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SOUTH PORTLAND 75 by C E Morse
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C E Morse says, "I search for color, texture, patterns, composition and patina. 

Growing up a classic car enthusiast,
I spent a lot of time in vintage salvage yards where I discovered incredible visual elements that inspired me the same way
as did the great abstract painters; it changed my perspective; I traded in my toolbox for a camera. 

I now hunt for this wild art; created by man, embellished by chance and patinated by nature. While the subjects of my interest may be deemed ugly, the details I capture are exquisite.There is no reference to the identity or the scale of the subjects, thereby coaxing a personal interpretation contingent upon the viewer’s imagination.

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." - Henry David Thoreau

Bio:
Born Camden, ME
Studied at:
RISD - Rhode Island School of Design ( Aaron Siskind): BFA
Maine Photo Workshops ( now Maine Media Workshops)
MECA - Maine College of Art
I now reside in Cumberland Center, ME.
CV 2019 & 2020:
2019 Dek Unu Magazine: February Issue   (each issue devoted to just one artist)
2019 Juried Exhibition: "Wet" - Darkroom Gallery, Essex Junction, VT
2019 "Color it Red" Shadow and Light Magazine:  Single Image Showcase Winner
2019 Circle Arts Magazine: Certificate of Excellence
2019 Juried Exhibition: 6th Open Call - Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, 
Providence, RI
2019 NY Polyphony Album cover: Lamentationes
2019 Juried Exhibition: "Colors of Humanity"
2019 Juried Exhibition: "Light and Shadows" - Union of Maine Visual Artists: 
Portland, ME
2019 Maine Arts Journal UMVA Quarterly Spring Issue: Sanctuary
2019 14th Annual  Black & White Spider Awards: 1 Honorable Mention, 1 Nomination
2019 Juried Exhibition: "Colors" - NYC4PA @ the Jadite Gallery, NYC
2019 Juried Exhibition & book: "The Sublime Landscape" - Praxis Gallery 
Minneapolis, MN
2019 Solo Exhibition: “Wearable Art” - Arta, Falmouth, ME  
(Photographic prints and silks)
2019 Juried Exhibition: 7th Open Call - Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, 
Providence, RI
2019 Juried Exhibition: "Water" - Photoplace Gallery, Middlebury, VT
2019 Juried Exhibition: "Transitions" - Pennsylvania Center For Photography, 
Middlebury, VT
2019 Bokeh Bokeh: San Francisco Bay International Photography Exhibit - 
Silver Award Winner 
2019 Juried Exhibition: "Red" - A Smith Gallery Johnson City Texas
2019 Juried Exhibition: "All the Great Trees" - Creative Portland, Portland, ME
2020 TIFA (Tokyo International Foto Awards) 1st place: Portfolio Category
2020 Dodho Magazine: Portfolio published online: "I hunt Wild Art"
2020 Juried Exhibition: "Portland 2020" - Cove Street Arts, Portland, ME 
2020 Juried Exhibition: "Shadows & Patterns" - NYC4PA @ the Jadite Gallery, NYC
2020 Juried Exhibition: "Odyssey" - PA Center for Photography - Doylestown, PA
2020 Shadow and Light Magazine: Color it Red - Portfolio
2020 A 5 Magazine: Portfolio #36 - Britain 
2020 Juried Exhibition: "Open Theme" - Praxis Gallery Minneapolis, MN
2020 Maine Arts Journal: UMVA Members' 
2020 Davis Orton Gallery: 65th Annual Group Show, Hudson, NY
2020 Juried Exhibition: Member Spotlight Show - Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, Providence, RI
2020 Juried Exhibition: "Patterns" Cape Cod Art Center, Barnstable, MA"


IMAGES FOR SALE:

Three Nails
18” H x 12“  W    $475  unframed: Limited edition of 15
Archival Pigment on paper, Signed on back

 Wickenburg #112
16” H x 24” W    $650  unframed: Limited edition of 15
Archival Pigment on paper, Signed on back

South Portland #75   
36" H x 24" W   $1125 unframed: Limited edition of 5
24” H x 16” W    $475  unframed: Limited edition of 10
Archival Pigment on paper, Signed on back

Contact: C E Morse
cmorse1@maine.rr.com
www.cemorsephoto.com
Instagram:  c_e_morse_abstract_art_photo
207-415-3763
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THREE NAILS by C E Morse
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WICKENBURG 112 by C E Morse
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ARTIST BECOMES ART by Dennis Geller
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Dennis Geller says, "I nearly failed the first semester of 10th grade  Geometry, but new glasses and a sarcastic teacher rescued me before the end of the year. I later became a research mathematician, and although I don’t try in ny way to illustrate mathematical concepts, mathematical ideas always seem to be lurking  at the root of my compositions. When I notice them, it’s a bit like coming home.

Bio
In different lives a mathematician, an educator, and a software R&D manager. Now a photographer in the Boston area, married to the artist and rug designer Catherine Bertulli and living near my two adult children."

