January | February 2006 - Boston Photography Focus

phonelines: member news from near and far
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John Chervinsky is launching his new website, www.chervinsky.
org. Please visit to see new images and information on his three
upcoming exhibitions, one is a solo exhibition at the BF Annex
in Boston’s South End during the month of February. Nine of his
images will also be appearing in current edition of Salamander, a
national literary magazine for “poetry fiction and memoirs”.
Jack Dzamba was selected as a finalist in the “Photography Competition
2005”; an international photography contest organized by
TCB-Cafe Publishing of San Francisco, and along with the other
Finalists, will be featured in a fine art book publication and exhibition,
Like Sand From Orchid’s Lips, scheduled for Spring 2006.
Dutch Huff is exhibiting a continuing series of photographs from
his Strength in Numbers project at Gallery Kayafas (Boston, MA)
from January 17th through February 25. The Strength in Numbers
series was also shown in Philadelphia, PA at Gallery Siano during
the month of November 2005. This project and others can be
viewed on Dutch’s website, www.dutchhuff.com
Nick Johnson gave a talk about his work at the “Four Artists-
Four Weeks” event at the Indian Hill Gallery in Pawlet, VT on
Nov. 20th. He will also be in an upcoming 4 person show at the
Towne Art Gallery at Wheelock College, 200 the Riverway, Boston
MA. Feb. 7- March 4th, 2006. The artist reception will be on Feb.
11, 2-4.
Tricia O’Neill has received this year’s Stephen D. Paine Scholarship
Fund based on the strength of her photographic series “The
Body Shop”. The award is based on talent and the promise of
future work. She plans to use the scholarship money to continue
her photographic study of the places that the working-class conduct
their work. She has also been recently hired as the official mural
painter for the Boston Red Sox for the next two years. Please visit
Tricia’s website at www.triciaoneill.com
Elaine Sakiris’s work The Identity Series, was featured at the
Gallery at Stel’s during December 2005. www.stelsinc.com
Jim Stone’s Why My Photographs are Good was published by
Nazraeli Press in November. A solo exhibition, “Idiom Savant”
featured his work during October 2005 at Washington University’s
Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis. He and his wife Linda, are happy to
announce the birth of their twin girls, Amber and Jade, on July
12, 2005.
John S. Tilney, Jr. had two pieces accepted at the 26th Annual
Parfitt Memorial juried Photo Exhibition at the Robert Lincoln
Gallery in Portsmouth, N.H. One of the pieces received and Honorable
Mention Award in the exhibit that ran in Sept. and Oct.,
2005. Mr. Tilney also had one piece accepted at the 12 Annual
juried show at the Essex Art Center in Lawrence, MA (juror: Howard
Yezerski), as well as two pieces in the 10th Annual National Art
Exhibition at St. John’s University in New York.
Images of Cuba at Zoellner Gallery, Lehigh University, Bethlehem,
PA. (thru Jan 4) This year Mari has received best in photography
award in The Worcester Arts Biennial (juried by Nick Capasso),
third prize in Worcester Artist Group Exhibition (juried by Susan
Stoops), and honorable mention in The Concord Art Association
Roddy Competition (juried by Catherine French). In 2006, she
will have an exhibition of her series Home Altars, a part of a twoperson
show at Fototeca, the national photography museum of
Cuba in Havana. Currently she is showing her photographs in the
Cambridge Art Association Exhibition RED (thru Jan 19).
David VanBuskirk’s photographs, Our Seasons, are on display
at the Barnes and Noble Café, Dorset Street in South Burlington,
Vermont through January 2006. VanBuskirk will be at Barnes and
Noble for a “Meet the Artist” reception on January 22nd from
4-5p.m., and he is announcing his new website www.vanbuskirkphotos.com
Paul Wainwright has a solo show titled Time Shadows at the
Panopticon Gallery in Waltham, MA (thru Jan 14). Wainwright
also has two photographs that were included in the 14th Annual
American Photography Competition hosted by the Hubbard
Museum of the American West in Ruidoso Downs, NM (thru Jan
29). For more information www.paulwainwrightphotography.com
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