Adam Bacher at Pushdot Studio
2019-04-26 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Pushdot Studio, 2505 SE 11th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97202, United States
Adam Bacher, Riding the Storm Out – A Blizzard of Ravens
OPEN/CLOSE: April 4th – May 31, 2019Opening Reception: Friday April 5th, 6-8 pmArtist Talk: Friday April 26th, 7:30- 9pm
Pushdot Studio2505 SE 11th AvenueSuite 104 (in the Ford Building, enter on Division Street) Portland, OR 97202503.224.5925 www.pushdotstudio.comGallery Hours: Mon-Fri. 8:30am to 5:00pm, free admission
This February, Ravens flew high in the chaos of a blizzard. An inkblot Rorschach riding the sky in punishing winds. And a photographer ventured freely into the furious storm to record their actions. The snow collected in feet not inches, on the slopes of Mount Hood. Trees turned a cold hue of winter storm white. Winds blew steady at 35, gusting to 60. Snow forget how to fall, accelerated horizontally in the relentless storm.
A blend of synthetic fiber, fleece and feather kept me warm. I was better off not knowing the windchill. Access to the day’s show was all I needed. It had been five years since my first encounter with Ravens, and I couldn’t have asked for a better way to celebrate the anniversary.
This project began on whim after bitter winds brought and early end to a mountain ski trip in February 2014. Back in the parking lot I watched a small group of Ravens from the comfort of a warm car and a thermos of hot cocoa. There they were, gliding effortlessly between towering fir trees, not a care in the world. It was enchanting.
I’d never photographed birds before and almost drove home. But something about those Ravens drew me over. I put on snowshoes and walked to them. Did I decide to come to the Ravens, or did they decide to have me come over? I’m still not sure.
Premier Showing – All new work and first edition prints
You may find Adam’s raven work at ConspiracyOfRavens.com

Photolucida's Photobook Fair at Blue Sky Gallery
2019-04-27 18:30 - 21:00 | Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
Photolucida’s Photobook Fair
Saturday, April 27th, 6:30-9pm
Blue Sky Gallery122 NW 8th Ave.Portland, OR. 97209www.photolucida.org
It’s Portland Photo Month!
Photolucida’s second-ever publisher’s Photobook Fair is all about celebrating the photobook! Join 12 small-press publishers – Radius Books, Candela Books, Kehrer Verlag, Zatara Press, Dark Spring Press, One Twelve, AINT-BAD, Fall Line Press, Fraction Editions, Kris Graves Projects, Daylight Books, Princeton Architectural Press – who will be set up with collectible, hot-off-the-press, and hard-to-find-elsewhere publications to view or purchase. Participating publishers will have books to be signed by artists in attendance: Dotan Saguy, RJ Kern, Vladimir Antaki, Ken Rosenthal, Molly McCall, Will Douglas, Alexis Pike, Stephen Milner, Clay Maxwell Jordan, Cody Bratt, Kris Graves, Aline Smithson, Maha Al-Asaker, Hilary Duffy, Emily Matyas, Soraya Zaman, Jeanine Micha-Bales, and Mary Virginia Swanson.
Also happening this evening, Photolucida’s SILENT AUCTION will feature some incredible photographic work – including prints from Amy Friend, Cheryle St. Onge, Tamara Staples, Adriene Hughes, Maya Meissner, Cable Hoover, and Ekaterina Solovieva. All proceeds from the auction will go towards funding scholarships for the next Photolucida Reviews event. Check out the auction and make a bid!Pearl District galleries exhibiting photography will stay open this evening until 8pm for a GALLERY WALK to welcome Photolucida participants and the general public! Galleries include Froelick Gallery, Augen Gallery, Charles A. Hartman Fine Art and PDX Contemporary Art.

Vladimir Antaki at Blue Sky Gallery
2019-05-02 17:00 - 18:00 | Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
Vladimir Antaki, The Guardians
May 2–June 2, 2019First Thursday opening reception: May 2, 6:00–9:00 PMArtist talk: Thursday, May 2, 5:00 PM
Blue Sky Gallery 122 NW 8th AvenuePortland, Oregon 97209 USA503-225-0210Tuesday – Sunday, 12 – 5 pmFirst Thursday 6 – 9 pmbluesky@blueskygallery.orghttp://www.blueskygallery.org/All Blue Sky events and programs are free and open to the public.
For his series The Guardians, Vladimir Antaki traveled across Europe, the Middle East, and America, photographing and interviewing shopkeepers or “Guardians.” These Guardians are keepers of what Antaki terms “urban temples,” or unique spaces which, in an age of cookie-cutter, corporate shops, hearken back to an earlier mode of urban life. Antaki creates portraits of the Guardians that invite the viewer connect to the beauty of these often forgotten spaces. Antaki believes that these temples are the heart and soul of every city; they are what give the urban center its uniqueness in time and place. As so many of them are closing, Antaki seeks to preserve their memory and pay them tribute.
Vladimir Antaki was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in 1980. He grew up in Paris and studied art history and film studies at La Sorbonne. In 2003, Antaki moved to Montreal, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in visual and media arts from L’Université du Québec à Montréal in 2007. The Guardians has been exhibited in public spaces and galleries in more than a hundred cities across France and North America, as well as throughout Lebanon. The series won an Infopresse Lux prize in 2013, and was selected to represent Canada in The Other Hundred, a photo-book curated by the Global Institute For Tomorrow. Most recently, Antaki has published a monograph of The Guardians through Kehrer Verlag.

Lew Nunnelley at Pearl Gallery and Framing
2019-05-02 17:00 - 21:00 | Pearl Gallery and Framing, 2250 NW 22nd Ave Suite 404, Portland, OR, 97210, United States
Lew Nunnelley, UNCONVENTIONAL ROLLING ART: GRAFFITI CACOPHONY
May 2 to June 2, 2019Reception: May 2 from 5pm to 9pm
Pearl Gallery and Framing2250 NW 22nd Ave Suite 404 Portland, OR 97210503.274.9878Normal hours:9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Weekdays11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdaysand every First Thursday until 9 p.m.tekoah@pearlframing.comhttps://Pearlframing.com/
For the month of May, Pearl Gallery & Framing will be showcasing a selection of photographs of graffiti by Lew Nunnelley. This selection of photographs, were made from graffiti images on railroad cars in the Willamette Valley.
“Painting on railroad cars is considered vandalism by some, therefore painting or “tagging” should be done only with prior approval, – Lew Nunnelley
Lew has been making photographs for many years. Like most photographers in the 35mm film era Lew has several shoeboxes of slides that take up space in his closet. About 20 years ago he decided to try to get better at making photographs so he began taking workshops with Galen Rowell, John Sexton, Henry Gilpin and others. Based on those workshops and his interests at that time he pursued traditional landscape photography. Lew still makes photographs with his trusty 4×5 view camera, however as time went on he began to develop an interest in observing and documenting the interaction of people with the environment – how people perceive and manipulate the environment/landscape. This more human oriented view of our environment led to his interest in photographing graffiti.
“Doing graffiti is different than most art. There is no career path. It’s usually anonymous. And the graffiti on railroad cars doesn’t usually stay put – it’s mobile, ephemeral and there is little hope of getting kudos from the professional taste makers.”
The question Lew poses is “why would someone paint graffiti – especially on railroad cars when the railroad companies are usually not enthusiastic about the activity?” His conclusion is that there are several possible motivations of graffiti artists but one, he believes, is that it is the creation of a work of art which livens up the train yard and hopefully is seen by many people, if only briefly. He feels it is a very unselfish and lighthearted way of altering the environment. In passing them, Lew notes that in his opinion, some of the “pieces” (as works of graffiti are called) exhibit a high degree of artistic talent.
“I am not a professional photographer. I am a retired engineer. I do, however, wish to thank all the graffiti artists who have made my journey through life and place a little more colorful.” – Lew Nunnelley.

