The Portland Metro Photographic News

Key to a vibrant art community are the venues available to display and sell the works of local and nationally known artists.  The same is true for photography.  Portland has a variety of galleries where the public and collectors can experience the vision, passion and works of noted national and local commercial and fine art photographers.

This page will track local gallery openings and events that are guaranteed to satisfy your desire to encounter Portland's creative photographic talent.  Galleries are invited and encouraged to submit their event to PMPN by sending a descriptive and illustrated email to: mailto:reporter@pmpnonline.com

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from Scott Jones - PortlandPhotoEvent

David Lorenz Winston’s, “Airport Moment (Ashland, Oregon)”, digital archival print, 2009; part of the exhibition at PDX)

The Regional Arts & Culture Council, in collaboration with the Port of Portland, has organized an aviation themed photography exhibition for the display cases that line Concourse A at Portland International Airport.  While an exhibition that presents photographs of airplanes, airports and air travel may seem an obvious choice for PDX, the seven professional and amateur photographers selected for The Sky’s the Limit were picked for their creative interpretations of the theme—everything from hot air balloons, and family gatherings at rural airports to abstract aerial photography and portraits of passengers waiting at departure gates is touched on.  The 75 works in this show can be viewed all along Concourse A in the main terminal at PDX.  Access to Concourse A is beyond the security checkpoint, but the display cases can be reached by all ticketed passengers and anyone arriving or transferring at the airport.  The exhibition is up for six months (through the end of July, 2010) so plan a little extra time at the airport the next time you fly. 

The Sky’s the Limit: Photographs of Aviation, Air Travel and Airports

An exhibition of photographs by regional artists with an aviation theme. 

Concourse A at Portland International Airport

(Concourse A is beyond security and access is available to ticketed passengers only).
For more information about this exhibition contact Keith Lachowicz, Public Art Collections Manager, at 503-823-5404; klachowicz@racc.org. 

from Scott Jones - PortlandPhotoEvent

© Dorothee Deiss: The Twins, from the series: As if nothing happened, 2008 C-Print

This year 593 artists entered Photolucida’s Critical Mass, a program designed to expose the world's best emerging and mid-career photography to a variety of curators, editors, gallerists, and publishers. After an initial pre-screening, the work of 175 Finalists went on to be viewed, and voted on, by more than 200 jurors. The Critical Mass Top 50 is the result of this democratic process.
 
Photographic Center Northwest, Flak Photo, and Photolucida are proud to present EXPOSED: Critical Mass 2009, a celebratory exhibition of the Critical Mass 2009 Top 50. Juried by Flak Photo Editor Andy Adams, EXPOSED furthers the missions of all three organizations by exposing these artists to multiple enthusiastic art communities, both off- and online. http://www.pcnw.org/gallery/schedule.php#show-15
 

Juror Lecture: The Internet, Social Media & Photography Online

Despite its limitations, the Internet is changing the way we consider photography and the medium is undergoing remarkable transformations. No longer relegated to the gallery wall or the printed page — photoblogs, online magazines and digital galleries have exploded in recent years — photography now regularly (and sometimes exclusively) appears on computer screens. More significantly, the new media is influencing contemporary photography culture around the world: connecting international audiences to art experiences, enabling the discovery of new work and presenting never-before-seen channels of expression and communication. Today's photographer surfs the web, subscribes to blog updates, uses search engines to access photo websites, and interacts with a global community of colleagues by participating in social networks like Flickr, Facebook and Twitter. All of this results in a collaborative experience that's dissolving international boundaries and creating a community of photographers that interacts and shares their work more spontaneously than ever before.

 from Scott Jones - PortlandPhotoEvent

"Observing the Human Parade"

“I have now been photographing for 30 years and my main interest during that time has been the natural landscape. However, somewhere along the way I developed an interest in photographing people in a candid way....I think of myself as an anthropological researcher when I am making these photographs. I am interested in expressions, gestures, relationships (especially familial resemblances), and clothing styles. I want to make photographs that people might look at 100 years from now and say, ‘These photos make me feel like I am in the year 2009.’” - David Lee

March 4th - May 30th, 2010
Opening Reception with the artist: First Thursday, March 4th, 6-9pm
 
3D Center of Art & Photography
1928 NW Lovejoy
Portland, OR 97209
503.227.6667
Thursday - Saturday, 11am-5pm
Sunday, 1-5pm
First Thursday (Free), 6-9pm
Adults (15 and over) - $5.00
Youth (14 and under) - Free
Contact: Paul Brenner, Director 503.227.6667 info@3dcenter.us

 from Scott Jones - PortlandPhotoEvent

© Erick Brody

"Most people think of Fort Stevens as a place of plain gray concrete.  I have been working at Ft Stevens for the last twenty years in all seasons of the year with film in different formats and more recently with a digital camera.

Recently, I have begun to use color to explore the interesting nooks and crannies of this most fascinating subject. Since I have been a black and white photographer for most of the last 50 years, this represents a new approach to a familiar location."

 March 1 – March 31, 2010

Pro Photo Supply
1112 NW 19th Avenue
Portland, Oregon 97209
Monday 7:30am-6:00pm
Tuesday-Friday 8:30am-6:00pm
Saturday 9:00am-5:00pm
Sunday closed
phone 503-241-1112

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Rick Regan, longtime Portland photographer, presents his newest images from two cultures.

February 27 - March 26, 2010
 
Camerawork Gallery
Linfield College Nursing Campus
Peterson Hall
2255 NW Northrup
Portland, OR 97210
(503) 226-4847
9-5 Monday through Saturday, often open evenings and other hours by chance
On the Portland Streetcar Line - NW 22nd & Northrup Stop
Enter outdoor plaza and then Peterson Hall

TheCameraworkGallery@comcast.net

 Susan Burnstine’s ongoing body of work “Within Shadows” explores the fleeting moments between dreaming and waking – the blurred seconds in which imagination and reality collide.
 
The dreamlike black and white images are created entirely in-camera, rather than with post-processing manipulations. To achieve her unique look, she created twenty-one hand-made film cameras and lenses that are frequently unpredictable and technically challenging. The cameras are primarily made out of plastic, vintage camera parts, and random household objects and the single element lenses are molded out of plastic and rubber. Learning to overcome their extensive limitations has required her to rely on instinct and intuition – the same tools that are key when attempting to interpret dreams.
 
Susan Burnstine is an award winning fine art and commercial photographer originally from Chicago now based in Los Angeles. Susan is represented in galleries across the country and widely published throughout the world. She has also written for several photography magazines, including a monthly column for Black & White Photography (UK). Susan was Nominated for the 2009 Santa Fe Prize for Photography and won B&W Magazine’s 2008 Portfolio Spotlight Award.

March 5th – 28th, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, March 5th, 6-9pm
Artist’s Lecture: Saturday, March 6th, 12pm
 
Newspace Center for Photography
1632 SE 10th Ave. Portland, OR 97214
503.963.1935
info@newspacephoto.org
Monday through Thursday 10am - 10:30pm
Friday through Sunday 10am - 6pm

from Scott Jones - PortlandPhotoEvent

 Why Not? by John Dauguess

Why Not? is John Bauguess's first retrospective, spanning nearly four decades of his career as a fine art and commercial photographer, journalist, and documentarian based in Oregon.
 
Bauguess's black-and-white photographs depict the fleeting theatricality he finds in daily life on city streets, at civic celebrations, and in the places where people relax and play.  Sometimes lighthearted, often surprising, they offer glimpses of the region's recent history.We see John Belushi on set in Animal House, Senator Mark Hatfield working a crowd in Eugene, and Ken Kesey in a reflective moment with his dogs. And Oregon's less famous fiddlers, fair-goers, and café patrons also have their place in Bauguess's everyday tableaux.
 
John Bauguess studied journalism and creative writing at the University of Oregon, and photography at the San Francisco Art Institute.Working as a photographer since 1967, Bauguess' images have appeared in numerous newspapers, periodicals, and books published in the US and abroad, including Barry Lopez's Of Wolves and Men (1978). His work has been exhibited across Oregon and Washington, in New York, and is part of the collections of the Knight Library at the University of Oregon, the Oregon State Capitol, and the Oregon Liquor and Control Commission.

Demonstrations by Caleb Charland

Caleb Charland's evocative black-and-white images in his series, Demonstrations, stem from a sense of wonder about the physical world. Charland was raised in a do-it-yourself household in rural Maine, helping his father remodel family homes. This instilled in him an awareness of the potential for the creative use of everyday objects, and how they might be employed to fabricate unique aesthetic visions.
 
Beginning with a question like "What would happen if . . . ," Charland assembles and conducts sculptural "experiments" by combining old tools, familiar materials, and the fundamental forces of nature. Whether an electrified skeleton key or a sparkler run around a toy racecar track, what we see in Demonstrations is a not simply a representation of his results: making photographs informs Charland's iterative process.
 
"I first test my assumptions about the interactions of certain objects or forces," Charland explains. "Often this leads to more fascinating properties than I could have imagined. As each image develops over time, the subject's natural tendencies strongly influence my aesthetic decisions."

Charland earned a BFA in photography with departmental honors from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2004, and is currently completing an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as a Trustees Fellow. His work is in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and The Progressive Collection.

from Scott Jones - PortlandPhotoEvent

Newspace Center for Photography is pleased to present our 2010 Themed Exhibition, opening February 5th.  The exhibition brings a diverse array of modern photography from around the country to Portland and provides exposure for talented emerging and mid-career artists.  From over 300 entries and close to 2,000 individual images, Newspace Executive Director Chris Bennett has chosen 45 images for this year's themed show.
 
View the entire show:  http://www.newspacephoto.org/gallery/carnival.php

“Carnival” - 2010 Themed Exhibition
Curated by Newspace Executive Director Chris Bennett
 
February 5th  through 28th, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, February 5th 6-9pm
 
Newspace Center for Photography
1632 SE 10th Ave. Portland, OR 97214
503.963.1935
info@newspacephoto.org
Monday through Thursday 10am - 10:30pm
Friday through Sunday 10am - 6pm

from Scott Jones - PortlandPhotoEvent

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Oregon City Wellness & Family Medicine is pleased to present "Faces and Places", a collection of images by Portland photographer Philip B. Bowser. The show features selections from recent work.

         
(Left: Fireworks Over Portland, Right: Chance Encounter ©Philip B. Bowser, 2009)

Philip B. Bowser's father was a newspaper photographer, and he learned traditional wet darkroom techniques before he was tall enough to peek over the edge of the developer tray without tiptoes. Through college he worked as a stringer for United Press International, and shot weddings and events after he obtained a steady "day job." He is now retired, so there is plenty of time to continue his study of photography. His photos have appeared in newspapers, association publications and websites, and the Rodale Press magazine, Organic Gardening.

Philip B. Bowser - "Faces and Places"

January 15 - March 30, 2010

Oregon City Wellness-Family Medicine (William C. Barth MD)
1230 Division Street
Oregon City, OR 97045-1556
Monday - Friday  8:30am~5:00pm
(503) 655-5327‎

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Local photographer Friderike Heuer's photomontage series, based on poems about exile, emigration and displacement will be showcased at Artist Repertory Theatre throughout the run of Kindertransport.

Friderike Heuer - Fugue: Exile, Emigration and Displacement

February 25th - March 21st, 2010
Reception and Artist Talk: Sunday, February 28, 2010 at 12:30 - 2 pm.
 
 
Artists Repertory Theatre
Alder Stage
1515 Southwest Morrison Street
Portland, OR 97205-1814
Available for Viewing 12pm-7:30pm Tues-Sat and 12pm-2pm Sun
Admission is Free

Hot Shot Eastbound at Laeger, West Virginia

 
Charles A. Hartman Fine Art is excited to present The Last Steam Railroad in America, a dramatic selection of images by the late O. Winston Link. This ambitious series of photographs chronicles the final years of the Norfolk & Western Railway in the late 1950s. With this visual document, Link set out to capture the obsolescence of the steam locomotive and, with it, the railroad towns, lifestyle and labor force that the train culture had supported. Not only did he pioneer new techniques in night photography to achieve great cinematic effect, he also released high-quality recordings of the fleeting sounds of the steam railroad.
 
Ogle Winston Link was born in Brooklyn in 1914, and died in South Salem, New York in 2001. As a teenager, he developed his early interests in photography, storytelling, tools, locomotives and rail yards. Amid the Depression Era, Link graduated from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn with a degree in civil engineering. Soon after, he took a job as a photographer for a public relations firm, an act that launched his lifelong career as a commercial photographer and gave him the means to finance his own fine art work. He didn’t attempt to exhibit this series until 1983, the same year he retired from advertising. The work has since been exhibited throughout the U.S., Europe and in Japan and has been collected by major museums around the world.

February 3 – March 13, 2010
Opening Reception on First Thursday, February 4, 5:30—8:30pm
 
Charles A. Hartman Fine Art
134 NW 8th Avenue
Portland, OR 97209
Tuesday - Saturday 11-6pm
(503) 287-3886
charles@hartmanfineart.net

View O. Winston Link: The Last Steam Railroad in America exhibition online: http://hartmanfineart.net/exhibition/gallery/40/

 from Scott Jones - PortlandPhotoEvent

Corvallis photographer Rich Bergeman is debuting a new series of platinum prints made with a home-made pinhole camera at the Corvallis Arts Centers' Corrine Woodman Gallery Feb. 2 through March 6. The images, all made within the past seven months, offer an intimate look at curious details found at docks and along shorelines from Newport Harbor to Winchester Bay.

The photographs were taken with a simple camera that Bergeman fashioned out of a wooden cigar box fitted with a 5"x7" film holder on the back and a tiny hole punched in the front. The 60-year-old photographer began experimenting with a pinhole camera last summer and was immediately attracted to its characteristic wide-eyed look and the low-tech simplicity of the process. "Ever since then it seems like I'm discovering new ways of seeing familiar subject matter," he said.

Because pinhole cameras do not use a lens, they make images that are sharper and brighter in the center than at the edges, and can be placed extremely close to subjects. And because there is no way to accurately preview the picture being taken, there's a "liberating sense of chance and serendipity to seeing what you've captured when you develop the film," he said. "For me, it takes photography back to its roots."

The prints themselves are done in the traditional 19th century platinum process, one of photography's earliest and most permanent printing methods. Because enlargements are not possible, the prints can only be as large as the negatives-in this case, 5x7 inches.

Rich Bergeman - Platinum Pinholes

Feb. 2 - March 6, 2010

Corrine Woodman Gallery
Corvallis Arts Center
700 SW Madison Ave.
Corvallis, OR 97330
541-754-1551
12-5pm Tuesday through Saturday

 
Crossings -Suzhou Alley No. 5 © Andrew Binkley

 23 Sandy Gallery is pleased to host a traveling exhibition organized by wall space gallery (sic) in Seattle and juried by Carol McCusker, Curator of Photography at the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, California. New Directions 2010, Down + Out seeks to challenge our notions of our visual landscape. Curated from over 1,000 submitted images, and a pool of 200 talented artists, the field has been narrowed to a select group of images to showcase imaginative vertical and horizontal perspectives.
 
The idea behind Down + Out brings to mind a quote from art historian, Albert Boime, who described a “magisterial gaze” that gave early Americans, through painting and printmaking, a view at one with God, hence, manifest destiny. The idea of distance, of visual space, may simply be the romance of the road, or curiosity about what lies just out of sight—an American impulse from early pioneers to Jack Kerouac.
 
Numerous painters and photographers have employed these vantage points—subsequently, they run the risk of cliché. When done well, however, each reveals the unexpected. As McCusker notes, “The optimist in me delights at the disorienting perspective of looking down whereby familiar objects become abstract and dizzyingly beautiful, to looking out, with that forward motion promising adventure or escape.”
 
Down + Out features 42 photographers including four from Portland: Chris Bennett, Heidi Bertman, Jeffrey Krolick and Duc Ly. The show will also feature a strong international contingent, including artists from Mexico, England, Israel and Argentina.
 
About Carol McCusker
 
Carol McCusker is curator of photography at the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego. She received her Ph.D. in art history with an emphasis on the history of photography and film history at the University of New Mexico (UNM), Albuquerque. She has curated numerous exhibitions at MoPA and UNM, and is contributing author to Paul Outerbridge (Taschen, 1999); First Photographs: William Henry Fox Talbot and The Birth of Photography (powerHouse, 2002); James Fee: The Peleliu Project (Seraphin, 2002); Phil Stern: A Life's Work (powerHouse, 2003); Terry Falke: Observations in an Occupied Wilderness (Chronicle, 2006); and Breaking the Frame: Pioneering Women in Photojournalism (MoPA, 2006) The Roads Most Traveled: Migration Photographs by Don Bartletti (2006), Rebels & Revelers: Experimental Decades 1970s-1980s (2007), Public Privacy: Wendy Richmond's Surreptitious Cellphone (2007), and The Photographer's Eye (2008)
 
McCusker’s freelance writing has been published in The Photo Review, Communication Arts, and she is a regular contributor to B&W and Color magazines. In recent years, McCusker has reviewed portfolios at Houston Fotofest, Review Santa Fe, Photo L.A., Atlanta Celebrates Photography, Photo Lucida, and in November, the Lishui Photo Festival, China. She was also a nominator for the 2009 ICP Infinity Awards, and a Juror for the 2008 Julia Dean Berenice Abbott Award.
 
About wall space gallery
 
wall space is a gallery focused on photography, featuring new and emerging artists. The gallery opened in 2004 in the Pioneer Square neighborhood of Seattle, showcasing local and national talents. wall space promotes artists with unique and creative visions in photography, using both traditional and alternative techniques. Showcasing artists who transcend the medium, looking to expand the photographic arts, the gallery highlights creativity in storytelling.
 
About 23 Sandy Gallery
 
23 Sandy Gallery is a fine art gallery located just east of downtown, in Portland’s central east side arts district. The gallery presents local and national artists working in contemporary book arts, painting, photography and printmaking. The gallery also serves as a community gathering space with lectures, workshops, salons, readings and more.

 from Scott Jones - PortlandPhotoEvent

In November 2008, Carol Isaak began her personal odyssey in China following an inland route for six weeks.  Not seduced by the exotic, she sought evidence of people living in ordinary circumstances.
 
Her work, like that of a geologist who extracts a sample of the earth’s layers, offers insight into the innovations and traditions as China surges into the 21st Century.
 

Showcased by this group exhibit are two local companies who have similar missions: supporting and promoting artists through exceptional products that rely on attention to detail and a crafted quality that enhances artwork. In this show, these two companies will launch their collaboration of Pushdot fine art prints mounted to Plywerk bamboo panels.

The exhibition features eight amazing female artists whose work demonstrates what happens when presentation says it all. Plywerk provides artists and photographers with sustainable bamboo art panels that photojournalist Kim Oanh Nguyen came up with as a way to present and sell her photography. Kim is the cofounder of Plywerk along with Kjell van Zoen—they are part of this local economy and know that their growth means the growth of their partners and their community. Plywerk is made in Portland by real humans.
 
Check out artwork by:

• • Traci French
  • Sarah Kamsler
  • Nicole Linde
  • Mulysa Melco
  • Kim Oanh Nguyen
  • Ann Ploeger
  • Georgia Stylou
  • Tatiana Wills

 Friday February 5th, 2010 through Friday February 26th, 2010
1st Friday Artist Reception: February 26th, 2010, 6-9pm
 
Pushdot Studio
1021 SE Caruthers St.
Portland, OR 97214
503.224.5925 phone
503.224.5920 fax
Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri 8:30am to 5:00pm

from Scott Jones - PortlandPhotoEvent

 In February, PDX Across the Hall will present a group show in conjunction with Pulliam Gallery. PDX will exhibit new works by Cynthia Lahti, Ellen George and Masao Yamamot.

Japanese artist Masao Yamamoto uses photography to capture images evoking memories, blurring the border between painting and photography by experimenting with printing surfaces. The photographs are small, intimate, delicate and spiritual, bringing forth an emotional connection to place and a subtle nostalgia.
 
Also being exhibited (non-photography):
 
Lahti is known for her expressive, gestural sculptures and drawings. Her imagery is evocative of emotional and elemental states of mind. Her sculptures explore a realm between rawness and refinement; rough-hewn immediacy coalesces with an offbeat elegance, evoking a sense of quiet melancholy and nostalgia.

