Luke Olsen Photography

ASMP Print and Pint at Lucky Lab in North Portland
2018-04-12 18:30 - 21:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Lucky Labrador Tap Room (North Portland), 1700 North Killingsworth Street, Portland, OR, 97217, United States
ASMP Print and Pint at Lucky Lab in North Portland
April 12th, 6:30 PM
Lucky Labrador Tap Room (North Portland)
1700 North Killingsworth Street
Portland, OR 97217
Come to the first ASMP PRINT AND PINT meet-up sponsored by Camera Bits, makers of Photo Mechanic. All working photographers are invited to come and share their workprints with other pros. The theme for this first meet up is PORTRAIT, and will feature photographer Craig Mitchelldyer. He’ll be showing 20 slides x 20 seconds and sharing his thoughts on the idea of PORTRAIT.
It is a FREE event if you bring 2 8×10 work prints on the THEME. If you don’t, it’s $10 (hint: bring 2 prints*). The event is limited to 40 photographers so RSVP now. When you register you’ll get a coupon from our generous print sponsor, Pro Photo Supply, to make 2 free 8×10 Kodak C-Prints. Free beer (21+, 1 per) and snacks! If you do this right, you’re getting this whole evening for free!
ASMP’s goal is to strengthen our community by building camaraderie around the thing that connects us all: photographs!
*And no, iPads, phones, etc. don’t count! We want to see prints!

"LOVE IT & LEAVE WITH IT" Photography Party at Disjecta Contemporary Art Center
2018-04-12 18:00 - 21:00 | Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, 8371 N. Interstate Ave., Portland, OR, 97217, United States
LOVE IT & LEAVE WITH IT
Pop up exhibition * Print Raffle * Photo Booth * Silent Auction Tables
Thursday, April 12th, 2018, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Disjecta Contemporary Art Center
8371 North Interstate Avenue
Portland, OR 97217
$15 – Food, fun, and drink ticket.
$75 – Food, fun, open bar and leave with a print!
Tickets are now available on Eventbrite!
Photolucida is excited to throw a big fundraising (fun-raising?) party – LOVE IT & LEAVE WITH IT – all proceeds go toward Photolucida’s scholarship fund! Images from fifty of Photolucida’s Critical Mass 2017 finalists and twenty-five Portland photographers will be curated into an exhibition at Disjecta Contemporary Art Center. Seventy-five people will leave with a print of their choice!
Also – silent auction items from Princeton Architectural Press, One Twelve Publishing, Cobalt Studios, Amy Friend, Cheryle St. Onge, Tamara Staples, Stu Levy, Ray Bidegain and more!
Our gratitude goes out to these fabulous contributing photographers: Jody Ake, Jane Fulton Alt, Linda Alterwitz, Ben Arnon, Hillary Atiyeh, Lee W. Bass, Susan Bein, Laura J. Bennett, Zack Bent, Heather Binns, Christa Blackwood, Peter Bogaczewicz, Ernie Button, Briana Cerezo, Tara Champion, Gina Cholick, Natalie Christensen, Jamila Clark, Jan Cook, Sandi Daniel, Robert Dash, Danielle Dean, Sean Du, Marico Fayre, Juan Fernandez, Conrad Gees, Lauren Grabelle, Toni Greaves, Anita Hamremoen, Mark Edward Harris, Barbara Hazen, Leslie Hickey, Janet Holmes, Kristina Hruska, Melinda Hurst Frye, Katharine T. Jacobs, Ashley Jennings, Shannon Johnstone, Rachel Jump, Joni Kabana, Sharon Kain, Henrik Kam, Daniel Kariko, Marky Kauffmann, Cassandra Klos, Sandra Klein, Kovi Konowiecki, Kent Krugh, Barbara Kyne, France Leclerc, Heidi Lender, Jim Lommasson, Allan Markman, Cheryl Medow, Molly McCall, Paula McCartney, Robbie McClaran, Blue Mitchell, Margaret Moulton, Takayuki Narita, Jim Nickelson, Debbie O’Donnell, Jenny Olsen, Luke Olsen, Marcy Palmer, Kelli Pennington, Sergey Pesterev, Erika Plummer, Bill Purcell, Shawn Records, John-David Richardson, Andy Richter, William Scharf, Jean Schnell, Kurt Simonson, Sam Slater, Deb Stoner, Krista Svalbonas, Antonis Theodoridis, Jennifer Timmer Trail, Loic Vendrame, Brittany Walston, Aaron Wessling, Grace Weston, Joshua White, Emily Wiethorn, Carol Yarrow, and Peter Ydeen.
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Janis Miglavs at Pro Photo Supply (ASMP Oregon Event)
2018-04-10 19:00 - 21:00 | Pro Photo Supply – Event Space, 1801 NW Northrup St, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
Janis Miglavs, We All Have Five Fingers
ASMP Oregon Event: Myths and Stories from Remote Tribes in Africa
Thursday, April 10th, 2018
Social Hour: 6:30PM
Program: 7:00PM to 9:00PM
Pro Photo Supply – Event Space
1800 NW Northrup
Portland, OR 97209
ASMP Member: Free
Non-Member: $25.00
Student with valid ID: $10.00
PPA Member: Free
REGISTER
Searching for the most remote tribes in Africa to learn their stories, myths and archetypal dreams, Janis Miglavs took an 18-year odyssey to discover the primal roots of beliefs and religion. He sought out the shamans, elders, chiefs, witch doctors and storytellers, and was invited to events that few if any ever see.
Hear about this journey to find ancient stories, many of which Janis was the first and only person to ever record.
See his myth illustrations that a National Geographic photo editor exclaimed: “I’ve never seen anything like this before.”
Learn the secrets he found in the Birthplace of Modern Humans. And why the wisdom from a remote tribal elder inspired him to call the project We All Have Five Fingers.

Ann Ploeger at Luke's Frame Shop (Albina)
2018-04-07 18:00 - 20:00 | Luke’s Frame Shop (Albina), 4703 N. Albina Avenue, Portland, OR, 97217, United States
Ann Ploeger, The Woman Who Was Alive There
Portraits by Ann Ploeger
April 7th – 30th, 2018
OPENING PARTY: Saturday, April 7th, 6-8pm
Luke’s Frame Shop (Albina)
4703 N. Albina Avenue
Portland, OR 97217
lukesframeshop.com
Mon – Sat, 10am – 6pm
*wheelchair accessible
There remains something that goes beyond the testimony to the photographer’s art, something that fills you with an unruly desire to know what her name was, the woman who was alive there, who is even now still real and will never consent wholly to be absorbed in art. -Walter Benjamin
I made these portraits of my community of women during the summer of 2017. I wanted to strip away the environment allowing these women to take center stage: the simple figure on a white background looking at me looking at you. Their gaze transports me to a place where I think about who I used to be and who I thought I would be. My selection from each sitting puts me at the forefront; shows the viewer my truth. I am the invisible variable.
In this time of rampant misogyny and hate, I needed to celebrate the strength and beauty around me. The work is a love letter to the women in my life and to photographic portraiture.
Ann Ploeger
annploeger.com

