EXHIBITION #2
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ASTRID WANTS BREAKFAST by Judy Brown
HONORABLE MENTION
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Judy Brown says, "Growing up in a small town in Texas, I dreamed of living on a farm, surrounded by animals.  Many decades later, I discovered that my childhood fantasy farm is just up the road from my home in the Boston suburbs.   And more recently I have found an animal sanctuary nearby with a treasure trove of beautiful chickens as well as other wonderful rescues.    

The images in this exhibit are selected from seven  years spent happily photographing these animals with the goal of showing their personalities and human-like qualities—their curiosity,  their enjoyment of affection and their irrepressible appetites.  

This time  has enriched my understanding of these animals and heightened my awareness of the cruelty with which farm animals are treated by the food industry.  
See Nicholas Kristof:  https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/11/opinion/sunday/animal-rights-cruelty.html   

Along the way I completed a book of photographs of farm animals called Weatherbury Farm. My book  is both a memoir of my experiences and an attempt to contribute in a small way to better treatment of animals that I have come to view as similar to my pets. It received an honorable mention from Elizabeth Avedon's list of best books of 2020.   

All proceeds from its sale to to charitable organizations with an emphasis on those whose goal it is to mitigate the barbarism of  the factory farm industry."

Judy Brown follows her career as Professor of Physics at Wellesley College and Research Scientist at the MIT Media Lab with a combination of her long-time passions for animals and photography. She loves spending time with animals, photographing them and getting to know their individual behavioral  quirks.  

Her "Elliott" portfolio of a spirited pony in his stall has been given a number of solo shows including two in Griffin Museum of Photography satellite galleries and an  MIT Architecture Department Tele-exhibit.

Images from her book "Weatherbury Farm" were in a two person show at the Griffin Museum satellite  gallery, SOWA, Boston in the spring of 2017.   Her photographs have been selected for over four dozen juried exhibitions including most recently the 2022 Danforth Annual Juried Exhibition, Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA;   Animal Beings, Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis, MN; Light, asmithgallery, Johnson City, TX;  and Conversation with the Archive at SE Center for Photography,  Greenville, S.C.    

Her recent book "Weatherbury Farm" was included in the Davis Orten Gallery and Griffin Museum of Photography 11th Annual Self-Published Photobook Exhibition and received an honorable mention by Elizabeth Avedon in her list of Best Photography Books of 2020: Round-up Part II.            

She is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and a 2019 Critical Mass 200 Finalist.

IMAGES FOR SALE-

ALL IMAGES  12" x 12"
Cansen Baryta Photographique II paper
$350 unframed
Limited edition of 15
Signed on back
Contact: Judy Brown
jbrown@wellesley.edu

www.judybrownphotography.com
www.instagram.com/judybrownphotographswww.facebook.com/judybrownphotographs
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BABY'S BREATH WITH LIAM by Judy Brown
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BLOOK OF UNITY FARM SANCUARY by Judy Brown
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DARYL OF WEATHERBURY FARM by Judy Brown
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JAY JAY AND JUNE OF UNITY FARM by Judy Brown
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WEMBLY THE FRIZZLE COCHIN by Judy Brown
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ASCENSION by Kathryn Dunlevie
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Kathryn Dunlevie says of her series 'Entanglement', "Recent human activity has brought about environmental change on a colossal scale. As increased levels of carbon dioxide in our air cause temperatures and sea levels to rise, the ecosystems upon which animals and plants depend suffer along with all our natural and developed environments.

We can no longer avoid the fact that all aspects of the physical world are intricately linked. Discoveries in quantum physics, moreover, teach us that even at the subatomic level, quantum entanglement can cause particles to become interrelated and affected by each other’s behavior.

To illustrate this interconnectedness, I am combining my photographs of zoos and natural history museums with my photographs of contemporary urban settings. The resulting images suggest our planet’s current state of disruption and the strange bedfellows this disruption creates.

As I build each composition, interweaving elements from the natural world with images from constructed spaces, displaced animals materialize in anomalous locations. Stunned to find themselves in alien surroundings – disoriented, mistrustful, even forlorn – they mutely proclaim their vulnerability, and remind us of our own."

