April 6 – 28, 2012

“Given” by Anna Strickland
Installation of Palladium/Platinum and Gum Bichromate Prints

This installation will be made up of spatially overlapping and interweaving images on translucent/transparent surfaces, which will explore a sense of spirituality and connectedness.

Anna is an installation artist and senior critic in the Photography Department at Rhode Island School of Design. She is an expert in, antique photographic processes and has taught the contemporary application of historical processes at a number of other colleges, universities and workshops throughout the US and Europe.

Originally trained in antique processes at Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY in the 70’s, she has continuously employed these alternative methods in her installations and other professional productions. She holds a graduate degree from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston where she did original research in historical processes as part of her thesis.

Her work is found in both private and public collections throughout the US and Europe. She exhibited work from her seminal “Ladder Series” internationally at the Galerie Spéos, which included Platinum/palladium prints.

• Opening Reception: Friday, April 6, 6-9pm
• Third Friday Art Walk: Friday, April 20, 6-9pm

Upcoming workshop : Gum Bichromate over Platinum/Palladium Printing

• Saturday, March 31, 2012, 10am-5pm
• Sunday, April 1, 2012, 10am-2pm

March 2 – 25, 2012

“One into Another” by Ron Bimrose
Drawing, Painting, Photography and Collage

Combining elements of nature and manmade environments Ron Bimrose’s work explores the mingling of the line, the paint and photographic images. He creates images of the interconnection between humans and our environments while examining the dissimilar, creating associations and connections to our everyday lives.

Ron Bimrose is an educator of fine art at Mesa Community College and has his studio in Tempe, Arizona. In the late ‘60s, he bought his first camera. He purchased it for the purpose of recording objects for his drawing and painting, his first artistic pursuit. Photography took over. More than a decade later it was printmaking that guided him back to his roots in drawing. Today he uses all the tools he honed over decades of work: drawing, painting, printmaking, photography and collage. This mixed-media work has earned him a Visual Arts Fellowship from the Arizona Commission on the Arts and inclusion in numerous private and public collections (including, the National Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, N.Y.). Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale Arizona, Chase Special Collections Center, Carol Reece Museum, Plains Art Museum, Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, Kennedy Museum of Art.

• Opening Reception: Friday, March 2, 6-9pm
• Third Friday Art Walk: Friday, March 16, 6-9pm
• Phoenix March Art Detour, Saturday, March 17, noon to 6pm and Sunday, March 18, noon to 5pm

February 3 – 25, 2012

The Poet’s Love by Tom Persinger
Photographs inspired by Schumann’s Dichterliebe (The Poet’s Love)

Robert Schumann composed the piece in 1842 and these photographs are created with processes and techniques contemporary with Schumann’s composition. They are printed on watercolor paper using the salt printing process, the predominant method of the time.

These images were inspired and created to accompany a superb performance of Schumann’s classic 19th century work Dichterliebe (A Poet’s Love) as performed by the Pittsburgh Song Collaborative. The concert featured piano virtuoso and musicologist Benjamin Binder and the internationally recognized baritone Troy Cook at the Pittsburgh Opera’s Black Box Space on November 18, 2010. A haunting emotional journey, of yearning, bitterness, despair, and ultimately consolation.

Tom Persinger is an artist, photographer, writer, and the founder of F295. F295 is an international organization that believes in the value of a heterogeneous photographic approach, in which contemporary, historic, and self-made methods are employed and combined in the creation of a new “21st Century Photography.” He organizes the F295 symposium and seminar series to promote the exploration 21st Century Photography. Persinger’s photographs have been shown in numerous exhibitions and are in many private collections in the United States, Europe, and Japan. He has been published in Photographic Possibilities (3rd Edition), Light and Lens (2nd edition), Afterimage, Ag, Black and White Photography (UK), PhotoEd, and View Camera. He has lectured at numerous colleges and universities, has lead many workshops, is a member of Freestyle Photographic’s Advisory Board of Photographic Professionals, and is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Pittsburgh Filmmakers.

• Opening Reception: Friday, February 3, 6-9pm
• Third Friday Art Walk: Friday, February 17, 6-9pm. The artist will be present for the event and reception
• PHOTOtapas @ art intersection, salt printing demo: Saturday, February 18, 10:30-11:30am

December 2 – January 20, 2012

“Who’s in The House” at Tilt Gallery

Come see who is in the house at Tilt Gallery; an exhibition of selected prints.