J. Fredric May at Blue Sky Gallery
2018-04-07 15:00 - 17:00 | Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
J. Fredric May, Apparition: Postcards from Eye See You
2017 Critical Mass Solo Exhibition Award in collaboration with Photolucida
April 5–29, 2018
First Thursday Opening Reception, April 5, 6:00–9:00 PM
Artist Talk: Saturday, April 7, 3:00 PM
Blue Sky Gallery
122 NW 8th Avenue
Portland, Oregon 97209 USA
503-225-0210
Tuesday – Sunday, 12 – 5 pm
First Thursday 6 – 9 pm
bluesky@blueskygallery.org
http://www.blueskygallery.org/
In 2012 J. Fredric May experienced a major stroke, causing him to lose 46% of his vision. This rendered him legally blind and subject to vivid visual hallucinations. This life event dramatically changed his artistic vision, opening up an entirely new visual style as he began to illustrate how his brain now processes information.
May’s photographs are a hybrid of analog and digital processes that are the result of extensive experimentation. He begins with vintage portraits that he scans and puts through data corruption software. He then creates layered composites and prints these as cyanotypes, which he bleaches and tones with a mixture of photo chemicals and tea. He then digitizes the altered cyanotypes and creates an archival pigment print of each enigmatic portrait.
Blue Sky is pleased to present Apparition as the 2017 Critical Mass Solo Exhibition Award in collaboration with Photolucida.
A graduate of Brooks Institute, J. Fredric May received his B.S. in Commercial/Color Technology and was accepted into the prestigious Eddie Adams Workshop in 1989. He made his living as a photojournalist and commercial photographer traveling all over the world, telling visual stories with a signature style of bold color and confrontational composition. He won numerous state and regional honors. As a filmmaker, May directed more than 50 corporate and industrial films and helped raise more than 7 million dollars for nonprofit organizations. He has won Telly and Cine Awards for his creative film work and national awards for his corporate and nonprofit clients.

Ann Wilson at Passages Bookshop
2018-04-06 18:00 - 21:00 | Passages Bookshop, 1223 NE ML King Blvd., Portland, OR, 97232, United States
Ann Wilson, UNCOVERING LANGUAGE
April 6 – May 19, 2018
Opening reception: Friday, April 6, 6:00 – 9:00 pm
Passages Bookshop
1223 NE ML King Blvd.
Thurs – Sat, 12:00 – 6:00 pm,
and by appointment or chance

It is the moment when layered meaning reveals itself that I most revel in. Paper tears, colors blur, lines bend, graffiti erodes — a new composition emerges. Capturing these fragments in the physical world allows me to create a new essence — a composition existing for a moment in time. — Ann Wilson
Ann Wilson has been taking photographs since getting her first Brownie camera in high school. Now based in Portland, Ann studied photography at the San Francisco Art Institute and received her MFA from San Francisco State; she has worked in the Photography Departments at California College of the Arts (CCA) and Pacific NW College of Art (PNCA) in Portland. The images in this exhibition are from her newest body of work.

Lisa Bauso at Union Knott
2018-04-06 18:00 - 21:00 | Union Knott, 2726 MLK JR.Blvd, Portland, OR, 97212, United States
Lisa Bauso, Mexico
April 5 – 29 2018
OPENING EVENTS
Preview April 5 6-8 pm
Opening April 6 6-9 pm
Join us for refreshments and discussion with the photographer about the photographs
Union Knott
2726 MLK JR.Blvd
Portland, Oregon
Appointments:
971.207.1232
Photographer Lisa Bauso traveled to Oaxaca, Puebla and Mexico City to photograph the contrast of traditional and modern culture and landmarks in these Mexican cities where old ways of life and new ways of life seem to coexist without interruption.
Images on instragram feed @lisabauso
& view all work @ www.lisabauso.com
Press and appointment inquiries contact Lisa:
lisabauso2@gmail.com
503.866.3028

Small Talk Collective at Pushdot Studio
2018-04-06 18:00 - 20:00 | Pushdot Studio, 2505 SE 11th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97202, United States
Small Talk Collective, We’re Always Touching By Underground Wires

OPEN/CLOSE: April 6 – May 28, 2018.
Opening reception on April 6th from 6-8pm for First Friday in conjunction with Portland Photo Month.
PUSHDOT STUDIO
2505 SE 11th Avenue, Suite 104 – in the Ford Building, enter on Division Street
Portland, OR 97202
503.224.5925
www.pushdotstudio.com
Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri. 8:30am to 5:00pm, free admission
Pushdot is proud to host Small Talk Collective for their first joint exhibition and book release! In this redefining point of history for the Portland photography community, these seven women are showing the importance of supporting and empowering one another as artists, entrepreneurs, and experts in their field. They invite you into a conversation – both visual and societal – around the strength of joining individual visions in order to speak to broader human desires and themes, including empathy, belonging, memory, and transformation.
The exhibition, book release, and the later community conversation in May, are supported by a generous Project Grant from the Regional Arts and Culture.
About Small Talk Collective
Small Talk is a photography collective comprised of seven women artists. It was formed in Portland, Oregon in 2015.
As a group, Small Talk explores the nature of what it means to be visual storytellers. They pool resources, provide support, and exchange ideas – engaging in the best kind of small talk, that which binds them together, fostering stronger work and facilitating collaboration. smalltalkcollective.com
About the Work
Change is incremental, barely noticed, until it’s sudden and irrevocable. A house slowly ages and wears, until abruptly, it’s demolished and gone. Inside our own homes, we find imperfections and repairs, evidence of former occupants and our former selves. We feel these transitions and make new connections: between a bird discovered in a field and one dismembered by a cat, between the furrows on a face and those on the landscape, impressions left on skin and in memory. We look for change and find its mark. We look at what is, attempting to find the shape of what was.
About the Artists
Audra Osborne is a photographer and crafter whose work stems from the often debilitating emotions she (and many people) feel on a daily basis. These ideas typically center around anxiety, depression, and loss. Her photographs act as a visual diary and study of these emotions, as well as a remedy. By creating these images she has created a space for herself and others to discuss these “taboo” topics on an open platform. This self-enforced openness has allowed her to become more in control of her anxiety, beyond systems and treatments. Audra-osborne.com
Briana Cerezo utilizes photography as a process of discovery. Making photographs offers opportunities to deeply study those things in life that she finds most perplexing — namely people, the nature of relationships, creative process, spirituality, philosophy, and the inner workings of the self. Photography allows her the opportunity to reflect and organize fragments of her experiences in order to make sense of the world and her role in it.
Briana’s editorial and documentary photographs have been featured in newspapers and magazines such as Portland Monthly, Willamette Week, Portland Mercury, Fraction, Ain’t-Bad and The New Asterisk, and her artwork has been exhibited in galleries throughout the Pacific Northwest. In 2017 she was awarded an artist residency with Oregon Historical Society to interview and photograph members of diverse and underrepresented populations throughout Oregon. Brianacerezo.com
Jennifer Timmer Trail, originally from Northern Michigan, spent over a decade in New York, and some time in Copenhagen and Victoria, BC, before settling in Portland, Oregon. Life circumstances have kept her far from the idyllic small town she still calls home, and this has played a crucial role in the development of her work. Her photographs explore the longings that exist within relationships, things we wish we could hold on to but can’t, and the nostalgia that accompanies the process of aging. She is most interested exploring and pushing the boundaries of what a photograph can communicate on an emotional and psychological level.
Jennifer received her MFA in Photography from Hartford Art School and her BA in Art History / Studio Art / Natural Science from Michigan State University. She is currently an instructor of photography, design, and publication production, and her work has been written about and exhibited internationally. Jennifertrail.com
Kelli Pennington often plays a role for the camera, which allows her to feel outside of herself, or forces her to feel her skin tautly strung over her bones. She sees herself in her mind’s eye and feels fragile and human. That vulnerability is as thrilling as it is terrifying. Kelli is an educator at Portland Community College and an avid traveller. Kellipennington.com
Kristina Hruska has worked as the Education Director for Newspace Center for Photography in Portland, OR, Photo Workshops Director at Rocky Mountain School of Photography in Missoula, MT, and as an Editor for Diffusion: Unconventional Photography Magazine. She currently holds the position of Gallery Director at Pushdot Gallery in Portland. She is the Founder of Small Talk Collective.
Kristina’s photographic work explores the themes of mystery and resilience and often speaks to the intersection between the ordinary and the extraordinary. Her photography has been shown in galleries across the U.S. and is held in private collections across the globe. kristinahruska.com
Leslie Hickey holds BA degrees in Studio Art and English from Whitman College. She recently worked as a teaching assistant in the media department at Studio Art Centers International in Florence, Italy, and was a fellow through the Civita Institute in the tiny village of Civita di Bagnoregio. In addition to her photography, she runs a quarterly letterpress subscription service through her imprint, Hoarfrost Press. Leslie is also a founding member of an international photographic group entitled Scaleno. Lesliehickey.com
Marico Fayre is a photographic artist whose work explores vulnerability, aloneness, mental illness, LGBTQ identity, the search for belonging, and the dialogue that occurs between making and experiencing art. Her work has been described as visual poetry and her drive to create both encompasses and challenges notions of beauty.
Marico often collaborates with performance artists and writers, weaving together the two voices in order to create projects of depth and strength. She teaches workshops and mentors MFA students, incorporating her background in branding, project management, and creative direction, to support and teach the business side of being an artist. Her combination of determination, efficiency, and calm lead one client to describe her style as, “doing wild things very quietly.”
A gypsy at heart, she travels as often as possible in order to continue challenging how she sees the world and what she is able to discover with her camera. Maricofayrephotography.com

