Charles Grogg

Charles submitted a portfolio to us this summer, and I have really enjoyed his beautiful, rich palladium prints, and the scientist in me loves the very field study like way he has captured the texture and richness of his subject.



listen to his words on the subject -

I’m struck by how we observe flowers with anthropomorphic interest. The swelling bud, the exposed pistils, the gleaming corolla are all biological mechanisms of attraction, and strangely we are moved by the same elegance that moves bees and butterflies and caterpillars. The real romance of flowers is not in their cool detachment from the fangs of life. The graphic beauty in images of flowers has the power to carry generational weight, to transport longing across ages. I’m looking for the light I remember unconsciously, a reminder that the slow transmutation of flora reflects the sameness of our generations across centuries, even millenia.

Jay Tyrrell

We are excited to announce our representation of Jay Tyrrell.

I have been a fan of his work, Wind Army, and have shown one of the images (Assembly Point) in our New Directions show this year. The work is clever, creative and beautiful. Using wind farms and turbines, Jay creates a narrative of a band of brothers and the obstacles they face. Take a look.


heat rays


assembly point


the generals

His new body of work - Weather, is a gorgeous four season look at British Columbia's Howe Sound.


spring tuesday 10.01am


summer tuesday 5.21am


fall sunday 4.14pm


winter monday 7.19am

Prints are available, and Jay has created a series of Diptychs to showcase the exquisite beauty and peace he finds in his viewfinder. We are also excited to announce this work as a limited edition, cloth bound, clam-shell book with an accompanying special edition print. The book also contains essays by Ulrich Schaffer and Karen Sinsheimer, Curator of Photography at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Quantities on this special edition book are very limited (edition of 90), and I think will be a great addition to any collectors portfolio. For those who miss out on the opportunity of getting their hands on one of the limited editions, we will have a trade edition available as well. The book is due to be released this November. Please contact us at the gallery for details on how to get your copy of Jay's extraordinary book.

in Jay's words -

Over the last six years I have watched Mother Nature paint with weather on the landscape of this fjord. These creations are ephemeral, sometimes lasting only seconds. A little like scenes from a Cinerama movie that fade into each other. These scenes are for me are about the feeling of wonder that is generated by the beauty of light interacting with weather and the landscape, creating spellbinding colors and conveying moods. I participated in these moments, watching as islands danced through rain squalls, a clear warm day so rare that it is as rain to the desert, amazing fogs of colors I had never expected. It has been a magical and evolving experience to align myself with the seasonal rhythms of this landscape, to slow my pace and to let beauty be the reason for action.

New Directions 2009

we are so excited to announce our annual juried competition, New Directions 2009 is open for submissions until 15 November.

We are thrilled to have George Slade, as our juror.

Last years juror, Clint Willour showcased some tremendous new talents like Rachael Dunville, Bill Finger( shown here), Jennifer Greenburg, Cornelia Hediger (shown here), and Lydia Panas. We are looking forward to seeing this years participants.


Cornelia Hediger / Bill Finger



About our juror - George Slade Photography Curator, Historian, Writer, Advisor

George Slade is an historian of photography and a native Minnesotan. He became the artistic director and chief curator of the Minnesota Center for Photography MCP in 2003 after serving as a curator, editor, writer, and advisor to the organization since 1992. His position at MCP ended when the organization closed at the end of July of this year. He is currently an adjunct assistant curator at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts overseeing the installation and presentation of the Museum of Modern Art's major traveling retrospective of Lee Friedlander's photography, and is preparing a book of observations about photographs from the Minnesota Historical Society (MHS) archives for the MHS Press; He has written essays and reviews for the Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Photography (Routledge, 2006), Public Art Review, exposure, photoeye Booklist, Minnesota History, introductions for photography publications including monographs by Tom Arndt, Todd Deutsch, and Stuart Klipper, and various other exhibition-related publications. He edited and co-wrote Minnesota In Our Time: A Photographic Portrait (MHS Press, 2000).

for more information and for an entry form contact the gallery website.

Jennifer Schlesinger

I love open sky, bright light and space. I draw deep breath in a beautiful sky, and find my way and my place in it.

Jennifer, who is the Gallery Director at Verve in Santa Fe and a talented artist in her own right, has images that give me that cleansing breath and peace. I couldn't wait to show you these. What do you think?