• Opening Reception: Friday, December 2, 6-9pm
• Third Friday Art Walk Reception: Friday, December 16, 6-9pm
• First Friday Art Walk: Friday, January 6, 6-9pm
• Third Friday Art Walk: Friday, January 20, 6-9pm

October 7 – November 28, 2011

France Scully Osterman and Mark Osterman
The Light At Lacock
Sun Sketches at the Twilight of Photography

Mark Osterman and France Scully Osterman have created a collection of paper negatives at the birthplace photography; Lacock Abbey, in the village of Lacock, Wiltshire, England. Using Wm. Henry Fox Talbot’s original process of photogenic drawing and his earliest camera designs, the Ostermans trod the same ground as the inventor and revisited the miracle of the first chemical sketches made by nature alone. Celebrating the 175th anniversary of the negative these images were created at the twilight of photography. Along the way the couple made some discoveries of their own

Limitations of the early process and an inclement climate eventually guided the Ostermans to concentrate on photographing the effect of light that surrounds a subject rather than that which illuminates it. The results are painterly but also fugitive. As in Talbot’s time, the same light that created these images also destroys them. And so, it is only by the ironic marriage of the digital pigment print that now displaces photography that these colorful sun sketches can be exhibited for the first time.

• Opening Reception: Friday, October 7, 6-9pm
• Third Friday Art Walk Reception: Friday, October 21, 6-9pm
• First Friday Art Walk: November 4, 6-9pm, the artists will be present for the event and reception
• Third Friday Art Walk: November, 18, 6-9pm
• Artist Talk on Thursday, November 3 at 7 pm and Tintype workshop with France Scully Osterman on Sunday, November 6, 9 am – 5 pm at Art Intersection. For more information…

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

April 1 – 29, 2011

“Works” by Cig Harvey

Looking at Cig Harvey’s photographs are like reading one of your favorite novels, you can hear, feel and taste the narrative her images express. In the studio you will find her wearing one of her many vintage aprons. While creating her photographs she is often in one of her classic dresses. Full of symbolism and metaphor her self portraits build a story of her life experiences – without words.

Cig Harvey lives in Boston and Maine with her husband Doug Stradley and their dog Scarlet Snacks. She is a fine art photographer and is published in several national and international magazines having won awards for her brilliantly composed imagery. Her images are included in numerous prestigious collections worldwide. Her commercial clients include The New York Times Harper’s Bazaar, Bloomingdales and Ralph Lauren. Her International Publications and Awards include: 2010 Finalist, BMW prize, Paris Photo, 2010 Exhibit Review “Tone Poems” Boston Globe, 2008 Award Images of the Year 2008, American Photo. She is also professor at the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University and teaches workshops at the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops in Santa Fe, New Mexico and at the Maine Media Workshops at Rockport, Maine.

• Opening Reception: Friday, April 1, 6-9pm
• Third Friday Art Walk Reception: Friday, April 15, 6-9pm

March 4 – 26, 2011

The Victorian Art Walk at Tilt Gallery by Jeremy Rowe

Photography was born and matured during the Victorian era. The Victorian Art Walk at the Tilt Gallery includes examples of many of the innovative photographic processes of that era. The exhibition presents cased images including Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes, tintypes, and albumen paper processes, from the cartes-de-visite and stereograph of the 1850s to the mounted cabinet and boudoir cards. Many of these images are unique and range from fine art prints to vernacular and found images, each with their own special magic.

Dr. Jeremy Rowe has collected, researched, and written about 19th and early 20th century photographs for over twenty-five years. He has written Arizona Photographers 1850 – 1920: A History and Directory and Arizona Real Photo Postcards: A History and Portfolio, and curated exhibitions with many regional museums. Jeremy has been conference co-chair for the National Stereoscopic Association, serves on the Board of the Daguerreian Society, has worked with the Library of Congress American Memory project, a digital historic photographic collection, and manages vintagephoto.com.

• Opening Reception, Friday March 4, 6-9pm
• Third Friday Phoenix art walk March 18, 6-9pm
• Art Detour: March 19, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m and March 20, noon to 5 p.m.

Join Jeremy Rowe in a 4 hour class
Understanding and Collecting Historic Photographs : Cost $75.00
Saturday, March 5 from 1:00 – 5:00pm
Visit this link to find out more information & to register

February 4 – 25, 2011

“Sideshow” By Lori Ballard

Lori Ballard is a photographer and artist residing in Florida. Intrigued by the odd and unusual Lori has traveled extensively since the early 1990′s to State Fairs documenting the people and attractions of the mysterious carnival and circus life. She steps outside the box of traditional prints presented in frames by transferring images that are cut into pieces then sewn together to create a 4 feet by 6 feet canvas banner. The final coat of sepia tinted acrylic medium adds a weathered appearance giving it an antique feel that seems to transcend time. The pieces are meant to evoke the traditional banners of circus sideshow acts used to attract visitors.

• Opening Reception: Friday, February 4, 6-9pm
• Third Friday Art Walk Reception: Friday, February 18, 6-9pm

January 1 – 22, 2011

“Who’s in The House” at Tilt Gallery

Come see who is in the house at Tilt Gallery; an exhibition of selected prints.

• First Friday: January 1, 6:00 to 9:00pm
• Third Friday Phoenix artwalk: January 15, 6:00 to 9:00pm