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Past ExhibitionsAll images linked to this page are copyright protected by the photographer. Sugar and Spice Susan Anderson, Amy Stevens, Alex Prager The Photographic Center Northwest is proud to present Sugar and Spice, an exhibition of color photographs by Susan Anderson, Amy Stevens and Alex Prager. These three artists, hailing from Los Angeles and Philadelphia, contribute their own visual perspectives on our societyÍs obsessive desire to dress up, decorate and dramatize. The subtle oddities and imperfections within reveal an inherent and unexpected beauty all its own.
Susan Anderson's surreal documentary portrait series, High Glitz, is shot on location at several of our nation's child beauty pageants. Setting up her studio amidst the colorful spectacle, she captures the young girls at the height of their performance. Hours of preparation are spent on each child's appearance, her camera recording every detail. Children's pageants are a fascinating subculture, but more than anything they represent a strange microcosm of America itself. Our own values of beauty, success and glamour reflected in the dreams of thousands of young girls... Anderson is a Los Angeles-based fine art, commercial and editorial photographer specializing in portraiture, beauty, fashion and conceptual/narrative work. After earning her BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago, Anderson relocated to Los Angeles in 2001. Her editorial work has appeared in a variety of magazines including Los Angeles, Glamour and Playboy. Chronicle Books has commissioned her to illustrate their wildly successful series of humorous trade paperbacks, Porn for Women, and the sequel, Porn for New Moms. Her fine art photography is represented by Paul Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles.
Amy Stevens' Confections series started as a response to turning 30 with the idea that she would bake 30 cakes! She ordered a kit from Martha Stewart.com that included an instructional video. When she discovered her cakes were never going to look like the ones in the video she was free to make them as grotesque and amazing as possible-an act of rebellion. Stevens graduated with a BFA in Photography and a certificate in Women's Studies from Arizona State University in 1998. In 2005 she earned her MFA in Photography from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. In 2007 she completed a two-year career development fellowship with The Center for Emerging Visual Artists and was awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Independence Foundation. Her work has been included in numerous solo & group exhibitions in cities such as Albuquerque, Boston, Cleveland, Michigan, Montreal, Philadelphia & Portland.
In Polyester, Alex Prager's cinematic approach is reminiscent of the mid 20th century angst and naivety that Hitchcock, John Waters, and David Lynch portrayed. Stories unfold with each photograph that stimulate the senses. Playful yet bizarre scenes are a balancing act between fantasy and reality. Prager has caught her heroines in a gauzy instant, the moment just before we could have seen them stepping into some glamorous but debauched intrigue. A native to Los Angeles, Alex Prager's photography career began on the cusp of her teens. After holding down a slew of jobs in the private sector, from selling knives to washing cars, Prager, so inspired by the modern works of William Eggleston, decided to make the leap to full time photographer. At 22, Prager started shooting fashion editorials for high profile magazines such as Flaunt and V while simultaneously forging a path on the Los Angeles independent gallery circuit, hosting solo as well as group shows almost every other month. As her list of collectors grew, so did her list of clients: Geffen, Warner, I-D, Elle & Complex. Prager's fine art photography is represented by Robert Berman Gallery in Santa Monica.
