & Readers Group Show
featuring multiple images by each artist
November 20 to December 19
Robin Boger • Jenny Carey • Ellen Feldman • Ingrid Lundquist • Henry Neimark • Wayne Palmer • Jaye Phillips
About the Artists and their work
Robin Boger
Reading with Abuela by Robin Boger
Artist Statement
Access to information has been used throughout history as a means of social control, but the relatively recent democratization of literacy has been critical to modernization and economic development. There is comfort in sharing space and time with those who also love to read. In Cuba and Japan, the ritual of reading often begins early and continues throughout life. While reading is usually a solitary activity, it can also inform and energize groups. The “marketplace of ideas” becomes a marketplace “for” ideas in the used book district of Jimbocho, Tokyo – where my presence as a tourist with cameras went unnoticed by those searching for more to read.
Artist Bio
Before 2020, Robin Boger’s photography was guided by her search for visual markers that reflect how societal and cultural elements shape human behavior. In her travels, she looks for evidence of how differences in the natural environment and material culture impact activities of individuals and groups. Despite finding such differences, however, she has also identified many similarities in how societies around the world have created solutions to common problems. Her images from Cuba and Africa have been shown at galleries in the greater Boston area, including the Chandler Gallery in Cambridge and J.P. Licks in Jamaica Plain.
Jenny Carey
In the Fold by Jenny Carey
Artist Statement
I am a collector of few things: rocks from my travels, books, and art. Those treasured objects in my home are often displayed on bookcases. One can find them Interspersed among books with well-known titles that date back decades. So, on a special day or holiday, some remnant of the day will likely find its way onto the shelves. Books housed on those shelves are often well-worn, read in one day in a backyard pool, the side of a mountain, or on a far-away beach.
The immersion I experience in those books, or treasured remnants of special moments, is kindred to my own immersion in photography. These images represent that immersion.,
Artist Bio
Jenny Carey is a photographic artist residing in Florida. Her work explores the themes of memory, loss, and sense of place. Ordinary subjects and intimate environments are used to evoke memories, document the intangible, and narrate unseen beauty.
She began her practice as a photojournalist and that perspective is evident in her work. Her images have been exhibited nationally, most recently at The Tampa International Airport Gallery (Florida), Manifest Gallery (Ohio), and Davis Orton (New York). Her photographic works are included in numerous private collections.
The natural environment is often the subject matter in her images, but frequent travels have opened narratives with urban elements. She is the founder of Creatives Exchange, a collective of professional women artists in Tampa, Florida where she maintains a studio practice.
Ellen Feldman
Serious Reading, Light Moment, Paris by Ellen Feldman
Artist Statement
Reading novels was my first love. Before I knew about movies or classical music I would curl up with a book by William Saroyan, Johanna Spyri, or Louisa May Alcott. I was transported to another world. As a long-time street photographer, who better to capture than people who are engrossed in their private worlds, book in hand?
Artist Bio
Ellen Feldman is a long-time street photographer, photo-artist, curator, and book maker; her work has appeared in many solo and group exhibits. Her latest book is “We Who March: Photographs and Reflections on the Women’s March, January 21, 2017.” Feldman is Photography Editor of Women’s Review of Books and holds a Ph.D. in Cinema Studies from NYU.
Ingrid Lundquist
Any Religion is Better Than No Religion, Bookstore in Carlsbad, CA by Ingrid Lundquist
Artist Statement
My art education was abandoned for a career as an event designer/producer. During those 40 years, I keenly observed my surroundings and developed an obsession with nuance. In 2011, I joined a graduate school classmate who was teaching a photography class in Italy. Five weeks in Florence, with my first real camera, very quickly revealed my new artistic voice as a “Street Photographer.”
The images I frame are stumbled upon, sometimes with objects appearing in precise arrangements as if waiting to be noticed. If the subject is posing, it’s for another lens, unaware of my presence. Shapes and colors and their relationship are a fascination for me. My compositions are simple, with a photojournalistic attitude as if revealing a snippet of information and begging the viewer to finish the story. To me, the perfect artistic expression is a compelling story told through an unusual but exacting photograph.
Artist Bio
Ingrid Lundquist is a creative spirit. She graduated from California State University Sacramento with a B.A. in Art, a B.A. in English, and a Master’s Degree in Art, and went on to build a career as a Certified Special Events Professional. Ingrid is the founder of The Book-in-Hand Roadshow which stages presentations and workshops on topics of interest to writers.
She is the author of five business books, a photo story book, and Touching Venus (2022), a collection of enticing and inspiring slice-of-life short stories. Ingrid teaches event classes at her alma mater as well as writing and self-publishing classes at Sierra College and at art facilities. Her class ‘Let pictures drive the words’ combines her love of both photography and writing. Since embracing street photography in 2011, her images have been in more than 70 juried shows across the U.S. and abroad.
Henry Neimark
Untitled by Henry Neimark
Artist Statement
I’m always amazed at the thought of what is going on behind the eyes, the blizzard of activity, of neurons firing, of chemical/electrical impulses occurring, of the life and action going on inside a person’s brain while reading; the almost trance-like immobility belying the activity inside.,
Artist Bio
Until recently, Henry Neimark was a person who took photographs. Now, after so many years and so many snaps of the shutter, he looks at his work and realizes that he is a Photographer.
Wayne Palmer
After Reading by Wayne Palmer
Artist Statement
My work explores the intersection between the urban environment and the human experience. I am intrigued by found objects in natural light, and am drawn to people in their unguarded moments on the street. I’m sensitive to scenes of casual poetry when, for an instant, the image offers resonance greater than the sum of its parts. The resonate experience is deeply satisfying, and is the core reason why I continue to take my cameras out onto the New York streets every day.,
Artist Bio
For Wayne Palmer street photography and television news have been parallel paths of life in New York. At WNET (PBS) Wayne directed national news and public affairs programs such as The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, Bill Moyers’ Journal and countless others. At the same time he photographed the streets and people of New York with black and white film and digital color, which he continues today.
