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The non-profit mission of The Photographer’s Eye is to grow photography education through providing scholarships for college and high school photography students, and to offer free classes for children, seniors and those at risk.
Our first auction fundraiser is generously supported by gifted photographers who have exhibited their work here over the last few years. They have donated images to help us raise funds for scholarships to assist students in their pursuit of an education in photography and we are very excited. Not only will the artworks be on our walls and bidding can be done on-site, but bidding may also be done on-line. Fine photography by these respected artists will be available. We have a goal of raising $5,000, and with your help we can reach or even exceed our goal. Thank you so much for your support.
Donna Cosentino, Director
- Fine Art Photography Auction: May 13th-May 20th, 2023
- Online bidding opens Saturday, May 13th at 4pm PST and ends Saturday May 20th at 8pm PST
- In-person bidding Fridays and Saturdays 11-5, with extended hours on Saturday May 13th (Reception and Escondido’s Second Saturday) until 7pm, and Saturday, May 20th 6pm until 8pm for our GALA
- Continue Below to VIEW the ONLINE AUCTION followed by the fine art photography in the auction.
Fine Art Photography Auction Items
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ITEM 01: "UNTITLED, (ARTICHOKE)" BY AMY CATERINA
Polaroid Print Size: 3.5"x4.25" Framed 8'x10"
ITEM 01: "Untitled, (Artichoke)" by Amy CaterinaITEM 01
Untitled, (Artichoke), 2023
Amy Caterina
Media: Polaroid
Print Size: 3.5"x4.25" Framed 8'x10"
Valued: $150
Starting Bid: $100
Artist Bio:
Amy Caterina is an artist living in Southern California who spends her days fawning over her prize-winning wiener dog Walter, growing her Mohawk, and teaching the youth of America. If you ever need a photograph of an out of focus desert suburbia or a giant cupcake bunker (free instructions on how to survive the apocalypse!) she’s your gal. Amy received her BFA in Photography from Buffalo State College and her MFA in Photography from CSU Fullerton. Amy is a tenured professor of Photography at Palomar College teaching Digital Photography and Digital Darkroom.
Amy Caterina
AmyCaterina.com
@Plastic.Caterina
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Starting Bid $100
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ITEM 02: "WITHIN THE DISCORDANT CHAOS, DISCOVER COHESION" BY ROBERT BARRY
Archival Pigment Print Print Size: 12"x18" Framed Size: 18"x24"
ITEM 02: "Within The Discordant Chaos, Discover Cohesion" by Robert BarryITEM 02
Within The Discordant Chaos, Discover Cohesion, 2021
Robert Barry
Media: Archival Pigment Print
Print Size: 12"x18" Framed Size: 18"x24"
Valued: $400
Starting Bid: $100
Artist Bio:
Robert Barry received his Master’s Degree in Art from San Francisco State University. He started his college teaching career as an adjunct instructor of Photography at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill, California. In 1989, Robert was hired as a full-time Associate Professor at Palomar College in San Marcos, California. He retired from teaching in 2015 and currently is a Professor Emeritus of Photography at Palomar College. His Photographs have been exhibited and collected internationally.
Robert Barry
RobertBarryPhoto.com
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Starting Bid $100
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ITEM 03: "CHIAPAS RACERS" BY DON BARTLETTI
Archival Pigment Print Print Size: 10"x15" Unframed
ITEM 03: "Chiapas Racers" by Don BartlettiITEM 03
Chiapas Racers, State of Chiapas, Mexico, 2000
Don Bartletti
Media: Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Ultra Smooth
Print Size: 10"x15" Unframed
Valued: $400
Starting Bid: $250
Artist Bio:
Don Bartletti was awarded the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for "Enrique's Journey," a 6-part Los Angeles Times photo essay about Central American migrant stowaway children riding freight trains through Mexico. Chiapas Racers is part of that body of work.
Among more than 50 career recognitions are the Robert F. Kennedy Grand Prize for International Photojournalism, Polk Award, Overseas Press Club, Pictures of the Year International, World Press Photo, UNICEF, Gerald Lobe Award, and the Scripps Howard Award.
In 1966 Bartletti rode a motorcycle from London to Athens with a Kodak Instamatic camera. In August 1967 he made his first photo essay during the “Summer of Love” in San Francisco’s Haight Ashbury with a Yashica-Mat twin lens reflex. In 1968 he graduated from Palomar College with an AA degree in Photography. He joined the U.S. Army in 1968. During his tour of duty as an Infantry Lieutenant in Vietnam, Bartletti carried an M-16 rifle and 2 Nikon cameras. In 1972 he began his photojournalism career at his hometown paper, the Vista Press. He soon moved on to the Oceanside Blade-Tribune, the San Diego Union/Tribune and the Los Angeles Times.
