The Garner Center at NESOP

Gretjen Helene – Cuba : In Form

garnercenter — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:15:34 +0000

We have yet another wonderful exhibition now open in the galleries! Gretjen Helene, a Boston local, is sharing her work documenting the people and culture of Cuba. I’ve attached a wonderfully written PDF by Justin Wright Hargesheimer regarding her work HERE. Make sure to come by the gallery and see the work for yourself! The show will run through February 24th. Here is a sample of some of her work:

Coming Soon!!!

garnercenter — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:36:19 +0000

The gallery is in flux yet again, as another show comes down and the next is preparing to go up. Stay tuned next week to see what the next installment brings!

*Hint – the “Current Exhibition” has the press release info already posted

Amy Theiss Giese: Concealed at first at last I appear

garnercenter — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 19:33:09 +0000

New work is up in the gallery!

This week opened Amy Theiss Giese’s exhibition of new site specific work. Giese uses a unique process of directly recording light onto black and white photographic paper to make large scale installation environments. The opening was Wednesday evening, and she will be giving an artist talk next Thursday, Dec 8th at 6pm in the gallery. Here are some detail views of the work:

Gallery Director, Erin Carey writes:

Amy Theiss Giese’s skiagrams (shadow drawings) investigate how the most basic photographic method, light recorded onto paper, can reveal overlooked interior moments. Embedded in each drawing is an abstracted compression of an experience: The weather, the hand of the artist and the interior space of the room itself. Reminencent of Fox Talbot’s initial photographic explorations, these singular images compel vital questions.

About the Artist: Giese recently completed an M.F.A in photography from Parson School of Design with honors in 2009. She received her B.A. from Amherst College, majoring in Fine Arts, and is also a graduate of The New England School of Photography. Her work has been included in numerous exhibitions both nationally and internationally including the Photographic Resource Center in Boston, the Visual Arts Center of NJ, Arnold & Sheila Aronson Gallery in NYC, the Sydney College of the Arts galleries and Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT.

To learn more about Amy, please visit her website at:

www.amygiese.com

Ruin – Brian Vanden Brink

garnercenter — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:52:13 +0000

Eldorado, Maryland, 1996

RUIN

Brian Vanden Brink

October 3 – November 19, 2011

Reception: October 12, 2011 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

In this body of work, Brian Vanden Brink examines rural, industrial, post-industrial, and abandoned architecture and its relationship to the landscape. There he discovers a fascinating world of shapes, textures, spatial relationships and history: “I love to photograph how and where we live, seeing in our architecture an expression of what we value.”

About the Artist: Brian Vanden Brink was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1951 and began his career in photography there. He moved to Maine in 1978 where he built an award-winning career in architectural photography for the last three decades. His work has been featured widely in a variety of design and consumer publications such as Architectural Digest, Architectural Record, Boston Globe Magazine, Coastal Living, Dwell, Design New England, Down East, Maine Home + Design, New England Home, New York Times Magazine, Photo District News, and View Camera Magazine. In addition, he has published several monographs such as Ruin and his latest publication Porch. Brian currently lives in Camden with his wife Kathleen and teaches workshops at the Maine Media Workshops in Rockport, ME.

Roadside Chapel, St. James Parish, Louisiana, 1999

Ruins, Ashford Mill, California

Artist Talk: Irina Rozovsky

garnercenter — Sun, 08 May 2011 21:51:19 +0000

Irina Rozovsky is giving an artist talk on Monday, May 9, 2011 at 6:00 p.m. We hope that you can make it!

If you haven’t heard, Irina’s recently published book, One to Nothing is available on sale at the following online book venues

photo-eye Bookstore: http://www.photoeye.com/bookstore/citation.cfm?catalog=KH024&i=9783868281996&i2=&CFID=16652438&CFTOKEN=37100333

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/One-Nothing-John-Feinstein/dp/3868281991

This Russia

garnercenter — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 16:44:37 +0000

This Russia

Irina Rozovsky

April 18, 2011 – June 3, 2011

Reception: April 20, 2011, 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

In the summer of 2008, Irina returned to Russia for the first time since she and her family left exactly twenty years before. To Irina, Moscow was wrapped in a haze that rose like a mirage. These photographs describe a place both real and imagined by years of absence and the disorientation of being a stranger in a familiar land. These images look for what has been left behind and disconnected—This Russia—its crumbling buildings, searching faces—its fairytale drenched in redeeming, yellow light, nostalgia tinged with harsh reality.

About the Artist: Irina Rozovsky (b. 1981, Moscow) immigrated to the United in 1988. She received a BA in French and Spanish Literature from Tufts University and an MFA in Photography from Massachusetts College of Art. Her works has been exhibited nationally and internationally, most notably at the New York Photo Festival (2008), Rencontres at Arles, France (2009), 31 Women in Photography curated by Charlotte Cotton (2010), PhotoEspana (2010), Exposure at the Photographic Resource Center (2010), and at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts (2010). She was the 2009 finalist of the Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant and the 2010 finalist of the Magnum Expression Award. Her first monograph One to Nothing was recently published by Kehrer Verlag (2011). Irina teaches photography at Art Institute of Boston and at the International Center of Photography, New York.

