Lenny Campello talks about Small Works

Lenny Campello discusses the work chosen for the current show, Small Works, on his blog, Daily Campello Art News.

Current Exhibit: Small Works Show

Currently on exhibit at the Multiple Exposures Gallery: Small Works

Michael Borek - 3rd place in PhotoSlam

Congratulations to Michael Borek for winning 3rd place at the Photoworks PhotoSlam 2010 held during FotoWeekDC.

On Site: The Best Photography Exhibit of Fotoweek DC, 2010

Blake Stenning, Janet Matthews and Karen Keating were featured on the blog BWGallerist:

After viewing some excellent work in and around DC, we happened on the Multiple Exposures co-op gallery in Old Town, Alexandria and were very moved by the evocative images exhibited.

Read more:
http://bwgallerist.com/2010/11/15/on-site-the-best-photography-exhibit-of-fotoweek-dc-2010/

FotoWeekDC Events at MEG

Multiple Exposures Gallery has some exciting events lined up for FotoWeekDC: a lecture by Joyce Tenneson and a new exhibit of work by gallery members.

Members Show - Signature Images
November 2 – 28, 2010
Multiple Exposures Gallery, Studio 312
Torpedo Factory Art Center

Throughout the course of an artist’s lifetime, there are those images that stand apart, ones most resonant, to viewers and to the photographer. These are images with universal presence, timeless communication and meaning. And it is these images that most exemplify personal style and become synonymous with the artist. Multiple Exposures Gallery members present their Signature Images in this show.

Joyce Tenneson - A Life in Photography
Sunday, November 7, 2010 - 6:30pm
First Floor, Torpedo Factory Art Center

This will be a unique opportunity to see work from Joyce Tenneson’s 40 year career in photography. She will show images from her retrospective book titled “A Life in Photography” as well as give insight to her multi-faceted career as one of the top photographers working today.

Internationally lauded as one of the leading photographers of her generation, Joyce Tenneson’s work has been published in books and major magazines worldwide. Tenneson ranks among the most respected photographers of our time. Her images have been displayed in exhibitions worldwide and are part of numerous private and museum collections. Her portraits have appeared on covers of such magazines as Time, Life, Newsweek, Premiere, Esquire and The New York Times Magazine.

The lecture is presented by Multiple Exposures Gallery and the Torpedo Factory Artists' Association, and is sponsored by Canon.

Reception: Come early and enjoy a reception from 4 to 6pm at Multiple Exposures Gallery, Studio 312, and peruse the fine art photography studios throughout the art center.

Image by Joyce Tenneson

Multiple Exposures Gallery Presents: Signature Images

Throughout the course of an artist’s lifetime, there are those images that stand apart, ones most resonant, to viewers and to the photographer. These are images with universal presence, timeless communication and meaning. And it these images that most exemplify personal style and become synonymous with the artist. These are Signature Images.

We are pleased to announce an exhibit of the Signature Images of the members of Multiple Exposures Gallery at the Village of Friendship Heights Community Gallery, located 4433 South Park Ave, Chevy Chase, Maryland 20815. This exhibit will run from October 4 –30, 2010. Please join us for the opening reception on Sunday, October 10th, from 11:30 – 1:30 pm.

MEG is a co-operative gallery of 15 award-winning photographers located within the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Old Town Alexandria. Combined, the members represent over well 150 years of vast and varied photographic and artistic experience. Their distinctly different artistic visions are presented through traditional analogue and contemporary digital photographic techniques. Founded in 1985, Multiple Exposures Gallery is widely recognized within the Washington DC metropolitan area photographic community. The members are sought-after speakers, noted educators and traditional and digital photographic specialists and technicians.

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Signature Images

Village of Friendship Heights Community Gallery

4433 South Park Ave, Chevy Chase, Maryland 20815

Opening Reception: Sunday, October 10th, 11:30 – 1:30 pm.