Crossing the Water: A Path to the Afro-Cuban Spirit World Claire Garoutte & Anneke Wambaugh
The Photographic Center Northwest is pleased to present a unique and riveting photographic exhibition, entitled Crossing the Water: A Path to the Afro-Cuban Spirit World, by local photographers and authors Claire Garoutte and Anneke Wambaugh. The 50 images selected for this show and the thought-provoking text panels that accompany it have been edited from their upcoming book of the same title. This Duke University Press publication was released January 2008. Focusing on a single ritual expert and his religious environment, the exhibition offers an unusually intimate and dynamic view of the Cuban religious practices of Santería, Palo Monte, and Espiritismo. Compelling photographs, informed text panels, and succinct captions combine to illustrate the spiritual power and energy of ritual as enacted by Santiago Castañeda Vera, a highly respected priest living in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba. Santiago’s embrace of more than one religion and the practice of blending aspects of different traditions are by no means unusual in Cuba. Over the last century, there has been a great deal of symbiotic interplay between Santería and Palo Monte, on the one hand, and of these Afro-Cuban religious traditions with Roman Catholicism and Espiritismo, on the other. This cross-fertilization is particularly pronounced on the eastern end of the island. Santiago, although rooted in particular spiritual traditions, has forged his own path. Free to combine, transform, improvise, and innovate as he sees fit, Santiago practices his religion, as he is wont to say, en mi manera—"in my own way." The photographic essays in this exhibition focus on Santiago Castañeda Vera’s ritual artistry and on the sacred objects, thrones, and altars that mediate his ongoing dialogue with the spirit world. The text panels draw on interviews with this prolific priest, scholarly research, and the personal experience of the authors. Complementing the photographs, they anchor the viewer in Santiago’s world and contextualize his ideas within the larger spectrum of Afro-Cuban spirituality. Local artists, Claire Garoutte and Anneke Wambaugh, bring years of experience and research to this exhibition. Their evocative photographs not only draw the viewer into a world rarely witnessed by outsiders. They offer viewers an unprecedented opportunity to better understand the diversity of Afro-Cuban religious traditions. This deeply affecting visual document encourages its audience to look beyond stereotypical depictions of a religious culture and a nation that have so often been misrepresented and misunderstood. Claire Garoutte is Assistant Professor of Photography at Seattle University. Her work has appeared in exhibits in the United States and abroad. Garoutte began photographing Afro-Cuban religious practices in Cuba in 1994. She is the author and illustrator of Matter of Trust. Anneke Wambaugh is an award-winning photographer and an independent scholar of African and Afro-Caribbean ritual art who has worked extensively in Cuba and Haiti. She works as a Haitian Creole interpreter in Seattle. For more exhibition images & information see www.crossingthewater.com What's Not to Love? Rachel Herman, Molly Landreth, Jenny Riffle
Rachel Herman dipicts how love bends but doesn't necessarily break. In her series, The Imp of Love, Rachel Herman photographs couples, who were once lovers but are now renegotiating their relationship in a new context. Even though they aren't romantically intertwined anymore, they still spend time together, sometimes compulsively -- even though that time can be painful, fumblingly awkward or confusingly tender. Herman received her MFA from the University of Chicago, and is currently an instructor at Evanston Art Center. She was a teaching assistant to Laura Letinsky for two years and was an artist in residence at Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, CO in 2007. Her work has been exhibited in group and solo shows in Chicago and Kansas City and has been published in the Chicago Tribune.
In Embodiment: A Portrait of Queer Life in America, Molly Landreth's photographs serve as an archive and a journey through a rapidly changing community and the lives of people who bravely offer new visions of what it means to be queer. Even in a world where progressive attitudes are beginning to take hold, to be "out" and visible, is to become both empowered and vulnerable. Embodiment is about love and the process of growing into ones self and the complexity of relationships found between diverse groups of people. Molly Landreth received her B.A. in Studio Art from Scripps College in Claremont, California in 2001 where she cultivated her love for photography, digital & feminist art and art history. In 2005 she received a M.F.A. in Photography and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She is currently living and working in Seattle, WA and exhibiting nationally. This project is being funded in part by a grant from the Humble Arts Foundation.
In her series, The Space In Between, Jenny Riffle investigates the practice of empathy and the psychological spaces of people that surround her and are most dear to her. Drawing attention to small gestures she turns the mundane into the mythical, creating allegorical tableaus that relate the emotional state of her friends and family. Riffle was born in Washington State in 1979. She studied at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY and received her BA in photography in 2001. Her work has been exhibited in group and solo shows in WA, CA and NY. Recent awards include: Critical Mass Finalist 2007, PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris, Honorable Mention in 2007, and Photographer's Forum, Best of Photography 2006, Finalist.
