Eugene Cole, Portrait Session with Travis, 2019, Wet plate collodion, 20 x 24 inches. I did several assignments on French food for the London Times and Gourmet Magazine. I continue to be moved by the work of Marsden Hartley. It's December, the holidays are beset in this odd and unprecedented year. Book collectors (15,000ish) and farmers, they own Late Light Farm in Acton, Maine, ”I don’t like the word poetry, and I don’t like poetry readings, and I usually don’t like poets. 'The man replied, 'Things as they areAre changed upon the blue guitar.’ ‘', Video presentation with music by Chris van Voorst van Beest Photography by Jan Pieter van Voorst van Beest, During the Covid days of the last months, several New York musicians were asked to collaborate with a visual artist counterpart to create slide presentations. I took it home to photograph, placed it on a pedestal by an east facing window, raising it to a place of honor. Included in this collection are Lou Reed, Andy Warhol, Joey Ramone, Richard Hell, Johnny Thunders, Patti Smith, Tom Waits and Debbie Harry, as well as those on the scene who witnessed musical history being made. A chance for the imagination to break free of restrictions / a life's images in childlike play as an escape from the wearying earnestness of adult-hood. NK: Include work in your portfolio that you would like to exhibit and some pieces that led to the work you are currently doing. While people are in stay-at-home mode, many fill their time engaging with art: films, poetry, novels, art books. This is the first in a series of "Conversations With David" the Museum is presenting. There is silence in that space between us that has bearing, is dignified and refuses judgement and that’s where I’d like to meet someone. Q. CAPTURE, the inaugural installation of the Maine Museum of Photographic Arts (MMPA) unites 50 of Maine’s most notable photographic artists in a stunning group show, bringing the importance of this vibrant artistic community into sharp focus. 1.6K likes. Steve:   My interests in photography are quite general. A Stephen Etnier painting was propped up on the floor against the wall as someone had been looking at it. Gary Green’s sudio and darkroom in down town Waterville. No PhoPa or Movies on Exchange, Zero Station, no Anne B. Zill, George Kinghorn or Barbara Goodbody? I also get to be part of their creative process and future. Get directions, reviews and information for Maine Museum-Photographic Arts in Portland, ME. I offer both open and limited edition prints. Art Museums. Did you know he didn't live in the same place for more than a year his entire adult life? We had a great time presenting 50 photography and works on paper exhibitions by Maine artists before the gallery closed in September 2018. Q. Here, we can feel at once free, riding the water’s surface while protected by the surrounding islands. But buying the painting for the first time connected me to the art world. Digital is a lot easier than Kodachrome! Identified as repulsive and condemnable at worst. Mary: I have always been interested in art and was fortunate to have grown up in several beautiful European cities. I believe one good thing leads to another. The Maine Museum of Photographic Arts (MMPA) is a nonprofit museum led by dedicated volunteers. He maintains studios in Maine, New York, Madrid and the Spanish Mediterranean. EB Fine art has always had patrons who subsidized it. Avoid using a variety of frames in a single exhibit as they will take attention away from the images. Though I had been walking the same streets for over 14 years, I started to see things I had never seen before, just by the simple of act of forgetting what I know and just seeing. MMPA Celebrates 10 years & 100 Maine Photo Collectors. I’ve owned it for over 20 years, and the gardens and orchard have been neglected. How did they get from their beginning to where they are now? Mary: We all hope that things will return to the way they were but not sure if they will in full. The prior occupant had converted it back to its original state, removing all electrical and plumbing components over the years, leaving it pretty much inhabitable to any future owner. Light, atmosphere, mood all play a part in her observations while walking in the early morning hours when the light is emerging and the land is still and quiet. S A, Bernard Meyers, Philadelphia 6055, 2020, Inkjet print, 24 x 32, For me the higher ground of art has always been occupied by the unexplainable, the abstract. How has this influenced you and helped you to develop your own style in photography? Maybe we will all want the museum and gallery experience more, the other cultural things that are best experienced in person. She’s a curator of contemporary art, and she works at an art museum, so we go wherever she has a job. I never gave it much thought as a boy, it was just around me /what I did. Or we rush into an opportunity to meet with a curator and overlook the details of presenting our work in its best form. (Portland, ME) The Maine Museum of Photographic Arts, in collaboration with the Bates College Museum of Art, features a new exhibition “Jack Montgomery & Ralph Gibson: Appearances” in the USM Glickman Family Library.. Instagram has already significantly changed the way artists/photographers share their images, and new technologies to get work into the public eye are sure to pop up all the time. This evolves from my interest in investigating “destination landscapes,” notable sites from 19th century American landscape painting. To have one of the most sophisticated cameras in my pocket has changed my personal image-making. It is the Art and Design being made by talented individuals that fuels the economic growth of a community, as well as the business offshoots related to that community. John Paul Caponigro, Incubation, 2016, Ink jet print, 20 x 24 inches. My oldest friend, navigating a divorce, his father moving into a nursing home and the moral hangover of a freshly stitched gash on his forehead, a manifestation of his struggle with the stress of his life. So the trip was about adding to existing bodies of work and, if possible, breaking new visual ground on the subject of Japan. Later on I became the studio manager and