(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Unframed: Eight Photographers in Exhibition, inaugurates the new NOBO Gallery with works by Craig J. Barber, Karen Davis, Richard Edelman, Jeff Jacobson, Kay Kenny, Elaine Mayes, Carla Shapiro and Ruth Wetzel, beginning Friday, October 10, 2014, and running through Sunday, November 9. There will be a closing reception for the show on Saturday, November 8, from 5 to 8pm.

This group of eight photographers from the Hudson River Valley has met monthly for over seven years to share their work and ideas. While their tools, processes, subject matter and aesthetics vary, they are united by their love for the medium and a desire to grow as artists. With each artist comes a mature eye to offer articulate feedback and encouragement. This exhibition is the first of this salon’s work.

Craig J. Barber (Woodstock NY) works with antiquarian photographic processes. He focuses on cultures that are in rapid transition, fading from memory such as Viet Nam, Havana, and the Catskill region of New York. He is represented in museum collections including: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Brooklyn Art Museum; George Eastman House, Rochester, NY; and Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina and has exhibited widely. Grants include: Seattle Arts Commission, Polaroid Corporation and NYFA. Craig’s book, “Ghosts in the Landscape: Vietnam Revisited” was published by Umbrage Editions, 2006. For over 20 years he has taught and lectured throughout the US, Europe, and Latin America.

Karen Davis’s (Hudson NY) work is featured at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) and in the collections of the Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW) at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art; Lishui Museum of Photography (China); the Houghton Rare Books Library, Harvard University and in corporate and private collections. She was the 2009 recipient of the Artists Fellowship Award from CPW. Karen teaches portfolio development and marketing to fine arts photographers. She is coowner of the Davis Orton Gallery in Hudson, where they exhibit photography, mixed media and photobooks and co-owner of Davis Orton Editions, an online store for small format, fine art photography..

Richard Edelman’s (Saugerties NY) photographs are included in the public collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Brooklyn Museum, Bibliothèque Nationale, and Everson Museum of Art. His art was the dominant set piece for the San Francisco Opera and Lyric Opera House productions of Werther. He received fellowships from the NY Creative Artists Public Service Program and twice from the Center for Photography at Woodstock. He has taught photography at the New School, School of Visual Arts, ICP, and William Paterson University. Edelman is principal of Woodstock Graphics Studio, Saugerties, which specializes in creative production work for artists.

Jeff Jacobson (Mount Tremper NY) has published three books; My Fellow Americans, University of New Mexico Press, in 1991; Melting Point, Nazraeli Press, in 2006; and The Last Roll, Daylight Books, 2013. Jacobson’s photographs are in the permanent collections of The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Houston Museum of Fine Art, George Eastman House in Rochester, NY, The Center For Creative Photography, Tucson, Az., Center For Photography at Woodstock, and have been widely exhibited. Jeff teaches workshops around the world.

Kay Kenny’s (Saugerties NY) work is in the collection of, among others, the Brooklyn Museum, Milwaukee Art Museum, the Buhl Collection, and Southern Alleghenies Museum. She has exhibited widely. Kay received 2009 Lucie Awards’ Honorable Mention in FineArts Photography and is a three-time recipient of NJSCA fellowship award. Recent publications include Photography’s Antiquarian Avant-Garde, by Lyle Rexer, Abrams Publishing, Light & Lens,Photography in the Digital Age, & Photographic Possibilities by Robert Hirsch, Focal. In 2004 she co-curated “Manifestations: Photographs of Men” at the Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach FL. Kay has taught Photography for over twenty years at NYU and ICP in New York City.

Elaine Mayes (Denver, NY) has been working in documentary and fine art photography since 1960. Her work has been exhibited at MOMA, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, SF MOMA, The Honolulu Contemporary Museum, The Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Brooklyn Museum and The Davis Orton Gallery in Hudson. She also taught photography and film, retiring from full time teaching as Chair of the Photography and Imaging Department, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University in 2001. Her new book, Recently, will be released by Daylight Press in November 2014.

Carla Shapiro (Chichester NY) has been a visual artist working in photography for over twenty-five years. Her portfolios include photographic, mixed media and multi-media explorations about woman, aging, longing, 9/11, beauty and decay. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally. She has received many awards including The Center for Photography at Woodstock, The Golden Light Awards at Maine Photographic Workshops, New Jersey Council on the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, (2 times), and The O’Conner Foundation. She has attended many artists’ colonies including The MacDowell Colony (6 times) and Yaddo. Carla teaches graduate school at Pratt Institute.

Ruth Wetzel (Stone Ridge NY) has spent 25 years interpreting the landscape. As a landscape artist, Ruth explores a topic deeply, allowing the images to cull the medium. She is currently bringing viewers an intimate look at swamps through photography. Ruth has received fellowships from Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Women’s Studio Workshop and New York State Council on the Arts. Ruth has a M.F.A. from Maryland Institute, College of Art, and a B.S. in Design from Buffalo State College. Her work has been shown and collected nationally and internationally., www.swampphotos.com.

 

NOBO Gallery, 558 Warren Street, Hudson NY 12534

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