Pelle Cass at Camerawork Gallery
2019-05-04 10:00 - 16:00 | Camerawork Gallery, 301 N. Graham Street, Portland, OR, 97227, United States
Pelle Cass, Crowded Fields
May 4 – May 31, 2019
Camerawork Gallery301 N. Graham Street, Portland, OR 97227Located in Lorenzen Conference Center – Legacy Emanuel Medical Center Campus.9am – 6pm, Monday-Saturday, Sunday, 10am-4pmFree off street parking available, Stair and elevator access, TriMet Routes 4, 24 and 44www.TheCameraworkGallery.orgwww.Facebook.com/cameraworkgallery503-701-5347Event is free and open to the public
Brookline, MA photographer Pelle Cass notes, “The reshuffled time of this series of composite photographs called Crowded Fields, play prevails over competition, the stands are empty, and the fields are full, whole games are shown out of sequence. I rearrange the archetypes of sports into new patterns.
“To make the compositions, I put my camera on a tripod, take up to a thousand pictures, and compile selected figures into a final photograph that is kind of a still time-lapse. I change nothing—not a pixel—only select what to keep and what to omit. It all happened just as you see it, just not at the same time.
“My subjects are the lightly attended fields, arenas, and stadiums of college and amateur teams (especially women’s teams) around Boston where I live. I try, in the series, to convey a sense of ecstatic chaos–rhythm, pattern, and bodily pleasure that conspire to turn sports back into a game, one that may be invisible to the eye, but clear to my camera.”
Basic information on my process • I put my camera on a tripod and take up to a thousand or more photos over an hour or two from the exact same spot. A thousand photos is typical. • I compose the files in Photoshop. A typical finished photo might include two- to fourhundred layers. • It takes me about 40 hours to assemble a photo in Photoshop. The whole process— from shooting to polishing the final file—might take about two weeks if I’m working on it full time.
Pelle Cass is a photographer from Brookline, Massachusetts. His work is in the collections of the Fogg Art Museum, the Addison Gallery of American Art, the Polaroid Collection, the DeCordova Museum, the Peabody Essex Museum, the MFA, Houston, and others. Cass’s work has been published widely online, in books such as Photoviz, Deleueze and the City, and Langford’s Basic Photography and magazines such as Consumer Reports, Businessweek, McSweeney’s, and the Boston Art Review., and he’s received fellowships from Yaddo and the Polaroid Collection.
www.PelleCass.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/pellecass/

2019 Curatorial Prize: An Inward Gaze at Blue Sky Gallery
2019-05-04 15:00 - 17:00 | Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
2019 Curatorial Prize: An Inward Gazecurated by Jon Feinstein and Roula Seikalyphotographs by Arielle Bobb-Willis and Brittney Cathey-Adams
May 2–June 2, 2019First Thursday opening reception: May 2, 6:00–9:00 PMArtist-led tour of An Inward Gaze: Saturday, May 4, 3:00 PM
Blue Sky Gallery 122 NW 8th AvenuePortland, Oregon 97209 USA503-225-0210Tuesday – Sunday, 12 – 5 pmFirst Thursday 6 – 9 pmbluesky@blueskygallery.orghttp://www.blueskygallery.org/All Blue Sky events and programs are free and open to the public.
Blue Sky is pleased to present its second annual curatorial prize exhibition, An Inward Gaze. Curators Jon Feinstein and Roula Seikaly have brought together the work of Arielle Bobb-Willis and Brittney Cathey-Adams, two women who make sculptural, performative images that counter the male gaze and its prevalence in art history. In doing so, they illustrate how this power dynamic bolsters pervasive gender, race, and body size stereotypes in contemporary art and pop culture. Bobb-Willis’ vivid staged photographs use the human form as source material and as stand-ins for self-portraits representing her own complex emotional struggles. Cathey-Adams creates black-and-white self-portraits in various natural settings that declare personal agency in representation, and defy historical stigmas attached to women who do not fit an idealized physical mold.
Feinstein and Seikaly describe the work in An Inward Gaze as “an abstraction of control and self representation. Rather than offering a salve for the many complex problems tied to the male gaze, we’ve paired the work of Arielle Bobb-Willis and Brittney Cathey-Adams in an attempt to reframe looking: how two artists use photography to process their own inner struggles, how they use images of the physical form as metaphors for these monologues, and ultimately, how their methods are a means of taking ownership over their bodies and inward spaces.”
About the Curators:Jon Feinstein is a Seattle and New York City-based photographer, curator, writer, and co-founder of Humble Arts Foundation. Jon has curated numerous exhibitions over the last decade in venues including Glassbox Gallery in Seattle, The Filter Photo Festival in Chicago, Photographic Center Northwest in Seattle, Hasted Kraeutler in NYC, Affirmation Arts in NYC, Barclays Arena in Brooklyn, New York, and Milk Studios in NYC. His curatorial projects have been featured in Aperture, The New York Times, The New Republic, BBC, VICE, The New Yorker, Hyperallergic, Feature Shoot, and American Photo, and his writing has appeared in VICE, TIME, Slate, GOOD, Daylight, Photograph, and PDN.
Roula Seikaly is a writer and independent curator based in Berkeley, and Humble Arts Foundation’s Senior Editor. Her writing is featured on platforms including Aperture, Photograph, Saint Lucy, Strange Fire Collective, Camerawork, Hyperallergic, and KQED Arts. She has curated exhibitions at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, SOMArts, and SF Camerawork.
About the Artists:Born and raised in New York City, with pit stops in South Carolina and New Orleans, photographer Arielle Bobb-Willis has been using the camera for nearly a decade as a tool of empowerment. Battling with depression from an early age, Bobb-Willis found solace behind the lens and has developed a visual language that speaks to the complexities of life: the beautiful, the strange, belonging, isolation, and connection. Her photographs are all captured in urban and rural cities, from the South to North, East to West. Bobb-Willis travels throughout the US as a way of finding “home” in any grassy knoll, or city sidewalk, reminding us to stay connected and grounded during life’s transitional moments. She is currently based in New York City.
Brittney Cathey-Adams is a photographic artist currently located in Portland, Oregon. Her work includes themes of body politics, fat positivity, and interrogating ideas of representation through self-portraiture. Her work has been exhibited at institutions such as the de Young Museum, The Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, Colorado, and Rayko Photo Center in San Francisco. Most recently, she was a 2017 Artist In Residence with Center for Photography at Woodstock, New York. Previously, she taught photography and created program curricula in the Bay Area for seven years. She is currently teaching photography with Portland Community College. With a strong passion for photography and art education, Cathey-Adams dedicates herself to image making as well as sharing visual language through teaching in and out of the classroom.

