Two of my photographs are among 300 selected, from 3000 submitted, for F-Stop Magazine’s annual Open Exhibition of photography.
Trail and contrail
Sunrise, January 1, 2022
The exhibition includes a wide range of photographic styles and subjects from around the world.
My photograph, “I dreamed you to me,” from the series Lost Connections, is included in the online exhibition Waiting, at Analog Forever Magazine.
The jurors for Waiting were Amanda Smith and Kevin Tully, Directors of A Smith Gallery. They wrote,
Waiting for spirits?
Waiting for spirits of longing, love, healing, desire, laughter, peace…
The magical, transcendent thing about waiting is its kinship with hope.
A collaborative project by Al Brydon and me, Tales from a non-existent land, is featured in the spring 2022 issue of Shots magazine.
The presence of the unseen
To make these photographs, we each expose a roll of film in a plastic Holga camera, send it to the other, and re-expose it - not knowing what is already present in the latent image. As a result, the images hold the random magic of two unconscious processes and two Holgas.
The spring issue of Shots is devoted to the theme of collaborations in photography.
Some of my botanical lumen prints from the series Lost Connections are included today as a guest contribution to The Daily Lumenbox, a blog by Sonny Rosenberg. The Daily Lumenbox features Sonny’s dreamlike photographs with his unique Lumenbox camera.
You can see my lumen prints here.
My photograph, “The communication of light/The light of communication,” from the series The Maybe Lakes, is included in the exhibition The Magic of Light at PhotoPlace Gallery.
The exhibition runs from March 3 through 26, 2022. PhotoPlace Gallery is located at 3 Park Street, Middlebury, VT 05753, and can be reached by email at photos@photoplacegallery.com
You can view the gallery exhibition here, and an additional online-only exhibition here. Installation photos are here.
The juror for The Magic of Light was fine art photographer, master printer, curator, and educator Ann Jastrab, who is Executive Director of the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, CA.
My photograph, “Communicada,” from the series Where you are, is included in the online exhibition Connecting to the Divine at Analog Forever magazine.
The juror for Connecting to the Divine was fine art and commercial photographer, educator, and owner-publisher of Shots magazine Douglas Beasley, who wrote,
“Our photographs can be spiritual metaphors expressing our connection to the divine or to the eternal. This is different than documenting the religious or spiritual practices of others, this is so much more personal… [The photographs show] what it is that [the artists] personally hold sacred, how [they] interact with [their] spiritual instincts or inclinations, and how that shows up in [their] photography. It is often more about feeling than knowing.”
My cyanotype photogram "Mandala 287 (together)", from the series Mandalas for the Blues, is included in The 2/22/22 Exhibitition: Pairs and Diptychs at Lenscratch Fine Art Photography Daily.
The exhibition is a celebration of the auspicious date 2/22/22, consisting of photographs about pairs, pairs of photographs, and photographs of things in twos.
Three of my photographs are included in the 1st Annual Photography & Digital Art Exhibition at San Francisco Women Artists’ gallery.
This one received a Juror’s Choice award:
Trail and contrail
These two are also in the exhibition:
The goodbye dialogues
Mandala 278 (together)
The exhibition runs from February 8 through March 4, 2022, with a reception on Saturday, February 12, from 2:00 -4:00 p.m.
San Francisco Women Artists is located at 647 Irving Street at 8th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94122, and can be reached by phone at 415-566-8550.
You can view the exhibition online here.
The juror for the 1st Annual Photography & Digital Art Exhibition was award-winning photographer, curator, and member of the Adobe Photoshop Hall of Fame Diane Fenster.
My photograph, "In the circle," from the series Lost Connections, is included in the exhibition Black, White & Monochrome at the SE Center for Photography.
The exhibition runs from February 4 through 26, with a reception on Friday, February 4, from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
You can see the exhibition online here.
The SE Center is located at 116 East Broad Street, Greenville, SC 29601, and can be reached by phone at 864-605-7400.
From the gallery's email (with links added by me):
Monochrome photography, images produced with a single hue, rather than recording the colors of the object that was photographed. The SE Center asked for images of any theme, media, digital, analog, or antique processes.