Waynes’ photographs have been exhibited and honored around the world, including Miami Street Photography Festival/Art Basel, Davis Orton Gallery, PH21 Gallery Budapest Hungary, Los Angeles Center of Photography, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fine Art Photography Awards London, International Color Awards, Black and White Spider Awards; published in Black & White Magazine Feb. 2021, Bokeh Bokeh Feb. 2021, Photo Review International Competition 2020. Neutral Density Magazine and acquired by the Museum of the City of New York.
Jaye Phillips
Artist Statement
Books are my recurrent theme, vessel, tool, and inspiration. My Choreography Notebook is part of my ongoing collage series which arose from my photography of books….books as vessels containing traces, messages, shards, dreams, openings, awakenings, and voices.
The medium of collage for me gathers fragments of light and time and allows moving forward and backward in time and space. In terms of light as an element, I also see books as reflectors and absorbers of the visual.
I am drawn to the writer John Berger and his grounding words from
Keeping a Rendezvous:
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story….the story’s voice makes everything its own.,
Artist Bio
Jaye Phillips is fine art and performance photographer living and working in Arlington, Massachusetts. Her photographs have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions including: Harvard University, Addison Gallery of American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art/Chicago, and DeCordova Art Museum. Her most recent group show was in Half the Sky: Intersections in Social Practice Art at LuXun Academy of Fine Arts in Shenyang, China.
Her work is included in the Polaroid International Collection and Harvard Theatre Arts Collection. She has photographed professionally for dance companies including Boston Ballet, Streb/SLAM, Eiko and Koma, and Institute of Contemporary Art/Art and Dance series.
Her work has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, Art Forum, WGBH-TV La Plaza series, Time is not Even, Space is not Empty, Walker Art Center, publisher and Zapotec Weavers of Teotitlan, Museum of New Mexico Press. She studied photography with Minor White at MIT, and studio arts at the Museum of Fine Arts School in Boston.
Movies/Celebrity
October 9 to November 14, 2021
Judith Henry
Anna May Wong in Williamsburg, 2014, pigment print 16×24″ by Judith Henry
Michael Hunold
Rabbit Guy by Michael Hunold, 17×22″, pigment print from “Shoot!”
Short Film by Susan Copich: The Cupcake
Film Still 3 from The Cupcake, 7 minute film by Susan Copich
Film Still 4 from The Cupcake, 7 minute film by Susan Copich
Portfolio Showcase
Theme: Movies Real and Imagined
Selected through our Portfolio Showcase International Call for Entries
Victoria Crayhon – Romance
Romance #1, 13×19″ pigment print by Victoria Crayhon
About the Artists and Their Work
Judith Henry, Me as Her & Beauty Masks
Edith Piaf in Williamsburg from Me as Her by Judith Henry
Ring, Ring from Beauty Masks by Judith Henry
Brooklyn-based artist Judith Henry repurposes a cornucopia of materials in her explorations of identity. Having pursued secretive, voyeuristic observations of people throughout her career, in Me As Her and Beauty Masks she explores, through photography, fame, celebrity, idealized beauty and the misalignments between cultural representation and inner psychology.
In Me as Her, using her long-standing practice of remaining hidden within her work, Henry, masked behind portraits gleaned from the internet, reimagines herself as a series of significant, accomplished, deceased women both young and old. Behind the mask, she places herself in locations in her Willamsburg neighborhood. Away from the glare of fame, and shot in black and white, each photograph comments on how little is known about those we admire and the true self.
In Beauty Masks, her photographic series of over 120 color self-portraits, Henry juxtaposes images of models’ faces ripped from fashion magazines over her own face. The stark contrast between the retouched and made-up faces and Henry’s actual hands and body are a reminder of the commodification of idealized beauty and a reflection of the fear of death.
Bio
For over five decades, New York based artist and designer Judith Henry has created multimedia artworks and books that explore the friction between interior life and the public self.
In New York, Henry’s work has been exhibited by BravinLee Programs, where her most recent exhibition Casting Call (2018) was of 300 small, idiosyncratic sculptures. Other recent solo shows were at Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, 2016 and The National Arts Club, 2017. Her work has been included in group exhibitions nationally and internationally in Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Istanbul, London, and Switzerland.
Her graphic photobook Overheard Book Series, (Overheard at the Museum, Overheard at the Bookstore, Overheard While Shopping and Overheard in Love), published by Universe/Rizzoli (2000-2006), consist of overheard conversations in text and photos paired in surprising juxtapositions. Her self-published photobook, Beauty Masks (2019) is a mash-up of beauty, youth, and aging. In 1976, Henry created with the late artist Jaime Davidovich the now legendary Wooster enterprises whose conceptual paper products were sold nationally. The popular Crumpled Paper Stationery, which she designed, was produced and sold by The Museum of Modern Art for over 25 years.
Michael Hunold, SHOOT
Untitled (Neighbors) from SHOOT by Michael Hunold
Untitled (Inflatable Crowd) from SHOOT by Michael Hunold
Photographs and Movies are central to Michael Hunold’s personal history and experience of life. Since boyhood he has engaged with the world through photography. Immersed in the culture of movies, he found a career in motion picture production, lighting movies for a living. The images in SHOOT are part of his ongoing photographic account of his working life in a factory of dreams, that place where ordinary spaces and fabricated simulations of reality are transformed by camera and light into something mysterious and delightful.
Hunold favors a small point-and-shoot camera for its portability and unobtrusive size. It travels easily and is with him wherever he goes. This allows for a spontaneous response to surprise in the moment and a more discrete scrutiny of small details. His daily practice provides the content for his ongoing BIOPIC.