George's work concerns botanical and biological inspirations from the natural world around her; breathing, living, growing and surprising. George's sense of scale ranges from the intimate and hushed to the grand and explosive. “I received odd stones and twigs as souvenirs from several friend's travels in recent months – I’ve been making pieces inspired by those souvenirs.” – Ellen George

 February 2 – February 27, 2010
Open First Thursday February 4th, 2009, 6:00 – 8:00 pm
 
"PDX Across the Hall" Gallery
929 NW Flanders Street
Portland, OR 97209
11:00am-6:00pm Tues. - Sat.
(503) 222-0063 

Unfolding Time: Vietnamese Photography, Then and Now is an exhibition of Vietnamese photography by two contemporary women photographers: Liza Nyugen and An-My Lê. This exhibition brings together these diverse yet interrelated bodies of work in order to explore the relationship between aesthetic experience, representation, place, and memory. It is not about the politics of identity per se, but about artists' and individuals' gravitation to the photographic image as a uniquely personal and fictive agent for the stimulation of personal experience and cultural critique.
 
Through an extensive outreach initiative, members of Portland's Vietnamese community are invited to bring their family photographs to Blue Sky throughout the course of the exhibition. Unfolding Time: Vietnamese Photography, Then and Now coincides with the celebration of Tết Nguyên Đán, Vietnamese New Year.

 Liza Nyugen visited Vietnam for the first time in 2000. During a second trip in 2004, the artist traveled to villages and forests decimated by Agent Orange and other wartime toxins. Nyugen collected handfuls of earth from nineteen sites, carried the soil back to her studio in Europe, and photographed each sample on a clinical white background. Entitled Surface, Nyugen's series is an archive of absence and remembrance. In the artist's words, the photographs represent "... bodies turned into dust." Re-imagining the ravaged soil of her father's native country, Surface is a somber and beautiful portrait of loss amidst new possibilities.
 
Liza Nguyen was born in France in 1979. Nguyen studied fine art and photography in France, and in Germany at the Kunstakademie of Düsseldorf with Thomas Ruff. She completed a Masters Degree in Photography at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure Louis-Lumière, Paris (2003), and a Masters Degree in Art at the Sorbonne (2004). Liza Nyugen Lives and works in Paris and Düsseldorf.

 An-My Lê, 29 Palms

An-My Lê's photographs and films examine the impact, consequences, and representation of war through the violent transformation of the natural landscape into real and fictional battlefields. Lê explores the disjunction between wars as historical events and the ubiquitous portrayal of war in contemporary entertainment, politics, and collective consciousness. Lê's 29 Palms (2003-04) documents United States Marines conducting war exercises in a virtual Middle East constructed in the California desert. Lê captures the Marines rehearsing a fictional war, and playing the role of their adversaries.
 
An-My Lê was born in Saigon, Vietnam in 1960. Lê fled Vietnam with her family as a teenager in 1975, eventually settling in the United States as a political refugee. Lê received BAS and MS degrees in biology from Stanford University (1981, 1985) and an MFA from Yale University (1993).

Unfolding Time: Vietnamese Photography, Then and Now is curated by Blue Sky with Christopher Rauschenberg and Stephanie Snyder, Curator, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College.

 February 4 - 28, 2010
Opening Reception: First Thursday, February 4, 6:00 - 9:00 PM
Panel Discussion: Saturday, February 27, 3:00 PM
Los Angeles photography curator Sam Lee speaks on "War and Vietnamese Photography," followed by a community discussion with curators Christopher Rauschenberg and Stephanie Snyder.
 
Blue Sky Gallery
122 NW 8th
Portland, Oregon 97209
Noon - 5 pm Tuesday through Sunday
(503) 225-0210
bluesky@blueskygallery.org

© Mike Putman

"I’m excited to announce that I recently hung some of my new Oregon Landscape Photography at the Volcano Vineyards Tasting room in Downtown Bend.  Their address is 126 NW Minnesota St., which is located between Bond St. and Wall St.  Through some mutual friends, Mark Merrick and Susan Ruzzo, we have gotten to know Scott and Liz Ratcliff who are the owner operators of the Volcano Vineyards  and we all decided that their beautiful new tasting room would be an excellent location to share my art work with the people of Bend.  They source their grapes in Southern Oregon where they craft phenomenal reds and whites.  Their wines really are excellent. In fact, Volcano Vineyards is considered to be the most highly decorated winery for its size in the U.S.!  Follow this link for some more information about Volcano Vineyards’ recent awards.  Volcano Vineyards. Below is one of the Oregon Landscape photographs that are currently on display at Volcano." - Mike Putman

Visit Mike's website.

Volcano Vineyards

126 NW Minnesota Street

Bend, Oregon

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 January 7 - 30, 2010
First Thursday Reception: Thursday, January 7, 6-9pm
 
Elizabeth Leach Gallery
417 NW 9th
Portland, Oregon 97209
503.224.0521
www.elizabethleach.com

In 2008 and 2009 Christopher Rauschenberg made several trips to the acclaimed Marché aux Puces at Saint Ouen, just outside of Paris. These visits, and Rauschenberg's habit of photographing the things he encounters in his daily life, resulted in the exhibition Paris Flea Market, in which the jumbled stalls and crowded viewing rooms reflect the beauty and accidental narratives of surprising, unintentional juxtapositions of objects. Well-known for his panoramic, assembled images, Rauschenberg’s latest body of work is composed of single images, which capture and crystallize specific moments of wit and beauty.
 
Born in New York in 1951, Rauschenberg has photographed locations around the world, including Argentina, Austria, Brazil, China, Cuba, the Czech Republic, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Honduras, Holland, Italy, Sweden and Switzerland. A founding member of Portland, OR’s non-profit Blue Sky Gallery, Rauschenberg has exhibited with the Elizabeth Leach Gallery since 1989. His work has been shown internationally in Sweden, Argentina, and Germany, as well as many other countries. Regionally, his work has been exhibited at the Portland Art Museum, the Nine Gallery, and the ArtGym at Marylhurst University.

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Myron Filene's "A Response to Minimalism" is work from 2008 which was created after an eight month study of minimalist artists and installations.  Each set of compositions (16 to 28  4" x 6" prints) is developed using a repetition of the same panoramic sequence rearranged but still in order.  As with much of the minimalist work, architectural and geometrical images dominate.
 
The entire portfolio as well as other work by Myron Filene can be seen at www.myronart.com

January and February 2010
 
BellaSelva K & F Coffee House
2706 SE 26th Ave.
Portland, OR 77202
503-238-2547
 
Open Early morning until evening daily

Photographer Stan Tzonev is exhibiting at the Camas Public Library's Second Story Gallery for the month of January.  There is an artist reception on Friday, January 8, from 5 to 8 p.m.

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"Desert Dance: Panorama Photographs" by Kurt Norlin

(includes about 20 wide-format images in both color and black-and-white)

An Albany photographer, Kurt Norlin has been studying and photographing the Central and Eastern Oregon landscape for more than 20 years. Although he uses a variety of cameras in his work, Norlin says the panorama is one of his favorites and is especially suited to the expansive horizons of Eastern Oregon. He uses a Fuji camera that makes 2" x 6.5" negatives, and from them creates large digital prints, some as wide as 32 inches. Norlin recently released a self-published book of his toy camera photographs, "Some Twenty Odd Images," and is currently working on a book of his panoramic work. Born in Turner, OR, Norlin has an Master of Fine Arts in photography from the University of Oregon and formerly operated a commercial studio in Corvallis called Lumidex Photography. He managed the darkroom at LBCC and taught photography classes there from 1994 until last year, when the college shut down the photography program due to budget cuts.

Jan. 4 -29, 2010
Gallery Talk and Reception Thursday, Jan. 21, 7:30-9pm

South Santiam Hall Gallery
Linn-Benton Community College
6500 SW  Pacific Blvd
Albany, OR 97321
541-917-4237
linnbenton.edu/go/art-gallery
Weekdays 8am-5pm

Kurt has recently published a book that is available through Blurb.

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The images in this show are of ordinary utilitarian objects such as household and industrial products that are at the ends of their useful lives.  They have been altered or disengaged from their original purposes and now, in their abstracted states, are open to new viewpoints and interpretations.

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Untitled I & II, (Tokyo), 2009

The Japanese have an expression: "Stupid People Love High Places." Recently, Shawn Records had the opportunity to circumnavigate the globe in just 18 days, with stops in Paris, London, Madrid, and Tokyo. PDX Gallery, through its Window Project, is proud to present "Stupid People Love High Places," a slideshow of photographs, primarily drawn from Records' recent  travels. Utilizing the slideshow format to explore the potential of quantity and sequencing not afforded by a gallery wall, Records' work weaves between the intimate and the distant; exploring the contrast between the expectations of travel and the realities of traveling. We are presented with big places and small moments, with no overt umbrella of meaning, narrative, or context. Records presents these photographs simply as he's made them- as scraps that he's recently picked up along the way- souvenirs and treasures; shiny, exotic rectangles from around the globe.

January 2 – 30, 2010
 
PDX Window Project
925 NW Flanders Street
Portland, OR
info@pdxcontemporaryart.com
24 hours a day, view from sidewalk

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"Sacred Sites" by Dale Walsh

“This is a selection of stereoscopic imagery of sacred urban and natural environments at times juxtaposed with their profane counterparts. It is a celebration of different perspectives, cultures and people. It is also an attempt to understand and learn from the other cultures. It is a search for meaning. It is connecting to something beyond one’s own individual reality.” - Dale Walsh. The images date from 1986 to present and include photographs from Australia, Asia, North and South America.

January 7th through February 28, 2010

Opening Reception: First Thursday, January 7, 2010, 6-9- p.m.

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“Moving Still” by Santiago Caicedo, “Skydiving” by Eric Deren, “Elevation” by Eric Kurland, and “Fireworks” by Takashi Sekitani “Moving Still” uses stunning animation to turn an everyday Parisian train ride into an apocalyptic vision. “Skydiving” puts the viewer right into the action with a head-mounted 3D video camera. It captures group dive maneuvers that induce breathlessness. “Elevation” tells a serio-comic tale of a woman trapped in an elevator with a clown. “Fireworks” presents the brilliance of a Japanese fireworks display with outstanding 3D night videography.

3D Center of Art & Photography
1928 NW Lovejoy
Portland, OR 97209
503.227.6667
info@3dcenter.us
Thursday - Saturday, 11am - 5pm
First Thursdays, 6-9pm (Free all day)
Sunday 1-5pm
Admission: Adults (15 and over) - $5.00

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 Corey Davis - Landscapes Materialized

Corey Davis will be showing beautifully abstract, minimalistic images of coffee grounds in the bottom of Japanese teacups. The images are landscape-like and invoke calming, meditative spaces. Davis’ daily Buddhist practice, his time spent in Nepal studying Tibetan Thangka painting, and his study of Chinese and Japanese art have influenced and inspired the series.
 
Davis received his MFA from Mass Art in 1999. In 2006, he was awarded a grant to travel to Sumatra to photograph the aftermath of the tsunami. He works in film and digitally and is currently scanning large format images and working with a large format Sinar 22 Megapixel Camera. Davis teaches photography and exhibits nationally. He currently lives in Boston.

Blue Mitchell - New Work

Blue Mitchell burns his negatives, distorting natural landscapes into painterly, surreal scenes. The images are applied as acrylic lifts to birch panels, and then varnished. Mitchell aims to move beyond a simply two-dimensional perspective with his photographs, in an attempt to more accurately express his true experience of the landscapes he photographs.
 
Mitchell has a BFA in photography from the Oregon College of Art and Craft. He has exhibited widely around the region and nationally. He is a teacher and curator, and works as the Editor of Diffusion Magazine. He lives in Portland.

January 8th – 31st, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, January 8th 7-10pm
 
Newspace Center for Photography
1632 SE 10th Ave. Portland, OR 97214
503.963.1935
info@newspacephoto.com
Monday through Thursday 10am - 10:30pm
Friday through Sunday 10am - 6pm

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France, 1992, archival ink jet print, ©Uwe Schneider

The photographs shown are part of a series of images called “Night Light.”  They were taken over a period of 18 years, starting in 1982. In the summer of 2000 I began editing, scanning and printing the slides and then exhibiting them in Galleries and Cafes. In 2008 I created a self-published book with blurb.com ("Night Light") that contains 30 of the images from this collection.

From 1984 to 1986 I studied photography at the "Bayerische Staatslehranstalt für Photographie," a photo school in Munich, Germany and between 1986 and 1997, I was staff photographer at a very large company. After moving to Portland in the fall of 1997, I have worked as freelance photographer, specializing in editorial portraits and architecture.

Uwe Schneider - Night Light
 
January 4 - February 4, 2010
 
Buckley Center Gallery
University of Portland
5000 N. Willamette Blvd.
Portland, OR 97203
Mon. - Fri. 8:30am - 8:00pm
Sat. 8:30am - 4:00pm

Céline Clanet - Máze

Máze (or Masi) is a small Norwegian village above the Arctic Circle with a population of about 350. Nearly all of its residents are Sami, an indigenous group native to Lapland.  Between 2005 and 2009, French artist Céline Clanet traveled regularly to Máze photographing its people and the herds of reindeer on which many Sami depend.
 
Clanet found those she met to be proud of their territory, inextricably connected to the landscape, and never without their binoculars - even in their homes. Yet Máze might not exist today as it appears in Clanet's sharp, square photographs. Had a hydroelectric dam been built in the early 1970s as planned, the entire village would have disappeared underwater.
 
While this particular threat to the community is long past, others loom.  Clanet sees her work as capturing "a reality that will undoubtedly transform in the coming century, due to global warming and cultural integration." For her, "Máze is an ambivalent symbol of resistance and helplessness."
 
Born in 1977, Clanet currently lives and works in Paris. She graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie, Arles, with Jury Honors in 1999. Winner of Photolucida's Critical Mass Book Award in 2009, her volume, Máze, is forthcoming in early 2010.
 
PLEASE NOTE: Céline Clanet will be in Portland for the opening of her Blue Sky exhibition on First Thursday, January 7. She will also give a free artist talk at 3:00 PM on Saturday, January 9, at Blue Sky.

 Olaf Otto Becker - Broken Line

For his series "Broken Line," Becker pursues his art like a solo explorer, searching for the visual splendor of a vast land few people visit: Greenland.  To create still, ghostly images of icebergs, glaciers, and isolated settlements eerily devoid of people, Becker patiently waits, alone, with a large-format 8 X 10 camera until the light is perfect, sometimes for days.

Trained as a painter, German artist Olaf Otto Becker claims he does not take photographs. Rather, he is "receiving and articulating the landscape." His formal compositions reminiscent of 19th-century landscape portraiture are not just products of Becker's curiosity about the world's largest island. They also express melancholy for a Greenland in flux: calm scenes that seem to foreshadow the potentially drastic effects of climate change.
 
Becker's endeavor with "Broken Line" may primarily be an artistic one. Yet, by recording the precise latitude and longitude coordinates for each location, he is also creating a beautiful visual record beneficial to future documentarians of global warming.
 
Born in 1959, Becker has exhibited widely in Europe and the U.S.  His first book, Under the Nordic Light, was short-listed for the 2006 Rencontres D'Arles Book Award, and his images from Iceland were featured at the Reykjavik Museum of Photography. The published series, Broken Line, won the German Fotobuchpreis 2008.

January 7 - 31, 2010
Opening Reception: First Thursday, December 3, 6:00 - 9:00 PM
Artist Talk: Céline Clanet - Saturday, January 9, 3:00 PM
 
Blue Sky Gallery
122 NW 8th
Portland, Oregon 97209
Noon - 5 pm Tuesday through Sunday
(503) 225-0210
bluesky@blueskygallery.org

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John Mann's "Folded In Place" Series

The photographs in this series are informed by the varied ways that photography, mapping, drawing and sculpturehave each tried to describe the landscape. By incorporating each of these methods, Folded in Place highlights the abstraction of the landscape traditionally offered by these means, while creating a tangible photographic “place” in each image that is occupied by a mapped construction. The images therefore provide precise photographic and mapped information while at the same time offering an abstraction of the landscape itself. The viewer is shown a landscape that is simultaneously understood and unknown, a landscape in which the map obtains a new geography of its own.

All images are 24 “x 30” digital c-prints, editions of 10.

John Mann (b.1972) was born in the American East, raised in the Midwest, and schooled in the West. Upon graduation from the University of New Mexico with an MFA in Photography in 2002, he headed back east to start the cycle all over again. He now lives in Tallahassee, Florida, where he makes images and teaches at Florida State University. His work has also traveled, and has been exhibited internationally.

In Porcelain and Other Works, Megan Murphy uses historical events and locations to construct an understanding of how our contemporary selves and culture are informed by the subjectivity of recorded history. From photographs that she has taken on location—places that are often remote and imbued with dramatic, emotional histories—Murphy produces a transparent image that she then mounts between a mirror and a sheet of glass. Then begins a process of building up and removing dozens of layers of paint and text, imbuing the paint with an internal luminosity while replicating the effects of time: actions once taken and now remembered by how they are revealed through the progression and reflection of time.

“Murphy does not abandon words, but fashions a material laboratory for the creation of new ones — layering, sanding, engraving, painting — with glass, film, pigment, oil, acetate, and other materials. Alchemists did this. John Dee made a singular “monad” by grafting symbols from multiple, esoteric histories into one unified thing. Dee’s monad could not be pronounced; instead, it was to be studied and dwelt in.” - Matthew Stadler

John Mann - Folded in Place Series
Megan Murphy - Porcelain and Other Works
January 5 – 30, 2010
Open First Thursday January 7th, 2009, 6:00 – 8:00 pm
 
PDX Contemporary Art & PDX Across the Hall
925 NW Flanders
Portland, OR 97209
(503) 222-0063
info@pdxcontemporaryart.com
11:00-6:00, Tuesday - Saturday

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Architectural photography is arguably among the most challenging efforts for photographers.  Buildings, unlike people, do not project expressiveness. Russian religious architecture, however, may be the great exception, if only for its polychromatic, even fantastical, otherworldliness.
 
Portland photographer John Montague, a talented amateur who in recent years has won several noteworthy prizes for his photographs, reveals just these singular qualities to Russia’s extraordinary religious architecture and design in his latest exhibition at Caffé Mingo.
 
The twelve photographs—printed on Kodak Professional Endura Metallic VC Digital Paper and mounted on a thick (1.5″) foam board with the largest size at 20″x30″—practically pop with explosive color and convey a palpable sense of the swirling mysteriousness of these extraordinary structures.

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In this two-person show with Albany artist Jim Adams, Eugene photographer Robin Bachtler Cushman offers large-scale color photographs of seemingly perfect and meticulously designed urban and suburban garden spaces that, on closer examination, are something quite different than what they first appear to be. Cushman is a commercial and fine art photographer from Eugene with an MFA from the University of Oregon. Her work is grounded in the landscape of the Northwest, where she enjoys exploring the intersection of nature and culture in suburban and urban settings.

"My photography explores our relationship with nature through the hyper-reality of the garden show, a place where nature is commercialized, sensualized, and placed on display," Cushman said of her work in the LBCC gallery. "I'm interested in the ways in which nature is repackaged and re-presented and how humans interact with such artificially constructed nature."

Jan. 4 - Feb. 26, 2010

North Santiam Hall Gallery
Linn-Benton Community College
6500 SW  Pacific Blvd
Albany, OR 97321
541-917-4237
linnbenton.edu/go/art-gallery
Weekdays 8am-5pm

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© Adam Bartos, Kosmos Assembly Hall 1995-1999

Beyond Place: Recent Photography Acquisitions explores place as a subject in photographs by an international roster of artists. The selected works are mostly free of the human figure and focus instead on the power of the photograph to imaginatively transport the viewer, to inspire emotional musings, and to reveal the unknown.  
 
From documentary investigations of contaminated landscapes to sensuous portraits of nature to intimate views of private rooms, these photographs reveal how the experience of a place is commemorated, displaced, ciphered, or changed through the artist’s intervention. Artists include Adam Bartos, Susan Dobson, Beth Dow, Pedro Lobo, David Maisel, Saul Robbins, and Donald Weber.
 
Since 2003, the Museum, with the support of patrons James and Susan Winkler, has set about expanding its holdings of contemporary photography and, related to that effort, to chronicle the exhibition history of Blue Sky Gallery in Portland through gifts and purchases from their exhibitions. It is from the resulting Blue Sky Gallery Collection of more than three hundred images that the 50 works in this exhibition were drawn.
 

December 5, 2009-March 14, 2010
 
Portland Art Museum
Helen Copeland Gallery and the Adams Foundation Foyer
1219 SW Park Avenue
Portland, Oregon 97205
(503) 226-2811
info@pam.org

Sundays 12 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Saturdays 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Thursdays & Fridays 10 a.m. – 8 p.m.
Closed Mondays and certain holidays;
visit www.portlandartmuseum.org for a complete holiday schedule.
 