Angel O’Brien at 45th Parallel Wines
2019-05-04 18:00 - 21:00 | 45th Parallel Wines, 8527 N Lombard, Portland, OR, 97203, United States
Angel O’Brien, The Distance of Forgetting
Friday, May 2nd – Thursday, May 30thArtist’s Reception-May 4th 6-9pm
45th Parallel Wines8527 North Lombard StreetPortland, Oregon 97203(971) 266-0886www.45thparallelwines.comTuesday-Thursday noon-8pmFriday-Saturday noon-9pmSunday noon-6pm

The Distance of Forgetting is a series of unique self-portrait montages that are made using the alt-process photographic printing techniques of platinum, gum bichromate, cyanotype and photo transfer. With these photographs, Angel plays with the idea that through the melding together of multiple, often disparate, images, something magical and other can be created.
www.5x7angel.cominstagram- @5x7angel

Eric Brody at West Linn Public Library
2019-05-05 12:30 - 14:30 | West Linn Public Library, 1595 Burns Street, West Linn, OR, 97068, United States
Eric Brody
May 1-May 31, 2019I shall be having reception on Sunday, May 5 from 12:30PM-2:30PM.
West Linn Public Library(in the Community Room)1595 Burns StreetWest Linn, OR 97068https://westlinnoregon.gov/libraryMonday – Wednesday 10:00AM-8:00PMThursday-Friday 10:00AM-6:00PMSaturday-Sunday 12:00-5:00PMPlease call 503-656-7853 if you’d like to visit during the day as the room is sometimes booked for meetings.
I am privileged to have an solo exhibit of my photography at the West Linn Public Library, in the Community Room, from May 1 through May 31, 2019.
www.ericbrodyphoto.com
A photographer can preserve a moment in time by combining artistic vision and technical tools. Each of my images has a special meaning for me. For each, I can recall the light and the unique photographic aspects of the scene. I am fortunate both to live in Oregon and to have the ability to travel to photograph. Oregon and the west are magical places where one can capture the extraordinary beauty in simple natural things.For many years, I used black and white film and printed in the traditional darkroom. I now photograph digitally with a high-resolution camera, and do post processing in Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop.All photographs are manipulated. A two dimensional piece of paper is not reality; black and white is not reality; the colors in photographs are not real either. Just choosing where to place the corners in a composition requires a conscious decision. I have modified the color in some images as I have modified the tonal relationships in black and white, both traditionally and digitally to produce images that please me.

Cherie Hiser - A Celebration of Life at Portland Art Museum
2019-05-09 18:00 - 19:00 | Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR, 97205, United States
Cherie Hiser – A Celebration of LifePresented by Tatiana Raimondo
May 9th @ 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Portland Art MuseumWhitsell Auditorium1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR 97205www.portlandartmuseum.org503 226 2811Cost: Free to the public
Lee Friedlander referred to Cherie Hiser as a “Photo Evangelist.”
Cornell Capa called her “One of the Most Vital Persons of Our Time.”
Cherie Hiser is the Godmother of the “Selfie.”
Cherie Hiser Revolutionized the Education of Photography with the “Center of the Eye” in Aspen, Colorado in 1968.
Cherie Hiser is a third generation Portlander who was introduced to Photography in a workshop with Minor White at the Portland Art Museum in 1960. The Portland Art Museum has her work in its permanent collection. Cherie’s first teachers also included Imogen Cunningham and Ruth Bernhard.
As mentioned above; Cherie founded and directed “The Center of the Eye” in Aspen, Colorado in 1968. It was “the first and finest year round photography workshop facility in the country.”
The teacher roster included: Ruth Bernhard, Bea Nettles, Joan Lyons, Nathan Lyons, Bruce Davidson, Garry Winogrand, Robert Heinecken, Ralph Gibson, Jerry Uelsmann, Lee Friedlander, Cornell Capa, Paul Caponigro, Henri Cartier-Bresson, etc.
Cherie served on the Ansel Adams Friends of Photography Board of Trustees for five years. Ansel Adams recommended Cherie Hiser be the first Director of Photography for the new Sun Valley Center for the Arts and Humanities in Sun Valley, Idaho in 1974.
Cherie Hiser’s Photographic work spanned six decades. Her “Odyssey of the Invisible” included her photographic work of numerous subcultures in our society. “I photograph what we don’t, or can’t, see”
Upon returning to Portland in 1978 Cherie maintained two careers. She worked as a photographer/teacher and a Mental Health Therapist.
Other photographic bodies of Cherie’s work include “Re:Visions.” “A re-photographic survey of photographs of myself, and friends.” “Sleight of Face” which are diptychs of Drag Queens. And, “Birds of Pray.” A photographic project during a disability leave of absence from her work as a Mental Health Therapist.
Cherie founded PhotoWorks Northwest in Portland in 1996. And, in 1999 Cherie was a Trustee, and Founding Member, of Photolucida. She also served as the Chairperson of the Fine Art Auction in both 2000 and 2001.
Included in Cherie’s Celebration of Life, will be written tributes for Cherie from Joan Lyons, Bea Nettles, and Paul Caponigro, with a special audio tribute from Judy Dater.
Presented by Tatiana Raimondo (pocitos@comcast.net)
Cherie HiserBorn in Portland, Oregon – May 9th, 1939Died in Portland, Oregon – December 26th, 2018

C.A. Burns Photography - The Innovative Eye in memoriam at The O’Brien Photo Gallery
2019-05-11 16:00 - 18:00 | The O’Brien Photo Gallery, 2833 Willamette, Ste. B, Eugene, OR, 97405, United States
C.A. Burns Photography, The Innovative Eyein memoriam
The show runs from May 11th through July 11th.Reception on Saturday, May 11th from 4-6 pm.
The O’Brien Photo Gallery2833 Willamette, Ste. BEugene, OR 97405541 729 3572Open weekdays, call to be sure we’re openwaltobrien1945@gmail.comhttps://www.waltobrien.net
This is a memorial show for an early member of the PhotoZone Gallery who passed awaythis year. He passed away before the show was organized.
From an article by Paul Carter in the Eugene Scene Website https://www.eugenescene.org.
“To make a living, he started a career in social work, managing a training center for developmentally disabled adults in California. After several agency positions, the path ended in burnout. Odd jobs followed in San Francisco and briefly in Seattle. He started a professional darkroom and photography business. There were even episodes of living on the street forced by his precarious financial situation and a natural disaster, a mudslide in San Carlos, Calif. in 1983. In Eugene since 1991, Burns taught photography at the Craft Center at the University of Oregon and worked for Dot Dotson’s photo equipment and photo finishing stores. Along the way, there was plenty of artistic rejection. A gallery owner in San Francisco turned down his early work with the advice to “print bigger.” He took that advice to heart. Burns’ photography defies easy categorization. He works in single images that range from street portraits, still life and landscapes to documentary photographs. He also has experimented with manipulated images. There is some color; all the work is 35 mm and done with natural light. He is drawn to faces but hastens to explain that he wants to photograph people — often strangers on the street — to reveal “what the person is about.” Portraits almost always involve hours of conversation with his subjects. He is never a snapshooter.”

Grace Weston at the Portland Art Museum
2019-05-15 12:00 - 13:00 | Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR, 97205, United States
Grace Weston, Not Everything is Funny
Portland Art Museum Photography Council’sBrown Bag Lunch Talk Series
Wednesday, May 15th, 2019, Noon – 1pm
Portland Art MuseumThe Miller Gallery, Mark Building1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR 97205www.portlandartmuseum.org503 226 2811Cost: Free to the public (people are welcome to bring their lunch)
Join Grace for a presentation of her work from the last several years – from her photography of detailed staged miniature scenes to her first large-scale multi-media installation debuted at Nine Gallery. She will address changes to her work prompted by her relocation to Seattle and her eventual return to Portland, and as always, she will share a peek at the behind-the-scenes process. There will be time for questions.
Based in Portland, Oregon, Grace has spent the last twenty-plus years photographing small worlds. Although never depicting actual people in her photographs, the psychological landscape, our search for meaning, and the contradictions of human existence are undeniably at the center of her work.
Grace’s artwork has been recognized internationally with numerous exhibitions, publications, public acquisitions, and awards. She has also created work in her unique style for the editorial market.
www.graceweston.com