Bio
Michael Hunold of Woodstock NY has been a photographer, sometimes professionally, since his teens. He was a staff photographer with: The Soho Weekly News; The Center for Inter-American Relations; The Museum Of Natural History. He was stringer for Time-Life. His photographs have appeared in: The Village Voice; New York Magazine; The New York Times; The Woodstock Times; The Kingston Freeman.
His photographs have been exhibited at The Metropolitan Museum Of Art; The Goddard-Riverside Community Center; Davis Orton Gallery; and the Griffin Museum Of Photography; Some of the images in SHOOT appeared in his photobook, SHOOT, which was judged “Best-In-Show” in Davis Orton Gallery’s Photobook Exhibition, 2014. This exhibit also travelled to the Griffin Museum of Photography.
Hunold has an MFA from NYU Graduate Film School. He is a member of IATSE Local 52 and the Screen Actors Guild.
Susan Copich, The Cupcake (a short film & film stills)
Film still 1 from “The Cupcake” by Susan Copich
Film Still 2 from “The Cupcake” by Susan Copich
THE CUPCAKE Synopsis
The Cupcake is a short film that expands on the conceptual photographic series “Domestic Bliss” by Susan Copich. Within the pristine environment of suburban living, a modern housewife (Susan Copich) longs for escape from an ennui bred of entitlement and isolation. She discovers expression and freedom through ritual and performance, to a dreamlike precision, that may only further the trappings of her perfect world. As the external world repeatedly intrudes on her nighttime ceremony, she faces the ultimate challenge. Like the photographic series The Cupcake presents tableaux rich with iconic symbols that dive into the psychological and asks the character to face herself or continue the endless loop of denial. As the central figure on an artificial stage, the housewife is at once the empty vortex and the compelling heroine in this morality play.
Bio
Susan Copich of upstate NY is an award-winning photographer known for her conceptual photographic series Domestic Bliss. The series, featuring her characteristic dark and witty humor, gives voice to her inner “darkness” while examining family life in a humorous and sometime sarcastic context.
Domestic Bliss went viral in 2014 after Peta Pixel’s rave review of her solo show in New York City and has since been written up and reviewed in many languages around the world. Susan continues to explore women and the endless narrative of being such in today’s world through her ongoing photography projects and her video exploration, THE CUPCAKE.
Her work has appeared in numerous group and solo shows in galleries and museums. It is held in private collections internationally.
Portfolio Showcase: Movies – Real and Imagined
Selected through our Portfolio Showcase International Call for Entries
Victoria Crayhon, Thoughts of Romance on the Road
Romance 2 from “Thoughts of Romance from the Road” by Victoria Crayhon
Romance 7 from “Thoughts of Romance from the Road” by Victoria Crayhon
Victoria Crayhon uses photography and video to document her text interventions on roadside marquee signs in this ongoing project. She place phrases on movie marquee signs, using her own sign letters and leaves the scene with the words left intact upon the marquee. Before she departs, she makes a photograph from the sidewalk or roadside. She then creates large-scale color prints as documents of the sign in its environment. The photograph becomes the sole remnant of the project as the letters inevitably disappear or are taken down. The work addresses the effect of media and technology upon human memory and desire.
Bio
Victoria Crayhon’s work has been exhibited, published and collected both internationally and throughout the United States. Her work has been prominently featured in publications such as British Journal of Photography, the Christian Science Monitor, Slate Magazine, Huffington Post, Fraction Magazine, Zero_Cento Editions, La Journal de la Photographie, Fade to Black, Art/Photo Magazine, and The Photo Review top ten of 2019 and 2014. It is also included in museum, corporate and private collections, among them The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Harvard/Fogg Art Museums, and Citigroup in NYC.
Crayhon holds a BFA Photography from Tisch School of the Arts, New York University and an
MFA Photography from Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI.
Alternative Visions of the Natural World
David Drake
acrylic and pastel on Bristol
Dawn Watson
photography & artist books
Portfolio Showcase
Connie Lowell & Lev L Spiro
Sept 4 to October 3, 2021
David Drake, Close by: Catskill
In March near Catskill, acrylic and pastels on Bristol by David Drake
Almost Summer, acrylic and pastels on Bristol by David Drake
Dawn Watson, Solastalgia
Ghost Shadows, February 5, 2013 Croton Point, Ossining, NY from Message from Grace: Imaginings from an Altered World Series by Dawn Watson
Bound N.5,from Drift/Bound series, dye sublimation on aluminum by Dawn Swan
Portfolio Showcase: Alternative Visions of Landscape
Selected through our Portfolio Showcase International Call for Entries
Connie Lowell, Broken Landscapes
Manmade Light, pigment print from glass plates collaged by Connie Lowell
Fire, pigment print from glass plates collaged by Connie Lowell
Lev L. Spiro, Fugitive Light
Unwoven, pigment print by Lev L. Spiro
Augury, pigment print by Lev L. Spiro
About the Artists and Their Work
David Drake, Close by: Catskill
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The End of Something, acrylic and pastels on Bristol by David Drake
The paintings in Close by: Catskill were all made within the last year in David Drake’s home studio in Catskill. They are about place and process—how he sees things, how he puts things together. They are informed by living, driving, and walking around Catskill and Hudson, but especially by the view from his studio window high on a hill. While he often works with photographs, these paintings are in no way intended to be photographic but rather about the feeling of his world and where he resides.
Some of his process can be seen in his small, rapidly painted gestural sketches. It is apparent in the larger pieces how color—and the emotions of color—emerge as central to the work. Fascinated by the idea of the mobility of the mark on the surface of the painting—pentimento—Drake’s use of pastel, almost incised lines, reveal his thought process as he adjusts, changes his mind and adjusts again.
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 lifelong practice of painting and drawing.
Drake’s work is represented in private and corporate collections throughout the country. 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-Sargent Gallery, Chicago IL; Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester VT.
