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News of the current exhibit and events
at Image City
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Image City Photography Gallery
Newsletter
#133 July 20, 2018
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Our Newsletter
publishes during each of our exhibits to pass along information and
reviews of the exhibit, selected images and news of participation
opportunities at Image City. Thank you for your interest and we
look forward to another great year of fine photographs and events. We
hope to see you at each of the 13 shows we produce in 2018.
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Europe '71 - '72: A Student's Perspective
Current Show
Runs Through Sunday, August 5
First Friday
Gallery Night, August 3, 5 - 9 pm
Our current
exhibit, is Europe
'71 ~ '72: A Student's Perspective, by Gallery Partner,
Dick Bennett. Dick was fortunate to spend his junior year in college
studying in Vienna, Austria. He traveled and spent time with 19
fellow students in a program that was part of his studies at St.
Lawrence University. He lived with a family in Vienna and took every
opportunity to visit much of western and some of eastern Europe.
Photographs in his unique exhibit were digitized from the Ektachrome
slides in a "travelogue" of his European experiences.
Michelle
Turner returns to the Neuberger Gallery with a creative and varied
series she has produced after recently traveling to exotic Easter
Island. We are pleased to introduce a new feature at Image City, Chip
Evra is a Visiting Artist, who will participate in three shows
demonstrating his photographic talent, this round being
"scenic" and "still life". Additional Guest
Photographers are Clay Gehring, Susan Kaye, Michael Lempert, and Bob
Simon. Gallery Photographers Carl Crumley, Steve Levinson, Gil Maker,
Don Menges, Jim Patton, Luann Pero, Betsy Phillips, John Solberg,
Gary Thompson, Phyllis Thompson, and Sheridan Vincent round out the
show.
The show runs
through Sunday, August 5. First Friday Gallery Night is August 3 from
5 to 9pm. Our receptions are always an enjoyable evening with
refreshments and an opportunity to mingle and have discussion with
the exhibiting photographers and other guests. With an exciting
variety of photographers' work and experiences displayed in the
exhibit you will surely find a fine selection of art; with many to
enjoy, appreciate, and perhaps purchase to support the photographers
efforts. Click Here to
see our webpage for show details and a preview of photographs in the
exhibit.
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Following the installation of the
exhibit, Gallery Partners selected five of their favorites from the
Featured and Guest Photographers in the exhibit, presented here as
our Partners' Picks:
Greece - Athens by Dick Bennett Dick has presented us with ten
collages each containing a piece of his European trip in 1971 and
1972. It's important to recognize that Dick resurrected these
photos from square Ektachrome slides processed in Europe in the early
70's. Once printed the edges were customized to complete a vintage
style photograph.
I carefully
reviewed each collage, as should you, before I settled on the Greece
collection to review. The Athens set attracted me because pf
the classic columns and hillsides. The Parthenon and the Theatre of
Epidaurus are my favorite photos of this set and they are well
documented in Dicks short bullet points.There are obvious exhibiting
similarities in each set and this is what holds the complete
presentation together along with a few posed single shots accenting
the wall every so often. Along with the bulleted notes accompanying
each collage, we feel as if we traveled along with Dick and his
wonderful experiences.
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Path Through the Oaks by Chip Evra Here is a photograph that
immediately demands our attention when we see it. Just as if we were
physically standing on location, we would have to walk toward the
path through the natural entry arch made by the sentinel oak trees.
It would guide our footsteps and as a photograph it guides our eyes
to look into the photograph to see the narrow passageway where the
path narrows. The arch is decorated by nature's texture and color
with a pallet, warm in tone, with sufficient contrast against the
natural green foliage so that the detail of the scene is dramatically
enhanced. We know this scene is not "from around here"
making it all the more exotic a photograph. We are visually aware of
two image planes, the arching trees frame the entrance to the path
and at the same time, we can pull back our focus to admire the trees
and hanging vegetation. It is a pleasing image when we can focus on
each of the planes back and forth and not feel obligated to adhere to
any leading lines. Chip has balanced the color and contrast
exceptionally well to hold our attention to the fine detail with
nothing being lost or distracting to our view. Wouldn't it be even
more pleasing if the photograph was larger to appreciate even more
the fine detail of the scene, the bark, the leaves, the moss; it
doesn't end. The photographs selected for this, the first of three
exhibits by Chip as our first "Visiting Artist", certainly
demonstrates his keen photographic eye and a mastery of print
production and presentation. His two themes of "scenic" and
"still life", very diverse selections, are so well done
that we really look forward to his future exhibits in the months
ahead at Image City.
