For Immediate Release: March 7, 2010
Contact: Karen Davis karen@DavisOrtonGallery.com (518) 697- 0266
Family Albums
Photographs by Judith Black and Moira Barrett
Davis Orton Gallery 114 Warren Street, Hudson NY 12534
Exhibition Dates: April 1 to May 2, 2010
Gallery hours: Thursday to Sunday, noon to 6 p.m.
Reception: Saturday, April 10, 6 to 8 p.m.
Gallery 1 Judith Black, “In My Own Backyard”
Judith Black has concentrated for most of her forty years as a photographer on a subject close to home – her family. “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.” Black’s family portraits, elegant prints in black and white, create an unconventional family album, one marked by the moments in between – for a mother, wife, grandmother and daughter.
Judith Black is a professor of Photography at Wellesley College. Black holds an M.S. in Visual Studies from M.I.T. Early on, a Guggenheim Fellowship enabled her to pursue her work documenting her family. Her photographs have appeared in national and international exhibitions and publications and in museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Polaroid International Collection.
Gallery 2 Moira Barrett, “Thicker Than Water”
Moira Barrett’s intimate images of family and the quotidian of daily life add an important voice to the canon of family portraiture. “We come into and leave this world alone; falling prey to a feeling of separation that is relieved by finding our own point of kinship with others.” Barrett explores this push and pull in her family dynamic. “As a married lesbian couple with an adopted Chinese daughter, we each try to make connections that will comfort us and define who we are while we question and test our identities and relationships.”
Photographer Moira Barrett is completing study for her MFA in Visual Arts at Lesley University/Art Institute of Boston (AIB.) A graduate of Buffalo State University with a BA in Art, over the years, while exhibiting her images, she has worked in a variety of positions in the graphic arts industry including silkscreen artist, color lab manager, and photo retoucher.
The Davis Orton Gallery on Hudson’s historic Warren Street exhibits contemporary photography, mixed media and a growing number of artist-published photobooks. The goal of the gallery is to present mid-career artists and emerging artists whose work deserves a broader audience.
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For Immediate Release: October 6, 2009
Contact: Karen Davis karen@DavisOrtonGallery.com (518) 697- 0266
Collage & Constructions:
Photographs by Nadine Boughton, Emily Corbató, Carol Krauss
Davis Orton Gallery
114 Warren Street, Hudson NY 12534
Exhibition Dates: Friday, October 23 to Sunday, January 3.
Gallery hours: Friday to Sunday, noon to 5:30 p.m.
Reception: Saturday, November 7 from 5:30 to 7:30 pm
Gallery 1 Collage:
“The Pleasures of Modern Living,” by Nadine Boughton
Nadine Boughton mines her collection of vintage advertisements and periodicals for imagery of things “modern” – leisure time, domestic life and mid-century woman as the happy housekeeper aided by new appliances and easy-to-prepare foods. “As an artist, I am drawn back to my beginnings, to the imagery and cultural milieu of the post-war period through the early 1960s.”
She uses this material to create her wry, subversive photo collages. “My work explores the portrayal of women and domestic culture; the illusion of security; food as an object of desire and comfort; and the power and limits of materiality.”
Nadine Boughton, a native of Rochester, NY, studied photography with Gary Winograd and at the Visual Studies Workshop/Rochester and Lesley and Radcliffe Seminars. “The Pleasures of Modern Living” was recently exhibited at the Griffin Museum of Photography. Her work has also appeared at the Danforth Museum of Photography and Boston area galleries including: Panopticon, Nave and Bromfield.
Gallery 2 Constructions:
“The Stata Center, MIT” by Emily Corbató and “Barn,” by Carol Krauss.
Emily Corbato and Carol Krauss’s elegant black and white photographs of buildings in steel and wood, modern and traditional are unified by skeletal structures, form and light. Side-by-side, Frank Gehry’s MIT Stata Center for the “intelligence sciences” and the anonymously built barn in Vermont can be viewed with a fresh perspective.