While earning his degree in printmaking, Drake waited tables and bartended, skills that have carried him through the financial ups and downs of life as an artist. Currently, he works at Swoon Kitchenbar, Hudson NY.
Dawn Watson, Solastalgia
In the Silence Deep, Grove from triptych, Witness series, 57×36″, pigment print panel by Dawn Watson
Solastalgia…is the “lived experience” of the loss of the present as manifest in a feeling of dislocation; of being undermined by forces that destroy the potential for solace to be derived from the present…” Journalist Zoe Schlanger referencing philosopher Glenn Albrecht, Quartz post, 2018
Early mornings Dawn Watson often sits by the shore of the Hudson River as the sun rises. These moments of peace by the river are a balm to the soul and ground her. For Watson, this estuary known as the “river that flows both ways” serves as a metaphor for the push/pull of our global circumstance. Her years moving intuitively through space as a dancer developed a heightened sense of physicality which informs her process of manipulation and intervention. Subverting form and content, she explores themes of perception, adaptation and transformation as a response to our changing environment in this era of the Anthropocene.
In Solastagia she shares excerpts from three different yet related bodies of landscape imagery that morph from alarm to overwhelmed disconnect to finding balance and healing in the beauty that remains.
Bio
Visual artist Dawn Watson, formerly a professional dancer, shifted her artistic practice to photography finding affinity in the visual storytelling offered by the photographic image. Her former career continues to influence her art, as does her deep connection to nature.
Watson has exhibited her photographs and artist books throughout the United States and Europe. Solo exhibitions include: The Griffin Museum of Photography, the Los Angeles Center for Photography and Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts. Group shows include: the Albrecht-Kemper Museum, Center of Photography at Woodstock, Gallery Valid Foto, LACP Gallery and Tang Teaching Museum. Her photography and artist books have been featured online and in print, including in Diffusion X Magazine, Elizabeth Avedon Journal, Lenscratch, South x Southeast Magazine and What Will You Remember.
Watson, of Hastings on Hudson, has deep roots in the Hudson Valley. She is a longtime supporter of Columbia Land Conservancy and serves on the board of regional environmental group Scenic Hudson, Inc.
Portfolio Showcase: Alternative Visions of the Natural World
Selected through our Portfolio Showcase International Call for EntriesConnie Lowell, Broken Landscapes
Split Lands, pigment print from glass negative by Connie Lowell
Connie Lowell constructs her Broken Landscapes from decades old photo dry and lantern glass plates which she has scorched and broken through controlled oxidized combustion. She then develops the two halves of each plate independently and ultimately, reassembles, collages and/or layers them into compositions.
The aged plates, often riddled with organic and inorganic artifacts impressed in their silver gelatin emulsion, reflect our precious and fragile world, subjected to its own seen and unseen forces – with or without us. She chose sparklers to burn and break the plates. Typically associated with celebration, she has uses them here to resemble a fuse…with the resulting damage. The broken plates, reassembled into constructed landscapes, suggest our human impact on the world and mourn our broken connection to the physical world.
As Lowell says, “The ‘party’ that these plates have survived in the past 50 -100 years, is now over.”
Bio
A native New Englander, Connie Lowell has spent much of her adult life in a cubicle, staring at a screen or if fortunate, out a window. Feeling isolated from the outdoors, she developed a passion for nature’s systems and frequently finds herself preoccupied with the myriad of changes humanity has introduced to the environment. Lowell reflects on the natural process selecting from a variety of aging and contemporary cameras, plates and other means to create her photographic art.
Lowell’s works have been selected for numerous juried shows across the US and beyond including the Glasgow Gallery of Photography, Scotland, The Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester MA, Midwest Center for Photography, Wichita KS and the Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis MN. Her photographs have appeared in Shots Magazine, Artscope Magazine and the Boston Globe.
Lev L. Spiro, Fugitive Light
Invitation, pigment print by Lev L. Spiro
Lev L. Spiro thinks of his gardens as filled with mystery, wonder and visions of loveliness. While they do serve him as a refuge and an escape into the natural world, he notes that they often fail him. Thus, in his series Fugitive Light, as he records fleeting glimpses of ephemeral beauty, they are frequently interrupted by unsettling intrusions. Many of his photographs reflect depths of darkness which Spiro sees as both projections of his own subconscious fears, as well as his attempts to assert mastery over them.
Bio
Lev L. Spiro is a Los Angeles photographer and filmmaker whose fine art photography alternates, often with humor, between two visions of our humanity: the mystery and wonder of the natural and anthropogenic worlds and the tragedy of the human condition. In his recent work he turns this attention to the intimate landscape of his gardens.
Lev’s photographs have been chosen for multiple group exhibitions including: the Midwest Center for Photography, Rhode Island Center for Photography and the Cleveland Print Room. They have also been published in Art Ascent Magazine and the blog, What Will You Remember.
Lev is best known as director of over 165 television episodes, pilots and features, including the Emmy-award winning series Orange is the New Black, Modern Family, Weeds and Arrested Development. His film “Minutemen” won a Director’s Guild nomination for Outstanding Directorial Achievement; he received the Emmy Award for Outstanding Children’s Program for his film, “Wizards of Waverly Place The Movie.”