traveled with Penn on various assignments, among which were trips to Italy and Morocco. February 13 - May 16, 2020 RC The technological advancements of the cameras in Apple’s iPhone are astounding. We are a small salon style museum dedicated to exhibiting and traveling Maine photographic arts. Not only is it a pleasure to see how an artist lives and works, it often is where I get ideas for future exhibitions. Don’t come with me.You stay home too. The museum has partnered with the Vilcek Foundation in New York, to organize Marsden Hartley: Adventurer in the Arts. explore the human condition. DD: How do I best approach a museum curator? Bruce: I was invited by Portland resident Munira Naqui to co-curaate with her an abstract drawing show at Maine College of Art in 2019 including 30 artists from 11 countries which she had assembled via the internet over the past 7 years. Maine Museum of Photographic Arts by Maine Museum of Photographic Arts — Kickstarter Maine Museum of Photographic Arts is raising funds for Maine Museum of Photographic Arts on Kickstarter! Within a selection of the drawers I combine photography with encaustic, transferring the images into the encaustic layers. ERNST HAAS: New York IN COLOR, 1952- 1962By Phillip Prodger, Foreword by Alex Haas (available here), Sam Abell, Japan, in My Life series, 2019, Inkjet print, TBD, In March, 2019 three 'friends in photography'--Arthur Meyerson, George Nobechi and I—committed ourselves to a two week photographic trip through the far north and west of Japan. Today, a dedicated space in the Jubitz Center for Modern and Contemporary Art ensures that photography is on view at all times. The George Marshall Store Gallery has been open since mid June with health protocols in place. 34 pageviews. I seek the perhaps impossible balance of intuitive mark-making and seemingly incompatible forces of formal control and constraint as a mirror of shared exposure and flawed human beauty. For me there is something holy about art-making, and for that reason I prefer to keep it a very physical, hands-on process. When we end up on the other side of this, as a result of this, maybe we will all appreciate these things more. In my MFA thesis project, I explore the tension of the transitory moment in time that is preserved in a photograph and the associated feelings of memory and loss. I first learned the polymer photogravure process from Josephine Sacabo in 2013, and have used it exclusively to print and reproduce all of my photographs ever since. James Mullen, Tunnel View, Yosemite National Park, CA, 2016, Digital photograph, 11 x 15 inches, Site Specific: The Pilgrimage Photographs. These images are taken in Gail’s Lewiston studio - a shady sunporch that looks out at the trees. Ideas, creative manifestation, and audiences don’t go away–they morph with the times. RC My photographic style is not static. I am interested in the way pattern and memory are connected and how pattern can invoke a memory from our distant past. I have enjoyed the most rewarding and unexpected curatorial career imaginable. A selection of this series will be on view at Cove Street Arts Faculty Photography exhibition October 22 - December 12, 2020. To the degree that art can free itself from the market, I think we all benefit. Each of us had an established aesthetic relationship with Japan. Jan: When looking to organize new exhibits is there any specific or special material you are looking for? Jan Pieter:   How do you see the “Steve Halpert Photographic Collection at UNE” to be different from other photographic collections? I still have a darkroom here, although because of the ease that digital gives us now, I have not been in it lately. NK: I can only answer this question for myself, as every curator is different. Actually she was picking up her Bernard Meyer’s photograph from the MMPA Collectors exhibition (She’s just back from Paris.) If it is different in a more positive way, it might be in its representation of work from photographers in Maine. When I did resume photographing and printing, I very much wanted to be less “precious” and make my work more available and thus initiated my current 17 x 22” open edition “New Work” prints. Spending more time working remotely, attached to, working and largely interacting with people through a screen, is not conducive to making me want to spend my cultural and leisure time also looking at the screen. “Which of my photographs is my favorite? I can print anything: a traditional large format negative, an iPhone image, a scribbled sketch from my daybook , and the result is always unmistakably made by hand. Steve:    I can’t think of a time when I was not drawn to photography. The trend that gives me the most hope, however, is the art world’s embrace of art by women, people of color, LGBTQ artists, and the whole community of multicultural and minority artists previously overlooked by the white male privileged art establishment. The Pedestal Series began 12 years ago when, at the local farmers market, I was intrigued by the simplicity of a beautiful cauliflower still encased in its stems and leaves. Other than one-artist shows done recently here at UNE have been “ Portraits of the Artist”, “Portraits of Children” and “A Tale of three Cities, Paris, New York and Portland.” A show that is scheduled for this fall though the virus may derail it is: ”Photography in Maine: 1840-2020”, which will share the celebration of the state’s bicentennial anniversary. I sat with them on the streets and I experienced how they are shunned by the general public. And music is my healthiest addiction. Art is often the way people define and describe our world, people paraphrasing films and books and paintings, arts related phrases entering the lexicon, and so on. 1 ways to abbreviate Maine Museum Of Photographic Arts. Although I usually like coming up with theme ideas myself, I am always open to suggestions. Paradoxically, as my wife’s sense of self diminishes, our shared experience is assuming a larger place in the project. Some of these locations are amongst the most documented sites in the world, while others are rarely visited. Please visit our web site to see the latest issue at www.mainemuseumofphotographicarts.org. We are a photographic