After 32 years with the Times, Don retired in 2015. He’s still making photographs and is often invited to speak about his career at universities, high schools, conferences, and civic organizations. His photographs have been shown in scores of one-person and group exhibits at museums throughout the U.S. and Mexico.
Bartletti has 2 adult children and 4 grandsons. He and his wife Diana reside in Vista, California.
About The Image:
AUGUST 3, 2000. CHIAPAS, MEXICO. Youngsters race alongside a freight train that Central American stowaways call "The Beast". Everyone around me on top of the hopper car clapped and whistled as the kids galloped through the verdant Chiapas countryside. I struggled to focus and compose with a 200mm lens as my ride lurched from side to side. From a burst of 5, this frame captures a noble horseman, his radiant passenger, frayed reins and unreachable stirrups of their borrowed horse. The editorial backstory is the joy the 30-second sprint gave the migrants. And the beast beat "The Beast". (Photograph by Don Bartletti)
Don Bartletti
DonBartlettiPhotography.com
@DonBartletti
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ITEM 04: "RODNEY MULLEN SILHOUETTE" BY GRANT BRITTIAN
Archival Pigment Print Print Size: 11"x14" Framed 16"x20"
ITEM 04: "Rodney Mullen Silhouette" by Grant BrittianITEM 04
Rodney Mullen Silhouette, El Segundo, CA, 2015
Grant Brittian
Media: Archival Pigment Print
Print Size: 11"x14" Framed 16"x20"
Valued: N/A
Starting Bid: $100
Artist Bio:
Grant Brittain picked up a camera at the ripe old age of 25 and started shooting his friends skateboarding at the Del Mar Skate Ranch. The "Ranch" was a skatepark in a small beach town north of San Diego, California that he managed in the early 1980s, and it was there that he honed his photographic skills. After blowing massive amounts of film, he took every photo class Palomar Junior College had to offer. And with that, he felt he finally learned how to manipulate his 35mm camera.
While at college, an influential instructor introduced Brittain to the vast world of photography, and set him on his creative path. In 1983, Grant was asked to contribute skate photos to the premiere issue of TransWorld SKATEboarding magazine and became its founding Photo Editor and Senior Photographer.
Over the past twenty years, Brittain has helped TransWorld grow into the most popular skate mag in the world, and has captured the best skateboarders of the last two decades in photos that have become classics. He has also taught some of the best skate photographers, past and present, and helped them develop their own work. He hopes that they have gotten as much inspiration from him as he gets from them.
Over the years Brittain's personal work-abstracts, portraits, landscapes and travel images-seems to draw from the opposite energy of his action images. His "off hours" are consumed by a search for calmer and more serene subjects. Still lakes at night and solitary desert forms are among the subjects of his diverse personal work. Some of his portraits of well-known athletes even manage to divulge a more reflective side of their personalities.
Few photographers have pursued so wide a range of subjects and styles. But few individuals find themselves so central to such an active community, where one's perspective is just a notch askew of the rest, and where movement and progression is the norm.
Grant Brittain's body of work reflects his deep involvement in an emerging youth culture, as well as his escape from it.
Grant and a group of the skateboarding elite talent have left TWS and started The Skateboard Mag, check it at: theskateboardmag.com and at shops and newsstands.
Grant Brittain
JGrantBrittain.com
@JGrantBrittain
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Starting Bid $100
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ITEM 05: "ROTORUA" BY MATT CONNORS
Toned Cyanotype Print Size: 8"x10" Unframed
ITEM 05: "Rotorua" by Matt ConnorsITEM 05
Rotorua, 2016
Matt Connors
Media: Toned Cyanotype
Print Size: 8"x10" Unframed
Valued: $400
Starting Bid: $100
Artist Bio:
Matt Connors is an American photographer residing in Carmel, CA. His work explores our relationship to the natural world and celebrates the beauty therein. Matt’s earlier work is all digital, but since 2019 he has been working almost exclusively with alternative processes, specifically palladium and cyanotype printing.
Matt Connors
MattConnorsPhotography.com
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ITEM 06: "FOX" BY CARLA DEDOMINICIS
Archival Pigment Print Print: 12.625"x19.5" Framed 20"x27"
ITEM 06: "Fox" by Carla DeDominicisITEM 06
Fox, Yellow Stone, 2023, The White Series
Carla DeDominicis
Media: Archival Pigment Print
Print Size: 12.625" x 19.5"
Framed 20.875"x27.625"
Valued: $300
Starting Bid: $100
Artist Bio:
Carla DeDominicis says she is working on her “third act.”
After 38 years as a successful trial lawyer, practicing out of her building that now houses the Photographer’s Eye Collective in downtown Escondido, DeDominicis retired and took up the cameras she had put away since her first, brief career as a photojournalist at the now defunct North County Times Advocate.
She specializes in wildlife photography, although she will shoot any street or travel photography opportunity that arises.
