Edith Borax-Morrison at Kehler Liddell Gallery, New Haven

© Edith Borax-Morrison
Edith Borax-Morrison is showing recent drawings at Kehler Liddell Gallery, New Haven from August 19-September 26, 2010. Also showing are new paintings and pastels by Lisa Hess Hesselgrave. There will be an artist reception on Sunday, September 12 from 3-6 pm with an artist talk at 3 pm.

Morrison's ink drawings are simultaneously explosive and controlled. She has characterized her work as "mind fibers", and her titles give insight into the concepts behind each drawing. Her meticulously executed abstract forms seem to undulate on the paper on which they are drawn.

From the press release: "Morrison’s works relate to Gego’s wire sculptures and Escher’s drawings, or more recently to the work of James Siena.  They reference influences from both Eastern and Western culture, including African masks, folklore and memory, beaded jewelry and maps."

Kehler Liddell Gallery is located at 873 Whalley Ave., New Haven, CT.

~Lys

SoNo Arts Celebration This Weekend in Norwalk, CT & Other Delights

It's been a nearly annual tradition for me to go to the SoNo Arts Celebration with my best gal pal. We usually end up eating Pad Thai with some chicken on a stick, and have lemonade, and buy spiced nuts to eat while walking around and looking at the art and listening to music.

Hope to see usual favorites (I'm hoping photographer Vincent Serbin will be there), and I look forward to checking out new artists.

Irrepressibly creative folks with great color sense, Karl Heine, and kHyal™ of DesignerGrill will be there, featuring the Weather sKwirl. Karl and kHyal's street-level shop for creativeplacement will be hosting events throughout the weekend.

There are a bunch of gallery shows opening tonight/this weekend, it being the first week of the month... Haviland St. Gallery in Norwalk, and The Gallery at Black Rock in Bridgeport, are two places I know are hosting events. If I find out specifics later, I will post them here.

See you around!

~Lys

Marge Malwitz / The Sketchbook Project

"Healing Together" © Marge Malwitz
Marge Malwitz stopped at the lab to have scans or prints made the day I got the bee in my bonnet to start an art blog. That was a couple of years ago--and here we are, and she has one, too.  So I thank her for helping catalyze this outlet for both the lab and myself.

Marge's works combine contemporary quiltmaking and collage in a fresh way in both fabric and on paper. She also travels with a conscience, and brings her collage/quilts and workshops to compromised local and international communities trying to rebuild their lives.

The Sketchbook Project: 2011Today she turned me on to an interesting indie project in which she's participating called The Sketchbook Project.

Artists receive a sketchbook (for a small fee--it's an indie-financed project), choose a theme, fill it up by Janurary 15, 2011, and send it back. Then your sketchbook becomes part of a traveling exhibition, ultimately coming to rest in the Brooklyn Library (you don't get it back, but you do get a notification every time it's checked out!)  For a bit more, your book can be put online for internet viewing.

This bears looking into, no? Let me know if you participate, and I'll let you know if I participate. It's a pact.

~Lys

End of Summer Digital sale Aug. 29-Sept. 4 - 15% off digital services


End of Summer Thank You Sale!
15% off all digital services ordered
from August 29 to September 4, 2010 

From August 29 to September 4, 2010, save 15% on all digital services--this includes digital prints (including giclée prints), reprints, scans, digital artwork capture, and retouching. (It excludes sales tax, mounting services, and shipping costs.) 

Easy uploader
If you're sending new digital files or files we have printed before, we have easy file upload applications, so that can save you a trip.

Artwork capture now in larger sizes
This is a great time to bring in work to have scanned, and we are able to capture film, and most flat artwork up to 40"x60". 

Remember:
All work must be ordered during the sale week in order to receive the discount. You can email, call or come in. We'll work with you to give you what you need, when you need it.

We are always happy to answer your questions. Call 203-791-1474 or 1-800-287-4686 or visit stillrivereditions.com and ctphoto.com.

Our print pricing (before discount)

Give us a holler, why don'tcha?
~Lys

Litchfield Jazz Festival This Weekend to include Fine Art & Crafts Village: Pat Gullett

© Pat Gullett
Pat Gullett, who makes beautiful, ancient-looking jewelry, will be exhibiting at the Litchfield Jazz Festival this weekend. The festival runs from Aug 6-8, 2010 at Springs Center, Kent School, Kent, CT. Gullett's Howling Moon Studio is participating in the Fine Art and Crafts Village, and will be there Fri. 5-10, Sat. and Sun. 11 am -10 pm

We printed a few large mounted fine art prints for Pat's booth--her work looks great big, so check them out at her booth if you go.  

