LIVE MAGAZINE VOL 8, Issue #211 June 19th THRU July 3rd, 2015

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KATHY LUBER HARMON
– Beauty in the Whispers
By Angela Romeo
The debate over left-brain vs. right brain is moot with
Kathy Harmon-Luber. By day she is a successful grant
writer, having raised more than $100 million for non-profit
organizations advocating the arts, education, children,
health/social services, and political change in Southern
California and in Washington, DC. Most recently, Kathy
was Director Institutional Development at Idyllwild Arts
Foundation.
By day Kathy is also an award-winning fine art photographer
and artist. She was named the Art Alliance of Idyllwild’s
2012 “Artist of the Year.” She has exhibited her work at
galleries, museums and public venues both nationally and
throughout California. Her work has been published in The
Washington Post, Best of Photography Magazine and other
publications.
Her latest show, Dress: Whispers opens at Artspresso
Gallery, in Idyllwild on June 27 and runs through the
summer.
“This series continues work that was created out of Earth
Day 2009. I hung a clothesline between the pines. Late in
the afternoon, I was removing the crisp white sheets from
the line, when I noticed a golden light shining through
the linen. The simple beauty captured my imagination. I
began to find things to hang from the clothesline to capture
that fleeting beauty. The first series, Laundry: Voyeur
captured these rare moments of light and serenity. The
images, created in the camera without filters or digital
enhancement, had a dreamy, surreal quality. I was hooked.”
In 2014 Kathy created the Venice: Whispers series. The
photographs are double exposures with the hint, a whisper,
of another image. “The secondary images give a hint of a
story. The viewer is left to write the tale. Dress: Whispers
continues this journey by capturing rare and fleeting
moments of beauty. The images capture the shimmering
light on a dress left to blow in the wind. The moment is
saved for all time, but gone in the split second of reality.
That ephemeral quality lends a poignancy to an ordinary
scene,” continued Kathy.
Kathy relies on what her camera captures. She makes use of
the natural light – “I work with what nature has provided.
Even the double exposures are done in the camera and not
in Photoshop. To be true to the moment, I must be true
to the eye, in this case the camera eye. In doing so I have
created remarkable images of the imperfect, impermanent
and transitory reality. I can sit for hours watching the
reflections of light. This phenomenon is all around – every
place in the world light will reflect. The images are serene
or haunting but always are unique. The Dress: Whispers
allows me to share my experience. But the viewers will
always have their own interpretation, their own experience,
of light and reflection. Reflection of the light and their own
thoughts lends a very personal experience to my work. And
being a part of that experience, is very humbling.”
For more visit kathyluberharmon.com
Angela Romeo is the producer /host of COLLIDING WORLDS TV and COLLIDING WORLDS
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