September 2 – 30, 2011
Visual Vignettes
An arrangement of selected tri color gum bichromate, platinum palladium and cyanotype prints.
A native North Carolinian, Diana currently lives and works in Raleigh, North Carolina. She works as an independent curator and has organized and curated several pinhole and alternative process exhibitions, including “Pure Light: Southern Pinhole Photography,” shown at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), in Winston-Salem, NC in 2004. The exhibit, “Old is New Again: Alternative Processes,” which was originally shown at the Green Hill Center for NC Art, in Greensboro, NC, was invited for exhibition at the 2004 Pingyao International Photography Festival, in Pingyao, China. She was also an invited artist to the first Qinghai International Photography Festival, in Xining, China, where she exhibited in the summer of 2006.
Diana Bloomfield has been an exhibiting photographer for over 25 years. She has received numerous awards for her images, including a 1985 New Jersey State Visual Arts Fellowship, and several Regional Artist Grants from the United Arts of Raleigh, NC, most recently for 2006-07. Her photographs have been included in Pinhole Photography: Rediscovering a Historic Technique (3rd Edition), by Eric Renner; in Malin Fabbri’s Alternative Photography: Art and Artists: Edition I; and in Robert Hirsch’s Exploring Color Photography Fifth Edition: From Film to Pixels (2011). Her work has also been included in the Pinhole Journal; The Post Factory Journal; Chinese Photography; Camera Arts; The Sun; and, most recently, in Diffusion magazine (Volume II, April 2010).
- Opening Reception: First Friday, September 2, 6-9pm
- Third Friday Art Walk Friday, Saturday 16, 6-9pm