"Cascadia: Where Oregon Meets" juried show at Crossroads Carnegie Art Center
2018-04-06 10:00 - 17:00 | Crossroads Carnegie Art Center, 2020 Auburn Ave., Baker City, OR, 97814, United States
Cascadia: Where Oregon Meets
A juried show featuring 47 Oregon photographers
April 6 – 28, 2018
Crossroads Carnegie Art Center
2020 Auburn Ave.
Baker City, Oregon
www.crossroads-arts.org
Gallery Hours: 10am-5pm, Monday-Saturday
“Cascadia: Where Oregon Meets,” a touring juried exhibit featuring photographs and photographers from all corners of the state, opens at the Crossroads Carnegie Art Center in Baker City on April 6.
The exhibit, which will visit three cities in the state this spring and summer, is an effort to “bring an ever-divided state of Oregon closer together through the lens of photographers, both urban and rural,” according to Crossroads Director Ginger Savage, who spearheaded the project.
The inaugural exhibit at Crossroads will run through April 28, with a reception and awards ceremony scheduled for Friday April 6 from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Eleven of the 47 exhibiting photographers will be awarded cash prizes ranging from $500 for Best of Show and People’s Choice to $100 for Honorable Mention.
“We asked photographers from across the breadth of our state to interpret ‘the authentic Oregon experience’ and to show us stories about what we share from both sides of the Cascades,” says Savage. “We named the show for the geology under us all. When the Cascadia Subduction Zone breaks (and it’s only a matter of time!), the little picky things that have divided Oregonians, including urban vs. rural, will not matter anymore.”
The exhibit includes black-and-white and color photographs depicting the varied landscapes and people of Oregon from the Coast to the Snake River and from the Columbia Gorge to Klamath Falls. The project was underwritten by the Ford Family Foundation of Roseburg, Ore.
After Baker City the exhibit will be on display at The Dalles-Wasco County Public Library in The Dalles May 4 – 31, and then at the LaSells Stewart Center on the Oregon State University campus in Corvallis from July 2 to Aug. 5.

Digital Photography 2 (ART 240) with Kelli Pennington
2018-04-06 09:00 - 15:00 | PCC Cascade, 705 N Killingsworth St., Portland, OR, 97217, United States
Digital Photography 2 (ART 240) with Kelli Pennington
Friday’s 9 am – 2:50 pm, April 6 – June 15 (Spring Term)
PCC
Cascade Campus
705 N Killingsworth St, Portland, OR 97217
(971) 722-6111
The central focus of this class is to work in the studio on different lighting techniques and to learn advanced printing skills while exploring different paper surfaces. Thank to paper donations from Canson, Moab, and Hahnemuhle, each student will receive $100 worth of paper free.
If you have taken ART240 A and would like to take the course again, we will work on strengthening your portfolio and allow for 3 self-directed projects.

2018 Pacific Northwest Photography Viewing Drawers Artists Announced
2018-04-05 18:00 - 21:00 | Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
First Thursday, April 5th
Debuting on First Thursday, April 5, and coinciding with Portland Photo Month, each artist will be represented by 10 original photographic prints or objects from a single body of work in a dedicated archival, flat file drawer at Blue Sky through March 2019.
Blue Sky Gallery
122 NW 8th Avenue
Portland, Oregon 97209 USA
503-225-0210
Tuesday – Sunday, 12 – 5 pm
First Thursday 6 – 9 pm
bluesky@blueskygallery.org
http://www.blueskygallery.org/
PORTLAND, Oregon – Blue Sky, the Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, is pleased to announce the names of 42 artists selected for inclusion in its 2018 Pacific Northwest Photography Viewing Drawers Program (“Drawers”).
The complete list of artists selected from more than 160 submissions includes:
Adam Bacher • Doran Bastin • Susan Bein • Ray Bidegain • Jennie Castle
Harley Cowan • Fretta Cravens • Danielle Dean • Lucas DeShazer • Claire Dibble
Gloria Feinstein • Dean Forbes • Hal Gage • Randi Ganulin • Joseph Glasgow
Sarah Graves • Lauryn Hare • Melinda Hurst Frye • Tim Jaskoski • Ryota Kajita • John Kane
Heidi Kirkpatrick • Cheston Knapp • Brian Kosoff • Zachary Krahmer • Laura Kurtenbach
Julie Lopez • Nathan Lucas • Sofia Marcus-Myers • Ryan Mills • Blue Mitchell
Marilyn Montufar • Stan Raucher • Shawn Records • Pat Rose • Isaac Sachs • Skip Smith
Deb Stoner • Nolan Streitberger • J Swofford • Samuel Wilson • Jennifer Zwick
2018 Juror
Hamidah Glasgow is the Executive Director and Curator at The Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, Colorado. The Center hosts approximately 17 exhibitions annually and features the work of emerging and established artists from around the world. The Center has been recognized as one of the prestigious nonprofit photography centers in the United States. Ms. Glasgow’s contribution to photography has included curatorial projects, portfolio reviews (FotoFest, Photolucida, Medium, Filter, etc.), contributions to publications and online magazines, and the co-hosting of regional conferences. She is also a founding member of Strange Fire Collective, a group of interdisciplinary artists, curators, and writers focused on work that engages with current social and political forces.