Kathryn Dunlevie is a photography-based artist whose work has been exhibited throughout the U.S. and internationally. Cathy Kimball, former Executive Director of the ICA San Jose, writes of Dunlevie’s work: "Through brilliant compositional detail and manipulation, she creates disconcerting, inexplicable spaces and scenarios - streetscapes that elude mapmakers and interior settings that are almost, but not quite, right."

Born on the east coast, Dunlevie lived in six different states by the time she was 12, and in Paraguay when she was 16. She has a B.A. in fine arts from Rice University, and studied art history and film at the University of Paris, painting at California College of the Arts, and photography in Madrid. She lives in Palo Alto.

Dunlevie has received numerous awards and fellowships, including two Arts Council Silicon Valley Artist Laureate Fellowships. Her work has been exhibited at FotoFest International since 2002, at the Pingyao International Photography Festival in China, at Studio Thomas Kellner in Germany, in the US Art in Embassies Program in Moscow and in Saatchi Arts’ Best of 2014. 

Publications reviewing her work have included Spain’s La Fotografia Actual, Korea’s photo + and Germany’s Profifoto, as well as The New York Times, Camerawork: A Journal of Photographic Arts, Photo Metro, Artweek, and Artlies.

 
Highlights of Career:

SOLO EXHIBITS:

FotoFest 2020: Women of Wonder, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, Texas

FotoFest 2018: Imaginarium, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, Texas

FotoFest 2016: Mistick Krewes, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, Texas

 

JURIED GROUP EXHIBITS:

N.Y. Photo Curator TOP 40 of 2021 exhibition

Women’s History Month exhibition (2021), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA 

San Francisco PhotoAlliance Bay Area Current(ly) exhibition (2020), San Francisco, CA 

Don't Take Pictures.com School Days exhibition (2019)

Ping Yao International Photography Festival (2017), Ping Yao, China


www.kathryndunlevie.com
Facebook: Kathryn Dunlevie Art
www.instagram.com/kathryndunlevie

Contact: kathryn.dunlevie@gmail.com
 
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A MATTER OF TIME by Kathryn Dunlevie
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EMERGENCY LANDING by Kathryn Dunlevie
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THE BEAST WITHOUT by Kathryn Dunlevie
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THE GATHERING STORM by Kathryn Dunlevie
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WASHED UP by Kathryn Dunlevie
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SO SAD by Louise Williams
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Louise Williams says, "Originally a Portrait and Still Life Photographer, working
in film and processing the images in my own darkroom, I am now a Digital Composite Artist. Photoshop is my darkroom. My work is narrative, the characters are often animals. 
Generally my images are whimsical and fun.  Of late, however, they tend toward more somber themes, though humor
can be found in them.

Highlights of my career include showing my work at the Julia Margaret Cameron Women in Photography Exhibition in
Barcelona Spain in 2019, publishing my book, "The Silver Lining, A Beastly Bagatelle" in 2018, and having a solo
retrospective show in Mill Valley, California this past February and March. I've won many awards for my work and have had three online articles about it published.  This year my work appeared in LUX, Maine Media Workshop's first
publication.

I have been taking and making pictures most of my life.  I taught 7th graders English and Social Studies for 23 years
while also maintaining a portrait photography business. For the past 15 years I've been able to focus on my image
making, which has been lifesaving during the past five years of national and international chaos and tragedy.  By nature,
I am a joyful creature and that optimism and sense of play can be seen in the images on my website,
www.louisewilliamsimages.com
Though my newer work is often
is humorous, lacks that joyfulness. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area in a house on the edge of the Bay, with pelicans and cormorants for neighbors.  I have one husband and two sons.