Music includes Dave Brubeck, Arturo O'Farrill Afro Latin Jazz, a Cannonball Adderley Tribute, Anat Cohen Quarted doing clarinetwork--Benny Goodman and Beyond--just a few highlights, and there are so many great artist. The set I am most inerested in is Bela Fleck, Zakir Hussein, and Edgar Meyer Sunday night at 7 pm. 

~Lys


Cliff Abrams in Juxtapositions at Flinn Gallery, Greenwich

© Cliff Abrams

Photographer Cliff Abrams will be among Greenwich Art Society members whose work is on display in a juried exhibition at the Flinn Gallery from July 30 to Aug. 22 with a reception held from 6 to 8 p.m. on Friday, July 30. The judge of the show is Neil Watson, executive director of the Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, N.Y.

The Flinn Gallery is located on the 2nd floor of the Greenwich Library, 101 West Putnam Avenue, Greenwich, Connecticut.

~Lys

Garage Sale-Purchased Negatives Found to be Ansel Adams', Appraised at $200 Million

In this Antiques Roadshow era, everyone dreams of finding some lost gem of art or antiquity to cash in on later.

In this case, a box of 65 glass plate negatives found at a garage sale 10 years ago for $45, has now been verified by handwriting and photography experts to be the work of Ansel Adams. Appraisers have valued the treasure trove at around $200 million. It was 10 years of hard work proving that they were authentic. I'm sure the California man who found them invested quite a bit of money toward that end, so I suspect $45 initial price tag may be slightly misleading about the overall net cost.

The reason for their being off-premises is not explained, but that saved them from a fire that claimed 5000 other Adams negs. I have a hunch this was a reject bin Adams used for teaching materials. Granted, Adams' reject bin has amazing stuff in it, but perhaps he never intended some of these to see the light of day. Imagine someone going through your studio's garbage and selling your work after you're dead. Guess we'll never have to worry about that.

Story here on CNNs website.

So... if you see glass plate negs at the Elephant's Trunk flea market one Sunday... look very closely.

By the way, we can print from black-and-white glass negatives and other antique media, both traditionally and digitally. In color, we can reproduce them digitally. We did a job for the Newtown Historical Society a number of years ago and pulled an incredible amount of detail out of some glass plate negs. Gorgeous prints of historical images. Film may be dying, but it is still sending us love letters from bygone eras.

Laurie Lambrecht: "From the Studio of Roy Lichtenstein" at Blue Sky Gallery, and on NPR

© Laurie Lambrecht 

Photographer Laurie Lambrecht worked as an assistant for Pop painter Roy Lichtenstein in the early 90s. While working with him on a major retrospective of his work, she grew close to him, and photographed him in his workspace. She also photographed collections of objects and images, reinterpreting some of his materials to make her own work. There is some very cool imagery that combines elements of Lichtenstein's paintings along with the artist himself--it's as if he has stepped inside his own paintings, and Lambrecht has offered us a rare glimpse of Lichtenstein's imagination.

The exhibit is at Blue Sky Gallery in Portland from July 1, 2010, to August 1, 2010.  The gallery is located at 122 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, OR.

NPR did a story on Lambrecht's exhibit for their online feature Daily Picture Show.

~Lys

This is Your Blog, Too...

Where else but here would you find out the latest about peers' shows, new competitions, new technology, items of interest, and sometimes nutty opinions you can only find written by Mark and me?

This is a reminder to please send me show and other announcements at lysbeth [at] stillrivereditions.com (close up space, and replace [at] with @), or mail them to me at Connecticut Photographics/Still River Editions 128 East Liberty St., Danbury, CT 06810.

A handy-dandy way to keep up with reading the blog is to just click on "subscribe by email" in the right hand column, and you'll be prompted to enter your email address and a code. Then check your email and click on the confirmation link.

You may already have a blog reader, and if you do, you can use that instead. You can also use your email program as a feed reader.

If this is totally confusing to you, call or email me and I will give you a Social Media Pep Talk.

And that's all she wrote.

~Lys

Life in a Day: Participate in a Worldwide Self-documentary Project July 24

Life in a Day's idea is this: to document July 24--a single day on earth---from as many perspectives as possible. It's up to you what and how much you film. Videos must be uploaded to their site between July 24 and 31.