Rich Bergeman at Benton County Museum
2019-06-01 14:00 - 15:00 | Benton County Museum, 1101 Main St., Philomath, OR, 97370, United States
Rich Bergeman, The Land Remembers
May 10 – June 15, 2019Opening reception Friday, May 10, from 5-6:30pmGallery Talk, Saturday, June 1, at 2pm
Mooreland GalleryBenton County Museum1101 Main St.Philomath, OR 97370www.bentoncountymuseum.org541-929-6230Open Tues-Sat 10am-4:30pm
“The Land Remembers: Photographs Inspired by the Rogue River Wars” features more than 30 black-and-white infrared photographs by Corvallis photographer Rich Bergeman.
Over the last three years Bergeman has explored hundreds of miles of back roads in the Rogue River Country, from Mt. McLoughlin to Gold Beach–as well as a few more miles on the river–in search of places where one of the bloodiest and longest-running wars in the state’s history raged in the early 1850s. Largely forgotten today, the Rogue River Wars festered and flared up multiple times between 1851 and 1854 before erupting into all out war involving the U.S. Army in 1855-56. It ended with the forced removal of the Rogue Valley and the South Coast tribes to reservations at Siletz and Grand Ronde in what natives remember as Oregon’s own “Trail of Tears.”
Bergeman says his goal was not to document exact sites from the war years, but rather to bring the historic conflict back to life through a “reflective look at the beautiful and sublime landscape that played host to such tragic events over 160 years ago.”
An Oregonian since 1976, Bergeman is a retired instructor of journalism and photography for Linn-Benton Community College in Albany. The 70-year-old photographer has been exhibiting his work at various venues in the Northwest and beyond since the 1980s. Over the past two decades he has focused primarily on portraying forgotten Northwest histories through photographs of what’s been left behind. His photographic portfolios can be seen at richbergeman.zenfolio.com, and in book form at blurb.com

Photography at Oregon On-Line Photography Auction
2019-06-01 17:00 | OR
Photography at Oregon On-Line Photography Auction
Now through 5 PM PDT June 1st, 2019
https://www.accelevents.com/e/PAO2019
Eugene-based Photography at Oregon (PAO) is having their 41st annual photography auction of original photographs.
Photographs by Bruce Barnbaum, Wynn Bullock, Martha Casanave, Carl Chiarenza, Barbara Crane, Stewart Harvey, Don Kirby, Stu Levy, Bill Owens, Alan Ross, George Tice and many other photographers are being offered.
PAO has supported the Eugene area’s photography teaching programs for more than 50 years.
Auction proceeds support PAO’s free public lectures, exhibitions, workshops, visiting artists and community fine-art photography nights.PAO is comprised of volunteers, all well-known photographers.
Auction bids can be made through June 1. Please bid on a photograph and help support photography in our community!

Mark Aghatise at Blue Sky Gallery
2019-06-06 17:00 - 18:00 | Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
Mark Aghatise, Study One
June 6–30, 2019First Thursday opening reception: June 6, 6:00–9:00 PMArtist talk: Thursday, June 6, 5:00 PM
Blue Sky Gallery 122 NW 8th AvenuePortland, Oregon 97209 USA503-225-0210Tuesday – Sunday, 12 – 5 pmFirst Thursday 6 – 9 pmbluesky@blueskygallery.orghttp://www.blueskygallery.org/All Blue Sky events and programs are free and open to the public.
In Study One, Mark Aghatise manipulates photographs to examine “the bifurcation of self that occurs in contemporary urban life.” Upon moving to New York City, Aghatise became distinctly aware of the tendency for people to split into public and private personas, and of their desire, or need, to create and market a perfect outward version of themselves. At the same time, he was grappling with similar questions regarding himself, his body, and his feelings of dysmorphia in relation to it.
Aghatise found an avenue for this self-examination through his work as an editorial photographer. He writes, “Through photographing other black bodies, I began to better understand my own and ultimately how to contort and queer the space it inhabits.” Regarding his process with his subjects, he states, “I analyzed during our shoots whether there was a difference in their public self that they would bring to set and the private self that would reveal itself by the end of the session. Noting the differences, I worked to use tactile manipulations of their image to reflect what I perceived in each of them. I wanted to craft a more cohesive image, reflecting the layers.”
Mark Aghatise is a London-born, New York-based artist. His work explores the processes of deconstructing and constructing images of the black male figure. Movement, repetition, and the failure of both are central to his photographic studies and endeavors. His work interrogates our current cultural understanding and relationship to photographs and photography as a medium. Through a design-oriented lens, Aghatise scans, rips, and distorts images to question and stretch our perception of reality within a photograph to make audiences conscious of their perspective and gaze.

Rachel Wolf at The Chehalem Cultural Center
2019-06-07 17:00 - 20:00 | Chehalem Gallery, 415 E Sheridan St, Newberg, OR, 97132, United States
Rachel Wolf, Unconditional
June 4, 2019 – August 3, 2019Opening Reception: Friday, June 7, 5-8pm
Central GalleryThe Chehalem Cultural Center415 E Sheridan, Newberg, OR 97132503-487-6883Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 9am-6pmWebsite:chehalemculturalcenter.orgrachelwolf.com
The art of alchemy is the transmutation of matter, a process wherein something is changed from one state to another in order to achieve a higher or more valuable form. My work takes from the alchemists this idea of transmutative elevation, which in my projects is achieved through color and chemical action.
My principal method of working involves directly exposing photographic materials to light and chemicals. These essential matters become the tools, subjects and direct chemical process that create the final image. I choose to return to these irreducible elements, the invisible tools of analogue photography, in order to produce a new, tangible photographic subject. Taking the camera away from photography doesn’t remove the possibility for an image, instead it provides space for proposing images for an un-lensed, visual world.
Rachel Wolf specializes in camera-less photography, alternative/antique processes, and immersive environments through light-based installations. Rachel is an educator and speaker in the field of photography. She has exhibited her work nationally, including New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Cincinnati, Seattle, and Portland. Recently her work was acquired into the City of Portland’s public art collection and she has been the Artist in Residence at Rose Villa in Milwaukee, OR. Rachel is a founding member of FO(u)RT Collective, a multi-disciplinary arts collective that creates/curates exhibitions and events. Originally from Anchorage, Alaska, Rachel earned her BA from Hampshire College and her MFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art. Rachel currently resides in Portland, OR.

Gioncarlo Valentine at Blue Sky Gallery
2019-06-08 15:00 - 17:00 | Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
Gioncarlo Valentine, The Soft Fence
June 6–30, 2019 First Thursday opening reception: June 6, 6:00–9:00 PMArtist talk: Saturday, June 8, 3:00 PM
Blue Sky Gallery 122 NW 8th AvenuePortland, Oregon 97209 USA503-225-0210Tuesday – Sunday, 12 – 5 pmFirst Thursday 6 – 9 pmbluesky@blueskygallery.orghttp://www.blueskygallery.org/All Blue Sky events and programs are free and open to the public.
“When I hear Black men say they don’t cry, is this genuine? Has hardness forced the tears from them permanently? Are they able?… How many men in our community are flailing beneath the weight of their performances, and what are the real life consequences?”
In The Soft Fence, Gioncarlo Valentine explores what is beyond the wall of performative hypermasculinity within Black culture. Having grown up queer and femme-presenting, Valentine’s work is influenced by his desire to understand the experiences of straight men in his community and the standards of masculinity imposed on them. These photographs are “a series of questions about access, performance, proximity, Black manhood, and Black brotherhood,” in which Valentine asks viewers to question where the performance begins and ends, and what preconceived ideas they may have about his subjects.
Gioncarlo Valentine (b. 1990) is an American documentary/portraiture photographer and writer currently based in New York. Valentine hails from Baltimore City and attended Towson University in Maryland. His work focuses on issues faced by marginalized populations, most often focusing his lens on the experiences of Black/LGBTQIA+ communities. Valentine was named a 2018 En Foco Photography Fellow and was a member of the 2018 class of Skowhegan’s School of Painting and Sculpture. He is a contributing photographer for The New York Times and has had his work published in Propublica, The Fader, Essence, THEM, Harpers Bazaar, and Newsweek, among other publications.