Jon Gottshall at Gallery 114
2018-04-05 18:00 - 21:00 | Gallery 114, 1100 NW Glisan, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
Jon Gottshall, Scale
April 5-28
Opening: April 5, 6-9pm
Gallery 114
1100 NW Glisan, Portland OR 97209
(503) 243-3356
Gallery hours: Thurs-Sun, 12-6pm
contact@gallery114pdx.com
www.gallery114pdx.com
“Scale” is my homage to landscape photographers of the past, those who have celebrated the humbling vastness of the land around us and yet also made it seem tactile and accessible. Names are too many to mention, but let it rest for now on the shoulders of Timothy O’Sullivan, Carlton Watkins, W.H. Jackson and Edweard Muybridge. Their photographs convey wonder at the spaces before them and of their own smallness. The sense of being tiny in a vast world has always moved me, and in these images I attempt to carry that tradition forward.
My goal in these images in not just to document, in as visceral way as I can, the size and scale of the landscape, but to also use the photographs as the first step in a creative process. Starting with the photograph itself, I print onto clear, non-absorbent acetate, which allows the ink to remain fluid. It moves and interacts or stays distinct according to it’s own viscosity. The longer I wait, the more the image is altered. I repeatedly scan these transformed images and incorporate them into the original photo file. The variability that results is an organic addition to the digital process, which I find an immensely interesting form of inquiry.
jongottshall@msn.com
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Rich Bergeman, Renee McKitterick, Frank Boyden at Royal Nebecker Gallery
2018-04-05 18:00 - 20:00 | Royal Nebecker Gallery, 1799 Lexington Ave., Astoria, OR, 97103, United States
Rich Bergeman, Renee McKitterick, Frank Boyden, Empathies and Energies
April 2 to May 10, 2018
Reception: April 5, at 6 p.m.
Royal Nebecker Gallery
Clatsop Community College Campus
1799 Lexington Ave.
Astoria, OR
www.clatsopcc.edu/community/ccc-royal-nebeker-art-gallery
Hours: Monday through Friday 9am to 6pm
Corvallis photographer Rich Bergeman will be joined by fellow Oregon artists Renee McKitterick and Frank Boyden for an exhibit titled “Empathies and Energies” at the Royal Nebecker Gallery on the campus of Clatsop Community College in Astoria from April 2 to May 10, 2018.
The exhibit features recent infrared landscape photographs by Bergeman, who has been exhibiting his black-and-white photographs throughout the Northwest since the 1980s; ceramics and sculpture by McKitterick, who is currently chair of the Art Department at Linn-Benton Community College in Albany; and ceramics and prints by Boyden, an internationally acclaimed artist from Otis, Oregon, whose public sculptures can be seen at the Oregon Coast Aquarium in Newport, Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, and elsewhere
A public reception will be held on Thursday, April 5, at 6 p.m. in the gallery.
“Empathies and Energies” takes its name from the commingling of Boyden’s dry-point etchings of anguished faces with the fire and light that Bergeman and McKitterick use to create their infrared photographs and ceramics, respectively. Boyden’s “Empathies” is a suite of 96 intimate dry-point psychological portraits that began in response to the artist’s disillusionment with the depravity of humanity and evolved into one of empathy and personal introspection. Bergeman said he began using infrared photography in recent years because it has a “haunting quality” that fits well with his historical projects, and can transform an everyday landscape into a surreal experience. McKitterick describes the new work she is showing as “fundamentally feminine,” and an exploration of how “shapes can move the viewer through, around, and back into its space.”

Svetlana Bailey at Blue Sky Gallery
2018-04-05 17:00 - 21:00 | Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
Svetlana Bailey, once there was there wasn’t
April 5–29, 2018
First Thursday Opening Reception, April 5, 6:00–9:00 PM
Artist Talk: Thursday, April 5, 5:00 PM
Blue Sky Gallery
122 NW 8th Avenue
Portland, Oregon 97209 USA
503-225-0210
Tuesday – Sunday, 12 – 5 pm
First Thursday 6 – 9 pm
bluesky@blueskygallery.org
http://www.blueskygallery.org/
“Objects, places, and events that occur in separate times and places can coexist psychologically. My work supposed that this coexistence can be reconciled with photographs, which, although normally fixed to particular times, locations, and stories, are nevertheless able to travel, in boxes, or as mind images on overlapping currents.”
Until the age of eight, Svetlana Bailey’s summers were spent at her grandmother’s house in the Russian countryside. It was there she discovered the world on her own and formed her earliest memories. Sixteen years ago her grandmother passed away and now the house stands empty. To create once there was there wasn’t, Bailey returned to her grandmother’s home and constructed installations throughout the abandoned property, using objects found there and photographs depicting her life after leaving Russia to create new images. She followed a similar process at her parents’ home in Germany and in her own home in the United States, constructing photographs that allow disparate times and places to exist together in the mind.
Svetlana Bailey was born in St Petersburg in 1984, and after the fall of the Soviet Union emigrated to Germany with her family. After beginning her studies at FH Dortmund, Bailey moved to Australia to complete her BFA at the College of Fine Arts in Sydney. In 2016 Bailey graduated with an MFA in photography from the Rhode Island School of Design. Since then she has completed residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine; the NARS Foundation in New York; the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida; The Bundanon Trust, in Bundanon New South Wales; and the Mountain School of Arts in Los Angeles. She will be in residence at the International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York City in 2018. In 2017 Svetlana was the winner of the Flash Forward Prize presented by The Magenta Foundation and in 2018 she was awarded an Australia Council Career Development Grant.

Joe Rudko at PDX CONTEMPORARY ART
2018-04-04 11:00 - 18:00 | PDX CONTEMPORARY ART, 925 NW Flanders Street, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
Joe Rudko, Intermediate Techniques of Photography
April 4th – April 28th
PDX CONTEMPORARY ART
925 NW Flanders Street
Portland OR 97209
HOURS: 11:00 – 6:00 Tues. – Sat.
ADMISSION: Free
Open First Thursday, April 5th, 2018, 6:00 – 8:00
This April PDX CONTEMPORARY ART presents Intermediate Techniques of Photography, an exhibition of images by Joe Rudko that explores both the magic and the limitations of the photograph.
Using collage, drawing and sculptural methods Rudko extends, manipulates and distorts found images to create new relationships of color and line. With an improvisational conﬁdence, he gives once-antiquated snapshots new life through creative play.
Like analog glitches, Rudko’s images stutter and shapeshift, demonstrating the malleability of photographs as representations of reality and as physical objects. Taken with the knowledge that truth is becoming increasingly recognized as an unstable concept in our world, the relevance of Rudko’s explorations becomes more profound.
Joe Rudko is a graduate of Western Washington University and has shown broadly in both solo and group exhibitions throughout the Northwest including shows at PDX CONTEMPORARY ART (Portland, OR), Roq La Rue (Seattle, WA), LxWxH (Seattle, WA), Disjecta Center for Contemporary Art (Portland, OR), Photo Center Northwest (Seattle, WA), Whatcom Museum of Art (Bellingham, WA), and Greg Kucera Gallery (Seattle, WA), among others. He has been the recipient of the Future List Award and two Art Walk Awards from City Arts Magazine as well as the Vermont Studio Center Fellowship Award. His work was also featured on the cover of indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie’s 2015 album Kintsugi and is included in the collections of the Portland Art Museum, Fidelity Investments, and the private collections of Dorothy Lemelson, James and Susan Winkler, and Driek Zirinsky.
The Work:
• Explores the photograph as malleable object for creative play and for exploring the unstability of truth in the visual
• Uses collage and drawing techniques to dissemble found material and create new visual relationships, extending the fragments and giving them new lives
• Improvisational, playful, renders photographic interpretation unstable and precarious
• Questions the photograph as a representation of history
The Artist:
• Lives and works in Seattle, Washington
• Uses the photograph as a jumping oﬀ point for exploring the perception of truth in the visual
• Shown widely in the Northwest, with solo and group shows in Seattle, Bellingham, and Portland
• Recipient of the Vermont Studio Center Fellowship, Future List Award, and two Art Walk Awards from City Arts Magazine
• His work was featured on the cover of indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie’s 2015 album Kintsugi

