Kudos April 2010
Openings, Receptions and Special Events
(Note: All exhibitions are group shows except where indicated as solo shows. Details are in the following paragraph.)
Sat. 4/3, 7-9 p.m. – Susan Ledwith, opening reception at Art at Bay, 70 Bay Street, Staten Island
Thurs. 4/8, 8 p.m. – Roz Rosenblum, lecture at Vailsburg Camera Club, 30 Church Mall, Springfield, NJ
Fri. 4/9, 2-6 p.m. – Ann Brandeis, reception for solo exhibition, Gallery of the Riverhead Free Library, 330 Court Street, Riverhead, NY 11901. 631-727- 3228
Sat. 4/10, 5-7 p.m. – Holly Gordon, opening of solo show at Fotofoto Galley, 372 New York Avenue, Huntington, NY 11743. 631-549-0048. http://www.fotofotogallery.com
Sat. 4/10, 5-9 p.m. – Theresa King, opening reception at Westbeth Gallery, 55 Bethune Street (between Washington and West Streets), NYC
Mon. 4/12, 6 p.m. – Lynn Saville, book talk, Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, NYC
Thurs. 4/15, 5-7 p.m. – Irma Bohórquez-Geisler, reception for solo show, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Winter Garden Gallery, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Bldg. P, Staten Island. 718-425-3524. http://www.snug-harbor.org
Sat. 4/17, 6-9 p.m. – opening reception for PWP group show. MH Art & Framing Gallery, 9 West 20th Street, NYC. 212-242-1252
Mon. 4/19, 6-8 p.m. – Silvianna Goldsmith, opening reception by invitation only at Grey Art Gallery, New York University, 100 Washington Square East, NYC. 212-998-6780. Please contact Silvianna at silvia-anna@earthlink.net if you wish to attend the reception.
Mon. 4/19, 8 p.m. – Roz Rosenblum, lecture at Photographers of Sussex County, 50 Plains Road, Augusta, NJ
Fri. 4/23, 7-10 p.m. – Esther Babb, exhibition at The Brooklyn Art Library, 201 Richards Street #16, Brooklyn, NY 11231
Mon. 5/3 – PWP New Members Exhibition
Tues. 5/4, 6-8 p.m. – Marilyn Fish-Glynn, opening for solo exhibition at Soho Photo Gallery, 15 White Street, NYC. 212-226-8571. http://www.sohophoto.com
Esther Babb is participating in The Self Portrait Project, a one-day exhibition of artists from around the world, at the Brooklyn Art Library on 4/23. A book will be published documenting the project.
Irma Bohórquez-Geisler has a solo show, MEXICANation, at Snug Harbor Cultural Center in Staten Island from 4/6-30. The show is in conjunction with Immigrant Heritage Week, a citywide celebration that honors the experiences and contributions of immigrants in New York City with free or low-cost programs that build cross-cultural understanding between New Yorkers.
The Landscape of Memory, a solo exhibition of over twenty-five pieces from Ann Brandeis‘s series of the same name, will be exhibited at the Gallery of the Riverhead Free Library in Riverhead, NY from 4/4-5/31.
Marilyn Fish-Glynn has a solo show, Elders, at Soho Photo Gallery, NYC from 5/4-29. Also the guest photographer at the gallery in May is former PWP member and speaker, Rebecca Lepkoff, who has demonstrated how to grow old with verve!
Two films which Silvianna Goldsmith made of Lil Picard are on display during the run of the show Lil Picard and the Counterculture, New York, which is at Grey Art Gallery, NYC from 4/20-7/10.
Holly Gordon‘s solo exhibition, Antarctica: Journey to the Extreme, is at Fotofoto Gallery in Huntington, NY from 4/9-5/16. This show first debuted at the New York Hall of Science in 2006.
Theresa King curated Moment to Moment – Consistency and Change, a four-person show at Westbeth Gallery, NYC, in which she will show forty-two photographs. The exhibition runs from 4/10-5/2.
Susan Ledwith has several photos in Vernal Variations, an exhibition sponsored by the Staten Island Creative Community, at Art at Bay in Staten Island from 4/2-25.
Roz Rosenblum is presenting a lecture, “The Art of Seeing€ at the Vailsburg Camera Club in Springfield, NJ on 4/8, and she’ll present “Australia/New Zealand€ to the Photographers of Sussex County in Augusta, NJ on 4/19.
On 4/12, Lynn Saville is giving a lecture, “Night/Shift,€ co-sponsored by the Center for Architecture and Neighborhood Preservation Center, NYC. A book-signing will follow.
