Online Exhibition: Living and Photographing in an Imperfect Union
March 3rd - June 30
Award Winners:
- Lisa Tang Liu and James David Tabor Collaboration
- Kevin Baca
- Louise Russell
- Will Gibson
OUR STATEMENT:
“We the People, in Order to Form a More Perfect Union”… from the preamble to the U.S. Constitution, 1787, Philadelphia
Living and Photographing in an Imperfect Union
We came up with this theme after the November election, which triggered fear about the future
among so many artists. In this time of unmitigated chaos, the threat is real. We can only do what we can do…some of us create art. The photographers here have shown us through various ways of image-making, that their minds and hearts have grappled with this new reality and produced myriad ways of dealing with it. We need to continue. Please don’t stop.
We did not receive the number of entries we were hoping for, but what did come through was a wonderful variety, and juror Arthur Olmann was impressed, especially by those who chose the path of metaphor. Here is what he said when talking about his top four choices:
“There are so many ways to use metaphors, and some photographers found them. I was very pleased with the Tabor and Tang Liu entries. A great way to deal with the separations from others that we are experiencing….because of fear of one kind or another. Baca looked at the “edges” of our “civilization”, where the natural gives way to the synthetic….the interstices spaces. Gibson, by using infrared gives things that irradiated nuclear winter feeling, while still everything is so heavenly beautiful. And Russell by using tripod, pinhole and scanner and photoshop has created a hybrid of processes and thus appearances. Then by employing the old romantic, classic viewpoint and pristine place selections she also gives us a fall from grace interruption of unlovely human intrusions. Identifying mundane places in ways that identify issues is a way to show a subtler and in-the-end more meaningful statement.” A. O.
Please enjoy the results of this juried exhibition, selected by Arthur Olmann. We look forward to producing a Blurb book in the next several weeks. Stay tuned.
Donna Cosentino, Director
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Please contact Donna Cosentino for private tours.
Gallery hours are Friday and Saturday, 11am-5pm OR you may make an appointment to view our exhibitions.
+Gallery visits for individuals or classes are also available by appointment.
+There is no charge to visit and there is free parking in front and behind the gallery space.
ALWAYS ON VIEW ARE WORKS BY OUR COLLECTIVE OF FIFTEEN PHOTOGRAPHERS.
OUR COLLECTIVE IS:
TERRY SCOTT ALLEN ï ROBERT BARRY ï BARBARA BECK ï GRANT BRITTAIN ï JOHN CLARKï DONNA COSENTINO ï STEPHEN DAVIS ï CARLA De DOMINICIS ï DEB HELLMAN ï JODIE HULDEN ï EMILY KIM ï DAVID MARSH ï BRANDY SEBASTIAN ï WAYNE SWANSON ï TOM VANCISIN ï KEIKO YAMASAKI ï BOB YOUNGER
CLICK ON IMAGES TO VIEW INDIVIDUAL IMAGE GALLERY
March 3rd - June 30
Award Winners:
- Lisa Tang Liu and James David Tabor Collaboration
- Kevin Baca
- Louise Russell
- Will Gibson
OUR STATEMENT:
“We the People, in Order to Form a More Perfect Union”… from the preamble to the U.S. Constitution, 1787, Philadelphia
Living and Photographing in an Imperfect Union
We came up with this theme after the November election, which triggered fear about the future
among so many artists. In this time of unmitigated chaos, the threat is real. We can only do what we can do…some of us create art. The photographers here have shown us through various ways of image-making, that their minds and hearts have grappled with this new reality and produced myriad ways of dealing with it. We need to continue. Please don’t stop.
We did not receive the number of entries we were hoping for, but what did come through was a wonderful variety, and juror Arthur Olmann was impressed, especially by those who chose the path of metaphor. Here is what he said when talking about his top four choices:
“There are so many ways to use metaphors, and some photographers found them. I was very pleased with the Tabor and Tang Liu entries. A great way to deal with the separations from others that we are experiencing….because of fear of one kind or another. Baca looked at the “edges” of our “civilization”, where the natural gives way to the synthetic….the interstices spaces. Gibson, by using infrared gives things that irradiated nuclear winter feeling, while still everything is so heavenly beautiful. And Russell by using tripod, pinhole and scanner and photoshop has created a hybrid of processes and thus appearances. Then by employing the old romantic, classic viewpoint and pristine place selections she also gives us a fall from grace interruption of unlovely human intrusions. Identifying mundane places in ways that identify issues is a way to show a subtler and in-the-end more meaningful statement.” A. O.
Please enjoy the results of this juried exhibition, selected by Arthur Olmann. We look forward to producing a Blurb book in the next several weeks. Stay tuned.
Donna Cosentino, Director
________________________________________________________________________________
Please contact Donna Cosentino for private tours.
Gallery hours are Friday and Saturday, 11am-5pm OR you may make an appointment to view our exhibitions.
+Gallery visits for individuals or classes are also available by appointment.
+There is no charge to visit and there is free parking in front and behind the gallery space.
ALWAYS ON VIEW ARE WORKS BY OUR COLLECTIVE OF FIFTEEN PHOTOGRAPHERS.
OUR COLLECTIVE IS:
TERRY SCOTT ALLEN ï ROBERT BARRY ï BARBARA BECK ï GRANT BRITTAIN ï JOHN CLARKï DONNA COSENTINO ï STEPHEN DAVIS ï CARLA De DOMINICIS ï DEB HELLMAN ï JODIE HULDEN ï EMILY KIM ï DAVID MARSH ï BRANDY SEBASTIAN ï WAYNE SWANSON ï TOM VANCISIN ï KEIKO YAMASAKI ï BOB YOUNGER
CLICK ON IMAGES TO VIEW INDIVIDUAL IMAGE GALLERY
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