September 2010 Kudos
September 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. 9/2, 5-7 p.m. - Ann Ginsburgh Hofkin, opening reception for solo show, Milton J. Weill Gallery, in the lobby of the 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Avenue (at 92nd Street), NYC. http://www.92y.org/Hofkin
Sun. 9/12, 1-4 p.m. - Elizabeth Niesuchouski, opening reception at Arts Guild of New Jersey, 1670 Irving Street Rahway, NJ 07065. 732-381-7511
Thurs. 9/23, 5-8 p.m. - Myrna Harrison-Changar, reception at Weill Cornell Medical Library, 1300 York Avenue (at East 69th Street), NYC
Sat. 9/25, 5-7 p.m. - Diane Smook, opening for solo exhibit at Art on Main, the gallery at Barnbrook Realty, 271 Main Street, Great Barrington, MA. Curator: 413-528-2446. http://artonmain.blogspot.com
Sat. 10/2, 2-5 p.m. - Sheila Bernard, reception at ACL Gallery, 1170 Town Center Way, Livingston, NJ. 201-247-8787
Sat.10/30, 3-6 p.m. - Ann Marie Rousseau - reception and exhibition of solo show, Highways Gallery, 1651 18th Street, Santa Monica, CA 90404. 310-453-1755
Sheila Bernard has several photos in a group show at ACL Gallery in Livingston, NJ from 9/15-10/30. == 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. == Ann Ginsburgh Hofkin has a solo exhibition, The Land Before You, in the Milton J. Weill Gallery at the 92nd Street Y, NYC from 9/1-10/11. Call 212-415-5563 to view the show at times other than during the opening reception. == Six photos by Elizabeth Niesuchouski are in Commuters, a show with the Arts Guild of New Jersey in Rahway, NJ from 9/10-10/7. == Ann Marie Rousseau won a $2500 award from the HARC Foundation for her photography project, “Surveillance Frameworks,€ and as part of the award, a solo exhibition of her work will be the centerpiece of a gala event at Highways Gallery in Santa Monica, CA. == Diane Smook has a solo exhibit of sepia photographs, Portraits from the Garden: An Uncommon View, at Art on Main Gallery in Great Barrington, MA from 9/24-10/29.
Recent 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, was at the HP Gallery at Calumet Photo, NYC from 7/28-8/20. A review by Carson Ferri-Grant of the exhibition appeared on Newsblaze.com. See publications (below) for the link. The members in the show were: 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 StrassenKunst 2010, at Artspace @Plant Zero, Zero E. 4th Street, Richmond, VA from 8/29-9/19. Call 804-232-6464. == Ten images by Miriam Berkley are on view at Nook Restaurant, 746 Ninth Avenue, NYC. == 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 can also be viewed on the museum’s website for two years. Go to: http://www.heckscher.org == 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
Recent Exhibitions
Three photographs from Sandy Alpert‘s “Ghosts Who Now Dance€ series were selected for Art in Motion, a juried show at Fort Worth Wommunity Arts Center in Fort Worth, TX from 8/6-28. == Carla Berger was in the International Postcard Show, at Gallery That, Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong from 6/27-8/31. == 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. == At Soho Photo Gallery, NYC from 7/6-8/7, Sheila Bernard participated in Water, and Susan Bowen exhibited one large scale (16′ wide) piece in Day at the Beach, a spotlight show. == Susan Bowen participated in Red Hooked, the annual summer show with BWAC in Red Hook, Brooklyn, on weekends from 7/17-8/22. == Ann Brandeis showed work from her new series, “Landscape Mosaics,€ at the Karyn Mannix/Hampton Road Gallery, Southampton, NY from 7/31-8/20. == Elisa Decker had one photo in Sensu Art Exhibition, a show of artists from New York and Japan, at Sans Quoi Gallery in Tamano-City, Okayama Prefecture, Japan, from 8/8-22. == 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. == 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. == Trish Mayo participated in DESIGN IN THE HEIGHTS: Contemporary Meets Colonial, at the Morris-Jumel Mansion, NYC from 6/1-8/31, and she 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 was asked to participate in the Springs Invitational show at Ashawagh Hall in East Hampton, NY from 8/6-22. She also had photographs of Frank Gehry’s architecture in F-Stop: 4 Contemporary Photographers, at Southampton Cultural Center in Southampton, NY from 6/12-7/11. == Daryl-Ann Saunders had one photograph in Summer Salon 2010, a diverse exhibit with members of OIA (Organization of Independent Artists) at New York Law School, NYC from 9/20-8/27. == Lynn Saville had work in INCOGNITO: The Hidden Self Portrait, at Yancy Richardson Gallery, NYC from 7/14-8/27. == Shelley Seccombe had a solo show, Greenwich Village Waterfront 1970-2010, at the Jefferson Market (Village Branch) Library, NYC from 7/28-8/31. At the opening reception, Shelley presented a brief talk and a slide show. Also, one photograph by Shelley 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
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. == Barbara Leven received four Honorable Mentions in three categories of the Professional Division of the 2010 International Photography Awards. IPA is a sister-effort of the Lucie Foundation. == A photo by Elizabeth Niesuchouski was chosen to illustrate a Jones Soda bottle label. == Lynn Saville gave a workshop and presented a public lecture, “Night Vision,€ at the Center for Photography in Woodstock, NY from 8/27-29. Lynn also gave a workshop, “New York at Twilight,€ at the International Center of Photography, NYC over the course of two weekends, 7/9-18. == Two PWP members won Julia Margaret Cameron Awards. Jackie Weisberg received an Honorable Mention for a portfolio, and Joan Katz won a Second Place in the portrait category. This juried show was sponsored by WPGA (the World Photography Gala Awards). A book of all the awardees, The Julia Cameron Awards 2010, will be published in November, and an exhibition is planned in Buenos Aires, Argentina in August 2011. Additionally, the overall winners will appear in ZOOM magazine.
Publications
The September issue of New York Spaces will feature five pages of photographs and commentary about Sheila Bernard‘s “Urban Series,€ in an article titled “Reach for the Sky.€ == 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. == A review by Carson Ferri-Grant of PWP‘s group show, Objects of Affection, appeared on Newsblaze.com. Check it out at: http://newsblaze.com/story/20100801163552zzzz.nb/topstory.html
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/ == 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. == 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 == Four photographs by Catherine Kirkpatrick were published on 8/6 on The New York Times interactive website for the New York region, in a story titled “New York City’s Waterfronts, Covered,€ and the Sunday (8/8) newspaper announced the Waterfront pictures project. The direct links are:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/08/06/nyregion/20100806-new-york-waterfront-reader-photos.html?ref=nyregion#/4c55c1c38e31df07d40000dc, http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/08/06/nyregion/20100806-new-york-waterfront-reader-photos.html?ref=nyregion#/4c55bf61d141b93f430000dd, http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/08/06/nyregion/20100806-new-york-waterfront-reader-photos.html?ref=nyregion#/4c55c0eed141b93f430000e1 and http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/08/06/nyregion/20100806-new-york-waterfront-reader-photos.html?ref=nyregion#/4c55c15ed141b93f430000e3. == 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 is 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