“Power of Art 2009″ to be held October 16 – 18
The Redondo Beach Art Group is holding their 4th annual member art show on the weekend of October 16. The show is titled “The Power of Art 2009″ and is the 4th annual show put on by the group.
Copyright by The Redondo Beach Art Group
The Power of Art has grown in attendence every year since its inception with over 5300 people attending the event last year. The show is part of the group’s effort to raise awareness of how art can play a positive role in a community by combining beauty with constructive social interactions of the community’s citizens.
The Power of Art 2009 is an all-media show featuring the art work of the members of The Redondo Beach Group. In conjunction with POA 2009 is the “Seeing California” show featuring work inspired by the famous photographer Edward Weston’s trip around California. Many of the group’s photographic artists will be featured in “Seeing California”.
Each year the group converts a location into a temporary gallery to showcase the work of it’s members. Last year’s venue was the north power generating room of the AES Power Plant in Redondo Beach. This year the group has converted an abandoned restaurant into its art gallery. This year’s show features the work of 90 artists and 130 works of art in all media in two galleries, “Living Art” and “Seeing California”.
There will be a catered opening reception on October 16 from 7 – 10pm. The show continues Saturday, October 17 from 10am – 10pm and Sunday, October 18 from 10am – 8 pm.
This event is free to the public unless otherwise noted on the group’s website.
The venue for this year’s show will be the old Venezia restaurant between the Cheesecake Factory and the Blue Water Grill. It is located at 655 N. Harbor Dr., Redondo Beach, CA 90277
For more information visit http://redondobeachartgroup.org/
By Jim McKinniss
Long Beach Arts Gallery – Bill Collins
Remembering the Blues, copyright of Bill Collins (Third Place Award)
The current “Reflections” show is now at the Long Beach Arts Gallery. The opening reception was Friday, October 2, 6 to 9 p.m. and the show runs until November 7.
Long Beach Arts is located at 4332 Atlantic Ave. in the Bixby Knolls section of Long Beach and is open Wednesday through Sunday, noon to 5 p.m.
Best regards, Douglas Stockdale
Photography exhibition to open at the Palos Verdes Art Center
"Paddling with Ice" copyright by Rich Henke
Two exhibitions kick off the fall season at the Palos Verdes Art Center, 5504 W. Crestridge Rd., Rancho Palos Verdes.
Opening with a reception from 5 – 8 p.m. Friday, October 9, 2009 are Off the Wall and Photography. Both run through Sunday, November 1.
After the opening, the galleries will be open from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays and 1 – 4 p.m. Sundays. There is no admission charge.
Photography literally means “writing with light.” Typically, this involves a light-tight container (camera) with an image-forming device (lens), a means of allowing a controlled amount of light to enter (shutter) and a way to record the image produced by the lens (film or, more likely today, a digital memory chip).
Curator Phil Lohmann has selected the work of 32 area photographers for this Norris Gallery exhibition. Many of their prints were made with traditional silver-based film and chemically-processed printing paper. Others were created with non-silver chemistry, such as compounds of platinum and palladium paper coatings or hand-applied, iron-based coatings (cyanotypes).
However, the majority were created using the latest digital recording and printing methods. Some images were taken with digital cameras; others were digitized by being scanned electronically from film negatives.
“An important aspect in looking at photographs is to perceive and appreciate the image as it impresses the viewer without regard to the details of how it was created,” said Lohmann. “That is, one should not be pre-occupied with concern as to whether the image was created by chemistry (film) or by electronic means (digital) or by a combination of both.“The photographs should be seen solely for their emotional impact, be it positive or negative.”
Photographers in the show are Don Adkins, Jim Bardos, Paul Blieden, Ellen Cantor, Amy Cantrell, Mark Comon, Susan Einstein, Craig Fucile, Ron Hedstrom, Rich Henke, Judy Herman, Marguerite Hossler, Jerry Kotler, Jim McKinniss, William Mouradian, Joseph Orsillo, Michael Orona, Tashia Peterman, Andrew Reynoso, Peter Rose, Melanie Shatto, Beth Shibata, John A. Stewart, Mark Tanner, Roger Thering, Earl Veits, Jana Wallace, Jack Waltman, Joyce Weiss, Walt Wenzel, John Wessel and Bob Young.
In the Beckstrand and Walker Galleries, Off the Wall, an annual Palos Verdes Art Center Exhibitions Committee fundraiser, features the art that the artists themselves choose to show, unmediated by a juror or curator. For a nominal fee, artists have rented wall or pedestal space in the Art Center’s galleries. Any art in good taste was accepted, resulting in an eclectic mélange of mostly excellent work in all mediums and styles.
The Palos Verdes Art Center, a non-profit community organization, has provided the South Bay with visual arts exhibition, education and outreach programs since 1931.