January 19 – February 27, 2008 Snowbound & The Last Iceberg
Lisa M. Robinson For five winters, the young American photographer Lisa M. Robinson made photographs in the snow. Snowbound depicts landscapes in which everyday objects-alienated and sunken in snow – civilize the natural surroundings. Traces of human existence set accents in the white landscape, delimiting it and often popping up in an amusing or incongruous way. A lonely hammock, a trampoline or swimming pool are echoes of both the summer past and of personal memories. But Lisa M. Robinson is not interested in showing the obvious; instead, the photographer makes use of the many aggregate states of water – ice, snow, fog, water – as metaphors for life and transience. Lisa Robinson graduate cum laude from Columbia University, and received her MFA in Photography from the Savannah College of Art and Design. After moving to NY, she became printing assistant for George Tice. Awards include a Fulbright Grant, as well as “Curator’s Choice” at Houston Center of Photography Membership Exhibition and “Top 50 Photographers” chosen by Critical Mass. She has been an Artist-in-Residence at Light Work, and was recently selected as the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Fellow at the MacDowell Colony. Snowbound has been exhibited internationally in Argentina, Syria, Lithuania, Denmark, Uruguay, Chile and Bolivia. Her work is in such collections as the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego; the Ogden Museum of Southern Art; and Fidelity Investments. Lisa M. Robinson was recently nominated for a Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant.
Camille Seaman The Last Iceberg, a series by Camille Seaman chronicles a handful of the many thousands of icebergs that are currently headed to their end. Seaman approaches the images of icebergs as portraits of individuals, much like family photos of her ancestors. She seeks a moment in their life in which they convey their unique personality, some connection to our own experience and a glimpse of their soul which endures. These images were made in both the Arctic regions of Svalbard, Greenland, and Antarctica. Camille Seaman (Shinnecock Tribe b.1969) is an Award winning American photographer best known for her evocative Polar images. Capturing the essence of awe and beauty of indigenous cultures and environments, in a sophisticated documentary/fine art tradition is her trademark. Camille has traveled to over 30 countries creating timeless images. Seaman's work has been exhibited and published in magazines internationally. Recent awards include an Artist in Residence onboard M/V Orlova in Antarctica, 2007, Critical Mass Top Monograph Book Award, 2006, & National Geographic Award, 2006. Her education includes Master Workshops with Seve McCurry, Sebastiao Salgado, Paul Fusco, Eli Reed and Donovan Wylie, Antonin Kratochvil. She has a BFA from State University of New York at Purchase. PCNW MEMBERS’ JURIED EXHIBITION Juror: Marisa Sanchez, Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seattle Art Museum Exhibition Dates: November 30 - January 15 The Photographic Center Northwest’s Members’ Exhibition is juried by Marisa Sanchez, Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Seattle Art Museum. This selection of prints features a range of work including landscapes, aerials, portraits, narratives, conceptual still lifes, abstracts & objects worthy of interest in typological studies. Sanchez chose 1-4 images per artist. PCNW members are amongst the most unique emerging and established artists in the country working in analog, digital and alternative processes. Three cash prizes will be awarded by Marisa Sanchez at the opening reception on November 30th, 6-8pm. 1st Place Award Tealia Ellis-Ritter
2nd Place Alejandro Cartagena
3rd Place Pipi
Honorable Mention
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Marisa C. Sánchez is the Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Seattle Art Museum. Beginning in late April 2007, Sánchez joined SAM’s curatorial staff, working closely with Michael Darling, the Jon and Mary Shirley Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. Since February 2003, Marisa had been at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) as curatorial assistant in the photography department. In this position she curated a number of exhibits including Two Women Look West, a large-scale exhibition of 85 photographs dating from the 1930s – 1960s and The Target Collection of American Photography: A Century in Pictures. Sánchez has also written criticism for publications, and has served on the Board of Houston's Lawndale Art Center where she has worked with contemporary artists on exhibitions of their work and co-organized a symposium on alternative art spaces. A native of New Jersey, Marisa holds a Masters in Art History, Theory, and Criticism from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. FotoShop Holiday Sale! Support photographers and PCNW by giving the gift of art this holiday season. The Fotoshop Holiday Bin Sale includes moderately priced prints by students, faculty, staff, members and clients. Join us for the opening night, Friday, November 30th, for the best selection. Cheap Shot, Plastic Cameras: the low tech of high art 6 Artists from the U.S.: Michelle Bates, WA, Susan Burnstine, CA, Rosanna Salonia, AZ, Gordon Stettinius, VA, Jennifer Shaw, LA, Shannon Welles, WA The exhibition, Cheap Shot: the low tech of high art, refers to the making of stellar art with inexpensive toy cameras, roughly a $20 commitment. These cameras can reveal mysterious ways of interpreting the world around us, even with light leaks, irregular vignetted corners and soft focus at times. These artists shoot their surroundings through their various types of plastic camera lenses. The photographs range from simple humorous snap-shot like moments to contemplative wonders of the natural and traveled world. What else do these six artists have in common besides their plastic camera lenses? They are all well accomplished and have been sharing their work at the many portfolio review events throughout the country, such as Photolucida in Portland, Review Santa Fe, & Fotofest in Houston. The international portfolio review events are fantastic direct avenues for sharing work and networking with the larger photography community in the U.S, including artists, well known curators, museum directors and gallery owners! It was through these gatherings that this show of plastic camera imagery came together by PCNW’s Gallery Director. Each artists’ vision is unique and printing techniques vary with toners, beeswax and varnished finishes.