Career Highlights
2020 6th Annual Group Show, Davis-Orton Gallery, Hudson, NY. 2020 Transformation 2020, Plymouth (MA) Center for the Arts. 2020 26th Juried Exhibition, Griffin Museum, Winchester, MA. 2020 The Poetry of the Ordinary, PHOTOPlace Gallery, Middlebury, Vt. 2020 Coffeeshop Artists (three entries accepted) Commerce Place, Malden, MA. 2019 PHOTOcentric 2019 (two entries accepted), Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY2019 Transformations (Digital Exhibition), Pennsylvania Center For Photography,2019 About Lighting LA Photo Curator, online exhibition: 
Honorable Mention,. Subsequently chosen as one of "2019 Top 40 Images Submitted to L.A. Photo Curator & N.Y. Photo Curator" (https://laphotocurator.com/2019-top-40-exhibiton )2019 Fine Art of Photography 2019, Plymouth (MA) Center for the Arts. Honorable Mention 2019 LensCulture Art Photography Competition Gallery2019 Abstracts Matter, 311 Gallery, Raleigh, NC2018 Abstraction, Lafayette City Center Gallery (Griffin Museum), Boston, MA 2018 National Juried Photography Exhibition, Wickford Art Association, Kingstown,RI.  2018 Color 2018, 3 Square Art, Fort Collins,CO. Juried by gallery members2018 Fourth Annual Group Show, Davis-Orton Gallery, Hudson, N.Y. 

www.DennisGeller.net

Instagram- @gellerdennis
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MEMORIAL by Dennis Geller
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OVA CIRCULARI by Dennis Geller
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DOWNTOWN 02-B_1024PX by Diana Jahns
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Diana Jahns says, "My 3 photos are from a series I did in 2011 on the downtown architecture of Sacramento California. 

The recession had left this section of the downtown, near the capitol building, in sad shape.  In the composition I emphasize the geometric shapes in the view, with a nod to modernist architecture and calling up the symmetry of Palladian architecture.

I am a self-taught photographer learning from photographers in my family and those I have met along the way.  Born in California in the 1950s, I am currently a resident of Sacramento, CA.

Career Highlights - I have exhibited my artwork and photography over many years.  My work is held in public and private collections."

Website and contact info:

artphotosdiana@gmail.com
www.dianajart.com
Instagram, @dianajart and @imagadikt
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ARCHAB WINDOW 3687-V6 1024 by Diana Jahns
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DOWNTOWN GRID-01V2D 1024 by Diana Jahns
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RED DOOR by Diane Cockerill
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Diane Cockerill says, "I know Los Angeles well and yet there are always new pockets, new street scenes or new characters to discover and photograph.

I prefer unusual, odd, off-center subject matter and wait for unexpected moments, unique light, composition. My city offers a wealth of opportunities and the challenge is to find something new and unique."

Diane Cockerill is the fourth generation of her family to live in Los Angeles. She studied Fine Art at UCLA and has shown work at several local and national galleries as well as in Tokyo, Paris, Hungary, Japan, and Korea. After receiving her first point-and-shoot at the age ten, she later transitioned to a 35mm camera with a more serious interest in photography.

A thirty-year career in advertising provided the opportunity to work with many photographers and image sourcing for print materials. New technology introduced the digital world and an appreciation of the immediacy it provided which suited her shooting style. Diane is now fully immersed in photographing her native city.

 
IMAGES FOR SALE:

Wheels
14 x 11"
Archival paper
$250 unframed
Edition of 10
Signed - front

 
Window Seat
14 x 11"
Archival paper
$250 unframed
Edition of 10
Signed - front

 
Red Door
10 x 10"
Archival paper
$250 unframed
Edition of 10
Signed - front


Contact info:
facebook.com/dianecockerill
IG: @diane.cockerill
310.621.8525
 
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WHEELS by Diane Cockerill
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WINDOW SEAT by Diane Cockerill
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CANAL INSPIRED by Ellen Friedlander
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Ellen Friedlander is a fine art and documentary artist who uses ideas of memory, displacement, and photographic truths to make the unseen visible. 

Her work has been most influenced by 20th century street photographers. Their iconic photographs inspired her from the age of 16 to take to the city streets across the United States and Hong Kong where she has lived.

She holds a BFA in Art with a Minor in Photography from Ithaca College and a MA in Mass Communications with an emphasis in Advertising from the University of Florida, Gainesville.

After many years of working in all facets of the business of photography; assisting, styling, representing and working on her own photographic assignments, she has found her own way of expressing the street with the Extended Frame.

After moving to LA in 2018, she joined the Los Angeles Center of Photography and Pasadena Photography Arts (PPA). In 2019, PPA added Friedlander to their advisory board to help further broaden their reach as a place for photographic artists living on the Eastside of Los Angeles to find community and share their work in OPEN SHOW and FORUM.  Friedlander spent fifteen years in Hong Kong raising her two children before moving to California. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles.

Career Highlights

Friedlander has exhibited her work internationally, including the United Jewish Congregation in Hong Kong, Saint Xaiver University in Chicago, and various galleries in Los Angeles and Crakow, Poland. She has been featured in Lenscratch, The Hand Magazine, and The Candid Frame, Episode #499. Her work Shattere, was included in the Top 20 Winter 2019 Focus PhotoLA, and most recently Hiding IV was the cover photograph for APA-LA OFF THE CLOCK Curated Personal Photography Exhibition 2020.

EDUCATION

1995     MA, Arts in Mass Communication, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

1982     BFA, Art, Photography minor, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY

Scholarship, New Brunswick School of Arts and Crafts, Weeklong photography workshop, Canada


AFFILIATIONS

Since 2020    Jewish Artists Initiative of Southern California (JAI) — Member

Since 2019    Pasadena Photography Arts (PPA) — Advisor

Since 2017    Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACP) — Member

                            
SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 2018     I Am More Than, Old Soul Co., Sacramento, CA (Commissioned by Waking the Village)

2010     A Year of Torah, United Jewish Congregation of HK, Hong Kong

 
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 2020     Call & Response 4: Collaboration at a Distance, online exhibition, Shoebox PR (Curator: Kristine Schomaker)

            Living & Photographing in the time of COVID-19, The Photographer’s Eye (Honorable Mention)

