Kudos

by Shoshana Rothaizer

Openings, Receptions and Special Events

(Note: All exhibitions are group shows except where indicated as solo shows. Details are in the following paragraph.)

Thurs. 7/1, 6-8:30 p.m. – Shoshana Rothaizer, reception and 1st Thursdays Gallery Walk at A.I.R. Gallery, 111 Front Street, #228, Dumbo, Brooklyn

Tues. 7/6, 6-8 p.m. – Sheila Bernard and Susan Bowen, opening reception at Soho Photo Gallery, 15 White Street, NYC. 212-226-8571. http://www.sohophoto.com

Sat. 7/10, 12:30-2 p.m. – Daryl-Ann Saunders, artists’ talk at Diana Jones Senior Center, 9 Noll Street (between Bushwick Avenue and Stanwix Street), Bushwick, Brooklyn. 718-782-3601. For details: http://www.DASfineart.com/News.htm

Wed. 7/28, 6-8 p.m. – PWP group show opening reception at Calumet Photo, 22 West 22nd Street, 2nd Floor, NYC

Sat. 7/31, 5:30-7:30 p.m. – Katherine Criss, opening reception at Heckscher Museum of Art, 2 Prime Avenue, Huntington, NY 11743. 631-351-3250

At Soho Photo Gallery, NYC from 7/6-8/7, Sheila Bernard is participating in Water, and Susan Bowen is exhibiting one large scale (16′ wide) piece in Day at the Beach, a spotlight show. == A trans-layered photograph by Katherine Criss, which is a tribute to Magritte, was selected for the 2010 Long Island Biennial Art Exhibit at the Heckscher Museum of Art in Huntington, NY from 7/31-9/26. The show will also be on the museum’s website for two years. == Shoshana Rothaizer has work in Wish You Were Here 9, an annual benefit postcard show at A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn from 6/23-7/18. == Daryl-Ann Saunders curated and is participating in Urbanity: Interpretations of the Urban Landscape, a mixed-media exhibit by local artists and senior citizens at the Diana H. Jones Senior Citizen Center in Brooklyn from 5/17-7/10. The exhibit coincided with the annual art-filled Bushwick Open Studios (BOS), 6/5-6. On 7/10, the last day of the Urbanity show, the public is invited to an artists’ talk in English and Spanish.

PWP Group Exhibition

Objects of Affection, a show organized by Christina Cipriano, Ann Littlejohn, Katie Mantell, Sindi Schorr, Sheila Smith, Janice Wetzel and Pat Yancovitz, is at the HP Gallery at Calumet Photo, NYC from 7/28-8/13. The members is the show are: Gloria Aks, Paula Berg, Carla Berger, Sheila Bernard, Ann Brandeis, Giselle Chamma, Christina Cipriano, Elisa Decker, Myrna Elfenbein, Noel Farese, Pamela Fingerhut, Barbara Freedman, Patricia Gilman, Ruth Gitto, Pamela Greene, Jane Hoffer, Linda Kessler, Catherine Kirkpatrick, Susan Kuhlman, Joan Lappin, Susan Ledwith, Ann Littlejohn, Barbara Macklowe, Katie Mantell, Andy Mars, Alyce Mayo, Trish Mayo, Debbie Miracolo, Joyce Morrill, Elizabeth Niesuchouski, Shirley Pasternak, Nyla Patrick, Joan Pearlman, Bobbie Pearson, Wendy Ploger, Laurie Rhodes, Maddi Ring, Roz Rosenblum, Shoshana Rothaizer, Robin Glasser Sacknoff, Sindi Schorr, Beth Portnoi Shaw, PM Simmons, Sheila Smith, Karen Smul, Helena V. de Vengoechea, Jackie Weisberg, Janice Wood Wetzel, Ilona Williamson, Pat Yancovitz, Susan Zigman and Charlyn Zlotnik.

