newsletter #4 - march 2007

• San Diego Art Institute:

  My photograph Box Pews, Danville Meeting House, from the series colonial meeting houses of new england, was accepted into the San Diego Art Institute's 49th International Award Exhibition, juried by Norman Bryson, Prof. of Art History at UCSD, and internationally known lecturer and author. The exhibit takes place from April 29th to June 11th in the San Diego Art Institute's Museum of the Living Artist in Balboa Park, San Diego. The colonial meeting houses of new england series is an on-going body of work that explores the lives of our Puritan ancestors through their places of worship. More can be found in the background information (large file) about this project.
 
 
 


• Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO:

  My photograph Spiral Stairs, Mill Building, Rollinsford NH, from the series spirals, is part of the exhibit Abstractions at the Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, CO. The show was juried by Gary Chassman, founder and president of Verve Editions, an independent publisher of fine-art books. The theme of the show, abstractions, emphasizes the derived image, where the essential character is only a stylized or symbolic visual reference to the original. I think this latest image in my series of spirals fits in will with this theme. Here's a copy of the press release. The exhibit runs from March 30th to April 28th. For a photo of me at work making this photograph, which was taken by my friend Katherine MacDonald, click Here.
 
 
 


• The Photomedia Center, Erie PA:

  I am especially pleased to be the featured artist during the month of April at the Photomedia Center in Erie, PA, a non-profit organization formed to promote the creation and exhibition of fine art photography and digital media and to foster its appreciation. Work from my series empty spaces will be featured in an on-line show on their web site. Being a large-format perfectionist, the resolution of on-line galleries usually does not show the craft involved in making a silver print. I look forward to their critique of my work, and the increased visibility that this should bring.
 
 
 


• Road Trip: Congressional Office Building, Washington DC

  Several of the photographs from my series Colonial Meeting Houses of New England are on their way to the congressional offices of Carol Shea-Porter, my Member of Congress in Washington. This series of images seems particularly well suited for the Congressional office building. Not only are they from Carol's home district, but they represent the birthplace of the American democracy. I am excited to have this opportunity to showcase my work in this setting.
 
 
 


• Other Odds and Ends:

  • I am the featured artist for the month of March in Steve Bedell's e-newsletter EPhoto.
  • My photograph, Round Window, Spencer Peirce Little Farm, was included in the New Hampshire Art Association's 59th annual Currier Exhibition, held this year at the University of New Hampshire. The show was juried by Karen Burgess Smith, director of the Lamont Gallery at Philips Exeter Academy.
  • My photograph, Spiral Stairs, BayBank, Springfield MA was included in the New Hampshire Art Association's Member Juried Competition. The show was juried by Richard Brown Lethem, noted painter and educator from Berwick, ME. The show runs through the end of March at the Art Association's Robert Lincoln Levy gallery in Portsmouth, NH.
  • Two of my photographs, Long Passageway, Fort Knox and The Tack Room, are included in the current members' show at the Newburyport Art Association, juried by Mary P. Harding, curator of the George Marshall Store Gallery in York, ME. This show also runs through the end of March in their gallery on Water Street, Newburyport MA.
  • The New Hampshire Art Association has invited me to show some of my spirals work at the PAX World Funds building, 30 Penn Hollow, in Portsmouth, NH. The exhibit includes Spiral Stairs, Mill Building, Nashua NH and Spiral Stairs, Washington Tower, Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
 
 
 


• Upcoming Shows:

  My exhibit schedule for 2007 is beginning to take shape, and I am looking forward to including my work in the following shows:
  • The Highland Center and The Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, MA (on Cape Cod): 2-person show with sculptor Fielding Brown, June 29 - July 29, 2007
  • Coolidge Center for the Arts, Portsmouth, NH: Group Show: Inside Out, August/September, 2007