Her work has been featured on the British Lion Aide Calendar, on National Geographic Your Shot, in Outdoor Photography Magazine, in the San Diego Natural History Museum, and in the 2020 National Association of Nature Photographer’s Top 250 images. Her photography has been included in three coffee table photo books published by Digital Photos.
Last winter, she created a body of work from Yellowstone and Tetons National Parks that she called “The White Series.” The “Fox” was her favored shot among that portfolio.
Carla DeDominicis
ThePhotographersEyeCollective.com
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Starting Bid $100
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ITEM 07: "UNTITLED 5" BY MORGAN DELUNA
Archival Pigment Print Print Size: N/A Framed 8"x8"
ITEM 07: "Untitled 5" by Morgan DeLunaITEM 07
Untitled 5, 2017
Morgan DeLuna
Media: Archival Pigment Print
Print Size: N/A Framed 8"x8"
Valued: $650
Starting Bid: $125
Artist Bio:
Morgan DeLuna (b.1981) was raised in the suburbs of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Today she lives and works in Southern California.
Morgan began investigating topics relating to identity, appearance, and human connection from a young age as a result of growing up in a multicultural, interfaith family in the Midwest.
Morgan DeLuna
MorganDeLuna.com
@Morgan.DeLuna
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Starting Bid $125
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ITEM 08: "STILL LIFE WITH PENTIMENTO" BY MITCH ECKERT
Media: Gold toned Kallitype Print Size: 8"x8" Unframed
ITEM 08: "Still Life with Pentimento" by Mitch EckertITEM 08
Still Life with Pentimento (for R. Fenton), 2023
Mitch Eckert
Media: Gold toned Kallitype printed on Hahnemuhle Platinum Rag Paper
Print Size: 8"x8" Unframed
Valued: $325
Starting Bid: $200
Artist Bio:
Mitch Eckert is a one-eyed photographer. The medium of photography chose him, and it made perfect sense – one eye and one lens play well together. His work has received many accolades and has been exhibited nationally and internationally and appearing in a variety of publications. After receiving his B.F.A. in photography and sculpture from Indiana University he completed an M.F.A. from Ohio University focusing on photography and printmaking. For Mitch, the choice of photographic equipment, process and materials need to have a good marriage with concept and content. His exploration in the genre of still life has been ongoing for more than 25 years. His work is held in the collections of 21c. Museum, Butler Institute of American Art, and corporate and private collections. He currently lives and works in Louisville Kentucky where he is an Associate Professor of Art teaching all things photographic.
Mitch Eckert
MitchEckert.com
@Mitch_Eckert
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Starting Bid $200
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ITEM 09: "VASE" BY MELINDA FINN
Cyanotype Print Size: 4.625"x3" Framed 8"x10"
ITEM 09: "Vase" by Melinda FinnITEM 09
Vase, 2023
Melinda Finn
Media: Cyanotype (Made from Digital Negative)
Print Size: 4.625"x3" Framed 8"x10"
Valued: $300
Starting Bid: $100
Artist Bio:
Melinda Finn’s work as a professional photographer began when she was an undergraduate at UC Santa Barbara, serving as a staff photographer for the student newspaper. She has been making photographs in one way or another ever since, working professionally in photojournalism, portraiture, architectural, and other areas of commercial photography. She served as Palomar College’s official photographer for more than 20 years and during that time earned an MFA in photography from Academy of Art University, San Francisco. Currently, she teaches photography at Palomar in addition to working on her own projects, primarily specializing in environmental portraiture.
Melinda Finn
MelindaFinn.com
@MVFinnSeeing
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ITEM 10: "Three Cornered Magnolia" by Will Gibson
Unique Tintype Print Size: 4"x5" Frameless: Mounted on Block
ITEM 10: "Three Cornered Magnolia" by Will GibsonITEM 10
Three Cornered Magnolia
Will Gibson
Media: Unique Tintype
Print Size: 4"x5" Frameless: Mounted on Block
Valued: $200
Starting Bid: $100
Artist Bio:
After getting a college degree in Environmental Biology and working seven years in medical research, Will turned his hobby in photography into a vocation in 1979. After being employed for a year shooting real estate, he opened his own commercial studio in San Marcos, CA. Over the next twenty years, he was able to expand his capabilities with full in-house film processing and printing, drum scanning and digital pre-press work. At the same time technical lessons learned on the job helped to develop his personal work. Being largely self-taught, Will augmented his experience with workshops from Al Weber, Larry Ford, and John Sexton.
Moving to Ohio for family reasons for three years, he concentrated on his fine art, showing mostly silver gelatin prints in the vibrant art fair circuit from Michigan to Alabama.
