Light Art Space is pleased to announce 4 exciting upcoming workshops! Photogravure with Karen Hymer, October 13th. Exquisite Corpse Print/Book with Maria Lee and Jo Anderson, October 13th. Wet Plate Photography with Kevin Black, November 10th. Pinhole and Zone Plate Photography with Nancy Spencer and Eric Renner, November 16th and 17th.
October 13th Exquisite corpse print/book workshop with Maria Lee and Jo Anderson. https://lightartspace.com/product/exquisite-corpse-print-book-workshop/
October 13th
Photopolymer Gravure with Karen Hymer
https://lightartspace.com/product/photopolymer-gravure-workshop-october-13th/
November 10th Wet Plate Photography with Kevin Black https://lightartspace.com/product/tintype-photography/
November 16th and 17th Pinhole and Zone Plate Photography with Nancy Spencer and Eric Renner https://lightartspace.com/product/pinhole-and-zone-plate-workshop/
A Big Thank You to: the wonderful people of Silver City, the artists who have shown in the galleries, our visitors from out of town, workshop teachers and participants, my family and friends and to those who support us through their purchases!
Upcoming At Light Art Space…
Southwest Festival of the Written Word
September 30 thru October 6
On Saturday October 5th at 3pm Geology of Spirit featured Photographers Cyd Peroni and Patrick O’Brien will discuss how the exhibition evolved through the collaboration with poets Lois Roma-Deeley & Rosemarie Dombrowski. The exhibition Geology of Spirit closes October 6th. Other festival talks will also take place in the gallery Saturday, October 5th, 11:30 – 5:30. https://swwordfiesta.org/2019-festival-schedule/
Southwest Print Fiesta
October 11, 12, 13
Call for Entries: Obsession. Deadline: Sunday, September 8th, Midnight. https://lightartspace.com/call-for-work-obsession/
October 13th Workshops – Register NOW!
Exquisite corpse print/book workshop with Maria Lee and Jo Anderson. https://lightartspace.com/product/exquisite-corpse-print-book-workshop/
Photopolymer Gravure with Karen Hymer.
https://lightartspace.com/product/photopolymer-gravure-workshop-october-13th/
Karen will be presenting at The LightBox Symposium for Alternative Process Photography
Astoria, Oregon
September 13, 14, 15, 2019
http://lightbox-photographic.com/workshops/
Reception this Saturday 5 to 7pm for two exhibitions
Geology of Spirit in the North Gallery
This collaborative exhibition between two award-winning fine art photographers, Patrick O’Brien and Cyd Peroni, and two award-winning poets, Lois Roma-Deeley and Rosemarie Dombrowski, looks at the human spirit and how the interior regions of self and society are reflected in the processes and features of the desert Southwest.
Variegated Views in the Flash Gallery
Six artists display a variety of forms, shapes, colors, techniques and content in this visually exciting exhibition. Drawing, Printmaking, Photography, Jewelry and Sculpture. Joel Armstrong, Ben Brown, Valerie Galloway, Carmen Ruiz, Eugene Starobinskiy, Cougar Vigil.
TricolorGumworkshop a great success!
Diana Bloomfield started the weekend with a lively Friday evening gallery talk where she shared her story, prints and handmade books. Saturday and Sunday Diana and students were busy making beautiful prints in the studio. Here are some photos from the weekend.
Diana Bloomfield Gallery Talk
Friday, August 16th, 6pm
Light Art Space North Gallery
Join us to hear Diana speak about her artwork and working methods and get a preview of the gum bichromate process before the workshop. Original prints will be shown.
A photographer for over 35 years, Diana’s work has been widely exhibited and published. Specializing in 19th century printing techniques, her images have been included in a number of books, including Pinhole Photography: Rediscovering a Historic Technique (2004), by Eric Renner; Robert Hirsch’s Exploring Color Photography Fifth (& Sixth) Edition: From Film to Pixels (2011; 2015); in Jill Enfield’s Guide to Photographic Alternative Processes: Popular Historical and Contemporary Techniques; and in Christopher James’ The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes (2015). She is a featured artist in Christina Z. Anderson’s Gum Printing: A Step-by-Step Manual, Highlighting Artists and their Creative Practice (2017), and also in Clay Harmon’s recently released Polymer Photogravure: A Step-by-Step Manual, Highlighting Artists & their Creative Practice (2019).