Michelle Bates Michelle Bates, well known in Seattle for being a Holga Camera Fanatic, has shown her work in solo exhibitions in the Pacific Northwest, Los Angeles and Israel ,and in group shows in New York, Texas, California, and Italy. Her work ranges from fun and quirky to subtle and organic photographing urban nature. She has photographed for weekly newspapers, album covers, performers, artists, and many others. Michelle has presented lectures and workshops on plastic and toy cameras around the US, including to the Society for Photographic Education, SF Camerawork, and the Creative Center for Photography. Her book, "Plastic Cameras: Toying with Creativity" was published in late 2006 by Focal Press. She teaches at the Photographic Center Northwest, the Julia Dean Workshops (LA) and at International Center of Photography in New York.
Susan Burnstine Los Angeles based photographer, Susan Burnstine, builds homemade medium format cameras and lenses out of plastic, vintage camera parts and random household objects. Effects are created entirely In-Camera. The result of this creative endeavor is apparent in her series, On Waking Dreams. It explores that fleeting moment between dreaming and waking--the blurred seconds in which imagination and reality collide. Susan earned B&W Magazine's Excellence Award for the 2006 Portfolio Contest, and she's been featured in Black and White Photography Magazine, Shots Magazine, Professional Photographer Magazine, Kamera & Bild Magazine, Camera Arts and has been nominated for the 2007 Aperture West Book Prize.
Rosanna Salonia In Rosanna Salonia’s universi series, nature, beauty and human folly are explored. She wanders the earth searching for magic which she sometimes is able to capture through her Holga lens and her serendipitous manipulations. She is interested in capturing the sublime qualities of an experience and bringing them to the viewer in the most sensual manner she is able to concoct. Her gelatin silver prints are manipulated with a variety of photographic and household materials - pure beeswax allows her to incapsulate, preserve and solidify the photographic objects she creates. Often these are presented in found wooden boxes, allowing the viewer to touch and smell as well as see and feel. Hailing from Milan, Italy, Rosanna receives a BFA in Fine Art Photography and a BA in Art History from the University of Arizona, Tucson, in 2000. Her works have been exhibited and published in the US, Argentina, Italy, France, Germany, the UK, and Japan. They can be found in the permanent collections of institutions such as the Museum of Fine Art in Houston, The University of Arizona Special Collections, the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts in Japan, and the International Center of Photography in Verona, Italy.
Jennifer Shaw In walking with her camera, Jennifer Shaw of New Orleans, finds the act of seeing a process of emotional intuition. Her images serve as evidence of her strange and wonderful findings.
Gordon Stettinius Gordon Stettinius has been using the Diana and Holga Cameras and other low tech and vintage box cameras for nearly twenty years. Gordon’s images are from a diaristic body of work entitled Gord Is Dead. These photos are a medley of a sort. In his life, there are children and loved ones and juice spills and helium voices. Just beneath the surface though, is sentimentality and concern and, of course, some unsightly weight gain and then probably incontinence. The images are evocative of response in and of themselves. As the images mingle through the modern miracle of editing, they create various undertones and arrive at all manner of daunting syllogisms. Gordon Stettinius lives and works in Richmond, Virginia where he teaches in the Art Department at Virginia Commonwealth University. His toy camera work has been featured commercially on bookjackets and CD covers and national magazines. This year Gordon has exhibited his work in solo shows in Virginia and New York and has been included in the Noörderlicht Festival in the Netherlands as well in various group shows.