Museum Admission
Members – FREE
Children (17 and younger) – FREE*
Adults - $12
Seniors and Students (18 and older with ID) - $9
*Children 14 and younger must be accompanied by an adult. One adult must accompany every six children. To plan a school group tour, please call 503.276.4278.

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Albina Community Bank and Arnica Publishing & Creative Services will be hosting a showing of Joni's images, with an opening reception this First Thursday in Portland, Oregon in the Pearl District.
 
As many of you know, Joni Kabana has developed a fourteen year friendship with a young Malagasy girl who is the subject of a children's book that Joni and her son created.  This award-winning book gives insight into how a young girl lives in a developing country and has captured the hearts of many children and adults.
 
Torina is now 21 years old, and by her own persistent spirit, she has traveled from her home in the bush area of Madagascar to Antananarivo, the country's capital, in her dedicated quest to be educated.
 
Madagascar is suffering greatly from a recent political coup and violent upset; yet despite this situation, Torina fearlessly has adjusted to city life and is enrolled in a school that will help her obtain her baccalaureate degree. Torina's goal is to become a doctor so that she can provide care to her village.
 
For each book sold during December, Arnica will donate $5.00 toward Torina's education and room & board costs.  Albina Community Bank will be contributing a gift sum as well.  Joni will donate 100% of any print order that occurs in December.
 
Please join us in assisting Torina and her educational goals by attending the reception or stopping by Albina Community Bank anytime in December to purchase a book, order a print or make a separate donation. For those of you who cannot attend this event, books can also be purchased directly from Arnica here.
 
For more information about the project, please go to www.torinasworld.com.   Joni's images from her work in Madagascar can be found at  www.jonikabana.com/international.php.  Special thanks goes to Pro Photo Supply for donating the printing of images and for their gear support during various travel expeditions. will be hosting a showing of Joni's images, with an opening reception this First Thursday in Portland, Oregon in the Pearl District.

Joni Kabana - Exhibition Supports Torina's Education Costs
 
December 2009
Reception:  Thursday, December 3 from 6:00pm - 9:00pm.
 
Albina Community Bank
430 NW 10th Ave.
Portland, Oregon
(503) 445-2150
www.albinabank.com
Monday - Thursday: 9:00am to 5:00pm; Friday: 9:00am to 6:00pm

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The Oregon Jewish Museum is opening its new home at 1953 NW Kearney Street to the public on Sunday, December 20. Already recognized locally and nationally as a leader in Jewish museum programming, the 6,400 square foot facility is enabling the museum to expand its exhibits, programs and services to more fully meet the needs of the Oregon community that it serves.

The building, originally built to serve the film industry, is ideally suited to serve the needs of the Museum. The new gallery space allows for both larger and multiple concurrent exhibitions. An expanded volunteer program provides a variety of Museum services and new volunteer opportunities in hospitality, tours/docents, research and multimedia. Spaces that originally served as film vaults provide a safekeeping solution for the museum’s collections and artifacts. The former screening room has been configured for school presentations, museum and community programs, movie screenings and digital presentations. Convenient parking and handicapped accessibility are two vital components of the new location.

The premiere exhibition in the new location is The Shape of Time: accumulations of place and memory, featuring the work of photographers Bobby Abrahamson, Jeff Amram, William Galen, Carol Isaak and Stu Levy, David Lanthan Reamer , and Sika Stanton. Guest-curated by writer-artist-cultural advocate Tim DuRoche, the exhibition explores urban landscape, public memory and progress through the lens of the Oregon Jewish experience.

Photo at left: Wedding Dress © Sika Stanton

The Shape of Time, borrowing its title from influential art historian George Kubler, refers to the visible portrait— “the collective identity, whether tribe, class, or nation”—that emerges when we take stock of the material world, “the history of things” around us and the attendant ideas that shaped that world. With OJM's extensive archives of historical photographs serving as both memory bank and inspirational springboard, the artists crafted photographic responses—reflexive narratives that negotiated the intersections of history, private observation and collective memory—outlining an array of distinctive shapes in time from Oregon's Jewish past and present.                                                  
                                               
Artist Bios:
Bobby Abrahamson received his MA in Media Studies from New School University, with a focus on documentary photography and film history, theory, criticism, production and education. His work has been presented in six solo shows and numerous group exhibitions in the United States and Europe. Bobby has taught photography in a variety of educational settings and distinguished himself through educational outreach to at-risk youth and other marginalized populations. He is represented by the photo news agency Black Star.
 
Jeff Amram, a native New Yorker now based in Portland, OR, has been a professional photographer for over 20 years. He came to photography through the film and advertising industry for which he still does location scouting for television commercials and print advertisements. Jeff has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles and Tulsa, among others. In addition to fine art photography.
 
Stu Levy started to photograph in the1950s in his native State of Ohio. Originally self-taught, he focused on street photography and the early Rock and Roll music scene. During his residency as a medical doctor in Portland, OR, he was introduced to the work of Eliot Porter and Ansel Adams. He exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions, is featured in important public collections and has received a number of awards. The Oregon Historical Society and the Portland Art Museum published his most recent book, Heritage Lost.
 
Carol Isaak was educated at Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, in New York City, where she spent the early part of her adult life. She has lived in Portland, Oregon, for the past 16 years. Carol is a veteran photographer whose work is steadily gaining recognition. She  is a finalist in Photolucida's Critical Mass 2009 competition, which allows artists nationally to compete for a photography book award.  Carol will be exhibiting as a featured photographer in this year’s China-Lishui International Photography Culture Festival during late November 2009 in Lishui, which is home to the only photography museum in the country. Her next solo exhibit will be at Camerawork Gallery in Portland in January 2010.
 
David Lanthan Reamer has been photographing since his childhood in New Jersey. Having received a degree in English Literature, he now shares his time between photography and a culinary career, with a frequent artistic focus on food. Since coming to Portland in 2003, his editorial photography could be seen in Portland Monthly,  Northwest Palate, Portland Mercury,  Willamette Week and PDX Magazine as well as in GQ, Wallpaper, and Travel and Leisure. He has also had a solo show, The Stranger’s Lense, at Newspace Center for Photography.
 
Guest-curated by Tim DuRoche, the exhibit runs December 20, 2009 –April 30, 2010
 
Additional Exhibits Include:

Arnold Newman–Street Scenes
Although Newman is best known as the innovator of the "environmental portraiture, his first photographs were street scenes. Through these images he learned to balance place with human presence, seeking out people in everyday settings, and compositionally connecting them to the places in his images.
 
Shelley Jordon–Family History
Family History, Jordon’s first animated painting, explores the unique crossroads between motherhood and daughterhood through the examination of her own maternal lineage and how each new experience is filtered through our perceptions of previous ones.
 
Deanne Belinoff–Book of Keys
The Book of Keys uses the idea of time as a means to convey words and visual symbols. Belinoff began the piece in 1987 in Venice, California and intends for the work to be open-ended and unfinished.
 
Alex Appella–The Janos Book
The Janos Book tells a story through letters, photographs, maps, memorabilia, poetry, conversations and paintings that illustrate the revelation of a secret, an ancestry, an identity and a family.  Appella recounts the saga of a Hungarian Jewish family, including some who made their way to the Americas, where today they have descendants in Oregon.
 
Berger Collection of Ceremonial Judaica
Throughout their lives together, Mira and Gustav Berger collected Jewish ceremonial objects, focusing on silver, glass, copper, tin, parchment and fine art. Part of this collection has been donated to the Oregon Jewish Museum. The objects on exhibit span nearly 150 years and offer an impressive visual history of European makers of ceremonial Judaica.

The Shape of Time: accumulations of place and memory
Featuring the work of photographers Bobby Abrahamson, Jeff Amram, William Galen, Carol Isaak and Stu Levy, David Lanthan Reamer, and Sika Stanton
 
December 20, 2009 –April 30, 2010
 
Oregon Jewish Museum
1953 NW Kearney Street
Portland, OR 97209
HOURS: Tues-Thu: 10:30a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Fri: 10:30 a.m.- 3:00 p.m.
Sun: 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.
www.ojm.org
(503) 226-3600

 Where Land Meets Water

Bill Schwab of Dearborn, MI presents a personal and meditative selection of new and more established work concentrating on the theme of where land meets water. Contributing greatly to the simple and calm intensity of the work, Schwab has explored the theme extensively from his home in the great lakes to the beaches and cliffs of Iceland.  This is the first exhibition of Bill Schwab’s photographs in the Pacific Northwest and although comprised of a selection of work for which he is already known, this exhibition contains a number of photographs that have not previously been seen.
 
Born in Detroit, Michigan in 1959, Bill Schwab’s fascination with photography began at an early age having taught himself to process film and contact print at age twelve. Continuing his education with emphasis on the arts, he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in photography and graphic design from Central Michigan University in 1983. He has pursued his photographic career both personally and commercially ever since.

Although his style has gradually developed and progressed over the years, the common themes that thread through this ever growing body of work is that of the natural and urban landscape. Emphasizing an ethereal, emotive quality, he chooses to make photographs during inclement weather and challenging lighting situations.

His work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in the US and abroad since the early 1980's and continues to become more widely known and sought after. It is in turn becoming represented in a growing number of private, corporate and public collections throughout the world. Among the institutions holding his work in their permanent collections are the George Eastman House, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Detroit Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Dayton Museum of Art, Polk Museum of Art, Akron Art Museum and the Cincinnati Art Museum. Two books of his work have been published to date, Bill Schwab: Photographs (1999) and “Gathering Calm – Photographs 1994-2004” (2005).

November 30, 2009 - January 1, 2010
 
Camerawork Gallery
Linfield College Nursing Campus
Peterson Hall
2255 NW Northrup
Portland, OR 97210
(503) 226-4847
9-5 Monday through Saturday, often open evenings and other hours by chance
On the Portland Streetcar Line - NW 22nd & Northrup Stop
Enter outdoor plaza and then Peterson Hall
TheCameraworkGallery@comcast.net

Watch for PMPN's interview with Bill Schwab in Monday's Edition.

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Traveling Dream

Angela Bacon-Kidwell will be showing work from her series “Traveling Dream” – a series that explores how the subconscious generates dreams. In 2009, Angela placed first in the International Photography Awards in the Fine Art category for her “Traveling Dream” series –The Texas Photographic Society selected Angela as one of six Featured Artists in the Membership Print Program of 2009. Her photographs have been selected for numerous shows, juried exhibitions, publications both nationally and internationally. In the fall of 2009 Angela will participate in the Verve Gallery, Santa Fe online Emerging Artist Exhibition. Angela was nominated for the Baum Award for American emerging photographer in 2008, Critical Mass Top 50, and received an honorable mention in the International Photography Awards. She holds a B.F.A in Painting with a minor in Photography from Midwestern State University. She lives in Wichita Falls, Texas with her husband and son.

Natalie Young will be showing work from her body of work “Georgia and Sabine.” The work is a rich series of intimate portraits of Young’s two miniature dachshunds.

Natalie is an award-winning photographer based in Los Angeles. This past year she was a winner in Photolucida’s Critical Mass competition, as well as a nominee for the prestigious Santa Fe Prize for Photography. Recent publications include featured profiles in SHOTS Magazine, Black and White Photography, and the C4FAP’s inaugural ‘Artist’s Showcase’ book, edited by Darius Himes. Natalie’s work is in the collection of Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and has been exhibited widely. Her first published book, Georgia & Sabine, will be released winter 2009. Originally from the South, Natalie and her husband relocated to Hermosa Beach, CA in 2000, where they now live with their miniature dachshund, Georgia. Natalie plays competitive beach volleyball and earned her CBVA “A” ranking this year. Her husband, Jared Young, is a talented (and handsome) singer-songwriter. Natalie is represented by Kevin Longino Fine Photographs (www.kevinlongino.com)

December 4th 2009 – January 3rd 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, December 4th, 2009, 7-10pm
Artists’ Lecture Saturday, December 5th, 2009, 12pm
 
Newspace Center for Photography
1632 SE 10th Ave. Portland, OR 97214
503.963.1935
info@newspacephoto.com
Monday through Thursday 10am - 10:30pm
Friday through Sunday 10am - 6pm

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Mary Frey - Imagining Fauna

Monkeys, squirrels, porcupines, pigeons.  For her series, "Imagining Fauna," Mary Frey digitally photographs aging museum collections and prints each image on blackened glass using a wet-plate process popular in the nineteenth century.  The final pieces, called ambrotypes, offer evocative glimpses of long-ago taxidermied animals, still frozen in life-like poses.  Yet the detail in Frey's work demonstrates the fragility of such biological specimens, subject to inherent deterioration from the ways in which they were preserved and stored.  For Frey, the pieces themselves represent this tension, "an apt metaphor for our contemporary world, as nature and civilization struggle to find their proper balance for survival."
 
Mary Frey received her MFA from Yale University in 1979 and is currently a professor of photography at the Hartford Art School. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1984 and two photography fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1980 and 1992.  Her work is part of public and private collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Art Institute of Chicago; and the International Polaroid Collection.

In 2004, Austrian artist Reiner Riedler began a documentary project of photographing the environments and inhabitants of theme parks around the world.  "Fake Holidays" transports viewers to the artificial landscapes of leisure destinations as varied as Florida, Turkey, and China.  Riedler's vivid images starkly illuminate the incongruities of tourists visiting sites such as a "tropical" resort near Berlin, an indoor ice-cave in Dubai, and the Star Trek Experience in Las Vegas. His photographs shed light on how today's consumer culture allows for fantasy to become reality in such extreme places.
 
Born in 1968, Reiner Riedler studied photography in Vienna and began his career working for periodicals.  Several projects which took him to Eastern Europe and Russia have been published in book form, including Albania, Life on the Periphery (2001) and The Stormed Fortress of Europe (2007).  Riedler's work has been exhibited in the US, Europe, and Southeast Asia, and has received acclaim at numerous photo festivals, including Photolucida's Critical Mass 2008 (finalist).

December 3, 2009 - January 3, 2010
Opening reception: First Thursday, December 3, 6:00 to 9:00 PM
 
Blue Sky Gallery
122 NW 8th
Portland, Oregon 97209
Noon - 5 pm Tuesday through Sunday
Blue Sky will be closed December 25 and January 1.
(503) 225-0210
bluesky@blueskygallery.org

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Jason Langer's Photographs Casually Confront Viewer with Candid Moments of Intimacy

(left: Jason Langer, Figure No. 93, 2007, archival pigment print)

Charles A. Hartman Fine Art is pleased to present Nudes, the latest body of work by Portland-based photographer Jason Langer. Taking the most frequently represented subject in artistic works, Langer’s lens presents the female body in contexts that pivot from a photo essay of erotica, to a collection of snapshots found in a voyeur’s diary, to a candid moment summoned from a lover’s memory. In each instance, Langer casually confronts the viewer with private, poetic moments of physical intimacy.
 
After studying at the University of Oregon, Langer had the extraordinary opportunity to work as the assistant to Michael Kenna for five years, one of his favorite photographers and earliest influences. In the fifteen years since, Langer has exhibited his work extensively across the United States, as well as in Berlin and London. The universal appeal of his photographs is well reflected in the diversity of its collectors – from Rutgers University, to Gap and Banana Republic, to Sirs Elton John and Mick Jagger. In addition to reviews in The New Yorker and Artweek, Langer has been profiled in American Photo, Popular Photography, Bomb and Vanity Fair, amongst others. Nazraeli Press published the first monograph of the artist’s work, Secret City, in 2006, with an introduction by Michael Kenna.

Jason Langer - Nudes
 
December 2, 2009 – January 30, 2010
Opening Reception with the Artist on First Thursday, December 3, 5:30—8:30pm
 
Charles A. Hartman Fine Art
134 NW 8th Avenue
Portland, OR 97209
Tuesday - Saturday 11-6pm
(503) 287-3886
www.hartmanfineart.net
charles@hartmanfineart.net

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December 1st through December 31, 2009
Reception on Saturday, December 5th from 7pm to 9pm

Opening celebration, spanning five local businesses in charming downtown St. Johns
from 7pm until 9pm on Saturday, December 6th.

Five venues will feature five years of customer photography:

• Proper Eats Market and Cafe:  8638 N. Lombard St. - 503.445.2007
• Anna Bannana's Coffeehouse:  8716 N. Lombard St. - 503.286.2030
• Ladybug Organic Coffee Co.:  8438 N. Lombard St. - 503.715.1006
• James John Cafe:  8527 N. Lombard St. - 503.285.4930
• Legong Gelato:  8638 N. Lombard St. - 503.453.9025

Blue Moon Camera and Machine Seventh Annual Customer Show

December 1st through December 31, 2009
Reception on Saturday, December 5th from 7pm to 9pm

Opening celebration, spanning five local businesses in charming downtown St. Johns
from 7pm until 9pm on Saturday, December 6th.

Five venues will feature five years of customer photography:

• Proper Eats Market and Cafe:  8638 N. Lombard St. - 503.445.2007
• Anna Bannana's Coffeehouse:  8716 N. Lombard St. - 503.286.2030
• Ladybug Organic Coffee Co.:  8438 N. Lombard St. - 503.715.1006
• James John Cafe:  8527 N. Lombard St. - 503.285.4930
• Legong Gelato:  8638 N. Lombard St. - 503.453.9025

In celebration of its eighth anniversary, Blue Moon Camera & Machine will present its seventh annual Customer Show — a showcase of photographs featuring the work of more than four hundred of its customers.  The selections in the show come solely from work which passes through Blue Moon's photo lab.

 

In this series of portraits, all shot over the last year, I became interested in blood, plain and simple. Blood and artificial pain, leaking orifices, leaking heads, the visceral redness of it. I find it liberating and horrible to make images with the oldest and simplest of inks, to explain something of feeling of primordial chaos that it represents.

Yet it’s all fake, gloriously unreal. I was interested in the kind of formal qualities we always give death, from the sentimental cameo shapes of the portraits, to the fading of the subject into the background, mimicking the "white light" everybody says they see in their near-death.  All our hiding it, bureaucratizing it, and stuffing it in the background is rejected, as the subjects loom out of the fading white, like ghosts, lunging toward the viewer. The blood comes from the inside, and I hope this reminds you that hate is real.

The images will be transformed and screen printed by Seizure Palace. View Ploeger’s work at www.annploeger.com.

PUSHDOT STUDIO: In addition to being a digital art gallery, pushdot studio is a digital imaging resource for artists, graphic designers, and photographers who require high quality scanning, image composition and color work, prepress and archival printing services.

LightBox Photographic will present new photographic works in the gallery for the Astoria Second Saturday Art Walk on November 14th from 5-9pm.

Among the new works featured are a selection of traditional photography by Loren Nelson, Bob Farr & Michael Van Buskirk.  Join them for an evening enjoying beautiful photography available at affordable prices.

 "Ice & Leaves" © Bob Farr

 LightBox strives to promote creative photography in Astoria.  They offer both traditional darkroom printing and film processing as well as archival digital printing and photo restorations.  They are open Tuesday – Friday 10-6, Saturday 10-5.  They can reached by phone at 503-468-0238 or email at lightboxphotographic@charter.net.

                                                                                     "Cascade and Ice" © Loren Nelson

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Image © Mat Wong

Magick and Mayhem’s Group Show will be the featured photography this month at Flying Cat Coffee Co. This is a juried exhibition of contemporary photography including work done in the last year.  This show was juried by Cherie Hiser and Laura Russell. There are 9 photographers included in this show from Oregon and Washington.

 Magick and Mayhem Group Photography Show
 
October 31 - Nov 30, 2009
Artist Reception: First Friday, November 6, 2009, 5-9pm
 
Flying Cat Coffee Co
3041 SE Division
Portland, OR
(503) 234-0910
New Fall/Winter Hours: Closed Monday, Tues-Fri 7:30am-8pm, Sat 8:30am-9pm, Sun 8:30am-4pm

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 We are excited to invite you to our upcoming exhibition, India Tigers by Dianne Kornberg. Kornberg continues to build her excellent reputation as one of the Pacific Northwest’s most unique photographers.
 
For her latest show, Kornberg continues her investigation in digital photography, exploring the complex array of processes and printing techniques.  The black and white pigment prints in India Tigers are based on an earlier series of the same name.  For this exhibition, Kornberg has expanded the series, nearly doubling it size. The images are elegant, intimate and arresting, giving the viewer a sense of serenity and a deeper understanding of natural beauty.
 
India Tigers also celebrates the launch of Kornberg's most recent  artist book, published by Franklin, Beedle & Associates, with essays by Clint Willour and Kim  Stafford. A book launch will be held at the gallery on Friday, November 6th, from 6-8 pm.
 
