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Presenting at Hillside Art Salon tonight

6pm. at the University of Massachusetts chancellor Robert C. Holub and Sabine Holub's house.

Hosted by Sabine Holub.

Check out the Salon's website to see a couple of pieces from the collection I will be showing tonight, as well as those of other presenters. 20 slides/20 seconds each! Sounds like a brutal format, a kind of speed dating with art, but I think I like it: it prevents preciousness from slipping into the presentation. The time constraint has it's price too.. Didn't Mark Twain once complain about the 5 minutes he was given once to deliver a speech, saying that he'd need two weeks to prepare for it, while he could give a 2-hour lecture today! :)

I am really excited about this event...., and I better practice my "5 minutes" now!

From the Lightness Series. Walker Art Center. Minneapolis. 2011

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City on the Sea comes to Amherst

After a month in Northampton, the exhibit of 30 or so photographic prints of Latvia will open in Amherst tomorrow, Thursday. Please come to the opening reception between 6 and 8 p.m. tomorrow night, if you are in town, or between 1 and 2 p.m. on Sat. Feb.19th when I will be at the gallery to give a tour to anyone who would like to hear the stories behind the pictures.

Thank you so much to all of you who came to the show in Northampton, and for all the feedback and inspiration (and gorgeous flowers!) you've brought along!

For a preview of the show, please visit one of my previous posts, or Jones Library website: http://www.joneslibrary.org/burnett/thismonth.html

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Amherst Biennial - 12 more days

12 more days left until closing of the first Amherst Biennial!
There are several special events planned for closing next week.In addition to the regular hours, all the galleries will be open for December Art Walk on Thursday the 2nd. A closing celebration has been planned for Sunday, Dec.5, 5 - 7 PM. East St. School will be open until 8 PM on that day, so come on down, enjoy Karen Dolmanisth's performance at 7pm., an amazing video installation by Sarah Bliss, and all the other wonderful art works in many different mediums, and celebrate this successful event.The Public Arts Commission will be serving beverages and light snacks for the Art Walk & closing Dec. 5.

One of my photographic assemblies, Time Still No.3, is on view at Nacul Center Gallery at 592 Main St. The gallery is open on weekdays 9-4, and weekends 1-4. I hope to see you there!

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Shedding Light Returns: Please Save the Date!

Shedding Light returns on 12-11-10! FOR 3 NIGHTS ONLY!
What an auspicious date to relight the shed! If you missed it last year or wish to see it illuminated again please come by.

This lighting will mark the opening of an exhibit of photographs of last year's installation. Anita Līcis-Ribak, Charlotte Meryman, Donald David, Stephanie Oates, Terry Rooney and project's artist Erika Zekos will be among those showing their own views of the barn and light and landscape. In addition, exhibition's organizers Erika and Terry, will be showing the beautiful film about Shedding Light by Catherine Stryker of ACTV.

Opening Reception: Saturday, 12-11-10:
3 - 5 PM @ the Nacul Center Gallery (592 Main St., Amherst, MA)
6 -10 PM Relighting of Shedding Light @ Swartz Family Farm (11 Meadow St., Amherst, MA)

We hope that you'll join us!

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Recent Publishing

I am happy to announce that two of my photographs have just been published in two separate editions.

The first one, Untitled No.1, has been included in the collection of contemporary art yearbook 'Still Point Art Gallery: Selections From 2010 Exhibitions'. The book includes work from about seventy artists from around the world, and can be purchased from Blurb.

The other work is from a series of photographs I took of a Habitat for Humanity housing project on Stanley Street in Amherst, designed by architect Chuck Roberts of Kuhn Riddle Architects. It was included in the book 'The Power of Pro-Bono: 40 Stories about Design for the Public Good by Architects and Their Clients' edited by John Cary and published by Public Architecture. The book can be purchased at Amazon.com.

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Art for All!

Another exciting event, local artist work auction, with music, food and a real auctioneer in action will take place next Saturday, October 2nd!

One of my photographs, City of Storm, from the Inaccessible Halves collection (photographs from New Mexico) will be auctioned, to benefit the Markham-Nathan Fund for social justice.

Hope you can make it!

"Savoy Heel and Toe" by Richard Yarde

THE MARKHAM – NATHAN FUND is happy to invite you to our first annual benefit auction:

ART FOR ALL !!!

Saturday, October 2nd

The Northampton Center for the Arts

5:00 p.m. Doors open

7:00 p.m. Auction begins

Vijay Prashad, Auctioneer

FOOD, DRINK, MUSIC, FUN! BRING YOUR FRIENDS!