The images posted on Instagram,
www.instagram.com/weezeewilliams, are primarily iPhone snapshots that I tend to post at the moment I take the
picture, labeled "Just Now"  I do process a few for fun and occasionally I'll post a composited image I'm working on at
the time. My book, "The Silver Lining, A Beastly Bagatelle", may be found at www.ThePointPress.us


IMAGE FOR SALE:

So Sad        16: x 16:
Archival paper
$225.00 unframed
Limited edition of 5
Signed on back



The Blue Building   16 x 16
Archival paper
$225 Unframed
Limited edition of 5
Signed on back



Sunlit Room      14" x 16"
Archival paper
$225 Unframed
Limited edition of 5
Signed on Back

Contact:  Louise
lkw@louisekwilliams.com
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A SUNLIT ROOM by Louise Williams
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THE BLUE BUILDING by Louise Williams
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AMUR TIGER-CRITICALLY ENDANGERED by Melissa Lynn
HONORABLE MENTION

Melissa Lynn says, "My Code Red photography series responds to the global climate crisis and puts a spotlight on the mass species extinction currently happening on earth. The images reflect humanity’s impact on nature and serve as a call to action to help save our planet’s biodiversity. 

Twenty-eight percent of assessed species are threatened with extinction due to climate change, pollution, habitat loss, and poaching.  I utilize the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List to determine which plants and animals are considered vulnerable, endangered, and critically endangered. 

My art process illustrates our deteriorating and polluted world through experimental techniques applied to my own photographs. The series also emphasizes conservation efforts and our interrelationship with nature.  My hope is that there will be transformative changes through collective action to conserve the earth for present and future generations."

After more than a decade in New York City working as a documentary and portrait photographer for numerous publications, Melissa now lives in Colorado where she continues to pursue her artistic passions as a photographer and digital artist. Her current series respond to historic events and defining issues of our time.

Melissa’s photographs have been exhibited
in many prestigious galleries and museums across the United States and around the world including the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, The Griffin Museum of Photography@WinCam, Fotonostrum Gallery, Colorado State Capitol Building, Redline Contemporary Art Center, Millepiani Gallery, Lone Tree Arts Center, PhotoPlace Gallery, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Lishui Photo Festival, 13th Yixian Photography Festival, and Huai’an International Photography Museum among others.

Her images have won numerous distinguished awards and honorable mentions in international photography competitions including the Paris Photo Prize, Pollux Awards, Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, Tokyo International Foto Awards, International Photo Awards (IPA), CENTER top 100, Critical Mass top 200, and the London International Creative Competition. Her work has also been published in Diffusion X, Float Magazine, and Lenscratch.

Images for sale:

Okapi-Endangered  12”H x18”W
Archival Pigment Print on Hammimule bamboo paper
$200 unframed
Signed on back


African Penguin-Endangered 12” W x18” H
Archival Pigment Print on Hammimule bamboo paper
$200 unframed
Signed on back


Amur Tiger-Critically Endangered 12” H x18” W
Archival Pigment Print on Hammimule bamboo paper
$200 unframed
Signed on back


Bali Myna-Critically Endangered 12” W x18” H
Archival Pigment Print on Hammimule bamboo paper
$200 unframed
Signed on back

Peninsular Bighorn Sheep-Endangered 12” W x18” H
Archival Pigment Print on Hammimule bamboo paper
$200 unframed
Signed on back


Polar Bear-Vulnerable 12” H x18” W
Archival Pigment Print on Hammimule bamboo paper
$200 unframed
Signed on back

Contact: Melissa Lynn
info@melissalynnphoto.com

www.melissalynnphoto.com
www.facebook.com/Melissa.Lynn.Photography.USA
www.instagram.com/melissa_lynn_photography/
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AFRICAN PENGUIN-ENDANGERED by Melissa Lynn
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BALI MYNA-CRITICALLY ENDANGERED by Melissa Lynn
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OKAPI-ENDANGERED by Melissa Lynn
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PENINSULAR BIGHORN SHEEP-ENDANGERED by Melissa Lynn
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POLAR BEAR-VULNERABLE by Melissa Lynn
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SPONTANEOUS INTAKE by Polina Schneider
BEST SERIES
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Polina Schneider says, "I was born in St. Petersburg (Leningrad) in 1989 during the harsh times of the Perestroika and being raised in different languages, cultures and religious beliefs (Catholicism, Judaism and Russian Orthodox). it has sharpened my instincts towards the way people communicate and how they interact with each other. Always on the move, I am continuously fighting for my rights as a woman, as an immigrant, as a human being. Eager to learn faster and more than others, I was happy to have studied Chinese as a Foreign language and Computer Science, proving that languages and IT do not have to be a contradiction. After graduating with two Bachelor degrees in 2018, I recently came back to the university world: I am now studying photojournalism and documentary photography in Hanover.