Group Exhibition
PWP‘s group show, Americana, is at MH Art & Framing Gallery, NYC from 4/17-5/22. The members in the show are: Gloria Aks, Babs Armour, Terry Berenson, Sheila Bernard, Paula Botstein, d brandon, Lynne Cashman, Karen Corrigan, Elisa Decker, Adele Epstein, Noel Farese, Carol Fassler, Patricia Gilman, Pamela Greene, Jane Hoffer, Joan Katz, Linda Kessler, Catherine Kirkpatrick, Susan Kuhlman, Susan Ledwith, Sonia Leon, Barbara Leven, Barbara Macklowe, Amy Mangano, Katie Mantel, Andy Mars, Trish Mayo, Joyce Morrill, Joan Pearlman, Barbara Pearson, Wendy Ploger, Ginger Propper, Julie Robertson, Robin Glasser Sacknoff, Linda Sandow, Daryl-Ann Saunders, Sindi Schorr, Shelley Seccombe, Robin Selditch, PM Simmons, Nancy Sirkis, Sheila Smith, Diane Smook, Catherine Steinmann, Janice Wood Wetzel, Ilona Williamson, Ellen Stockdale Wolfe and Susan Zigman.
Current Exhibitions
Ann Brandeis is exhibiting several pieces from a new series at Hampton Road Gallery, 36 Hampton Road, Southampton, NY from 3/13-4/11. Go to: http://www.hamptonroadgallery.com/events.html
Sandra Gottlieb has a solo show, Images of the Sea, at the Alden B. Dow Museum of Science & Art, 1801 West St. Andrews, in Midland, MI 48640 from 1/23-4/25. Call 989-631-5930. The exhibit consists of thirty large pieces (up to 50″) in two rooms, as part of a large exhibition relating to water called “WaterWorks.€
Mary Heller has a solo exhibition, Fine Art Photography, at Sunita’s Bar, 106 Norfolk Street (between Rivington and Delancy Streets), NYC from 2/25-4/25.
Theresa King has a solo show, The Last Day of the Myrtle Avenue El, at the New York Transit Museum, Boerum Place and Schermerhorn Street, Brooklyn Heights. The exhibition opened 9/29, and has recently been extended through July because of popular demand.
In celebration of Women’s History Month, Trish Mayo has two photographs in Women in the Heights, Contemporary Women Artists of Northern Manhattan, at the NoMAA (Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance) Gallery, 178 Bennett Avenue at 189th Street, 3rd Floor, NYC from 3/4-4/2. Call 212-568-4396.
Laurie Rhodes has work in an international documentary photography exhibition, Building an Ethical Economy: Theology and the Marketplace, at the Trinity Church Museum, Broadway at Wall Street, NYC from 1/25-4/5. The show is in conjunction with Trinity Institute’s annual theological conference of the same name.
Sindi Schorr and Robin Glasser Sacknoff have images in La Dolce Vita: Impressions of Italy from Il Chiostro Workshops 1995-2009, at Broome Street Gallery, 498 Broome Street (just west of West Broadway), NYC from 3/23-4/4. Call 212-941-0130 and 212-226-6085.
Recent Exhibitions
Photographs by Paula Berg and Janice Wood Wetzel were selected for inclusion in the online gallery for the Floral exhibit at PhotoPlace Gallery in Middlebury, VT from 2/9-3/6, and images by Sandy Alpert and Diane Smook were displayed on the gallery’s walls. Also, the images of all four women were included in the exhibit catalogue, published by Blurb Books.
Sheila Bernard had work in The Subject is Red, at Soho Photo, NYC from 2/2-27.
Ann Brandeis had work in Artists, at Hampton Road Gallery in Southampton, NY from 2/13-3/7. Katherine Criss and Holly Gordon participated in Artist’s Choice and Chosen Artists, at b.j. spoke gallery in Huntington, NY from 2/2-25.
A solo exhibition of Elisa Decker‘s photographs, Portraits, was at the Gallery of the Office of the Manhattan Borough President, NYC from 3/3-26.
Photographs of Iceland by Patricia Gilman were in the window of Ritz Camera, NYC during the month of March.
Holly Gordon participated in The Short Show, at Fotofoto Galley, Huntington, NY from 1/29-2/21.
An image by Sandra Gottlieb was included in Click, an invitational photography show at Glave Kocen Gallery in Richmond, VA from 2/5-27.
Myrna Harrison-Changar showed photography and art in Winter “Art€ Expressions, with the National League of American Pen Women, at St. Francis College, Brooklyn, from 2/1-26.
