Club Competition This Wednesday, November 4 at 7:30pm
Our next competition of the season is this Wednesday, November 4, 2015
The assigned subject for November is Things in a Row.
Print submissions are accepted until 7:15 pm the evening of the competition. The meeting will begin promptly at 7:30pm.
Our judges for this evening will be:
Lee Paine – www.leepainefinephotography.com
Lee is a professional photographer, writer, and singer. Her column “Focus on Photos”, ran in the Greenwich Time for 20 years and in the Greenwich Citizen for about 5 years until Hearst publications cancelled all paid correspondents and closed the Citizen.
Lee teaches photography privately and has taught photography for Greenwich Continuing Education and the YWCA. She has lectured on photography for many organizations including the Whitney Museum, the Bruce Museum, the Greenwich Arts Council, the Greenwich Library, the Stamford Art Association, and the Stamford Photography Club, among others.
She has served as a juror or judge for the Silvermine Guild of Artists, the Greenwich Art Society, the Greenwich Arts Council, the Art Society of Old Greenwich, the Stamford Art Association, the National Association of Pen Women, the Darien Art Association, the Waveny Art Barn, and the Stamford Library, among others.
More recently, Lee has been exhibiting her new series of large scale, fine art cell phone photographs on canvas from a series called The Emotional Life of Flowers. She also had several pieces in a show called A Common Thread: Women Artists Changing the Rules and Exploring new Horizons–an international show at the Bendheim Gallery in Greenwich In February and March that featured 12 trendsetting women in different disciplines, each from a different country. Lee represented the USA.
Richard Ventre – www.rventre.com
Dick, a resident of Norwalk, completed his 45-year career as a Scenic Artist in 2012. He was a Master Scenic Artist on more than 50 movies including the Emmy Award winning Death of a Salesman, and the Academy Award winning Sleepy Hollow. He completed that career painting for the Metropolitan Opera.
His work in photography is in the medium of photomontage. He works exclusively in dramatic narrative by depicting the painted female nude set within a themed environment. Each work is rendered from multiple images that are digitally woven together.
In 2016 the ongoing series IN THE MOMENT: AFTER THE PAINTED NUDES OF ANDERS ZORN will have its first Solo Show at the Ridgefield Guild of Artists, Upstairs Gallery. In 2014 GODDESS OF THE HUNT: AFTER AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS’ DIANA was the Solo Show at the same gallery.
Garrison Gunter – www.garrisongunter.com
I began taking photographs when I was about 15 years old, living on the Big Island in Hawaii. Everything was Black and White back then and we shot a lot of film (about a roll a day). My Maternal family is rooted in Greenwich, CT where my grandfather Charles P Mason was an integral community member, acting on every community board, volunteering with the fire and police and helping to secure the town beach through his network of social connections.
I moved to Greenwich CT at age 17 and studied with Ron Lake at the GHS who helped me to build a strong portfolio which solidified my acceptance into CalArts in 1992. I studied photography and worked on a lot of cross departmental projects at CalArts including a project called Uncommon Sense with Mel Chin where we placed content specific artworks onto the set of the TV show Melrose Place. My beginnings in photography were film based and I’ve worked with many formats of film and print media. From 4×5 polaroid transfers to hand printing wall sized color photographs from the first digitally produced 4K negatives back in 1996. I now shoot digital and I miss film but photographers are progressive at our core and so we must look always to the horizon, not to our feet.
I am interested in the evolving provisional nature of a community’s public face–the signage of its history. This history may be in the form of centuries of past generations or it may be from a rapidly developing community that has had to adapt to population increases and turnovers in a short period of time. The word palimpsest (Latin: to scrape away) is generally used to describe the kind of layers seen in old stone tablets or parchment papers that have been written on and erased over a period of time. But the Palimpsest also exists in the surface of buildings, social spaces, and is part of everyday experience.
The subjects of my work are not found in history books, or seen on the 6 o’clock news. They are the transitions in culture made by everyday people who enact small changes that, while unnoticed by many, are significant nonetheless. The Geometry of the homes in barracks-like communities such as Levittown and a recent project of my own in Mianus Village, a small street in Cos Cob, Connecticut, emphasize a homeowner’s need for individuality. The formal geometric appearance, not just the detailed decisions, are what seem to be important in this community. Presenting works that expose that system of geometry is the focus of my current and upcoming works.
My works are not a collage, nor are they simple stacks of ethereal imagery pressed together in a ghost-like form. These new pieces show an understanding of the selected subject in an elegant way that weaves together concepts of longing, serenity, history, and my own place within the system of computer-generated imagery.
