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Paranthetics is a study of light, color, and motion; it is a visualization of their relationship. Images are taken with a lensless camera which record light refracted between a specific point and the camera itself and this light takes the form of color and shape. The outcome shows a difference between what is seen and what is physically there. Seemingly, there is a reality and another reality. Our muscle memory, our eyes, our emotions and general “understanding” of the world fills in any void for us. Meditating on that idea, I created neon and placed it back into the image, back into the scene....


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Portland Photographers Forum (www.portlandphotoforum.com) will be having their annual photo sale on Dec 2nd. at the Multnomah Arts Center (http://www.multnomahartscenter.org/) from 10am to 5pm. There will be silver gelatin, platinum/palladium, gold leaf and digital prints. This would be a good place to get a quality photo for that special someone.


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Join us Saturday, December 2, from 3 - 5pm, for the first Portfolio Walk for the 2017 Pacific NW Viewing Drawers. You will have the chance to meet photographers from the Drawers, talk about the work, and perhaps buy an original print. There will be two shifts of artists presenting:  3 - 4 pm, and 4 - 5pm. Currently, we have more than 20 artists signed up to participate, and more to come! We will send a final schedule just before the event. For a complete list of 2017 Drawers artists see here:http://www.blueskygallery.org/exhibitions/nw-drawers/.Stay for both rounds — enjoy a glass of wine or beer...


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Blue Moon Camera and Machine celebrates our sixteenth anniversary with a presentation of our Fifteenth Annual Customer Show. As one of the last optical printing labs in the country, Blue Moon Camera handles film from thousands of photographers around the globe throughout the year. Tens of thousands of images pass through the lab – some destined for the walls of a gallery, others for an esteemed place on the refrigerator. Regardless of what our customers do with them afterward, each photo that comes through the lab is, at one point or another, held in the hands of a staff member and looked at. We count...


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Augen is pleased to present its second solo exhibition of photographs by Terry K. Thompson with this broad 50-year retrospective of his life's work, titled "Entanglement - Photographic Works 1967-2017." Thompson began early on as a painter and “literature sponge,” as he puts it, before settling on the camera and the particular aesthetics of photography as his medium of choice. He began his formal photo training in the Navy in 1968 under Edward Steichen’s extensive program, and continued on at the New York at the School of Visual Arts in the 1970s, where his teachers included Diane Arbus,...


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As a final exhibition commemorating the Embodied: Asserting Self exhibition series, Blue Sky presents Lorna Simpson: from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer, which includes two major bodies of work by Simpson: Wigs (1994) and Details (1996). Wigs is a collection of twenty-one lithographs depicting hair pieces and seventeen corresponding texts printed on felt. The images and texts emphasize the significance of hair in relation to dominant beauty standards and focus on a wide range of styles, including Afros, braided hair, blond locks, and doll wigs. Details consists of twenty-one photogravures...


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"Lethe is the river that cleanses Dante in Purgatory, the one that wipes memories of the dead as they drink from it or bathe in it. The poet Sylvia Plath steps up from 'the black car of Lethe, Pure as a baby'. It is an escape, a relief from our own physical limitations."In her collage-based portrait series, Sylwia Kowalczyk visualizes the often disjointed, piecemeal process of recalling the past. Each image is constructed using layers of cut and torn images that are re-photographed and enlarged. Just as our memories tend to change over time, Lethe illustrates how information can become compressed...


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Artist and educator Lisa Jarrett explores embodiment by discussinginfluence, visibility, and possibility within Simpson's work  


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LightBox Photographic Gallery host the opening and artists’ reception of the LightBox Members Group Exhibit on Saturday, December 9th from 5-8 pm. LightBox members are a community of photographers and patrons that support the mission of the gallery to promote and educate in the photographic arts through exhibits, education, events and member gatherings. Members meet twice a month for education nights and print and image critique, held on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of every month.                                                                 The...


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Submission call for "Cascadia 2018" deadline extended to Dec. 10 at midnight A Traveling Exhibit Open to Oregon Photographers funded by The Ford Family Foundation Visual Arts Grant Deadline for submission of up to 3 jpgs has been extended to Dec. 10 Notification of jurors' results is Jan. 1, 2018 Deadline for shipping accepted prints (unmatted/unframed) is Feb. 16, 2018 Show opens in Baker City on April 6, 2018, then travels to The Dalles in May and to Corvallis in July.  Crossroads-Carnegie Art Center 2020 Auburn Ave. Baker City, Oregon 97814 kristin@crossroads-arts.org www.crossroads-arts.org...


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