Oliver Klink at Camerawork Gallery
2019-06-08 16:00 - 18:30 | Camerawork Gallery, 301 N. Graham Street, Portland, OR, 97227, United States
Oliver Klink, Soul of the Bürkitshi
June 1- June 28, 2019Artist’s talk, Saturday, June 8, 4pm-5pm Artist’s Reception and Book signing, June 8 5pm-6:30pm
Camerawork Gallery301 N. Graham Street, Portland, OR 97227Located in Lorenzen Conference Center – Legacy Emanuel Medical Center Campus.9am – 6pm, Monday-Saturday, Sunday, 10am-4pmFree off street parking available, Stair and elevator access, TriMet Routes 4, 24 and 44www.TheCameraworkGallery.orgwww.Facebook.com/cameraworkgallery503-701-5347Event is free and open to the public
Nestled in the snowy mountaintops of Western Mongolia, the Kazakhs have mastered the ancient and noble art of hunting with eagles. For nomadic tribes, their survival depends not only on training these majestic birds but in passing on their skills to the younger generation. For centuries, this knowledge has been transferred from father to son, but that’s all beginning to change.
The young women are becoming Bürkitshi, the Kazakh word for eagle hunters. This shift is no accident. Eagle hunting has slowly transitioned from a means of survival to a sightseeing attraction. This influx of commercialism has altered their trading power and divided the community. No longer are they exchanging goods and furs, now they are earning currency through tourism. Teaching the art of eagle hunting to women makes the Kazakh even more interesting to tourists and prevents the sport from becoming diluted or dying out altogether.
These images are a glimpse into the soul of the hunters in a time of rapid change. There is a deep bond and a rich unspoken language between the Bürkitshi and their eagles. Yes, the hunt is violent, but the Bürkitshi’s intimate connection with their animals instills the sport with a sense of grace and art.
For those who truly live as Bürkitshi, the future doesn’t faze them. They still hunt in the way of their ancestors, migrate through the rugged terrain and share stories over cups of fermented mare’s milk and baursak (fried dough balls). Only now, these stories are being told by brave new huntresses.
Geir Jordahl (Publisher, True North Editions) writes: “Klink’s images transcend borders without homogenizing very distinct peoples, nationalities, and cultures. The uniqueness of each is present, yet Klink asks us to see the links between them and to see ourselves within each tribe. He connects us through the use of common bonds, gestures, and expressions. In this way the personalities of his subjects shine through – their emotion, their joy, their connections with each other and, by association their connection to the viewer.”
Printing Technique: The images were photographed with high-resolution cameras, ranging from medium format digital Hasselblad to full frame mirrorless Sony. The images are printed with a special technique called Piezography. Piezography is the first fine-art archival black & white digital printing process, which has a unique combination of surface reflection, high fidelity, and tone due to a proprietary pigment manufacturing. ABOUT THE ARTIST Oliver Klink was educated as a physicist and photographer. He was awarded 2019 IPPY GOLD AWARD by the Independent Book Publisher for best photography book of 2018 (Cultures in Transition: Spirit Heart Soul), Black and White Photographer of the year (2018) by Dodho Magazine, Top 50 Artist (2016 & 2018) Photolucida Critical Mass, Spotlight winner of Black and White Magazine Portfolio edition (2018), Best of the Best Black and White Emerging Photographers by BWGallerist (2016).
He has had solo exhibits at Middlebury Institute of International Studies, Monterey, California; Conti Museum, Festival de La Luz, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Black Rapid Gallery, Seattle, Washington; Pictura Gallery, Bloomington, Indiana; CameraWork, Portland, Oregon; PhotoCentral Gallery, Hayward, California; Shadows Gallery, Arles, France.
Oliver Klink resides in Los Gatos, California with his wife.
Purchasing Work: His award-winning book (2019 IPPY GOLD AWARD by Independent publisher) and limited edition prints are for sale at www.culturesintransition.com

The Plastic Fantastic Show X at LightBox Photographic Gallery
2019-06-08 17:00 - 20:00 | LightBox Photographic Gallery, 1045 Marine Dr., Astoria, OR, 97103, United States
The Plastic Fantastic Show X
June 8 – July 10, 2019Artists’ Opening Reception: Saturday, June 8, 5-8pm
LightBox Photographic Gallery1045 Marine Dr.Astoria, OR 97103(503) 468-0238lightbox-photographic.com
LightBox Photographic Gallery celebrates its 10th anniversary with the opening and artists’ reception of The Plastic Fantastic Show X on Saturday, June 8, 2019 from 5-8pm.
The Plastic Fantastic Show X exhibits images shot using toy, plastic, pinhole, box or homemade cameras. The show is held every year to celebrate the gallery’s anniversary! This method of photography has gained popularity because of the freedom possible using cameras with less than perfect optics and control resulting in unpredictable and sometimes extraordinarily beautiful results. A large number of photographers from around the world shoot images primarily with these basic cameras, creating unique photos that are captured on film.
Becky Ramotowski of Taos, New Mexico juried the exhibit. Becky is the founder of World Toy Camera Day. She has been a photo enthusiast since the age of six when she was given her first camera, an Imperial Mark XII, to take on a road trip across the southwestern USA. Her “official” interest in toy cameras came in 2002 after seeing quirky photos made with Holgas and Dianas at a photo lab in Texas where she bought her first Holga.
“The very first photo I made with my Holga was one I really liked of a statue of “Nike of Samothrace” in a run-down park in San Antonio, Texas. It was the flawed statue and the run-down park full of weeds and abandonment that lured me in and set the hook for using toy cameras. The photo was vignetted and not quite perfectly focused. Toy cameras communicate a freer sense of photography that feels natural and relaxed at relaying an idea. They aren’t perfect but are addictive and amazing in what they can do in creative hands”.
Congratulations to the photographers accepted into The Plastic Fantastic Show X
C B Adams • Lilyan Aloma • Helene Barrette • Stephanie BethelKerry Bishe • Amelia Bjesse-Puffin • Maureen Bond • Larissa BurkeRonald Butler • Claudia Cebrian • Elisabeth Dare • Ellen DavisChristine Eagon • Eddie Erdmann • Joanna Epstein • Liv FergusonBrian Franczyk • Alexa Frangos • Bob Gervais • J. M. GoldingJulie Hamel • Karen Hillier • Kerry Jeffrey • George JohnsonBarbara Justice • Elissa Killian • Jocelyn Matthewes • Bill MoySara Musashi • April Rocha • Denise Ross • Paul Sharratt • Steven TaddeiIan Thompson • Jacqueline Walters • Bonni Wahlquist • Kristin WareMichael Weitzman • Patrick Whitaker • Mike Yoder • Yelena Zhavoronkova
This year Sara Musashi from West Hollywood, Ca. received the juror’s top award for the image, “Two Suns”, Bob Gervais of Portland, Or. received the juror’s second award for “Janitzio, Mexico”, and Claudia Cebrian from Miami Fla.. received the Juror’s third award for “Mermaid”.
LightBox opened in Astoria on June 13, 2009 when Chelsea and Michael Granger established the venue to educate in the photographic arts. Having hosted over 125 exhibits since opening, LightBox has become an important Northwest photographic resource, exhibiting national and regional artists’ with exhibits of fine photography, conducting artists’ presentations and workshops, all as part of their goal to provide a center for the promotion of creative and alternative photography on the North Coast of Oregon.
The Plastic Fantastic Show X runs from June 8th until July 10th. LightBox offers memberships as a way of becoming part of the community of supporters that help to further the mission of the gallery. LightBox provides fine art reproduction, restorations, photographic printing, 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.