Myrna Harrison-Changar, Lore Behrendt and Diane Hardy Waller had work in Expressions: 2010, at Lafayette Grill, NYC from 1/9-2/10.
Amy Kosh had a solo show, Landscape Allegories, at Fuzziwhigs in Nyack, NY from 2/16-3/20. Images by Amy Kosh and Ann Ginsburgh Hofkin were selected for … and sweeps me away, National Members Exhibition at A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn from 3/3-28.
Susan Kuhlman had one image in Black & White, a members’ show at East End Arts Council Gallery, Riverhead, NY from 1/15-2/26.
Alyce Mayo and Sheila Smith had work in the Mixed Media Art Exhibit with the Gramercy Neighborhood Association (GNA), at the National Arts Club, NYC from 2/23-26.
On 3/19, Trish Mayo had two photographs in Harlem: Our Shared Global Culture, which was part of the 1st Annual Harlem Arts Alliance International Arts Event. Trish was in a two-person show, A Million and One Thanks, at Local Project in Long Island City from 2/6-21, and she also had work in Illuminating Nature, at Wave Hill House, the Bronx, from 11/27-2/28.
Debbie Miracolo had work in The Sweet Escape, at the Morean Arts Center in St. Petersburg, FL from 1/15-3/13.
A three-woman show, including a retrospective of the work of Roz Rosenblum, titled Visual Motifs, and fourteen photographs by Pat Yancovitz, Rust, Paint, Scissors, was at Art Way Gallery at the Princeton Alliance Church, Plainsboro, NJ from 1/16-2/21.
Photographs by Deborah Terry were in two exhibitions aimed at raising awareness and funds for relief efforts in African nations. Stories, which included documentary photography of refugees and multimedia presentations, was at Honfleur Gallery, Washington, DC from 1/22-2/26, and Migrations – Nomads With No Cause/Refugees With No Tomorrow, a solo show focused on the conflict in Darfur, was at the Gallery at Vivid Solutions, Washington, DC from 1/22-2/22. Proceeds from the exhibits went to support the International Lifeline Fund, a non-profit international relief and development organization dedicated to water and sanitation issues, micro-enterprise and fuel-efficient technologies. Deborah, the Vice President and Creative Director of ILF, helped found the organization in 2005. For more information, call 202-536-8994 or send an e-mail to arts@archdc.org
Janice Wood Wetzel had work in Central Park Exhibit, at the West Side Arts Coalition, NYC from 1/20-2/7.
Janice Wood Wetzel and Deena Weintraub were the co-curators for Trash, at the West Side Arts Coalition, NYC from 3/3-21. This year’s PWP Student Awards exhibition showed black and white images on the theme of Water. The exhibition was at the Ernest Rubenstein Gallery at the Educational Alliance, NYC from 3/21-4/1. PWP members donated photographs and services for a silent auction at the reception.
Other News
Ruth Gitto is conducting one-day photography workshops from April through October. Her Foto Safaris, using New York City as subject matter, will take place once a week, and will be limited to five participants per Safari. For information and to download a brochure, go to: http://www.nycfotosafari.com. PWP members can receive a 25% discount.
Laurie Klein offered three workshops at her home studio during February and March.
Birgit Pohl recently sold two Polaroid transfers to a collector in Westchester.
On 4/15, Roz Rosenblum will be the judge for a competition at the Color Photographers Club of Staten Island. Roz judged two camera competitions in March. On 3/10 she was at the Wantagh L.I. Camera Club in Wantagh, NY, and on 3/22 she was at the Ocean County Camera Club in Lakewood, NJ. Roz also judged three contests in February: the Great Neck Camera Club, the Wantagh Camera Club, and the Gateway Photographers of Staten Island.
Daryl-Ann Saunders was selected to participate in a new Artist-in-Residency program launched by the Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC), that provides work space for Brooklyn artists at select senior centers in partnership with the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York City Department for the Aging. Also, please note that Daryl-Ann created a photo studio that PWP members can rent for their own 4-6 hour photo sessions at a modest fee. Brick-walled, the studio is 13′ x 25′, with an adjacent bathroom/makeup area, and it’s located twenty minutes from Manhattan in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Contact Daryl-Ann at das@DASaunders.com
Lynn Saville is teaching “New York at Twilight,€ a five-session workshop at International Center of Photography on Tuesday evenings from 3/2-4/6. Register by telephone at 212-857-0001 for Code: 10WMC12 or go to: http://www.icp.org/atf/cf/%7BA0B4EE7B-5A90-46AB-AF37-7115A2D48F94%7D/ss10_PROGRAM_GUIDE.PDF. This takes you to the course catalogue, and Lynn’s course in on page 10
Publications
Monica Barnes edits Andean Past, an academic journal dedicated to the archaeology and ethno-history of western South America, which is published by Cornell University. Volume 9 is now available, and can be purchased at: http://www.einaudi.cornell.edu/latinamerica/publications/journals.asp
A photo by Ann Brandeis is included in Best of Photography 2009, which was released by Serbin Productions in December.