A native North Carolinian, Diana lives and works in Raleigh, North Carolina, where she received her MA in English Literature and Creative Writing from North Carolina State University. She teaches workshops throughout the country, including at the amazing Art Intersection, and in her beautiful backyard studio.
Diana is represented by the Ryan Gallery at Art Intersection in Gilbert, Arizona, and by Panopticon Gallery, located in Boston, Massachusetts.
Final three days to visit Adobero: Honoring Lyle
August 1st, 2nd and 3rd, 10am to 5pm
Evolution at Work: Mimi Calise Peterson and Art Peterson
Light Art Space is pleased to announce we will be representing the work of Mimi Calise Peterson and Art Peterson.
Join us for this exciting exhibition of their work. These two artists work with a variety of methods and materials.
The modern/contemporary sculptures of Art Peterson range from abstract to whimsical, often including found objects. Mimi Calise Peterson’s multilayered, mixed media works on paper and canvas present a new way of seeing the world.
Exhibit runs: August 9th – October 27th Reception: Saturday, August 10th, 5pm – 7pm
Geology of Spirit
This collaborative exhibition between two award-winning fine art photographers, Patrick O’Brien and Cyd Peroni, and two award-winning poets, Lois Roma-Deeley and Rosemarie Dombrowski, looks at the human spirit and how the interior regions of self and society are reflected in the processes and features of the desert Southwest.
Exhibit runs: August 23rd – October 6th Reception: Saturday, August 24th, 5pm – 7pm Gallery Talk: Saturday, October 5th 3:00 pm Presented as part of the Southwest Festival of the Written Word
Tri-Color Gum Printing workshop with Diana Bloomfield
In this intensive two-day workshop you will learn how to print in the 19th century photographic process of gum bichromate. Your photographs will be transformed into beautiful, hand-made color prints.
August 17th and 18th
Gallery talk: Friday, August 16th 6 – 7pm Talk is free and open to the public
Variegated Views
Six artists display a variety of forms, shapes, colors, techniques and content in this visually exciting exhibition. Joel Armstrong, Ben Brown, Valerie Galloway, Carmen Ruiz, Eugene Starobinskiy, Cougar Vigil
Flash Gallery: August 23rd – October 6th Reception: Saturday, August 24th, 5pm – 7pm
Karen’s Art News
Exhibitions:
Unexpected Narratives: Explorations Between Photography and Printmaking
Remarque Print Shop
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Show runs through August 31st, 2019
4th annual Alternative Process Photography Exhibition
The Image Flow Photography Center Mill Valley, California
Exhibition Dates: July 27 – September 27, 2019
Solar Impressions Juried Exhibition
Southampton Arts Center,
Long Island, New York
November 15th – December 31st
Presenting/Demonstrating/Workshops
2019 LightBox Symposium for Alternative Process Photography
LightBox
Astoria, Oregon
September 13 – 15th
Karen will be a presenter at the symposium and will demonstrate photopolymer gravure printing
Photopolymer Gravure Workshop
Light Art Space
Silver City, New Mexico
October 13, 2019
This Friday, from 4pm – 7pm, join us for the opening reception of Adobero: Honoring Lyle. For over 30 years Lyle Hymer Thompson designed and build custom adobe homes in New Mexico, Arizona and California. Each house is a unique mud sculpture that interacts with the environment bringing the outside world in. This informal exhibition features photographs of many of his creations along with artifacts and personal testimonials by many of his clients and friends. Lyle will be attending the reception.