Oliver Klink workshop hosted by Camerawork Gallery
2019-06-09 10:00 - 14:00 | Camerawork Gallery, 301 N. Graham Street, Portland, OR, 97227, United States
“Turning your travel photography into Fine Art Images. Get Ready and Inspired!”Workshop with professional photographer Oliver Klink hosted by Camerawork Gallery
June 9, 2019 (10AM – 2PM)
Camerawork Gallery301 N. Graham Street, Portland, OR 97227Located in Lorenzen Conference Center – Legacy Emanuel Medical Center Campus.Free off street parking available, Stair and elevator access, TriMet Routes 4, 24 and 44www.TheCameraworkGallery.orgwww.Facebook.com/cameraworkgallery503-701-5347
Workshop price: $79Register at: https://www.incredibletravelphotos.com/2019-Workshops/2019-1-Day-Workshops/1DayTravelREADY/
Synopsis: The workshop retraces the steps Oliver Klink took to progress from an avid travel photographer to one who delivers meaningful messages thru storytelling and compelling images. Klink will discuss his “breakthroughs”, the technical choices he made to be recognized as one of the best printmakers, the power of making images of personal nature, working on “hero shots” versus a longterm project, how “compelling and different the world of the art is” and be able to embrace it. The format is lecture style, with Q&A at the end of each segments.
Topics covered: Segment 1: You don’t need to be a fulltime photographer to make images “that sing”, Segment 2: Organizing data on the road and at home, Segment 3: I am not reproducing what I saw (Best tips to improve your post processing), Segment 4: I love images on my wall (The smell of the ink vs. the beautiful electronic display), Segment 5: I do it for fun (Making images of personal nature)
About Oliver Klink: Oliver Klink is a professional photographer, originally from Switzerland, now based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has photographed in over 120 countries. In 2018, he published a book – Cultures in Transition: Spirit Heart Soul – which won the prestigious 2019 IPPY GOLD AWARD by the Independent Publisher for best photography book of 2018. The images, the stories, the sequencing, the quality of the printing, and the cover, all contributed to the award. He was also awarded 2018 Black and White photographer of the year by Dodho Magazine.

Dawn Surratt at the Portland Art Museum
2019-06-19 12:00 - 13:00 | Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR, 97205, United States
Dawn Surratt, Art and Death; The Human Universals
Portland Art Museum Photography Council’sBrown Bag Lunch Talk Series
Wednesday, June 19th, 2019, Noon – 1pm
Portland Art MuseumThe Miller Gallery, Mark Building1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR 97205www.portlandartmuseum.org503 226 2811Cost: Free to the public (people are welcome to bring their lunch)
Working as a hospice social worker shaped Dawn Surratt’s worldview, her values, and her visual perspective. Please join her as she speaks about her experience of making art after working with dying people for over 22 years.
Dawn Surratt earned a B.A. in Studio Arts from the University of North Carolina in Greensboro and a Bachelor and master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Georgia. Her years of work with dying patients in hospice settings is the backbone of her imagery. Surratt’s photographs, with photo-based book structures, installations, and objects are visual meditations exploring concepts of grief, transition, healing and spirituality.
Her work has been widely shown and is held in private and permanent collections across the United States. She is a 2016 Critical Mass Finalist and a 2018 nominee for the Royal Photography Society’s 100 Heroines.
She is a full-time artist living in rural North Carolina with her husband.

Call for Entry - PhotoZone's 31st Annual Juried Show
2019-06-29 08:00 - 17:00 | Emerald Art Center, 500 Main St., Springfield, OR, 97477, United States
Call for Entry – PhotoZone’s 31st Annual Juried Show
Submission Dates: June 29th and June 30thThis submission is made in person only. Prints are brought in by hand, framed and ready to hang (see below).
Two Delivery Locations: The Emerald Art Center500 Main Street, SpringfieldSaturday June 29th or Sunday June 30th from 11 – 4 each day The Siuslaw Public Library1460 Ninth StreetFlorence, OregonSaturday only – June 29th from 11-4.
Cash Prizes First Prize $300Second Prize $200Third Prize $100Plus other prizes from our business sponsors
Bring prints framed with hanging wire only (no tape and string or sawtooth hangers)Size limit 36 inch frame, longest dimensionLimit 2 prints per person – Fee due on delivery One for $15 or Two for $25Cash or Check only. Show location
Juried Show Exhibit July 3rd – August 2nd, 2019Opening Reception Friday July 12th at The Emerald Art Center from 5 – 8 pm500 Main Street in Springfield. Refreshments will be served.Gallery Hours Tue. – Sat. 11:00 – 4:00 For complete entry instructions visit the PhotoZone Blogspot at: http://photozonegallery.blogspot.comemail for info: photozonegalleryoregon@gmail.comCall: 541 729 3572Website: http://members.efn.org/~fotozone/

Joseph Meacham at Camerawork Gallery
2019-06-29 09:00 - 18:00 | Camerawork Gallery, 301 N. Graham Street, Portland, OR, 97227, United States
Joseph Meacham, EFFIGY: Ghosts of Asbury Park
June 29 – August 2, 2019
Camerawork Gallery301 N. Graham Street, Portland, OR 97227Located in Lorenzen Conference Center – Legacy Emanuel Medical Center Campus.9am – 6pm, Monday-Saturday, Sunday, 10am-4pmFree off street parking available, Stair and elevator access, TriMet Routes 4, 24 and 44www.TheCameraworkGallery.orgwww.Facebook.com/cameraworkgallery503-701-5347Event is free and open to the public
Rarely seen images of Asbury Park, from the mid-1970s by New Jersey artist and photographer Joseph Meacham, reemerge after more than four decades in his personal archive. ”EFFIGY: Ghosts of Asbury Park” includes 15 images of the collection never shown on the West Coast, and is a personal metaphor embracing a close look at the tough times this shore town saw following the race riots of 1970 and the economic, political and social malaise of 1970’s America.
About his 1970s photographs from Asbury Park Meacham notes, “The place had become a ghost town, but no one told the ghosts. I would return again and again with my old camera to what remained of this sideshow of a city. I felt like the only one eating stale popcorn in the bleachers; watching the actors that couldn’t make eye contact—and I could not look away. I’m happy that today these images stand in stark contrast to the vibrant, creative community Asbury Park has become.”
Joseph Meacham grew up working and photographing in and around Asbury Park. As an adolescent he worked building surfboards in a factory that was also home to Bruce Springsteen and members of his bar band “Steel Mill”. In the 1970s he studied photography with Ray K. Metzger at what’s now the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and later received his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, MI. Mr. Meacham has exhibited work and lectured throughout the United States and spends time between New York City, Philadelphia and his home in New Jersey. www.JosephMeacham.com

Barbara Peacock at Blue Sky Gallery
2019-07-03 17:00 - 18:00 | Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
Barbara Peacock, American Bedroom
July 3–28, 2019First Wednesday* opening reception: July 3, 6:00–9:00 PMArtist talk: Wednesday, July 3, 5:00 PM*Blue Sky will be closed on Thursday, July 4th
Blue Sky Gallery 122 NW 8th AvenuePortland, Oregon 97209 USA503-225-0210Tuesday – Sunday, 12 – 5 pmFirst Thursday 6 – 9 pmbluesky@blueskygallery.orghttp://www.blueskygallery.org/All Blue Sky events and programs are free and open to the public.
American Bedroom is a cultural and anthropological study of Americans in their most private and intimate spaces: their bedrooms. In these large-scale environmental portraits, photographer Barbara Peacock captures a range of living conditions and ways of life that make up the current American experience. However, these images are more than photographic documents of a historical moment. As Peacock notes, “These [are] portraits of individuals, couples, and families that reveal the depth of their character and spirit.”
Barbara Peacock is a fine art and commercial photographer based in Portland, Maine. She studied fine arts at Boston University and photography and filmmaking at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts. She is a 2017 Getty Editorial Grant Winner for her project American Bedroom. Peacock published her first monograph, Hometown, in 2015, which is a thirty-year photographic study of her small New England hometown.

