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.)

Fri. 8/6, 4-7 p.m.  -  Anne Sager, opening reception at Ashawagh Hall, Fireplace Road,  East Hampton, NY

Thurs. 9/23, 5-8 p.m.  -  Myrna Harrison-Changar, reception at Weill Cornell Medical Library, 1300 York Avenue (at East 69th Street), NYC

Myrna Harrison-Changar has work in Summer Reflections, a show with the National League of American Pen Women, at Weill Cornell Medical Library from 7/23-9/28.  ==  Anne Sager was asked to participate in the Springs Invitational show at Ashawagh Hall in East Hampton, NY from 8/6-22.

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, 22 West 22nd Street, 2nd floor, NYC from 7/28-8/13.  The members in 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 is 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  ==  Ten images by Miriam Berkley are on view at Nook Restaurant, 746 Ninth Avenue, NYC.  ==  At Soho Photo Gallery, 15 White Street, 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.  Call 212-226-8571 or go to: http://www.sohophoto.com  ==  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/  ==  Ann Brandeis is showing work from her new series, “Landscape Mosaics,€ at the Karyn Mannix/Hampton Road Gallery, 39 Hampton Road, Southampton, NY from 7/31-8/20.  ==  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, 2 Prime Avenue, Huntington, NY 11743 from 7/31-9/26.  Call 631-351-3250.  The show will also be on the museum’s website for two years.  Go to: http://www.heckscher.org  ==  Elisa Decker has one photo in Sensu Art Exhibition, a show of artists from New York and Japan, at Sans Quoi Gallery, 1-4-15 Chikko, Tamano-City, Okayama Prefecture, Japan, from 8/8-22.  ==  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  ==  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  ==  Daryl-Ann Saunders has one photograph in Summer Salon 2010, a diverse exhibit with members of OIA (Organization of Independent Artists) at New York Law School, 185 West Broadway (between Leonard and Worth Streets), Tribeca, NYC from 9/20-8/13.  ==  Lynn Saville is participating in INCOGNITO: The Hidden Self Portrait, at Yancy Richardson Gallery, 535 West 22nd Street, NYC from 7/14-8/27.  ==  Shelley Seccombe has a solo show, Greenwich Village Waterfront 1970-2010, at the Jefferson Market (Village Branch) Library, 6th Avenue and 10th Street, NYC from 7/28-8/31.

Recent Exhibitions

Carla Berger had work in Face to Face, at Columbia Council of the Arts in Hudson, NY from 6/12-7/30.  ==  At the Sewanee Writers’ Conference at the University of the South in Sewanee, TN from 7/13-25, Miriam Berkley had photos in three locations.  The images included some of her New York City scenes, as well as over a hundred of Miriam’s author and editor photographs taken at the writers’ conference over the years.  ==  Two films which Silvianna Goldsmith made of  Lil Picard were on display during the run of the show Lil Picard and the Counterculture, New York, at Grey Art Gallery, New York University, NYC from 4/20-7/10.  ==  Two 30″ x 40″ photographs by Sandra Gottlieb were included in Private Eyes: Artists’ Visions, the summer national juried exhibition at Marin Museum of Contemporary Art in Novato, CA from 6/19-7/18.  ==  Theresa King had a solo show, The Last Day of the Myrtle Avenue El, at the New York Transit Museum in Brooklyn.  The exhibition opened 9/29, and was extended through July due to popular demand.  ==  Deborah Matlack participated in Aquatic Coney Island, a show with Brooklyn Streetcar Artists’ Group in collaboration with Coney Island Hospital, from 6/4-7/31.  On 6/4, there was a silent auction benefit for the people of Haiti.  ==  Trish Mayo had work in What’s Left When All is Said and Done, at Manhattan Times Office, NYC from 6/25-7/23.  ==  Shoshana Rothaizer participated in Wish You Were Here 9, an annual benefit postcard show at A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn from 6/23-7/18.  ==  Anne Sager‘s photographs of Frank Gehry’s architecture were in F-Stop: 4 Contemporary Photographers, at Southampton Cultural Center in Southampton, NY from 6/12-7/11.  ==  Daryl-Ann Saunders curated and participated 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 Bushwick Open Studios on 6/5-6, and on the last day of the show, the public was invited to an artists’ talk.  ==  One photograph by Shelley Seccombe is in a new book about the skateboard fever that bloomed in the 1970′s, and that image was in Full Bleed, an exhibit centered on the book, at the Milk Gallery, NYC from 7/7-13.

Other News

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.  ==  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.  ==  Laurie Klein had two photographic “play dates€ in July in Connecticut.  “Come Celebrate the Feminine!€ took place on 7/18, and “Glamour and Fashion Photography, on Location and in Natural Light€ took place on 7/25.  ==  Lynn Saville presented her workshop, “New York at Twilight,€ at the International Center of Photography, NYC over the course of two weekends, 7/9-18.

Publications

An image by Sonia Leon is on the cover of the current (third) issue of Imprints, the new publication of Professional Women Photographers, and an image by Erika Nusser was on the cover of the second issue.  ==  Shoshana Rothaizer‘s photographs and writing will be included in the up-coming anthology, In the Spirit of We’Moon: Celebrating 30 Years, to be published by Mother Tongue Ink.  For more information, please go to: http://www.wemoon.ws/anth.html  ==  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. 

Self-Published Books

In July, Janice Wood Wetzel released two photobooks with MyPublisher, New York in Vivo and New York by Design.

On the Web

Mariette Pathy Allen recently updated her website.  Take a look at: http://www.mariettepathyallen.com.  Also, Mariette has a gallery exhibition at Zone Zero, one of the first websites to publish fine art photography.  Go to http://www.zonezero.com/zz/, and then look under the heading “The Gender Frontier.€ It includes many new photos and an essay by Mariette.  ==  Carla Berger has images in the 8th Annual Summer All Media, which went online beginning 7/1 for one year. Go to: http://www.upstreamgallery.com/  ==  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.  ==  Ann Brandeis was interviewed at Art Expo on 7/9, as part of a series on artists, their art and  lifestyles, produced by Fine Art Magazine:The Creative Life.  The video will be online in September at: http://www.fineartmagazine.com, and then the series will be released on YouTube.  ==  Elisa Decker has five photos in the Maryland Institute College of Art’s 15×15 Alumni Exhibition and Art Sale, which is online through summer 2011.  To see Elisa’s page, go to:
http://www.mica.edu/Browse_Art/2010_15_x_15_Exhibition_and_Art_Sale.html?page=3  ==  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  ==  Patricia Gilman received a Bronze Star for a panoramic image she submitted to the First Annual Epson Pano Contest, sponsored by Epson Printers.  Over nine hundred photographers entered with over 2700 images. Go to: http://www.thepanoawards.com/winners.php  ==  Joyce Morrill has one image in Transitions, 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 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-daryl-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

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