Returning to California in 2003, he began teaching photography at Palomar College and later for UCSD Extension. Over the span of the next fifteen years he utilized his extensive background in teaching over fifteen separate course titles including portraiture, alternative processes and commercial photography. During these years he showed his work in group and one-man shows. been a founding member of the PhotoArts Group, co-produced six Best of Nature Photo Competitions at the San Diego Natural History Museum, given workshops and been a speaker and juror at photo clubs in the greater San Diego area.
Will Gibson
WillGibsonPhoto.com
@WillGibsonPhoto
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ITEM 11: "IRON CALDRON" BY JODIE HULDEN
Archival Pigment Print Print Size: 4.5"x4.5" Framed 10"x10"
ITEM 011: "Iron Caldron" by Jodie HuldenITEM 011
Iron Caldron, 2021, Just This Series
Jodie Hulden
Media: Archival Pigment Print
Print Size: 4.5"x4.5" Framed 10"x10"
Valued: $200
Starting Bid: $100
Artist Bio:
Jodie Hulden is a fine art, contemplative artist whose photography focuses on the visual poetry of intimate spaces, both wild and man-made. Her work has been strongly influenced by Asian philosophy, aesthetics, and both classical Chinese and Japanese painting and poetry. She has a degree in art from San Diego State University in fiber arts. Jodie discovered her passion for black and white photography in the 1970’s, immersing herself in film and darkroom work. In 2017 she completed a month-long artist-in-residency at Zion National Park. She was an award winner in 2018 at the Center Choice Awards in Santa Fe, NM. In 2019 she was selected as one of the 200 Critical Mass Finalists for her Seeing Silence portfolio. Also, in 2019 she published a book with Andy Burgess of Dark Spring Press of her interior Bodie images, titled Left Behind. She has exhibited her work nationally at the Center for Photography Arts in Carmel, the Center of Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, the Yosemite Renaissance Exhibitions, and the Photographer’s Eye Gallery in Escondido. Her work has been featured in On Landscape Magazine, and Black + White Magazine (UK). Jodie resides in San Diego.
Jodie Hulden
JodieHulden.com
@JodieHulden
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ITEM 12: "MEDITATION 2" BY KAREN HYMER
Photopolymer Gravure Print Size: 4.75"x5" Framed: 8.25"x10.25"
ITEM 12: "Meditation 2" by Karen HymerITEM 12
Meditation 2, Solitude Series, 2020
Karen Hymer
Media: Photopolymer Gravure
Print Size: 4.75"x5" Framed: 8.25" x10.25"
Valued: $250
Starting Bid: $100
Artist Bio:
Karen Hymer was born in Tucson, Arizona. She earned her BFA from The School
of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University, Medford and her MA
and MFA in Fine Art Photography from the University of New Mexico,
Albuquerque. Karen actively exhibits her work both nationally and internationally. Her work is in several public collections, including the Center for Creative Photography and the Polaroid International Collection. Dark Spring Press released the first book of her work in April 2018.
Karen’s experience and technical interests are wide-ranging. Although “trained”
as a photographer and educator, her approach to image making explores the
blending of photosensitive materials, digital media, and printmaking. She is fascinated with how the passage of time affects the human body and other natural elements in the world. In addition to working as a fine art photographer, Karen taught photography for over 25 years at Pima Community College, Tucson.
Karen relocated to Silver City, NM in the summer of 2018 to open and operate
Light Art Space at 209 West Broadway. The space features galleries, wet
darkrooms, a sculpture garden, a printmaking studio, and teaching space.
Karen offers workshops and private sessions in Photopolymer Gravure and
alternative photographic processes.
Karen Hymer
KarenHymer.com
LightArtSpace.com
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ITEM 13: "MAIA, SEVEN SISTERS OF THE PLEIADES" BY SUDA HOUSE
Archival Pigment Print Print Size: 27"x9" Framed 39"x13"
ITEM 13: "Maia, Seven Sisters of the Pleiades" by Suda HouseITEM 13
Maia, from the Seven Sisters of the Pleiades, 2023
Artist ProofSuda House
Media: Archival Pigment Print on Hanhemuhle Photo Rag Metallic Glossy
Print Size: 27"x9" Framed 39"x13"
Valued: N/A
Starting Bid: $100
Artist Bio:
Suda House is a photographer of national and international reputation living and working in San Diego, California. She is currently a Professor of Art and Photography at Grossmont College.
During the past forty-five years, her photographs have been widely exhibited. In 1983, Suda was one of six California photographers selected by former MOPA Director Arthur Ollman to use the Polaroid 20x24 in the galleries of the Museum. In 1993, her earlier work was included in a retrospective of artists and photographers working in Los Angeles during the 1960's to 1980's entitled Proof, which was recently showcased in Aperture Magazine’s “Los Angeles”.
