HandMade Photograph- Juried Fine Art Photography Exhibit at Mills Pond House Gallery May 5 to June 1

John Mitty Saturday, April 21, 2012

Smithtown Township Arts Council presents the 32nd Annual Juried Photography Exhibition The Hand Made Photograph at the Mills Pond House Gallery in St. James, May 5- June 1, 2012. An opening reception will be held Saturday, May 5 from 2:00-4:00 p.m. Regular gallery hours are Mon-Fri 10-5, Sat & Sun 12-4. Admission is free.

The exhibition includes the work of 27 photographers from across the US and includes examples of a wide variety of unique, alternative process photography including Cyanotype, Ziatype, Photo Transfer to Fresco and Clay, Wet Plate Collodion on Aluminum, Platinum/Palladium Print Hand painted with Gold Leaf, Gelatin Silver Print with Mordencage, 3 Color Gum Bichromate, Wet Plate Collodion Tintype, Pigment Print on Rice and Rag Papers, among others.

Selected artists hail from Utah, Oregon, Alabama, Texas, Virginia, Georgia, Wisconsin, California, South Dakota, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey and New York. Local photographers include Lenny Stucker (Fort Salonga) JoAnne Dumas (Wading River) William Grabowski (Huntington Station) Peter M. Lindstrom (Brooklyn) Brandon Merkel (Nesconset)

This year’s juror is internationally known artist and photographer Christopher James whose paintings and alternative process images have been exhibited in galleries and museums in this country and abroad.  His work has been published and shown extensively, including shows in The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The George Eastman House, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The second edition of his book, The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes has become universally recognized as the definitive text in the genre.

JoAnne Dumas of Wading River is an artist who works primarily with photographic images. She delights in capturing the fleeting drama that light creates on surfaces. Her current work blends her love for the clean waters of Long Island’s east end with her concern for their preservation.

Fort Salonga artist Lenny Stucker is a retired TV director from the NBC television network. He was with NBC for 26 years and was blessed to have won 10 Emmys during his career. His TV show called Lenny's Look (on East Hampton TV VVH) showcases his photos of celebrities and events held in the Hamptons.

Peter M. Lindstrom, resident of Brooklyn, NY, frequently employs multiple alternative and historic printing processes on a single image, to obtain just the right balance of texture and atmosphere in his work.

Kathy Leistner, of East Rockaway, NY, was a photographer at Purdue University, a photo editor for several national fitness magazines in CA, the first full time woman newspaper photographer for the Sarasota, Florida Herald-Tribune, and for the past nine years is free-lancer with a weekly L.I. newspaper. Her work centers on her connection to people and animals and experimenting with photographic processes that allows that theme to be presented.

Jeanette Rodriguez--Pineda is a photographer and mixed media artist living and working in Queens, NY. The production and exhibition of her work requires an intimate relationship between the integral aspects of alternative printing techniques and the artists' method.  Jeannette has taught historic photographic processes at the Center for Photography at Woodstock.

William Grabowski of Huntington Station presents visual narratives (including 2D images and 3D forms) that relate autobiographical and fictitious stories of people, places, families, and cultures. His digital-based work arranges layers of images with different levels of transparency in a manner that blends individuals and settings.

Participating Photographers:  Christine Baczek, Colin Burke, Michele Cole (Honorable Mention), Susan Elizabeth de Witt (Honorable Mention), JoAnne Dumas, William Fenn, William Grabowski, Scott M Hilton (Second Place), Nina Isabelle, Karin Klint (Honorable Mention), Patricia Kranenberg, Kathy P. Leistner, Peter M. Lindstrom (Honorable Mention), Cary Loving, Massimo Marinucci, Tommy Matthews (First Place), Timothy McCoy, Brandon Merkel, Eric Nelson, Jeannette Rodriguez-Pineda, Bruce Samia, Leah Schretenthaler (Honorable Mention), Nikki Segarra (Honorable Mention), Arista Slater-Sandoval (Honorable Mention), Shelby Silvernell, Lenny Stucker, Marydorsey Wanless (Honorable Mention).

 For more information, call 631-862-6575, or visit our Web site at www.stacarts.org.

STAC, a 501  (c) (3) not-for-profit organization, is supported by Town of Smithtown and Suffolk County Legislators Lynn C. Nowick and John M. Kennedy, Jr. This program is fully or partially funded by the County of Suffolk

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