museum. Red Box had just come out, Drive Ins were closing, and with the introduction of Netflix online, I worried that movie theaters and video stores would be next. Growing up in south Texas I spent every day outside. This was my introduction to working with historical processes.DD Did you build the 20x24 camera?EC Yes. I am loving working as the curator of photography with owners John Danos and Kelley Lehr at Cove Street Arts which opened in Portland’s Back Bay area on June 1 last summer. Water and light combine to heighten the level of illusion. (They hired an Icelandic art star who didn’t last the semester instead- Ha! Maine Museum of Photographic Arts USM Glickman Family Library 5th floor, 314 Forest Ave., Portland MMPA Hours: https://usm.maine.edu/library/office-hours “Greg Shattenberg is an accomplished draftsman and thinker who just happens to use photography as one of the many tools in his box. What a Curator Looks for in Your Portfolio. If they are straight prints, then make them your best, exhibition quality straight prints. The nature of the project will be portraits of individuals, couples and families that reveal the depth of their character and spirit. A. Maine Museum-Photographic Arts 240 Concord St W Portland ME 04103. There will be an artist talk by Jack Montgomery on Saturday, December 5 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. A coat. Sometimes we overthink things, and through the editing process something of ourselves and the soul of our work gets lost. Community » Museums. Hours. His new book, When Midnight Comes Around was just published and is available through Stanley/ Barker publishers. Part-time residency in Maine is accepted as well as having Jewish relatives but not being Jewish yourself. These alterations by hand draw attention to the body’s involvement within the image making process and show how the shifting environmental factors, both physical and metaphysical, have a direct connection to this process. Jan Pieter:   Do you see this period influencing the ways that art can be shared by artists or appreciated by the public? MMPA abbreviation stands for Maine Museum of Photographic Arts. Take a look at Nadav Kander’s photographs. OPENING RECEPTION: NOVEMBER 14, 2019 6-8PM. Contact Us | Sign Up For E-News 193 State Street, 25 State House Station, Augusta, Maine 04333-0025 auto attendant: 207/287-2724 | fax: 207/287-2725 ©Maine Arts Commission. Maine Museum of Photographic Arts: Artist Talk with Greg Shattenberg University of Southern Maine Glickman Family Library | 314 Forest Avenue 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Event website Join us for a conversation with Greg Shattenberg about his current exhibition, Rewinding Romanticism. But at the same time we have to be honest and recognize some of the dark areas in life that should be shown, improved upon and discussed. Are there any specific photographic subjects/ photographers that you would like to explore and be subject matter for future exhibits? They were created with little intention beyond the impulse or need to photograph during a time of isolation. There should be a public benefit involved when public money is used. I get to incorporate my talents and interests while creating opportunities for other artists. My photographic process involves creating physical layers of rephotographed and rearranged printed materials that engage with different subjects. The photographs for this video are mostly from the previously published book: Slices of Time: Documenting the Random Moments of Life. Candace di Carlo’s studio in Philadelphia, PA. Opening Reception: Thursday, November 2, 6-8pm 5 th Floor Glickman Library University of Southern Maine. This is her studio in Portland. Cate:  What has touched or especially inspired you recently? I was no longer just an art observer in museums but engaged as an art collector as well. He was like a second father to me. For me, these images were going to need to emerge from relationship. Translucent under layers of paint and charcoal reveal the underlying struggle, activating and contradicting the superimposed images, their history enriching and informing the present while commenting on the passage of time and the nature of art making. EB On an international level (and here’s what I mean by art in Maine not always following the mainstream) some of the most important new works of art are not beautiful objects made for the luxury market but installations, performances, environments and experiences. My reflections on these themes have been shaped by the slow decline of my wife due to Alzheimer’s. DD: Are there other themes that you are exploring now? For them? Think about how images occupy a space and the flow of attention between images. Bruce: Very likely but it will take some time to see how. As a teaching museum at a liberal arts college, the Museum of Art and its exhibitions, collections, stewardship, and interpretation bring a world of ideas to campus that enhance the vitality of the intellectual and cultural life of Bates, the surrounding communities, and beyond. It was given by Allen P. Stone’s estate, and I beat 80 applicants nationally to teach Art History; Photo and Film, and Studio Photography. The quest to understand the sublime motion of the heavens above was seen as the key to unlocking the mysteries of life on Earth and was in many ways the impetus behind both modern music theory and the fundamental idea of scientific inquiry. Here is the Vimeo link to the first segment of this series called: “Under Review, Gold Butte”, Jan Pieter’s interview with Kelly Ashton Todd. -John Nichols. I spent the first year of the program making street photographs. His iconic photography has been inspired by the sequential nature of cinema, in particular the luminous black-and-white films of the silent era. ‘People don’t care what you know until they know that you care.’ - Henry MillerSo it was I began showing up with homemade muffins and clean socks. Curating began because there was gallery space not being used when I first arrived at Westbrook College and no one objected to my using it. Honors Student Ilana Welch has photo in Maine Museum of Photographic Arts show. 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