Out of the Blue at ACCI Gallery

Two of my cyanotype works from the series Mandalas for the Blues are included in the exhibition Out of the Blue at ACCI Gallery.

Together is all kinds of magic

Mandala 278 (together)

The exhibition is on view from September 1 through 25, 2022, with an opening reception on Saturday, September 3, from 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. and a closing reception on Saturday, September 24, World Cyanotype Day.

ACCI Gallery is located at 1652 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA, and can be reached by phone at 510-843-2527. Gallery hours are 11:00 - 6:00 Monday through Saturday and 12:00 - 5:00 Sunday.

The cyanotype, also known as a blueprint, is an early camera-less photographic printing process invented 180 years ago in 1842. The name cyanotype was derived from the Greek name cyan, meaning "dark-blue impression."

The earliest practitioner of the cyanotype process was Anna Atkins in 1843, producing Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions, the first book to be fully illustrated with photographs. A relatively simple process, the cyanotype requires merely sensitized paper, sunlight, and water to create remarkable photographic images. In recent years we have seen a renewed appreciation of the blueprint process and other antiquated photographic formats.

Arts & Crafts Cooperative, Inc. invited artists to experiment with cyanotypes to create something "Out of the Blue." In homage to Anna Atkins, the challenge here was to use the 19th century historical blueprint process (incorporating nature and the environment) and alter the practice with a mix of media, combining and layering alternative materials and textiles, resulting in a contemporary vision.

World Cyanotype Day is Saturday September 24, 2022. Every year on the last Saturday of September, photographers and artists worldwide gather to connect, create, and celebrate this antiquarian photographic process.

2022 Somerville Toy Camera Festival

Three of my photographs from the series Lost Connections are included in this year’s Somerville Toy Camera Festival.

Portal

Peaceful reminds me of you

Here the light finds us

The Somerville Toy Camera Festival is being held at two galleries: the Nave Gallery at 155 Powder House Road, and the Washington Street Gallery at 321 Washington Street, both in Somerville, MA. My work is at the Washington Street Gallery.

The Washington Street Gallery exhibition runs from September 10 - October 8. The Nave Gallery exhibition runs from August 27 to September 24, 2022. Both shows have opening receptions on September 17 - from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. at the Washington Street Gallery and from 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. at the Nave Gallery.

Online galleries are also available for both the Washington Street Gallery and Nave Gallery exhibits.

Since 2013, the Somerville Toy Camera Festival has celebrated the quirky and creative results that can happen when photographers loosen their controls, submit to the light, and embrace the accidental. Each year since, the Festival has brought a wide range of toy camera photography by US and international artists together in simultaneous shows at galleries throughout the city, and featured related programming.

The juror for the 2022 Somerville Toy Camera Festival was photographer Laidric Stevenson.

Open Theme at Praxis Gallery

My photograph, “To be seen by another,” is included in the Open Theme exhibition at Praxis Gallery.

The exhibition runs from August 27 through September 10, 2022.

A closing reception is scheduled for Saturday, September 10, 2022, from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m., in conjunction with the Green Way Glow festival.

Praxis Gallery is located at 2637 27th Avenue S., Minneapolis, MN, 55406, and can be reached by phone at 612-345-5571. A 3D virtual tour of the exhibition is available here (updated 8/27/22).

The juror for the Open Theme exhibition was fine art photographer, master printer, curator, and educator Ann Jastrab, who is Executive Director of the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, CA.

In My Backyard at GearBox Gallery

Two of my photographs are included in the exhibition In My Backyard at GearBox Gallery.

Color photograph of buttercups, rendered in magenta through use of Lomochrome Purple film, with blurred trees and sun rising in the background

Raspberries for breakfast

Black and white landscape photograph in which clouds seem to be reflected in a lake, and dark land masses on left and right join in a point of light

The beginning of hope/The hope of beginning

The show runs from August 18 through September 12, 2022. An opening reception is scheduled for Saturday, August 20, from 1:00 - 4:00 p.m., with a juror’s talk at 2:00. A closing reception is scheduled for Friday, September 2, from 5:00 - 8:00 p.m., during Oakland’s First Friday celebration of the arts.