            Togethering, online exhibition, Houston Center for Photography

            Connection, online exhibition, N.Y. Photo Curator (Juror: Adam Finkelston), (First Place)

            Corona: It’s All About the Lights, Instagram exhibition, The Griffin Museum (Curator: Crista Dix)

            Off The Clock 2020, online exhibition, APA LA (Curator: David Fahey), (Cover Photo)

            The 2020 Self-Quarantining Exhibition, online exhibition, Lenscratch, (Juror: Aline Smithson)

            Call & Response 1: Collaboration at a Distance, online exhibition, Shoebox PR (Curator: Kristine Schomaker)

            The Portrait Exhibition, Praxis Photo Gallery, Minneapolis, MN (Honorable Mention)

            California Love: A Visual Mix Tape, invitational, The Hive Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, (Curator: Michael Rababy)

            Perceive Me, invitational, Ronald H. Silverman Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, LA (Catalogue)

            Project XV: New Perspectives on Photography, invitational, The Los Angeles Center of Photography, CA

2019     Self-Portrait, online exhibition, PhotoPlace Gallery

            Open Show, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA

            Your Favorite Photograph in 2018 Exhibition, Part 4, online exhibition, Lenscratch

2017     Hit Me with Your Best Shot: The Visual Echo Photography Exhibition, 1650 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

            The 2017 "Photographic Conversations" Exhibition, Part 3, online exhibition, Lenscratch

            Workshopx, pop-up exhibition, Dada Boutique, Krakow, Poland

            On The Streets In Los Angeles, The Los Angeles Center of Photography, CA

2016     Reflections: The Visual Echo Photography Exhibition, 1650 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

            Legacy, Saint Xavier University, Chicago, IL

2013     Flower Power: The Visual Echo Photography Exhibition, 1650 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

 
LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS

 2020     Artist Talk, f8 Pasadena Salon, Pasadena, CA

            Artist Talk, Photo LA OPEN SHOW, Santa Monica, CA

2018     “What Makes a Good Photograph,” German Swiss International School, Parent Education Series

 
SELECTED PRESS

 2020     Call and Response – Round 1, Diversion LA

            FRAMES, Online Magazine
            Interview with Ibarionex Perello, The Candid Frame, Episode #499

2019     The Hand Magazine for Reproduction-Based Art, Issue #26

            Lights for Liberty Demonstration, Fox TV on the Hill

            The Best Work I Saw at the Denver Portfolio Walk, A Photo Editor

2018     My Home Through the Lens, una, Hong Kong Edition 32

            Interview, Fueling Creativity, Signature: The Magazine of Emma Willard School

2017     Mexico Surprise, MR Traveler, Hong Kong Edition

 
IMAGES FOR SALE:

No Know Direction - 17” x 22”
(Image 13”x19”)
Canson Platine Archival Pigment Paper
$750.00 unframed
Limited Edition of 15

 

Hollywood Squares - 17” x 22”
(Image 13”x19”)
Canson Edition Etch Rag Archival Pigment Paper
$750.00
Limited Edition of 15

 

Canal Inspired
Canson Platine Archival Pigment Paper
$750.00
Limited Edition of 15

 
Photographs come with Certificate of Authenticity and Signed on front or back depending on preference.

 
Contact: Ellen Friedlander
Emfphoto59@gmail.com
www.Ellenfriedlanderphotography.com
IG: @emfphoto59
Facebook: Ellen M Friedlander
instagram: @emfphoto59
 949.422.5117
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HOLLYWOOD SQUARES by Ellen Friedlander
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NO KNOW DIRECTION by Ellen Friedlander
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CORNUCOPIA by Ellen Jantzen
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Ellen Jantzen says, "As an artist who uses photography as an art form, I am interested in states of reality. How is reality experienced; how is it revealed?  As I become more aware of the many scientific theories about multi-universes, space/time conundrums and the like, I find reality difficult to define and a challenge to depict. I am drawn to this challenge by striving to make visual that which may not have a visual component. I am always interested in looking beyond the surface in the hopes of revealing something deeper and unexpected.
 
Photographs were once considered "truthful", but we now know there has been photo tampering going on since its inception. Because photos are "believed" there is a great deal of room to play within photography's reality to create a personal fiction (a visual poetry) that is more open to interpretation.
This is the very reason I was drawn to photography ten years ago as a creative medium. Photography, especially digitally aided photo collage/montage, is a potent medium through which I am able to communicate the ways I see and understand the world."
 
Recent Awards
 
2020
 
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS, New Mexico State Committee chose me fortheir "Artist Spotlight" for the month of February
 
HONORABLE MENTION - LifeFramer's NIGHT LIFE, my piece "Finale" was chosen by conceptual photographer Todd Hido
 
2019
 
FIRST PLACE WINNER - 14th Pollux Award, Professional for my series "Mid+West"; Digital
Manipulation category
 
CRITICAL MASS 2019 FINALIST - Top 200 chosen.
 
12th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL COLOR AWARDS - Honorable Mention in the Fine Art Category for my photo, Equilibrium and Nominee in the Fine Art Category for my photo,
Unexpected Geology #19b
 
BRONZE AWARD in the Fine Arts Special Effects category at the Tokyo International Foto Awards for my series "Unexpected Geology"
 
2018
 
HONORABLE MENTION in the Chromatic Awards (International Color Photography Contest) for my photo "Unexpected Geology #8a"
 
FINALIST in One Eyeland's "Top 10 Landscape Photographers 2018"
 
HONORABLE MENTION in the Digitally Enhanced category of the International Photo Awards for my series "Unexpected Geology"
 
BEST SERIES - L.A. Photo Curator “Serenity”
 
SECOND PLACE - L.A. Photo Curator “The Pictorialist Photo”
 
FINE ART WINNER - Rangefinders 2018 Photography Awards
 
THE PHOTOGRAPHY GALA AWARDS - has chosen my work to be featured in the 5th Biennale of Fine Art & Documentary Photography October 4-21, Barcelona Spain
 
GOLD WINNER in the ANNUAL TOKYO INTERNATIONAL FOTO AWARDS (Fine Art-Special Effects, Professional) for my series, more Coming Into Focus. My work was in the Winners Exhibition at ICA Gallery, Tokyo from May 12-16.
 