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Via Jim Leisy's imprint, William, James & Company, he is publishing a body of work by Dianne Kornberg entitled INDIA TIGERS. The book will be available for sale in November. Elizabeth Leach Gallery will host an exhibit of prints from the book.
 
About the work and the book:

In 1995, Dianne Kornberg began working on the India Tiger series and produced twelve photographs. She  revisited the project to build the portfolio to a total of twenty-four. "What a delight it is for us all that this inventive and creative artist made the bold decision to revisit a body of work thirteen years old and expand and improve upon the concept", writes Clint Willour in the Introduction. This beautifully produced monograph is mysterious and surreal; it engages.
 
From the Artist's Statement:
 
These butterflies and moths from India were preserved in folded, triangular paper wrappings. I photographed them so that the wrappings appear to extend out from the picture plane, as might the wing of the insect. All of the images in the series rotate on an axis around a shared, central point, and a delicate sense of movement is suggested as the direction of the light changes from one piece to the next.
 
Dianne's Bio:

Dianne Kornberg's  photography and photographically-based work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is represented in numerous museum, public and private collections. She is the subject of a monograph published in 2007, and her work is included in several anthologies. Her most recent work is collaborating with poets. She is a Professor Emerita at Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon, and works and resides in the San Juan Islands in Washington State.

More about the book:

India Tigers
24 Photographs by Dianne Kornberg
Introduction by Clint Willour, Director, Galveston Arts Center. Afterword by Kim Stafford, Professor, Lewis & Clark College ISBN 978-1-59028-239-7 November 2009 William, James & Company. Trim size 8.5 by 11, 64 pages Hardcover with dust jacket Edition of 900 $50
 
Collector Edition
Slipcased book with print, both signed and numbered
Edition of 100
Price: TBA

Dianne Kornberg - India Tigers
 
November 5 – 28, 2009
Preview reception on Wednesday, November 4th from 6 - 8 p.m.
First Thursday, November 5th from 6 - 9 p.m.
Artist will be in attendance.
 
Elizabeth Leach Gallery
417 NW 9th Ave
Portland, OR 97209
(503) 224-0521

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Over two days in 1982, Jim Lommasson photographed the strange and beautiful paintings that decorated the center column of the historic carousel at Oaks Amusement Park in Portland, Oregon. The original carousel images were a collection of Edwardian-era scenes—a little blond girl clutching a rag doll, a corseted woman beneath a parasol, “exotic” renderings of Arabs and Native Americans—painted by German and Italian immigrants around 1912. In 1944, two itinerant artists were hired to paint over the eighteen panels with depictions of such local landmarks as the Columbia River Highway, Mount Hood, and the Oregon Coast.

Eventually, the surfaces of these new paintings began to flake and fade, revealing parts of the original images in unusual and unexpected ways. Each new image created a completely accidental, even surreal, story about the juxtaposition of two generations of paintings.

This exhibit coincides with the release of Lommasson's new book, Oaks Park Pentimento: Portland's Lost and Found Carousel Art with Introduction by Inara Verzemnieks and Afterword by Prudence Roberts.

November 6 - December 20, 2009
Reception: Friday November 6, 6 - 9pm
 
New American Art Union
922 SE Ankeny St.
Portland, OR 97214
Thursday - Sunday: Noon - 6pm
(503) 231-8294
naau@earthlink.net

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Collecting History is an exhibition of daguerreotypes and ambrotypes focusing on family portraits and idyllic images of children.  Of American, English and French origin, all of the pieces in the show come from a singular private collection in Portland.  While a majority of the artworks are by unknown photographers, there are works from the famed Richard Beard Studio (London, 1841 - 1857) and Antoine Claudet (a notable Frenchman who also opened a studio in London in 1841) included in the collection.

 November 6 - 28, 2009
Opening reception First Friday November 6, 5 - 8 p.m.
Gallery Talk  Saturday November 7 at 1 p.m.

B.Rogers Gallery | Plan B.
2415 N.E. Broadway
Portland, Oregon   
Gallery Hours:  Wednesday - Saturday 11 - 6, Sunday 12 - 5   Telephone 503 236 0600
Exhibition preview: www.photostoots.com

Harrison Higgs, head of the Fine Arts department at WSU Vancouver will be installing three dimensional and photographic experimentation in the front gallery. He says of his work - “I work across media, using the methods and materials of digital imaging, alternative photography, and sculptural replication. In part a response to mass consumption and throwaway culture, I use mechanical reproduction to question the impulses of industrial production. By replicating and modifying consumer goods (and by photographing these transformed objects), I reconsider the value and use of mass produced objects in relation to the individual. The resulting objects and images are performed as multiple iterations, remixes, as I continue the process of copying, marking, altering, and arranging. Although my work originates in these concepts, my imagery is inspired by the sensual, visual, and visceral characteristics of the materials themselves.”

In the second gallery will hang the experimental light photographs of N. Scott Trimble in his first gallery show. The photographs are a culmination of an evening spent with lights and strobes and a sense of experimental adventure one night in a New England cemetery.  A perfect homage to the season.

Also showing will be the pinhole photography of Rich Rollins, head of photography at Marylhurst University. Rich says of his pinhole work shot around Marylhurst – “I am intrigued by the clarity a photograph can capture as a document of seeing made manifest, the essence of the dialogue between my self and the world. That clarity does not always result in a sharp clear image, though it may. Instead, it has more to do with expressing a sense of the ineffable language of seeing, at times more felt than understood.

In the back gallery will be the black and white work of Willie Ross, Camas photographer, whose pushes the boundaries of the photograph with his unique street vision, acute awareness of the decisive moment, and in-camera experimentation with swings and tilts.

New work by North Bank member kathi rick will also be shown.

The show runs from November 4-30, 2009,
with an opening reception for the artists on First Friday November 6^th from 5-9pm.

 North Bank Gallery
open from 11:30am-4:30pm, Tuesday through Saturday.
1005 Main Street
Vancouver, WA
360.693.1840
Gallery Director: kathi rick

North Bank Artists Gallery was established in 2003 as a non-profit organization to support visual artists and to provide community outreach for the arts.

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 Heidi Kirkpatrick: Gray Area.

As a fine art photographer, Heidi Kirkpatrick offers interpretations of the world experienced from a woman’s perspective, often using subjects with whom she has a personal relationship. Her willingness to expose her conflicts about how society’s expectations restrain and confine contemporary women allows other women a vehicle to express their conflicts as well. Kirkpatrick pairs photographs with found objects—children’s blocks, books and even old ash trays to create renewed objects of art. By incorporating figurative images and actual portraits, Kirkpatrick “reframes” these stories, allowing for ever changing vignettes. Channeling an old Gray’s Anatomy book, Kirkpatrick encases her paper dissections in or on these objects. Kirkpatrick’s work is included in OSHU’s Corporate Collection as well as several museum collections throughout the United States. Heidi Kirkpatrick is based in Portland, Oregon. She has been featured in two previous group shows here at 23 Sandy Gallery.

 Victoria Bjorklund: Glass Figments.

Victoria Bjorklund is a photographic and book artist residing in Tacoma, Washington. Her interests lie in both natural and urban landscapes. Influenced by ability of writers to describe the world around them, Bjorklund strives to create a photographic narrative within each image.

In her collection, Glass Figments, Bjorklund integrates reflective images with her subject, creating a duality that is aesthetically pleasing and thought provoking, causing the viewer to step past the obvious and explore the more subliminal elements. Bjorklund’s images invite the viewer into the photograph, melding reality with illusion—not unlike taking a walk through the looking glass.

Victoria Bjorklund is a 2009 recipient of the Tacoma Artist Initiative Program grant (TAIP) by the city of Tacoma.

Gray Area: Photographic Mixed Media by Heidi Kirkpatrick
Glass Figments: Photographs by Victoria Bjorklund
 
November 5-28, 2009
Artists Reception: First Friday, November 6, 5–8 p.m.
 
23 Sandy Gallery
623 NE 23rd Avenue
Portland, OR 97232
Hours: Thursday-Saturday, Noon to 6:00 p.m.
Phone: 503-927-4409
Email: laura@23sandy.com
Gallery hours are Thursday-Saturday, Noon to 6:00 p.m.

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©John Ritchie, Buena Vista Ferry

 The Willamette Valley Photo Arts Guild is celebrating Oregon’s sesquicentennial year with an exhibit of black-and-white photography at the LaSells Stewart Center Nov. 2 through Nov. 25.

 “A Journey Through Oregon in Black-and-White:  Along Rivers, Roads and Rails” features about 80 photographs taken on, of or from the state’s traditional transportation routes by 26 photographers from Corvallis, Albany, Portland and Eugene.

“As the state’s 150th anniversary year comes to a close, we thought what better way to focus our sights than on the routes that have connected Oregonians to their work and recreation over the past 150 years,” said PAG vice president Dan Wise, who helped organize the show.

“While that past has undoubtedly been a colorful one, it has only been photographed in color for about half of its history,” he added. “For this show we wanted to use black-and-white photography to connect Oregon’s past with its present.”

An affiliated guild of the Corvallis Arts Center, the PAG was formed in 1988 to foster the growth of its members and promote the appreciation of photography as an art form. This is the fifth in the guild’s Visual Heritage Project, a series of biennial exhibits that explore the variety of photogenic areas in the region. Previous exhibits have celebrated Mary’s Peak, the Willamette Basin, the Oregon Coast, and mid-valley communities.

Corvallis exhibit celebrates Oregon sesquicentennial

A Journey Through Oregon in B+W: Along Rivers, Roads and Rails
Mid-Willamette PhotoArts Guild
 
Nov. 2-25, 2009
Opening reception Wednesday Nov. 4, 6:39-8:30
 
OSU LaSells Stewart Center
26th and Western
Corvallis, OR 97331
541-737-2402
Open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily and during events on evenings and weekends

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Corvallis photographer Rich Bergeman will present an exhibit of platinum prints exploring the remnants of early Coast Range sites and settlements in the Artists’ White Room at the Lincoln City Cultural Center from Nov. 6 to Dec. 9.  “The Place Names Project,” is the culmination of more than a year in which the photographer has been traveling the back roads of the Coast Range, searching out small towns and communities originally founded before 1900.

At one time these places earned themselves a spot on the map, even though many no longer exist as actual towns, such as Kernville, Natal and Chitwood.  Others, however, retain more evidence of once thriving communities, such as Elk City and Jewell, where declining populations have hung on in the face of waning prosperity over the past century.

A retired photography instructor at Linn-Benton Community College in Albany, Bergeman has been chronicling evidence of Oregon’s bygone days on both sides of the Cascades for more than 20 years.

“I like photographing places that are close to disappearing, and ‘The Place Names Project’ is my latest preoccupation,” Bergeman explains. “Some people look at it as a documentary project, but I’m less interested in documenting what’s left behind than in celebrating that special kind of beauty and nobility that comes with enduring the ravages of time.”

The more than 20 prints in the show are done in the platinum process, which dates back to the late 1800s, before the invention of enlargers and small cameras. Platinum has long been prized for its permanence and richly nuanced tonal scale, which Bergeman says makes a good fit for the content of his pictures.

Many of the images on display are from places in Lincoln and Tillamook counties and were made while Bergeman served as artist-in-residence at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology on Cascade Head earlier this year.

Rich Bergeman - The Place Names Project
 
Nov. 6-Dec. 9
Reception Saturday Nov. 7, 2-4pm
 
Lincoln City Cultural Center
540 NE Hwy 101
Lincoln City, Oregon 97367
http://www.lincolncityculturalcenter.com/welcome

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 Paul has a show of photographs from a school building trip to Vietnam last year on display.
 
A portion of the proceeds will go to building the next school in 2011.

Showing Through October 2009
 
A Modern Cup and Saucer
NW 14th and Thurman
Portland, OR

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Giacomo Brunelli - The Animals
 
Born in Perugia, Italy, and now residing in London, Giacomo Brunelli creates  photographs of animals, both living and dead, using a Miranda Sensomat camera from 1968 that once belonged to his father.  The Animals is a series of images that are dramatic, powerful and intriguing, suggesting elements of both comedy and tragedy.
 
Shot in Umbria, Tuscany and Lazio in Central Italy, Brunelli takes his photographs during daily morning walks (when the light is best) and his subjects are those randomly encountered along the way.  He prints his black and white images by hand in a makeshift darkroom.  
 
"I call the way I work 'animal-focused street photography'," says Brunelli, adding "When I was a child I used to spend time playing with animals and I think that is why I push the lens often to its closest point of focus, almost touching the subject and forcing flight or fight from the animal, which is when l then photograph the animal´s reaction."

 Joni Sternbach - Surfland
 
Joni Sternbach's SurfLand is a collection of tintype portraits of surfers using the historic wet-plate collodion process. The photographs were shot on both coasts: Montauk's Ditch Plains on the East Coast as well as Malibu, Del Mar and Rincon beaches in California. SurfLand is a chronicle and celebration of the people who inhabit regional surf spots across the nation.
 
Developed and fixed on location, the tintypes are the means by which Sternbach connects and interacts with her subjects. She writes:
 
My moment with each surfer is a pause, as they pose at the water's edge in a brief moment of stasis. Their boards become totems or talismans revealing their personality, while also helping them maintain their position for the long exposure.  Part theater and part craft, my use of this nineteenth-century process allows me to both capture time and slow it down.

November 5 - 29, 2009
Artist Reception, First Thursday, November 5th, 6-9pm
Artist Talk, Sat., Nov. 7th @ 3pm - Giacomo Brunelli and Joni Sternbach
 
Blue Sky Gallery
122 NW 8th
Portland, Oregon 97209
Noon - 5 pm Tuesday through Sunday
(503) 225-0210
bluesky@blueskygallery.org
Blue Sky will be closed November 26th for the Thanksgiving holiday.

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 A delightful exhibit of recent photographs that highlight the communities where Africa Bridge works in SW Tanzania.
 
Photographers Jim Lewis and Gary Grossman are featured, as well as several other volunteer photographers who traveled with Barry Childs to Tanzania in September 2008 and 2009.
 
Share a glass of wine, hear from the photographers and Barry about Africa Bridge and the vibrant communities in Masoko and Isongole Ward.
 
Africa Bridge is a West Linn based NGO working in the Rungwe District of Tanzania. Gary Grossman and Jim visited in September. Most of their work consists of portraits of people in rural villages.

Photo by Jim Lewis

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Photographers:
 
Leah Nash has a passion for documenting the normal and the extreme, which she often finds are one and the same. She holds a Master’s degree in photojournalism from the University of Missouri and in 2004 was awarded a Fulbright Grant to photograph the AIDS crisis in India. A year later she moved to the best city in the world, i.e. Portland, OR to begin her freelance career.
 
Over the years she has received the Marty Forscher Fellowship for Humanistic Photography, has been honored by PDN, the Magenta Foundation, the Eddie Adam’s Workshop and by CPOYi. Her clients include Newsweek, Mother Jones, GEO Magazine, The Fader, The New York Times, Der Spiegel, Stern, and The Washington Post as well as local publications including Street Roots, The Oregonian, and Portland Monthly. Her work can be viewed at: www.LeahNash.com.
 
For over 20 years Ken Hawkins has produced editorial images for publications around the world. His photography has appeared in TIME, Fortune, Stern Magazine, Money, Wired and Newsweek. www.kenhawkins.com
 
John Ryan Brubaker is a Portland-based photographer and Polaroid enthusiast. He helps curate an ongoing exhibit of photography from the struggling steel town of Braddock, Pennsylvania and was recently published in the Portland Mercury and Virginia Quarterly Review. www.pixelgrain.org
 
Elizabeth Schwartz has been contributing Vendor Profiles in Street Roots since October 2008. She enjoys photographing both people and landscapes. The artist also paints acrylics and has recently had shows at the Urban Grind and Aliviar Coffeehouses. You can see samples of her work at www.photoadvocacy.com.
 
Mary Edmeades is the VP and Branch Manager at the Albina Community Bank in the Pearl District. She has always been in love with taking pictures of people, trying to capture their spirit on film. An amateur photographer Mary recently had one of her sports photos featured in the Oregonian. Mary believes that the blending art in the bank setting makes it for a much more personal experience for her clients. "Often people come into the bank on First Thursday and are startled to find that they are in a bank. It's great that people can have such a rich experience."

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On November 9, the day the Wall came down, Mayor Adams will speak at a reception at City Hall to commemorate the event. Other Guests include:German Consul General Peter Rothen, Honorary Consul Günther Hoffmann, Steven Fuller, Prof. of German & International Studies
 
What caught the eye of ordinary citizens living in or traveling through Germany after the wall? A Photo Exhibit at City Hall provides glimpses of contemporary Germany, depicting some of the changes that occurred in the last decades and marking some of the places where the wall used to exist. The photographs from Berlin and East Germany are documents of a changing landscape and its citizens. They are small windows into a country that still grapples with the aftermath of reunification but also energetically presses forward.
 
More detailed information about the German American Society who is putting up the exhibit can be found at http://www.germanamerican.org/
 
Our Sponsors: Pushdot Studio  -  Framed Art Studio - Lufthansa - Solar World - Regional Arts and Culture Council - Goethe Institute  - The Multnomah County Cultural Coalition  -  Edelweiss Delicatessen - Trumer Brauerei  -  Widmer Brothers Brewery  -  Christopher Bridge Wines

20th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Photo Exhibit: After the Wall – Changes in a German Landscape
 
November 9-30, 2009
Reception: November 9, 2008, 6:00 PM
 
Portland City Hall
1221 SW 4th Ave
Portland, OR 97204
503. 823.4000
cityinfo@ci.portland.or.us
Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

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James Schenk's portfolio depicts contemplative images of micro-landscapes around a lake in the Blue Ridge, NC mountains. The prints are conventional silver gelatin prints subsequently toned and hand painted using archival dyes, watercolors, and oil paints. 

October 24 - November 27, 2009
Artist's Reception 7-9pm, Saturday, October 24, 2009
 
Camerawork Gallery
Linfield College Nursing Campus
Peterson Hall
2255 NW Northrup
Portland, OR 97210
(503) 226-4847
9-5 Monday - Saturday, often open evenings & other hours by chance
On the Portland Streetcar Line - NW 22nd & Northrup Stop
Enter outdoor plaza and then Peterson Hall
TheCameraworkGallery@comcast.net

October 20th to December 3rd

Gresham City Hll Visual Arts Gallery

Public Saftey & Schools Building

1333 NW Eastman Parkway

Open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays

 Featured Artists

          Michael Anderson                   Anna Lncaster
          Kellee Beaudry                       Earlean Marsh
          Cheryl Butterfield                  Collin Murphy
          Marrian Farley                        Steve Piper
          Mark Fitzgerald                      Gwen Rose
          Renae Fraizer                         Patrick Smith
          Scott Gearheart                     Dorothy Steele
          Iris Johnson                           Wendy Thompson
          Judy Keen                              Stephen Wiggins

Reception: November 17 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m

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© Dorothea Lange

Dorothea Lange's photographs tell stories. Sometimes uneasy tales of hard work, poor living conditions, and the resulting despair. But most capture the inner strength and pride of Lange's subjects despite their impoverished surroundings.
 
An exhibit of some 40 of Lange's photographs from 1939 rural Oregon during the Great Depression will be on display in Portland State's Littman Gallery October 1 through November 26 before traveling to other points in Oregon. All prints were printed by Rick Regan of Portland, OR.
 
Lange (1895-1965) is perhaps best known for Migrant Mother, a photographic icon of the Great Depression. Taken in California, it shows a young mother staring stoically into the distance, her children huddling close in their tent home.
 
"Lange's portraits capture the spiritual essence of people caught up in something far greater than they can control," says exhibit coordinator David A. Horowitz, PSU professor of history. "She gets right down into the heart of people and their experiences. That's her strength."
 
IN THE 1930s, Lange was one of a dozen photographers hired by Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal administration to photograph rural America. The government's goal was to use the photographs to build support for the Farm Security Administration. In all, the photographers produced 270,000 images of American life—creating a superlative visual record of America during the Great Depression.
 
While on assignment, Lange turned her eye to Oregon in 1939. She traveled the state, not just photographing her subjects but taking notes and writing thoughtful captions. For example, accompanying her photo of the hopeful young mother, which appears on the cover of Portland State Magazine, Lange quotes the woman as saying, "Next year we'll be painted and have a lawn and flowers."
 
During the Great Depression, many rural Oregon families and migrant workers lived in tents, shacks, and dugouts as they eked out a living harvesting crops. Times were hard, but stories of small joy can be seen in Lange's photos along with the essential human spirit of the American West.