Current Exhibitions

Carla Berger has work in Face to Face, at Columbia Council of the Arts, 209 Warren Street, Hudson, NY 12534 from 6/12-7/30. Call 518-671-6213 or go to: http://www.artscolumbia.org. Carla is also in the International Postcard Show, at Gallery That, Superluck Inds Centre PH1, 45-53 Sha Tsui Road, Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong from 6/27-8/31. Go to: http://www.artrend-now.com == At the Sewanee Writers Conference at the University of the South in Sewanee, TN from 7/13-25, Miriam Berkley is showing some of her New York City images, and there’s another exhibit at that venue, which includes over a hundred of Miriam’s author and editor photographs taken at the writers conference over the years. Also, ten images by Miriam are on view at Nook Restaurant, 746 Ninth Avenue, NYC. == Susan Bowen is participating in Red Hooked, the annual summer show with BWAC, at 499 Van Brunt St. at Beard Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn, on weekends from 7/17-8/22. Go to: http://www.bwac.org/ == 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, New York University, 100 Washington Square East (at Mercer Street), NYC from 4/20-7/10. Call 212-998-6780. == Two 30″ x 40″ photographs by Sandra Gottlieb are included in Private Eyes: Artists’ Visions, the summer national juried exhibition at Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, 500 Palm Drive, Novato, CA 94949 from 6/19-7/18. Call 415-506-0137. == 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. == Barbara Leven has one photograph in Botanica, at Hunterdon Art Museum, 7 Lower Center Street, Clinton, NJ 08809 from 5/23-9/12. Call 908-735-8415 or go to: http://www.hunterdonartmuseum.org == Deborah Matlack is participating in Aquatic Coney Island, a show with Brooklyn Streetcar Artists’ Group in collaboration with Coney Island Hospital, 2601 Ocean Parkway (at Avenue Z), 2nd floor, Main Building, Brooklyn, NY 11235 from 6/4-7/31. Call 718-374-6806 or go to: bgsag.artists@live.com. On 6/4, there was a silent auction benefit for the people of Haiti. == Trish Mayo is participating in DESIGN IN THE HEIGHTS: Contemporary Meets Colonial, at the Morris-Jumel Mansion, 65 Jumel Terrace (at West 162nd Street, NYC 10032 from 6/1-8/31. Call 212-923-8008 or go to: http://www.morrisjumel.org. Trish also has work in What’s Left When All is Said and Done, at Manhattan Times Office, Inwood Center, 5030 Broadway, Suite 801, NYC 10034 from 6/25-7/23. Call 212-569-5800. == Anne Sager is showing photographs of Frank Gehry’s architecture in F-Stop: 4 Contemporary Photographers, at Southampton Cultural Center in Southampton, NY from 6/12-7/11. == Diane Smook is participating as an “invited artist€ in Visions of Mont Lebanon, an exhibit and fundraiser for the Shaker Museum and Library, at the Joline Arts Center, Darrow School at Mount Lebanon Shaker Village, in New Lebanon, NY from 6/18-7/3. All images were photographed on the grounds of the Mount Lebanon Shaker Village. Call 518-794-9100 ext. 220.