I don't shoot much video, but I think even I might participate. Youtube is calling it an "historic cinematic experiment". There are a few prompts, but the rest is up to you.

Huh... one of the "don'ts" is no music, and others include not infringing on various forms of other people's intellectual property, and trademarks. Makes sense unless you are the owner of that intellectual property... like music, for example? [Can it really be a representative day on earth without music or high art?]

Make a video. Have fun. Upload it. If you do it, can you send me a link?

~Lys

More on "Where did my files go?": Desk, Filing Cabinet, Folders, Files

Have you ever lost a file on your computer?

I want to help clear up any confusion about the concepts of files, folders, and the desktop.

First you need to understand how the information stored on your computer is organized--file management. There's a very good tutorial for Windows here on youtube (not by us.) It'll help you understand where to look for files, and how to store and organize them.

Concrete examples involve a desk, a filing cabinet, folder inside the cabinet, paper (files) inside the folders, and folders inside the folders. There's a kind of patronizing example here.

FYI, when there's computer stuff I don't understand, my first impulse is to check Google, and my second is to look on Youtube, and my third is to consult a friend.

~Lys

Mark Savoia Exhibit at New England School of Photography in Boston




"Fried Doe Just a Buck"
© Mark Savoia



Mark Savoia, photographer (and co-owner of Connecticut Photographics/Still River Editions), is exhibiting at the New England School of Photography's Stairway Gallery for the month of July, 2010.
Mark graduated from the New England School of Photography in 1980.

Savoia's fine art photography records the visual contradictions that pop up just about everywhere, but it takes a trained eye like his to seek them out. Mark shoots primarily digitally, and his prints are carbon pigment giclees, yet his black and white prints have a film feel. Color would probably just distract the eye from the key elements of his compositions that add up to the visual satire.

Mark is one of seven photographers to receive at 2010 artist fellowship from the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism.

NESOP is located at 537 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA.

~Lys

John Shearer: America (Continued) at the Aldrich Contemporary

"Pritchard, Alabama Jail"
© John Shearer
at Aldrich Contemporary

John Shearer's show America (Continued) recently opened at the Aldrich Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut. Shearer has been a photojournalist since the '60s, first as one of the youngest staff photographers hired at LOOK magazine, and then as a photographer at LIFE until the magazine ceased publishing. Among Shearer's achievements is having covered the civil rights movement of the '60s, the Attica Prison riots of 1972, and the first Ali-Frazier fight--the "Fight of the Century".

A portfolio of Shearer's images can be seen here. The "News Events" section gives a good cross section of his most powerful work. In addition to his photography, Shearer is an author of fiction and nonfiction for children.

Still River Editions printed two large-scale photographs for Shearer's show--the image above, and also the image below. Richard Klein, exhibitions director at the Aldrich, mentions the two images as bookends for the show in the last paragraph on the museum's page about Shearer's show.

artwork 
© John Shearer
at Aldrich Contemporary

The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art is located at 258 Main St. Ridgefield, Connecticut.

Steve Boyle's Photography at Primer, Inc. in Hatboro, Pennsylvania

© Steve Boyle

Philadelphia-based photographer Steve Boyle is in a solo show at Primer, Inc. during the month of July, 2010. 

There will be an opening reception on Friday, July 2, at 6 pm.

Though Steve Boyle's imagery is usually centered around the athlete as individual and as archetype, and his photographs are varied in texture and feel. Several distinct bodies of work are on exhibit, including an intriguingly different black-and-white series of a dancer in deep shadow and contrast that focuses the viewer on her musculature--dancer as athlete. There are more traditional sports-related photographs, paired with almost abstract shots of winter sports. There are close-up color portraits, and a series of dramatic, colorful sleeping bags, undulating abstractly on a black background. Boyle's work has been commissioned by clients including ESPN Magazine, Runner's World, Gatorade, and the History Channel.

Primer, Inc. is located at 15 Byberry Rd., Hatboro, Pennsylvania. Primer, Inc. is a branding house/design studio that features a gallery with monthly shows.  Boyle's other website is The Philadelphia Photographer.

Still River Editions printed the photographs for this exhibit.

~Lys

Demystifying "Where did my files go?" for newer computer users

Understanding "Where did my files go?" (or the concept of "files" and "folders" in general) is probably one of the most basic problems newer computer users can face. I just stumbled across an article this morning that might help with that question. It's geared toward teachers of computer skills, but I think it might help regular folks. I'm working on a tutorial to illustrate these concepts. Coming soon. In the meantime...