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Abstract Expression
July 31 to August 29, 2021
Jessica Ann Willis
Linda Cassidy
Portfolios by
Marcie Scudder & Betsey Hansell
Jessica Ann Willis, ken : embodiment
Jessica Ann Willis-I find myself here, pigment print 30×20″
Dog, Woman, Woods by Jessica Ann Willis
Linda Cassidy, The Sushumna Series
The Sushumna Series 1 by Linda Cassidy
The Sushumna Series 2 by Linda Cassidy
Portfolio Showcase: Abstract Expression
Selected through our Portfolio Showcase International Call for EntriesMarcie Scudder, Synesthesia
Synesthesia 1 by Marcie Scudder
Betsey Hansell, Mysteries
Mystery 16, 17×22″, pigment print by Betsey Hansell
About the Artists and Their Work
Jessica Ann Willis, ken : embodiment
Untitled 2018-05-07-22-50-33 by Jessica Ann Willis
The conceptual thread that unites Jessica Ann Willis’s work in several media is the idea that seeing is a practice. We choose what we see. Much of her photo work of the past five years has been about yielding to and dialoguing with two tendencies: we are hardwired to recognize patterns that give meaning; we avert our eyes from things we don’t like, that frighten, that trigger repulsion.
Willis’s subjects originate in snapshots she makes or finds – often something cliche or an image easily ignored. She folds a snapshot upon itself in multiple ways to produce an image that belies the original photograph. Often, through this process, she finds figures she draws out and intensifies through dense layers of imagery to create a complex narrative.
Bio
Jessica Ann Willis is a Hudson NY based media artist whose ongoing work in photography, sculpture and painting are at the core of her practice which is installation. Jessica’s work has been shown regionally in numerous solo and group shows since moving to the Hudson area twelve years ago. Two of her virtual reality pieces were selected for the 2018 Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region Juried Show, receiving a Juror’s Award. She contributed paintings to Monsters in America, at 5 Mile Gallery in Kingston NY which traveled to the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland Maine. Her artwork and installations appeared in two iterations of Bedroom with The Woman Artist Team and her video and installation work appeared at the Mobile Home Show in Catskill NY. In 2020 she had a virtual Artist Showcase solo show at Davis Orton Gallery in Hudson and was one of thirty selected artists in Jewel the Wound at the Milliner at Salon.Linda Cassidy, The Sushumna Series
The Sushumna Project, 0 by Linda Cassidy
The Sushumna Nadi is theorized by yogis to be the central channel in the human body through which prana, the subtle life energy, flows. Comprehensible only through imaginative inquiry, the Sushumna retracts in the face of certainty. So we tip-toe towards that interactive edge between what our senses tell us is real and our inward not-knowing, reveling for a moment in the light that comes forward to meet the light.
In The Sushumna Series Linda Cassidy explores that point where the beauty of the world, hidden in plain sight within every form, becomes momentarily and clearly discernible. T.S. Eliot refers to it as “the still point of the turning world.”
That still point speaks to Cassidy in color.
Bio:
Artist Linda Cassidy lives and works in the Hudson Valley. Her recent work probes the intersections between the perceived surfaces of the 3-dimensional physical world and the vast virtual possibilities of digital art. This includes photos that behave like paintings, paintings that become transformed into layered photos, light streams that transpose into perceived matter, fractalization of common forms; all are part of her present inquiry.Her work is represented internationally in private collections as well as the Water Mill Museum and Guild Hall Museum, Easthampton NY. She received her BA from Bard College, where she studied with poets George Quasha and Robert Kelly, composer Ben Boretz and painter Elizabeth Murray. She received her MA from SUNY Stony Brook, where she worked with Robert White, Howardina Pindell and Lawrence Alloway.
Portfolio Showcase: Abstract Expression
Selected through our Portfolio Showcase International Call for Entries
Synesthesia 6 by Marcie ScudderMarcie Scudder, Synesthesia
Mondays were green. Tuesdays were yellow. Fridays were always a deep shade of violet/black. Until recently, Marcie Scudder believed everyone associated days of the week with color. Her mind experienced space as color, shadow as hue, light as a sparkly interplay between the two.
Josef Albers spoke to the complexity of seeing color as it truly is. Marcie Scudder likes to believe that color is not simply seen, but experienced and imagined through all of our senses. Synesthesia is an exploration into the color and joy of simple play. It acts as an explanation and response to her internal sensual perceptions.
Bio:
Marcie Scudder is a lens-based mixed-media artist from Vermont currently working in photography, artist bookmaking and larger scale installation art.Her art is rooted in Modernist Formalist practices, with color as a common thread. Inspired by the ever-changing Vermont landscape, subject matter ranges from representational to abstract. Her work has appeared in numerous featured and group shows regionally and on her popular art blog.
Her background also includes work as an architect, writer, and yoga instructor. She is currently pursuing a Masters Degree in Fine Arts at Maine Media College.
Betsey Hansell, Mysteries
Mystery 13 by Betsey Hansell
In Mysteries, Betsey Hansell creates abstracted photographs of real objects that probe beneath surfaces, challenge perception and can bypass logic to engage with one’s deepest feelings – much as music does. Bounced around by glass and mirrors, a constructed scene becomes a dreamworld that cannot, yet does exist.
Her photographs suggest the fragility and impermanence of what is real and the possibility that what you see may be vastly different from what it appears to be.
Bio:
Artist Betsey Hansell, based in Yardley PA, uses mirrors, glass, and reflections, to make abstract photographs of a mysterious space between truth and fiction, revealing bits of the real world in the distorted confusion of dreams.Her work has been featured at Soulcatcher Studio, Santa Fe; The Curated Fridge, Boston; Black Box Gallery, Portland; Women’s Caucus for Art and Philadelphia Photo Arts Center in Philadelphia, PA. Photographs from Penn’s Point, about the transformation of a suburban woodland habitat into an attached housing development, will be exhibited in Environmental Alterations, at the Millepiani Gallery in Rome in September 2021.
Hansell earned BFA and MFA degrees from Wayne State University in Detroit, where her paintings of unmade beds appeared in solo and group exhibitions in museums and galleries.