Our juror for Black, White & Monochrome, Douglas Beasley, has made his selections
and the following photographers have been invited to participate
in Black, White & Monochrome:
Geoffrey Agrons, Julia Arstorp, Jason Au, Gary Beeber,
David Bence, Bonnie Bishop, David Blow,
Derek Brown, Mark Collins, Rajan Dosaj, Grey Eckert, Diane Fenster,
Rick Gayle, J. M. Golding, Rosemary Haynes, Susan Holtz,
Kirsten Hoving, Diana Nicholette Jeon, Ted & Nune, Tom Kirkendall,
Jim Kohatsu, Nicole LeCorgne, Barbara Lewin, Lawrence Manning,
Micah McCoy, Patricia McElroy, Nanci Milton,
Tristan Partridge, Gerald Pisarzowski, Alexej Sachov, Mary Schafer,
Miranda Schmitz, Dennis Segers, Kerry Sharkey-Miller, Ed Speas,
Wendy Stone, Gary Topper, Jacqui Turner,
Raphael Warshaw, and Mark Weller
My image, “Eggs,” is included in the exhibition Food with a Twist at the new Oakland Photo Workshop (OPW) Gallery.
The exhibition opens January 23, 2022, and runs through March 11, with a reception on Saturday, March 5, from 3:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Featuring the work of East Bay Photo Collective members, this exhibition explores our relationship with food - the comforts, challenges, and essential aspects of our daily interactions with the nourishment that sustains us. A cookbook based on the show is also planned. The exhibition was coordinated, and the jury was chaired, by Neeley Drown.
I’m honestly not a big fan of eating eggs by themselves. But the eggs in my photo have a special meaning for me. This past summer, I took a vacation for the first time since the pandemic had begun. I’m very grateful to have continued working, and I’d worked hard and was very ready for time off. I stayed at a house in the country, which, in a surprise me, came with several friendly chickens in the yard. They laid eggs several times during my stay. My image shows some of those eggs.
OPW is a community gallery and workspace, hosted by the East Bay Photo Collective and offering exhibitions by local photographers and community groups, photography classes, talks by local artists, photo walks, and meetups.
It is located at 312 East 8th Street, Oakland, CA, 94697, in the historic Asian Resource Center in Oakland’s Chinatown. OPW can be reached by phone at 510-922-8467.
Two of my photographs are included in the Revival exhibition at LightBox Gallery.
We still had the sun
Raspberries for breakfast
The exhibition opens today, January 15, 2022, and runs through February 9.
LightBox Gallery is located at 1045 Marine Drive, Astoria, OR 97103, and can be reached by phone at 503-468-0238.
You can view the entire exhibition online here.
The jurors for Revival were the artists who submitted work for consideration - “a jury of your peers.”
My photograph, “The beginning of hope/The hope of beginning,” from the series The Maybe Lakes, is included in the Embrace exhibition at the Fourth Street Fine Art gallery.
The exhibition runs from January 14 through February 27, 2022, with an artist reception on Saturday, February 12, from 2:00 - 5:00, pandemic permitting (please check the gallery website). It takes place both at the physical gallery and an online virtual gallery.
Fourth Street Fine Art is located at 2000 4th Street, Berkeley, CA 94710, and can be reached by phone at 510-647-6136.
The jurors for Embrace were Gera Hasse, Founder of Fourth Street Fine Art; Meredith A. Brown, Ph.D., Director of Museum Affairs and Chief Curator at Planting Fields Foundation, New York; and Edward Montgomery, owner of Edward Montgomery Gallery, Carmel, CA.
My cyanotype photogram, “Mandala 278 (together),” from the series Mandalas for the Blues, is included in the annual International Alternative Processes Competition exhibition, hosted by Soho Photo Gallery.
The exhibition runs from December 10, 2021 through February 27, 2022. It appears online at both Soho Photo Gallery and the Griffin Museum of Photography.
An online artists’ reception is scheduled for Wednesday, December 15, 2021, at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.
The juror for the International Alternative Processes Competition was Paula Tognarelli, who is Executive Director and Curator of the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, Massachusetts.
My photograph, “An alchemy of protection,” is included in the exhibition Yellow! at Gray Loft Gallery.
Yellow! runs from November 20 through December 18, 2021, with an opening reception on Saturday, November 20, from 4:00 till 6:30 p.m., and a closing reception on Saturday, December 18 from 4:00 till 6:30 p.m.
The exhibit features the work of Bay Area photographers and includes images from a wide array of traditional and alternative photographic processes – including pinhole photography, images made with Polaroid and plastic cameras, tintypes, and other film-based works. This exhibit is a celebration of the color yellow and embraces the unexpected and treasured qualities of this color in many mediums.