       

The ongoing Sky Series is the natural progression from my other two bodies of work, the Earth Series and the Moon Series. In the literal sense, my work is a documentation of the environment and its natural evolutions in the course of a moment (all of my work, from 2005-2008 involves long exposures, which creates a moving documentation in a still moment). In the more esoteric sense, my work is an abstract representation of time and place, that allows the viewer to create their own relationship to the image through a visceral experience. This series focuses on the horizon; sometimes well defined, and sometimes it is blurred between an ambiguous sense of place.

Jennifer Schlesinger

23 Sandy Gallery looking for submissions

Hey, there is a great gallery in Portland looking for submissions - send 'em in!

Here's the details - I have linked to the gallery info - there is more info on their website, but I thought I would give you the basics...

Shelter

7 - 29 November, 2008

submissions due by 3 October, 2008.

Shelter: A National Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Photography
November 7-29, 2008
23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, Oregon

THEME - Architecture, habitat, sanctuary. Shelter is one of our most basic human needs—at once both physical and psychological. We derive great pride from the shelter we build. We seek shelter from the elements, from the storm, from harm. How can shelter be interpreted visually given its myriad manifestations? Go out. Seek shelter. Make shelter. Tell us a story.

ELIGIBILITY - This exhibit is open to photographers both here in the States or abroad. Photographs can be created by any photographic medium or materials. This show is open to printed and framed photographs as well as mixed-media or three-dimensional photo-based works.

JUROR - This exhibition will be juried by Randy Gragg, a writer, editor, and organizer who has worked in the Northwest for the past 25 years. Most recently he developed and is now editing a new design magazine called Portland Spaces. From 1989 to 2007, Gragg wrote on art, cultural politics, architecture, urban design and planning for The Oregonian, Portland’s daily newspaper. For 2005/6, he was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. In 1994/5, he was a National Arts Journalism Fellow at Columbia University. He has written for wide range of national journals, among them, Metropolis, Architectural Record, Landscape Architecture, Harper’s, the New York Times Magazine. From 1981 to 1989, he was a practicing studio artist in Seattle. He holds an MFA in photography from the University of Washington and Bachelors degree in journalism from the University of Nevada.

BEST OF SHOW AWARD - One artist will be chosen as Best of Show and will receive a solo show in the gallery at a future date.

DATES TO REMEMBER
OCTOBER 3, 2008 - Deadline for submissions
OCTOBER 17, 2008 - Announcement of accepted entries
OCTOBER 31, 2008 - Artwork Due at Gallery
NOVEMBER 7, 2008 - Exhibition Opens
NOVEMBER 7, 2008 - First Friday Opening Reception, 6-9pm
NOVEMBER 29, 2008 - Exhibition closes and all artwork will be returned or held for pickup.

Bootsy Holler

Bootsy has a unique vision and sense of composition. Her work as a editorial and commercial photographer is what most people are familiar with, but it is her personal work that I find moving, her portraits are personal and intelligent. I am a huge fan.
See what you think -










This group of images is from a series called Ruby & Willie - here's more about the series -

Since my Grandmother’s death in 1978, the home they had shared remained virtually unchanged. Willie lived in the basement and kitchen, not touching any other rooms. This house was always a strangely beautiful environment in stasis to me and I felt the need to finally document it. I photographed each room, capturing all the details in the kitchen, living room, dining room, hallway, boys’ room, girls’ room, Ruby’s room, the downstairs TV room, and finally Willie's basement bedroom. During this process my Grandfather passed away and immediately the delicate home was torn apart and sold.

I am excited to work with Bootsy, we will be including an image for our collectible series. We'll keep you posted. To be placed on the mailing list for collectible for updates and information click here.

Polly Chandler

I love looking at work, I know lots of you have heard that, but those of you that know me also know that it is true. Its one of the reasons I love what I do everyday. Polly Chandler's work is one of those bodies of work I cannot get enough of. Beautiful, haunting, ethereal, and rich in tone and substance. If you haven't seen it before, log onto her website and take a look. I have a few images here.



"There are those occurrences that sit with us and settle into who we are. Some are more forceful than others. I am seeking to explore those identifiable instances that seem to slow time, and through my photographs, share the understanding of these moments." Polly Chandler.