“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

“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

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

“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

During her exhibition at Tilt Gallery, France Scully Osterman will be offering a lecture and workshop at the Art Intersection center, located at 207 North Gilbert road, suite 201, Gilbert AZ 85234:
Artist Talk – Thursday, November 3 at 7 pm
Tintype workshop – Sunday, November 6, 9 am – 5 pm

PHOTOtapas

A fine art photography event sponsored by Art Intersection, Jeremy Rowe Vintage Photography, Northlight Gallery at Arizona State University, and Tilt Gallery.

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…

Exhibition at Art Intersection, located at 207 north gilbert road, suite 201, Gilbert AZ 85234

Art Intersection will be exhibiting photographic work dating from the mid-19th century through the 21st century. Examples of many of the medium’s most celebrated processes will be displayed including, daguerreotypes, platinum/palladium prints, photogravures, and gelatin silver prints from some of the most prominent photographers of the past centuries.

Vintage works by Eugene Atget, Paul Strand, Alfred Stieglitz, Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, as well as the work of many notable contemporary photographers has been loaned to us courtesy of Northlight Gallery, School of Art, Herberger Institute of Design and the Arts, ASU; Jeremy Rowe, and Tilt Gallery.

For more information…

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

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