Howard Saunders whose mixed media collage series “Axeman Who Will Be 70 in the Year 2010” was exhibited at the Davis Orton Gallery in April, will be a featured speaker at the Spencertown Academy Festival of Books on Labor Day, September 5 at 12:30 pm. He will be intereviewed by Wesley Brown.  Ten of his 18″ x 24″ pieces will be exhibited in the main gallery throughout the festival from September 3-5. Howard’s book by the same title will for sale during the Festival and is for sale at the Davis Orton Gallery online.

We have just announced  PHOTOBOOK!!2011, a call for work for our second annual photobook exhibition and sale.  Twenty photobooks will be selected for this show with the four “best-of-show” photographers exhibiting up to four prints each in the gallery.  Along with the exhibition and gallery sale, we create an online catalog of the twenty books that the Davis Orton Gallery hosts for the upcoming year.  Photographers can submit up to three separate titles for consideration.  Deadline, October 15.

Last year’s exhibition/sale proved to be a very popular destination in Hudson.  Mark and I observed that visitors spent considerable time going from book to book, reading cover to cover.  The exhibit also helped introduce the public to self-published books by photographers as an art form in its own right. (pictured above: collage – exhibited in 2010, photographs by Cara Barer (left & center and Lisa Dahl, right. Click here for catalog of 2010 exhibit)

  The current exhibition at the Davis Orton Gallery, Theaters & the Theatrical was the featured review in Hudson’s Register Star Scene arts magazine.  The photographs of Stefanie Klavens and Nandita Raman won praises from critic John Paul Keeler.

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Sunday New York Times Metropolitan section featured “Roxy”, a photograph by Stefanie Klavens in its listing of the exhibition.

Finally, two weeks ago, a photograph by Allison Leach whose portfolio, “Misfit Explorers” is also featured in this exhibition, appeared on the July cover of Chronogram Magazine.

Come to our closing reception to meet these artists: Saturday, July 30 5-8pm.

“Beauty is only skin deep. But ah! me; freckles go to the bone.” Fritz Liedtke quotes Mark Twain to introduce us to his new work, Astra Velum, a series of amazing photogravures. Visit Liedtke’s website for a full explanation of both the subject and the process of production, photogravure.  Gallery 291, 291 Geary St. will present this work July 21 to September 1, 2011.  (If you’re in San Francisco, Geary Street, both 49 and 291 have a terrific photography galleries to explore.)

Fritz’s book “Skeleton in the Closet” was featured in PHOTOBOOK!!2010 at the Davis Orton Gallery.

Northampton artist Laura Radwell, who exhibited her photo-based abstracts at the Davis Orton Gallery last month, sent us one image in a new series, prompted by her visit to Warren Street, “Hudson Walls.”

We are pleased to announce that Karen, co-director of Davis Orton Gallery, will be a juror for Critical Mass 2011.  Jurying Critical Mass is a terrific opportunity to see and support great photography and photographers.  In Critical Mass, hundreds of photographers submit their work which is evaluated by Pre-Screeners.  From that group, 200 are selected to go on to “a jury of approximately 200 of the world’s best curators, editors, and other professionals” who have agreed to view and vote on the Finalists’ work. Using these votes, at least one photographer is chosen to receive a book award and once the monograph is published, everyone who enters and juries will receive a copy of the book(s)

Shelby Lee Adams, who will be exhibiting at the Davis Orton Gallery September 9 to October 9, has selected a small group of photographs for our gallery flat files that are now available to the public.  Included in the group are “The Newsome Children, 1997″ above and two prints that are each the only ones remaining from 16″ x 20” editions. Adams has been working for over thirty years photographing the hollow dwellers of eastern Kentucky. Born in Hazard, Kentucky, Adams’ connection to the subjects in his photographs is evident in the way he has been welcomed into their homes and lives.  A recent Geggenheim Fellowship recipient, Shelby’s fourth book, “Salt & Truth” published by Candela Books, is due out in September.