Hudson River Towns, Hudson River Valleys
June 26 to July 25, 2021
Ken Dreyfack
Deena Feinberg
Other River Towns/Valleys Portfolios by
Mark Indig & David Whitney
Ken Dreyfack, Silent Stages (Hudson River Towns)
Finest, Hudson NY, 2019, by Ken Dreyfack
Tanzy’s, Hudson NY, 2019 by Ken Dreyfack
Deena Feinberg, Morning Becomes Us
Walking the Hudson River Valley
7:53 October 20, 2019 by Deena Feinberg
723am | January 22 2021 by Deena Feinberg
Portfolio Showcase: River Towns, River Valleys
Selected through our Portfolio Showcase International Call for EntriesMark Indig, Ohi: Yo’
Ravenswood WV by Mark Indig
David Whitney, Merrimack River Landscapes
Merrimack River Landscape 2 by David Whitney
About the Artists and Their Work
Ken Dreyfack, Silent Stages
Outside In, Woodstock NY, 2016 by Ken Dreyfack
Ken Dreyfack searches the streets of towns and cities for dramatic settings. Akin to movie sets and theatrical stages – they become platforms built for narratives. In this selection of images, he present silent stages of Hudson Valley towns. It was years after he started this project that he realized how the choices he makes in his photographs reflect the particularities of his life and sensibility.That’s why he shoots at night, makes the lighting dramatic, prints in black and white and why some elements may be so dark or blurry, they resist resolution. His images give voice to his memories of times, places, experiences and feelings he hardly knew remain within him.
Bio: Ken Dreyfack’s life has been divided between two countries, languages and cultures. He is a Hudson Valley resident, New Yorker by birth and a Frenchman by naturalization. As a journalist and commercial writer, Ken has worked in the broadcast and print media in New York, Paris and Chicago. Ken’s photographs have been exhibited in a solo show at the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum (WAAM). Group shows include: the Site:Brooklyn and Foley Gallery in NYC; the Center for Fine Art Photography, Ft. Collins CO; Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW) ;Griffin Museum, Boston; Greg Moon Gallery, Taos NM, and Sohn Gallery in Lenox, MA. Special recognition includes awards from The Photo Review, San Francisco Bay International Photography Competition and Texas Photographic Society. Ken serves as co-moderator of the ongoing Photographers’ Salon at CPW.
Silent Stages, the first monograph of his work, was published by Daylight Books in 2020. Introduction by David A. Ross, former Director, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. 10.5×9.5″, 107 pages, 54 photographs, $45.
On sale at Davis Orton Gallery.Deena Feinberg, Morning Becomes Us
716am May7 2018 by Deena Feinberg
Deena Feinberg photographs landscapes in the Hudson River Valley that she walks repeatedly in all seasons. She has become intimate with these landscapes—emotionally, psychologically and physically. In her early morning visits, she is particularly drawn to nuances of light including the changing colors and shapes that appear at this time. Shifting her perspective in places she is so familiar with reinforces her appreciation of and connection to this land. As an element of her daily meditation practice, making these images provides a quietness and calm that counterbalances the stories in her mind.
Bio: Deena Feinberg of Rhinebeck, NY approaches photography as a medium for her imagination that can stir emotion through meditations of the ordinary. She has exhibited her work nationally, including group exhibitions at Davis Orton Gallery (Hudson, NY), PhotoPlace Gallery (Middlebury, VT), The Center for Photography at Woodstock (Woodstock, NY), A Smith Gallery (Johnson City, TX), Wired Gallery (High Falls, NY) Texas Photographic Society Coppell, (TX). Publications include The Wall Street Journal, Hamptons Magazine, Lenscratch, Edible Hudson Valley and Robb Report.
Deena has been a working photographer for the last 25 years in interior design, portraiture, editorial and fine art. She received her BA in Psychology with a minor in Photography from Southampton College, Long Island University. She is certified as a Therapeutic Riding Instructor and Equine Specialist in Mental Health and Learning and currently teaches children and adults with disabilities in Esopus, NY.
Portfolio Showcase: River Towns, River Valleys
Selected through our Portfolio Showcase International Call for EntriesMark Indig, Ohi:Yo’
Wellsburg WV by Mark Indig
Mark Indig’s project focuses on the current state of civilization along the Ohio River within a half mile of its banks. All of his images in this Ohi:Yo’ were captured inside those limits. He traveled more than 3200 miles by car, foot and boat to explore every town, access point and all 55 bridges to see the river from as many angles as possible. The 981-mile Ohio River flows through or along the border of six states and knits together the cultures of the East, Appalachia, the South and the Midwest. It can be argued that the Ohio has been equally if not more important than the Mississippi River in the history, development, economy and politics of America.
Bio: Mark Indig has spent 40 years in the motion picture industry most recently as a Studio Executive, Producer and Unit Production Manager for companies such as Disney, Miramax, Universal and Dreamworks. He has worked on films such as Body Heat, The Big Chill, Titanic, The Village, The Guardian, Tropic Thunder and the ridiculously expensive and disappointing Lone Ranger. But it was his 15 years as a Location Manager that gave him a love of photography and a unique perspective on the landscape.
His work has been exhibited at the Annenberg Space for Photography, Leica Gallery, Duncan Miller Gallery, Griffin Museum, Davis Orton Gallery. It has been featured in Shadow & Light Magazine, f-stop Magazine, Compass Magazine, Locations Int’l Magazine.
Ohi:Yo’ the book, photographs and text by Mark Indig may be purchased here
David Whitney, Merrimack River Landscapes
Merrimack River Landscape 3 by David Whitney
David Whitney has lived in the Merrimack River Valley for over forty years and feels a strong connection to its story. The river spans 120 miles from Franklin NH to the sea at Newburyport MA. For more than 400 years it has shaped the lives of those from other continents who settled near its banks, as it had for Native Americans millennia before that. Then came centuries of immigration and unparalleled industrialization built around the river, its falls, canals and mills. Then came the decline as the river towns were abandoned by an economy that no longer needs them. Shaped by the rise and fall of mills and the industries they once supported, many towns along the Merrimack struggle with the currents to transform themselves.
