Update: John Chervinsky Every year Light Work invites twelve to fifteen artists to Syracuse to devote one month to creative projects. Over 360 artists have participated in their Artist-in-Residence Program, and many of them have gone on to achieve international acclaim.

The 2012 line-up of Artists-in-Residence includes John Chervinsky  who exhibited photographs from his series “An Experiment in Perspective” at the Davis Orton Gallery in 2010. John will work on a photobook during his residency.

Work by each Artist-in-Residence is published in a special edition of Contact Sheet: The Light Work Annual along with an essay commissioned by Light Work. Work by former Artists-in-Residence is also part of the Light Work Collection.

Update: Nadine Boughton
Nadine Boughton will deliver the IRIS Lecture at the The Annenberg Space for Photography, in Los Angeles, CA, April 19, 2012  – her topic: Adventures in Digital Collage. Nadine was recently selected a “TOP 50 Finalist” in Photolucida’s Critical Mass.   Nadine’s work will be featured in a Photolucida Touring Exhibition “Contents: Love, Anxiety, Happiness and Everything Else, Critical Mass 2011” Photo Center Northwest (PCNW), Seattle, WA to – March 23; Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR, April 6 – April 29; RayKo Photo Center, San Francisco, CA, May 10 – June 15.

Boughton exhibited in the Davis Orton Gallery in 2009 and returns this summer with her portfolio, True Adventures in Better Homes.

Update: Mary Parisi:
Mary Parisi is having a one person show of work from her series “FOOD” at the University of the Arts Gallery 1401 in Philadelphia. The show is up through March 2 (see below for more info).

This work has been reviewed twice by the newspapers in Philadelphia, most recently in a terrific piece by John Vettese in City Paper, the independent weekly.  “If abstract art is intended to present viewers with puzzles, Parisi does this with a taste of subversion. She turns our kitchens into alien landscapes, definitely not places you’d care to eat or prepare food.”

Mary’s photobook, “Food” was featured in the Davis Orton Gallery 2nd Annual Photobook Exhibit, 2011.  The 2011 Photobook Catalog will be available on the Davis Orton website for the next year.  Here one may order a book from the exhibit directly from the artist.

Update: Rebecca Doughty
The animal characters that inhabit Doughty’s paintings and drawings represent a kind of theatre, where stories and complex human predicaments are told through subtle gestures.  Several wonderful Doughty little paintings are included in the current exhibition through March 31, “The Calender’s Tales” at 808 Gallery at Boston University.  The exhibition presents work of contemporary artists who invent mythological beings, fantastic creatures, allegorical figures, fictional characters and personal avatars to both humble and heroic proportions in order to critically engage and challenge the concepts of otherness.

Rebecca exhibited at the Davis Orton Gallery in 2010.

Update: Mark Haven
Mark Haven recently returned from Cuba where he offered a workshop, “The Idiosyncratic Photographer”, at (ISA) Universidad de las Artes in Havana.  Mark will be exhibiting work from his series, “The Commute” at the Davis Orton Gallery, Spring 2012.

Update: Gordon Stettinius
Gordon Stettinius is a very busy guy.  In the past few months, besides his own fine art photography, as publisher of Candela Books he has produced his second book, the nationally acclaimed “Salt and Truth” by Shelby Lee Adams and opened the Candela Books Gallery in the arts district of Richmond, Virginia.  And he recently announced Candela Unbound First Annual Invitational Exhibition. Gordon’s ongoing series “The Mangini Studio Series”, a collaboration with Terry Brown, was exhibited in a portfolio showcase at Davis Orton Gallery last spring.

Update: Sylvia Plachy
“Panorama of New York” by Sylvia Plachy and Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao — hers – in the moment and his – large format photographs taken over time then pieced together – are part of the inaugural exhibition at the recently re-opened South Seaport Museum. More slides and info in the New Yorker blog, Photo Booth.  Sylvia exhibited at the Davis Orton Gallery in 2010.