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New Work by Alan Sislen on Exhibit

New Heights

The Atacama – Chile’s Amazing High Desert

A photography exhibit featuring new works by Alan Sislen

The Atacama Desert in northern Chile is one of the highest, driest places on earth. The landscape is extraordinary, with mountains, salt flats, volcanoes, the world’s highest geyser field, and beautiful multi-colored traces of mineral deposits as far as the eye can see. But there is little else.

Sislen’s photographs depict subjects he continually returns to, especially the desolation and beauty of the desert. While he has repeatedly photographed White sands and Death Valley, this desert, the Atacama, is different. Unlike areas of Death Valley that are below sea level, the Atacama is a “high desert,” with mountains exceeding 20,000 feet in many locations.

The photographs in this exhibit were taken at heights of 7,500 t0 15,800 feet. The air is thin and rainfall has never been recorded in many areas. Although devoid of rain, the Atacama has been home to South American Indians for thousands of years. Rich in minerals, the Atacama has been mined for copper, gold, sodium nitrate (saltpeter), and more recently, lithium. Beautiful pale colors are seen at one altitude and strong, deep earthy tones are seen at another.

The Atacama is unique, with a geological history that is only matched by the visual delights that are found there.

October 5 - 31,

2010 Opening Reception: Saturday 9, 2010 2 - 4 pm

Final week to see Noakes and Taylor Exhibits

Next week will the final showing of work by gallery photographers Louise Noakes and Grace Taylor. Stop by the gallery to view this fascinating exhibit before it comes down on October 4.

Coming up next month:
Alan Sislen, New Heights - The Atacama, Chile's Amazing High Desert
Check back - details will be posted soon

Reception for Noakes / Taylor

Scene from the reception for exhibits by Louise Noakes and Grace Taylor.
(click on image for larger view)

Additions to the MEG family

Multiple Exposures Gallery is pleased to announce the additions of new member Eric Johnson and new associate member Sandy LeBrun-Evans to our gallery:

Washington, D.C.-based photographer Eric T. Johnson has had a long interest in photography, starting with documentary work for student publications in high school, through which he developed skills in shooting and processing traditional black and white photographs. While his academic background and career are based in the sciences, photography has continued to provide him with an outlet for his creative interests, and his affinity for black and white photography has endured through his recent transition to digital imaging.

Eric T. Johnson

Sandy LeBrun-Evans is a fine art photographer who began her photography journey in 1990 with the study of black/white and infrared films. She has since explored digital and alternative processes, including encaustic medium, when presenting her work.

She misses the hands-on nature of the wet darkroom and seeks out digital and alternative techniques that allow her to more actively participate in the art making process. Currently Sandy is creating a series of images using a variety if substrates.

Sandy LeBrun-Evans

Current Exhibit

Michael Borek at Gallery 12 12

Beat the heat with 12 12 Gallery's newest 'cool' exhibitions! 12 12 Gallery, in Richmond, VA, continues its Year of the Photographer with 3 new exhibitions by 3 regional photographers from Virginia, North Carolina and Maryland.

Please join us for the artists' reception on Sunday afternoon, June 27th, from 2-5 pm. These exhibitions will run through Sunday, August 1st.

12 East 12th Street
Richmond, VA 23224
Thurs & Fri: 12pm-4PM; Saturday: 11am-6pm; Sunday: 12pm-5pm
info@1212galleryrichmond.com
804.233.9957

Canadian by Michael Borek from Half Awake

I took these photographs with my eyes closed. By that, I don't mean that I lowered my lids over my pupils to prevent light form transmitting the images to me. Rather, these photographs were taken through an imaginary filter that reveals what is there to be seen in addition to - or in spite of - the bare images themselves.

Although I took these pictures mostly during the day, they contain nocturnal elements that suggest the sensation of simultaneously being awake and asleep. They document my encounters with scenes that felt intense, sometimes even and strange, yet also oddly familiar. Perhaps they capture dreams that I have yet to experience. Or maybe they seen familiar because I have dreamed of them before. I am not entirely sure about the meaning of these pictures; my subconscious may be trying to get the upper hand.