Shannon Welles Seattle photographer Shannon Welles strives to make palpable the whispers of secrets and history held in a place. Her work primarily stems from stillness, and she is drawn to old worlds, abandoned places, spiritual haunts and mystical spaces. The camera becomes a tool for distillation, a visual listening device, an interpreter, tapping into a world long gone for the briefest of moments. She is in love with her toy cameras, turning her back a bit on modern technology. In doing so, a more intimate image making process has emerged. The unique lith prints she creates are then finished with a beeswax coating and mounted on thin wood. Her work has been in exhibitions in the Northwest and she is head of Seattle’s SlideLuck Potshow, and has been published in Lightleaks Magazine
Diane Fenster, Carol Golemboski, Maura Sullivan Three photographers reveal their dark sides.
Maura Sullivan’s images from Selected Stories are like the torn out pages from a made up book. In the shadows of New York City tenement buildings, in front of the peeling walls of old hotels, she imagines who lived there & what could have happened there. Alone in a hotel, a woman remembers her mother, jumping from a staircase, a cool marble floor, a promise ... Sullivan is intrigued by the history of places, and by the way an ordinary space can become a portal into another world. She explores the feelings we all share, about fear and love and a time lost. Maura Sullivan was born in 1971 in Hartford Connecticut. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. Her work is widely exhibited in both solo and group exhibitions in New York City, Connecticut, New Jersey, Portland Oregon and Krakow Poland. Sullivan graduated Magna Cum Laude from Syracuse University B.F.A and has attended the International School of Photography. Her photographs were featured in the movie “The Devil Wears Prada” and published in Shots Magazine, Antiques weekly, International Italian Photo Magazine Private, and the Sun.
Carol Golemboski’s Psychometry is a series manipulated gelatin silver prints exploring issues relating to anxiety, loss, and existential doubt. The term refers to the pseudo-science of "object reading," the purported psychic ability to divine the history of objects through physical contact. Like amateur psychometrists, viewers are invited to interpret arrangements of tarnished and weathered objects, relying on the talismanic powers inherent in the vestiges of human presence. These images suggest a world in which ordinary belongings transcend their material nature to evoke the elusive presence of the past. Golemboski has been the recipient of numerous grants including fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Virginia Commission for the Arts, and Light Work. She was the 2007 Project Competition Winner for Santa Fe’s CENTER. Images from her Psychometry series have been published in Lens Work, Contact Sheet, and AfterImage. She is represented by the George Billis Gallery in Los Angeles, the Robert Klein Gallery in Boston, the Sandy Carson Gallery in Denver, Addison Arts in Santa Fe, and the Page Bond Gallery in Richmond, Virginia. Golemboski resides in Denver, CO.
PHOTOVISION 2007 AUCTION PREVIEW EXHIBIT Established and emerging photographers have donated their work to make the PhotoVision Award possible. This is your opportunity to see these remarkable photographs before the event
Visit our online catalogue of participating photographers -- regional and national artists who donated work to the PhotoVisio Auction on September 29, 2007 PHOTOVISION 2007 AWARD DINNER & AUCTION
Beginning with drinks and hors d'oeuvres in PCNW's gallery, the evening will conclude with a three-course dinner and auction in PCNW's festive on-site tent. Photographers from across the country have donated works to be auctioned in support of PCNW's programs and facilities. Keith Carter, whose widely published work has won him an international reputation, will preside as our guest of honor. This event promises to be an evening celebrating the achievement and contribution of photography in our lives and is an invitation to the Pacific Northwest community and beyond to come together to honor today's most powerful and relevant visual art form. Seating will be limited, and we certainly hope you will join us. Reservations may be made by calling 206.720.7222 ext. 10 or online at BrownPaperTickets. All those reserving will receive written confirmation of their reservation status. Tickets are $140 each. Tables of up to 10 places are available. Up & Now 12th Annual Photographic Competition Exhibition Juror: Charlotte Cotton, Curator of Photography, LACMA 1 st Place , ($1000)
Park depicts Korean students of various specialty or vocational schools as they express their individuality by pressing the limits of their school uniform dress codes, against the backdrop of rapidly changing Seoul .