Andy Richter at Camerawork Gallery
2018-03-31 09:00 - 16:00 | Camerawork Gallery, 301 N. Graham Street, Portland, OR, 97227, United States
Andy Richter, Serpent in the Wilderness
March 31st – April 27th, 2018
Camerawork Gallery
2255 NW Northrup Street
(Linfield School of Nursing – Peterson Hall)
Portland, OR 97210
http://www.TheCameraworkGallery.org
http://www.facebook.com/cameraworkgallery
Gallery Hours: 9am-4pm, Monday-Friday, Saturday 9am-5pm
Minneapolis, Minnesota photographer Andy Richter notes, “from ashrams and caves throughout India to living rooms across America, Serpent in the Wilderness reveals hidden layers and rarely seen dimensions of a profoundly spiritual path and way of life.”
This exhibition is a visual exploration of yoga that emerged from Richter’s personal practice and experience. After studying yoga for years, he decided to use his medium to search for the essence of the teachings. For more than half a decade, Richter traveled to places that are historically relevant to yoga’s past, as well as to places that embody its living present, documenting a variety of yoga traditions with many of the world’s great saints and yogis. While this ancient Indian science has roots in Hindu mythology and doctrine, today it is mainstream, global, and growing in popularity. Both a method of self-realization and a state of being, yoga encourages greater equanimity and awareness, a calm mind, a healthy body, and a compassionate heart. This photographic exhibition captures that spirit, along with the face of yoga around the world.
Andy Richter is a photographer based in Minneapolis, Minnesota whose work embodies his desire to see past surface illusions to a deeper, more universal truth. Richter immerses himself in his subject and its wider context, exploring such themes as aging and loss, self and cultural transformation, and spirituality with the heightened awareness that the camera brings. Far from a neutral observer, he is emotionally and experientially invested in his subjects, and uses color and light to engage the viewer and evoke inner experience.
Richter studied photography at the University of Minnesota and graduated with honors with degrees in Spanish and Psychology in 1999. He spent the next several years climbing and photographing the great mountain ranges of the world, where he feels he learned how to really see. Upon returning to Minnesota in 2006, his focus shifted from landscape photography to experiential documentary and portraiture. His monograph, Serpent in the Wilderness, published in 2018 with Kehrer Verlag, sheds new light on the ancient science of yoga, documenting rarely seen aspects across different cultures. He is also experimenting with camera-less technologies.
Richter’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. He has received numerous awards and been recognized by American Photography, Photolucida, the
International Photography Awards, and the Minnesota State Arts Board. His clients include Time, Smithsonian, The Washington Post, National Geographic Traveler, AFAR, Mother Jones, UN Women, The Trust for Public Land and UNICEF.
2018 Exhibitions of Serpent in the Wilderness • MPLS Photo Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 23 to May 1, 2018 • Camerawork Gallery, Portland, Oregon, March 31 to April 27, 2018 • Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro, Vermont, June 1 to July 1, 2018
www.AndyRichterPhoto.com

Jeffrey Opp, Carson Legree, and Rhonda Vanover at The Esther Building Art Space
2018-03-27 18:00 - 20:00 | The Esther Building Art Space, 610 Esther Street, Vancouver, WA, 98660, United States
Jeffrey Opp, Carson Legree, and Rhonda Vanover
Through March 31, 2017
Tuesday March 27th there will be an artist talk at 6pm
The Esther Building Art Space
610 Esther Street, Vancouver Washington
360-566-7808
The Esther Building Art Space is open to the public during business hours 8am-5pm M-F
The artwork of Carson Legree, Jeffrey Opp, and Rhonda Vanover will be on display at the Esther Building Art Space this winter. Each artist has unique way of capturing transitory moments.
On the first floor of the Esther Building Art Space Carson Legree’s paintings show abstracted images distilled from current events. Her artwork layers black and white images with swirling colors that imply energy, movement, and rhythm. Although the inspiration for her work can come from heavy topics the artwork maintains a feeling of progress and positivity.
Two photographers, Rhonda Vanover and Jeffrey Opp, have their works displayed on the second floor. Opp captures images of overlooked buildings and spaces. He photographs places we may pass by regularly but take no notice of. His attention to these under-dog points in the landscapes is tender in its attentiveness. Opp’s artwork may change the way you see the everyday world we live in.
Many of Rhonda Vanover artworks are photograms; images that are made by laying an object directly on photo paper and exposing the image without using a camera. The result is a shadowy image of the original object. They are beautiful and haunting traces of the original subject.
Carson Legree http://carsonlegree.com/
Jeffrey Opp http://jeffreyopp.com/
Rhonda Vanover http://www.rhondavanover.com/
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Jeffrey Opp, MFA
Photographic Artist and Maker of Books
www.jeffreyopp.com

Magnet Academy school of Arts and Battle Ground High School Student Show at Cedar Hills Rec Center
2018-03-24 14:00 - 16:00 | Cedar Hills Rec Center, 11640 SW Park Way, Portland, OR, 97225, United States
Magnet Academy school of Arts and Battle Ground High School Student Show
March to May 26th 2018
Reception: Saturday, March 24th from 2 to 4pm
Cedar Hills Rec Center
11640 SW Park Way
Portland, OR 97225
The photography students of the Magnet Academy school of Arts, Beaverton Oregon and Battle Ground High school, Battle Ground, Washington are pleased to be showing their work at the Cedar Hills Rec Center.
There will be a reception open to the public on Saturday, March 24th from 2 to 4pm. Come see the work, visit with the students and their teachers, Annie Davern and Jon Gottshal.
These schools and others in Oregon and Washington offer photography to their student body and are always in need of film and digital cameras, darkroom equipment and supplies.
For more info contact Robert Brummitt at brummitt@comcast.net.

Deb Stoner at Portland Art Museum
2018-03-21 12:00 - 13:00 | Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR, 97205, United States
Deb Stoner, Pay Attention To What You Pay Attention To
Portland Art Museum Photography Council’s
Brown Bag Lunch Talk Series
Wednesday, March 21st, 2018 at Noon
Portland Art Museum
Miller Gallery in the Mark building
1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR 97205
www.portlandartmuseum.org
503 226 2811
Cost: Free to the public.

For this presentation, I’ll talk about my life and career as an artist. I’ll tell you about my work of part-time teaching, making art objects for others, designing eyewear for fashion industry, and running a small business. I’ll show you the work I did that led me through designing, making and teaching about eyewear as a jeweler, and how that informed and directed me in making my current work. Photography has always been a part of it, but had been the part of my artistic practice that gets attention when I’m not too busy doing other things to earn a living. In the past five years, that has changed, with my full time commitment to making still life photographs of flora and tiny fauna. I’ll show you lots of images that might increase your awareness of how beautiful the world is, and what inspires me. I’ll tell you about the technology I use to make my work, and I’ll reveal the secret of how it is that the grasshopper is as big as the watermelon in this picture, without using digital trickery.
Deb Stoner is a fine art photographer with deep roots in craft. Deb creates still life photographs that are complex visual constructs made using the flora and fauna of a very small region, usually her neighborhood. Her work involves growing plants (or making friends with gardeners), collecting and mounting insects, and paying attention to small ephemeral events to make images with in real time. She earned an MFA in Applied Design from SDSU, a BS in Geology from UC Davis, and has taught in the Jewelry and Metals Department at Oregon College of Art and Craft since 1991, except for a few years along the way. Deb is known for her work in designing and making eyewear from a jeweler’s point of view, for developing new ideas in eyewear for the fashion industry, and for teaching those ideas to students in over fifty workshops at craft centers worldwide. As a photographer, Deb had a solo show at the Camerawork Gallery, was a Critical Mass finalist and a speaker at the SPE NW Regional Conference in 2015, a year-long solo exhibit at the Portland International Airport in 2016, a solo exhibition with Vernissage in Portland in 2017, and a recent lecture and exhibition at the Yuma Art Center/Symposium. Her photographs are in the public art collections of PCC, the University of Oregon, the Port of Portland, OHSU, the homes of many collectors, and in the juried NW Viewing Drawers at Blue Sky Gallery each year since 2015.