July 12th thru 28th
Reception: Friday, July 19th, 5 to 7pm
Silver City Gallery Walk 4 to 6 pm in conjunction with the Clay Festival https://clayfestival.com/
Saturday, June 29th from 5 to 8 pm, join us for a reception celebrating the new exhibition:
Playing With Process: Contemporary Photographic Art
Opening Reception
Saturday June 29th, 5 to 8pm
This exhibition features the work of over 20 contemporary artists who use a variety of 19th, 20th and 21st century photographic techniques. Many blend historic processes with modern digital technology to produce surprising results. A range of subject matter from landscapes, botanicals, portraits, abstracts, to altered-realities created in studio are presented.
Diana Bloomfield, Lexi Coburn, Michael Cox, Pablo Cruz, Bob Denst, Charlotte Earley, Leslie Evans, Valerie Galloway, Pam Golden, Steve Hajdu, Charles Hedgcock, John Isner, Luigi Luccarelli, TJ Marsh, Lloyd Matthews, Maegan McCarthy, Mary Nation, Amanda Smith & Kevin Tully, Eugene Starobinskiy, Brett Starr, Kathleen Velo, Tom Webster
Summer has arrived and the weather is perfect in Silver City. I just returned from Oregon where I taught 3 exciting workshops (photopolymer gravure and cyanotypes) to great students. It was touch and go but at the final hour the weather cooperated for our sun-exposed cyanotypes.
Over the 4th of July weekend I will be participating in an art sale in Santa Fe sponsored by Bostik and Sullivan and will have a piece on display at Remarque Gallery in Albuquerque. I am pleased to have Age & Seduction featured in the June issue of Dek Unu.
At Light Art Space this is the final weekend of 5 Latinxs. It is always sad to see an exhibition end but I am very excited about the upcoming Playing With Process which features 20 artists using alternative photographic processes.
There is still space in the two upcoming workshops: photopolymer gravure with me and Tri-Color Gum Bichromate with Diana Bloomfield.
Read on for more details…
DEK UNU MAGAZINE
June issue features my Age & Seduction series
http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/1616016
Dek Unu Magazine was founded by photoartists for photoartists. While literary magazines, small presses and university journals provide space for adventurous photography, they are often broad in scope, including perhaps a dozen different writers and a half-dozen visual artists. Additionally, they often restrict photography and other visual art to one or two images from each artist in an issue. Visual art often shares space with written work on the same page or is sprinkled around the contents wherever it fits. Dek Unu means to provide a photo-only outlet that focuses on the work of only one artist at a time, provides a respectful presentation of the work, and puts the artist in charge of theme and image selection.
Playing With Process: Contemporary Photographic Art
Opening Reception
Saturday June 29th, 5 to 7pm
This exhibition features the work of over 20 contemporary artists who use a variety of 19th, 20th and 21st century photographic techniques. Many blend historic processes with modern digital technology to produce surprising results. A range of subject matter from landscapes, botanicals, portraits, abstracts, to altered-realities created in studio are presented.
Diana Bloomfield, Lexi Coburn, Michael Cox, Pablo Cruz, Bob Denst, Charlotte Earley, Leslie Evans, Valerie Galloway, Pam Golden, Steve Hajdu, Charles Hedgcock, John Isner, Luigi Luccarelli, TJ Marsh, Lloyd Matthews, Maegan McCarthy, Mary Nation, Amanda Smith & Kevin Tully, Eugene Starobinskiy, Brett Starr, Kathleen Velo, Tom Webster
Exhibit runs June 29th – August 18th.
July 5th to 8th I will be in Santa Fe participating in:
Photo Historica 2019!
JULY 5TH- JULY 7TH, 2019
The Center for Photographic History and Technology presents their first photographers’ sale, Photo Historica 2019, a sale of handmade photographs bought directly from the photographer.
Activities at the event:
Opening Reception: July 5th 5 pm-8 pm
Photographers’ Sale: Saturday, July 6th 10 am – 7 pm and Sunday, July 7th 10 am – 5pm.
Demonstration on Platinum/Palladium printing; an 1880’s process using the metals platinum and palladium and an iron compound as the base of the photographic emulsion.