SECOND PLACE WINNER in the ANNUAL TOKYO INTERNATIONAL FOTO AWARDS (Fine Art, Professional) for my series, more Coming Into Focus
 
HONORABLE MENTION in the 11th Julia Margaret Cameron Award honoring women in photography.
 
HONORABLE MENTION PX3, Prix de la Photographie, Paris for "Unexpected Geology #1"
 
RUNNER UP in the 11TH POLLUX AWARDS (Digital Manipulation & Collage) for my series Coming Into Focus
 
11th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL COLOR AWARDS - Honorable Mention in the Abstract Category for my photo, Synchronized Color and Honorable Mention in the Fine Art Category for
my photo, Amplification
 
SONY WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS - my photo, Barrier Relief was Commended in the Enhanced Category and will be published in the accompanying book.
 
 
IMAGES FOR SALE:

Cornucopia:
12”H” x 9” W (edition of 20) $350
18”H x 12”W (edition of 15) $500
Larger sizes available, please inquire


Moonstone:
12”H” x 9” W (edition of 20) $350
18”H x 12”W (edition of 15) $500
Larger sizes available, please inquire


To Have and Have Not:
9”H x 12W” (edition of 20) $350
12”H x 18” W (edition of 15) $500
Larger sizes available, please inquire

 
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MOONSTONE by Ellen Jantzen
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TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT by Ellen Jantzen
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SUN DRENCHED SHAPES by Eric Renard
HONORABLE MENTION
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Eric Renard says, "For this series of black & white images I have been exploring geometric shapes in architecture. The key elements of these images consist of circles, squares and triangles, which interact with each other in both two and 3 dimensional spaces."

Eric M. Renard is a Los Angeles
based Photographer. Born in New York, he attended school in Riverdale, NY. Eric spent his summers in Maine, where he was first exposed to photography and learned his way around a dark room. Eric’s passion for photography was once again ignited at Tufts University in Boston, where he studied under Sigfried Halus.

After graduating, Eric moved to San Francisco, as an architectural photographer before moving to Los Angeles. Eric’s unique exposure to both urban and rural living can be seen throughout his work, as he is equally at home in both settings.

Whether working in black and white or vibrant colors, his urban cityscapes and rural landscapes often reflect an eerie sense of peace and quiet, rarely portraying more than a few people.

Eric’s photography has been exhibited in galleries in Los Angeles and Minnesota and viewed digitally around the world, receiving numerous awards.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Selected Exhibitions
2020 February SFVACC Art Exhibit
2019 October Culver City Art Walk, Culver City, CA
2019 July Chocolate & Art Show, Downtown Los Angeles, CA
2019 May House of Lucie (Solo Exhibition), Downtown Los Angeles, CA
2018 August Duncan Miller Gallery, Santa Monica
2018 August Praxis Gallery, Minn.
2018 June Praxis Gallery, Minn.
2018 March Praxis Gallery, Minn.



IMAGES FOR SALE:

Bermuda Triangles -  15"H x 10" W
Archival paper
$500 unframed
Limited edition of 12 (at this size. 8 larger)
Signed on front

Fuengirola -  15"H x 10" W
Archival paper
$500 unframed
Limited edition of 12 (at this size. 8 larger)
Signed on front

Sun Drenched -  15"H x 10" W
Archival paper
$500 unframed
Limited edition of 12 (at this size. 8 larger)
Signed on front

https://ericrenardphotography.com/
eric@ericrenardphotography.com
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BERMUDA TRIANGLES by Eric Renard
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FUENGIROLA by Eric Renard
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MYSOLATION-11 by Eva Mueller
BEST SERIES
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Eva Mueller is a New York-based photographer and conceptual artist. She studied graphic design in her native Germany and fashion and portrait photography at ICP and Parsons School of Design in New York.

Mueller had a long career as a fashion and music photographer before shifting focus to fine art and portraiture. Her lifelong love for the German Bauhaus school of design informs her iconic style and minimalist aesthetic. Mueller’s work takes a deeper look at the core constructs of our human existence, such as gender identity, race, and sexuality. She challenges the viewer to reconsider their perspective and question their judgments.

In the wake of Covid-19 and during isolating at her live-work space, Mueller started a virtual portrait series, I SEE YOU, where she shoots people all over the world through FaceTime and WhatsApp. After George Floyd’s murder and the ensuing calls for racial justice, Mueller now shoots only black and brown people for the series, alongside the question: “How can white people be better allies?”

Mueller’s work has been exhibited in museums and galleries nationally and internationally.
Mueller currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Eva Mueller says, "I see beauty in the weird and I am drawn to anything that evokes uncertainty. I love ambiguity. Growing up in a world of constant contradictions informed my artistic expression. Most of my work revolves around basic issues like age, gender, race, and sexuality.

I approach every new project with a sense of humor and practicality. I like to work intuitively, starting only with a rough idea and then allow the work to evolve.

Mysolation is an inward journey, expressed through self-portraits during my isolation time the height of the pandemic in New York.  It is a diary of moods, self-exploration, solitude, loneliness, grief and solitude.