East African Wildlife by Dale LaFollette

One of the hidden gems in the Portland gallery scene is the space Pro Photo Supply has set aside to exhibit the work of its customers. The gallery is hard to miss.  It's right inside the front door.  Stop by every month to see the work of the Portland area's emerging photographers.  Having this gallery area available provides many photographers with their first exhibition experience.

This month's exhibit features the black and white artistry of Dale LaFollette.   From over 5,000 images taken on two African trips, Dale has produced 9 stunning black and white images that capture the beauty and the mystique of African Wildlife.  The images are excellent examples of black and white conversion and well crafted prints.

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To see the entire exhibit (42 photos/personal statements): Tues - Thurs from 1-4 PM.
 
To see the partial exhibit - 9 photos/statements in the front room: 4-9 Mon - Thurs.

The Century Project is a chronological series of nude portraits of female subjects whose ages span approximately one hundred years. Just as important as the images is the fact that all are accompanied by some often amazing personal statements. The project is inclusive of a variety of parameters besides age: body size and shape, ethnicity, life experience, etc. It is also much more than a simple art exhibit; TCP is a powerful educational and therapeutic experience. While obviously centered on women, it is very important for men to see this as well.
 
Among the subjects covered by the project itself are body image, eating disorders, cutting, the nudity = pornography "equation," cultural/societal/religious attitudes toward female bodies, media portrayals of women, rape, childhood sexual abuse, male attitudes, plastic surgery, maternity, menstruation, Caesarian sections, breast cancer, obesity, aging, and more. It is very inclusive of different ages, races/cultures/religions, body types, and life experiences.
 
To date it has been shown almost seventy times on a national basis, most often on college campuses at the invitation of either Women’s Studies faculty, and/or staff therapists. The schools range from the Ivy League to the Bible Belt. It has gotten people into therapy, enabled others to say “no” to breast implants, and in two cases that I am aware of, it has been credited with actually saving the lives of two women. Pretty rarified territory for a photography exhibit.
 
While the project is ongoing, 98 of these images/statements were published a couple of years ago in book form: “Bodies & Souls: The Century Project.” That book was very prominently and positively reviewed in Oprah Winfrey’s magazine, among other venues.
 
Exhibits have been covered in both the on- and off-campus media, as well as by local NPR outlets. It has been on the 6 o’clock news several times as well. The Century Project has never been negatively reviewed.
 
Is it controversial for some? Of course. Yet it has an undeniable record of having helped an awful lot of people.
 
The project web-site is www.thecenturyproject.com It has 16 sample images/statements, among other items.

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Scott Peterman, Bad Water Basin, 200, archival pigment print, 40 x 76 inches

Scott Peterman - Selections 2004 -2009
 
October 14 - November 28, 2009
Reception on First Thursday, November 5, 5:30—8:30pm
 
Charles A. Hartman Fine Art
134 NW 8th Avenue
Portland, OR 97209
Tuesday - Saturday 11-6pm
(503) 287-3886
charles@hartmanfineart.net

Scott Peterman, Ecataepec, 2006, C-print, 20x24 inches

Charles A. Hartman Fine Art is excited to present a selection of images by renowned photographer Scott Peterman. The exhibition exemplifies how the artist's sensitive eye informs his consistent aesthetics to reveal simplicity, mystery, and transcendent beauty amidst dramatically different landscapes. Peterman's cityscapes portray human density of various geographies to a palpable degree. Those compositions are contrasted with images featuring starkly desolate deserts and frozen lakes.
 
Scott Peterman is an artist based in Portland, Maine. In the decade since he earned an MFA degree from the prestigious Yale University School of Art, he has become well known for his exceptional ability to capture the unintended and sublime beauty of vernacular subjects. Peterman’s work has been exhibited widely across the United States and in Europe, including Tate Modern in London. His photographs are included in the collections of the Baltimore Museum of Art, the DeCordova Museum, Maison Europeenne de la Photographie in Paris, Banco Espirito Santo in Lisbon, and the collection of Sir Elton John in London, among others.

Matt Kowal, Open Books
Friday November 6th through Monday November 30th, 2009
1st Friday Reception: November 6th, 2009, 6-9pm

Pushdot Studio
1021 SE Caruthers St.
Portland, OR 97214
(503) 224-5925
http://www.pushdotstudio.com/
Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri 8:30am to 5:00pm

The book, its cover, dust jacket, blank pages, and index are parts of the physical container. They ease transportation, standardize features and encourage production. During digitization, a translation occurs; book-container-words transform into representative format, code, and symbols. The book has been unbound and reformed as a container consisting of information wrapped in computer code. This process pertains to the informatics of electronic literary distribution. The archived digital texts portray an order and flatness that is inherent to the printed word. This transformation streamlines and expands dissemination.

Matt Kowal’s Open Books deals with the perceived flattening of these books into essential file and format. The information and the container become intermixed, resulting in a composite of imagery, literature, and function. The book, as an object, becomes free from its boundaries and contextual meanings. It becomes a printed production.

Matt Kowal is an artist living in Portland, Oregon. He was born in Oberlin, Ohio, and has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from Ohio State University. He refrains from eating meat, loves physical activity, and is passionate about interdisciplinary technology. View his work at http://www.kowalabearhugs.com/.

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Newspace Center for Photography is pleased to present an exhibition of photographs by recent Guggenheim Fellowship recipient Osamu James Nakagawa and Portland artist LeAnne Hitchcock during the month of October. The exhibition is sponsored in part by the Kinsman Foundation, Regional Arts and Culture Council, Multnomah County Cultural Coalition, and the Oregon Cultural Trust.

Osamu James Nakagawa
 
In Okinawa, the precipitous cliffs that fall hundreds of feet to the ocean below are called banta.  For years Mr. Nakagawa has carried a vivid memory of the first time he stood atop those cliffs – a memory of beauty in the endless blue expanse of sea and sky intensified by the fearsome height and history that met his downward gaze.
 
Five years later, this memory drove him to revisit and descend those very cliffs.  Standing at their feet for the first time, feeling the cliffs’ full visceral weight, was something so powerful that he was initially unable to take even a single photograph. The shadows seeping from the cliffs’ surface, the white craters riddling the cliffs’ coral limestone, and the charred black caves were stark reminders of all that these cliffs had witnessed.
 
The Okinawan banta cliffs are also known as “Suicide Cliffs” because of the large number of Okinawans who took their own lives there immediately prior to, and during, the Battle of Okinawa in 1945.
 
Osamu James Nakagawa was born in New York City; raised in Tokyo, Japan, and returned to Houston, Texas, at the age of 15.  He received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of St. Thomas Houston in 1986 and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Houston in 1993.   Currently, Nakagawa is an associate professor of photography at Indiana University.
 
Nakagawa's work has shown nationally and internationally at SEPIA International Inc. New York; McMurtrey Gallery, Houston; Houston Center for Photography; Corcoran Museum of Fine Arts, Washington D.C., and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.  His work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; The International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, and others.
 
Nakagawa received a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship to support his project in Okinawa.

LeAnne Hitchock
 
LeAnne Hitchcock’s photographs are an exploration of traditional artistic themes to create a relevant contemporary cultural mythology. These themes range from the bucolic to the religious, inviting the viewer to contemplate the role of art in everyday life and philosophy.
 
While the title of this show plays on the groundbreaking images of Cartier-Bresson, this series addresses the theme of choice by coupling images from classic films, made with a homemade pinhole camera, and photographic color fields. The image of the film star has replaced that of the religious icon as the harbinger of moral dilemmas, and subsequently the subjects here are chosen at a moment which indicates a character’s conflict or revelation within a film plot. The contrasting color fields (derived from various subjects) are used to point to the elements of choice. As color has an emotional reality of its own, the viewer will be left with an impression based on individual color responses. The configurations are meant to allow the viewer to ‘enter’ the work as a person might pass through a doorway.
 
Ms. Hitchcock’s artworks have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and in Europe, including The Friends of Photography, SF, CA; Boston Art Inc., Boston, MA; The Nathan Commings Foundation, NY, NY; The Anchorage, Brooklyn, NY; PS 122 Museum, Queens, NY; The International Center of Photography, NY, and the Center of Photographic Arts in CA.  Her work is in public, private, and corporate collections, including The World Studio Foundation, The Calumet Collection and Neiman Marcus Collections, and Musee de la Photographie in Belgium. She is also the recipient of the Koening Art Award for use of color composition in painting and was a finalist for the James Phelan Award in Photography and The Center of Photographic Arts Award. Recently she was the recipient of a RACC grant.
 
In addition to exhibitions of her personal work, LeAnne Hitchcock is a dedicated art educator having taught for numerous educational institutions, including The San Francisco Art Institute, SF Camerawork, The Magnes Museum, The World Studio Foundation, The Friends of Photography, Lewis and Clark College, and the Pacific Northwest College of Art.
 
LeAnne Hitchcock was born in Sacramento, California. She received her BFA from The San Francisco Art Institute and a Master’s degree from New York University and the International Center of Photography.

Osamu James Nakagawa – Banta
LeAnne Hitchcock – The Decisive Moment
 
October 2nd – November 1st, 2009
 
Newspace Center for Photography
1632 SE 10th Ave. Portland, OR 97214
503.963.1935
info@newspacephoto.com
Monday through Thursday 10am - 10:30pm
Friday through Sunday 10am - 6pm

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In 1968, while covering the Vietnam War for the Associated Press, Eddie Adams photographed a Saigon police chief, General Nguyen Nygoc Loan, shooting a Vietcong guerilla point blank. Many regard the shot, which brought Adams fame and a Pulitzer Prize, as the photograph that ultimately ended the war. Vietnam was just one of 13 wars and humanitarian tragedies Adams covered, but it was the one that changed his life indelibly, and which led to a heralded career as a famed celebrity and magazine photographer—an escape from witnessing war and struggle. Adams' story, like that of many photographers whose work was influential in public perception and political outcome, reveals the high price of artistic engagement. (90 mins.) Susan Morgan will introduce the film.  NY Times Review: Click HERE.

Part of the Voices in Action: Human Rights on Film Series

While cinema can provide entertainment and escape, for many committed filmmakers and viewers it is a vital medium of information and a powerful tool for social action. Tackling wide-ranging, thought-provoking issues, activist filmmakers help deepen our awareness of the values of dignity, equality, and justice, as they tell universal stories of struggle and triumph. The NW Film Center hopes that these works presented here will broaden understanding and stimulate involvement as they reveal the commitment and courage of those whose hearts and minds are focused on the many challenges confronting humanity. The complete list of films can be seen below or by visiting www.nwfilm.org. Special thanks to media sponsor KBOO Radio.

Isabella, Helsinki, 2006, Dina Kantor

 

 

Regular gallery hours are noon to 5pm, Tuesday through Sunday.
Blue Sky is located in the DeSoto Building in Portland's Pearl District
at 122 NW 8th between NW Couch and Davis.

Blue Sky's mission has remained steadfast throughout its 33 year history: to educate the public about photography and support the careers of photographic artists by creating conversations between photographers and the world, and presenting and documenting their work for international audiences and future generations through exhibitions, lectures, and print and digital publications.

Blue Sky Gallery, the Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, is an exhibition space and a resource center for artists, the general public of the Pacific Northwest, and the national and international photographic communities.  Through top-quality exhibitions, a lecture series and internationally-distributed catalogues and cds, Blue Sky Gallery reaches over 22,000 art enthusiasts per year from its new 3700 square foot gallery located in Portland's fine art campus, the DeSoto Building, on the east side of the North Park Blocks between NW Davis and Couch.

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Blue Sky Gallery receives generous support from National Endowment for the Arts, Regional Arts & Culture Council, M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust, Collins Foundation, Meyer Memorial Trust, James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation, Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, Rose Tucker Foundation, Work for Art, and our terrific members and friends.

Kimi Kolba, Linger

OPEN/CLOSE: Friday October 2^nd, 2009 through
Friday October 30^th, 2009

1^st  FRIDAY ARTIST RECEPTION: October 2^nd, 2009, 6-9pm

PUSHDOT STUDIO – 1021 SE Caruthers Street, Portland, OR 97214, 503.224.5925

www.pushdotstudio.com

Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri. 8:30am to 5:00pm, free admission 

Kimi Kolba’s work explores the contemporary landscape at night. She asks the viewer to invest in a slow read of the work so as to decipher it fully. Similar to the visual experience at night, the eye must be given time to adjust, allowing space for a concentrated awareness and a greater level of observation. With recurring ideas of solitude and silence, her work continues with an investigation and extends a curiosity and fascination towards the surrounding landscape, encompassing the new, the northwest urban and industrial, and the psychological.

Kimi Kolba is an artist living and working in Portland. She holds an MFA from Claremont Graduate University in Studio Art, Photography. She remains active in her community as an artist, gallery assistant, and performing and fine arts instructor. http://www.kimikolba.com/

PUSHDOT STUDIO: In addition to being a digital art gallery, pushdot studio is a digital imaging resource for artists, graphic designers, and photographers who require high quality scanning, image composition and color work, prepress and archival printing services.

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Michelle Bates

Camerawork Gallery
Linfield College Nursing Campus
Peterson Hall
2255 NW Northrup
Portland, OR 97210
(503) 226-4847

September 26 through October 23, 2009

Artist's Reception: Saturday, September 26, 4 to 7 p.m.

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September is Member Appreciation Month at Newspace. As a way to say thank you to our fantastic members, we're rolling out the First Annual Members' Showcase in the gallery this month.  The Showcase is a juried exhibition highlighting work by some of Newspace's many talented members.

The Showcase will include work by:

Nancy Abens, Rebecca Akporiaye, Marah Anderson, Natasha Bacca, Margaret Bates, Skyra Beveridge, Jonathan Brand, Brian Bulemore, Rich Burroughs, Tara Calverley, Gene Danenhower, Dietrich Dasenbrock, Davignona, Anthony DiFalco, Vern Dipietro, Tess Durham, Jeffris Elliott, Bob Farr, Myron Filene, Jay Fiorenza, Erik Foss, Seamus Fullan, Joseph Glasgow, Cheryl Hill, Melissa Hogan, Robert Hogan, John Howarth, Claudia Howell, Carol Isaak, Don Jacobson, Joelle Jensen, Cyrus Karimipour, Craig Kerbow, Zach Krahmer, Joyce P. Lopez, Nathan Lucas, Austin Miller, Blue Mitchell, Gregg Morris, Chris Murphy, Jackson Nichols, Cara O'Neil, Susan Parker, Leslie Peltz, Tom Potts, Ellen Reardon, Mike Rebholz, Ron Savitt, Sylvia Serrado, David Sheiko, Ray Hudson, Sidney Smith, Paige Stoyer, Pete Suttner, Nick Thorpe, Bill Volckening.

September 4th through 27th
 
Newspace Center for Photography
1632 SE 10th Ave. Portland, OR 97214
503.963.1935
info@newspacephoto.com
Monday through Thursday 10am - 10:30pm
Friday through Sunday 10am - 6pm

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Site, Structure, Light and Shadow - Architecture in Black and White

Todd Leen is one of several artists, in several media showing at the Kruse Professional Building exhibits. 

Tuesday, Sept. 15 - Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009
Reception: Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009,  4-7pm.
 
Kruse Professional Building
15171 SW Bangy Rd
Lake Oswego, OR
Exhibit suites open 9am-5pm Mon-Fri.

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 In September, Lightbox Photographic of Astoria will present an exhibit of new portraits by Jake Shivery.  You are warmly invited to enjoy the latest selection in Jake's ongoing series of Contact Portraits.
 
“Contact Portraits” refers to the technique of contact printing directly from 8x10 negatives.  The fiber-based prints display a warmth and depth specific to this formal, traditional process.
 
Lightbox also welcomes back photographic artist Ray Bidegain, showing in the lower gallery, with new work in portraiture plus nudes, still lifes, and landscapes.  Ray's show will include large format work in platinum printing and wet plate collodion images.
 
Lightbox Photographic promotes creative photography on the North Coast by offering traditional photographic printing, archival inkjet printing, scanning & restorations, film processing, photo supplies, books, and fine art prints.

(left, Ms A Moyer, St. John's Bridge, 2009, No. 2)

 September 12 - October 8, 2009
Artist Reception:  Saturday, September 12, 2009  5-9pm
 
Lightbox Photographic
1045 Marine Drive
Astoria, OR  97103
503.468.0238
lightboxphotographic@charter.net
Gallery hours:  Monday through Saturday 10am - 6pm and Sunday 11am-3pm

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Jeff Amram, a native New Yorker now living in Portland, OR, will be showing a series of abstract images of the human body beginning Sept 2nd at Local Lounge.

The qualities of photography for Jeff have been ideal for expressing the transitory nature of time and emotion, and the interplay between them. Whatever subject matter he approaches, he repeatedly explores the tension between the world as it is, and what it appears to be, between apparent innocence and what may lie beneath the surface, or in the next moment. He is consistently striving to create an intimacy with the viewer where a window to the soul is opened, and left exposed.

Jeff's evocative, and often ethereal black and white prints have been exhibited in several solo and group shows in NY, Los Angeles, and Tulsa. Two pictures from this show are included in the permanent collection of The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin. This is his first show in Portland.

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Portland photographer and book artist, Barbara Gilbert will be featured in at 23 Sandy Gallery during the month of September. Gilbert tells us that handmade books are the perfect format to articulate her photographs, which were never quite complete as a flat photographic print. These photographs need the book structure to fully express her compelling stories and memories. Employing a variety of photo transfer processes and painting on canvas, Gilbert creates books where the medium and materials are as integral as the images to the final piece. This exhibit is a charming collection of intriguing, dimensional artist books.
 
Barbara Gilbert is a Portland photographer and book artist. After graduating from the University of Washington she spent many years studying photography and book arts—including calligraphy, bookmaking and printmaking. Since then she has been working to combine her book arts skills with her photography. She has been a member of the Interim Group and Group 669 photographic organizations. Gilbert’s work was featured here at 23 Sandy Gallery in October of 2007 in our Photo+Construct show.
 
For more information, contact Laura Russell, 503-927-4409 or laura@23sandy.com.

September 4-26, 2009
Artist Reception:  First Friday, September 4, 2009 - 6:00p.m.-9:00 p.m.
 
23 Sandy Gallery
623 NE 23rd Avenue
Portland, OR 97232
Thursday-Saturday, Noon - 6:00 p.m. and by appointment
www.23sandy.com
23sandygallery@gmail.com

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Vorpal Images, a photography and styling team based out of Portland Oregon, delivers a cinematic grace that is both emotionally appealing and visually stunning. With vivid imagery that is both modern and timeless, their photography depicts the unique grace that is present in every person. Kenneth Benjamin Reed (photographer and director), and Alicia Mariah Elfving (stylist and producer), work together to create photographic art that shows the beauty in age, the whimsy in abandonment, and the character in their subjects.

September 1-30, 2009
 
Flying Cat Coffee Company
3041 SE Division St
Portland OR 97202
503.234.0910
Tues-Fri 6:30am-5pm
Sat 7:30am-5pm
Sun7:30am-3pm

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Stereo image by William Gruber

September 3rd - November 1st, 2009
Opening Reception: First Thursday, September 3rd, 6-9pm
 
3D Center of Art & Photography
1928 NW Lovejoy
Portland, OR 97209
503.227.6667
www.3dcenter.us
info@3dcenter.us
Thursday - Saturday, 11am - 5pm
First Thursdays, 6-9pm (Free all day)
Sunday 1-5pm
Admission: Adults (15 and over) - $5.00

The 3D Center of Art & Photography has offered classes and workshops to the public since opening over five years ago, most of them taught by Shab Levy. More than 130 Portland area students have participated in learning various aspects of stereography, making anaglyphs, phantograms, stereo cards, View-Master reels, lenticulars and work in other 3D formats. Former students have been invited to submit artwork in various formats for this exhibition.

Participating Artists: Eliza Boné, Rich Burton, Lisa Metzger, Nance Paternoster, Xavier Ramirez, Dawn Waldel and others.

 
Every camera is good for something.  Small cameras take spontaneous and sneaky photos; big cameras capture static scenes in fine detail.  But what about a small camera that uses big film and is kind of un-spontaneous, yet sneaky nonetheless?  (Here I'm talking about a pinhole camera that fits in my pocket.)  What's it good for?  Well, for one thing, when put right up to things, it creates a rather unnatural intimacy.  Its required long exposures record movement and the passage of time.  Its indiscriminate focus gives detail to subjects both near and far.  But most of all, it doesn't take life too seriously.

I've never thought words should explain why a group of pictures hangs on a wall.  Nor do I have the discipline to embark on a project with any predetermined goal/theme/concept.  I trust that over time, with enough images and editing, things will fall into place.  Hence, these pictures create a family because they represent the sorts of things that lured me to point my pinhole at them.