Speaker Presentations on the History of Photographic Processes
Kid’s Photography Table – kids will be able to make their very own cyanotype prints!
Large Format Camera Display
The Handmade Photograph juried selections from Bostick & Sullivan’s call for entries will be on display in the gallery.
For more information, please call (505) 474-0890 or email melody@bostick-sullivan.com.
THERE’S STILL SPACE IN THE WORKSHOPS!
Photopolymer Gravure with Karen Hymer
Learn the art of photopolymer gravure printing in this one-day workshop. Using light-sensitive steel-backed Solarplates, participants will create 4 x 5 gravure etching prints from their photograph. This environmentally friendly process translates photographic detail into ink on paper with unparalleled beauty. You will take home 3 -4 photogravure prints of your image. No prior experience with printmaking is required.
Workshop: Saturday, July 27th 9am – 5pm
Tuition: $175.00 includes all supplies
($150 for locals)
Tri-Color Gum Printing with Diana Bloomfield
In this intensive two-day workshop, we will learn how to print in the 19th century photographic process of gum bichromate. Using color separation negatives, we’ll learn how to make multilayered, tri-color gum bichromate prints on watercolor paper.
No prior experience with this type of printing is necessary, so join us for two days of fun and experimentation with this interpretive, intuitive, and infinitely creative photographic printing process. Once you experience the joy of gum printing, you will never be the same!
To kick off the workshop weekend, Diana H. Bloomfield will be giving a gallery talk on Friday, August 16 from 6-7pm. Join us to hear her speak about her artwork and working methods and get a preview of the gum bichromate process before the workshop!
Gallery Talk: Friday, August 16th, 6pm – 7pm Workshop: Saturday, August 17, 9am – 5pm and Sunday, August 18, 9am – 4pm
Tuition: $375.00 includes all supplies
Our farmers market opens for the season, it is the Give Grandly Day – support our local non-profits…
Spring Walk About downtown, 10am to 5pm. Many businesses will be out on the sidewalk with sales and interactive events. Mainstreet is sponsoring a fun scavenger hunt.
Make a mini-cyanotype sunprint at Light Art Space
AND
2nd Saturday Gallery Walk, 5 to 7 pm
Featuring
5 Latinxs: Contemporary Work
Opening Reception Saturday, May 11th
5 to 7 pm
Exciting work by Natali Bravo-Barbee (New York), Ernesto Esquer (Arizona), Lesha Maria Rodriquez (California), Vincent Vigil (New Mexico) and Davey Miller (Arizona). These young artists address diverse issues ranging from immigration, colonization, identity, history and the poetics of beauty. They work with a variety of media including photographic instant film lifts, cyanotypes, mixed media, video and installation. Exhibit dates: May 11 thru June 23rd, 2019
The Studio tour takes place Saturday and Sunday 11am to 5pm
Brochures and maps available at Light Art Space
www.silvercityart.com for more information.
I am very excited to present our next exhibition:
5 Latinxs
Contemporary Work
Featuring:
Ernesto Esquer (Arizona), Natali Bravo-Barbee (New York),
Davey Leo Miller (Arizona), Lesha Maria Rodriquez (California),
and Vincent Vigil (New Mexico)
Opening Reception
Saturday, May 11th, 5 to 7pm
Also on Saturday May 11th
The Silver City Spring Walk About, 10am to 5pm
Come downtown to enjoy a variety of sidewalk activities
Stop by Light Art Space and make a Mini Cyanotype
The Blues!
Memorial Day Weekend
May 24 through 26
This FREE, outdoor event is not to be missed
(I have been attending for about 8 years)
https://www.silvercitybluesfestival.org/
Say hello Sunday morning during the
ART WALK in the galleries 10am to 2pm
Light Art Space Construction update:
We are very close to completion. The floors are being refinished this week; then final painting, electric and plumbing will happen. I will offer my first workshop in Photopolymer Gravure in July and I am pleased to say Diana Bloomfieldwill be offering a workshop in Tri-color Gum Bichromate in August!
Flash Gallery: August 23rd – October 6th