My goal is, to make the viewer question their judgment, and reconsider their perspective."

www.evamueller-art.com
https://www.instagram.com/evamueller/
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MYSOLATION-12 by Eva Mueller
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MYSOLATION-13 by Eva Mueller
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DISTAL SPLAINER by Gary Justis
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Gary Justis says of his series, 'New Light Images', "I begin making these photographs by making digital captures of unusual images projected on a flat surface using a variety of light sources.

As I manipulate my light sources, the projected images sometimes resemble life forms, objects and peculiar structures. After I have taken digital pictures of scores of projected images, my editing process begins and I save only the digital picture files I find interesting. I try to locate and record unfamiliar subjects that lie on the edge between still visual order and material displacement that confront the viewer with an image that is wholly unfamiliar. With some of the edited images, I apply parts from other pictures of light projections via Photoshop technology.

My images have varying degrees of in-computer manipulation, but all images originate with real time light projections.

This exploration gives me glimpses into a new visual order where my medium might yield images that suggest they have their origins outside our conscious awareness. Some of the subjects have a sentient quality and in a way, I feel I’m depicting a form of consciousness that is dissimilar to our symbolic order of things."

Gary Justis earned His Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1979. He has developed his work professionally in the area of sculpture, printmaking and photography for the last 41 years. He lived and worked in Chicago from 1977 to 1999. He currently resides in Bloomington Illinois where he continues his work in sculpture, printmaking, experimental photography and writing.

He holds a Professorship at Illinois State University. He has exhibited work at the Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, NY, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art.

He has also exhibited work in numerous exhibitions at private galleries in Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York. Gary Justis’ work is included in various collections throughout the country, most notably: The Museum of Modern Art Library, The New York City Library (special collections), The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Artist’s Books Collection, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC and JP Morgan Chase, New York, NY.

Career Highlights

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2020 Gary Justis: Head on Horizon: Online exhibition hosted by Manneken Press, Bloomington, IL https://mannekenpress.com/gary-justis-head-on-horizon/

2019 The Poetry of Light and Motion, Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design, (catalog) Galena, IL
2018 Gary Justis: Luminous Objects, Contemporary Art Center, Peoria, IL

2017 Heads on Horizon, sculpture and photographs by Gary Justis, Ramp-Arts, Bloomington, IL

2016 Emergence, New Digital Photographic works by Gary Justis, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles

GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 2020

Spring Forward: Online exhibition hosted by Arcade Project Curatorial, Curated by Ruben Natal-San Miguel, NYC https://www.arcadeprojectzine.com/curatorial/spring-forward

Sprng Fever: Online exhibition hosted by Treat Gallery, New York, Curated by Ruben Natal-San Miguel, NYC https://treatgallery.org/springfever?fbclid=IwAR3vg-A0i3jkZn0HRpXfR3_d9_3HaMc46QvUe1APXTl39pTWz4yM8X51yss

The Pandemic Faire: Online exhibition hosted by Glasstire, covering the visual arts in Texas, curated by Ted Kincaid https://pandemicfaire.com/

Imagination, juried international photography exhibition, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

2019
The Art of Photography, juried international photography exhibition, PH21 Gallery, Barcelona, Spain

Forward the Tradition, juried international photography exhibition, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

Open Source, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA

Electron Salon International Members Exhibition, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA

Stories, juried international photography exnibition, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

Motion, juried international photography exnibition, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

2018
Electron Salon International Members Exhibition, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA

Corporealities, juried international photography exhibition, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

American Splendour, juried international photography exhibition, Lion Gallery, New York, NY

Peripheral Visions, juried international photography exhibition, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary


IMAGES FOR SALE:

Origin of Sleep-48”H x 32”W
Archival paper
$3,500.00 unframed
limited edition of 3
Signed on back

 
Planet Set-48”H x 32”W
Archival paper
$3,500.00 unframed
limited edition of 3
Signed on back

 
Distal Splainer -48”H x 32”W
Archival paper
$3,500.00 unframed
limited edition of 3
Signed on back

 
Contact: Gary Justis
gajustis@gmail.com
 www.garyjustisphotography.com
 
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ORIGIN OF SLEEP by Gary Justis
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PLANET SET by Gary Justis
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ECHO by Gina Cholick
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Gina Cholick says of her series, 'Blue', "
Due to the global pandemic, for months this year I spent day after day inside my home. 

After several weeks, I realized that I was slowly detaching from the business of normal life. 

Distractions melted away and as a fog lifted, a door seemed to open. I peered into a space beyond and started to unearth a softer and more tender self. I felt effortlessly held, floating in these new dark depths and the vastness of my imagination." 

Gina Cholick is a Los Angeles based fine art photographer. Her work is driven by light and explores themes of identity, isolation and longing. She combines self-portraits and landscapes to evoke a sense of mystery.

Gina’s fascination with photography began when taking a summer class as a child in South Dakota. She was instantly hooked by the magic of the darkroom and the sense of adventure and connection to nature she found through her camera. She received a BA at Montana State University School of Film and Photography. She then began her career working as a lighting tech and producer in Seattle. Currently she lives in Los Angeles and works as a fine art and commercial photographer.