Amiens by Susan Kaye What do you do when you have some
time on your hands and you are bored. Susan hit upon a creative idea
to take a photograph of a computer circuit board and take elements
from that to create new images of real or imagined places. Amiens is a city
in northern France near the Somme River where some of the heaviest
fighting of World War I occurred. Built in the 13th Century, its
cathedral is the largest in France and one of the largest in all of
Europe. Fortunately, it escaped major damage during both world wars.
Susan and her husband spent some time in France, so the Cathedral was
a natural to duplicate.
Most photos
of the Cathedral are from the front and positioned in the center.
Susan choose to offset the cathedral creating more of a dramatic
effect. The patterns she employs for the Cathedral are exquisite. One
is able to picture the stone edifice, windows, spires and entrances.
Placing triangular pieces of the board in the foreground provides
leading lines to the subject of the art work. Susan artfully recreates
the flying buttresses that provide support for the main walls using
other elements of the board as well. Unlike some of the other photos,
Susan decided to add an aspect of depth using other pieces of the
board and lowering the opacity and making them appear smaller, so
they look more distant in the background. It is clear that Susan
enjoys the intellectual and artistic rigor and freedom in recreating
the lines and angles of a circuit board into a fun work of art. What
a marvelous idea.
Mona Lisa Smile by Bob Simon Bob has put together a wonderful
collection of portraits making it difficult to pick only one from his
portfolio. His use of black and white intensifies the
drama in all of his photographs. But the Mona Lisa Smile has
a mysterious quality about it that draws attention and
admiration. Perhaps it's the simplicity, a simple and
peaceful face and crossed hands standing out from a black
surround. It creates a "presence" that can
easily connect with the viewer. This is an example of light painting
the scene, and the photographer capturing that magic is his
photograph. The composition of the photograph holds our attention,
too. The face, the hand moving to the left and the object at the
left edge of the photograph form a triangle, and our eyes, moving
around the image return to the face, to the eyes and to her Mona Lisa
smile. Bob has created a meaningful story with his collection of
portraits, and this photograph is a very memorable part of that
story.
Rapa Nui Cemetery by Michelle Turner
Easter
Island, a Chilean territory, is a remote volcanic island in Polynesia.
Its native name is Rapa Nui. It's famed for archaeological sites,
including nearly 900 monumental statues called moai, created by
inhabitants during the 13th-16th centuries. The moai[S1] are
carved human figures with oversize heads, often resting on massive
stone pedestals called ahus. Michelle's collection of photographs
from Easter Island fill the Neuberger Gallery so when you stand in
the center you can almost feel the ocean breeze blowing your hair.
This cemetery is place where it is possible to appreciate the
religious syncretism of the Easter Island. Some of the tombstones are
adorned with motifs that combine Christian and Rapa Nui iconography.
You will notice in Michelle's photograph the many varying Christian
symbols mixed with traditional moai figures. Michelle has done
a wonderful job composing this photo. The stone border in the
foreground pushes us into the image. The blue of the sky and ocean
keeps us from exiting the photo from the top. The three taller
structures stitch the photograph together as there is nothing else
that breaks the plane of the horizon. Vegetation, along with little
pops of red flower, is abundant and acts as the glue that keeps all
of this mystery bound together.
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Note: The Image City Critique Group will not be
meeting in August..
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Image
City Photography Gallery, 722 University Avenue
August 3 First Friday Gallery Night 5 - 9 pm
August 5
Last Day of Europe
'71-'71: a Student's Perspective.... by Dick Bennett
August 7 First day of Portfolio Showcase 2018
August 10
Opening Reception, 5 - 8:30 pm
Portfolio Showcase 2018
Image City Photography Gallery
Hours
Tuesday - Saturday Noon - 6pm
Sunday Noon -
4pm
There is no admission fee to visit
Image City
in the Heart of the Neighborhood of the
Arts
where
our mission is to create a quality exhibition and learning
experience for
photographers and the art-loving community.
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