For more information about these exhibitions visit the art center at
5504 W. Crestridge Road
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90275-4998
Phone: (310) 541-2479
Fax: (310) 541-9520
www.pvartcenter.org
info@pvartcenter.org
By Jim McKinniss
Reflective Image Gallery Opening
Gregory Hunter show opens at the Reflective Image Gallery in Santa Ana. Opening reception Saturday, October 10, from 7-10 PM. Show runs through November 29. The gallery is located at 211 E. Columbine Ave., Suite G, Santa Ana, CA. (in the Hutton Square near Mac Arthur & Main next to Image Control Lab)
The inspiration for Greg’s work is Ansel Adams. Growing up in the western United States, he has since refined a personalized quality extracted from many of the same exotic locations where Ansel has traveled. Though Greg never met Ansel, he has been fortunate to study under and work with several of his assistants. Alan Ross and John Sexton have helped shape Greg’s own unique vision and sense of creativity.
Gregory Hunter website: http://www.gregoryhunterphotography.com/index.html
The Mechanical Eye show to open at Cannery Row Studios
Cannery Row Studios in Redondo Beach, California will present the work of 20 local photographers at the “The Mechanical Eye”.
Photographers Georgette Buckley and Anne Sharp were added to the group after going to press.
The show runs October 11, 2009 through October 30, 2009. The opening reception is October 11 from 4:00 – 8:00pm
Cannery Row Studios is located at 604 North Francisca Ave, Redondo Beach, CA 90277
310.366.1988
By Jim McKinniss
Photo Exchange Members Show 2010
Announcement:
The Photographers’ Exchange
Members Show 2010
As many of you may already know, we have been accepted by the Irvine Fine Arts Center to exhibit the work of The Photographers’ Exchange members. The date for the exhibition will be February 19 thru April 3, 2010. March 2010 will mark the year of our 20th anniversary! A great tie in to the exhibition dates.
This exhibition is open to all current members of The Photographers’ Exchange. Please be sure your membership payment of $36 is current.
Rather than picking a unifying theme like water, we have decided to make the exhibition about our members Personal Projects. Try to select work for the exhibition that will best fit this idea. If you are hanging multiple pieces, be sure they fit together as a single project.
This is a preliminary sketch of how to plan the quantity and sizes for the exhibition.
Work that is larger than 24×36, including frame, you will most likely have space for only one piece.
For framed sizes from 24×36 down to 20×24, plan on hanging two pieces.
Framed sizes 16×20 and smaller plan on hanging up to four pieces.
These are approximate sizes and quantities, as we get a feel for the number of members and the quantity and sizes of the images we may have room for adjustments.
Please reply to Larry Vogel by email as soon as you know if you plan to participate and the quantity and sizes of the work you plan to submit.
If you have any suggestions about this exhibition please send me your comments.
Let’s make this a great exhibition!
Larry Vogel
my email is—-vogelart@cox.net
Photography by Ellen Cantor to be shown at Studio 339
"Quarter Tulips" copyright by Ellen Cantor
Photographer Ellen Canter will be featured at Studio 339 in San Pedro, CA.
The show titled “DICOTOMY” runs October 1, 2009 through November 30, 2009. There will be an artist receptions on October 1 and November 5 from 6 to 9 pm to coincide with the regular First Thrusday art district tours in San Pedro.
“DICOTOMY” showcases Ellen’s recent exploration of the relationships between the man-made and natural environments.
Studio 339 is owned by Lauren Kilgore
339 West Seventh St.
San Pedro, CA
310.514.1238
To see more of Ellen’s Work visit http://www.ellencantorphotography.com/
By Jim McKinniss
Jerry Burchfield dies at 62
"Last Supper" copyright by Jerry Burchfield
"Second Degree Still Life No, 43" copyright by Jerry Burchfield
Jerry Burchfield, a photographer and educator who helped document the evolution of two Orange County landmarks, has died. He was 62.
Burchfield, a professor and photography gallery director at Cypress College since 1987, died Sept. 11 at St. Joseph Hospital in Orange. He had colon cancer, said his wife, Barbara.
Burchfield had “an international reputation as an important contemporary artist with a social and political point of view,” said Bolton Colburn, director of the Laguna Art Museum, which exhibited Burchfield’s works in 1973 and 2000.
From 1973 to 1987 Burchfield co-owned BC Space Gallery in Laguna Beach with Mark Chamberlain. Colburn said Burchfield and Chamberlain “certainly weren’t shy about getting in with subject matter that had political implications,” and in Orange County that often meant environmental issues.
The project in Laguna Canyon, which remains one of the few relatively undeveloped areas of Orange County, started in 1974, Chamberlain said.
“We started documenting Laguna Canyon because of a particular fondness for the location,” Burchfield told The Times in 1989. “We felt that some sort of development was inevitable. As photographers, we believed that we might not play a role in stopping the development. So the least we could do was use our craft to document the environment so that there is a record of it.”
Burchfield and Chamberlain began tracing the life in the canyon, including taking photos the length of Laguna Canyon Road. Thousands of photos — many donated by others — were compiled into a huge mural they called “The Tell,” which referred to an archaeological term about a core sampling that tells the earth’s geological history.
In November 1989, an estimated 7,000 people marched through the canyon to the mural as part of a protest over plans to build more than 3,000 homes.