Career Highlights:

Awards: 2017 Critical Mass top 200 finalist, 2016 Honorable Mention Dreams exhibition Center for Fine Art Photography, Ft Collins, CO, 2013 PhotoLA Emerging Focus Grand Prize Winner

Select Group Shows:

2020 Portraits of Self-Isolation, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury VT
2019 Common Threads, Los Angeles, CA 
2018 Love it and Leave With It, Pop Up Event with PhotoLucida, Portland, OR
2018 Spring 2018, Curated Fridge, Somerville, MA 
2018 Capturing the Light, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT
2017 California Rising Fabrik Projects Gallery, Culver City, CA
2017 Center Forward Center for Fine Art Photography, Ft Collins, CO
2017 Photography Re-Imagined V: Visual Storytelling Tilt Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
2017 The Face Darkroom Gallery, Essex Junction, VT
2017 LACP Members Exhibition, DNJ Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2016 Southern California/Baja Biennial, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA 

Limited edition prints are available. Please contact the artist me@ginacholick.com

Contact:
www.ginacholick.com
https://www.instagram.com/photogina/
 
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SPHERE by Gina Cholick
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WITHIN REACH by Gina Cholick
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BABY BIRD by Heather Williamson
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Heather Williamson says, "It's not easy to open myself up, but I do it anyway.

My work allows me to feel something other than me yet empowers me, seeing all that is me in everything. It leads the way to clarity and tangibility, delivers me from bondage, offering nothing. When I'm behind my work, no one knows the pain in my mind, but this same pain gives way to understanding. When I no longer exist, I feel certain, completely grounded in who I am. You ask me why? I say Harmony, yet I think my why is so I no longer have any. I'm here to find out what it is I'm here to learn. Now forget everything I say. 
I'll show you:)"
 
Heather grew up Lakota (with Gypsy roots) under the politically active and watchful eye of her adoptive grandmother.

After her grandmother's death, she catapulted into emancipation at the age of 14, the year she dove into film photography. In 2003 she moved to Los Angeles, her home for the next decade + embracing photography, music, film, and writing while also working along-side others for "The Entertainment Industry.” 

At the end of 2012, upon her return from Cuba, she found herself isolated, not knowing where to go, who she was, or who she was becoming. This terrified her.
In 2014, after multiple moves and hospitalizations, Heather found herself in the California Desert. These days Heather works with what and who calls her name.

The essential vehicle integral to her process is her, and the paradox of her work is the significance due to her experience (s). Some say coming to your senses can happen by way of insanity. She agrees

 
Career Highlights from the past 2 years:
Integral, alive, working with others and myself again...

Galleries
2019 BLACKHEART STUDIO GROUP EXHIBITION 
2020 GIANT ROCK SOLO EXHIBITION 

Awards
2018 LA PHOTO CURATOR FIRST PLACE
2018 NY PHOTO CURATOR HM
 
Publications
HAMBURGER EYES NUMBER 32 3.18
NY PHOTO CURATOR 4.18
LA PHOTO CURATOR 6.18 
FULL BLEDE ISSUE SIX 10.18
NOCTUA ISSUE XII 5.19

Screenings
HIGH DESERT FILM SCRAMBLE 3.11.19
SOUNDPEDRO EARMAGINATIONS 6.01.19 
LGBQT SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL OFFICIAL SELECTION 2019
THE LIFT-OFF SESSIONS OFFICIAL SELECTION 2019

Private Collections
COLORADO 
FLAMINGO HEIGHTS
HOLLAND
JOSHUA TREE
LOS ANGELES
LANDERS
NEW YORK
OMAHA
PALM SPRINGS
PARIS
YUCCA VALLEY
 
@helloheat
@negroiscat

 
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UNTITLED 2 by Heather Williamson
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UNTITLED by Heather Williamson
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CHECKERBOARD SQUARE by Jane Gottlieb
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Jane Gottlieb says, "I have been expressing my joy of art with paint, shapes and colors since I was very young. 

I started as a painter, evolved into a photographer, and eventually began hand-painting on my Cibachrome prints over 35 years ago.  Before Photoshop I found a way to express a new magical reality with the vivid, saturated and unrealistic colors 
I painted into each individual photographic print.

For the past 30 years I have been scanning my one-of-a-kind hand-painted prints 
and my library of 35mm Kodachrome color transparencies taken over the last 45 years. 

I love to paint, collage and enhance them with Photoshop, creating my own idyllic world! 

I produce archival museum quality chromogenic prints, archival glossy canvas artworks, and my favorite digital medium: archival dye sublimation prints on aluminum. 

My art has been shown worldwide in many solo exhibitions including:
Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio; Colarinda Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal;
MAD Gallery, Milan, Italy; Demenga Gallery, Paris, France & Basel, Switzerland;
Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA; Laguna Art Museum, CA; 
Petersen Automotive Museum, LA, CA;  LA County Natural History Museum, CA; 
Monterey Museum of Art, CA; Nancy Hoffman Gallery, NYC, NY; L’Image Gallery, Rome, Italy; Louis Stern Gallery, West Hollywood, CA; Wall Space Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA.

I have been included in countless group exhibits and Art Fairs around the world over the last 30 years. It has been in many magazines, book covers, two museum exhibition catalogues and two books have been published of my art, Garden Tales and Car Tales.    

Recently I have had the honor of being asked to install my art in many wonderful public spaces, on exhibit for 10 years:
In 2013 I installed more than 70 large art works at the UCLA Law Library and 
UCLA Anderson School of Management, including a 5'x10' commission.
I also installed an exhibit of my “Joy Rides” series printed on aluminum
at the Car Museum in Oxnard CA.
In 2014 I installed 20 new very large artworks printed on aluminum at 
the UCSB Gervirtz Graduate School of Education.
   
In 2015 I created the First Vertical Art Gallery at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health: I got a drab eight story stairway freshly painted bright white, it had good lighting and I filled it with eight large artworks. 