manuel arturo abreu and Christopher Paul Jordan at Marylhurst University (Art Gym)
2018-03-18 17:00 - 19:00 | Marylhurst University, 17600 Pacific Highway, Marylhurst, OR, 97036-0261, United States
manuel arturo abreu and Christopher Paul Jordan, Place Names
March 20, 2018 – May 20, 2018
Opening Reception: March 18, 2018 from 5 – 7pm
Art Gym
Marylhurst University
17600 Pacific Highway (Hwy. 43)
Marylhurst, OR 97036-0261
http://theartgym.org/
Gallery Hours
Tuesday – Sunday, Noon to 4 pm
Closed March 30 – April 1, 2018 (Easter Weekend)
Admission: Free to the public.
Parking is free. The gallery is located on the third floor of the central building on campus – BP John, on the south side of the building.
Place Names is an exhibition by regional artists manuel arturo abreu (Portland, OR) and Christopher Paul Jordan (Tacoma, WA). Through painting, sculpture, built environments, and explorations of language, Place Names explores the abstracted visual and emotional cues that influence how a sense a “place” is communicated. The artists each construct visual narratives from notions of the geographical and cultural locales that have been generative to their thinking as artists and poets. The works in Place Names appropriate objects such as stray window frames, graffiti-laden panels, well-worn maps, and evocations of their workspaces as signifiers of the cultural, economic, and racial influences within inherited identity.
manuel arturo abreu (b. 1991, Santo Domingo) is an artist and writer from the Bronx. They received their BA in Linguistics from Reed College in 2014, and currently lives and works in a garage in southeast Portland. Recent group exhibitions with Rhizome and the New Museum (online), the Cooley Gallery (Portland), Chicken Coop Contemporary (Portland), Veronica project space (Seattle), and AA|LA Gallery (Los Angeles). Recent publications in Art in America, Rhizome, CURA, SFMoMA Open Space, AQNB, et al. abreu is the author of List of Consonants (Bottlecap Press, 2015) and transtrender (Quimérica Books, 2016), and their debut collection of critical writing is forthcoming 2018.
Christopher Paul Jordan integrates virtual and physical public space to form infrastructures for dialogue and self-determination among dislocated people. Jordan’s paintings and sculptures are artifacts from his work in community and time-capsules for expanded inquiry. Jordan is a recipient of the 2017 Neddy Artists Award for painting, the Jon Imber Painting Fellowship, the GTCF Foundation of Art Award, the James W Ray Venture Project Award, and the most recent summer commission for Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Park.
Place Names is the inaugural exhibition curated by Ashley Stull Meyers, the Robert and Mercedes Eichholz Director and Curator of the Art Gym and Belluschi Pavilion, Marylhurst University.

Jennifer L. Stoots, Follow The Money
2018-03-15 19:00 - 21:00 | Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, 8371 N. Interstate Ave., Portland, OR, 97217, United States
March 15th, 2018 from 7:00-9:00pm
Disjecta Contemporary Art Center8371 N. Interstate Ave.Portland, OR 97217
TICKETS $10 (pre-event) / $15 (at door)
Join us for an evening educational discussion, Follow the Money, presented by Jennifer L. Stoots, AAA. This is the first in a quarterly event series produced by Photolucida that will take place in the Disjecta Arts Building in Historic Kenton.
At a fundamental level, the basics of the art business are no different than any other time in history; the tools, mediums and tastes have changed, but the art market has patterns as well as cycles. The art world can be deliberately cloistered and the market mystifying for many. The aim of this lecture will be to demystify and illuminate based on Stoots’s experience working at galleries, art fairs and as an art & photography appraiser. Many of the issues and topics addressed are relevant to many fine art photographers and artists who work in the medium today.
This presentation will briefly review:

The evolution of the Western art market.
The motivations of invention and the birth of the photo industry.
The “modern medium” and its acceptance as an art form.
Snowballing of the photography market in the 1970s and 1980s, when there was a flourish of photography galleries in the US and major auction houses dedicated departments exclusively to photo.
Top selling photographers and photographs—auction records and what’s interesting about the markets where those top tier prices were achieved.
The current landscape of the fine art photography market, including a discussion of art fairs and online platforms.

Jennifer L. Stoots, AAA, is a certified photography appraiser, accredited by the Appraisers Association of America. She has been professionally involved in the arts for 24 years, has managed and worked with galleries for 20 years, and has been appraising contemporary art, photographs and photographic archives for 16 years. She is also a photography historian, writer, art market consultant, and organizes workshops and presentations centered around legacy and estate planning for artists and photographers.Stoots earned her Bachelor’s in Art History from the University of Oregon (1994), her Master’s in the History of Art & Design from Pratt Institute (2013), and her appraising credentials from NYU’s Appraisal Studies Program for Fine and Decorative Arts (2002).
Website: http://www.stootsllc.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stoots.jennifer/

Call for Submissions for PDX 30 at LightBox Photographic Gallery
2018-03-11 23:30 | LightBox Photographic Gallery, 1045 Marine Dr., Astoria, OR, 97103, United States
PDX 30 – 2018
LightBox Photographic Gallery
Call for Submissions
http://lightbox-photographic.com/call-for-entries/pdx_30_2018
Submission Deadline: Midnight, Sunday, March 11th.
Artists’ Opening Reception: Saturday, April 14th from 6-9pm.
LightBox Photographic Gallery
1045 Marine Dr.
Astoria, OR 97103
(503) 468-0238
lightbox-photographic.com
In recognition of Portland Photo Month, April 2018, this group exhibit celebrates LightBox Photographic Gallery’s appreciation of the uniquely talented and creative Portland Photographic Community. In the seventh year, the exhibit combines great work from up and coming photographers with that of established photographers from the Portland community. We are looking for work that exhibits the unique vision and creativity of the photographer. One image each from 30 photographers will be chosen to be in the exhibit. This year, once again, we accept submissions without charging fees. For photographers accepted into the exhibit we ask for a gallery hanging fee to help contribute to the expenses of this yearly exhibit.
LightBox is very happy to have Zeb Andrews of Blue Moon Camera as Juror this year. Zeb Andrews is a Portland-based photographer who has lived his entire life in the Pacific Northwest. The majority of his work week is spent immersed in photography while working at Blue Moon Camera and Machine in North Portland. Much of his inspiration comes from the photographers and photography he sees circulate through that store on a daily basis, and he in turn loves passing that along. Zeb was an instructor at Newspace Center for Photography for seven years and frequently gives presentations to local high school and college photography programs on all things photographic. When he isn’t at work or enthralled in a class lecture he can often be found on some windswept beach or quietly verdant forest, camera in hand.
LightBox will be picking up accepted work at Blue Moon Camera and Machine on Saturday, April 8th at 4pm. You may drop your accepted work at Blue Moon prior to that date for pickup by LightBox. After the Exhibit we will return work to Blue Moon on May 14th and you must pick it up no later than Saturday, May 26th. We offer affordable frame installation to further help to make this exhibit a more carefree opportunity. This is an easy way to get your work to and from LightBox with no extra charge.
Please consider a submission and help make another amazing PDX Exhibit!
All the info and entry form is on the call for submission page: http://lightbox-photographic.com/call-for-entries/pdx_30_2018
Prospectus
Entry Form