In 2012, Suda’s work was included in an exhibit titled Then and Now, which was part of the year long Getty’s Pacific Standard Time: LA 1945 - 1980. From 2013 to 2022, she collaborated with fellow photographers from Los Angeles in the Museum Project by donating, a select group of her Aqueous Myths to over 70 museum collections throughout the United States and Europe.
Her earlier alternative photographic images from the 1970’s have been included in select exhibitions at Pier 24 (2017) and for the past year up until May, a camera-less fabric piece is on exhibit at SFMOMA, Sightlines (2022-2023).
Two series of work, the Aqueous Myths and Saving Grace, Photographs of the Seven Sisters of the Pleiades are presently on view at the Museum of Photographic Arts as The Water Holds Me, in Balboa Park, San Diego, until October 15, 2023.
Suda House
SudaHouse.com
@SudaHouse
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ITEM 14: "Bodie Barn" by David Marsh
Gold Toned Salt Print Print Size: N/A Framed 12.5"x12.5"
ITEM 14: "Bodie Barn" by David MarshITEM 14
Bodie Barn, 2022
David Marsh
Media: Gold Toned Salt Print on Hahnemuhle Platinum Rag
Print Size: N/A Framed 12.5"x12.5"
Valued: $200
Starting Bid: $100
Artist Bio:
Born in San Diego, California - David Marsh was a 20 year veteran of the video game industry before switching his creative focus to photography during the pandemic. He is self-taught in the historical salt printing process and currently resides in Escondido, California.
David Marsh
DavidMarshPrints.com
@NimbleDave
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ITEM 15: “Pink Peony“ by Marek Matusz
Four-Layer Gum Bichromate Print Size: 11"x14" Framed 16"x20"
ITEM 15: “Pink Peony“ by Marek MatuszITEM 15
Pink Peony
Marek Matusz
Media: Four-Layer Gum Bichromate on Fabriano Artistico Cold Press Paper
Print Size: 11"x14" Framed 16"x20"
Valued: $550
Starting Bid: $100
Artist Bio:
I was born in Poland, but have lived in the United States for over four decades and call Houston, Texas my home. My interests in photography go back over 50 years to my first, all manual Russian-made 35 mm camera. Botanical still lives and the landscape of the American West are my favorite subjects. I have spent a lot of time traveling in the West with my 4x5 Toyo view camera, switching to digital capture recently. I always saw the wor1d around me in black and white and for years I was a classical B&W photographer making silver gelatin prints.
I admired turn of the century platinum and albumen prints in various museums and collections, but always thought that the process of making them was too expensive and complicated. I started making alternative photographs about 30 years ago and have not looked back. I am currently working in several alternative photographic processes including cyanotype, platinum / palladium, albumen but gum bichromate is by far my favorite.
The technical issues of making these photographs are immense and require lots of practice during which hundreds of bad prints are made. The exciting part is that every step allows for a creative control of the final image. From the selection of best art papers, through mixing my own chemistry, applying photosensitive solution to papers, selecting pigments and metals, finally exposure and processing. All is done by hand, one photograph at a time creating a unique work of art that you can hold in your hand.
Last year I started experimenting with blending hand painted watercolor backgrounds with photographs of flowers to create prints that look more like watercolor paintings than photographs. Gum bichromate is the best medium to express my creative process, as it is all hand-made and allows to select colors/pigments. With each pigmented layer color image is build up to arrive at final look of the print. Two prints at the exhibit are examples of this recent work.
Marek Matusz
AlternativePhotography.com
@MarekMatusz
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ITEM 16: "Curiosity #4" by Lou McCorkle
Gum Over Cyanotype Print Print Size: 6"x6" Framed 11"x11"
ITEM 16: "Curiosity #4" by Lou McCorkleITEM 16
Curiosity #4, 2022
Lou McCorkle
Media: Gum Over Cyanotype Print
Print Size: 6"x6" Framed 11"x11"
Valued: $250
Starting Bid: $100
Artist Bio:
I'm a native Californian currently living in the San Francisco Bay Area. Graduated from California College of the Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with a major in painting. Retired from a career in logistics management. I'm an artist, wife, stepmom, grandmother, traveler, former scuba diver, terrible golfer, incompetent cook, and lousy housekeeper.
Currently enjoying all the opportunities for exploring and learning offered by an interest in photography.
Artist Statement:
Exploring connections
at the boundary between truth and dreams
marveling at the mystery of life
finding peace in the focused moment
Mystery intrigues me, how we're all connected amazes me, and beauty makes me sigh and long for more.
Lou McCorkle
LouMcCorkle.com
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ITEM 17: "Burnt Palms" by Ted Orland
Archival Pigment Print Print Size: 11"x11" Framed 16"x20"
ITEM 17: "Burnt Palms" by Ted OrlandITEM 17
Burnt Palms, Near the Salton Sea, 2015
Ted Orland
Media: Archival Pigment Print
Print Size: 11"x11" Framed 16"x20"
Valued: $250
Starting Bid: $100
Artist Bio:
Ted Orland lives in Santa Cruz, California, where he pursues parallel careers in teaching, writing & photography.