GearBox Gallery is located at 770 West Grand Avenue, Oakland, CA 94612, and can be reached by phone at 510-271-0822.

You can preview the show here.

The jurors for In My Backyard were Gallery Curator Eric Murphy and owner Joyce Gordon of Joyce Gordon Gallery. Eric Murphy wrote of this exhibition:

The selection process focused on the literal and obvious backyard references first, of course nature and climate change fit in between. Then in the expressed version we often use, “It happened in our own backyard,” as in being close to us in one capacity or another. Next, we moved further out to the social and political experience of what “happens in our own backyard.” Other works are more about abstract interpretations of “In My Backyard” in a virtual sense or a place of mental comfort. Ultimately the selections are eclectic, intended to encompass the various interpretations of the theme.

Click! at Village Theatre Art Gallery

My photograph, “Trail and contrail,” is included in the exhibition Click! at the Village Theatre Art Gallery. Click! is the gallery’s 12th Annual Juried Exhibit featuring work by photographers from the Western United States.

The exhibition opens with a reception on Thursday, June 9, from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m., and runs through Friday, August 12.

The Village Theatre Art Gallery is located at 233 Front Street, Danville, CA 94526 and can be reached by phone at 925-314-3460.

There’s a virtual tour of the exhibit here, and the work can also been seen on the gallery’s website.

The juror for Click! was Heather Snider, Executive Director at PhotoAlliance in San Francisco.

Collaborations in Shots Magazine

A collaborative project by Al Brydon and me, Tales from a non-existent land, is featured in the spring 2022 issue of Shots magazine.

The presence of the unseen

To make these photographs, we each expose a roll of film in a plastic Holga camera, send it to the other, and re-expose it - not knowing what is already present in the latent image. As a result, the images hold the random magic of two unconscious processes and two Holgas.

The spring issue of Shots is devoted to the theme of collaborations in photography.

The Magic of Light at PhotoPlace Gallery

My photograph, “The communication of light/The light of communication,” from the series The Maybe Lakes, is included in the exhibition The Magic of Light at PhotoPlace Gallery.

The exhibition runs from March 3 through 26, 2022. PhotoPlace Gallery is located at 3 Park Street, Middlebury, VT 05753, and can be reached by email at photos@photoplacegallery.com

You can view the gallery exhibition here, and an additional online-only exhibition here. Installation photos are here.

The juror for The Magic of Light was fine art photographer, master printer, curator, and educator Ann Jastrab, who is Executive Director of the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, CA.

Connecting to the Divine at Analog Forever Magazine

My photograph, “Communicada,” from the series Where you are, is included in the online exhibition Connecting to the Divine at Analog Forever magazine.

The juror for Connecting to the Divine was fine art and commercial photographer, educator, and owner-publisher of Shots magazine Douglas Beasley, who wrote,

“Our photographs can be spiritual metaphors expressing our connection to the divine or to the eternal. This is different than documenting the religious or spiritual practices of others, this is so much more personal… [The photographs show] what it is that [the artists] personally hold sacred, how [they] interact with [their] spiritual instincts or inclinations, and how that shows up in [their] photography. It is often more about feeling than knowing.”

1st Annual Photography & Digital Art Exhibition at San Francisco Women Artists

Three of my photographs are included in the 1st Annual Photography & Digital Art Exhibition at San Francisco Women Artists’ gallery.

This one received a Juror’s Choice award:

Trail and contrail

These two are also in the exhibition:

The goodbye dialogues

Mandala 278 (together)

The exhibition runs from February 8 through March 4, 2022, with a reception on Saturday, February 12, from 2:00 -4:00 p.m.