2 nd Place ($500)
Fougeron's photographs explore adolescence and reflects the mother photographer's interactions with her subject children. She is inspired by Dutch painters as well as set contemporary cinematic lighting techniques, and she is currently an instructor at the International Center for Photography, in New York , which Getty Images also supports on an ongoing basis.
3 rd Place , ($250)
Daniel is drawn to the peripheries of China 's cities – the strange and nebulous region where urban and rural, old and new China meet in seemingly theatrical landscapes that are emblematic of China as a whole: unresolved, abrasive and often contradictory. Traub sees photographing this environment as a way of understanding China 's history as well as a method of decoding its future. Honorable Mentions:
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This annual juried exhibition draws entries from across the country and around the world, and remains among the most popular shows in PCNW's annual schedule. The competition is open to all photographers, all photographic processes, and all themes. The juror is looking for work that represents a larger, cohesive body of work and will be selecting a short series from each photographer chosen. From among those exhibited, our juror will select first, second and third prize winners to receive prizes of $1,000, $500, and $250. Juror Charlotte Cotton is Department Head and Curator of Photography at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Previously, she was Head of Cultural Programs at Art + Commerce in New York, Head of Programming at The Photographers' Gallery in London and a Curator of Photographs at the Victoria and Albert Museum from 1993 to 2004. She has curated many exhibitions of historical and contemporary photography including, Imperfect Beauty: the making of contemporary fashion photographs (2000), Out of Japan (2002), Stepping In and Out: contemporary documentary photography (2003) and Guy Bourdin (2003). Cotton is the author and editor of publications such as Imperfect Beauty (2000), Then Things Went Quiet (2003), Guy Bourdin (2003) and The Photograph as Contemporary Art (2004), a title in the World of Art series published by Thames & Hudson. Her most recent writing includes essays and interviews with Paul Graham, Rinko Kawauchi, Hannah Starkey, Dav id Hilliard, Inez van Lamsweerde, Desiree Dolron, and Philip-Lorca diCorcia. Friday: August 3, 7:00 pm Lecture with Charlotte Cotton The Photograph as Contemporary Art Tickets: $8, $5 PCNW & SAM members and students This lecture concerns photographic practice over the past decade and the notion of photography as an accepted and fashionable form of contemporary art. The lecture qualifies the versions of contemporary art photography that have made a lasting impact on the discourses of art as well as highlighting the issues they raise for our perceptions of photographic practice today. ANDREA HORNS, SCOTIA MACKAY, LARRY OCKENE & ELLEN WITEBSKY Reception: Friday, June 8, 6:00–8:00 pm Photographic Center Northwest presents thesis work by four students from the Certificate Program. These graduating thesis students each posses a style that is uniquely their own, but they share a passion for fine art photography that has led them through years of in-depth study as part of PCNW's rigorous Certificate Program. Please join us in recognizing their accomplishment with an exhibition featuring their work in a variety of formats and addressing themes as individual as the artists themselves.
Andrea Horns In My Sensational Skin , Andrea Horns portrays the beauty and diversity of the most amazing of our organs: the skin. Intrigued by the tender wrapping of her own children, and inspired by Kent Stevenson's song, she explored the ever changing appearance of skin — used every day, durable enough to last, but fragile at the same time. The color photographs in this series show grace and beauty at any age.
Scotia MacKay In Boundaries. Scotia MacKay illustrates with images and poetry, the cause and effect of various forms of separation; light and dark, vulnerability and protection, support and deformity, discipline and spaciousness. This exhibit is in the form of an installation and includes the artist's voice—reciting her poems creating an atmosphere that is soothing and mysterious.
Larry Ockene Larry Ockene presents us with a view of the extraordinary within the ordinary, In Peregrine Forms . Through extreme macro photography, plant life becomes highly abstract – evoking landscapes, anatomical structures, and alien worlds: In the interior of a red pepper is an embryo in a womb; in the draped curves of a vine flower is the caldera of a volcano. The artist's large color images invite one to look deeply at the intriguing forms in everyday life.