He began his professional career as a young graphic artist working for designer Charles Eames, and in the 1970’s became Assistant to Ansel Adams and printer of Adams’ Yosemite Special Edition prints. Ted was an Instructor at Adams’ Annual Yosemite Workshop for many years, and taught college-level photography at Stanford, University of Oregon, and several California community colleges. He continues to lead field workshops & master classes from time to time on topics of artistic development.
Ted is co-author (with David Bayles) of the classic artists’ survival guide Art & Fear, and author of its companion volume, The View From The Studio Door. A large selection of Ted’s earlier photographic art appears in his monograph Scenes of Wonder & Curiosity.
Ted's photography engages a wide range of contemporary subject matter, while continuing the West Coast tradition of fine craftsmanship and printmaking. His art has been widely exhibited and is included in major museum collections nationally. His work is represented by The Ansel Adams Gallery.
Ted Orland
ThePhotographersEyeCollective.com
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ITEM 18: "Getty Wall" by Judith Preston
Platinum Palladium Print Print Size: 6"x5" Framed 11"x14"
ITEM 18: "Getty Wall" by Judith PrestonITEM 18
Getty Wall
Judith Preston
Media: Platinum Palladium Print
Print Size: 6"x5" Framed 11"x14"
Valued: $200
Starting Bid: $100
Artist Bio:
Judith Preston is a photographer and educator who grew up in rural New England and now lives in Southern California. She first became interested in photography while pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in English from Keene State College in New Hampshire. Exposed to the work of Minor White and Ansel Adams as a student worker in the college’s audio-visual department, she began to pursue still photography as a visual avenue of communication.
Her first serious work was a documentary project of photographs of the residents of a low-income housing project in a small town in Southern Vermont. Turning her attention to the Vermont landscape, she began experimenting with black & white infrared film as a way to express the spiritual quality of nature. Wanting to delve into the medium even further, she entered the graduate program in photography at Ohio University, Athens, receiving her MFA in 1986. Currently, she is interested in low-tech approaches to image-making such as the Holga plastic camera and non-traditional alternative processes. Since 1988, she has taught traditional b&w darkroom, color negative printing, digital photography, and the history of photography.
Judith Preston
ThePhotographersEyeCollective.com
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ITEM 19: "Untitled (Trailer)" by Jacqueline Ramirez
Archival Pigment Print Print Size: 6.25"x6.25" Framed N/A
ITEM 19: "Untitled (Trailer)" by Jacqueline RamirezITEM 19
Untitled (Trailer), 2019, Real Property Series
Jacqueline Ramirez
Media: Archival Pigment Print
Print Size: 6.25"x6.25" Framed N/A
Valued: $300
Starting Bid: $150
Artist Bio:
Jacqueline Ramirez is a San Diego based artist and educator who has been photographing since high school when she received her first Kodak Instamatic camera. She received a BA in Journalism (Photojournalism emphasis) from SDSU. Inspired by the work of Robert Frank and
the creative energy of early punk rock culture, she pursued a spontaneous documentary style which led to further experimentation with pictorial organization, content, and alternative printing and process techniques. She has photographed many notable punk rock artists including the Ramones, Patti Smith and Richard Hell. Several of her photographs and issues of Substitute, San Diego’s first alternative music zine (which she co-edited) are currently included in I’m Not Like You: Notes from the San Diego Underground at the San Diego History Center in Balboa Park, an exhibit with celebrates the independent, uniquely creative spirit that distinguished skate, punk and hip-hop culture from the 1970s through the 1990s in San Diego.
She received her MFA in Creative Photography from California State University, Fullerton in 1997. Her images are characterized by continual experimentation as well as examination and analysis of ordinary, unremarkable moments and sites which characterize contemporary society. Her cameras of choice include several vintage Diana cameras, Nikon FM, Holga and iPhone.
She is an educator at Grossmont and San Diego Mesa College who believes a beautiful thing is never perfect and “the best teacher is also a student” (fortune cookie message).
Jacqueline Ramirez
JPhto9.Wixsite.com
@phtoj
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ITEM 20: "Cañón Sin Nombre" by Philipp Scholz Rittermann
Archival Pigment Print Print Size: N/A Framed: N/A
ITEM 20: "Cañón Sin Nombre" by Philipp Scholz RittermannITEM 20
Projection, Cañón Sin Nombre, Borrego, CA, 2022
Philipp Scholz Rittermann
Media: Archival Pigment Print
Print Size: N/A Framed: N/A
Valued: $800
Starting Bid: $250
Artist Bio:
Rittermann was born in 1955 in Lima, Perú, and moved to Germany in 1969. In the mid-seventies he co-founded a photography gallery and taught photography, emigrating to the United States in 1982. His photographs are included in more than 100 public, private, and corporate collections, from The Museum of Modern Art, New York to the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris. A mid-career survey of Rittermann’s work was held at the Museum of Photographic Arts San Diego, and Emperor’s River was presented at MCASD. Rittermann lives and works in San Diego.