“The Tell was one of the most galvanizing instruments we had for getting people involved and interested in the future of Laguna Beach,” Michael Phillips, executive director of the Laguna Greenbelt and Laguna Canyon Conservancy, told the Orange County Register in 1991. Developers eventually agreed to sell a canyon site to the city of Laguna Beach. The mural was taken down in 1990, but the project continues, Chamberlain said.
In 2002, Burchfield and Chamberlain started photographing the El Toro Marine Corps Air Station, which had closed as an active base in 1999. After much debate over turning the facility into a commercial airport, a Great Park and some residential use is now planned for the site.
“We all felt that an important part of Orange County’s history was being overlooked due to the issues surrounding what it should be used for,” Burchfield told the Register last year.
“Regardless of what happened to it, the history of the base needed to be documented as best could be done.”
With five other photographers working on the Legacy Project at the old base, Burchfield created what is believed to be the world’s largest functioning pinhole camera obscura and the world’s largest photograph, one of thousands taken to document the transition from Marine base to park. “I’ve never been a proponent of hit-and-run photography. This allows our knowledge to develop,” he said.
Jerry Lee Burchfield was born July 28, 1947, in Chicago. He received bachelor’s, master’s in art and master of fine arts degrees from Cal State Fullerton.
He wrote several books about photography and received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in 1981. His work has been exhibited in the United States, Europe and Japan. Along with Cypress College, he taught at Cal State Fullerton as well as at Chaffey, Mt. San Antonio, Saddleback and Orange Coast colleges.
“He was a multifaceted individual, an outstanding educator, a mentor, friend and ally,” Chamberlain said
Besides his wife, Burchfield is survived by his son, Brian, and his father, Darrell. Services are pending. A scholarship fund has been set up in Burchfield’s name. The family asks that donations be sent to the Cypress College Foundation, attention Laura Stephens, 9200 Valley View St.,
Memorial service, 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 4 at Laguna Beach Presbyterian Church
Celebration of Burchfield’s life and work at BC Space, 3 to 6 p.m.
By Jim McKinniss
Call for Entries at Mpls Photo Center
Copyright Mpls Photo Center
The Mpls Photo Center has announced an open call for entries for all photographers.
Theme: Portraits
Juror: David E. Little, Curator and Head of Photography and New Media at Minneapolis Institute Arts (MIA) Entry Fee: $30 up to 5 images; $10 each additional (no limit on number that may be submitted)
Prizes: $300 for 1st; $200 for 2nd; $100 for 3rd Entries Due: October 24, 2009 Notice of Acceptance: November 10, 2009 Exhibition Dates: January 2, 2010 – January 31, 2010 at the Mpls Photo Center
Reception: January 8, 2010, 6:00 – 9:00 pm at the Mpls Photo Center
About the Juror
David E. Little, Curator and Head of Photography and New Media at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA), is known for his blend of programmatic innovation, original scholarship in post-1945 art, and experience working with some of the leading artists and photographers today. With his solid foundation in art history and cultural theory, he is an experienced lecturer, writer and curator – frequently participating in portfolio reviews, conferences, and photography events worldwide.
The Mpls Photo Center is located at 2400 North Second Street, Minneapolis, MN 55411, on the second and third floors of the Northwind Lofts.
For more information visit http://www.mplsphotocenter.com/exhibits/callforentries
By Jim McKinniss
Emma Ferreira at Frank Pictures Gallery
Image copyright by Emma Ferreira
Image copyright by Emma Ferreira
Frank Pictures Gallery is pleased to present the photographs of Emma Ferreira in her latest series provocatively titled, Exposed, which opens on September 13th at the Bergamot Station gallery. Born in Buckinghamshire, England, Ferreira’s photographic training in London nurtured her natural instincts to represent the human form as more than just a model seen through the lens of a camera. She aims to portray the meditative complexities and consciousness that lie beneath the individual’s external appearance. The results are sensually balanced, vibrantly colored photographs that exude a richness of texture and depth of creativity. Her photos and mixed-media works draw the viewer in and subtly convey messages of connection and harmony in the world.
Ferreira has already undertaken a journey to build a monumental body of work that will exhibit in cities around the globe to raise funds for various charitable foundations. Currently, the artist is attracting corporate sponsorship, which will allow her to strengthen the charitable donations that will be going to various foundations. Proceeds from an ongoing exhibit, When Life Dances II: Classic Beauty, will be given to Operation Smile, a worldwide children’s medical charity dedicated to healing facial deformities and to advocating sustainable healthcare systems for children and families. Ferreira has shown internationally including Farmani Gallery, Heck Arts Studio, Tribeca Cinemas Gallery, Spin Gallery, and Gladstone Gallery. She has been involved in such events as the acclaimed Brit Week, Venice Art Walk, Caboom: Festival of Contemporary Design, and Project Angel Food.
Frank Pictures Gallery is located at Bergamot Station A-5
2525 Michigan Ave.
Santa Monica, CA 90404
310.828.0211
By Jim McKinniss
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