San Francisco Women Artists is located at 647 Irving Street at 8th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94122, and can be reached by phone at 415-566-8550.

You can view the exhibition online here.

The juror for the 1st Annual Photography & Digital Art Exhibition was award-winning photographer, curator, and member of the Adobe Photoshop Hall of Fame Diane Fenster.

Black, White and Monochrome at the SE Center for Photography

My photograph, "In the circle," from the series Lost Connections, is included in the exhibition Black, White & Monochrome at the SE Center for Photography.

The exhibition runs from February 4 through 26, with a reception on Friday, February 4, from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

You can see the exhibition online here.

The SE Center is located at 116 East Broad Street, Greenville, SC 29601, and can be reached by phone at 864-605-7400.

From the gallery's email (with links added by me):

Monochrome photography, images produced with a single hue, rather than recording the colors of the object that was photographed. The SE Center asked for images of any theme, media, digital, analog, or antique processes.

Our juror for Black, White & Monochrome, Douglas Beasley, has made his selections
and the following photographers have been invited to participate
in Black, White & Monochrome:

Geoffrey Agrons, Julia Arstorp, Jason Au, Gary Beeber, 
David Bence, Bonnie Bishop, David Blow, 
Derek Brown, Mark Collins, Rajan Dosaj, Grey Eckert, Diane Fenster, 
Rick Gayle, J. M. Golding, Rosemary Haynes, Susan Holtz, 
Kirsten Hoving, Diana Nicholette Jeon, Ted & Nune, Tom Kirkendall, 
Jim Kohatsu, Nicole LeCorgne, Barbara Lewin, Lawrence Manning, 
Micah McCoy, Patricia McElroy, Nanci Milton,
Tristan Partridge, Gerald Pisarzowski, Alexej Sachov, Mary Schafer, 
Miranda Schmitz, Dennis Segers,  Kerry Sharkey-Miller, Ed Speas, 
Wendy Stone, Gary Topper, Jacqui Turner, 
Raphael Warshaw, and Mark Weller

Food with a Twist at Oakland Photo Workshop Gallery

My image, “Eggs,” is included in the exhibition Food with a Twist at the new Oakland Photo Workshop (OPW) Gallery.

The exhibition opens January 23, 2022, and runs through March 11, with a reception on Saturday, March 5, from 3:00 - 6:00 p.m.

Featuring the work of East Bay Photo Collective members, this exhibition explores our relationship with food - the comforts, challenges, and essential aspects of our daily interactions with the nourishment that sustains us. A cookbook based on the show is also planned. The exhibition was coordinated, and the jury was chaired, by Neeley Drown.

I’m honestly not a big fan of eating eggs by themselves. But the eggs in my photo have a special meaning for me. This past summer, I took a vacation for the first time since the pandemic had begun. I’m very grateful to have continued working, and I’d worked hard and was very ready for time off. I stayed at a house in the country, which, in a surprise me, came with several friendly chickens in the yard. They laid eggs several times during my stay. My image shows some of those eggs.

OPW is a community gallery and workspace, hosted by the East Bay Photo Collective and offering exhibitions by local photographers and community groups, photography classes, talks by local artists, photo walks, and meetups.

It is located at 312 East 8th Street, Oakland, CA, 94697, in the historic Asian Resource Center in Oakland’s Chinatown. OPW can be reached by phone at 510-922-8467.

Revival at LightBox Gallery

Two of my photographs are included in the Revival exhibition at LightBox Gallery.

We still had the sun

Raspberries for breakfast

The exhibition opens today, January 15, 2022, and runs through February 9.

LightBox Gallery is located at 1045 Marine Drive, Astoria, OR 97103, and can be reached by phone at 503-468-0238.

You can view the entire exhibition online here.

The jurors for Revival were the artists who submitted work for consideration - “a jury of your peers.”

Embrace at Fourth Street Fine Art

My photograph, “The beginning of hope/The hope of beginning,” from the series The Maybe Lakes, is included in the Embrace exhibition at the Fourth Street Fine Art gallery.

