CURRENT EXHIBITIONS & WORKSHOPS

August 6 – 27, 2010

"Who’s in The House" at Tilt Gallery
Come see who is in the house at Tilt Gallery; an exhibition of selected prints.

Tilt Gallery represented artists:
Brad Armstrong (Phoenix, Arizona)
Rita Bernstein (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Diana Hooper Bloomfield (Raleigh, North Carolina)
Jill Enfield (New York, New York)
Joy Goldkind (Long Island, New York)
Brenton Hamilton (Rockport, Maine)
Meredith McKinney (Tallahassee, Florida)
Peter Liepke (Warwick, New York)
France Scully Osterman (Rochester, New York)
Mark Osterman (Rochester, New York)
Roger Palmenburg (Phoenix, Arizona)
Carol Panaro Smith & James Hajicek (Phoenix, Arizona)
Aline Smithson (Los Angeles, California)
Angela Franks Wells (Phoenix, Arizona)
Neal Winter (Phoenix, Arizona)
Jeff Zaruba (Phoenix, Arizona)

September 3 – 27, 2010

"Beyond Measure" by Rachel Woodburn
This exhibit will consist of three dimensional sculptural pieces with a selection of supporting photographs.

In the last decade Rachel Woodburn has been in the pursuit to become an image maker, embracing the process of creation while developing all essential qualities of a fine artist. Constantly in motion, her work is ever evolving.

In the past year her current body of work has taken form through found or discarded objects. Recently, in Art in America Edward Gomez wrote, "Used objects contain historical energy. You can’t always see that energy but you can feel it." Rachel is trying to find where the history of the objects and her expression intermingle.

Julian Cox, photography curator at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, said her work combines "beauty and psychological content in delicate balance."

As Rachel Woodburn creates her art, she shares her experience with others through demonstrations, workshops, and international education tours, providing students opportunities to participate in unique learning environments.

October 1 – 29, 2010

Photography Re-Imagined
4th Annual Juried Alternative & Historical Process Show; Juror: Anna Strickland

This exhibit will feature alternative and historical processes from national and international entries selected by juror Anna Strickland.

About the Juror: Anna Strickland is a Senior Critic in the Photography Dept. at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) where she has taught the Antique and Alternative Processes Class for over two decades. One of the courses she teaches every year involves bringing RISD students to Paris to work at Spéos: Paris Photographic Institute. She has also 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. This year she exhibited work from her seminal “Ladder Series” at the Galerie Spéos, which included Platinum/palladium prints.

November 5 - December 18, 2010

"Four Visions in a Different Light"
Four fine art photographers have joined forces for a traveling show of infrared photography. This traveling exhibition features the work of: Theresa Aiery, Susan R. Bloom, Jill Enfield and Elizabeth Opalenik.

Each artist has worked with infrared imagery for over twenty years. Images in the show are both film-based and digital. The artwork in this show shows the versatility of the medium and how unique each artist's interpretation can be. Work included in this show ranges from landscapes to figure studies to multi-layered photographic collages.

This exhibit allows us to see something that our human eye cannot observe. Infrared light-waves are beyond the visible spectrum. This invisible radiation is found at both ends of the invisible spectrum. Beyond visible violet, there is invisible ultraviolet and at the other end, beyond visible red, is invisible infrared. As the infrared spectrum extends beyond the end of the visible spectrum, wavelengths increase and infrared then merges into what are called heat waves. We cannot see infrared light waves... but infrared film and special converted digital cameras can.

The appeal of infrared photography is varied. The images that you capture with infrared are dramatic and surreal. A landscape becomes dream-like. Portraits and nudes take on an ethereal beauty: skin becomes translucent and resembles porcelain. The skies and clouds are dramatically pronounced, the vegetation glows, and there is an other-worldly, ephemeral essence to the work. Suddenly the world as we know it, shows up in print form looking strangely bizarre or wonderfully romantic. This is the mystery and magic of infrared. It carries you beyond the literal perspective of your eyes into the limitless vision of your mind's eye. These four photographers approach the medium from different viewpoints, showing the range of possibilities inherent in the medium.

For more information please visit www.fourvisions.net.