The camera taught me to slow down, look at things more closely and concentrate less on people themselves than the things in our midst.  This has been a departure from my other work (call it an illicit affair), but in a way, I've always strived to render a detached intimacy, a voyeuristic view, in everything I've attempted.

The pictures in this exhibition are printed from 120 color-negative roll film.  They celebrate a process that may not be around  much longer:  chromogenic printing (C-printing).
 
George Kelly has shown work locally at NewSpace as part of LightLeak group and at Portland International Airport as a member of the Portland Grid Project.  He has also exhibited a solo project entitled "Documentary Fiction" at Camerawork Gallery.  He has been photographing in Portland for close to twenty years.

 

Charles A. Hartman Fine Art
134 NW 8th Avenue
Portland, OR 97209
Tuesday - Saturday 11-6pm
(503) 287-3886
www.hartmanfineart.net
charles@hartmanfineart.net

In Our Sleep and In Our Absences
22 Ethereal Nudes
by Jaret Ferratusco

SHOWING Sept. 1st - 28th
RECEPTION First Thursday Sept. 3rd | 6pm-8pm
Live music by Cinema/Minimal

Portland Coffee House
603 SW Broadway
Portland, OR 97205
(503) 243-6374
Mon/Thurs 6am-9pm
Fri/Sat 6am-10pm
Sun 7am-9pm

In an effort to appear calm and collected, it's an ordinary thing to cover up fears and worries both rational and irrational. This is what we show to other people. But there is an undisclosed place inside the body that will be of some distant unclear dimension, possessing a cruel quality to expand. It is a shapeless thing perpetually overpopulating the inner contours of quietly shapeless thoughts. It's where all of the lonely, abandoned things live, in private, and grow. What if our fears and our worries were to stop sleeping away in that unknown place in everybody you know, and it took on a much more physical form, bigger than that secret place inside the mind and body, and it turned us inside out?  'IN OUR SLEEP AND IN OUR ABSENCES' concerns a small, hollow place in between, where it’s difficult to imagine what can happen and when.

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Bruce Forster - "Graffiti Funhouse: A Tribute to the Artists of Pirate Town"
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Artists Reception: 5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
 
AIA Gallery
403 NW 11th Ave.
Portland, OR 97209
(503) 223-8757
Monday - Friday 9am-5pm

In the spring of 2009, an old friend encouraged photographer Bruce Forster to track down an abandoned building on the northern banks of the Willamette River in Portland. Known as "Pirate Town," the building had become a secluded haven for a fringe group comprised of graffiti artists, skaters and other like-minded souls.
 
Struck by the colorful art and the seriousness with which the graffiti artists approached their work, Bruce began regularly visiting Pirate Town to photograph their ever-changing palette. He came to view the building as an informal, communal space for artistic exploration.
 
"The Graffiti writers are not what you'd expect--they are not pre-teens scribbling their names on bridges," Bruce says. "The artists would come into the space with a huge variety of paint and a concept Their work is beautiful."
 
His efforts have become documentary in a sense; the building was recently torn down by The University of Portland, which owns the land and has cleanup and expansion plans for the area. 

Bruce Forster Photography &
Viewfinders Stock Photography
1306 NW Hoyt Street, #302
Portland, OR 97209
503.222.5222
http://bruceforsterphotography.com/
http://viewfindersnw.com/

Sabrina Siegel seeks to create situations where nature/chance compromise her control, to bring forth grace through the precarious. In this vein, Siegel placed 35mm photographic slides she exposed previously with images from nature and her former works of art outside her Eugene home in a shed for about four years. After harvesting the work, she states, “looking at the slides (their contents barely visible to the naked eye) I could make out that there were various ‘abstractions’ created and that something special and beautiful existed on the slides. I had them scanned, and upon seeing the scans, I realized they became tiny plots of land and homes to microscopic crystal, plant, and insect life forms living on the gelatin emulsion of the slide. They had developed their own landscapes, making a life for themselves and recomposing my images that were on the slides.”

Sabrina Siegel was raised in New York and later Santa Monica, California. She received her MFA from the University of Oregon and now resides in Eugene, Oregon.

Her multi-disciplinary work includes photography, performance, film and video installation, and music.

1^sty  FRIDAY ARTIST RECEPTION: September 4^th, 2009, 6-9pm

PUSHDOT STUDIO – 1021 SE Caruthers Street, Portland, OR 97214, 503.224.5925
www.pushdotstudio.com

Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri. 8:30am to 5:00pm, free admission 

In September, Blue Sky exhibits Interior Relations by Ian van Coller and
NYC Street Corners by Orville Robertson.  
Artist Reception, First Thursday, September 3rd, 6-9pm
Artist Talk, FRIDAY, Sept. 4th @ 6pm - Ian van Coller and Orville Robertson
Exhibition runs September 3-27, 2009
Regular gallery hours are noon to 5pm, Tuesday through Sunday.
Blue Sky is located in the DeSoto Building in Portland's Pearl District at 122 NW 8th between NW Couch & Davis.

Ian van Coller, Interior Relations

In 2007, Ian van Coller returned to his birthplace in South Africa to photograph 41 female domestic workers employed in Johannesburg. His goal was to create a portrait series that would provide a space for domestic workers to assert their own identities juxtaposed within settings where they normally had to conform to their employers' often unspoken (and customary) expectations with respect to dress and manner. For this project, the subjects were asked to wear their preferred clothing and accessories so that they might express some aspects of their aesthetics and identity.

Van Coller writes: "In this immediate post-Apartheid era, there remain few employment opportunities for many black South African women aside from domestic work.  And with a fifty-percent unemployment rate, domestic service fills a critical need for women seeking to support their families. My intent is to capture some of the complexities that all South Africans face in creating and asserting post-Apartheid identities in the face of dramatic economic and cultural realities."

Orville Robertson, NYC Street Corners

Orville Robertson's NYC Street Corner's possess a wonderful energy. Passersby and their self-made worlds create dynamic relationships that are continuously changing before and after Robertson snaps his shutter. Robertson writes: How I photograph these scenes reflects who I am, where I have been, and where I am headed.  My images are defined by the simple aesthetic of  balancing a child's curiosity and informality with an adult's need for structure and meaning.

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Blue Sky's mission has remained steadfast throughout its 33 year history: to educate the public about photography and support the careers of photographic artists by creating conversations between photographers and the world, and presenting and documenting their work for international audiences and future generations through exhibitions, lectures, and print and digital publications.

Blue Sky Gallery, the Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, is an exhibition space and a resource center for artists, the general public of the Pacific Northwest, and the national and international photographic communities.  Through top-quality exhibitions, a lecture series and internationally-distributed catalogues and cds, Blue Sky Gallery reaches over 22,000 art enthusiasts per year from its new 3700 square foot gallery located in Portland's fine art campus, the DeSoto Building, on the east side of the North Park Blocks between NW Davis and Couch.

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Blue Sky Gallery receives generous support from National Endowment for the Arts, Regional Arts & Culture Council, M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust, Collins Foundation, Meyer Memorial Trust, James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation, Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, Rose Tucker Foundation, Work for Art, and our terrific members and friends.

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"I like to use my camera at night as an extension of my nervous system. Where the human eye cannot see in the darkness, my camera can, through the magic of long exposures, see forms that I can only intuit. My photographs are an attempt to pull out of the shadows the life I sense in them. " -- Jon Gottshall

 
August 22 - September 25, 2009
Artist's Reception: 5-8pm, Saturday, September 5, 2009
NOTICE: This is a CHANGE of date for the reception; the mailed announcement card is WRONG (it is NOT on Thursday September 3 and the hours have changed).
 

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Ray Bidegain utilizes the time honored alternative method of platinum printing from 8x10 and 4x5 negatives, as well as wet plate collodion for his images.  He is drawn to these methods because of the hand made nature of the work and its inherent beauty.  The results are images that have an elegance and tone unlike any other modern technique.  The collection will include still lifes, landscapes and nudes, and will be displayed in both the upper and lower galleries of LightBox.

About Ray:

After a long commercial career working as a black and white photographer, I discovered the beauty of the platinum print and began to teach myself this art over 10 years ago. I was drawn to the older alternative photo processes because of the hand made nature of the work and its inherent beauty. I find peace in my photographs, and mostly photograph things that present themselves voluntarily into my life. The images serve as visual reminders of moments and feelings I have experienced, signifying both the passage of time and the reverberation of consistency in all of our lives.

Four years ago I began sharing my passion for platinum printing by teaching small workshops and found that I very much enjoyed the personal interaction that teaching offers. I strive to fill my students with excitement for this work, and to ensure their success in mastering the process. 

About the Platinum/Palladium Process:

Platinum/palladium printing is an older hand coated alternative process. It begins by mixing a light sensitive emulsion containing, among other things, platinum and palladium metals. The coating is then brushed onto high-quality rag paper and allowed to dry. The hand-made sheet is exposed in contact with the large format negative to UV light. Processing the sheet takes place in subdued room light and the resulting photograph is warm and rich brown in color, with the texture of the paper showing through. Platinum/palladium prints are well known for their subtle beauty and archival permanence. 

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Blue Moon Camera and Machine proudly presents its 2009 Staff Show.  Featuring the varied and diverse bodies of photographic work by Zeb Andrews, Nancy Guidry, Daniel Klockenkemper, Sean McFadden, Jake Shivery, Faulkner Short, and Kendall Stewart, who together staff the world's hardest working photo lab.

August 8-31, 2009
Opening Reception, August 8th, 7-9pm
 
Opposable Thumb Gallery + Café
3312 SE Belmont St.
Portland, OR   97214
(503) 235-0146
8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Wednesday
8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday through Saturday
9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sundays

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Stuart Allen Levy exhibits images of local sites pictured from a unique, rarely seen perspective. Many of his images consist of familiar locations seen from unfamiliar perspectives and in unusual light. Levy, 54, studied photography at Antioch College, Marylhurst University, and PNCA. He has been shooting photos for more than three decades. When he’s not taking photos, Levy works as a psychotherapist in Beaverton. He has also been running for 20 years. He has competed in five marathons, including three in Portland. “I do a lot of long runs throughout Portland and especially enjoy the esplanade and downtown,” said Levy. “A lot of these photos are of scenes I’ve admired while running. I’m moving very slowly, covering a lot of territory, and noticing things that would be easy to miss from a car or bike. I love to find visual experiences that are striking, yet usually go unnoticed. That’s how I pick places to photograph."

“They are seen from a different perspective because they are panoramic,” Levy added. “I think it’s the ideal way to show urban landscapes. You can get the wide perspective of a landscape and the detail of a close-up, all in the same picture. It’s closer to the feeling you get when you’re standing there looking at an urban landscape.”

Stuart Allen Levy - Hidden Gems Revealed
 
July 25 - August 21, 2009
Artist's Reception 6-9pm, 1st Thursday, August 6, 2009
 
Camerawork Gallery
Linfield College Nursing Campus
Peterson Hall
2255 NW Northrup
Portland, OR 97210
(503) 226-4847
9-5 M-F, 1-5 Sat, often open evenings and other hours by chance
On the Portland Streetcar Line - NW 22nd & Northrup Stop
mailto:TheCameraworkGallery@comcast.net%20

• Artist Reception, First Thursday, August 6th, 6-9pm at Blue Sky Gallery
  
• Artist Talk, Saturday, August 8th @ 3pm - Martin Bogren and Ethan Eisenberg
• Exhibition runs August 6-30, 2009
• Regular gallery hours are noon to 5pm, Tuesday through Sunday.
• Blue Sky is located in the DeSoto Building in Portland's Pearl District at 122 NW 8th between NW Couch and Davis.

Martin Bogren

Martin Bogren's Ocean is a series of black and white photographs, capturing the joy and playfulness surrounding a group of men and their first visit to the Indian Ocean after travelling more than 1000 miles by bus from the province of Rajasthan, India.

Bogren lives and works in the South of Sweden. In 2009, his images were recognized in Cannes at the World Photography Awards.  While his main interest is documentary photography, in the early 1990s Bogren worked as a musician photographing other bands, including The Cardigans and published a book entitled The Cardigans: Been it.  Ocean, his second book, will be available for purchase at Blue Sky.

Ethan Eisenberg

In Holyland, Eisenberg photographed the Gaza Strip, an area affected by the 1993 Israel - PLO peace accord. The photographs in this exhibition are from an extended personal project carried out from 1994-2005 in the contested areas of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Concentrating on the routines and rituals of daily life more than the actual violence, the photographs describe how both Israeli and Palestinian society have been shaped by their position in a shared culture of territorial conflict.

Eisenberg states, "Rather than photographing from the perspective of support for one side or the other, I have attempted to describe a collective culture of territorial struggle, a continuous state of competition where every aspect of public life, from physical appearance to participation in public gatherings, becomes an assertion of identity and difference."

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Newspace Center for Photography is pleased to present its Fifth Annual Juried Exhibition this August.  This year’s exhibition was curated by Chris Pichler, founder of fine photography book publisher Nazraeli Press. Based in Portland, Nazraeli Press has published over 250 books specializing in contemporary photography to date.
 
From over 300 entries and about 1,500 individual images, Mr. Pichler selected five photographers to exhibit five images each.
 
This year’s selections include:

 
Joe Sumner, Flagstaff, AZ

Joe Sumner studied photography in college in the 1970’s but put it aside to work as a U.S. Forest Service Hotshot, National Park Service Ranger, and Special Agent.  Working outdoors, frequently at night, he came to feel at home with full moon and new moon skies and began taking low light and night images in 2001.
 
Kevin G. Malella, Chicago, IL 

Kevin G. Malella lives in Chicago, IL. He recently finished his MFA at Columbia College Chicago (’09). He is a recent recipient of a Harold Arts Residency, John Mulvany Scholarship, Albert P. Weisman Grant, and the Society of Photographic Educators’ Jeannie Pierce Award.
 
Christine Laptuta, Portland, OR   

Christine Laptuta’s images are continuous frames on long strips of film shot with a primitive Holga camera.  The camera’s unpredictability has enabled Laptuta to tap into a more intuitive and spontaneous shooting style.  Born in Toronto, Christine now lives and works in Portland.  Her work is in public and private collections and she has shown both nationally and internationally.

New York City-based photographer Jacqueline Bates was born in Mount Kisco, New York and raised in Connecticut. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2004 and Master of Fine Arts in 2009 from the School of Visual Arts. Her work has been exhibited in group shows in New York, Paris, Moscow, and Buenos Aires. In addition to taking pictures, Bates also works in magazine publishing as a photography editor.
 
Tricia Hoffman, Portland, OR    http://triciahoffman.com/
Tricia Hoffman is a student at the Oregon College of Art and Craft, focusing on the study of photography. Her photographs are held in private and corporate collections and she has been published in the book of Alternative Photographic Processes, 2nd Edition, by Christopher James.

August 7th through 30th, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday August 7th, 7-10pm
 
Newspace Center for Photography
1632 SE 10th Ave. Portland, OR 97214
503.963.1935
info@newspacephoto.com
Monday through Thursday 10am - 10:30pm
Friday through Sunday 10am - 6pm

Cottage Industry, an installation concerning the nature and site of women’s work, plays off the house/office dynamic of the pushdot studio gallery space.

Many professions, including the printer, the butcher, the baker, the nurse, and the homemaker, wear an apron. The apron persists in its simplest form, but through each era takes on styles and changes of the times. Like the house that holds pushdot studio the structure remains, but the activities contained within the walls vary vastly over time. The exact history is less important to me than the story this unique site tells: time conflating the domestic and commercial and the value of women’s labor acknowledged in Cottage Industry.

Rachel Siegel lives in Los Angeles and Portland. Her artistic practice investigates social and political concerns as well as feminist themes. She draws on autobiography in much the same way that Second Wave Feminists used the personal to address patriarchal power structures. In her work she often uses humor and playfulness to investigate issues that are significant to her (including the body, the family, health and interpersonal relationships).

Her current art practice incorporates fabric, digital prints, artist’s books, video, and installation work. She has exhibited internationally and national. She currently teaches at Sierra Canyon Middle and High School in Chatsworth.

Rachel Siegel, Cottage Industry

OPEN/CLOSE: Friday August 7th, 2009 through Friday August 28th, 2009
1sty  FRIDAY ARTIST RECEPTION: August 7th, 2009, 6-9pm
PUSHDOT STUDIO – 1021 SE Caruthers Street, Portland, OR 97214, 503.224.5925
www.pushdotstudio.com
Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri. 8:30am to 5:00pm, free admission 
CONTACT: Ann Ploeger, 503-224-5925, ann@pushdotstudio.com

PUSHDOT STUDIO: In addition to being a digital art gallery, pushdot studio is a digital imaging resource for artists, graphic designers, and photographers who require high quality scanning, image composition and color work, prepress and archival printing services.

from Scott Jones - PortlandPhotoEvent

John Montague, Portland amateur photographer, has a sampling of his world-wide photos on the walls of Caffe Mingo through the end of August. John has won two awards and an honorable mention in the Oregonian’s Travel Photo Contest in the last two years, and an honorable mention in the National Geographic Expedition “Moments” Contest.
 
Information on the photo above:
Not even Paris’ legendary “l’heure bleu” can rival the arresting cobalt hue of Majorelle Garden in Marrakech designed by Jacques Majorelle whose name is now memorialized by this very color: bleu Majorelle.
 
Many of John’s photos are viewable on http://www.flickriver.com/photos/johnmontague/sets

Through end of August, 2009
 
Caffe Mingo
807 NW 21st Ave
Portland, OR
(503) 226-4646
Sun-Thur 5pm-10pm
Fri-Sat 5pm-11pm

Marti J. Rhea, Portland-based equine photographer, will have two images in the mixed-media group show, 2009 Juried Art Exhibit, at the Gresham City Hall Visual Arts Gallery. This particular image, Mischief Maker, was captured in the late afternoon light as a herd of 40+ mares and foals galloped straight at the photographer. The golden New Mexico light, which master painter Georgia O’Keeffe so loved, lends a special mood to the image. Available at the show in a limited-edition canvas print.
 
The entries in the show also may be viewed at http://www.ga2c.org

Susan E. Frost, Portland-based travel  photographer, will have  one  image in the mixed-media group show, 2009 Juried Art Exhibit, at the Gresham City Hall Visual Arts Gallery. This particular image,  Neon Tulip Girl, was  shot in early morning light  and then manipulated in Photoshop CS3 to give it the Neon look. Available at the show in a limited-edition ,  fine art print.  Susan is the author and photographer of the book, "Portland Oregon: A Photographic Portrait" and her images are published regularly in The New York Times, Sunset magazine and World Traveler magazine.

Claudia J. Howell, a Portland area photographer, has two images in the mixed-media group show, 2009 Juried Art Exhibit, at the Gresham City Hall Visual Arts Gallery. The image shown is a Holga photograph of 5 year old Avery putting boots on her mother's polo pony. The archival pigment print is from a scanned color negative.

Annual Juried Group Show
Juror: Rip Caswell
 
July 14 – August 27, 2009
Artists’ Reception: 5:30pm – 7:00pm, August 18, 2009
 
City of Gresham Visual Arts Gallery
1333 NW Eastman Parkway
Open weekdays 8:00am – 5:00pm
Art Committee Staff Liaison 503.618.2360

  from Scott Jones - PortlandPhotoEvent

Lauren Henkin - Displaced: Part I

"During the summer of 2007, I spent a month photographing in Nova Scotia, Canada as a way to find peace and solitude from the breakup of my marriage. The taking of these images, titled Displaced: Part I, was a way for me to reclaim hope for the future and remind myself that I would be able to survive on my own again."

 
Exhibit: June 20 - July 24, 2009

(left: On the Line by Lauren Henkin, 2007)

Camerawork Gallery
Linfield College Nursing Campus, Peterson Hall
2255 NW Northrup
Portland, OR 97210
(503) 226-4847
9-5 M-F, 1-5 Sat, often open evenings and other hours by chance
On the Portland Streetcar Line - NW 22nd & Northrup Stop

RECEPTIONS: Friday July 17th, 2009, 6-9pm, and Saturday July 18th, 2009, 12-5pm
PUSHDOT STUDIO – 1021 SE Caruthers Street, Portland, OR 97214, 503.224.5925

An adventurer and avid photographer, in late 2008 Daniel Fox embarked on The Wild Image Project, his expedition to raise awareness of the fragile and complex beauty of our planet and the necessity of living harmoniously with nature and preserving it for future generations. Over the course of the Wild Image Project, Fox expects to shoot over 100,000 images that will be showcased in several multimedia photo essays, books and exhibits, designed to inspire viewers and raise their consciousness about these fragile places.