Here's the article.

If you're trying to send us files and you're running into problems--call or stop by! I won't judge you!

~Lys

Equine Expressions: Leslie Hudson-Tolles at Koenig's Newtown


"After the Dance"
© Leslie Hudson-Tolles

Leslie Hudson-Tolles of North Carolina will return to the northeast next week for "Equine Expressions", a show of equine art at Koenig's FrameWorks that includes Hudson-Tolles, Adele Goodman, and Shelley Hunter. 

Leslie Hudson-Tolles is a nationally recognized Equine Artist who works in pastel, pencil and colored pencil, monoprints, block prints and painting. Her knowledge of horses, and mastery of technique create nearly human expressions in those big eyes, and attitude in their demeanor. 

Hudson-Tolles was based in Newtown, Connecticut for 32 years until a relocation a couple of years ago. She will be signing prints at the opening reception on Thursday, July 8, from 6-8 pm.

Adele Goodman works in pastel, and is from Mooresville, North Carolina. Shelley Hunter is a bronze sculptor from Lexington, Kentucky. Their work harmonizes with Hudson-Tolles' perfectly, in that they are not mere illustrators. They use their selected mediums with an eye toward creating emotion and motion.

The show runs from July 8 until August 6. Koenig's Picture Framing and Art Gallery is located at 97 South Main St. (Route 25), Newtown, CT. Opening July 8, 6-8 pm.

~Lys

Cliff Abrams' Dualities at the Greenwich Art Society

Greenwich Art Society will be hosting photographer Cliff Abrams' solo show "Dualities" from July 7-31, 2010. There will be an opening reception Wednesday, July 7, from 6-8 pm.

In "Dualities", Abrams couples his images; the architectural, industrial, and geometric are paired with florals, botanicals, natural processes, or soft things (like skin, in one image). Abrams designs exhibitions, giving him experience grouping objects and images to create emotions or elicit questions. Proximity may change the meaning of his individual photographs, and the viewer must either connect or ultimately disconnect their relationship to each other. In that, there is both duality and simultaneity--which is its own duality.

Greenwich Art Society is located at 299 Greenwich Avenue, Greenwich, Connecticut.

~Lys

Bill Eppridge: An American Treasure at Monroe Gallery of Photography in Santa Fe, NM

© Bill Eppridge
As is the case with most great art--the deep impact of the work often renders the creator invisible. Seeing a cross section of a lifetime's output turns the focus back onto the artist, when a thread of continuity is seen even between vastly disparate subjects.

This is the case for Bill Eppridge, a master photojournalist whose 50 year career is distilled into 50 photographs for the exhibition "Bill Eppridge: An American Treasure" at Monroe Gallery of Photography in Santa Fe, opening July 2, 2010. Connecticut Photographics and Still River Editions printed both traditional gelatin silver prints and digital archival color and black and white prints for this show.

Though Eppridge may be known best for his iconic images of Bobby Kennedy before and during the "Heartbreak Campaign", and his gorgeous black and white coverage of the Beatles' first visit to America, it is the scope of his career that is most remarkable. All of the images are connected by Eppridge's hungry eye and poetic gravity. Quoting from Monroe Gallery's website, "he has covered wars, political campaigns, heroin addiction, the arrival of the Beatles in the United States, Vietnam, Woodstock, the summer and winter Olympics, and perhaps the most dramatic moment of his career - the assassination of Senator Robert Kennedy in Los Angeles. Over the last 50 years, his work has appeared in numerous publications, including National Geographic, Life, and Sports Illustrated."

And when you see the photographs, you understand. Forgive me if I lapse into stream-of-consciousness--going from the Beatles' arrival in America, and the unbridled optimism of the Bobby Kennedy campaign, to Woodstock, America's Cup, you find your heart in your throat seeing the busboy kneeling over a dying RFK, and the funeral procession of James Cheney ("Missisippi Burning"). Portraits of Barbara Streisand, Jonas Salk, and Cesar Chavez... and then sports coverage... and Apollo 11... the shockingly beautiful, but devastating coverage of "Needle Park"... and these are only fifty prints out of an astounding body of work.

Bill Eppridge will be present at the gallery's opening reception on Friday, July 2, from 5-7 pm. The Monroe Gallery of Photography is located at 112 Don Gaspar, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

There's a cover story about Eppridge from 2008 in Double Exposure which gives some good background.

~Lys