From destruction grows a garden of the soul

J. M. Golding

From destruction grows a garden of the soul addresses the theme of loss and renewal. Having lived in the East Bay for nearly 30 years, walking and photographing often in its magnificent outdoor spaces, I was deeply affected as loss and renewal were played out on the region’s highest mountain, an intimately familiar landscape.

In September 2013, the Morgan Fire ravaged over 3,000 acres of Mt. Diablo. Walking through this charred terrain brought back the loss of an important relationship several years earlier that, in a startling synchronicity, had coincided with a fire in the foothills. That loss had come with a prediction that the land would heal, which that had been difficult to believe on an emotional level. Photographs of the burn area show the bleakness and devastation that remained after the Morgan Fire, a landscape of loss. There are subtle signs of hope, easy to miss, and perhaps requiring more interpretation than is justified.

Seemingly against all odds, spring 2014 brought special wildflowers to the area. Known as

“fire followers,” they only grow in the aftermath of an unusually hot fire, perhaps once or twice in a person’s lifetime. I discovered experientially that the land did heal – and this process seemed to me to reflect internal changes that I had experienced since the earlier fire, through the blossoming of new connection that had once seemed impossible. Where there had been desolation, there was now deep connectedness – mirrored in the unique, if ephemeral, beauty of these rare wildflowers that could only come into existence because of destruction.

I am proposing to show ten artworks from this series. While this will not fill the 42.75 feet of gallery space, with about 12 inches between pieces (and possibly an additional small panel containing a statement and perhaps a bio) these ten artworks would be appropriate for a joint show in a space that size. J. M. Golding

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Education 1980 B. A., Psychology, Yale University 1985 Ph.D., Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles

Awards 2009 Lúz Gallery Curator's Choice Award, Low Fidelity 2011 Winner, Square Magazine Pinhole Sténoflex competition 2012 Honorable Mention, Imagination, A Smith Gallery 2012 Honorable Mention, 4th Annual Curious Camera Competition, ArtsEye Gallery 2012 Honorable Mention, Showcase, RayKo Gallery 2013 Holga Inspire Award, Krappy Kamera XV, Soho Photo 2013 Honorable Mention, Light & Dark, Photography Now, Pacific Art League 2014 Finalist, March Matchbox Madness, Pinhole Photo Contest 2015 Honorable Mention, Nature, 8th Annual iPhone Photography Awards 2015 Honorable Mention, Photographer’s Forum Magazine Spring Photography Contest 2017 Best of Show, Wanderlust, Dickerman Prints, San Francisco, CA 2017 Honorable Mention, Nature’s Way, LightBox Gallery 2017 First Prize, Holga Week competition, online: http://holgaweek.com/holgaweek-winners/ 2018 Honorable Mention, One, New York Center for Photographic Arts/Jadite Gallery, New York, NY

Solo Exhibitions 2013 Transitional Landscapes and Other Mysteries, Remedy Salon and Gallery, Emeryville, CA 2013 Transitional Landscapes, Sweet Adeline Bakeshop, Berkeley, CA 2014 Transitional Landscapes, Google corporate offices, San Francisco, CA 2016 Transitional Landscapes, Saratoga Public Library, Saratoga, CA

Public Art 2013-2016 Alameda County (CA) Arts Commission Artist Registry 2016-now Alameda County (CA) Arts Commission Artist Registry