The first phase of The Wild Image Project took Fox to Argentina’s mid-Atlantic shore where his camera was focused on the amazing wildlife and rugged landscape of the forbidding region. The result is a collection of over 100 images of exotic wildlife thriving in its natural habitat that has been hailed by art, environmental, and outdoor enthusiasts.

Fox will showcase the fruits of his four month kayak trek and recant the frenzied moments he fought for his life against 40 knot gusts of wind off the rugged Argentinean coastline at Manhattan’s Lois Wagner Fine Arts June 30 to July 10, followed by a showing at pushdot studio in Portland, July 17 and 18, 2009.  In recognition of his 120-day extreme-condition journey and the remarkable record of his adventure, Fox will soon be named the first North American Champion of the prestigious Aquapac line of 100% waterproof gear. The firm will feature Fox’s work in an upcoming Salt Lake City trade fair and continue to sponsor the next phase of the Wild Image Project when Fox returns to Argentina and the Falkland Islands in the fall.

Wend Magazine recently appointed Fox an Ambassador, citing that Daniel portrays everything the Magazine stands for. The July issue will feature his latest story “Nomades del Mar”.

For additional information and images, visit www.thewildimageproject.com and www.kontain.com/thewildimageproject or contact Daniel Fox at daniel@kitsunekeimou.com

CONTACT: Ann Ploeger, 503-224-5925, ann@pushdotstudio.com
PUSHDOT STUDIO: In addition to being a digital art gallery, pushpot studio is a digital imaging resource
for artists, graphic designers, and photographers who require high quality scanning, image composition
and color work, prepress and archival printing services.

 

Ferit Kuyas

 
Amy Stein

Amy Stein's Domesticated is a series of photographs based on real stories from local newspapers and oral histories of intentional and random interactions between humans and animals.

Stein states: "Domesticated explores our paradoxical relationship with the "wild." We at once seek connection with the mystery and freedom of the natural world, yet we continuously tame the wild around us and compulsively control the wild within our own nature. Within my work primal issues of comfort and fear, dependence and determination, submission and dominance play out in images of direct and hidden confrontations between humans and animals."

First Thursday opening reception, 6 to 9 pm, July 2, 2009.

Exhibition runs July 2 - August 2, 2009.  
Blue Sky will be closed Saturday, for the 4th of July.

Robert M. Huff’s images of tropical settings explore the tenuous relationship we have in our environment-- the want for things organic but our need to control and contain their growth. Huff’s use of Holga and Diana plastic cameras give the images a dreamlike feeling. This exhibit will feature color photographs and black and white photo emulsion prints on panels.

Portland is home for Huff; it is where he works as a photographer and begins his journeys. He has been part of many group and solo art exhibits in Portland and throughout the U.S. You can see his work at Guardino Gallery and bobhuffphoto.com.

Robert M. Huff, Tropical Plastic
OPEN/CLOSE: Wednesday July 1st, 2009 through Friday July 31st, 2009
ARTIST RECEPTION: July 10th, 2009, 6-9pm

*PLEASE NOTE, THERE WILL BE NO FIRST FRIDAY RECEPTION ON JULY 3rd.

PUSHDOT STUDIO

1021 SE Caruthers Street, Portland, OR 97214, 503.224.5925
www.pushdotstudio.com
Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri. 8:30am to 5:00pm, free admission

CONTACT: Ann Ploeger, 503-224-5925, ann@pushdotstudio.com

from Scott Jones - PortlandPhotoEvent

The 3D Center of Art & Photography has been offered an unprecedented opportunity to print and exhibit images from “A Stereoscopic Atlas of Human Anatomy,” a groundbreaking project developed by Portlander William Gruber, the inventor of the View-Master, in collaboration with Dr. David Bassett.

Originally published in Portland in the 1950’s and 60’s, the series included View-Master reels with booklets of accompanying text and drawings. Working together on weekends over a period of 14 years, Bassett made the dissections from cadavers and Gruber shot the stereo photographs. A total of 1551 images of the body were produced, head to toe, and the reel sets were released for purchase by the public as they were completed. Slides and digital scans have been generously donated to the 3D Center by Dr. Robert Chase, curator of the collection, which was given to the Stanford School of Medicine by Bassett’s widow. The Atlas is still used by medical students today because of the quality of the dissections and the brilliance of the stereo photographs.

The 3D Center is producing large stereo pair prints for exhibition in the Gallery, and a digital show for the Stereo Theatre will open August 6th. These images have never before been presented in these formats in 3D! Warning: these are graphic images of actual human bodies and may not be appropriate for children or those of a sensitive nature.

Special thanks to the Autzen Foundation (Portland) for support of this project.

July 2nd - August 30th, 2009
 
3D Center of Art & Photography
1928 NW Lovejoy
Portland, OR 97209
503.227.6667
www.3dcenter.us
info@3dcenter.us
Thursday - Saturday, 11am - 5pm
First Thursdays, 6-9pm (Free all day)
Sunday 1-5pm
Admission: Adults (15 and over) - $5.00

If you are planning a trip to or near New York City before September 6, 2009, include a stop at the International Center of Photography.  ICP's exclusive and extensive exhibit of the fashion photography of a true master, Richard Avedon, is an event every photographer should experience.

(Photo left: Richard Avedon, Veruschka, dress by Kimberly, New York, January 1967, ©2009, The Richard Avedon Foundation)

The centerpiece of ICP’s Year of Fashion, Avedon Fashion 1944–2000 will be on view at the International Center of Photography (1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street) from May 15 through September 6, 2009. The first exhibition devoted exclusively to Richard Avedon’s fashion work, it will occupy the main galleries of the museum and include some 175 photographs from throughout his productive career, as well as original magazines showing his work in context, and material demonstrating his creative process. The exhibition has been organized by ICP Curator Carol Squiers and Adjunct Curator Vince Aletti, with the cooperation of The Richard Avedon Foundation, and will be accompanied by a catalogue published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc.

Richard Avedon is the most significant and influential photographer to have taken fashion as one of his subjects. He began working for Harper’s Bazaar in 1944, when he was only twenty-one, and revolutionized fashion photography, dispensing with its prevailing mannered and statically posed formulas and introducing a more youthful, spirited, and distinctly American style. Inspired by Hungarian photographer Martin Munkacsi and encouraged by legendary Harper’s Bazaar art director Alexey Brodovitch, he took models out of the studio and photographed them in motion to exhilarating effect. His collaborative efforts with Brodovitch allowed Avedon a great deal of freedom in composing his photographs, as well as a great degree of Harper’s Bazaar editorial control over the use of his images. Working in Paris in the 1950s, he spun a cinematic narrative around the couture collections with his revolutionary outdoor images, evoking a vision of Paris at its most glamorous and intoxicating in what was still a grim postwar city. The extended narrative was one of his most imitated innovations. He was as inventive as he was prolific, constantly pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable in fashion photography, such as his inclusion of models who were Asian and African American, and his avant-garde pop culture references. His two decades at Harper’s Bazaar are remarkable for their inventiveness and originality, as well as their breathtakingly hectic pace.

By 1957, little more than a decade into his career, the unmistakable hyperkinetic sensitivity of his work had become well known, as had the growing myth of Avedon himself. He was the inspiration and visual consultant for Stanley Donen’s film Funny Face, with the Avedon role played by Fred Astaire, and his reluctant model played by Audrey Hepburn. Avedon was the epitome of the modern fashion photographer—charming, sophisticated. and suddenly as famous as his celebrity portrait subjects. More so than any other fashion photographer, Avedon reflected the mood of the moment through his work, from postwar optimism to Pop exuberance. He was sensitive and responsive to the new sense of power, determination, and freedom gained by women during the mid twentieth century. His favorite models had character and a collaborative spirit, and he not only encouraged them to express it, but he made them famous for it. While at Harper’s Bazaar, he helped Suzy Parker achieve a level of renown rare for models, and after following former Harper’s Bazaar fashion editor Diana Vreeland to Vogue in 1966 (where she was editor in chief from 1963–1971), many more previously anonymous models were given prominent credits and fame through his images. A new cult of celebrity bloomed for Jean Shrimpton, Lauren Hutton, Twiggy, Penelope Tree, and Veruschka, ushering in the age of the supermodel and raising the profile of fashion photography within popular culture.

Avedon’s work at Vogue became more provocative in response to the sexual revolution of the late Sixties and Seventies, but his most memorable and exciting images from this period are of models in motion—sprinting across the page on a headlong rush into the future with the trademark “Avedon blur,” where fast shutter speeds captured figures mid-motion. Although Avedon remained at Vogue until 1988, he did little editorial photography in his final years there, only picking it up again for extended sequences in Egoēste magazine and, later, features in The New Yorker as their first staff photographer, including “In Memory of the Late Mr. and Mrs. Comfort,” a sensational 1995 color portfolio set in post-apocalyptic ruins. Avedon’s last major narrative, this portfolio will be included in the exhibition in abbreviated form, along with key examples of his witty advertising work for Versace and Dior. Throughout his nearly seven decade career, Avedon’s images were infused with an undeniable sense of personal style and a unique take on the importance of fashion in our lives.

CATALOGUE
A full-color catalogue by publisher Harry N. Abrams, Inc. will be released at the time of the exhibition. It will feature critical essays by curators Carol Squiers, writing about Avedon’s prolific, inventive early years at Harper’s Bazaar, and Vince Aletti, who will cover Avedon’s equally influential later career at Vogue, Egoïste, and The New Yorker. An additional essay surveying Avedon’s portraiture in relation to his fashion photography will be contributed by Philippe Garner.

The exhibit continues at ICP through September 6, 2009.

LightBox Photographic is excited to announce they will be opening on June 13, 2009.  Located in the restored Occidental building at 1045 Marine Drive in Astoria, LightBox Photographic is a gallery and photographic center featuring traditional B&W and color darkrooms as well as film processing and custom printing services.  Their goal is to promote art and photography along the north coast.  The grand opening will feature three photographic artists from the Portland area: Zeb Andrews, Heidi Kirkpatrick and Gary Wilson. Methods ranging from pinhole photography, macro work, alternative processes and digital infrared images will be displayed.
 
Zeb Andrews will be showing a combination of both his pinhole and floralscape work.  Zeb has been enjoying using both techniques to present amazing new perspectives of the world around us for several years.  He is an outspoken advocate for the simplicity of the pinhole camera to any who care to listen.  He can be regularly found fielding questions at Blue Moon Camera in North Portland and teaching classes at Newspace Center for Photography, that is when he is not out in the pursuit of new images.
 
Heidi L. Kirkpatrick, an established fine art photographer based in Portland, Oregon, has exhibited widely over the last ten years. Kirkpatrick’s work is included in collections at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, Springfield Museum of Art, Ohio and The OHSU Corporate Collection. Kirkpatrick’s work often depicts a view of the world experienced by women.  Kirkpatrick develops her own images, including silver gelatin printing, alternative processes, photographs using a Holga toy camera, transparent images on film and 3-D mixed media objects. In addition to being an experienced mid-career artist, Kirkpatrick joined The Northwest Academy in 2004, to teach photography at the high school level.  Kirkpatrick is currently represented locally by the Alysia Duckler Gallery and G. Gibson Gallery in Seattle, Washington.
 
Gary Wilson has over 25 years of experience in commercial and fine art photography while working principally as an architectural photographer. “In my fine art work, an area of personal fascination for me is infrared photography. Having worked a number of years utilizing infrared film, I’ve since had a number of digital cameras converted to record infrared light. "The effect is dreamlike and emotionally provocative.”  Gary has worked with some of the Northwest’s most recognized architecture and design firms. He received his BFA in painting from Portland State University with post graduate classes at the Portland Art Museum School.  Gary's work has been published in Architectural Digest and Architectural Record and nearly every local magazine. His work is included in the Visual Chronicles of Portland, The Portland Art Museum and in many private collections.

June 13 - July 31, 2009

from Scott Jones - PortlandPhotoEvent

©Randy Rasmussen

During the month of June at Grendel's Coffee House, see photos from Randy Rasmussen's personal passions: tree photography.
 
"This group of pictures comes from about the last 10 years out of nearly 40 years of tree photography. As you can see, if you're able to visit the show, I'm captivated principally by the shape of barren trees (OK, and other objects that look a lot like trees) and their interaction with their environment.
 
In the spirit of tight times, I have created this show specifically to make it affordable. Each of the prints is laminated to protect its surface, mounted on a stiff backing and ready for display (no frame or glass required). Each image is $90, significantly reduced from what I normally charge. And should these laminated prints not appeal to your fine art sensibilities, for the month of June only, you may order an archival, digital copy for the same price of $90 (no mat, no glass and no frame provided). Any shipping/handling costs are extra."
 
If you can't see this show in person, check it out on-line at:
 http://www.flickr.com/photos/rlr_pix/sets/72157619117127012/

Grendel's Coffee House
729 E. Burnside
Portland, OR 97214
503.595.9550
Hours: Mon-Sat 7am-6pm, Sun 8am-6pm

from Scott Jones - PortlandPhotoEvent

Newspace Center for Photography is pleased to present an exhibition of photographs by Portland artists Motoya Nakamura and Jan Sonnenmair during the month of June. The exhibition is a celebration of Portland’s quirky denizens and vibrant arts scene.  
 
Motoya Nakamura
 
Motoya Nakamura will be showing portraits of the “movers and shakers” in the Portland arts scene. A self-designed assignment published serially in the Oregonian’s Arts and Entertainment section from 2002 – 2007, the images are beautifully crafted portraits of some of the many artists and curators who have called Portland home.  Included in the exhibition are portraits of Portland Art Museum Director Brian Ferriso, painter Hank Pander, Cooley Gallery Director Stephanie Snyder, dancer Tahni Holt, painter Sally Haley, sculptor and mixed media artist Lillian Pitt, comedian and actress Damali Ayo, curatorial team Charm Bracelet (Brad Adkins and Christopher Buckingham), and more.
 
Motoya Nakamura grew up in Nagoya, Japan.  He currently lives in Portland with his wife and children.  He is a staff photographer for the Oregonian.
 
Jan Sonnenmair
 
Jan Sonnenmair will be showing fun portraits of Portlanders stepping out on the town in their fashionable best. Shot along Alberta Street during the Last Thursday Art Walk, the portraits are a lively, colorful paean to Portland’s unique sense of style.
 
Portlander Jan Sonnenmair is an award winning photojournalist and commercial photographer. Her work has appeared in magazines all over the world. She is known for creating life stories and images that speak to the heart of her subject. Her work is currently focused on projects having to do with environmental and social issues, though she also shoots lifestyle projects for corporations, magazines and non-profits.
 
Jan has been the recipient of several awards including the World Press Foundation’s Photo Essay Award.  Images shot for the Portland non-profit Self Enhancement Inc. will be included in the 2009 Communication Arts Photography annual. She drives (and camps) in a tornado red Eurovan - wave to her if you see her out on the road!

June 5th – 28, 2009
Opening reception: Friday, June 5, 2009, 7-10pm
 
Newspace Center for Photography
1632 SE 10th Ave. Portland, OR 97214
503.963.1935
info@newspacephoto.com
Monday through Friday 10am-8pm
Saturday 11am-6pm
Sunday 12pm-8pm

from Scott Jones - PortlandPhotoEvent

from Scott Jones - PortlandPhotoEvent

"At A Time When We Were" by photographer Jaret Ferratusco

June 1 - June 30, 2009

©Jaret Ferratusco

A tiny exhibit for a tiny café, ‘At A Time When We Were’ by Jaret Ferratusco is a brief arrangement of the haunted beauty that sews up the confines of the body. Shot on b/w 35mm film.

In June, Blue Sky exhibits Outcasts of Slovakia by Julie Denesha and Intended Consequences by Jonathan Torgovnik.
©Julie Denesha

Julie Denesha's Outcasts of Slovakia captures life in the Slovak Republic's osadas, or Roma settlements, with an eye on changes since the country's entrance into the European Union (EU), and the goal of providing Slovaks and the wider world with a window into Roma life to raise understanding of the minority community.

 
©Jonathan Torgovnik

Jonathan Torgovnik's Intended Consequences: Rwandan Children Born of Rape is a series of remarkable portraits of mothers with their sons and daughters, and their harrowing first-hand testimonies.

In February of 2006, Torgovnik traveled to East Africa to report on a story for Newsweek, coinciding with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the outbreak of HIV/AIDS. While in Rwanda, he heard an interview with Odette, a survivor who was raped during the Rwandan genocide and as a result of that rape, had a child and contracted HIV/AIDS. She described how her entire family had been killed and recounted the terrible abuse she experienced. Odette's horrific story led Torgovnik to return to Rwanda to work on a personal project about women who, like Odette, were left pregnant as a result of the militia's heinous crimes.

Over the next three years, he made repeated visits to photograph these women and their children, and record their heart-wrenching stories.

Blue Sky Gallery
First Thursday opening reception, 6 to 9 pm, June 4, 2009.
Artist talk with Julie Denesha on Saturday, June 6, 2009 at 3pm.
Exhibition runs June 4th - 28th 2009.  
Regular gallery hours are noon to 5pm, Tuesday through Sunday.

Blue Sky is located in the DeSoto Building in Portland's Pearl District at 122 NW 8th between NW Couch and Davis.

from Scott Jones - PortlandPhotoEvent

"Marco Stereo Fotographia" in the 3D Center of Art and Photography Theater

“Macro Stereo Fotographia” presents close-up 3D views of the natural world in a digital theatre presentation by stereographer Dr. Imre Zsolnai-Nagy of Debrecen, Hungary. Shooting extreme close-ups in 3D combines art and exacting calculations. The 2 images (left and right) that make up the stereo photo are taken either with a single macro camera with 2 lenses very close together or, if using a single camera, the shift of the camera between the left and right image may be a fraction of an inch. A urologist by profession, Zsolnai-Nagy is very much involved in the technical aspects of creating 3D images. He has developed his own method for de-ghosting anaglyph images (trying to avoid blurred double images) and does a lot of work in 2D to 3D conversion. More information and other images of his work can be found at: http://www.freeweb.hu/conversion3d/ 

June 4th - August 2nd, 2009
Opening First Thursday, June 4th, 6-9pm
 
3D Center of Art & Photography
1928 NW Lovejoy
Portland, OR 97209
503.227.6667
info@3dcenter.us
Thursday - Saturday, 11am - 5pm
First Thursdays, 6-9pm (Free all day)
Sunday 1-5pm
Admission: Adults (15 and over) - $5.00

from Scott Jones - PortlandPhotoEvent

Chris Bennett, Painted Hills, from the series “Broken Cinema”
2008, Archival Pigment Print, 12x17”

Froelick Gallery is proud to honor Oregon’s sesquicentennial anniversary by presenting “Town & Country: Oregon at 150.” This juried exhibit brings together a diverse selection of artists celebrating all aspects of the unique Oregon landscape: the rocky crags of the coast; the fertile farms of the Willamette Valley; bridges of Portland; industrial parks of the Columbia slough and everything in between.  The following artists were selected from over 250 applicants:

• Chris Bennet, Portland, OR (Photography)
• Patricia Bognar, Portland, OR (Photography)
• Eric Bowman, Portland, OR
• Paul Fardig, Portland, OR (Photography)
• Kevin Farrell, Portland, OR
• Eric Franklin, Portland, OR
• Wendy Given, Portland, OR (Photography)
• Stephen Hayes, Portland, OR
• Craig Hickman, Eugene, OR (Photography)
• Alex Hirsch, Portland, OR
• Sarah Horowitz, Portland
• Liz Holzman, Portland, OR
• Mark Hooper, Portland, OR (Photography)
• Marilyn Joyce, Portland, OR
• Kimberly Kolba, Portland, OR (Photography)
• Sana Krusoe, Springfield, WA
• Gabriel Liston, Portland, OR
• Jim Lommasson, Portland, OR (Photography)
• TJ Norris, Portland, OR (Photography)
• Barry Pelzner, Portland, OR
• Ben Rosenberg, Portland, OR
• Laura Ross-Paul, Portland, OR
• Bill Sharp, Portland, OR
• Mike Southern, Portland, OR
• Seth Tane, Portland, OR
• David Lorenz Winston, Ashland, OR (Photography)
• John Wippich, Portland, OR
• Christy Wyckoff, Portland, OR
• Ron van Dongen, Portland, OR (Photography)

©Steve Blair

©Steve Blair

• Location:The Glen and Viola Cultural Center, 527 E. Maint Street, Hillsboro, OR
• Hours: Monday - Thursday 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., Friday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
• Admission: Free
• Directions:  Click here.