Fazal Sheikh at Portland Art Museum
2018-03-11 14:00 - 15:00 | Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR, 97205, United States
Fazal Sheikh
The Arnold Newman Distinguished Lecture in Photography

Sunday, March 11, 2PM
Portland Art Museum
1219 SW Park Avenue
Portland OR 97209
info@pam.org
503-226-2811
www.portlandartmuseum.org
For over twenty-five years, Fazal Sheikh has focused on raising awareness of international human-rights issues through his critically acclaimed photographs. On Sunday, March 11, the artist will discuss his documentary-based photography practice and the current exhibition Common Ground, which features more than 170 portraits and landscapes chronicling individuals living in displaced and marginalized communities around the world, many times as the result of war, exploitation, and poverty.
This lecture is generously sponsored by the Arnold and Augusta Newman Foundation.
Tickets: Free for all
Reserve tickets online or in person at the Museum. Space is limited.
To reserve tickets online:
https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/lecture-fazal-sheikh/?instance_id=28936
The Portland Art Museum is pleased to offer accommodations to ensure that our programs are accessible and inclusive. All spaces for this program are accessible by wheelchair. Assistive listening devices are also available for the lecture.
Please email access@pam.org in advance, or call 503-226-2811.

Femme Photo Brunch Panel
2018-03-11 11:00 - 14:00 | Elephants on Corbett, 5221 SW Corbett Ave, Portland, OR, 97239, United States
Femme Photo Brunch PanelSunday, March 11th, 11am-2pm
Elephants on Corbett 5221 SW Corbett Ave, Portland, OR 97239
Price: $35 (ASMP and PPA members) / $45 (General)Registration is required. Please purchase tickets at https://store.asmp.org/store/items/list/group/503
Join us for a stimulating panel discussion featuring three local professional women photographers moderated by Beth Nakamura. Our panel will be discussing their work and experience in the current competitive and male-dominated industry, as well as the future of photography. There will be champagne and a light brunch. Anyone interested in photography and learning about the industry from these successful photographers are encouraged to attend.
Presenters:Holly Andres is a fine art and commercial photographer known for her stylized cinematic scenarios often inspired by her own childhood experiences. Andres regularly photographs editorial assignments for national publications including The New York Times Magazine, TIME, and The New Yorker. She has earned numerous grants and awards including the 2016 PDN Photo Annual in Advertising and AI-IP American Photography Awards.
Gia Goodrich is an award-winning photographer and conceptual artist. Since receiving her MFA in 2011, her work has celebrated and challenged complex notions of identity. Her project, Love Wins won international acclaim as the largest on-going archive of LGBTQ love stories. In 2014 she started VEV studios, empowering women to love their physicality by creating powerful images that reflect their unique beauty. Her work has been featured in CNN, Tech Insider, Huffington Post, Out Magazine, the New York Times.
Leah Nash is an editorial, commercial and assignment photographer based in Portland. Starting with a photojournalism background, Nash specializes in travel, lifestyle, food, portrait, and documentary work. Her work has won awards and grants, including one grant for a documentary series in India in 2004. Nash currently works as one half of the photography duo called Nash Co. Photography with Chris Onstott.
Moderator:Beth Nakamura is a visual journalist based in Portland. A two-time Emmy finalist, her work has been recognized by National Headliner Awards, Online News Association, Pictures of the Year International, Society of Professional Journalists, National Black Journalists Association, National Press Photographers Association and many others. Nakamura is also an instructor of the University of Oregon Multimedia Journalism Graduate Program and faculty member for the Missouri Photo Workshop.
Presented by Pro Photo Supply and ASMP Oregon.http://prophotosupply.com/event-center/For questions, please email marketing@prophotosupply.com.

Austin Granger at LightBox Photographic Gallery
2018-03-10 17:00 - 20:00 | LightBox Photographic Gallery, 1045 Marine Dr., Astoria, OR, 97103, United States
Austin Granger, Correspondence
March 10th – April 10th, 2018
Opening and Artists’ Reception: Saturday, March 10, 5-8pm
Austin Granger will give an artist talk from 4-5pm, before the opening,
contact LightBox at 503-468-0238 or info@lightbox-photographic.com
for limited available reserved seating.
LightBox Photographic Gallery
1045 Marine Dr.
Astoria, OR 97103
(503) 468-0238
lightbox-photographic.com
http://lightbox-photographic.com/shows/austin_granger_correspondence
Austin Granger is a prolific photographic image maker living in the great northwest in Portland, Oregon. “Correspondence” is a personal narrative of imagery from his daily wanderings. A very insightful and inventive image maker, Austin carries an array of favorite traditional film cameras with him everywhere. We are happy to present 60 Platinum/Palladium Prints, filling the LightBox walls with wonderful handmade prints of Austin’s beautiful work.
“When I’m photographing well, I have the most uncanny feeling that the pictures are predestined. I recognize them. They echo the feelings inside myself. They correspond. My subjects are the things that ache.
Whether or not I can portray feelings using objects that may not ostensibly depict those feelings is something that I wrestle with. People see things differently. After all, we bring our minds–all of those thoughts that make us–to our looking at things. In a very real way, pictures are always of our heads. They’re all self-portraits. Still, I’d like to think that it’s possible to put something across, to bridge the gap, meet a stranger in the middle, and connect. After all, do we not all share the same basic, existential struggles? Fundamentally, deep down, are we not all made of the same stuff?
Perhaps then, by going inward, one goes outward as well. Perhaps one can approach the universal through the individual. I’d like to think so. I’ve come to think of my pictures as an attempt to understand myself, and also, as an attempt to communicate. I want to express emotions that people will recognize. I want my pictures to be a correspondence between us, to be both the place and the record of our meeting.” ~ Austin Granger
Austin Granger is the author of Elegy from the Edge of a Continent: Photographing Point Reyes. Born in San Francisco in 1970, Granger has worked as a baker, house painter, naval radar operator and camera salesman. He first began to photograph while studying philosophy in college as a way to get out of his head. Preferring to use traditional film cameras, Granger has come to see his photography as a spiritual practice–a way in which to shape his life and enrich his relationship with the world.
The exhibit runs from March 10th through April 10th 2018. Visit http://lightbox-photographic.com/shows/ for complete exhibit and artist info. LightBox offers associate memberships as a way of becoming part of the community of supporters that help to further the mission of the gallery. LightBox provides photographic printing and archival framing, restorations and other photographic services. LightBox is located at 1045 Marine Drive in Astoria, hours are Tuesday – Saturday 11 – 5:30. Contact LightBox at 503-468-0238 or at info@lightbox-photographic.com, and visit lightbox-photographic.com for more info and to enjoy past, current and upcoming exhibits.
http://www.austingranger.com

