Join us this Friday, July 2nd, 5 -8 pm
for the Opening Reception for two clay exhibitions
RUMINATIONS 2021 INTERNATIONAL JURIED EXHIBITION
RUMINATIONS is an international juried exhibition featuring ceramic artwork representative of this past year. In a time of unprecedented global events, contemplation and consideration are needed. Artists observe the world around them and create artwork that communicates individual perspectives and experiences.Featuring the work of 23 artists.
Juror: Sanam Emami
Opening Reception July 2, 5- 8 pm
Exhibition Dates: July 2nd – July 31st, 2021
Bonnie Ertel, Zoe Wolfe, Nancy Phillips, Phoebe Lawrence, Letha Cress Woolf, Michele Parlee, Karen Tippit, Robin Parsons/Fred Pineda, Kate Brown, Julliette L. Kurtz, Michaud, Wendy Ridick Shaul, Claude W. Smith, III, Daniel Garver, Natalie Good, Carmen Ruiz.
In conjunction with the 10th Annual Silver City Clay Festival July 12 – 18th
There is still space in our first three workshops: Wire Art with Joel Armstrong, Monotype Mania Printmaking with Carmen Ruiz and Sun printing (cyanotype) with Karen Hymer.
Visit lightartspace.com to register.
There is still space in our first three workshops: Wire Art with Joel Armstrong, Monotype Mania Printmaking with Carmen Ruiz and Sun printing (cyanotype) with Karen Hymer.
Visit lightartspace.com to register.
There is still space in our first three workshops: Wire Art with Joel Armstrong, Monotype Mania Printmaking with Carmen Ruiz and Sun printing (cyanotype) with Karen Hymer.
Visit lightartspace.com to register.
I am pleased to announce that workshops will begin in May at Light Art Space. We will follow state safety guidelines and request that all participants be fully vaccinated. Visit lightartspace.com for more details. Here is the schedule:
I am pleased to announce that workshops will begin in May at Light Art Space. We will follow state safety guidelines and request that all participants be fully vaccinated. Visit lightartspace.com for more details. Here is the schedule:
Two new exhibitions open tomorrow at Light Art Space. And, to celebrate spring and Mother’s Day, a sidewalk sale will also take place featuring the Floral work of Joel Armstrong.
Layered Light: Contemporary Pinhole and Zone Plate Photography
Layered Light: Contemporary Pinhole and Zone Plate Photography is an international exhibition juried by Nancy Spencer and Scott McMahon. This exciting exhibition features black and white and color images made with film and digital pinhole and zone plate tools. The work of thirty-four photographers from across the planet have work in the exhibition. https://lightartspace.com/exhibition/layered-light-contemporary-pinhole-and-zone-plate-photography/
Renner, Spencer and McMahon: A Three Decade Convergence.
This exhibition features the work of three renowned pinhole photographers. Nancy Spencer will exhibit “Images from Asia” taken during trips to China, Thailand, and Japan from 2006-2010. Eric Renner’s work will consist of his six pinhole images of the Southwest. Renner and Spencer worked on many collaborative projects and the work from those series will also be displayed. Scott McMahon will display works from his Tales of Screams and Silence and other series. https://lightartspace.com/exhibition/renner-spencer-and-mcmahon-a-three-decade-convergence/
Nancy and Scott during installation
These exhibitions celebrate images made in the spirit of experimentation and play and are dedicated to the late Eric Renner. Sponsored by Pinhole Resource Inc. and Freestyle Photographic Supplies Exhibition. Dates: April 24, 2021 – June 26th, 2021.
Hours: Thursday – Saturday 11- 5, and by appointment.
Light Art Space is located in the Downtown Historic Arts District in Silver City, New Mexico.
April has arrived with sun, wind, bright colors, and optimism. Two exhibitions are closing soon and two more will be opening. Workshops will be returning soon (the schedule to be sent in a separate email next week). We cautiously (masks still required and distancing observed) look forward to small gatherings and welcome locals and travelers into the gallery and our workshops.
Final days to see Ode to Ancient Wings and Precious Water and Earth and Sky: Photography from Grant County Both exhibitions close on Saturday, April 17th.
LAS is excited to present Layered Light: Contemporary Pinhole and Zone Plate Photography.
The work of 33 photographers from across the globe will be presented in this juried exhibition.
Opening Saturday, April 24th, 10am – 6pm.
Jane Alynn, Carolina Arellanos, Syl Arena, Charles Birnbaum, Diana Bloomfield, Julia Bradshaw, Robert Brown, Larry Bullis, Chris Byrnes, Dennis Collins, Walter Crump, Noah Doely, Eugene Ellenberg, Julie Enos, RA Friedman, Citlalli González, Julie Hamel, Lisa Hoffman, Frank Kaczmarek, Stefan Killen, Nancy Marshall, Jeff McConnell, Thomas Miller, Janet Neuhauser,Robert Oehl, Heather Palecek,Diana Pankova, Carmen Ruiz, Louise Russell, Nick Tauro Jr.,Marko Umicevic, Stephanie Williams, Ksawery Wrobel.
Dedicated to the late Eric Renner. https://lightartspace.com/exhibition/layered-light-co…late-photography/
Also opening on April 24th is A Three Decades Convergence: Renner, Spencer and McMahon
This exhibition features the work of three renowned pinhole photographers: Eric Renner, Nancy Spencer and Scott McMahon.