 
©Liz Obert

Liz Obert’s new series began with her fascination with the cultural evolution of society in terms of its relationship with portable technology. “We use devices such as cell phones and cameras to connect to the world, but by doing so we become disconnected and removed from our immediate surroundings. I find this behavior is particularly ironic in natural settings where people go to escape their usual hectic lives but are unable to fully disengage.”
 
Liz Obert is an artist living in Portland Oregon. She is currently an Associate Professor of Art at Linfield College. She received her BFA from College of Santa Fe and her MFA from Washington State University. She has exhibited her work locally and internationally. Obert will be doing an artist residency this summer at CAMAC (The Centre d’Arts, Marnay Art Center) in France.

Other recent exhibits of Liz's work include "The Other Portland, art & ecology in the 5th Quadrant" at the Portland Art Center, "Aluminum, Silver and Chrome, CSF Alumni Exhibition", Marion Center, Santa Fe, NM and "13th International Artist Residencies Exhibit", Vizivaroki Gallery, Budapest, Hungary.

from Scott Jones - PortlandPhotoEvent

 
Maro Vandorou, from the series "Fragmented Light"

The Photography Department at Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) is pleased to present an exhibition of photographs by Portland visual artist Maro Vandorou.
 
Maro Vandorou will be showing an installation of images from the series “Fragmented Light” printed on Japanese handmade paper with archival pigment inks. “Fragmented Light” is the first part of a Trilogy that documents a journey of profound transformation. The series references time, elapsed, logical linear time and time of the heart and emotions. In a visit to her birthplace, the artist reflects on her roots, her decisions and their consequences.  The images are in themselves fragile memory fragments.

from Scott Jones - PortlandPhotoEvent

 
Copyright, Abe Fagenson

The 3D Center is excited to be presenting the work of Abe Fagenson for the first time in Portland. Abe’s cross-view stereo paintings were featured in the gallery exhibition at the 2008 NSA convention in Grand Rapids, MI, and an interview by Ray Zone appeared in the November/December 2008 issue of Stereo World. Here are excerpts from that interview:
 

“After the war, I applied to the Art Institute of Chicago and got in. I took some courses in drawing. I still remember the first day in drawing, I was back to that one eye. Stereo was something I thought about and I couldn’t dismiss it. But it wasn’t what other people were doing….

In the early fifties, we moved to the San Fernando Valley and started raising a family. Montgomery Ward had a big sale on 3D cameras. It was the Stereo Realist. I was just beginning to see 3D in movies. ‘Wow!’ I said. ‘This is real. It’s fantastic!’ I had to get the camera. I tried it. It was fantastic and from that moment on everything had to be stereo for me….

As time went by, I remember being in an airplane. It was in the early 1990s, I was looking at a magazine and saw this random dot stereogram and it turned out to be an airplane. I stared at it a while and it came to me and I saw it. I almost jumped out of the seat. You could almost touch it. I said ‘I’ve got to learn how to do this.’ I started buying books on the random dot technique, anaglyphic images, anything I could find. So I started with anaglyphic drawings. If you separate them and use a cross-eyed technique you’ve got stereo. I started with little sketches and sure enough, they were 3D.”

Abe Fagenson’s art is unlike that of any other painter. The centuries-long tradition of trompe l’oeil taken to an entirely new level.

Included in the exhibition will be some of Abe’s new rose series paintings. Portland, the Rose City, has hosted an annual Rose Festival for over 100 years, so it is highly appropriate that the 3D Center is able to feature these new works in the spring to coincide with the Festival. More information about Abe’s work can be found at: http://www.abefagenson.com. 

Opening in the STEREO THEATRE
“The City Quakes: The San Francisco Earthquakes of 1906 & 1989”
By Robert Bloomberg

The San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906 was the worst national disaster in American history and the first to spark a world-wide media frenzy. Stereo card companies produced scores of 3D cards which brought the devastation into living rooms around the globe. Robert Bloomberg's show includes photos never before seen in 3D, as well as dramatic images of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.

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"Untitled No 3" By Sean McFadden & "Ms. D. Pasquinelli and Mr. O. Ogden, N. Oswego St, 2008  No 2" By Jake Shivery

Sean McFadden and Jake Shivery - Compliance and Liability

A two-man photo exhibition by a misunderstood camera enthusiast and an obsessive-compulsive nut job.

Click HERE to see more of Sean and Jake's photography.

May 1st - May 29th, 2009
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 2nd, 2009,  7pm - 9pm
 
Cup and Saucer Cafe (northside)
8237 N. Denver Ave
Portland, OR  97217
(503) 247-6011
Open 8am -3pm 7days a week.

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Photo "Luis (Havana)" by:  LeeAnn Gauthie

Featuring live music by IJenNeh: Combining African percussion, vocal acappella and beat-box, the lively and upbeat sound of IJenNeh is captivating.
 

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Michael Marten's Sea Change and Vojtéch Saláma's Wolf's Honey will open at the Blue Sky Gallery on May 7, 2009.

Michael Marten

©Michael Marten

Michael Marten of London, England has produced Sea Change, a series of color prints documenting the natural process in action, landscape in motion.   Photographing the coastline of Britain, Marten's camera captures an entire day of shifting tides revealing landscapes ranging from salt marsh to white chalk cliffs, muddy estuary to jurassic shoreline.  His diptychs of low and high tide illustrate the twice daily transformation of the coastline and enable us to comprehend simultaneously two moments in time, two states of nature.
 
Marten states, "I hope these photographs will stimulate people's awareness of change, and of landscape as dynamic process rather than static image. Attending to earth's rhythms can help us to reconnect with the fundamentals of our planet, which we ignore at our peril."

Vojtěch Sláma

©Vojtěch Sláma

©Vojtěch Sláma

In Wolf's Honey, Vojtěch Sláma from the Czech Republic offers glimpses of his world through his square image Rolleiflex.  Days spent with friends and strangers, fellow photographers and artists, familiar pets and stray cats reveal Sláma's fascination with the beauty of ordinary life moments. Melancholy landscape photographs, domestic still lifes, portraits and figurative motifs are often captured on a single photograph.
 
From the foreword of his book by the same title, Lucia Lendelova writes, "Vojtěch Sláma's world of photography is a world four times bent into a square - and sometimes as many as eight times since the diagonally composed picture leans and turns as a cog-wheel. Objects from outside overlap into the picture corners, emphasizing thus the emptiness of their meeting-point in the middle. Centers of other photographs are filled with fractions of things slightly falling outside the border. He does not capture "the world around him". He defines its contours, space, scents and only retrospectively - makes photographs."

May 7 - 31, 2009
First Thursday opening reception, 6 to 9 pm, May 7, 2009
Artist talks with Michael Marten & Vojtěch Sláma on Saturday, May 9, 2009 at 3pm
 
Blue Sky Gallery
122 NW 8th
Portland, Oregon 97209
Noon - 5 pm Tuesday through Sunday
                              (503) 225-0210                

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Newspace Center for Photography is pleased to present an exhibition of photographs by Portland artist Rosemary Hammer and Vancouver, B.C. artist Jeff Downer.  The artists will be in attendance for the opening reception on Friday, May 1st.

About Rosemary Hammer:
 
The Insouciant Beauty of the Street: Hello, Kitties! & City Scenics

Rosemary Hammer’s cityscapes are sometimes edgy, often humorous, and always enchanting.  Hammer’s eye is drawn to cluttered shop windows, old buildings, and her favorite subject - the cat.  Savvy street cats peer out of alleys, shop cats variously sleep in display windows or sit at attention amid aisles of merchandise.
 
Her inspirations include the candor of Helen Levitt, the “ooshy-gooshy” color of William Eggleston, the insight of Lee Friedlander, and the thousands of working photojournalists who fill the papers and magazines with the beauty, horror, and banality of the real world every day. Rosemary Hammer grew up in Astoria, Oregon.

About Jeff Downer:

A Suburb

"Going in to this project I saw the suburbs in only one way: average green lawns, average sterile homes, average small talk, and the average commuting mass. I forced myself to look into the consciousness of the suburb and see beyond my thoughts and to merely just see. I started to find the beauty that was once hidden by my mind and hatred of the suburban dream and created images that incorporate the comely and the idiocy of the suburb. The result are images with competing subjects that undoubtedly leaves something out of context."

Jeff Downer is on a photographic quest to document the often strange juxtaposition of man and nature in the suburban landscape.  His quirky eye and attention to moments of discord and absurdity give his pictures a dark humor and cynicism.
 
Jeff Downer lives and works in Vancouver, British Columbia. He studied Photography at Focal Point Centre for Visual Arts and graduated in 2008.  He is currently attending the Emily Carr University of Art and Design.

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Christine Eagon let a cat out of her camera bag, and photographed him visiting ancient standing stones, next to classic gargoyles, totem poles, frolicking amongst frogs, or relaxing on a Scrabble board in her studio. Felix the wonderful, wonderful cat's travels with Christine started the summer of 1990 on a trip to England.

Christine Eagon is a fine art photographer, painter, and Director of the Inner Light Photographic Society. Christine teaches art and photo workshops through Oregon College of Art and Craft and Newspace Center for Photography. Her work has been selected for numerous juried solo exhibitions and included in the Ruth Bernhard Shedrich Williames School of Photography permanent collection at the Kresge Art Museum in East Lansing, Michigan.

The exhibition at Angst Gallery chronicles this creative photographer's international travels with a small stuffed Felix, various camera formats using a variety of films and processes. You'll see Felix visiting England's Stonehenge and other locales, presented in luminous silver gelatin prints as well as color prints, Polaroid transfers, and postal art.  Eagon, a long-time Vancouver resident and photo educator, is enthusiastic about how travel invigorates and supports her creative process. In her Postal Odyssey project she combines Polaroid transfers and acrylic paints on paper for one-of-a-kind art pieces, to be mailed from the Royal Mail in England.

Want to see some truly unique and intriguing photography?  Check out Emmitt Pollard's photomicrography exhibit at the White Sturgeon Art Gallery in Vancouver, WA.  May 2nd through June 27th.  You'll be amazed by nature's designs and Emmitt's artistic eye.

      
Photomicroscopy by Emmitt Pollard

The White Sturgeon Art Gallery presents the photomicrographs of Emmitt Pollard. This collection of images was shot from wood tissue samples taken from the Department of Wood Science and Engineering at Oregon State University. In the words of the photographer, “…colors and patterns found at a microscopic level are as intense and intriguing as any that I could ever make up.”

Emmitt's photographic work has spanned the range of commercial freelance photography, photomicrography, macro photography, fine art portraiture and light and figure study. His training included a BA in fine art and technical photography from Marylhurst University in Portland, Oregon, and extensive experience teaching and pursuing assignments in fresh water photomicroscopy for scientific identification and documentation.

• The exhibition of this wildly colorful scientific photography runs May 2 through June 27, 2009.
• The artist reception is Saturday, May 2, 2 pm to 5 pm.
• Admission is free. White Sturgeon Gallery hours are 9 am to 5 pm, Monday through Saturday.
• The gallery is located in the Water Resources Education Center at 4600 SE Columbia Way in Vancouver, Washington.
• If you have questions, contact Maya Jones at maya.jones@ci.vancouver.wa.us

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"Simon's Bath" by Jane Keating of Portland

The Corvallis Arts Center is marking the 170th anniversary of the invention of photography with an exhibit that celebrates the historical role photographic societies have played in the growth of photography as a fine art. The 2009 Photography Guild Invitational, which opens April 23, features work by members of Oregon’s five oldest independent photo societies, including the Willamette Valley PhotoArts Guild, which is acting as host and curator for this exhibit.

A reception and gallery talk will be held May 7 from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Juror Phil Harris, a photographer and faculty member at the Oregon College of Arts and Crafts, will lead the gallery talk and announce awards.

In 1839 competing claims for the invention of the photographic process were made by Louis Daguerre in France and Henry Fox Talbot in England, establishing that year as the birth date of photography. But even as the public responded enthusiastically, the art establishment met the new medium with distrust, fear and often condescension. In response, photographers began organizing into guilds and societies as early as the end of the 19th century to champion photography as an art form, and to fight against the prevailing attitude that it was merely a scientific or documentary medium. While that battle has clearly been won, the tradition of the photographic society carries on today, nurturing the artistic growth of photographers and promoting the appreciation of expressive photography within the community.

In celebration of that tradition, the Arts Center is exhibiting more than 50 prints in a variety of photographic media (traditional black-and-white, digital color, and alternative process prints) by nearly 40 photographers.

The five photo groups represented in the exhibit are:

•The Portland Photographers Forum, which began in 1982 as a series of photo workshops and critique groups. The PPF is now the largest of the five photo groups in the show and over the years has sponsored workshops, swap meets and project grants to local photographers.

•The Inner Light Society, which was formed in 1986 in the Portland Metro area. The group is distinguished by the wide range of photographic styles, processes and media practiced by its members.

•The Interim Group, which is the oldest of the state’s independent photo societies. It traces its lineage to workshops led by the famed photographer Minor White in Portland starting in 1959, and since 1970 has managed the Camerawork Gallery, the oldest fine art photo gallery in The United States.

•The PhotoZone Gallery of Eugene, which was launched in 1988 as a gallery cooperative. Although this group no longer has a permanent gallery space, it has hosted a popular regional juried exhibit every summer for the past 15 years.

•The Willamette Valley PhotoArts Guild, which has been based in Corvallis since its formation in 1988.

The Water Center’s White Sturgeon Art Gallery was established in 1999 as a showcase for nature-inspired art. Occupying two 40-foot-long corridors on the first and second floors of the spacious Water Center, the White Sturgeon exhibits the work of emerging and established Northwest artists in a variety of mediums.

At the heart of the gallery is the Water Center’s mission of educating all people in an awareness of precious local waters. Regular visitors to the White Sturgeon will see a changing variety of photography, paintings, carvings, ceramics and fiber arts, among other media, all related to the Pacific Northwest’s environment. Exhibits run for two months and are scheduled through White Sturgeon coordinator/educator, Maya Jones.

Inquiries may be directed to Maya.Jones@ci.vancouver.wa.us or by calling 360-487-7111.

Admission: free

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Monday through Saturday
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Marti J. Rhea, Portland-based equine photographer, will have three images in the mixed-media group show,  Nature’s Beauty & Serenity, at the Gresham City Hall Visual Arts Gallery. This particular image, King of the Mountain, was recognized by the North American Nature Photography Association in its 2007 competition. It is of a wild stallion, known as War Bonnet, just following a showdown with the bachelor stallions who dog his band in the hope of stealing one of his mares. Intimidated by this formidable stallion, the young bachelors fled and for a brief moment, War Bonnet stood in triumph, surveying his kingdom.

Available at the show in a limited-edition canvas print; also available in a watercolor-paper edition.

Loren Nelson photographs buildings during construction, when they are covered with a plastic barrier. Buildings can be shrouded to contain materials in the course of asbestos removal or paint application or during litigation brought about by improper installation of exterior finishes. During this period of transition the mysterious and ethereal character of these structures captivates Nelson. Their ghostly forms glow against charcoal-gray skies, and clouds of white plastic flutter in the wind.
 
Nelson photographs these temporary sculptures with a 4 X 5 view camera, which encourages his meditative approach, but can make working in wet, blustery weather a challenge. The transitory nature of these wrapped buildings limits the time he has to obtain permission to photograph, find the perfect camera position, and be prepared when the light, weather and wind combine at just the right moment. Nelson says. “As I wait for that perfect moment, with the breeze inflating and deflating the plastic, I get a definite feeling that the building is breathing.”
 
Initially fascinated with color landscape photography, Nelson watched his first good quality black and white print emerge in the developer while studying at the Portland Art Museum Art School in the early 1970s. He picked up a Deardorff view camera, and has been organizing the world on a four by five-inch piece of frosted glass ever since. Nelson’s work has been widely exhibited in the western United States. His photographs are in numerous permanent public and private collections, including IBM, Oregon State University, and The Portland Art Museum. Nelson was awarded the Best of Show Award for 23 Sandy Gallery’s Shelter exhibition in October 2008.

May 1-30, 2009
Artist Reception:  First Friday, May 1, 2009, 6:00-9:00 p.m.
Location:  23 Sandy Gallery, 623 NE 23rd Avenue, Portland, OR 97232
Gallery Hours:  Thursday-Saturday, Noon - 6:00 p.m. and by appointment
Gallery Web Site:  www.23sandy.com

Jim Kazanjian is interested in a kind of “entropic” image, an image that has the capacity to de-familiarize itself. His current work is an attempt to unravel the photograph and play with established notions of time, space, and the understanding of what gives things context. Through fragmentation and re-composition of the photographic space, the non-linear nature of reading the image is folded in on itself. The structure of the photograph is unwound and reshuffled. This reshaping becomes an iterative process that spurs the generation of something altogether different. Something ineffable.
 
Kazanjian’s images are digitally manipulated “assemblages” of photographs downloaded from the Internet. He does not shoot his own pictures but currently has over 30 gigabytes of material that has been indexed and cross referenced into categories, such as concrete, vegetation, liquids, and smoke. Each of his images can contain up to 35 found photographs. The images he collects operate as elements or building blocks, which he arranges into a “master” composition. Kazanjian says, “In effect, I am building a new photograph, one that has never been taken.”
 
Jim Kazanjian received his MFA from the Art Center College of Design in 1992. He has worked professionally as a commercial CGI artist for the past 16 years in television and game production. He had his first solo show in Portland last year and was awarded the Audience Choice Award for 23 Sandy Gallery’s Shelter exhibition in October of 2008.

You can find a recent article written about Jim’s work by Portland writer and critic, Chas Bowie at: http://www.23sandy.com/Kazanjian/Article.html

May 1-30, 2009
Artist Reception:  First Friday, May 1, 2009, 6:00-9:00 p.m.
Location:  23 Sandy Gallery, 623 NE 23rd Avenue, Portland, OR 97232
Gallery Hours:  Thursday-Saturday, Noon - 6:00 p.m. and by appointment
Gallery Web Site:  www.23sandy.com

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Science | Fiction addresses the practice of science and the creation of fiction using several types of photographic techniques. The cornerstone to Susan Seubert’s exhibit is Nest, an aggregate study of a collection of wild bird nests. The work consists of twenty-five individual ambrotypes, presented in a grid. Each unique ambrotype is created by a wet plate collodian process in which a thin negative image on glass appears as a positive by showing it against a black background. That the pictures are suspended on a glass surface underscores the fragility of each form.

The remainder of Science / Fiction is comprised of a mixture of still-life images of balaboratory experiments and a variety of natural phenomena. Swirling flocks of birds, buoyant eggs suspended in a chemistry beaker and historic images of hydrogen bomb tests all find their way into this show. These elegant images use several photographic methods and media including encaustic, digital and laser prints.
 
Since receiving her BFA in photography from the Pacific Northwest College of Art, Suebert has exhibited continually in the Pacific Northwest. Her work is included in numerous public and private collections including Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, Portland Art Museum, permanent collection, OR, and the City of Seattle, WA. Currently her work is included in the Tacoma Art Museum's 9th Northwest Biennial, Tacoma, Washington.

April 21 to May 30, 2009
First Thursday: May 7th 5pm – 8:00pm
 
Froelick Gallery
714 NW Davis St, Portland, OR 97209
503-222-1142 info@froelickgallery.com www.froelickgallery.com
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday 10:30 to 5:30pm

March 25 through June 1, 2009
Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Moody Brews Coffee Shop
309 E. 15th Street #B
Vancouver, WA
360-737-8533

See story below for details about Gary Canazzi's career and photography.

Generally the hours are 6pm to 9pm, but please check each gallery's website for more information, and to view works by other artists whom these galleries represent.

In October 2005, the Portland Art Museum unveiled the region's largest permanent exhibition space dedicated to photography within a museum. Located on the mezzanine floor of the Jubitz Center for Modern and Contemporary Art, this 2,200–square–foot gallery is home to a rotating display of photographs from the Museum's permanent collection. The collection ranges from 1850s daguerreotypes to contemporary inkjet prints and spans the history of the medium as fine art in the 19th and 20th centuries, specifically highlighting 20th–century photography in Oregon.

The Museum has placed particular emphasis on the acquisition of images that chronicle photography in Oregon and the West, adding to work by Group f/64 organizers Ansel Adams, Edward Weston and Imogen Cunningham, and tracing a decade-by–decade profile of photographic accomplishments by both acknowledged masters and the under–recognized. Of particular note are in–depth holdings of work by Myra Wiggins, Lily White and Sarah Ladd, associate members of Alfred Stieglitz’s Photo–Secession Movement, who lived and worked in Salem and Portland at the turn of the 20th century, as well as a rich selection of images reflecting the life work of Al Monner and Todd Walker.