Recent Exhibitions

Babs Armour had one photo in the Alumnae/i Reunion Art Show at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY from 6/4-5. == One piece by Carla Berger was chosen for the Women’s International Juried Photography Exhibition 2010 at 12 12 Gallery in Richmond, VA from 5/2-6/20. == Miriam Berkley had a solo exhibition of forty photographs, New York Now, at New World Stages, NYC from 4/20-6/13. == Irma Bohórquez-Geisler had a solo show, MEXICANation, at Snug Harbor Cultural Center in Staten Island from 4/6-5/31. The show was 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 among New Yorkers. == Susan Bowen was the Third Place Winner in Plastic Fantastic, a show at LightBox Gallery in Astoria, OR from 6/12-7/7. Go to: http://lightbox-photographic.com/shows/plastic_fantastic_show. Susan also participated in Nailed, the annual spring show with BWAC, in Red Hook, Brooklyn on weekends from 5/8-6/13. In addition, she had six pieces in Holga Inspire, at the Gallery at Hallmark in Turner Falls, MA from 5/7-30, and two of her images were selected for Art and Agriculture 2010 at Columbia Center for the Arts in Hood River, OR from 5/7-30. == The Landscape of Memory, a solo exhibition of over twenty-five pieces from Ann Brandeis‘s series of the same name, was at the Gallery of the Riverhead Free Library, Riverhead, NY from 4/4-5/31. == Jackie Neale Chadwick‘s recent project, Apparitions of the Death and Co., was on view at The Gallery at Astor Center and at Ramscale Gallery, both in NYC, from 5/14-19, as part of the NY Photo Fest and the Manhattan Cocktail Classic. Jackie also had work in the PAC Exhibit, a show for staff at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 6/9-23. == Phyllis J. Featherstone and Susan Ledwith participated in Metamorphosis, a group show that was part of the “Art by the Ferry€ festival, at the Lighthouse Museum by the Staten Island ferry terminal on the Staten Island side, from 6/5-27. == Marilyn Fish-Glynn had a solo show, Elders, at Soho Photo Gallery, NYC from 5/4-29. Also the guest photographer at the gallery in May was former PWP member and speaker, Rebecca Lepkoff, who has demonstrated how to grow old with verve! == Patricia Gilman, Jane Hoffer, Deena Weintraub and Janice Wood Wetzel were in the High Line Park exhibition, at West Side Arts Coalition, NYC from 5/5-23. == Holly Gordon‘s solo exhibition, Antarctica: Journey to the Extreme, was at Fotofoto Gallery, Huntington, NY from 4/9-5/16. == Myrna Harrison-Changer, Marilyn Fish-Glynn and Helen Bohmart Pine were in The Four Seasons, an exhibition with the Park West Photo Club, in the Manhattan Borough President’s Office at the Municipal Building, NYC from 6/2-30. == Alyce Mayo had one photograph in Focus on Photography, the Baruch College juried photography exhibition, at Sidney Mishkin Gallery, NYC from 5/14-6/4. == Debbie Miracolo had two images in Bed Two, at Umbrella Arts, NYC from 5/13-6/13. == Ann Sager had images in Nudes, at Delaney Cook Gallery in Sag Harbor, NY from 6/19-28. == On 6/10, Karen Smul participated in An All Woman Art Exhibition in All Media Benefiting Dress for Success at the Hotel Palomar, Washington, D.C. == Pat Yancovitz had a solo show of eight photos, Boatyards and Fishing Docks, in the window of West Side Camera/Ritz Camera, NYC from 5/1-31.

Recent PWP Group Exhibitions

(1) PWP 2010 New Members Photographers was at TD Bank, NYC from 5/3-31. The participating members were: Asha Agnish, Amy Magano, Trish Mayo, Laura Dwight, Laurie Klein, Debbie Miracolo, Linda Sandow, Shell Sheddy and Deborah Terry.

(2) PWP‘s group show, Americana, was at MH Art & Framing Gallery, NYC from 4/17-5/22. The members in the show were: 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.

Other News

On 4/26, Irma Bohórquez-Geisler showed several photographs to accompany an academic talk on “Emigration and the Mexican State,€ at Barnard College, NYC. == On 6/7, photographs by Carol Fassler, Patricia Gilman, Catherine Kirkpatrick, Deborah Marcano, Andy Mars, Sheila Smith and Karen Smul were displayed at the “Volunteers Providing Help and Hope€ reception for Women In Need, Inc. (WIN) at Baruch College Faculty Lounge. NYC. The reception honored all volunteers who helped WIN throughout the year, including the members of PWP’s community service committee. Jane Hoffer and Joan Katz also served on the committee. == Ruth Gitto is conducting one-day photography workshops from April through October. Her Foto Safaris, using New York City as subject matter, take place once a week, and are 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. == Images from Sandra Gottlieb‘s 2009 summer series won 1st place in the Nature-Water category of the PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris 2010 competition. The photos will appear in an up-coming exhibition in Paris, and will also be published in the 2010 PX3 Annual Book of competition winners. == On 4/14, Andy Mars presented a Mixed Media Photography Workshop at her New York apartment. == During the month of May, Roz Rosenblum judged two photography competitions. On 5/3 she was at the Manhattan Miniature Camera Club, and on 5/24 she was at the Ocean County Camera Club in Lakewood, NJ. == Daryl-Ann Saunders was selected to participate in a new Artist-in-Residency program launched by the Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC), in partnership with the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York City Department for the Aging. At the Diana H. Jones Senior Citizen Center in Bushwick, Brooklyn, Daryl-Ann will set up a photo studio for six months. Then, she’ll work on her proposed project, The Pioneers of Bushwick, which will commemorate long-time area residents through portrait sessions and written text of their experiences. Visit http://www.DASfineart.com/News.htm for project updates. == On 4/12, Lynn Saville gave a lecture, “Night/Shift,€ co-sponsored by the Center for Architecture and Neighborhood Preservation Center, NYC.

