March | April 2007 - Boston Photography Focus

phonelines: member newsLet us know what you & yourwork are up to! Send your news toprc@bu.edu, attention: phonelines.Martin R. Anderson's pinhole photographProvincetown, C-Scape 2005, Self-Portrait #5was one of the winning images chosen by jurorMiles Barth for the Krappy Kamera IX exhibitionat the Soho Photo Gallery in New York City.The show runs March 6 - 31, 2007.Meg Birnbaum was awarded an honorablemention in the 22nd annual members show of TheTexas Photographic Society and was awarded anhonorable mention in Jen Beckman's Fall 2006Hey, Hot Shot competition. Birnbaum is one ofthree artists participating in The Winner's Circleat The Brush Art Gallery in Lowell, MA.Rick Blumsack was awarded Honorable Mentionat The Gift of Art for AIDS a juried exhibition andsilent auction to benefit AIDS relief in Africa, heldin October at Church of our Saviour in Arlington,MA in conjunction with the Arlington Center forthe Arts. Rick's photograph "November" wasfeatured in the show's 2007 calendar.Pelle Cass’s work Fugitives was shown at GalleryKayafas during January and February, 2007. Theshow featured a talk by Cass on January 20 th .John Chervinsky’s work An Experiment inPerspective was shown during December in asolo exhibition at Blue Sky Gallery in Portland,Oregon.Brooke A. Knight was awarded a commissionfrom Turbulence.org through their competitionfor networked, hybrid projects, “New EnglandInitiative II”. This project was also featured at ArtInteractive in Cambridge, MA.Paula Lerner, a PRC Member, was featured onthe Washington Post web site (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/interactives/afghanistanwomen/) for her work The Womenof Kabul (A Multimedia Feature). This feature tellsthe stories of five women entrepreneurs in Kabulwho are rebuilding their lives and their country bybuilding their businesses. They are struggling totake control of their future against a backdrop of acountry still recovering from decades of war andfacing an ongoing insurgency.Isa Leshko’s was chosen to participate in thePhotography Now show at the South Shore ArtAssociation, juried by Henry Horenstein. Currently,her images from her Holga series are on exhibit atthe Cornerstone Books Gallery in Salem, MA. Theshow includes several brand new pieces.Sarah Malakoff’s work was exhibited at the PlaneSpace Gallery in New York City from Novemberto December of 2006.Rania Matar’s work was recently on display atthe Belmont Gallery of Art. Matar’s photographswere also part of the History Recalls Exhibit at theArt Gallery at the Curry Student Center. Right nowher show The Palestinian Refugees in Lebanonis on display at The Multicultural Arts Center inCambridge, MA until March 9, 2007.Esther Pullman’s work Greenhouse Neighbors wasexhibited at Carney Gallery, Fine Arts Center atRegis College from January 17 through March30, 2007 in Weston, MA.Dianna Rust had one of her platinum/palladiumprints chosen for the juried exhibition Visual Edge3: Handcrafted, at Viewpoint Photographic ArtCenter, Sacramento, CA.Paul Wainwright’s photograph, Box Pews,Danville Meeting House, from Paul’s seriesColonial Meeting Houses of New England,has been accepted into the San Diego ArtAssociation’s 49 th International Awards Exhibition,juried by Dr. Norman Bryson, Professor of ArtHistory at UC Berkeley. The show is at the SanDiego Art Institute’sMuseum of the Living Artist in Balboa Park, SanDiego, and runs April 29 th through June 11 th ,2007. Another of Paul’s photographs, RoundWindow, Little Farm, has been accepted into theNew Hampshire Art Association’s 59 th annualCurrier Museum Exhibition, juried by KarenBurgess Smith, director of the Lamont Gallery atPhilips Exeter Academy. This photograph is fromPauls on-going body of work in and aroundthe Spencer-Pearce-Little farm in Newbury, MA,which is owned and managed by Historic NewEngland. Because of construction at the CurrierMuseum, the exhibit is being held at the artgallery at the University of New Hampshire, 30College Road, Durham, NH. The show runsthrough April 7 th . Finally, Paul has been invitedto have a solo show at the Photomedia Center inErie, PA during the month of April.www.prcboston.org | announcementsLinda Hirsch is featured in the NHAA 59thAnnual Exhibition at the Art Gallery at Universityof New Hampshire, which is currently on displayuntil April 7, 2007.Henry Horenstein is exhibiting Close Relations,coinciding with the book of the same name, atthe Robert Klein Gallery through March 17.Humans And Other Creatures was also ondisplay at the Farmani Gallery in Los Angeles,CA during February.Mori Insinger and Josh Winer both have workas part of the exhibition Altered States: Viewsof Transition in Recent Photography at TuftsUniversity’s Art Gallery, Medford, MA. Theexhibition that began in January, will run throughApril 1, 2007.Rodger Kingston’s resent work, A Victory ForHope: The Deval Patrick Campaign, were onexhibition at the Panopticon Gallery, insidethe Hotel Commonwealth in Kenmore Squarein Boston, MA. The exhibition runs throughMarch 7th.Bruce Myren was selected as one of 150photographers to participate in Critical Mass.Myren will also be attending the Photolucidaportfolio reviews this April. His landscapephotography will be highlighted in 3 exhibitionsin New England this winter/spring. Landscape:Fact and Fiction will be at the William BentonMuseum of Art, at the University of Connecticut,Storrs. This runs from January 17 to March 3,2007. Roadside Attractions will be on view atthe Small Space Gallery at the Arts Council ofGreater New Haven from February 5 to March16, 2007. And You are Here, held in conjunctionwith the Boston Cyberarts Festival, will run LillianImmig Gallery at Emmanuel College, from April5 to May 9, 2007. The Opening reception andartists’ talk will be held April 18, 2007 startingat 5:30pm at the Cardinal Cushing Library atEmmanuel College.Lyssa Palu-ay’s work is featured in the current issueof Nueva Luz Photographic Journal. Palu-ay alsoparticipated in the talk History Presumed hostedby Asian Arts Alliance in New York City.Kurt Gilbert Wahlstrom’s new work, DancingPortraits, premiered at the Mills Gallery at theBoston Center for the Arts February 2, 2007. Thefilm is part of the larger exhibition onlyConnectrunning through March 18, 2007. The exhibitionalso features other video and new media. Tolearn more about the show and artists visit:http://bcaonline.org/exhibitions.htm. Thetrailer for “Dancing Portraits” can be found at:http://www.projectkuret.comJere Williams was one of five artists exhibitingat the Dietel Gallery in Troy, New York fromNovember 7 to December 15. He exhibitedhis American Patriots series which consists of8 “Lightprints” (images printed from multiplehand painted film stencils each illuminated witha different color of light) that raise questionsabout American attitudes towards immigrantsand immigration.18