Nancy Spencer will exhibit “Images from Asia” taken during trips to China, Thailand and Japan from 2006-2010. Eric Renner’s work will consist of his six pinhole images of the Southwest. Renner and Spencer worked on many collaborative projects and the work from those series will also be displayed. Scott McMahon will display works from his Tales of Screams and Silence and other series. https://lightartspace.com/exhibition/renner-spencer-and-mcmahon-a-three-decade-convergence/ Eric Renner
Nancy Spencer
Scott McMahon
Remembering Eric Renner one year later… you are dearly missed.
Layered Light: Contemporary Pinhole and Zone Plate Photography
Deadline to submit work: March 21st midnight Mountain time
Exhibition Dates: April 23rd, 2021 – June 26th, 2021.
Images made with analog and digital processes are welcome. Content and subject are up to the photographer – questions to consider are: Why are you using a pinhole camera? How does the pinhole/zone plate image support the content of the work?
Jurors:
Nancy Spencer, Director of Pinhole Resource Inc., and Scott McMahon, Associate Professor of Art at Columbia College.
Nancy Spencer and Scott McMahon are currently writing a book on contemporary pinhole photography.
This exhibition celebrates images made in the spirit of experimentation and play and is dedicated to the late Eric Renner.
Light Art Space invites photographic artists to submit pinhole and zone plate photographs to Layered Light: Contemporary Pinhole and Zone Plate Photography. Images made with analog and digital processes are welcome. Content and subject are up to the photographer – questions to consider are: Why are you using a pinhole camera? How does the pinhole/zone plate image support the content of the work?
Deadline to submit work: March 21st midnight Mountain time
Exhibition Dates: April 23rd, 2021 – June 26th, 2021.
Jurors: Nancy Spencer, Director of Pinhole Resource Inc., and Scott McMahon, Associate Professor of Art at Columbia College.
Nancy Spencer and Scott McMahon are currently writing a book on contemporary pinhole photography.
This exhibition celebrates images made in the spirit of experimentation and play and is dedicated to the late Eric Renner.
Sponsored by Pinhole Resource Inc. and Freestyle Photographic Supplies
A pinhole camera is a simple camera without a lens and with a single small aperture — effectively a light-proof box with a small hole on one side. Light from a scene passes through this single point and projects an inverted image on the opposite side of the box.Many variations of the basic pinhole camera, including ones with multiple apertures and/or zone plates, are used by artists.
Details:
Submission Requirements:
Submissions must be pinhole/zone plate images created in the last 5 years.
Important Dates: March 21st midnight Mountain time – deadline for submitted work
March 26th – notification of acceptance via email
April 17th – work due at Light Art Space
April 24th – opening day, an all-day reception 11 am – 6 pm observing social distancing
Entry Fee: Entry fee: $35 for 1 – 5 images. Students $15 Use coupon code STUDENT
Maximum two entries (10 images) per artist
Jurying and Awards First Place $250 Second Place $150 Third Place $100 gift certificate to Freestyle Photographic Supplies
Juror Bios: Nancy Dize Spencer, Director of Pinhole Resource Inc., a nonprofit archive and educational organization dedicated to sharing information about pinhole photography. Spencer was married to and collaborated with Eric Renner for 31 years. Renner started Pinhole Resource and passed away suddenly in April of 2020. They also co-edited Pinhole Journal, published three times a year from 1985-2006. They have given educational lectures and workshops internationally in China, Japan, Poland, France, Italy, Greece, Argentina, Germany, and Canada. Their photographs and assemblages are exhibited in major collections throughout the world. Spencer and Renner received the New Mexico Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts in 2015.
Spencer and Renner donated the Pinhole Resource Collection of 6,000 pinhole photographs by 500 photographers in 36 countries to the Palace of the Governor, New Mexico Museum of History in Santa Fe in 2012. They curated the show “Poetics of Light”, which was exhibited at the museum from April 2014 to January 2016. Spencer lives in the Mimbres Valley in southern New Mexico, east of Silver City, NM.
Scott McMahon grew up in Connecticut and now resides in Columbia Missouri where he is an Associate Professor of Art at Columbia College. He received his MFA from Massachusetts College of Art & Design in Boston, MA, and his BFA from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA. Selected exhibitions include Poetics of Light, Palace of the Governors New Mexico History Museum Santa Fe, NM & National Media Museum in Bradford UK; Amerykańskie Metafory, Galeria Pusta, Katowice, Poland & Old Gallery ZPAF, Warsaw, Poland; Forgotten Attributes, Three Columns Gallery, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; The Bioluminescent Firefly Experiment, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; Second Nature, The Halide Project, Philadelphia, PA; Response Time, Sol Mednick Gallery, Philadelphia, PA. McMahon’s work has been published in Pinhole Photography, Rediscovering a Historic Technique by Eric Renner, The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes by Christopher James, Anthotype by Malin Fabbri, Poetics of Light – Contemporary Pinhole Photography by Eric Renner and Nancy Spencer, Pinhole Journal, The Hand Magazine and Gum Printing – A Step-by-Step Manual, Highlighting Artists and Their Creative Practice by Christina Z. Anderson. He was a resident artist at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, Maine; iPark Artists’ Enclave in East Haddam, CT; Border Art Residency in La Union, New Mexico, and Main Street Arts in Clifton Springs, NY.
Ticul Schoolyard made with a 6 hole pinhole camera by Eric Renner
Flash enjoying the monsoons
Flash, road trip, May 2021
Eric Renner
Nancy Spencer
Ticul Schoolyard made with a 6 hole pinhole camera by Eric Renner