Ron Shufflebarger at The O’Brien Photo Gallery
2018-03-10 15:00 - 18:00 | The O’Brien Photo Gallery, 2833 Willamette, Ste. B, Eugene, OR, 97405, United States
Ron Shufflebarger, Hult Pond – A Mystical Place
The show runs from March 10th through May 10th
There will be an artist reception on Saturday March 10th from 3-6 pm.
The O’Brien Photo Gallery
2833 Willamette, Ste. B
Eugene, OR 97405
541 729 3572
Open weekdays, call to be sure we’re open.
Email: waltobrien1945@gmail.com
Website: http://obrienimaging.com/gallery.htm
Hult Lake is a very beautiful area with still waters and clinging clouds. I return ever so often and have continually been offered images that I find to be not only beautiful but abstract and mysterious. —Ron S.
Ron Shufflebarger was a furniture designer and builder out of a small shop, and after a pro photographer friend introduced him to digital, he was hooked. He found it a perfect excuse to take a break from the tedious operations of woodworking, to use photography to share his vision.When he and his wife retired they moved to Eugene Oregon and, for Ron a whole new genre of photography confronted him. The coastal range is
very complex and doesn’t lend itself to a minimalist eye. He had to re-evaluate what he was seeing and look far into the interplay of moss, trees, light, and form.
He found a serene beauty that is unique to the area and was forever hooked. He has always loved the beauty of the landscape and the juxtaposition of the subject, but also seeks out the interest in all venues whether street, architectural, or macro photography. He loves it all. He found inspiration from several photographers including Dorothea Lange and Edward Weston, but the true beauty of photography is the quest for the ultimate image, and once you find it, you are off for the next one.
“These words are so true; ‘It is the journey’ that is the spiritual path and the quest is very often a meditation.” —Ron S.
His work can be seen online at: http://www.pbase.com/ron9ron

Jake Shivery at Jailhouse Studios
2018-03-09 18:00 - 21:00 | Jailhouse Studios, 910 SE Taylor St, Portland, OR, 97214, United States
Jake Shivery, Contact Portraits Eight
March 9th – March 31st, 2018
Reception: March 9th, 6:00 – 9:00 pm
Jailhouse Studios
910 SE Taylor St Portland, OR 97214
Mon-Fri 9-4 (usually); also by appointment
jailhousestudios910@gmail.com
www.jailhousestudios.com
Please join us for the opening reception of Jake’s eighth show of Contact Portraits. This small show of all-new work is comprised of 8×10 fibre contact prints, and marks Jake’s first exhibition after a nearly three year long hiatus.
www.jakeshivery.com

Ann Carstensen, Leslie Ebert & Diana Milia at 510 Museum & Art Space
2018-03-09 17:00 - 19:00 | 510 Museum & Art Space, 510 1st Street, Lake Oswego, OR, 97034, United States
Ann Carstensen, & Diana Milia, Light and Abstraction
March 9 – April 13, 2018
Reception: March 9th, 5 – 7 pm
510 Museum & Art Space
510 1st Street
Lake Oswego, OR 97034
503.675.3738
The 510 Museum is open weekdays 11 – 4
info@ci.oswego.or.us
www.artscouncillo.org
Please Join abstract photographer Leslie Ebert, Painter Diana Milia and upcycled materials Artist Ann Carstensen for the opening reception of new work about bring light into three different mediums & substrates. Leslie Ebert Will be showing seven large abstract photographs printed on silver aluminum panels from her Energy of Croatia series.
www.LeslieEbert.com

"In a Different Light" Panel Discussion at Maude Kerns Art Center in Eugene
2018-03-08 18:00 - 19:30 | Maude Kerns Art Center, 1910 E. 15th Ave., Eugene, OR, 97403, United States
In A Different LightRich Bergeman, Phil Coleman, Sandi O’Brien, Jack Larson, Paul Barden
February 23 – March 23, 2018Opening reception: Friday, February 23, 6-8 pmArtists’ Panel Discussion: Thursday, March 8, 6-7:30 pm
Maude Kerns Art Center1910 E. 15th Ave.Eugene, Ore. 97403(541) 345-1571www.mkartcenter.orgHours: Tues-Fri, 10 am – 5:30 pm; Sat, 12 – 4 pm
Five Willamette Valley photographers will show recent infrared images in and exhibit titled “In a Different Light.” The exhibit takes its name from the fact that infrared photography sees the world in a way that is not visible to the naked eye. Infrared light lies just above the visible spectrum, between 700 and 900 nanometers (nm) in wave length, whereas the human eye is sensitive from about 400nm (blue) to about 700nm (red). But even though the higher infrared range doesn’t register with our eyes, it can be recorded with special black-and-white films and with converted digital imaging sensors. Examples of both techniques are represented in the show.
“The world of infrared is quite different from what we’re used to seeing,” said Rich Bergeman, who brought the photographers together for the exhibit. “It can create surreal, dream-like images, while in other cases it produces a more subtle shift in tones.”
In the natural landscape, most organic objects, especially plants, reflect more infrared light than do inorganic things like water, rocks and the sky. In black-and-white IR photography, this usually results in dramatic skies and snowy-looking landscapes. In color infra-red photographs, blues often dominate, and the effects are even more pronounced where ever sunlight strikes.Each of the photographers in the show has decades of experience with various forms of photography. Some began exploring infrared in the past decade after converting digital cameras to record IR light, while others have been using black-and-white infrared film for many years.
The photographers will talk about their work at a panel discussion on Thursday March 8 from 6-7:30 pm in the arts center.

Kevin Shick at Camerawork Gallery
2018-03-03 09:00 - 17:00 | Camerawork Gallery, 301 N. Graham Street, Portland, OR, 97227, United States
Kevin Shick, The Commuters
March 3rd – March 30th, 2018
Camerawork Gallery
2255 NW Northrup Street
(Linfield School of Nursing – Peterson Hall)
Portland, OR 97210
http://www.TheCameraworkGallery.org
http://www.facebook.com/cameraworkgallery
Gallery Hours: 9am-4pm, Monday-Friday, Saturday 9am-5pm
Indiana Photographer Kevin Shick notes, “The Commuters series depicts the daily lives of commuters on the Rock Island train line in Chicago, just minutes from their arrival at the terminal. I see these candid street portraits as windows into each rider’s personal outlook and the experiences that may have created that outlook.
“I photographed the riders, taking pictures almost every day for several months, discovering in the process that many riders stood in the same place, doing the same thing, often wearing similar clothes and expressions.
“Others, whether they were happy, pensive, worried, or self-distracted with a smartphone, seemed to have their actions and outlooks determined less as the result less of conscious choice than as the result of unconscious habit or unknown personal experiences.
“Because of the time and place where they are taken, these portraits reveal true identities, as opposed to the public mask we often wear. As Luc Sante wrote in Walker Evans’ book of subway portraits Many Are Called, “time spent commuting is a hiatus from social interaction…you can take off the face you wear for the benefit of others”.”
We can all relate to the daily commute as a transition from our personal lives to our working lives and back. Each of us has, by nature or habit, a unique view on life that is revealed in the unguarded moments during this transition. As James Agee wrote in Many Are Called, “Each [person]…is an individual existence, as matchless as a thumbprint or snowflake. … Each carries in the postures of his body, in his hands, in his face, in the eyes, the signatures of a time and a place in the world.”
Kevin Shick is a fine art photographer whose work explores the human condition and the contemporary American experience. By observing the public and private spaces where our interaction with each other and with the environment occurs, he aims to reveal our collective contemporary culture and individual states of mind. He got started in photography over 40 years ago by developing and printing family portraits in a wet darkroom, and by exploring nature with an Argus Rangefinder during family trips to Yosemite and the Sierras. Since then he has continued to study the juxtaposed urban and natural landscapes, seeking situations where light and moment come together to reveal insights about human nature.
Shick has a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois, and an MBA from the University of Chicago. Following a career in technology and consulting, he now pursues a photographic life. His work has been exhibited and published nationally, and is included in several private collections. He lives most of the year near the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, traveling frequently with his wife in their RV.
www.KevinShick.com