Bio: David Whitney is a Boston-based image artist with an interest in candid public and documentary photography. He has studied at the New England School of Photography in Boston and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. His work has been exhibited at various museums and galleries, including the Danforth Museum, Lens Culture, the Griffin Museum of Photography, the Garner Center at the New England School of Photography, the Bromfield Gallery and the Davis-Orton Gallery. His work is also held in private collections.
Life in the Pandemic Group Show online
May 29 to June 20, 2021
Amy Shapiro
Anita Harris
Carole Glauber
Charles Birnbaum
Claire Sersun
Claude Peschel Dutombe
David Quinn
Debbie Miracolo
Diane Fenster
Joan Lobis Brown
Lodiza LePore
Marita Gootee
Mollie Hewitt
Wayne Palmer
Yunzhi ZhangIn thisonline exhibit, each selected artist has been asked to provide a brief statement about their work and life in the pandemic.
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Carole Glauber
My portraits of my husband, Harry, and my self-portrait were made during the time of Covid lockdowns and restrictions. Because we were confined to our apartment for long periods of time, I turned the camera toward ourselves, whether reading or contemplating the changes in our lives where isolation had become the norm. Even when we could venture out, we always wore our masks. caroleglauber.com
Self-Portrait at the Mediterranean Sea by Carole Glauber
Harry Reading, Orchid by Carole Glauber
Harry at the Window by Carole Glauber
Joan Lobis Brown
Pause: During the pandemic, time trapped me in a mysterious universe of unknown marked by changes in the seasons, weather, light, and coupled by the emotions that enveloped me. I experienced isolation, despair, hope, befuddlement, loneliness, anxiety and intense grief.
While each photograph is a metaphor for this ordeal, the process of examining the dual nature of all of these project images is an exploration of our collective private journeys of the human experience. joanlobisbrown.com
Pause #4 by Loan Lobis Brown
Pause #1 by Joan Lobis Brown
Pause #5 by Joan Lobis Brown
Marita Gootee
This past year has been a mental maze as the feeling of being seen from beyond and through openings that all seemed to be beyond my reach. It felt like I could reach out to touch the other side, but the touch is what has to be denied. When the world reopens, I wonder if we will embrace each other or keep a distance out of self-preservation. The maze does not end only turns, again.
Window by Marita Gootee
6 Feetfrom Grandma by Marita Gootee
Chloe by Marita Gootee
Anita Harris
Photography allowed me to capture moments of beauty, joy, light and humor throughout the dark days of the pandemic: colors of the sunset reflected in a storm door; birthday gifts from friends adorning Spot, my stuffed Labrador; my late mother’s Pilgrim candles joining our family Thanksgiving zoom call. By sharing moments like these, I hope to provide inspiration, creative energy and, perhaps, stepping stones—for our journey toward a happier, more harmonious future. anitamharris.com/
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Inside Out by Anita Harris
Thanksgiving by Anita Harris
Birthday Gifts by Anita Harris
Yunzhi Zhang
The cycle of four seasons is deeply reflective of the physical and emotional changes in my experience. During the pandemic, I found myself eagerly looking for a touch of nature. I wanted to create images using a language of abstract color to portray each season and the emotions I associate with it. The whole creative process is very intuitive, and maybe that’s why all the images have this wizard, distorted, and enchanting character. cassiezyz.com
Spring 2 by Yunzhi Zhang
Spring 1 by Yunzhi Zhang
Summer by Yunzhi Zhang
Charles Birnbaum
My photography points to the possibility of going beyond objective reality and revolves around a puzzle to disassemble. The images take on the character of apparitions leading to my hope to find traces of an ephemeral or transient presence.
Untitled (color) by Charles Birnbaum
Altarpiece and Patron by Charles Birnbaum
Two Apple Cores by Charles Birnbaum
Wayne Palmer
How could I justify street photography when ambulance sirens blared day and night a block away? The virus was very close to home, and I worried for family and friends. “Pandemic Birthday” recognizes the need to continue life in the face of the pandemic, while the ceiling fan of “Lockdown Summer 2020” acknowledges the long-term weariness of daily survival. With these two images I was able to connect my craft with my fears. waynepalmerphotography.com
Lockdown Summer 2020 NYC by Wayne Palmer
Pandemic Birthday 3/22/20 by Wayne Palmer
Amy Shapiro
The story of my evolving hair is a metaphor for the Covid-19 pandemic. Amidst the non-stop sirens and palpable fear I stopped caring about hair dye. The encroaching gray is a measurement of the passage of time as one might mark the height of their children with a notch on a doorframe. I am a photographer with a performance background and recording my ever-changing hair gave me a way to reach out to others. amyshapiro.com
Wet Gray Hair by Amy Shapiro
Pandemic Year One by Amy Shapiro
Luna by Amy Shapiro
Claire Sersun
End of an era, beginning of a new one. This image selection is from my self-portrait series entitled HOME in which I say goodbye to my college years and the city that shaped me amidst the Covid-19 Pandemic. Through my iPhone, I recorded my ephemeral play and communion with my old apartment and final college moments. clairesersun.com
Home 12 by Claire Sersun
Home 1 by Claire Sersun
Home 8 by Claire Sersun
Diane Fenster
A Long History of Dark Sleep – self-portraits photographed during the pandemic. In this time of COVID-19, I sleep alone but fear is my lover. We embrace fretfully and stare at the ceiling. The camera accompanies me; a flashlight is my light source. This is my chance to record anxiety, the noir that surrounds me, and come face to face with my potential demise. Or perhaps I’ll find truth and maybe even beauty in the dead of night. lensculture.com/diane-fenster
COVID 19.06 by Diane Fenster
COVID 19.23 by Diane Fenster
COVID 19.25 by Diane Fenster
Mollie Hewitt
Isolated at home during the pandemic I began documenting the mundane moments of my every day. Confined and alone, I still felt the need to create. I started exploring what light I could find in the shadows. I purposely chose to shoot in black and white to emphasize any available light in the darkness, a metaphor of sorts for my personal experience, finding any bit of hope in the darkness of the pandemic.
