2015 Year in Review

December 2015 – January 2016  Exhibition  - Processed Views   Martine Chaisson Gallery 72 Camp Street New Orleans, Louisiana  December 5, 2015 – January  30, 2016 Gallery Talk  December 11th    4:30pm Artists' Walk Through as part of PHOTONOLA programming introducing 44" Fruit Loops Landscape and Enhanced Varieties, Jello-toned silver prints and Sugar Geology sculpture We exhibited this new series at Martine Chaisson Gallery. Enhanced Varieties is a suite of Jell-O®-toned silver gelatin prints  reproducing Carleton Watkins’ 1889 photograph,   Lake George Cling Peaches. Land barons began advertising in the 1880s, encouraging easterners to invest and settle in southern California. Carleton Watkins, renowned for capturing the sublime in nature, was hired to depict the irresistible economic opportunities  of the region. Despite a desert climate heavily dependent on irrigation, southern California was marketed as a land of inexhaustible agricultural potential.  Watkins’ photograph of a crate of peaches illustrates lushness beyond measure  while overlooking the true costs of cultivation where water is scarce.  We all know the success of this characteristically American marketing scheme.  Farmers flocked to this region and with the help of agricultural technology,  grew a new reality – America’s fruit basket. Today we have come to expect limitless plenty and limitless choices. We offer you this selection of Peaches  as an icon of technology improving nature, engineered and marketed to keep  us expecting more.  Sugar Geology: Sedimentary, Igneous and Metamorphic  PHOTONOLA highlights Over the Moon at PHOTONOLA ____________________________________________________________________ December 2, 2015 - Lecture Presentation to Chicago Women in Photography.  Discussion and presentation - On Collaboration Weinberg Gallery, Chicago ____________________________________________________________________ November 25, 2015 - Publication on Line Feature Shoot  Watch Me Grow:  Apocalyptic Photographs  Expose the Urgent State of Childhood in America   ____________________________________________________________________ November 25, 2015 - Exhibition - New Stone Age We were honored to be included as a part of the opening exhibitions  of the Herzfeld Center for Photography and New Media at the  Milwaukee Art Museum. Our series New Stone Age, which is in the  permanent collection, documents Wisconsin vernacular architecture  and shared a wall with other explorations of Wisconsin vernacular architecture including Shimon and Lindemann. ____________________________________________________________________ November  2015     Exhibition -  Barbara's Tourists Out of Bounds Lishui Festival 2015: Barbara's video: 7 Boats in the Mist exhibited in Tourists Out of Bounds at the Lishui Photography Festival 2015, Lishui, China. This group show of work by eight US photographers who traveled to Lishui in 2015  records the disorientations of travel. An 8 min looping video chronicling  a walk along the bridge over the river in Lishui, where hundreds of photographers came out one foggy dawn to photograph seven traditional fishing boats. (2014). ____________________________________________________________________ November 2015  - Studio Practice...of Shipping Preparing for our solo show at Martine Chaisson Gallery in  New Orleans during PhotoNOLA.     Picking up the large print from our great framer Sarah of SB Framing    Packing up Enhanced Varieties to ship to Martine Chaisson Gallery. ____________________________________________________________________ November 2015   Acquisition - Book - Field Notes  Field Notes, our 2015 Workshop Documentation  companion  piece to Natural History exhibition acquired by the Yale Center  for British Art ____________________________________________________________________ Publications - Internet Processed Views   Processed Views continues to go viral with features in the Washington Post InSight blog, Mako (Israel), I-Ref (Berlin),  Smak (Poland), China Travel (China), Centre for Environment  and Science Gobar Times (India), Haaretz Photo blog (Israel),  as well as  Feature Shoot, buzzfeed, hifructos,  Ain't Bad Magazine (US),BBC ____________________________________________________________________ September 30 - October 30   Exhibition - All Things Are Always Changing Black and White and Read Cannon Gallery of Art Western Oregon University Curated by Robert Tomlinson  ____________________________________________________________________ September 2015   Studio Practice Radical Studio Birthday Celebration for Joel Peter Within and Ann Geddes - refreshments, prizes, inspiration. Special thanks to Missy Ziebart and Jon Horvath. ____________________________________________________________________ August 7 – October 3, 2015  Exhibition - Field Study Field Study Exhibition curated by Katherine Ware and Meg Noe in conjunction with Filter Photography Festival David Weinberg Gallery, Chicago, Illinois ____________________________________________________________________ July 31 – August 15, 2015  Exhibition and Catalogue  A Lasting Vision: Photographs from the Institute of Design 1970-2001 curated by David Travis  and Barbara Crane Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois Catalogue of an exhibition organized by Anne Neri Kostiner  and Lewis Kostiner for the Illinois Institute of Technology.  Edited by Anne Neri Kostiner, includes essays by David Travis,  John Grimes and Barbara Crane. Also includes personal ID  experience statements and biological references.   ____________________________________________________________________ August 15, 2015  - Studio Practice - Alternative Salt Print Workshop with Mark Osterman George Eastman House, Rochester NY ____________________________________________________________________ August 2015     Acquisition -   Natural History Portfolio Yale Center for British Art purchased a selection of 12 cyanotype portraits gathered in an herbarium-style portfolio, has been acquired by the Yale Center for British Art. We are honored to be in this magnificent collection that celebrates the English traditions of the study of nature. Natural History acquired by the Yale Museum of British Art The magical doorway to The Yale Center for British Art during renovation. ____________________________________________________________________ May 2015  Exhibition - Lensculture On Line Processed Views is named a finalist in the LensCulture  Earth15 Awards. No matter where in the world we live, we all share the same planet.  Photography is the most vivid language to convey the complex wonders  and mysteries of nature. Likewise, it is one of the most powerful means  to document the harmful effects of human intervention in the  environment — while also applauding positive actions to preserve our  fragile ecosystems. Here are 34 unique points of view inspired by the earth, nature, and  our shared surroundings. These award-winning photo stories and single  images were selected by an esteemed panel of international photography  experts for LensCulture’s Earth Awards 2015. There are many difficult stories here that are meant to disturb viewers  and inspire change. You will also discover amazing celebrations of the  beauty and joy that nature provides. We hope you will look carefully at  every one of them — we think they are all important works that deserve  to be seen, shared and discussed around the world. ____________________________________________________________________ June – November 2015   Exhibition  - The FENCE THE FENCE: Six images from Processed Views will be appearing in  all four 2015 locations: Boston, Brooklyn, Atlanta and Houston. THE FENCE is an outdoor photography exhibition series with an annual audience of more than 3 million visitors.  Over the past 4 years, THE FENCE  has consistently attracted exceptional work by talented photographers from  around the world, giving us an opportunity to share these powerful photographic  narratives with a diverse audience of millions of visitors annually, while  providing photographers with a truly public platform and unexpected  career opportunities. For our 5th edition this year, we’re pleased to announce the addition of a  $5,000 cash prize for the Jury’s Choice Winner and an additional outdoor  exhibition venue in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Photographers of all levels are invited to submit work that fits under  one or more of our 6 thematic categories: Home, Streets, People, Creatures,  Nature, and Play. Once submissions are completed, an international jury of photography  professionals will be called upon to review and select 40 photographers  whose submitted work exemplifies the essence of “community” across cultural  boundaries and geographical lines. The selected projects will be presented in a series of large-scale, curated,  outdoor exhibitions across 5 cities in the United States: Brooklyn, Boston,  Atlanta, Houston, and Santa Fe.  The FENCE Brooklyn/Boston/Atlanta/Houston ____________________________________________________________________  June 26 – August 8, 2015  Exhibition  -  Milwaukee/Milwaukie Museum at Pacific Midwest 2.0, INOVA Gallery, Milwaukee WI The Milwaukee/Milwaukie Museum invited the artists from  Milwaukee, WI and Miwaukie, OR to visit their respective historical  societies and respond to what makes history. Lindsay’s installation,  First White Boy, addresses lost histories with the use of traditional  ritual garments. The work includes newspaper documentation and  four christening gowns. The first gown represents Milwaukee’s  first white boy, based information found on a on brass plaque in the  Milwaukee Historical Society basement. Two red gowns memorialize  the unidentified last Menomonee baby and the last unidentified  Potowami baby before the native tribes’ expulsion. The last gown  represents the undocumented first white girl born in Milwaukee. Barbara’s installation Resident Birds of Milwaukee was a Victorian bell jar covering a pair of miniature cast metal hands nestled in a  bed of feathers, holding an iPod. A looped recording of birdsong of  resident birds of the area issued forth from under the bell jar. In  response to the collection at the Milwaukee County Historical  Society’s collection of taxidermied birds arranged in lifelike poses  under bell jars,Ciurej created this sound installation to probe the  impulse and impossibilities of preservation, capture and containment.     Exhibiting artists from Milwaukee: l to r: Barbara Ciurej, Jon Horvath, Mark Brautigan,  Tara Bogart, Kevin Miyazaki, Lindsay Lochman, Naomi Shersty. (not pictured Jason Yi,  Sonja Thompson) ___________________________________________________________________ Watkins Research at the AGS Collection - UWM Library The American Geographical Survey Western Photograph Collection is housed at the  University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee library. A tressure chest which includes 76 large  prints by Carleton Watkins. Watkins’ prints firsthand can be viewed firsthand and  without glassby making an appointment. Working with librarian Susan Peshel,  we displayed two Watkins mammoth prints as part of the Pacific Midwest 2.0  show at INOVA gallery. ___________________________________________________________________ INSTAGRAM FEED Takeover - Lenscratch We were invited to take over the Lenscratch instagram feed and split the frames with images from different corners of the US...Alaska and Vermont.  ____________________________________________________________________ May 23 – July 19, 2015  Exhibition -   Selections from All Things are Always Changing  Gallery PINK  Janet Elkins studio 149  Harrison Street, Oak Park, IL 60304 invitational exhibit with Barbara Karant and Faigie Tanner ____________________________________________________________________  May 1– June 21, 2015     Exhibition - Processed Views & Natural History The Portrait and Landscape in  Contemporary Photography   Brie Castell Gallery Asheville, North Carolina May 1– June 21, 2015 opening reception May 1, 2015 group exhibition with Aileen Smithson, Blake Fitch and Charlie Rubin   ____________________________________________________________________ May 2015  Studio - A New Project - Enhanced Varieties We began a new series: Enhanced Varieties toning  silver prints of Watkins image of Lake George Peaches in 20 kinds of Jell-O, while researching the history of Jell-O and the rise of marketing and food trends.   Jell-O toning the silver print of Watkin’s image. ____________________________________________________________________ INSTAGRAM FEED takeover - Collect.Give   April 27-May 3, 2016 We were invited to take over the Instagram feed for Collect.Give.  Enroute to Asheville, NC, for the show at Brie Castell Gallery,  we researched Paradise in its many contemporary guises.  The Creation Museum, by far the most amazing ... @collectdotgive ____________________________________________________________________ April 2015 - Publication - images from Processed Views Oxford American Issue 88, Spring 2015 April 10, 2015 Trash Food  by Chris Offut A great pairing of Fruit Loops Landscape with a memoir about food and class in the spring issue of Oxford American. Add caption ____________________________________________________________________ March 26 – April 26, 2015  Exhibition -   Eat This: A socially conscious food-art exhibit Gallery 51 Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts North Adams, MA March 26-April 26 A reception March 26 from 5pm-7pm. Gallery hours M-F 10 a.m. -6 p.m. curated exhibition with Jon Feinstein   ____________________________________________________________________ 2015- Acquisitions - Processed Views Book Our artists book Processed Views is now in the collections of Western  Americana at the Beinecke Library, Yale University; Special Collections, Golda Meir Library at the University of Wisconsin;  Indie Photobook Library; Hellenic Centre for Photography, Athens, Greece. April 17– May 16, 2015 Processed Views Book - Acquisitions Processed Views book included in On Landscape #2 Materia Gallery, Rome, Italy On Landscape #2 Mateia Gallery, Rome Assistants collating Processed Views books ____________________________________________________________________ March 2015   Studio - Stella Critique Group We continue to meet monthly with our critique group of  talented women photographers: Aimee Beaubien Suzette Bulley Bross Patty Carroll Liz Chilsen Christie DiThomas Barbara Ciurej and Lindsay Lochman Mary Farmilant Alice Hargrave Kate Joyce Mayumi Lake Jean Sousa Peggy Wright Aimee Beaubien’s studio __________________________________________________________________ February 26, 2015 - Invitation - MoPC Auction 2015 The MoPC Auction 2015  honored, Barbara Crane, photographic  innovator and educator. Barbara Crane attended Mills College  completing a BA at NYU in 1950. She received an MS in photography from  the IIT Institute of Design in 1966. She has had eight retrospective and over ninety one-person exhibitions. A world-renowned art photographer and educator, Crane is Professor Emerita from the School of the Art Institute  of Chicago. An early investigator of repetition and deconstruction, Crane has explored photography as a vehicle for creative expression for sixty  years creating a body of conceptually consistent experimental work that  is included in national and international collections. Crane's publications  include four major monographs. She received National Endowment for  the Arts Grants, 1974 & 1988, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial  Fellowship, 1979, and two Illinois Arts Council Grants, 1985 & 2001. Print donation to Museum of Contemporary Photography ____________________________________________________________________ Publications - Images from Processed Views Strant Magazine    [VOL  004; ISS 003] Apetite Not to Scale ”Sustenance aside, we consume to manifest belief and foster personal bias.  We consume much like a camera produces a photograph, for every input there  is an output. While the camera might be understood in these terms,  light as the input and the photograph as output (the camera being a  finite machine), it does not account for variables of perception, in how we assign meaning to the output and the infiniteness of perception.  Perception grows from finite means, which grows understanding into  practice. The photograph therefore is a function of perception,  which is to say, it is a fulfillment of the partiality to which we already prescribe." ____________________________________________________________________ January 2015   Opportunity for Processed Views Positivo Diretto, an Italian exhibition design firm, requested our images  from Processed Views for posters to line the roadway in Lecce, Italy,for the  delegates meeting for ExpoMilan 2015: Feeding the Planet/Energy for Life. Although they could not get proper permission from authorities in time ....we loved the idea!