-- Michael Borek

Reception for Keating / Matthews Exhibit

A reception was held on Sunday, June 13 for the new exhibits by Karen Keating and Janet Matthews. Seen below are some of the early arrivals at yesterday's event.

Next month, the artists will return for an artist talk on Thursday, July 8 at 7:30pm.

New Exhibit - Keating and Matthews

Transitions: Sanctuary by Karen Keating

Carnival by Janet Matthews

New work by Karen Keating and Janet Matthews

will be on exhibit in the gallery

June 8 - August 1.

Reception - Sunday June 13, 2-4pm

Artist Talk - July 8, 7:30pm

Checkers at 9th & S in the News

CHECKERS At 9th & S won Outstanding Documentary Production and Best Sound in the Graduate Production Awards ceremony on 30 April 2010 in the “VISIONS 2010, Media That Matters: A celebration of the best student audiovisual work at American University.” Peggy Fleming is the Producer. Click here to enjoy the ten-minute video.

Peggy was featured in the May 4 edition of the Washington Post in a feature story about the Capitol Pool Checkers Club, The Men of the Capitol Pool Checkers Club Move Through Life Together by Deneen Brown.

Peggy Fleming's exhibit and book, Crown Me!, as well as Suzanne Quinlan's series, Musings, are on view at Multiple Exposures Gallery through June 7.

Grace Taylor showing in Dimensional Paper

Grace Taylor has 2 works included in the Dimensional Paper exhibit, currently on view at the Torpedo Factory front desk.

Crown Me! shown at Amsterdam film fest

CROWN ME! the ten minute video about the Capital Pool Checkers Club in Washington, DC, is featured at the International Student Film Festival Cinestud 2010. It is one of 61 chosen out of 550. The festival is in Amsterdam, from March 30 - April 4th. Peggy Fleming is the Producer. Participants are offered a bed, board and a bicycle.So Dutch. Click here to enjoy the video.

New Exhibition April 6 -June 7

Suzanne Quinlan

Musings

Peggy Fleming

Crown Me! Capital Pool Checkers Club









Please join us for an artists' reception on Saturday, April 10 2-4 pm

Coffee + Critique + Conversation

Coffee + Critique + Conversation
This Sunday, March 28 - FREE!

MEG member Blake Stenning will be on hand to review your work and offer advice. Whether you have a new set of images or project, a completed portfolio, or simply a selection of photos about which you have questions, all are welcome to come in and engage in friendly and helpful dialog.


Call MEG for more information.
703-683-2205

Borek, Matthews at Rayko Photo

Robert Holmgren featured images on his blog taken at Rayko Photo's 3rd Annual Plastic Camera Show and exhibit by Michael Borek. An image by Janet Matthews was included in the juried show. See more images of the show on Robert's blog.

Work by Michael Borek (6 images at right)

Lighthouse image by Janet Matthews

Reception

Scene from the reception for Danny Conant and Min Enghauser on February 28.
Danny's work is on the gray wall, Min's is on the red wall.

Corrected link for Peggy Fleming's film

New link for viewing Peggy Fleming's film:
At 9th and S.

Michael Borek in San Francisco Examiner

Michael Borek was a featured artist at RayKo's International Juried Plastic Camera Show in San Francisco. Here is the excerpt from the review of the show in San Francisco Examiner:

The Holga is the camera of choice for Michael Borek, the RayKo exhibit’s featured artist, who grew up photographing Prague, his hometown, under Communist reign.

He writes, “I and my fellow citizens lacked basic freedoms and lived in newly created, cheerless urban landscapes.” With his camera, he found the unsung spots of beauty in this environment.

When Borek moved to the United States in 1992 (he lives in Maryland now), he had no trouble finding vast tracts of similarly lifeless design in America’s suburbs and strip malls. He notices sumptuous colors in barren places, and, looking through the Holga’s romance-inducing lens, captures the visual poetry buried within something as plain as an old curtain.