Participating Photographers are Stephen Albair, Mima Cataldo, Francis Baker, Gary Beeber, Rose Borden, Maria Budner, Virginia Chabre, Nina Chiappa, Sarah Christianson, Marna G. Clarke, Joshua Curry, Tony DeVarco, Gene Dominique, Lisa Erdberg, Laura Epstein-Norris, Diane Fenster, J. M. Golding, Cheryl L. Guerrero, Marsha Guggenheim, Kent A. Hall, Najib Joe Hakim, Judi Iranyi, Josie Iselin, Laura Kiernan, Ellen Konar/Steve Goldband, Philip Krayna, Claire Maen, Erik Mathy, Sonia Melnikova-Raich, Charles Moulton, Maureen Mulhern-White, Jeannie OConnor, Eben Ostby, Mark Overgaard, Anne Rabe, Steven Raskin, Charles Reilly, David Robinson, Philip T. Sager, Jenny Sampson, Neo Serafimidis, Elizabeth Sher, Gail Skoff, Susan Sperry, Douglas G. Stinson, Michael Teresko, George Tomberlin, Jill Van Hoogenstyn, Jacqueline Walters, Sally Weber, Rusty Weston, Jeff Weston, Susan West, Anita White, Stephanie Williamson, Nick Winkworth, Mitsu Yoshikawa, and Yelena Zhavoronkova.
The juror for Yellow! was fine art photographer, master printer, curator, and educator Ann Jastrab, who is Executive Director of the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, CA.
Gray Loft Gallery is located at 2889 Ford Street, third floor, Oakland, CA 94601 and can be reached by phone at 510-499-3445.
Gray Loft Gallery was founded in 2012, when an airy Jingletown loft was converted to a gallery space. The gallery has been referred to as a hidden gem in Jingletown, and noted by the late Kenneth Baker, former SF Chronicle Art Critic, in his Visual Arts Don’t Miss Column as “…a space gaining prominence in the Bay Area…”
I’ve added two new calendars to my Zazzle shop.
One, titled Landscapes and Other Mysteries, includes photographs from the series Lost Connections.
The other, titled Everyday Mysteries (there seems to be a theme here!), includes photographs from the series The unclear way forward.
My untitled photograph (from an as-yet untitled new series) is included in the Landscape 2021 exhibition in F-Stop magazine.
This online exhibition was juried by F-Stop founder and editor Christy Karpinski.
My contribution to the A Photographic Life podcast drops today.
Each week, host Grant Scott invites photographers to respond for up to five minutes to the question, "What does photography mean to you?" To hear my response, you can tune into this week’s episode.
Grant offers a spontaneous response to each contribution - he doesn't listen to them before he airs them.
The podcast is available on Apple podcasts, Soundcloud, Podbean, Overcast, and other podcatchers.
My photograph, “We are connected by light,” is included in the online exhibition, Toy Stories at Analog Forever magazine.
Toy Stories goes live today. It showcases a range of dreamlike photographs made with toy cameras, demonstrating what artists can create using these simple tools with plastic lenses.
The juror for Toy Stories was fine art photographer, curator, and PhotoNOLA founder Jennifer Shaw.
Two of my photographs are included in the exhibition “water” at A Smith Gallery.
Peaceful reminds me of you, from the series Los Connections
Atlantis unexpected
A Smith Gallery is located at 103 North Nugent Avenue, Johnson City, TX 78636. You can preview the exhibition here.
The “water” exhibition runs from September 10 through October 31, 2021.
Receptions are scheduled for Saturday, September 25 and Saturday, October 30, both at 4:00 p.m. CDT, on Facebook Live.
The juror for “water” was artist, educator, writer, and publisher Douglas Beasley, who selected 55 photographs for the exhibition from 930 that were submitted.
My cyanotype photogram, "Mandala 361 (communication)," from the series Mandalas for the Blues, is included in the exhibition Visions of Nature at Light Art Space.
Light Art Space is located at 209 West Broadway, Silver City, NM 88061, and can be reached by phone at 520-240-7075.
The exhibition runs from August 6 through October 2, 2021, with receptions on Friday, August 6, from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. and Friday, September 17, from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
The juror for Visions of Nature, photographic artist, educator, and curator Diana Bloomfield, will present a informal gallery talk during the September 17 reception.
In this time of isolation and uncertainty, nature became a refuge for many, a new experience for some and a muse for others. This exhibition welcomed work utilizing alternative photographic techniques referencing nature. Nature was defined loosely. Any aspect of the natural world coud be referenced: plant, animal (including humans), the imaginary etc. Artists were asked to consider how their relationship with the natural world has been altered in recent years.
I’ve updated the Mandalas for the Blues gallery on my website, which now includes four large polyptychs as well as several new individual images.
