I am pleased to announce I will be a part of the Summer Group Show at Angell Gallery, Toronto, along with Bonnie Baxter, Derek Evans and Alex Kisilevich.
The exhibit opens this Thursday 6-9 pm and runs until August 21st, 2010. I hope you can make it out!
Thank you to everyone who made it out to see my first exhibition in Montreal, Umbra Penumbra at Galerie PUSH.
The exhibit received a bit of press. A review in the Montreal Gazette by Lori Callaghan:
SHEDDING NEW LIGHT ON PHOTOGRAPHY
And a nice little nod in the Montreal Mirror by Stacey Dewolfe:
Most of all a giant thank you to Megan Bradley, PUSH director, who is wonderful.
The University of Amsterdam Alumni Magazine SPUI has used Quantum Pong 3 to accompany an article about gravity. As I practice a lot of pseudo science, it makes me pretty happy to be part of science science :) Now if only I could read what it says about gravity…
Big thanks to Mattmo Concept Design in Amsterdam for finding and including me!
Woman with Camera © Anne Collier
Yipee yeah to sources of funding for photography. For all the ladies this one is well worth applying to.
Women in Photography is pleased to announce the 2010 WIP- LTI / Lightside Individual Project Grant, funded by LTI / Lightside Photographic Services with guest judge Karen Irvine. The $3,000 grant award will provide funding to one female photographer to support project costs. In addition WIPNYC is excited to announce the 2010 WIP- LTI / Lightside Materials Grant, funded by Kodak. This grant provides $1000 in artists choice of Kodak materials and will be awarded to one female photographer.
For more details check out the Women in Photography site.
Giant kudos going out to LTI / Lightside Photographic services. I had the opportunity to work with the lab this year to make five exhibition prints. It is not likely I would have produced the prints in NYC, but through LTI’s ongoing relationship with the also great Humble Arts Foundation. I was directed there when LTI decided to donate a print and scan towards work exhibiting in the 31 Women in Art Photography exhibit. Donations of that sort are god sent - as any emerging photographer I am sure will tell you - and not having to deal with shipping another bonus, so I took them up on it and had them print my work for the HHS Showcase (currently taking submissions!!) at Jen Bekman as well.
Going into a lab you have never worked with is terrifying. I have no shortage of being less than satisfied with labs - and the more I exhibit and make certain kinds of work the more weight I am putting on the quality of final prints and my expectations. Printing my photographs causes me more stress and anxiety then any ideas of the better part of making the work, the parts about making the work. Ideas and exposures are easy. Perfect prints are not. It is here that LTI really impressed me. They were fantastic to work with and did an excellent job. I came to proof and stayed the entire day, every change I asked for was done without once making me feel panic and obsessive or that I was taking up too much of their time. One of the things I appreciated the most spending the day in there was that I also learned a thing or two. I expect whoever is doing my exhibition prints to know more about printing and file management than I do but despise anything happening to my images I might not understand or be aware of, I am starting to demand things of labs but at LTI I didn’t have to. Thanks to everyone at the lab, extra special thanks to Jeffrey Kane who facillitated everything and to Andrej Tur for printing. I eagerly wait for the day I am able to afford to have a single constant relationship with a lab. In the future I will be doing my exhibition printing on visits to NYC.
If you are in Montreal I hope to see you tonight for the opening of Umbra Penumbra at Galerie PUSH. A gigantic thanks goes out to the Megan Bradley, PUSH gallery director, for all of her hard work and support to make this show happen.
Opening tonight as part of Design Montréal.
Tons of great work! Check out the auction page on the website. See you tonight!
A big thanks to Andy Adams for running a Flak Photo feature this week showcasing some of the works included in the soon to be released second issue of Lay Flat.
Today the image is my photograph Lanscape Missing a Byte, 2009 and you can see it in person if you are in NYC over a Jen Bekman Gallery for the Hey Hot Shot Second Edition 2009 group exhibit which opens this Friday 6-8pm.
© jessica eaton
I expected to leave South America with the pinholes pictures a complete series. The pictures had other ideas. In my head there is something so clear that is going to happen in this process but even without having got there yet I think there is something in the efforts. Some of them at least. 33 is my favorite so far.
It is hard to show these online as one of the ideas is that they are large enough prints so that they just look like abstract splotches up close, but resolve as you move away. Like grain magnified and of course, like pointillist paintings but with light. So I guess get up and take a walk away from your computer to view screen?