Deb Stoner at Lan Su Chinese Gardens
2019-07-12 14:00 - 16:00 | Lan Su Chinese Garden, 239 Northwest Everett Street, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
Deb Stoner, Still Life Garden Photographs
June 1 through July 31, 2019
Lan Su Chinese Gardens239 NW Everett StPortland, OR 97209503.228.8131Open every day 10am-7pm Lan Su Members Free, otherwise entrance fee is $12.95 Adults;$11.95 Seniors; $9.95 Students; Children five and under are free
And here’s a tip: if you live in Clackamas or Washington County, and have a library card, investigate their Cultural Pass program, good for entrance at many places including Lan Su Gardens. (Multnomah County has this program as well, but their summer passes are already used at this point.) Thank you to our fantastic tri-county library system!
https://lansugarden.org/things-to-do/art-exhibition
Deb Stoner’s work in still life photography involves making complex visual constructs using the flora and small fauna of specific places. She is drawn to imperfections in the natural world and seeks tiny ephemeral events to choreograph in real time. Composed on a flatbed scanner, the work becomes a rich and beautiful visual narrative as Deb examines highly magnified details of natural forms.
Here’s what Deb says this exhibit is about:
“Working from flowers from places like Lan Su Garden is such a joy. The lotus blossom photograph came about after I asked about being able to cut a stem to work with. Mandy, the gardener in charge, invited me to Lan Su Garden’s greenhouse where there were several still blooming. She said that I’d have to work quickly as the petals on the blossom would fall off soon after being cut. The additional challenge with a flower as large and heavy as the lotus is working against gravity as it lays on the scanner glass while I work. There are no secrets really, just a careful arranging of the beautiful flora, working quickly to capture it before the whole thing falls apart, or more accurately, before it loses turgor and collapses onto the scanner glass. During November during Lan Su’s chrysanthemum festival “Mumvember”, I arrived at the greenhouse to see hundreds of chrysanthemums all in pots, arranged by variety, but to me, arranged by color and shape. Overwhelmed, I asked Mandy to cut me a dozen or so small flowers in various stages of bloom that I then took home to photograph. Beautiful! Many thanks to the generosity of Lan Su Garden as they shared their flowers, or as I like to think of them, art materials.”
On Friday July 12, 2-4pm, Deb will be demonstrating her scanner technique in a drop by session in the Scholar’s Study, surrounded by her large scale still life photographs. Entrance is included with admission.https://lansugarden.org/things-to-do/events/art-demonstration2/
https://www.debstoner.com/
Deb Stoner holds an MFA in Applied Design from San Diego State University, a BS in Geology from UC Davis, and a decades long teaching career at Oregon College of Art and Craft. Recently she presented lectures on photography to the Yuma Symposium, the Portland Art Museum, the SPE NW Regional Conference; had solo photography shows in 2019, 2017, 2016 and 2015; numerous group shows; work in the permanent public art collections at University of Oregon, OHSU, PCC, and Portland International Airport; is the recipient of grants, an Oregon Arts Fellowship, and a recent residency; and sells work to enthusiastic collectors.

The Meaningful portrait and the studio nude workshop with Ray Bidegain
2019-07-13 10:00 - 17:00 | OR
Ray Bidegain, The Meaningful portrait and the studio nude workshop
July 13, 2019 10am-5pm
295.00
https://www.raybidegain.com/study-photography-2/the-meaningful-portrait-and-the-studio-nude2
Spend the day working in a beautiful daylight studio with photographer Ray Bidegain. During this 4 hour workshop we will explore making portraits in natural light that transcend beyond the identity of the model to make meaningful works of art. We will challenge ourselves to make photographs working with a professional nude model to make work that is both contemporary and classical at the same time. We will embrace beauty every step of the way and well-seen photographs will be our goal. There will be 2 sessions for the day with a short lunch break so a packed lunch is in order. This class is limited to 6 students to be sure everyone has time to make the work that is in their hearts.
Topics for the day will include:• pose and gesture• mood• concept and ideas• lighting• working with models, amateur and professional• finding models to work with and space to rent for projects
A critique session will be scheduled in the weeks following the session for anyone who would like feedback on the work they have made.

Grady Tarbutton at The O’Brien Photo Gallery
2019-07-13 16:00 - 18:00 | The O’Brien Photo Gallery, 2833 Willamette, Ste. B, Eugene, OR, 97405, United States
Grady Tarbutton
The show runs from July 13th – September 12thArtist reception is July 13th from 4-6 pm
The O’Brien Photo Gallery2833 Willamette, Ste. B.Eugene, OR. 97405(541) 729-3572Open Tue – Fri; 1-5 pm. Call to be sure we’re openemail: waltobrien1945@gmail.comwebsite: https://www.waltobrien.net/the-o-brien-photo-gallery
Grady Tarbutton, Photographer and member of The PhotoZone Gallery.
I retired in 2015 from a long career in public service. My career was very challenging and satisfying, but I put my artistic self to one side. But I had not forgotten thatI have always expressed myself through photography, especially when I was younger, but continued it outside of work and family responsibilities. That became my answer to “What’s Next?”
My emphasis is – as always – the creation of fine art images that look beyond the surface to reveal the dynamism, power and beauty of this world. I look to immerse people emotionally and aesthetically in it. This series is titled “Rock and Concrete.” These photographs contrast ancient Native American rock art (approximately 1600 to 12,000 years old) with modern creations.In the end, both are mankind’s temporary expressions. What will remain in 500 years? 10,000?
These photos are reflections on different cultural values and expressions from two world-views, with one perhaps more durable than the other.
See other Images on the PhotoZone site: https://www.photozonegallery.com/grady-tarbutton.

The Members Summer Showcase at LightBox Photographic Gallery
2019-07-13 17:00 - 20:00 | LightBox Photographic Gallery, 1045 Marine Dr., Astoria, OR, 97103, United States
The Members Summer Showcase
July 13 – August 6, 2019Artists’ Opening Reception: Saturday, July 13, 5-8pm
LightBox Photographic Gallery1045 Marine Dr.Astoria, OR 97103(503) 468-0238lightbox-photographic.com
LightBox Photographic Gallery hosts the opening and artists’ reception of The Members Summer Showcase on Saturday, July 13, 2019 from 5-8pm. The Members Summer Showcase exhibits work produced by the supporting Members of Lightbox Photographic Gallery. Thirty-nine photographers will be showing work in this exhibit.
Thank You to the LightBox Members contributing work to this exhibit
Mike Demkowicz • Robert DiFranco • Eddie Greenly • George JohnsonJoni Kabana • Peter Karnig • Ann Kendellen • Laura KurtenbachJulie Moore • Walt O`Brien • Michael Puff • David Schaerer • Jon LingelKathleen & Terry Thompson • Mickey Anderson • RL Potts • Sam BlairEleanor Gorman • Jim Congleton • Roger Dorband • Jim FitzgeraldRich Bergeman • Friderike Heuer • Ken Hochfeld • Bob LevineDonald MacDonald • Jody Miller • Chester Ng • John RitchieDenise Ross • Rachel Wolf • David White • Byron Will • June S. ReylaGeorge Willse • Mark Wiltrakis • Ryan Gillespie • Logan Clark
We thank our LightBox Members for the support and community interest which allows us to continue our mission.
We have opened the walls of the gallery to the members for the Month of July.
Last month LightBox celebrated their 10th Anniversary. LightBox opened in Astoria on June 13, 2009 when Chelsea and Michael Granger established the venue to educate in the photographic arts. Having hosted over 125 exhibits since opening, LightBox has become an important Northwest photographic resource, exhibiting national and regional artists’ with exhibits of fine photography, conducting artists’ presentations and workshops, all as part of their goal to provide a center for the promotion of creative and alternative photography on the North Coast of Oregon.
The The Members Summer Showcase runs from July 13th until August 6th. LightBox offers memberships as a way of becoming part of the community of supporters that help to further the mission of the gallery. LightBox provides fine art reproduction, restorations, photographic printing, 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.

