Stella Group at Filter Photography Festival

Many of our Stella Critique Group colleagues experienced reviews at Filter Fest 2013

Alice Hargrave presents to Fred Bidwell

Aline Smithson reviews the prints of Jean Sousa

Mary Farmilant presents her book to Elizabeth Avedon

Aimee Beaubien shows new collages to Karsten Lund

Creative Capital Workshop - Life Changer

Barb Attended the Professional Development in November 2013

China Bound

Fifteen portraits from Natural History (and Barbara) will be heading to the Lishui Photo Festival in  Zhejiang Province, China from November 4-10, 2013. Curated by Yan Li of High Noon Culture and Art Corp. and Blue Mitchell, the show "Unconventional Photography" includes works by these outstanding unconventional photographers:
Jim Leisy "American Scientist"
S. Gayle Stevens  "Allegory"
Clay Lipsky  "Exposed"
Fritz Leidtke "Astra Velum"
Heidi Kirkpatrick "Lost and Found"
Ryan Zoghlin "Aerotones"
Bill Vaccaro "The Things She Left Behind"
Kim Kauffman "Confluence"
Jennifer B. Husdson "Medic"
Susan Kae Grant  "Theatrical Realms of the Whimsical and Tragic"
It ought to be an adventure traveling with these visionaries.
 

Changing Chicago - Then and Now

We were honored to be called upon to participate with Marc Pokempner and Jan Tichy in the Changing Chicago Panel Discussion, moderated by art historian and raconteur, Peter Bacon Hales. Time marches on....

Installation - Changing Chicago

Changing Chicago Photographers 2012

Changing Chicago Photographers 1989

Inspiration: Peta Clancy and Marjorie Salvaterra

Peta Clancy is a visual artist based in Melbourne, Australia, who works with photography, bioart, video and installation. She investigates the intersection of art and biological processes, and has undertaken an indepth exploration of the skin as a porous membrane.
 

 Paper Thin from the series Pierce 2007

Lips 1 from the series She carries it all like a map on her skin2005-2006

genetic genie - body manufacture - Commissioned for Off Mozart festival, Sala Terrena, Salzburg, Austria, 2006
The genetic genie installation explored the image of the chromosome in a broader cultural context. The form of the chromosome (inflated sculpture) was based on a karyotype of Peta Clancy’s own chromosomes. For this project Peta Clancy worked in collaboration with Erik Hable and Sylvia Kranawetvogl.

 A concern of both of these artists is who we are within our body and in the larger world.  Coming across two visually disparate artists is a serendipity that provokes a new direction for thought.

 Marjorie Salvaterra’s images reveal “a fine line between sanity and insanity,” according to Virginia Heckart, Assoc Marjorie Salvaterra’s images reveal “a fine line between sanity and insanity,” according to Virginia Heckart, Associate Curator of Photography at The Getty. of Photography at The Getty Center.
All work below from the series, HER.
"....I’m forty three years-old and I’m trying to grow as a person but so is my skin. I’m not that interested in holding onto my youth. My life is far greater now. But letting go isn’t as easy as it sounds. Some days I don’t recognize this person who looks back at me in the mirror. She is older, has responsibilities. She has had to learn that sometimes God has a bigger plan for her life than she does. Not everything goes the way she wants it to go. Things happen. Money comes and goes. So do jobs. As well as friends....With HER, she turns away from the mirror and turns the camera on her own life -- examining the psychology of her age and her gender in black and white, through surreal interpretations and exaggerated gestures, reminiscent of Italian cinema, creating photographs that reflect the universal idea of womanhood and assure HER that she is not on this path alone."

Inspiration: Sally Mann

New work by Sally Mann continues her use of metaphorical wet plate collodion with self portraits made from 2006-2012.

Michelangelo goes to Filter Photo Festival

http://www.vatican.va/various/cappelle/sistina_vr/index.html

Link to this photograph for a flight through the chapel.

We had a wonderful time showing the book iteration of Dialogues with Michelangelo at Filter Photo Festival 2012.  Lauren Henkin was most helpful and enthusiastic. All in all, a wild ride!