This is about encouraging people to make a healthy choice and use the stairs instead of the elevators, and of course being drawn into the stairwell by my exciting art exhibit!
In 2016 I installed 15 more very large artworks at the UCLA Young Graduate Library, in a huge first floor study hall!
In 2017 I installed another 15 artworks in the UCSB English Dept building & I had the inaugural solo exhibit at a new wonderful gallery at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden entitled  “Jane Gottlieb Fantasy Gardens”.

In 2018 I had a 4 month exhibition entitled “Jane Gottlieb Photographs France” at the 
UCSB Art, Design & Architecture Museum!

CV

Born: Los Angeles, California 1946

Education:
1964 - 65   University of California at Berkeley
1966          University of Syracuse - Junior year, Florence, Italy
1967 - 68   UCLA - BA Degree - Painting & Art History
1969          School of Visual Arts, NYC - Graphic Design
First Career: 1968 - 1982    
Art Director, Designer, Photographer, Fine Art Photographer:
Advertising, Movies, Magazines, Music, Fashion, Theater, Posters, in New York, Los Angeles & San Francisco
1983 - Present 
Full-Time Fine Art Photographer:
1982 – 1998: Archival, hand-painted, vividly colored, one of a kind, Cibachrome photographic prints.
1992 – Present: Photoshop enhanced, painted, collaged & printed on archival aluminum, canvas & chromogenic prints.
              
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
UCSB Library - “Jane Gottlieb-Check It Out” commission
UCSB AD&A Museum - “Jane Gottlieb Photographs France”
UCLA Anderson School of Management – 25 large artworks
UCLA Law School Library – 4 floors 45 large artworks
UCLA Young Graduate Library – 15 large artworks in main floor study hall
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health – 
created First Vertical Art Gallery
UCSB Gervirtz Graduate School of Education – 
2 floors 25 large artworks
UCSB English Department - 20 “Joy Rides” 
MAD Gallery, Milan, Italy - showing my art on large screens 2016-2020
Colorinda Art Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal, representing me 
2016-2017
“Jane Gottlieb Fantasy Gardens” - Santa Barbara Botanic Gardens Gallery
“Jane Gottlieb: Beyond Belief” - Carnegie Art Museum, 
Oxnard, CA 
“Jane Gottlieb – Joy Rides” Patty Look Lewis Gallery, SB, CA 
“Jane Gottlieb: Celebrating Monet” - Nancy Hoffman Gallery, NYC, NY
”Jane Gottlieb – Vivid” –Wall Space Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
“Jane Gottlieb Photographs” - Nancy Hoffman Gallery, NYC, 
“Jane Gottlieb: Garden Works” -  Butler Institute of American Art,   Youngstown, Ohio 
“Jane Gottlieb - Joy Rides” - 3 Year Exhibition 45 large artworks Los Angeles County Natural History Museum - 
Los Angeles, CA
“Central Park” - 717 5th Avenue Public Space, NYC, NY
Art for Two Billboards: “Perfect Score & Pink Cadillac Fin”  
Universal City Walk, Los Angeles, CA
“Jane Gottlieb – Joy Rides” - Murphy Auto Museum – 
Oxnard, CA
“Jane Gottlieb’s Joy Rides” - The Auto Art Gallery - 
World Wide Web 
“Digital Dreamscapes” - Palos Verdes Art Center - 
Palos Verdes, CA 
“Jane Gottlieb’s Dream Machines” - Saporiti Italia - Milan, Italy 
“Dream Machines”  -  L’Image Gallery - Rome, Italy
“Daydreams” - Louis Stern Gallery - Beverly Hills, CA
“Dreamscapes” - Art / LA ’93 - Int’l Art Fair - Los Angeles, CA
“Imaginary Landscapes” - Fine Arts Building - Los Angeles, CA
“Daydreams” - Sternberg Gallery - Palm Desert, CA
“Jane Gottlieb Color” - Ginny Williams Gallery - Denver, CO
“Imaginary Daydreams” - Leband Art Gallery,   
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA  
“Jane Gottlieb Daydreams” - Sternberg Gallery - Chicago, IL  
“Dream Machines” - Francine Ellman Gallery - Los Angeles, CA
“Colors”- Fleck / Ellman Gallery - Aspen, CO
“Jane Gottlieb Monuments” - Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art
“Jane Gottlieb Photographs” - Laguna Beach Art Museum, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Dememga Gallery, Basel Switzerland & Paris, France:
Art Monaco 2010- 2011; Art en Capital 2010-2011,  
Grand Palais, Paris, France; 
Shanghai World Expo 2010-2011. Art Fair, China
“Fantasy Photography” - Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, 
Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
”Behind the Wheel” - Santa Barbara Museum of Art, SB, CA
“Photos & Phantasy” –Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA
“Made in Santa Barbara” – SB Museum of Art, SB, CA
“California Color” - SB Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
“Americans” – Dememga Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
“Blossoms” - Staton Greenberg Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
“Summer Pleasures” - Qualita Fine Art Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
“Magic of Venice” - Qualita Fine Art Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
“The Art of Digital Show 2007” - judged by Neal Benezra, 
Director of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
“LA Art Show” – many venues, presented by the Lucie Foundation
"Symboise 2011" - Summer Art Festival - The Netherlands
Santa Barbara Art Foundry – Funk Zone - Santa Barbara, CA.
“Rolling Sculpture” - Art at SBTC – Santa Barbara, CA
“The Hand Painted Photograph - 1839 to Present”:
University of Wyoming Art Museum - Laramie, Wyoming
Yellowstone Art Center - Billings, Montana
Boise Art Museum - Boise, Idaho
James A. Michener Museum - Doylestown, Penn.
De Cordova Museum & Sculpture Park - Lincoln, Mass.
“Made in California” - Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, 
Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
“Transformations” - Weingart Gallery - Occidental College, CA
“Lush Landscapes” - Wirtz Gallery - South Miami, Florida
“Four California Views” - Galerie Demenga - Basel, Switzerland
“Art from California” - Walker Art Collection, Kansas City, Kansas
“California Visions” -  Galerie Demenga -  Basel, Switzerland
“Evolution Digital Art ‘94” -  Ansel Adams Gallery - San Francisco, CA
“Digital Interface” - Site Gallery - Los Angeles, CA
“Conceptual Landscapes” - Kathryn Fleck Gallery - Aspen, CO
“Auto Exotica” - Nevada Museum of Art - Reno, NV
“LA Drives Me Wild” - Sherry Frumkin Gallery - Santa Monica, CA
“One Square Foot”- Gensler Architecture - Santa Monica, CA
“Madson Gallery - New York City, NY
“Perspectives on Realism” - Louis Stern Gallery - Beverly Hills, CA                                                                                          “Rhythms of Earth & Water” - LAX Int’l Airport Terminal - CA  
“New Artists Exhibit” - Ginny Williams Gallery - Denver, CO  
“Images in Time” - University of Judaism - Los Angeles, CA 
The Print Center - San Francisco, CA
Marcuse Pfeiffer Gallery - New York, NY
West Hollywood City Hall - West Hollywood, CA         
Mayer-Schwartz Gallery - Beverly Hills, CA
SPECIAL EXTRAS
Discovery Channel TV - “Jane Gottlieb & Color” - 10 minute Feature
Home & Garden TV - “Jane Gottlieb’s Awesome Interior” 
Interview, Home & Art Studio Visit - 20 minute Feature 
Board of Trustees - Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Art Committee Member - Santa Barbara Jewish Federation
Color Consultant - Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinic (new building)
Los Angeles County Commissioner of Music and the Performing Arts
Los Angeles Music Center Arts Education Council Member
Discovery Channel TV - “Jane Gottlieb: Dream Living”  
Half hour show - Interview, Home & Art Studio Tour 
Home & Garden TV - Guest Artist for One Week on Carol Duval Show CNBC TV - Interview & Computer Art Demonstration
ABC TV - Good Morning America - Interview, Home & Art Studio Visit
ABC TV - The Home Show - Interview, Home & Art Studio Visit
Los Angeles County Museum Art & Architecture Home Visit
Venice Art Walk Docent Home & Art Studio Visit - Two Years