Making use of the knowledge and tools that help me to tell my story visually, I joined the socially critical collective “Tuerspion” – a print medium where marginalized individuals are expressing themselves creatively. Furthermore, I am participating in the International Environmental Photography Lab by the Native Agency (with exhibitions to come in 2022) and was chosen as an emerging artist by Women Art Prize/X-Treme with a current exhibition in Berlin. As a new member of the German female photo club, I am eager to promote the issues on which the association is based, namely: drawing attention to social wrongs, shaping public discourse and ensuring that the perspectives of women are seen by the public."

WORK FOR SALE-

Feeding
Intake of a seal
Pool Fun
Release
Spontaneous Intake
They Can Bite and They Will

30 x 40 cm Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308 g/m²
$85 unframed Limited edition of 5 Signed on back

Contact: Polina Schneider
polina.schneider@posteo.de

www.polisnaps.com www.instagram.com/polisnaps/
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FEEDING by Polina Schneider
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INTAKE OF A SEAL by Polina Schneider
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POOL FUN by Polina Schneider
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RELEASE by Polina Schneider
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THEY CAN BITE AND THEY WILL by Polina Schneider
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ANIMALS-DRAGON AND REEF by Suzi Moore McGregor
HONORABLE MENTION

Suzi Moore McGregor says, "My career started when I was seven and entered an art contest.  I won an Alexander doll and art classes. I found my niche and never looked back.  Photography just became an off-shoot, another means of expressing myself, making connections, and therapy.  I’m hoping my photos convey a sense of past and contemporary history, a record of sorts, of mankind and what is happening to our planet. Awareness is the beginning to kindness and hopefully empathy."

WORK FOR SALE-

Dinosaurs Can Be Friends 9"x12"
archival paper
$275. unframed
open edition
signed in recto


Birds Have Feelings 9"x12"
archival paper
$275. unframed
open edition
signed in recto


Chickens in Love 8.313"x12"
archival paper
$275. unframed
open edition
signed in verso

Contact Suzi Moore McGregor
email: sjmcgregor@msn.com
 
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CHICKENS IN LOVE-FLAT 2by Suzi Moore McGregor
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ANIMALS-PEOPLE by Suzi Moore McGregor
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ENIGMATIC IGUANAS by Vicky Stromee
HONORABLE MENTION

Vicky Stromee says, "Deep nights, dreaming in caves, the formless realms of unconsciousness and shadow: this is where creativity is born.

These images come from two series of photo-illustrations for children’s picture books; seeing artistic visions of creatures can help bring home the message that children can embrace their appearance, that difference is good, and that relationships can be navigated with confidence.

One book is about a young penguin who's never experienced the darkness and her search to discover the meaning of the long night; the other about is about the diversity of creatures of the Galapagos. For each finished work, I layer elements from photographs taken in Antarctica and the Galapagos to combine creatures and atmospheric patterns in evocative juxtaposition. Some finished images suggest intimacy; others evoke a sense of separation, solitude, loneliness, or aggression.    

The Koo series from Antarctica was selected for inclusion in Communication Arts Photography Annual in 2022.  


All images are for sale:  

Challenger  
Beak Bump  
Koo and the Spirit Guide  
Let’s Eat Snow  
Enigmatic Iguanas  
By the Light of the Moon  

11”H x 14”W  
Archival paper  
$350 unframed  
Open edition  
Signed on back  

Contact: Vicky Stromee  
vstromee@msn.com  

www.vickystromeephotography.com
www.instagram.com/vickystromeephotography
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CHALLENGER by Vicky Stromee
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BEAK BUMP by Vicky Stromee