Borek’s quiet, self-assured images are helped along by his trust in an unpredictable plastic lens, the kind of thing that lets photographers abandon their perfectionism.

Read more at the San Francisco Examiner.

Danny Conant Featured in Gazette

Danny Conant is featured in today's Montgomery County Gazette. The article focuses on Danny's photography in Tibet. Read the article here.

Min Enghauser's DESERT DWELL

MIN ENGHAUSER
Desert Dwell: Photographs from the Anza-Borrego Desert

There is a thing that happens in quiet places. In places of openness and solitude. Its a coming together of the essence of the inhabitants and the spirit of place. Plant and rock, rock and sky, sky and mountain. These inhabitants speak to each other without words and at their core is the spirit of the other. In the rock you see the mountain in the mountain you see the sky. This speaks to the relationships of everything, the interconnectedness of all things and the projection of our essence outward where it is absorbed and reflected back.

The Anza-Borrego Desert is one of these places. A place large and open but with hidden washes and canyons. A place where rock is slowly revealed by rain and mountains reach up to the the clouds that mimic them. The ever but slowly changing landscape is a place of unity, cohesion, beauty, mystery and fate. These photographs are the instruments through which this is discovered.

Feb 2 - April 3 // Reception Sunday Feb 28th 2pm - 4pm

Karen Keating receives Excellence in Teaching award

Karen Keating received an honorable mention in the 2009 Excellence in Teaching Award program, sponsored by Center, a nonprofit organization located in Santa Fe, NM, that supports, promotes, and provides opportunity for gifted and committed photographers. Center's Excellence in Teaching Award honors a high school, college or postgraduate teacher's dedication. Educators in all areas of photographic teaching are eligible, including fine art, documentary, history and criticism.

Click here to see more images and read excerpts from Karen's teaching philosophy.

Michael Borek at Rayko Photo, Vienna Photographic Society

The Rayko Photo Center in San Francisco selected Michael Borek as a featured artist for its 2010 International Juried Plastic Camera Show. Michael will be showing his works from Wide Asleep, Half Awake, and the Bridges of Montgomery County portfolios. The opening reception will be held on Friday, February 26, 6-8 p.m., and the exhibition can be viewed till April 17 at 428 Third Street, San Francisco, CA 94107.

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On March 3, Michael will give a lecture entitled “Surreal Shooting and Dreamscape Photography” at the Vienna Photographic Society. For more information click here and go to Event Calendar.

Peggy Fleming and Team win award at Our City Film Fest

Peggy Fleming and colleagues from American University win Best Mini Doc in the Our City Film Fest, to be awarded on Sunday, February 14 at the Goethe Institute in Washington, DC. Their film, At 9th and S, presents the members of the Capital Pool Checkers Club as they play checkers and share camaraderie. See details on the Our City Film Fest website. The 10 minute video can be viewed here.

New Exhibition February-March

Desert Dwell:
Photographs from the Anza-Borrego Desert
by Min Enghauser

Photo-Graphics:
A new way of creating and viewing photographic imagery
by Danny Conant

February 2 to April 3
Reception: Sunday, February 28 2-4 pm

From Colleen - Thoughts on new year's resolutions .....

January Exhibit

January 5 - February 2, 2010

About the Jurors:
Steven Krensky is an avid art collector with a background in photography, his life-long hobby. He and his wife Linda are co-owners of Light Street Gallery, a fine art gallery in Baltimore that specializes in original art, sculpture, photography and limited edition prints in the genres of figurative art, surrealism, fantasy and trompe l'oeil. Linda Krensky is the Director of Light Street Gallery.

For two decades, the Krenskys have been filling their home with art. Their substantial collection includes many photographic pieces created by local artists.

Wet
Juried by Steven Krensky
on the RED wall

Dry
Juried by Linda Krensky
on the GRAY wall