Susan de Witt is having a solo show of 38 pieces at the Northwest Center for Photography’s iWitness Gallery, Portland OR March 2-April 28. Reception, Friday, March 2nd from 6-9 and an artist talk on Friday, April 6 from 6-7 pm.  Susan uses the challenging lith darkroom process to overlay images.  She will be showing prints from this work as archival inkjet prints on Hahnemuhle FineArt paper. Susan exhibited her work in the Davis Orton Gallery Portfolio Showcase in 2011.

There was quite a crowd and lots of lively discussion during the PHOTOBOOK!!2011 reception last Saturday evening with several of the photobook artists in attendance. Top row, left, some of the 20 self-published photobooks from our international competion with Bethany Fancher’s accordion book, Cleavage, unfurled; right: David Morris Cunningham (Remembrance of Things Present), Sara Macel (May the Road Rise Up to Meet You) and friend Steve; middle:  in center of crowd- Jonathan Lipkin (Livingston County); bottom: John Michael Anzalone (Khamra Obscura – 24 hours in Istanbul), friend Vicki, Mikki Iwamura (Harrison Inside) and Nikki Johnson (Natural History). Other photobook artists at the reception include: Ellen Feldman (The Dancer as the Invisible Girl), Michael Hunold (Looking Up), and Deena Feinberg (Light Source). The exhibition and book sale continues through Sunday, December 18. The PHOTOBOOK!!2011 Catalog, with links to purchase books directly from the artist, will remain on the Davis Orton Gallery website for one year.

Photojournalist Betty Press  was interviewed by Audie Cornish on NPR on Sunday about her self-published book about Africa, I Am Because We Are: African Wisdom In Image and Proverb.  Published in partnership with Books For Africa, Betty’s book is currently in exhibition at PHOTOBOOK!!2011 at the Davis Orton Gallery. Betty reports, “Since the NPR interview, the orders are pouring in.”  We have three more copies available in the gallery.

If you can’t make it to the gallery, see the PHOTOBOOK!!2011 Catalog.  You will be able to order directly from Betty from a provided link.

While  you are in the gallery or visiting our website, be sure to see the twenty other photobooks that were selected for exhibition and sale through our international competition.

Richard, Carlos, and Karen will be talking all things photography on Chad Weckler’s program, Art of the Hudson Valley on WGXC Community Radio Thursday, December 1 from 2-3 pm.  After the broadcast, the program will be available for download (nation-wide via the WGXC website).  The four of us are NYFA MARK photographers.  In additon, we’ve each been involved in other photography related pursuits including our efforts at the Davis Orton Gallery and teaching, Carlos’s curatoring projects, Chad’s work as a NYFA consultant, and Richard’s graphics studio.

Congratulations to Shelby Lee Adams who exhibited prints from his new book, “Salt and Truth” (Candela Books, 2011), at the Davis Orton Gallery this fall. Today’s Sunday Times includes a  full page “exposures” piece in the Sunday Review section.  Accompanying the article online is an extensive slide show of work from his book.

More congratulations to Shelby.  PDN Magazine, in its December 2011 issue, has selected “Salt and Truth” as one of the ten notable photo books of 2011.

For those of you in New York City next Friday night, November 18, there will be a (gala, we believe)book signing event at the ICP store from 6-7:30 pm.  Be sure to drop by and tell Shelby we sent you!  And say hello to Gordon Stentenius, Candela Books founder and, eyecaramba!!, an artist in his own right.

A wonderful night on Warren Street and at Davis Orton Gallery.  It was great to see so many people out and about.  This terrific exhibition, “Street Photography / Surveillance” with Bojune Kwon and Tomoko Daido and portfolios by Gary Duehr and Susan A. Barnett will be here through Sunday, November 13.  Don’t miss it. Thanks to Bojune Kwon for top photograph and Maria Politaros for the bottom montage.