Classic rock with a latin twist -- Jose González/Criollo Clasico

Click here to see some of the art on offer:

http://www.markhamnathanfund.org/?page_id=88

We hope you can come to this exciting art auction. Below is a list of artists whose work will be on the auction block.

Simone Alter-Muri, Anne Ayvaliotis, Leonard Baskin, Fred Becker, Olivia Bernard, Mary Bernstein, Edith Byron, Mary Ann Connelly, Eliza Cooney, Jack Coughlin, Christin Couture, Leonard Craig, Pam Crawford, Sue Curran, Louise T. Currin, Helena Dooley, Kit Fairchild, Hector Figarella, Rachel Folsom, Elliot Fratkin, Adele Gilbert, Greg Gillespie, Ellen Grobman, Isabella Halsted, Constance Hamilton, Gillian Haven, Laura Holland, Keith Hollingsworth, Margaret Holt, Alan Hurwitz, Judith Inglese, Barbara Johnson, Wolf Kahn, Lorna Kepes, Frances Kidder, Chris Labich, Frank Landlen, Julie Lapping, Anita Licis, Louis Lionni, Suzanne LoManto, Jane Lund, Robert Markey, Joyce Miller, Sigrid Miller-Pollin, Matthew Mitchell, Lourdes Morales, Barry Moser, Claudine Mussuto, William Myers, Dean Nimmer, Steve Petegorsky, Lynn Peterfreund, Scott Prior, Lorna Ritz, Deborah Rubin, Vito Sammartano, Ann Slocum, Gary Michael Tartakov, Rene Theberge, Gregory Thorpe, Diane Travis, Janet Walerstein Winston, Marcia Wise, Wei Ming Wang, Richard Yarde and others

"Public Building" by Fred Becker

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Amherst Biennial

One of my new works, Time Still No.3, has been selected to be part of the first Amherst Biennial. The event will take place in various locations across the town of Amherst. Please see the invitation below for specifics. Come, wander around, and enjoy! This promises to be a grand event!

Click here to download:

Amherst Biennial Invite Email (dragged).pdf (142 KB)

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Amherst Biennial Invite Email (dragged).pdf (51 KB)

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Shedding Light in Amherst - Part 2

A few days before Christmas my friend Erika Zekos invited me to come along for a plane ride to fly over and take photographs of her illuminated barn project in North Amherst. I jumped at the opportunity, it sounded like the kind of adventure I love! Flying in a tiny 4-seat Piper Warrior plane at night, two days shy of winter solstice, with freezing temperatures and harsh winds toying with the elasticity of our comfort zone boundaries, I was taking photographs, sticking my camera out of the tiny window, praying that I don't drop it out into the snowy fields under, or worse even, onto somebody's head! I hang on to it tight. Our plane careened 60 degrees to one side to get us a better view. Amusingly, I didn't realize what was happening until our pilot, John Smith, demonstrated the trick to us later, after landing - I was so absorbed in trying to get a focused picture (it proved to be a real challenge!)
What a beautiful vision it was, like some mysterious night bride, lost in the vast dark of the winter night.. An unforgettable way to welcome the winter solstice!

Thank you, Erika and John for the amazing experience!

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Shedding Light in Amherst

there is poetry in the light streaming out of an old tobacco barn

standing in the middle of a frozen winter field

first snow drawing slight lines in the air

captured by the rays of light

released through the open ventilation slats

and right into the cold dark night

suddenly made warm

inviting you to cruise into the darkest part of the year

with this newly found warmth and a sense of belonging to a larger world around you

The project on these photographs, Shedding Light, was created by a friend, an artist and designer Erika Zekos to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the town of Amherst in Western Massachusetts. Positioned in one of the vast farm fields in town, it highlights the simple but astonishing beauty of the architecture of the barn. But what captivates me even more is the new way it relates to the ground it sits on, and and the way it reaches out towards the snow-full sky, rays of light radiating out like beacons, or like outstretched wings... ready to take off...

The project will keep on glowing until Dec.31, 2009.

Visit the project's blog at: http://sheddinglightamherst.blogspot.com/

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Presenting at Hillside Art Salon tonight

City on the Sea comes to Amherst

Amherst Biennial - 12 more days

Shedding Light Returns: Please Save the Date!

Recent Publishing

Art for All!

Amherst Biennial

Shedding Light in Amherst - Part 2

Shedding Light in Amherst

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