March | April 2005 - Boston Photography Focus

education programs at the prcGALLERY CONVERSATIONLand/Mark: A GalleryConversation withPRC Curator Leslie K. Brownand Special GuestsThursday, April 21, 2005, noon832 Commonwealth Avenue,Boston, MA 02215Free admission.Join us for this free gallery talk by PRCCurator Leslie K. Brown and invited guests.In conjunction with the Boston CyberartsFestival. Land/Mark is a group exhibition,curated by Brown, featuring artists who engagephotography with location-based technologiesand systems. For more information, pleaseturn to page 6.PRC CURATOR PORTFOLIOREVIEWS*Please Note Format Change*This spring, due to their amazing popularity,we are changing the format of our scheduledPRC Curator Portfolio Reviews in order toaccommodate more artists. Reviews with PRCCurator Leslie K. Brown are 30 minutes long,Below you will find the review dates as well asthe time when you can call reservation; reservationsare accepted on a first-call, first-servedbasis. It is highly recommended that you bringsupporting materials (resume, images, andstatement). You must be a PRC member toparticipate in the reviews and members areallotted one review per year.Review Date: Monday, April 11, 2004 (call infor reservations at 10 am, Friday, March 18)Review Date: Monday, May 23, 2005 (call infor reservations at 10 am, Friday, April 15)LECTUREAn evening with:Nancy Roberts, photographerDebra Olin, printmakerCelia Gilbert, poetPart of the Word and Image SeriesCo-Presented by NESOP'sGallery OneWednesday, March 16, 2005, 7pmBoston University School of Communications640 Commonwealth Avenue, Auditorium 101,Boston, MAFree Admission.Nancy Roberts is a photographer living inCarlisle, MA. Her work in autobiographical, concentratingon self-portraiture, family pictures, andthe integration of words and imagery using oldsnapshots, letters, and journal entries. Recentlyshe has created fabric pieces also using words andimages. She taught photography for several yearsat the Art Institute of Boston and Milton Academy.In 1997 she was an award winner from theNew England Foundation for the Arts. She is theauthor of Recognitions: Images of a Woman Artistpublished by Zoland Books and The BendingMoment (with D'Anne Bodman) published byNightwood Press. Please visit www.nancyrobertsphotography.comDebra Olin is a printmaker, living and workingin Somerville, MA. She received her MFA fromMassachusetts College of Art and her BA fromthe University of Cincinnati. Debra has shown inexhibitions across the U.S., South Africa andCuba. Her work is in the permanent collectionsof the Boston Public Library, Temple Israel,Brookline, MA, YIVO Institute, NYC, andHarvard’s Fogg Art Museum. Debra was recentlyawarded the Rappaport Prize, the largest publicannual award to an individual artist in New England.Celia Gilbert is the author of three books ofpoetry, An Ark of Sorts, winner of the first JaneKenyon Chapbook Award, Bonfire,and Queen ofDarkness. Her poetry has appeared in, amongother places, Poetry, The NewYorker, Southwest Review, TinHouse, and Ploughshares and hasbeen frequently anthologized. Sheis also an artist who works as aprintmaker and painter.Copyright © 2005, Nancy RobertsLECTURE ANDBOOKSIGNINGHenry HorensteinHumansTuesday, April 5, 2005, 7pmBoston University College of Arts and Sciences725 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, SecondFloor, Room 224$7 members/ $10 non-members/$5 full-time students and seniorsCopies of Humans will be available forpurchase at the event for $40.“Mystery and a curious disorientation is a firstreaction upon viewing the most recent manifestationof Henry Horenstein's photographic art. Byall accounts, this should not be the case. His subjectmatter is the human body of which we allhave intimate knowledge, albeit at least with ourown. The strangeness of Horenstein's imagery isthat he has concentrated on the extreme close-upscrutiny of the human body, turning it from theouter layers of distinct personalities and individualsinto universal landscapes with flesh substitutingfor soil and hair acting as foliage. This visualtest of our sensibilities has a basis for explanation.We are so used to our own bodies that we see, butdon't really observe ourselves. Except for notingsomething out of the ordinary, such as theappearance of a bruise or blemish, we see throughourselves as we go about the private activities ofdressing, bathing, and seeing our reflection in themirror. We gaze on the bodies of others in admiration,envy, or eros, but rarely with the dispassionateintensity of these photographs.”From the Foreward by Robert Flynn JohnsonKehrer Verlag Heidelberg, 2004Henry Horenstein is a photographer, author, andeducator who has published over thirty books forchildren (A Is For?) and adults including classictexts (Black and White Photography; A Basic Manual,new edition now available!) and monographs(Creatures, Canine, Aquatics). Horenstein’s workhas been exhibited Internationally and within theUnited States at venues such as Robert KleinGallery, Boston, MA; Paul Kopeikin Gallery, LosAngeles, CA; Sarah Morthland Gallery, NewYork, NY; Kathleen Ewing Gallery, WashingtonD.C.; Edward Carter Gallery, New York, NY; andJohn Cleary Gallery, Houston, TX. Photographsby Henry Horenstein can be found in many publicand private collections including FidelityInvestments, Boston, MA, Fogg Museum of Art,Cambridge, MA, High Museum of Art, Atlanta,GA, Library of Congress, Washington D.C.,Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, Museum ofthe Rhode Island School of Design, Providence,RI, and Polaroid Collection, Cambridge, MA.Henry is a professor at the Rhode Island Schoolof Design.For more information, please visit www.humansbook.comHenry Horenstein, cover image from Humans, Henry Horenstein, 2004. Courtesy Clifford•Smith Gallery.LECTUREMary Virginia SwansonPresenting Your Work to theFine Art CommunityMonday, April 11, 2005, 6pmBoston University School of Communications640 Commonwealth Avenue, Auditorium 101,Boston, MA$7 members/ $10 non-members/$5 full-time students and seniorsSwanson’s Marketing Guidebook for Photographerswill be available for purchase at theevent for $45. Please call 617-975-0600 forreservations and book pre-ordersDuring this informative lecture, Mary VirginiaSwanson will provide insights into the most effectiveavenues for introducing your work to thegallery and museum professionals. She will discussthe value of the national and international juriedexhibitions, as well as portfolio review events suchas FotoFest, Photolucida, Review Santa Fe andEuropean festivals as realistic avenues to industryprofessionals. Important gallery trade shows suchas AIPAD’s The Photo Show and PhotoLA/NY/SF will be discussed from the perspectiveof helping artists to determine which dealers willbe most appropriate for their work. Effective selfpromotionmaterials will be shared with participants,as well as visuals providing insights intoportfolio review events towards making the mostof your participation. Valuable handouts will beprovided to all who attend.Mary Virginia Swanson is a leader in the fields ofmarketing and licensing fine art photography. Itwas during her tenure heading special projectsat Magnum Photos that she recognized theopportunities for artists to develop second marketsfor their work, and in 1991 she foundedSWANSTOCK, an innovative agency managinglicensing rights for fine art photographers. Nowconsulting, lecturing and conducting workshops,Swanson is committed to bringing photographyand photographers to new markets.For more information please visit her website,www.mvswanson.com23