Philipp Scholz Rittermann
Rittermann.com
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ITEM 21: "Moth" by Ken Rosenthal
Archival Pigment Print Print Size: 8"x8" Framed 11"x14"
ITEM 21: "Moth" by Ken RosenthalITEM 21
Moth
Days on the Mountain Series
Ken Rosenthal
Media: Archival Pigment Print on Cotton Rag
Print Size: 8"x8" Framed 11"x14"
Valued: $1000
Starting Bid: $400
Artist Bio:
Ken Rosenthal received a BA in still photography from the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts, and a MFA in photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His artwork is represented in the US by Klompching Gallery, New York; Etherton Gallery, Tucson; Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco.
Rosenthal’s photographs are in many public and private collections internationally including The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; The George Eastman House, Rochester, NY; Art Institute of Chicago; Center for Creative Photography, Tucson; The Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; National Portrait Gallery, London; Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego; Portland Art Museum; and the Wittliff Collections’ Southwest and Mexican Photography Collection, San Marcos, Texas, which holds a major collection of his work.
Since 2002 his work has been featured in more than 150 solo and group exhibitions internationally. Recent solo exhibitions have been held at Klompching Gallery, NY; Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA; Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires; El Cabildo de la Ciudad de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina; Espacio Foto, Montevideo, Uruguay; Etherton Gallery in Tucson, AZ; Wall Space Gallery, Santa Barbara; De Santos Gallery, Houston.
Rosenthal’s monograph Days On The Mountain, with essays by George Slade and Rosenthal, was published by Dark Spring Press in April 2019 in trade and limited edition book + print sets. A deluxe edition with a silver gelatin print will be released later in 2019. His first book, Ken Rosenthal : Photographs 2001-2009, was released in 2011, and includes an introductory text by curator Rebecca Senf. Photographs 2001-2009 was included on photo-eye’s Best Books of 2011 list. A hardbound limited edition of 50 with two toned silver gelatin prints, designed and produced by Cloverleaf Press, was released in 2012 and is now out of print.
Ken Rosenthal
KenRosenthal.com
@KenRosenthal
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ITEM 22: "Our Mothers’ Pitchers (1)" by Louise Russell
Color Print White Gold Print Size: 5.75x3.75 Framed 13.5x11.5
ITEM 22: "Our Mothers’ Pitchers (1)" by Louise RussellITEM 22
Our Mothers’ Pitchers (1), 2022
Louise Russell
Media: Color Digital Print with White Gold Leaf on Vellum
Print Size: 5.75"x3.75" Framed 13.5"x11.5"
Valued: $250
Starting Bid: $100
Artist Bio:
Louise searches for places and scenes that express open and unconditional time, where the past, present, and future may be felt. She frames when this combined time and a respect for the living earth and the gifts that the land gives come together. Sometimes these spaces point to the troubles of the place and our engagement with it. Her work has been influenced by Environmentalism, Buddhism, Beauty and her love of Nature.
Louise is a photo-based fine artist who photographs with an 8 x 10-inch pinhole and digital cameras producing silver gelatin, inkjet prints, and gold leaf prints on paper vellum. Her work has been featured on Lenscratch.com, presented at Open Show San Diego, 2018, and been exhibited at Photographer's Eye Gallery, Escondido, CA, Soho Photo Gallery, Size Matters Medium Festival, Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, PhotoPlace, and other galleries.
While she has always photographed, she had a career in education and educational software. She has an MA in Educational Technology and was an adjunct instructor of photography at Grossmont College for a few years. She is a member of Snow Creek Collective and San Diego River Artists’ Alliance.
I acknowledge that the land where I produce my photographs is the unceded, traditional territory of the Kumeyaay Band of Nations, and the land where this image was photographed is the land of the Northern and Southern Tewa.
Louise Russell
LouiseRussellPhoto.com
@LouiseRussellJ9
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ITEM 23: "Wisteria" by Brandy Sebastian
Fixed Chemi-Lumen Print Size: 8"x10" Framed 11"x14"
ITEM 23: "Wisteria" by Brandy SebastianITEM 23
Wisteria, 2023
Brandy Sebastian
Media: Scanned Black & White Warm Toned Ilford Fixed Chemi-Lumen, printed on Moab Juniper Baryta
Print Size: 8"x10" Framed 11"x14"
Valued: $475
Starting Bid: $150
Artist Bio:
Photographic Artist Brandy Sebastian is a storyteller by visual navigation. Her work is a reflection of thoughts, feelings, and philosophical beliefs that encompass an array of teachings both spiritual and universal. She has an innate ability to navigate images beyond the visual representation of what’s seen, as if to help express the aura of all that encircles us.