Isolation No.2 by Mollie Hewitt
Isolation No. 4 by Mollie Hewitt
Isolation No. 2 by Mollie Hewitt
David Quinn
Cabin Fever describes the isolation, boredom, and darkness brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic. Needing a creative outlet, I turned to capturing the ephemeral shadows appearing on the walls of my home. Creating photographs during the adversity of isolation was an escape and a way of transforming these oppressive moments. Ultimately, the fleeting magic and mystery of the shadows provided a surprising solace that even in tough times a person can experience solemn, yet uplifting beauty. dquinnphotography.com
Cabin Fever 9 by David Quinn
Cabin Fever 10 by David Quinn
Cabin Fever 11 by David Quinn
Claude Peschel Dutombe
‘Dreams of a Distant Place’ is an attempt to reconstruct the visuals of my childhood daydreams when my mind started wandering, driven by a politically suppressed Wanderlust while growing up behind the iron curtain of the cold war in East Berlin.
For the past 15 months all those feelings of longing for escape were brought back to me while being locked up again due to the pandemic. dutombe.com
Dreams of a Distant Place 92 by Claude Peschel Dutombe
Dreams of a Distant Place 126 by Claude Peschel Dutombe
Dreams of a Distant Place 103 by Claude Peschel Dutombe
Lodiza LePore
Fear and isolation have infected far more people than the virus. “Safe” and “social” are being redefined every day. And thoughts….well, nostalgia for “before” and fear of “soon” make for a grim “now.”
The Distance Between Us by Lodiza LePore
A Perpendicular Expression by Lodiza LePore
Debbie Miracolo
Created during the surreal early months of the pandemic, Imagined Moments from the Porch is, on the surface, a series of photo composites in which neighbors in front of my house have been rearranged in invented juxtapositions. Within the fictional compositions, however, are intertwined layers of meaning in which I consider themes of confinement, relationships, separation, and aspects of time, all of which were glaringly spotlighted by an out-of-control virus. debbiemiracolo.com
Undistanced by Debbie Miracolo
I Used to Float by Debbie Miracolo
On the Lookout by Debbie Miracola
7th Annual Group Show ONLINE
photography, photo-based works, videoJuror: Paula Tognarelli
Executive Director & Curator: Griffin Museum of PhotographyONLINE CATALOG
includes info on all artworks and artistsONLINE Show Dates: April 17 to May 23, 2021
7th Annual Group Show Preview
•Debra Achen •Julia Arstorp •Deyva Arthur •Gary Beeber •Bruce Berkow •Joan Lobis Brown •Jenny Carey •Syl Arena •John A Benigno •Linda Cassidy •Sally Chapman •Patricia Houghton Clarke •Ellen Feldman •Diane Fenster •Beth Galton •Steven Parisi Gentile •Karen Ghostlaw •Danielle L Goldstein •Katie Golobic •Rohina Hoffman •Susan Higgins •David Kulik •Randy Matusow •Olga Merrill •C E Morse •Xuan-Hui Ng •Catherine Panebianco •Bruce Panock •Thomas Pickarski •Michalis Poulas •Michael Prais •Susan Richman •Russ Rowland •Jacque Rupp •Meryl Salzinger •Paul David Shea •Vicky Stromee •Edgar Takoyaki •Larry Torno •Benjamin Tankersley •John Tunney •Jim Turner •Karey Walter •Molly Wood •Thomas Yackley
The following presentation of images has been arranged / sequenced by Juror, Paula Tognarelli. It simulates an imaginary walk around our physical gallery space (enjoy your stroll)
Conveyance by Debra Achen
Landscape #42 by Tomas Pickarski
Perimeter by Michael Poulas
Maru by Syl Arena
Retro 2 by Edgar Takoyaki
Gym Class by Benjamin Tankersley
Disjointed Devotion by Catherine Panebianco
Mad Hatter by Diane Fenster
Magic is Coming by Olga Merrill
Meet Me Here by Jenny Carey
Memory Motel by Gary Beeber
Untitled, Savannah GA by David Kulik
Apple Tree by Julia Arstorp
Maple Leaves by Jim Turner
Untitled by Joan Lobis Brown
Yard 10 by John A Benigno
Floating Orange Poppy by Meryl Salzinger
Poppy 942 by Molly Wood
Self Portrait With Gumby by Bruce Berkow
Preacher Baptising by Deyva Arthur
I See Myself Reflected by Beth Galton
End of February by Karen Ghostlaw
Pegasus by Larry Torno
Up the Hill by Katie Golobic
Peeping by Ellen Feldman
The Feeling of Alone by Bruce Panock
Finntown 73 by C E Morse
Agnes 1928 by Jacque Rupp
Always Buy Flowers by Rohina Hoffman
Juanita, Mexico-USA by Patricia Houghton Clarke
The Yard, Early Spring by Susan Higgins
Out of Context, Schultz Bakery Doorway and Wall by Michael Prais
Stuck in the Brambles by Susan Richman
Magnolia Bud by Randy Matusow
White Fallow Buck by Karey Walter
Singing in the Rain by Thomas Yackley
Victory Marsh by Sally Chapman
Wave Action by John Tunney
Submerged by Paul David Shea
What’s Unseen by Vicky Stromee
Snow by Danielle L Goldstein
Storm City by Russ Rowland
Metamorphosis by Xuan-Hui Ng
Videos
Video – Blue Arising by Linda Cassidy (opens in new tab)
Video – Cause and Effect by Steven Parisi Gentile (opens in new tab)
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