Katharine T. Jacobs at the Portland Art Museum
2019-07-17 12:00 - 13:00 | Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR, 97205, United States
Katharine T. Jacobs, Fixation: New Work about a New Life
Portland Art Museum Photography Council’sBrown Bag Lunch Talk Series
Wednesday, July 17, 2019, Noon – 1pm
Portland Art MuseumThe Miller Gallery, Mark Building1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR 97205www.portlandartmuseum.org503 226 2811Cost: Free to the public (people are welcome to bring their lunch)
Photographer and fine artist Katharine T. Jacobs will discuss how art making and photography have helped her keep her head above water. After the birth of her daughter, a devastating diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis, and leaving an abusive marriage, her conceptual work has evolved over the past two years. Katharine uses photography as art therapy to communicate her struggles and her humanness. Come and hear the layers of her process and the details of her life.
Earlier this year I participated in an eye study for Multiple Sclerosis research. During a particularly difficult part of the four-hour, tedious testing session, the ophthalmologist complimented me on how efficient I was, stating, , “Wow you are so great at fixating”. This seemingly meaningless compliment had a profound effect on me.Previously,the term “fixate” had only been used negatively by partners in response to my need for more details. Having spent the last 8 years in an emotionally and verbally abusive relationship, I was often gas lit out of my questions and concerns. “Stop fixating!” on this or that became a common statement in my relationship. I came to believe that I was the problem, that my inquisitive nature and craving for knowledge was and unattractive quality that needed to be stifled. So, I tried to control my urges to pry, and I fixated in silence.I make large format film portraits that reflect my life experience. Many of my portraits were made in response to my symptoms and struggles living with Multiple Sclerosis. Additionally, images were subconsciously and consciously made throughout the dissolution of my marriage and single motherhood. My portraits are inspired by love and loss, physical and emotional pain, coping with living with a chronic illness and craving intimacy after years of abuse.
My background in Craft influences me to make work with intention. I employ a variety of traditional and alternative photographic techniques to showcase skill while still embracing the element of the handmade. Nearly every element of my practice is derived from concept and enriched with vulnerability. For these reasons my photography and my practice are unique and intimate.
Originally from the rural foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Katharine T. Jacobs began her education at California College of the Arts in Oakland, California, where she learned to shoot with a large format camera and discovered Polaroid type 55 film. In 2007 she moved to Portland, purchased her own 4×5 camera and started photographing friends, family and countless strangers while attending Oregon College of Art and Craft. Her focus in street photography and large format shooting inspired her journey across the United States and the production of American Strangers, her largest body of work to date.
While living in Portland, she co-founded Jailhouse Studios and actively participated in Lyceum, the photography collective.
Katharine now lives and works in Mokelumne Hill, California, and is a graduate student at San Jose State University.

Jim Lommasson: Book Talk and Signing at Blue Sky Gallery
2019-07-20 15:00 - 16:30 | Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
Jim Lommasson: Book Talk and SigningWhat We Carried: Fragments and Memories from the Cradle of Civilization
Saturday, July 20, 3:00-4:30 PM
Blue Sky Gallery122 NW 8th AvenuePortland, Oregon 97209 USA503-225-0210(Free and open to the public)
Jim Lommasson will discuss his new book, What We Carried: Fragments and Memories from the Cradle of Civilization, a collaborative photography and writing storytelling project with Iraqi and Syrian refugees who have fled their homeland because of war.
Jim will read participant’s stories, discuss the making of the book, and sign copies of What We Carried.Jim began working on his What We Carried project in 2010 while completing his Exit Wounds: Soldiers’ Stories – Life After Iraq and Afghanistan traveling show and book about returning solders from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Lommasson invites Iraqi and Syrian refugees who have fled to the U.S. to write their own personal stories directly on Lommasson’s photographs of objects that they carried with them on their long and complicated journeys to America. The stories speak to much more than the object. The luminous inner life of these ordinary things are a testament to the unspeakable anguish of a life left forever behind. Ordinary objects become sacred objects.
What We Carried has received national and international attention. The traveling What We Carried exhibition is currently on view at The Ellis Island National Immigration Museum through September 2, 2019.What We Carried: Fragments and Memories from the Cradle of Civilization will be available for purchase at the event.
To see more about What We Carried: https://whatwecarried.com/

Nancy Floyd at Blue Sky Gallery
2019-07-27 15:00 - 16:00 | Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
Nancy Floyd, Weathering Time
July 3–28, 2019First Wednesday* opening reception: July 3, 6:00–9:00 PMArtist talk: Saturday, July 27, 3:00 PM*Blue Sky will be closed on Thursday, July 4th
Blue Sky Gallery 122 NW 8th AvenuePortland, Oregon 97209 USA503-225-0210Tuesday – Sunday, 12 – 5 pmFirst Thursday 6 – 9 pmbluesky@blueskygallery.orghttp://www.blueskygallery.org/All Blue Sky events and programs are free and open to the public.
“I am interested in the aging female body, the passage of time, and loss. I use photography and video to address the ways in which lens-based media can connect deeply with experience and memory. I wish to make art that delights, while also leaving space for contemplation.”
Nancy Floyd has been photographing herself almost daily since 1982, often posing alone but sometimes with family and friends. On days when she doesn’t make an image, she advances the film in her camera by one frame on her monthly roll of film. In its entirety, Weathering Time consists of 2,500+ black-and-white photographs that document the artist’s personal journey from her early adulthood to the present, while also reflecting the cultural, technological, and physical changes affecting others in Floyd’s generation over the past 37 years. She writes, “As time passes, births, deaths, celebrations, and bad days happen. Pets come and go, fashions and hairstyles evolve, typewriters, analog clocks, and telephones with cords disappear; film gives way to digital, and the computer replaces the darkroom.”
Nancy Floyd has been an exhibiting artist for over thirty years. She has received numerous grants and awards including a 2016 CUE Art Foundation Fellowship, a 2015 Society for Photographic Education Future Focus Project Support Grant, and a 2014 John Gutmann Photography Fellowship Award. Temple University Press published her first book, She’s Got a Gun, in 2008. Floyd’s work has been exhibited in numerous venues including Solomon Projects, and Flux Projects (Atlanta, GA); the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center; White Columns (New York, NY); and the California Museum of Photography (Riverside, CA). Since 2009, her work has been part of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art Archive at the Brooklyn Museum in New York. Floyd has exhibited her current project, Weathering Time, at Whitespace Gallery in Atlanta, and the CUE Art Foundation Gallery in New York City. Floyd holds an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California. She lives in Bend, Oregon.