An article by Elisa Decker, in which she reviews an exhibition by Joseph Stashkevetch, was published in the January 2010 issue of Art in America (see p. 116).
A two-page spread about Marilyn Fish-Glynn is featured in 100 New York Photographers, by Cynthia Dantzic, recently published by Schiffer. Marilyn was honored by the invitation to participate in this book, which includes many iconic figures, spanning over fifty years of work.
Alyce Mayo also has photographs in the book, which includes a 1937 photograph by Rebecca Lepkoff. On 12/18, Marilyn and Alyce participated in a book-signing party at Soho Photo Gallery. Several former PWP members/speakers such as Arlene Gottfried, Cynthia Matthews, Erika Stone, Dee Ann McCarthy and Rebecca Lepkoff were present, along with the book’s author. The book was displayed in the window of Rizzoli Bookstore and can be purchased at the Museum of Modern Art.
In January, National Wildlife Magazine announced that Holly Gordon won first place in the global warming category of their annual photography competition. Her image was selected from nearly 70,000 submissions. Go to: http://www.nwf.org/News-and-Magazines/National-Wildlife/PhotoZone/Archives/2009/2009-Photo-Contest-Winners.aspx. Also, a photo by Holly is on the cover the February/March issue of Creations Magazine, a Long Island bi-monthly publication. The image and magazine contents can also be viewed online at http://www.creationsmagazine.com
An article in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle on 2/4 features the solo show of Theresa King at the New York Transit Museum in Brooklyn.
A group photo by Andy Mars, which includes Dr. Ruth Wertheimer, is in the January/February issue of Fido Friendly magazine.
Tequila Minsky has been traveling to and photographing in Haiti for a number of years, resulting in various exhibitions, publications and more. She was in Haiti when the earthquake happened, and her astute, compassionate photos appeared on The New York Times‘ online edition on 1/12, and published in the regular paper on 1/13. Tequila was also quoted in the Times. To view Tequila’s images and a discussion about her work, go to: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/13/behind-28/. You can read Tequila’s unique and personal perspective of Haiti in her article in The Villager. Go to: http://www.thevillager.com/villager_351/sohophotog.html. Additionally, Tequila’s images have been Tweeted and re-Tweeted many times.
An image by Erika Nusser is on the cover of the second issue of Imprints, the new publication of Professional Women Photographers.
Laurie Rhodes had seven photographs, including the cover, featured in “A Slice of Paris,€ an article in the Winter 2009 issue of Edible Queens magazine. Laurie also did the styling. See it online at: http://www.ediblecommunities.com/queens/
A photograph by Ann Marie Rousseau is in MS and the Material Girls, Images and Issues of Women in the Twentieth Century, a book published by Twenty-First Century Books in Minneapolis. See page 100.
A Polaroid transfer image by Daryl-Ann Saunders won the most votes in a field of eighty-five submissions in an international contest, the AlternativePhotography.com Calendar Competition 2010. Daryl-Ann’s image is featured on the cover of the color calendar and also inside, along with the work of eleven other artists who work in non-silver processes such as gum bichromate, palladium, cyanotype, etc. To see the artists’ work and to purchase the calendar, go to: http://www.alternativephotography.com/books/calendar_2010.html.
Also, Daryl-Ann photographed author Kara Newman for the inside flap of her new book about cocktails, Spice and Ice, which was released by Chronicle Books in November.
Several images by Catherine Steinmann, including a cover photo, were published during the month of December in The Garden Island, a local newspaper in Kaua’i, HI.