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 == One photograph by Irma Bohórquez-Geisler was published in the Staten Island Advance on 4/15, and articles were published in Diario de Mexico, USA on 4/15 and 4/19. == A two-page spread about Marilyn Fish-Glynn is featured in 100 New York Photographers, by Cynthia Dantzic, published by Schiffer. This book, which contains many iconic figures spanning over fifty years of work, also includes images by Alyce Mayo and several former PWP members, including a 1937 photograph by Rebecca Lepkoff. == An image by Sonia Leon is on the cover of the current (third) issue of Imprints, the new publication of Professional Women Photographers. == A photo by Holly Gordon was 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 image by Erika Nusser was on the cover of the second issue of Imprints, PWP’s magazine. == 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. == For the seventh year, Daryl-Ann Saunders was selected to photograph a prominent woman executive for publication on the cover and inside the “Women Worth Watching in 2010€ section of the September/October issue of Profiles in Diversity Journal magazine. A Polaroid transfer image by Daryl-Ann 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.

On the Web

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/== 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 == Six images by Susan Bowen are in About Time, an on-going online exhibition at the Forward Thinking Museum, that opened 4/27. Go to: http://www.forwardthinkingmuseum.com/EW/about_time_nav3.html. Susan’s photos are also showcased at http://www.holgainspire.com/, a website created by the makers of the silly plastic camera that she uses. == Six images by Phyllis J. Featherstone are included in a review of her pinhole photographs in an art blog. Go to: http://www.artezine.com/az17_rs_pinh.html == Holly Gordon‘s article, “Antarctica: Journey to the Extreme,€ can be found in the archives of the Photo Migrations Community for Nature Photography at: http://www.photomigrations.com/home.htm. == 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/. == Joyce Morrill has one image in Transistions, a virtual event of visual, literary and the performing arts presented by Pen and Brush, Inc. The show opened in June, and it will be online through 9/3 at: http://www.penandbrush.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=225&title=liminal&cat=2 == Mayda Rumberg was a finalist in the Master’s Cup Color Awards, an online competition at: http://www.worldphotographicarts.com/gallery/colorawards/2nd_annual/masterscup/nominations.php?x=p&cid=9 == Robin Glasser Sacknoff has her own gallery in the Museum of Modern Photography, an online museum, from 3/31-9/30. Go to: http://mmpca.viewbook.com/portfolio/advertising_galleries/robin_sacknoff new_york_ny?p=1 == Daryl-Ann Saunders curated an exhibit, Urbanity: Interpretations of the Urban Landscape, at the Diana H. Jones Senior Center during Brooklyn’s BOS (Bushwick Open Studios) weekend, and she was one of several artists selected for a profile write-up on the popular BushwickBK.com blog. Go to: http://bushwickbk.com/2010/06/09/bushwick-open-studios-10-profile-dayrl-ann-saunders/. The exhibit and Daryl-Ann’s artist residency work at the Center was also highlighted in a separate article on that blog, as “… perhaps being the best example€ during the festival weekend of utilizing art to “foster community among Bushwick’s residents.€ See the seventh paragraph when you go to: http://bushwickbk.com/2010/06/10/art-on-a-theme-connectivity/. Daryl-Ann created a blog, http://www.Urbanity.blog.com, for updates, photos and videos related to the eight-week Urbanity exhibit, and in addition, the Ridgewood-Bushwick Senior Citizen’s Council, sponsor of the Diana H. Jones Center, posted an online write-up about Daryl-Ann, which can be viewed at: http://yhst-14311790980423.stores.yahoo.net/urspmaevju5t.html. The Brooklyn Arts Council also highlighted Daryl-Ann’s work in their June newsletter, and a pdf can be found at: http://bit.ly/BACjuneNews. Night subway work by Daryl-Ann 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. 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 4/17, a piece about Lynn Saville was posted on the New York Times. Go to: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/ 04/15/scenes-from-the-night-shift/ and on 2/18, images by Lynn were selected for the Photo District News (PDN) Photo of the Day. Take a look at: http://www.pdnphotooftheday.com/2010/02/3609

Kudos is open to general, student and lifetime members. For future PWP newsletters and inclusion online, please send information to Shoshana via the U.S. mail or cyberspace. Information is updated at the beginning of each month, and the printed version is distributed at PWP’s monthly meetings. e-mail: shoshanaphoto@yahoo.com