Brandy is a practiced photographer both professionally, local, and international, and is working towards a bachelor’s in digital photography with hopes of teaching Alternative means of photography and presentation techniques. She is an award winning photographer with works that have exhibited in solo and group exhibitions throughout the West coast in the United States. Currently, she is the owner and manager of Oak Gallery located in Carlsbad, California that houses 11 fine art photographers and artists. Brandy is a member of The Snow Creek Collaborative that both nurtures and supports each of their members through conversation and monthly critique of current work. As well as an Artist Alliance member of the Oceanside Museum of Art and Oak Gallery’s True North Photo Society.
Brandy Sebastian
BrandySebastian.com
@BrandyJSebastian
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ITEM 24: "Through the Wine Glass" by Wayne Swanson
Archival Pigment Print Print Size: 8"x10" Framed 12"x14"
ITEM 24: "Through the Wine Glass" by Wayne SwansonITEM 24
Through the Wine Glass, 2020, Through The Drinking Glass Series
Wayne Swanson
Media: Archival Pigment Print
Print Size: 8"x10" Framed 12"x14"
Valued: $300
Starting Bid: $100
Artist Bio:
Wayne Swanson is a fine art photographer based in San Diego who likes to find the wonder in the ordinary. It could be anything from the sculptural beauty of freeway interchanges to the unexpected shadows cast by wine glasses and bottles.
His interests range from shapes and forms, architecture, and landscapes to the highly personal. He is drawn to imagery related to time, memory, atmosphere, a sense of place, and a subtle sense of humor. Then he finds a means of presentation that suits his subject. That could mean single images, composites, or grids. The output could be analog or digital prints, Polaroids, image transfers, or 3 dimensional objects.
He is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, and his career has included writing and photography for publications and corporate clients. His photography has been exhibited widely in galleries, fine art publications, and the photobook California Love. As a writer, he is a contributing editor to PhotoBook Journal.
Artist Statement:
Through the Wine Glass is part of my series Through the Drinking Glass, which uses glass vessels to explore the interplay of light and shadow and line and form. Photographing the objects from above in bright sunlight reveals shapes and patterns that constantly change with the angle and intensity of the sun. Shadows of upright vessels reveal unseen lines and imperfections. Shadows of vessels on their side provide a 3-D effect, like an exploded diagram.
Wayne Swanson
WayneSwanson.Photography
@Swanson.Wayne
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ITEM 25: "If Hopper Happened on Havana…" by Marie Tartar
Chroma-Lux Metal Art Print Print Size: 20"x10"
ITEM 25: "If Hopper Happened on Havana…" by Marie TartarITEM 25
If Hopper Happened on Havana…, 2015
Marie Tartar
Media: Chroma-Lux Metal Art Print
Print Size: 20"x10"
Valued: $400
Starting Bid: $250
Artist Bio:
Marie Tartar is an insatiable traveler, diver, hiker and photographer. She is one half of the photographic partnership of San Diego-based Aperture Photo Arts (APA). Along with her husband, Steve Eilenberg, she explores the world photographically, on foot and by fin, specializing in underwater, landscape, wildlife, travel and architectural photography. Her images have been exhibited at the La Jolla Athenaeum, San Diego Natural History Museum, Oceanside Museum of Art, Birch Aquarium and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Her underwater imagery was featured at The Photographer’s Eye Gallery in January-February, 2020 in a show entitled The Tonic of Wildness.
Marie Tartar
AperturePhotoArts.com
@Marie.Tartar
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ITEM 26: "El Indio De Tijuana" by Marshall Williams
Archival Pigment Print Print Size: 16.5"x11" Framed 25"x19.625"
ITEM 26: "El Indio De Tijuana" by Marshall WilliamsITEM 26
El Indio De Tijuana, Escondido, California, 2021
Edition 1/12
Marshall Williams
Media: Archival Pigment Print on Hahnehüle Photo Rag Paper 308gsm
Print Size: 16.5"x11" Framed 25"x19.625"
Valued: $950
Starting Bid: $250
Artist Bio:
I’m inspired by the still of the early morning when all seems possible, a really well told story, the amazing people I meet and work with everyday and the abundance of beauty all around us in this world.
I thrive at making images on location. But I also enjoy working in our comfortable studio, centrally located in San Diego where we can accommodate commercial food shoots along with decent sized productions. And I benefit from a many year collaboration with my crew which makes shoot days go smoothly, especially in these challenging times and clients seem to really appreciate the seasoned team effort.
Marshall Williams
MarshallWilliams.com
@MarshallWilliams_Photo
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