Self-Published books
Amy Burchenal and her husband released their latest photo-poem publication, Somewhere South of Roanoke in December, and this new book and others can be viewed and purchased at: http://www.etsy.com/shop/zburch
On the Web
Clues To Identity, the exhibition that Sandy Alpert, Mary Newman, Wendy Paton and Lucille Tortora were in at the International Center of Photography, NYC, was reviewed by The Artpoint – a well-respected art blog. Go to: http://theartpoint.blogspot.com/2009_12_19_archive.html
Three images by Carla Berger are in Bold/Subtle, a juried online International art exhibition with Upstream People Gallery, running from 12/1/09 through 11/30/10. Carla also has images in the 8th Annual Summer All Media, which went online beginning 7/1 for one year. Go to: http://www.upstreamgallery.com
Miriam Berkley was profiled in the online edition of the December “Picture of the Year€ issue of Rangefinder magazine. The article, which focused on Miriam’s author photographs and also included one of her New York City images, can be seen at: http://www.rangefindermag.com/storage/articles/RF1209_Berkley_Brownstein.pdf. Also, the printed magazine mentions the article on page 138 and has one image from the article. An online audio interview with Miriam, in conjunction with the print interview, is downloadable from Rangefinder Magazine Radio. Go to: http://bit.ly/9JHxJ1 and then look for Podcast #6.
An article about Irma Bohórquez-Geisler, with one of her photos, can be found at: http://www.silive.com/northshore/index.ssf/2010/01/photos_of_mexican_immigrants_o.html
Images by Susan Bowen are showcased at http://www.holgainspire.com, a website created by the makers of the silly plastic camera that she uses.
A series of photos by Ann Brandeis received an award from Prix de la Photographie, and it can be viewed at: http://www.px3.fr/winners/2009/zoom.php?eid=1-12274-09&uid=2226011
Holly Gordon shoots with an assortment of Kodak film and prints on a variety of Kodak papers, and examples of her work are showcased on Kodak’s professional website. Go to: http://www.kodak.com/global/en/professional/cpq/features/featuresIndex.jhtml, and then click on fine art. Also, Holly’s article, “Antarctica: Journey to the Extreme,€ was posted by the Photo Migrations Community for Nature Photography at http://www.photomigrations.com/home.htm during the month of February, and is now viewable in the archives.
Four images by Leslie Granda-Hill are in the group exhibit of the February edition of F-Stop Magazine, an on-line publication. Go to: http://www.fstopmagazine.com/groupexhibit.html
Andy Mars is represented by Busacca Gallery, an online gallery in San Francisco, CA, and two of her images can be seen at: http://www.busaccagallery.com/catalog.php?catid=204&itemid=2579&page=1 and http://www.busaccagallery.com/catalog.php?catid=204&itemid=2614&page=2
A photograph by Trish Mayo was used on the Municipal Art Society Website. Go to: http://mas.org/this-sunday-stroll-through-rosebank-staten-island-with-mas/. Also, the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation selected one of Trish’s images as the Photo of the Month for February. Go to: http://www.nycgovparks.org/photo_of_the_month
Tequila Minsky was in Haiti when the earthquake hit. See “Publications€ for information and links! Erika Nusser shot images for Artforum for auctions at Christie’s and Sotheby’s. Go to: http://artforum.com/diary/id=24172
The finalists (called “nominees€) and winners for the 4th International Black and White Spider Awards were announced on 1/24. Mayda Rumberg and Jackie Weisberg were chosen as nominees, and it’s the fifth straight year that Jackie has been either a finalist or received honorable mention awards. Thousands of images were received from over sixty countries and the nominated photographers were selected by a Who’s Who judging panel from the international photography community, including Magnum Photos, Sotheby’s, Tate Gallery, and the Leica Photo Gallery. For a direct link to Jackie’s image, go to: http://www.thespiderawards.com/presentation/fullsize.php?t=Nominee%20in%20Architectural&id=43522
Night subway work by Daryl-Ann Saunders was in the inaugural online exhibit by The Panocturnists, a subgroup created by The Nocturnes, a night photography group. Go to: http://www.thenocturnes.com/exhibits/panocturnists/index.html. Daryl-Ann’s images can be viewed at: http://bit.ly/dasbluebridge and at: http://bit.ly/daslaunchpad. The exhibition ran from 2/15-3/30, and now resides in an archive on The Panocturnists new website. Also, Daryl-Ann has a photography page for Facebook members, that offers news on art and photography-related topics, tips and information as well as listings of her own events. To subscribe to the page, go to: http://bit.ly/FacebookDAS and click on the “Become a Fan€ link.
On 2/18, images by Lynn Saville were selected for the Photo District News (PDN) Photo of the Day. Take a look at: http://www.pdnphotooftheday.com/2010/02/3609
Up-Coming Exhibitions and Events
PWP’s New Members exhibition will open on 5/3.
PWP’s mission is the advancement of women photographers through the creation a dynamic and supportive environment while promoting public interest in photography. As the premier women’s photographic organization, our members create a collegial, proactive and professional culture that respects and inspires women’s photographic vision.