Ellen Witebsky Home is not just a place. It is a personal space where the objects with which we surround ourselves evoke powerful feelings. In Ellen Witebsky's Poems from Home, these household objects – sometimes worn and dirty, sometimes bright and glittery – become the subjects of elegant still lifes. In these color photographs, she captures the beauty and warmth of everyday things.
A DELICATE BALANCE Past Recipients of the PCNW Print Sponsorship Three artists working in very different idioms explore the awkward place where man and nature meet.
Nealy Blau Viewing dioramas inside Natural History Museums can be a deliriously disorienting, slightly eerie and discordant visual experience. Yet photographing them Nealy Blau often feels or senses a presence in them that parallels her experiences in Nature in fascinating and subversive ways. Like the long tradition of landscape photographers before her, the seed of her desire to photograph dioramas comes from a similar source. Simply awe. Blau is continually astounded and moved by the enchanting illusionary effects and sense of wonder these constructions can impart. She is not alone. Spending hours and days inside museums it is striking to overhear the same conversations between children and adults over and over again. Namely, the children want to know if the display is real. Is this one real? That one? It doesn't matter how many times they are told the contrary, and why shouldn't they remain unconvinced. Where else can we experience such a curious transformation from the biological and factual into the fluid realm of the imagination?
Nealy Blau is represented locally by the G.Gibson Gallery. Her work has been included in several shows in the Northwest Regeion . She received the Photographic Center Northwest Printing Sponsorship, 2004, Cannon Emerging Photographer Award, 2002, University of California Regents Grant , 1991, Corwin Award, First Prize Outstanding Short Film, 1991. She is in the collections of 4Culture, King County , Photographic Center Northwest, Safeco Insurance.
Erika Langley Photography by its very nature captures what is ephemeral: a moment frozen in time. In the case of this project, Erika Langley's subject is actively vanishing, and pictures are the only thing that endure. The town of North Cove . Washington began falling into the ocean in the early 1900's. Four square miles of coastline have disappeared, including a town with its lighthouse, schoolhouse, post office, and Coast Guard station. Nobody knows exactly why. What is certain is that 150 feet of beach disappear every year. “ Washaway Beach ” is recognized as one of the fastest eroding places in our hemisphere, and as that rarity, affordable beach property, Langley could not resist investing herself. Erika loves the ferocity of the beach, its terrible beauty and monuments to the foiled hand of man. She watches her fellow watchers. They attend the high tides with the respect of a wake and the fascination of a train wreck. Langley photographs constantly and the places that she sees vanish. She is a storyteller, stalking the beach into permanence.
Annie Marie Musselman Annie Marie Musselman is a photographer living and working in Seattle , Washington . Five years ago, Musselman started photographing at the Sarvey Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Arlington , Washington . Injured, wild animals throughout the Northwest are brought to Sarvey for any number of reasons, (i.e. two brown bears were found in a truck, crossing the border from Canada to Washington , where they were being tortured and used to smuggle drugs because dogs are afraid to go near them). In the spring, the center experiences a high volume of injured or orphaned animals—most of them would not make it if it weren't for the caring individuals who find them and bring them to Sarvey. Not all the animals brought to the center make it back home. Musselman learned a lot about the meaning of life and its delicate balance at Sarvey. She captures the relationship involving the animals and those that care for them and love them. She explores the spiritual nature these animals embody. Musselman received a 4Culture grant to continue her story for a year that ended with a show at the Seattle Downtown Public Library in 2006. Her Sarvey images were also chosen to appear in the American Photography book 22 Juried by Kathy Ryan. She received the PCNW Printing Sponsorship in 2005.
Marc Yankus Artist's Reception: Friday, April 6, 6-8pm In many of Yankus' photographs, textures scanned from old tintypes, books and other objects are digitally layered on top of the artists's original images. This superimposition of the old and the new, serves as a metaphor for Yankus' wider conceptual interests. Throughout his work, the artist oscillates not only between the old and the new, the past and the present, but also between figuration and landscape. He Establishes a rhythm and play between timeless portraits and beautifully still and quiet landscapes and cityscapes. Hushed, introspective, and at turn even melancholic, this body of work is ultimately a reflection of the artist's personal past and his passage in to the present time. Marc Yankus' fine art and published experience span a period of more than twenty-five years. His work has been included in exhibitions at The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York; Exit Art, New York City; The Library of Congress, Washington, DC; and recently at ClampArt, New York City. Yankus' artwork has graced the covers of books by Salman Rushdie, Philip Roth, and Alan Hollinghurst, among many others.
