October 2010 Kudos
October 2010 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.)
Sat. 10/2, 2-5 p.m. – Sheila Bernard, reception at ACL Gallery, 1170 Town Center Way, Livingston, NJ. 201-247-8787
Sun. 10/3, 3-5 p.m. - Katherine Criss, reception at Omni Gallery, 333 Earle Ovington Boulevard, Uniondale, NY 11553 (opposite Nassau Coliseum)
Thurs. 10/7, 6-8 p.m. - PWP group show reception at Office of the Manhattan Borough President, Municipal Building, 1 Centre Street, 19th Floor, NYC. Bring photo ID.
Fri. 10/8, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. - Shoshana Rothaizer, slide presentation at CUNY Grad School, Fifth Avenue at 34th Street, NYC. Go to: http://www.70slesbians.org
Thurs. 10/14, 5:30-7:30 p.m. - Gail Gregg, opening reception for solo show at Luise Ross Gallery, 511 West 25th Street, 3rd floor, NYC
Fri. 10/29, 6-9 p.m. - Sandy Alpert, opening reception at K.A.S. Gallery, 1806 Mellwood Avenue, Louisville, KY 40206. 502-614-5733
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
Wed. 11/3, 5:30-8:00 p.m. - Alyce Mayo and Barbara Leven, opening reception at Calumet Photo Gallery, 22 West 22nd Street, 2nd Floor, NYC. 212-989-8500
Sandy Alpert will show five images from her photographic series “Ghosts Who Now Dance€ in Black & White Art, at K.A.S. Gallery in Louisville, KY from 10/29-12/10. == Sheila Bernard has several photos in a group show at ACL Gallery in Livingston, NJ from 9/15-10/30. == Katherine Criss is in a four-person invitational exhibition, Breaking Ground, at Omni Gallery in Uniondale, NY from 9/19-1/9. == Gail Gregg has a solo exhibition, The Album Series, at Luise Ross Gallery, NYC from 10/14-11/13. It is a drawing project in which Gail used old photo albums to address the subject of memory and loss. == Alyce Mayo and Barbara Leven each have two photos in Inspired by Nature, an exhibit comprising over one hundred images by fifty members of the New York City Sierra Club Photography Committee, at Calumet Photo Gallery, NYC from 11/2-26. == Shoshana Rothaizer will present photographs as part of a panel at an academic conference, “Lesbian Lives in the 1970s,” at the CUNY graduate school, NYC. == 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.
PWP Group Exhibition
PWP‘s group show, Art of Commerce, organized by Sindi Schorr, Trish Mayo, PM Simmons and Susan Zigman, is at the Office of the Borough President of Manhattan, NYC from 10/4-29. The members in the show are: Asha Agnish, Terry Berenson, Nancy Campbell, Karen Corrigan, Elisa Decker, Adele Epstein, Carol Fassler Marilyn Kaggen, Linda Katsoulos, Catherine Kirkpatrick, Susan Kuhlman, Susan Ledwith, Barbara Leven, Andy Mars, Trish Mayo, Marina Misiti, Joyce Morrill, Maddi Ring, Robin Glasser Sacknoff, Linda Sandow, Sindi Schorr, PM Simmons, Nancy Sirkis, Sheila Smith, Janice Wood Wetzel, Ilona Williamson, Pat Yancovitz and Susan Zigman.
Current Exhibitions
Ten images by Miriam Berkley are on view at Nook Restaurant, 746 Ninth Avenue, NYC. == Ann Ginsburgh Hofkin has a solo exhibition, The Land Before You, in the Milton J. Weill Gallery, in the lobby of the 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Avenue (at 92nd Street), NYC from 9/1-10/11. Go to: http://www.92y.org/Hofkin. Call 212-415-5563 to view the show. == One image by Debbie Miracolo was selected for Capture Brooklyn, at the PowerHouse Arena, 37 Main Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn, from 9/24-10/15. == Six photos by Elizabeth Niesuchouski are in Commuters, a show with the Arts Guild of New Jersey, 1670 Irving Street, Rahway, NJ 07065 from 9/10-10/7. Call 732-381-7511. == Diane Smook has a solo exhibit of sepia photographs, Portraits from the Garden: An Uncommon View, at Art on Main, the gallery at Barnbrook Realty, 271 Main Street, Great Barrington, MA from 9/24-10/29. Go to: http://artonmain.blogspot.com == Abstract images by Janice Wood Wetzel, Photos by Design, are featured in the Broadway window of Westside Ritz Camera, 2400 Broadway (at the corner of 88th Street), NYC.
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 Community Arts Center in Fort Worth, TX from 8/6-28. == Carla Berger had work in StrassenKunst 2010, at Artspace @Plant Zero, Richmond, VA from 8/29-9/19, and she was also in the International Postcard Show, at Gallery That, Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong from 6/27-8/31. == Miriam Berkley showed eighteen images of boxers at Gleason’s Gym in DUMBO, Brooklyn, during the weekend of 9/25-26, as part of the Art Under the Bridge Festival. == 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. == A trans-layered photograph by Katherine Criss, a tribute to Magritte, was selected for the 2010 Long Island Biennial Art Exhibit at the Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY from 7/31-9/26. The show can be viewed on the museum’s website for two years. Go to: http://www.heckscher.org == 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. == Myrna Harrison-Changar had work in Summer Reflections, a show with the National League of American Pen Women, at Weill Cornell Medical Library from 7/23-9/28. == Barbara Leven had one photograph in Botanica, at Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ from 5/23-9/12. == Joan Pearlman had two photographs in the Woods Hole Art Show, in Woods Hole, MA from 8/25-31. == Anne Sager participated in the Springs Invitational show at Ashawagh Hall in East Hampton, NY from 8/6-22. == 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.
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.
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 featured five pages of photographs and commentary about Sheila Bernard‘s “Urban Series,€ in an article titled “Reach for the Sky.€ == Gail Gregg had an article, “Your Labels Make me Feel Stupid,€ published in the Summer issue of ARTnews. == 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. == On 9/26, photos by Andy Mars of September 11th events this year in New York City were published in a feature story titled “Insights from Ground Zero on the anniversary of 9/11,€ in the Faith and Values Section of Post & Courier, a South Carolina newspaper. Go to: http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2010/sep/26/report-from-ground-zero/. Also, a slideshow can be viewed at: http://bit.ly/964cay == 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 == 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 == One photograph by Shelley Seccombe is in Full Bleed, a new book about the skateboard fever that bloomed in the 1970′s.
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/ == Photos 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 went online in September at: http://www.fineartmagazine.com, and 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. == Andy Mars was a guest blogger on 9/8 on the Rodenas photography blog. Andy’s article, “Fine Art & Photography as One,€ can be found at: http://rodenasphoto.wordpress.com/2010/09/07/fineartphotography/ == 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 was online through 9/3. == 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 had her own gallery in the Museum of Modern Photography, an online museum, from 3/31-9/30. == Three images by Jackie Weisberg won Honorable Mention at the Women in Photography International contest FACES 2010. The home page is: http://womeninphotography.org/wipihome.html, and to see Jackie’s photos, go to: http://tinyurl.com/27jkaw4, http://tinyurl.com/26qczhd and http://tinyurl.com/2fhghtu.
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.