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
Brookings Institute, Washington, DC
Cedar's Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
UCSB AD&A Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, CA
Orange County Museum of Art, CA
Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
Frederick R. Weisman Collection, Los Angeles. CA
Marcia Weisman Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Walt Disney Art Collection, Burbank, CA
General Telephone, Los Angeles, CA
The Progressive Corporation Art Collection, All over the USA
EMI / Capital Records : Los Angeles, NYC, London, Paris

www.janegottlieb.com
 
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IM PET DC by Jane Gottlieb
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PARIS PYRAMID AT DUSK by Jane Gottlieb
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RED DOT SQUARE WHITE SEATS by John Kosmer
HONORABLE MENTION
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John Kosmer says, "My photography embraces formal elements as powerful tools to reveal the allure of my images. Formal elements go beyond shapes to include an image that is totally accounted for within the frame. Everything in the frame contributes to the image composition. I take responsibility for the entire image so the viewer is not distracted by extraneous material."

 www.JohnKosmerPhotography.com
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BACK MASSAGER by John Kosmer
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SHOWROOM by John Kosmer
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GEOMETRY 17783 by Kevin Lyle
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Kevin Lyle says, "I am a self taught photographer living in Chicago. As long as I can remember, I've been curious about incidental objects and environments and their potential for a sort of extraordinary/ordinary beauty. I find this quality in the work of photographer Eugene Atget, composer Erik Satie and singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie. These great artists are a constant source of inspiration.

My process is fueled by an innate hunter/gatherer impulse. Most of my images are collected within walking distance of my home on Chicago's north side. Contemplative wandering in the urban analog world, away from the preponderance of drama delivered digitally via television and the Internet, reveals evidence of real life - evidence of what may be, may have happened or may yet occur. Sometimes mundane, sometimes oblique, askew or atypical. Mostly overlooked, until documented.  Approach... Recognize... Record... Abandon... Repeat..."

Exhibitionism:
07/2020 - Vicinity 2020 - Juror Jennifer Murray - Perspective Gallery, Evanston IL
03/2020 - The Poetry of the Ordinary - Juror Sarah Sudhoff - PhotoPlace Gallery - Middlebury VT
12/2019 - The Found Object - Juror Aline Smithson - Praxis Gallery - Minneapolis MN
11/2019 - All About Photo Magazine 8 - Street - Juror Sandrine Hermand-Grisel
09/2019 - Seeing The Familiar - Jurors Industry of the Ordinary - Filter Space - Chicago IL
08/2019 - Member Exhibition 2019 - Juror Cecily Cullen - Center for Fine Art Photography, Ft Collins CO
03/2019 - Lens 2019 - Juror Natasha Egan - Perspective Gallery, Evanston IL
01/2019 - The Decisive Moment - Juror David L Parker - Praxis Gallery - Minneapolis MN - Honorable Mention
10/2018 - The Shape Of Things - Juror Ross Anderson - Praxis Gallery - Minneapolis MN - Honorable Mention
09/2018 - Still Life - Juror Kimberly Witham - PhotoPlace Gallery - Middlebury VT
07/2018 - Vicinity 2018 - Juror David Travis - Perspective Gallery, Evanston IL


www.kevinlylephotos.com
 
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GEOMETRY 18211 by Kevin Lyle
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