The exhibition runs from January 14 through February 27, 2022, with an artist reception on Saturday, February 12, from 2:00 - 5:00, pandemic permitting (please check the gallery website). It takes place both at the physical gallery and an online virtual gallery.

Fourth Street Fine Art is located at 2000 4th Street, Berkeley, CA 94710, and can be reached by phone at 510-647-6136.

The jurors for Embrace were Gera Hasse, Founder of Fourth Street Fine Art; Meredith A. Brown, Ph.D., Director of Museum Affairs and Chief Curator at Planting Fields Foundation, New York; and Edward Montgomery, owner of Edward Montgomery Gallery, Carmel, CA.

International Alternative Processes Competition online exhibition

My cyanotype photogram, “Mandala 278 (together),” from the series Mandalas for the Blues, is included in the annual International Alternative Processes Competition exhibition, hosted by Soho Photo Gallery.

The exhibition runs from December 10, 2021 through February 27, 2022. It appears online at both Soho Photo Gallery and the Griffin Museum of Photography.

An online artists’ reception is scheduled for Wednesday, December 15, 2021, at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.

The juror for the International Alternative Processes Competition was Paula Tognarelli, who is Executive Director and Curator of the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, Massachusetts.

Yellow! at Gray Loft Gallery

My photograph, “An alchemy of protection,” is included in the exhibition Yellow! at Gray Loft Gallery.

Yellow! runs from November 20 through December 18, 2021, with an opening reception on Saturday, November 20, from 4:00 till 6:30 p.m., and a closing reception on Saturday, December 18 from 4:00 till 6:30 p.m.

The exhibit features the work of Bay Area photographers and includes images from a wide array of traditional and alternative photographic processes – including pinhole photography, images made with Polaroid and plastic cameras, tintypes, and other film-based works. This exhibit is a celebration of the color yellow and embraces the unexpected and treasured qualities of this color in many mediums.

Participating Photographers are Stephen Albair, Mima Cataldo, Francis Baker, Gary Beeber, Rose Borden, Maria Budner, Virginia Chabre, Nina Chiappa, Sarah Christianson, Marna G. Clarke, Joshua Curry, Tony DeVarco, Gene Dominique, Lisa Erdberg, Laura Epstein-Norris, Diane Fenster, J. M. Golding, Cheryl L. Guerrero, Marsha Guggenheim, Kent A. Hall, Najib Joe Hakim, Judi Iranyi, Josie Iselin, Laura Kiernan, Ellen Konar/Steve Goldband, Philip Krayna, Claire Maen, Erik Mathy, Sonia Melnikova-Raich, Charles Moulton, Maureen Mulhern-White, Jeannie OConnor, Eben Ostby, Mark Overgaard, Anne Rabe, Steven Raskin, Charles Reilly, David Robinson, Philip T. Sager, Jenny Sampson, Neo Serafimidis, Elizabeth Sher, Gail Skoff, Susan Sperry, Douglas G. Stinson, Michael Teresko, George Tomberlin, Jill Van Hoogenstyn, Jacqueline Walters, Sally Weber, Rusty Weston, Jeff Weston, Susan West, Anita White, Stephanie Williamson, Nick Winkworth, Mitsu Yoshikawa, and Yelena Zhavoronkova.

The juror for Yellow! was fine art photographer, master printer, curator, and educator Ann Jastrab, who is Executive Director of the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, CA.

Gray Loft Gallery is located at 2889 Ford Street, third floor, Oakland, CA 94601 and can be reached by phone at 510-499-3445.

Gray Loft Gallery was founded in 2012,  when an airy Jingletown loft was converted to a gallery space. The gallery has been referred to as a hidden gem in Jingletown, and noted by the late Kenneth Baker, former SF Chronicle Art Critic, in his Visual Arts Don’t Miss Column as “…a space gaining prominence in the Bay Area…”