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News
of the current exhibit and events at Image City
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Image
City Photography Gallery
Newsletter #142 March 29, 2019
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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 2019.
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Through the Student Lens
2019
Current Show Runs Through Sunday, April 14
First Friday Gallery Night, April 5, 5 - 9 pm
Our current exhibit is Through the Student Lens 2019
featuring the photographs of students from 18 local high
schools. It is our tenth annual exhibit of the work of talented
photography students. Visitors attending are telling us how
much they are enjoying the enthusiasm, vision and
perspectives that the young photographers bring to the exhibit. So
that the students can experience the full gallery experience, their
photographs are available for purchase with proceeds going the
artists.
We are again grateful to the sponsorship of Michael
Hager at Museum
Photographics who printed the student
photographs in the exhibit and to Jason Campbell of Frameworks of Rochester who
mounted them for display. Their underwriting support for the student
shows over the years is greatly appreciated.
At the opening reception, Don Menges, who chaired and
organized the exhibit, announced that School of the Arts was selected
by the Gallery Partners as the Best of the Show. Representing
the school at the reception are Ken Riemer (volunteer/photo club
co-advisor), Mariela Hernandez (grade 9), Susan Rudy (SOTA art
teacher, photo club co-advisor), Christina Carleton (grade 8), and
Alan Tirre (SOTA Academy Director, photo club co-advisor. If you stop
into the Gallery during the Student Show you will notice that some
photos have a gold star on the information tag. In fact there
are 9 gold stars as each one represents the favorite image of one of
the 9 partners. At the end of the show a letter form the Gallery will
be sent to each of these students recognizing that they have received
an "Excellence in Photography" award from Image City
Photography Gallery for the Through
the Student Lens 2019 exhibit. As there was 180
photographs to choose from, this is quite an accomplishment.
Participating high schools are: Allendale Columbia,
Aquinas Institute, Brighton, East Rochester, Gananda, Greece
Athena, Honeoye Falls-Lima, Le Roy, Penfield, Pittsford Mendon,
Pittsford Sutherland, Red Creek, School of the Arts, Spencerport,
Webster Thomas, West Irondequoit, Wheatland-Chili and World of
Inquiry. Keeping with the student-artist theme, we also have an
exhibit of photographs from the students at Studio 678 Wilson
Foundation Academy Photo Club, a program of the Flower City Arts
Center. We very much appreciate the participation of all of the
teachers whose guidance and coaching of the student photographers has
given an exhibit with everyone's talent on exhibit!
Visiting Artist, Edgar Ballestas, continues with an
exhibit of his captivating New York City photographs. Gallery
partner, Gil Maker, is exhibiting in the Newberger Gallery.
Also featured in the show are award-winning photographs by Camera
Rochester photographers, Dave Braitsch, John Ejaife, Stephen
Fielding, and Anthony Paladino. Rounding out the exhibit is work by
our Artists-in-Residence, Jim Patton, David Perlman, Gary Thompson,
and Phyllis Thompson and Gallery Partners, Dick Bennett, Carl Crumley,
Steven Levinson, Gil Maker, Don Menges, Luann Pero, Betsy
Phillips, John Solberg, and Sheridan Vincent.
Plan to attend First
Friday Gallery Night on April 5 from 5 to 9 pm.
This receptions are a great opportunity to view the art, discuss it
with the attending artists, and to invest in their photographs. Click
Here to see our webpage for show
details and a preview of photographs in the exhibit.
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Partners' Pick of the Exhibit
After reviewing the photographs by the Guest
Photographers in the current exhibit partners have selected one of
our favorites and has written a commentary on why we made the
selection. This is a popular feature of Image City exhibits, visitors
enjoy reading the insightful comments while viewing the photos.
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The Stillness of NYC by Edgar Ballestas --Edgar's
photographs of New York have been consistently striking,
demonstrating a great eye, in-the-field photographic skill and
excellent post-processing technique. The Stillness of NYC is a great
example of each of these, and there is an added quality that makes
this image stand out. That quality is mood - a sense of mystery, a
sense of dark intrigue, a fleeting thought of Gotham city. The mood
is no accident, but rather a reflection of the photographer's skill
in all three areas mentioned above. First, the photograph was taken
(as its title implies) under a gray cloud-filled sky. The long-time
exposure has erased the structures of any cloud formations giving the
sky an eerie flowing quality. The same exposure has erased any
structures in the water. It is a mirror for the sky, doubling the
mysterious quality.The image is almost black and white with only
traces of color, in a way so natural for our vision as darkness
approaches. The color may be there, but our eyes no longer can
capture it. The dramatic array of black wooden piles, now without any
other purpose, lead our view to the great city. There they stand, the
massive buildings, each with an almost graphic structure. It is all
so still. Quiet. Waiting.The natural stone bank in the foreground,
with its rough surfaces and irregular shapes sets the scene apart
from our immediate presence. We look over it and let our imaginations
go free.
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A Course by Steve Levinson
Creating Great Photographs with
Adobe Lightroom
After taking this lecture and workshop course, you will have a
workflow that you can efficiently follow for every photograph you
make:
- importing
images into your computer so that you can easily find them at a
later time
- selecting
the best images using an organized process
- creating
a customized creative digital image and then
- making
a fine digital print or posting on the internet.
Dates: May 22, 29 and June 5, 12
Location: We will meet at the historic Pittsford Flour
Mill, 15 Schoen Place, Pittsford
Price: The price for this course will be $190 and the
class will be limited to a maximum of eight photographers. You can
sign up and prepay for the course at Image City Photography Gallery. Check the link
for details online at "Courses at Image City"--
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Image City Critique Group
Next Meeting is April 3 at 6:30pm
The next Image City Critique Group meeting is
Wednesday, April 3rd, beginning at 6:30. The April assignment
is to try and take photos in a Nathan Lyons style. Please visit
the Eastman Museum where there currently is a show featuring the work
of Nathan Lyons.
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Image City Photography Gallery, 722 University
Avenue
April 3 Image
City Critiques 6:30pm
April 5 First
Friday Gallery Night 5 - 9 pm
April 14
Last Day of Through
the Student Lens
April
16 First day of our next exhibit by David Bleich
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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