Rachel Papo
Rachel Papo is an Israeli who was born in 1970 in Columbus , Ohio but was raised in Israel . She began photographing as a teenager and attended a renowned fine-arts high-school in Haifa , Israel . At age eighteen she served in the Israeli Air Force as a photographer. These two intensive years of service inspired her current photographic project titled after her own number during service -- Serial No. 3817131. Revisiting her experiences as a soldier in the Israeli Defense Forces, Rachel Papo has brought forward a series of photographs that has caught the eye of many with its timelessness, universality and beauty. She reveals the soldier, often caught in a transient moment of self-reflection and uncertainty, as if questioning her own identity. The expected existence of the confident and nationalistic soldier is replaced by moments that disclose a personal, complex and delicate spectrum of emotions. Papo earned a BFA in Fine Arts from Ohio State University in Columbus (1991-96), and an MFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York City (2002-05).Rachel is represented by Paul Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles , where her first solo show was recently on display. www.rachelpapo.com
Jonas Bendiksen Artist's Lecture, book signing & reception Jonas recently received the 2nd prize for in the World Press Photo award in the category Daily Life Stories. In 2003 he received the Infinity Award from The International Centre of Photography (ICP) in New York , as well as a 1st prize in the Pictures Of the Year International (POY) awards. Other distinctions include the 2002 Nikon/Sunday Times Magazine Ian Parry Memorial Award, PDN's "30 under 30", the 2001 World Press Photo Masterclass, and a 2004 fellowship in photography from New York Foundation for the Arts. His work has been exhibited at the Tom Blau Gallery in London and in the "Moving Walls" exhibition at the Open Society Institute in New York . His magazine clients include National Geographic, GEO, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, The Sunday Times Magazine and Mother Jones. PCNW Members' Juried Exhibition Juror: Scott Wallin Director of Exhibitions, Whatcom Museum of History & Art, Bellingham , WA Juried Exhibition Awards 1st Place Award Andy Reynolds 2nd Place Award Eva Sköld Westerlind 3rd Place Award Michael Kaufman Honorable Mentions Monika J. Danos Members' Juried Show Exhibitors List Stats: 31 artists & images selected
Chick Flick Julie Blackmon, Jessica Bruah, Kelli Connell & Erica Shires Artists' Reception: Friday Nov. 10, 6-8 pm
El Corazon de Oaxaca Curated by Mary Ellen Mark James Carbone, David Darby, Jose Martinez & Marcela Taboada
These four artists have studied and photographed with Mary Ellen Mark in Oaxaca , Mexico . In El Corazon de Oaxaca unique visions are depicted of the culture and essence of the heart of Oaxaca .
Tiny Over the Years Mary Ellen Mark
Saturday October 7 th , 6:30pm
Tickets: $8 regular, $5 students and members followed by opening reception for El Corazon de Oaxaca & Tiny Over the Years at PCNW. Mary Ellen Mark has achieved worldwide visibility through her numerous books, exhibitions and editorial magazine work. She has published photo-essays and portraits in such publications as LIFE, New York Times Magazine, New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Vogue, Vanity Fair, and the London Sunday Times Magazine. For more than three decades, she has traveled extensively to make pictures that reflect a high degree of humanism. Today, she is recognized as one of the most respected and influential photographers. Her images of our world's diverse cultures have become landmarks in the field of documentary and portrait photography. Her portrayals of Mother Teresa, Indian circuses and brothels in Bombay were the product of many years of work in India . Recently, Mary Ellen was presented with the Cornell Capa Award by the International Center of Photography. She has published fourteen books. Her most recent project is entitled Twins, a book and exhibition, featuring her 20x24 Polaroid portraits of twins. www.maryellenmark.com .
Rebecca Norris Webb: The Glass between Us Lecture with Alex Webb & Rebecca Norris Webb at PCNW: Friday, September 15 7pm, Tickets $5. Followed by Ms. Webb's book signing & reception
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