Emily Corbató has exhibited throughout New England and the US. She has been an Artist/Scholar at Women’s Studies Research Center, Brandeis University since 2001. Her work is in private and public collections including MIT, Museum of Computer History (CA) and the Fitchburg Art Museums. She studied photography at Massachusetts College of Art and New England School of Photography. An exhibition of her landscapes from Plum Island, MA, “Absolution of the Wind”, can be seen at Boston University: Rubin-Frankel Gallery, through December 21, 2009.
Carol Krauss studied fine art black and white photography at the New England School of Photography and with Lloyd Wolf, John Sexton, Jonathan Singer, Mac Holbert, and Kim Weston. She has exhibited throughout New England. Krauss is currently President of the Board of Emerson Umbrella Center for the Arts where she maintains a studio. In addition to her freelance and publication work, she teaches black and white photography in Concord MA.
The new Davis Orton Gallery on Hudson’s historic Warren Street exhibits contemporary photography, mixed media and a growing number of artist-published photobooks. The goal of the gallery is to present mid-career artists and emerging artists whose work deserves a broader audience.
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For Immediate Release: August 20
Contact: Karen Davis karen@DavisOrtonGallery.com (518) 697- 0266
Corn Dogs, Blue Ribbons and the American Pastoral
Photographs by Meg Birnbaum
Davis Orton Gallery
114 Warren Street, Hudson NY 12534
Exhibition Dates: Friday, September 11 to Sunday, October 18.
Gallery hours: Friday – Sunday, noon – 5:30 p.m.
Reception: Saturday, September 12 from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
The Davis Orton Gallery presents: “Corn Dogs, Blue Ribbons and the American Pastoral” by photographer Meg Birnbaum – selected images from her series of black and white photographs of county fairs throughout New England made using a plastic toy camera. These evocative images with their antique quality and timeless subjects present a wistful look back while revealing clues that remind us of their contemporary origins.
“Fairs are a complicated balance of startling innocence and huckster sleaze,” Birnbaum says. “All the disparate elements of a county fair exist in harmony against a backdrop of screams and bells and whistles, mixed with the pungent essence of livestock and the aroma of fried food.”
Meg Birnbaum is an award-winning fine art photographer and graphic designer based in Massachusetts. She has work in the permanent collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the corporate program of the DeCordova Museum and the art collection of Meditech Corporation. ‘Corn Dogs and Blue Ribbons …’ has recently been exhibited at the Griffin Museum of Photography.
The new Davis Orton Gallery on Hudson’s historic Warren Street exhibits contemporary photography, mixed media and a growing number of artist-published photo books. The goal of the gallery is to present mid-career artists and emerging artists whose work deserves a broader audience.
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For Immediate Release: August 20, 2009
Contact: Karen Davis karen@DavisOrtonGallery.com (518) 697-0266
Davis Orton Gallery
New Gallery on Warren Street, Hudson
The Davis Orton Gallery, established in August 2009, is located on historic Warren Street in Hudson, NY – a new gallery on an architecturally rich street famous for its antique shops, galleries and restaurants.
The grand opening celebration and a reception for the inaugural show with exhibiting artist, Meg Birnbaum, will be held at the gallery, 114 Warren Street, Hudson, on Saturday, September 12 from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Exhibition Dates: Friday, September 11 to Sunday, October 18.
Gallery hours: Friday to Sunday, noon to 5:30 p.m.
The Davis Orton Gallery exhibits contemporary photography, mixed media and a growing number of artist-published photobooks. The goal of the gallery is to present mid-career artists and emerging artists whose work deserves a broader audience.
Recent transplants from Cambridge MA, Karen Davis and Mark Orton’s lives have revolved around photography and art for almost two decades. Karen is a photographer and teacher. Her recent series, “The McCann Family” has been exhibited at the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA. She teaches courses and workshops related to photography and word and image art at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA.
Mark, a business coach and consultant, has created multi-media presentations and websites for artists, helping to convert and expand their vision to an electronic platform. He and Karen present workshops for artists who wish to design and maintain their own websites.
Married for 32 years, the couple has collaborated on limited edition, self-referential photobooks including “Pretension, All About Us,” that takes a humorous look at the contemporary art world.
Davis Orton Gallery 114 Warren Street Hudson, NY 12534 (518) 697-0266