Catalina Piedrahita: An Exquisite Photographer

garnercenter — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 23:18:41 +0000

I’m so excited to present a post about Catalina Piedrahita. She has been an essential aspect in helping with NESOP’s students work through their technical skills and trouble shoot their camera or lighting. More importantly, she has put in a lot of working in helping Erin Carey and I implement current and upcoming gallery and student exhibitions.

In addition, she’s also a superb Fashion Photographer and 2nd year student at NESOP. Having a background in Visual Arts, she finds her inspiration in drama, nature, the feminine, the impossible, and the sublime. She gets captivated by allure in all its forms, and her work is a reflection of her perception (and obsession) of beauty. With her tutor and gallery assistant skills, she is striving to further her interest in the arts and education once she graduates NESOP this May. Here is a fantastic snapshot of her fashion photography. I strongly encourage all of you to visit her work!

www.photocati.com

Found: Decaying Portraits

garnercenter — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 21:13:01 +0000

Found

Andrea Raynor

February 28, 2011 – April 15, 2011

Reception: March 9, 2011, 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

In San Michele Cemetery, Venice Italy cemetery, there are thousands tombstones that has a portrait image of the deceased. Although the portraits on the tombstone are fading, they had once conveyed a complete image of the beloved who had passed away. In Andrea Raynor’s exhibit, Found, is photography documentations of these decaying portraits. The 20 digitally unaltered photographs of the cemetery portraits in varying stages of decay. Her photographs are a profound testament to the futile attempt to memorialize a human being. In addition, the basic process of time and different levels of decay slowly working the portrait away to the bare minimum of representation speaks to the irrefutable knowledge of ones own passing.

The Art New England publication reviewed Andrea’s exhibition, Found, at the Garner Center for Photographic Exhibitions. The review can be seen in the current April/May issue.

About the Artist: Andrea Raynor received her MFA, in photography, from School of Visual Arts, New York in 1997. She has been a full time faculty member at Northeastern University since 2003, and the director of the Venice, Italy study abroad program. She is currently working on a series of photographs and paintings influenced by her research on Byzantine mosaics. She maintains a studio in Boston working in both mediums. More of her work can be viewed on her website at www.andrearaynor.com.

Rebecca Heyl Lecture

garnercenter — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 21:17:46 +0000

Windows in the Wall (c) Rebecca Heyl

Lecture and Book Signing

Next Week: February 24th, 2011 at 6pm

If you are interested in learning more about Rebecca Heyl’s photography work, she will be talking about her personal experience and her book “Windows in the Wall” next Thursday February 24th, 2011 at 6:00pm. In addition she is presenting a film that is complimentary to the current exhibit at the Garner Center for Photographic Exhibitions. Her book is also on sale at the main office at the New England School of Photography.

An Invisible Wall

garnercenter — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 18:19:35 +0000

Windows in the Wall: Photographs by Rebecca Heyl

January 10, 2011 – February 25, 2011

Opening Reception:

January 19, 2011 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

Windows in the Wall is a selection of photographs from the 2008 monograph (Skira/Rizzoli) of the same title. The project is about the wall that separates Palestinians and Israelis. When Rebecca Heyl began photographing this new barrier, in December 2002, little was known about the construction, either within the Israeli public or abroad. Only the Palestinians whose land had been confiscated understood its importance. Now, eight years later, 400 plus miles of electronic fencing combined with 5-8 meter (16-25ft.) high concrete wall slabs make up this Barrier. Although it is still not complete, the Barrier has affected the life of every Palestinian, separating them from loved ones, schools, land, markets, universities, jobs and medical services. Not only has the Barrier affected contact among Palestinians, it also has made the already difficult contact between Palestinians and Israelis nearly impossible.

This new enormous physical barrier between the Palestinian and Israeli peoples has made the other, older, wall that separates them all the more apparent – the invisible wall of fear, distrust, and paranoia. This is the wall that is the subject of Heyl’s photographic work. This is the wall that fascinates her — this wall, and the courageous people on both sides who continue to penetrate the barriers between them.

Rebecca Heyl is an artist, educator and human rights activist currently based in Boston. She has a Masters of Fine Art from the joint program at Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. While living in Israel between 2001 and 2004 Heyl worked with Windows – Channels for Communication, an Israeli-Palestinian non-profit organization. She traveled frequently between the West Bank and Israel coming to know many on both sides of this continuing conflict. Heyl’s recently published photographic monograph titled Windows in the Wall (Skira/Rizzoli, 2008) embodies her experience in Israel and the West Bank as a human rights worker.

Heyl teaches Photography at Chester College of New England, located in Chester, NH.