Group Exhibitions 1994-1996 Second Exhibition of Members’ Art, American Psychological Association, Washington, DC 2009 Low Fidelity, Lúz Gallery, Victoria, BC, Canada 2009-10 Holga Show 3.0, Photomedia Center, Erie, PA, online at http://www.photomediacenter.org/Holga3/Holga3show.html 2010 Plastic CameraWorks2, Rebus Works, Raleigh, NC 2010 3rd Annual International Juried Plastic Camera Show, RayKo Photo Center, San Francisco, CA 2010 3 rd Annual Juried Pinhole Show, RayKo Photo Center, San Francisco, CA 2010 The Lensless Image, Castell Photography, Asheville, NC 2010 1st Annual Plastic Fantastic Show, LightBox Photographic Gallery, Astoria, OR 2010 Toyed With, Open Shutter Gallery, Durango, CO 2010 2010 Open Juried Exhibition, Photomedia Center, Erie, PA, online at http://www.photomediacenter.org/10Open/open10home.html 2011 Holga Out of the Box, TCC Photo Gallery, Longview, TX 2011 13th International Krappy Kamera Exhibition, Soho Photo, New York, NY 2011 4th Annual International Juried Plastic Camera Show, RayKo Photo Center, San Francisco, CA 2011 Plastic + Film: An Exhibition of Toy Camera Photography, Nave Gallery, Somerville, MA 2011 The Poetry of Shadows, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT 2011 2011 Open Juried Exhibition, Photomedia Center, Erie PA and Glass Growers Gallery, Erie, PA 2011 Again: Reflections and Photography, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT 2011 Pinholio, Good Citizen Gallery, St. Louis, MO 2011-2012 Bending the Light, Oakland Museum of California at Oakland International Airport 2012 5th Annual International Juried Plastic Camera Show, RayKo Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2012 Imagination, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX 2012 4th Annual Curious Camera Competition, ArtsEye Gallery, Tucson, AZ 2012 Among Trees, Darkroom Gallery, Essex Junction, VT 2012 Toyed With, Open Shutter Gallery, Durango, CO 2012 200 Yards @ Sweet Adeline, Sweet Adeline Bakeshop, Berkeley, CA 2012-2013 Showcase, RayKo Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2012-2013 Artify It offices, San Francisco, CA 2013 15th International Krappy Kamera Exhibition, Soho Photo, New York, NY 2013 4th Biennial Juried Pinhole Show, RayKo Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2013 Light & Dark, Photography Now, Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA 2013 National Juried Exhibition, ACCI Gallery, Berkeley, CA 2013 200 Yards @ Calumet, Calumet Photo, San Francisco, CA 2013 Time in a Can, Fundacion Diario Madrid, Spain 2013 Somerville Toy Camera Festival, Somerville, MA 2013 Holga Out of the Box, TCC Photo Gallery, Longview, TX 2013 Curiouser and Curiouser, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT 2013 Mobile Magic III, LightBox Gallery, Astoria, OR 2013-2014 LenZless, Plates-to-Pixels, online, http://platestopixels.com/blog/exhibitions/lenzless/ 2013-2014 Mobile Magic V, LightBox Gallery, Astoria, OR 2014 Obscura: 121 Views, Galerie Pflüger68, Berlin, Germany 2014 7th Annual International Juried Plastic Camera Show, RayKo Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2014 Home, Dickerman Prints, San Francisco, CA 2014 Writing With Light, Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA 2014 Somerville Toy Camera Festival, Washington Street Art Center, Somerville, MA 2014 Holga Out of the Box, TCC Photo Gallery, Longview, TX 2014 Walnut Creek Turns 100: Celebrating the City Through Art, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA 2014 Mobile Magic XIV, LightBox Gallery, Astoria, OR 2014-2015 Mobile Magic XV, LightBox Gallery, Astoria, OR 2015 Landscape, Plates-to-Pixels, online, http://platestopixels.com/blog/exhibitions/landscape/ 2015 17th Annual International Krappy Kamera Exhibition, Soho Photo, New York, NY 2015 8th Annual International Juried Plastic Camera Show, RayKo Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2015 Obscura: 121 Views, Escuela de Artes y Oficios de Vitoria-Gasteiz, Alava, Basque Country 2015 Boxes of Light, Rock Paper Scissors Collective, Oakland, CA 2015 Mobile Magic XVIII, LightBox Gallery, Astoria, OR 2015 Photography: The Full Spectrum, North Valley Art League, Redding, CA 2015 Obscura: 121 Views, Revela-T 2015: Let's Be Positive, Vilassar de Dalt, Spain 2015 Focus: Grayscale, Black Box Gallery online annex, Portland, OR 2015 Mother Earth, LightBox Gallery, Astoria, OR 2015 Mobile Magic XX, LightBox Gallery, Astoria, OR 2015 Somerville Toy Camera Festival, Nave Gallery Annex, Somerville, MA 2015 Holga and More Out of the Box, TCC Photo Gallery, Longview, TX J. M. Golding 2 2015 California! Small Works, PHOTO Fine Art Photography, Oakland, CA 2015 Landscape: Earth and Sky, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT 2015 Microcosmos, Gallery 621, Benicia, CA 2015 Nature (re)Defined, Gray Loft Gallery, Oakland, CA 2015 From Where I Stand, uBe Art, Berkeley, CA 2015 Film Swap: Collaborative Camera Work, Forward Thinking Museum, online, http://forwardthinkingmuseum.com/ 2015-2016 Wunderkammer, Art Thou Gallery, Berkeley, CA 2015-2016 December Mashup, uBe Art, Berkeley, CA 2016 9th Annual International Juried Plastic Camera Show, RayKo Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2016 Rite of Passage, San Francisco City Hall, San Francisco, CA/Ziya Art Center, Berkeley, CA 2016 Flow, Nave Gallery, Somerville, MA 2016 Childhood, Glass Key Photo, San Francisco, CA 2016 Transitional Landscapes, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO 2016 Photography NOW! Umpqua Valley Arts Association, Roseburg, OR 2016 Common Ground: A Celebration of Our National Parks, David Brower Center, Berkeley, CA 2016 Flight, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT 2016 Black + White, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO 2016 Pinhole, A. Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX 2016 Somerville Toy Camera Festival, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA 2016 Holga and Friends Out of the Box, TCC Photo Gallery, Dallas, TX 2017 Showcase, RayKo Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2017 Into the Light, Gray Loft Gallery, Oakland, CA 2017 10th Annual International Juried Plastic Camera Show, RayKo Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2017 Krappy Kamera, Soho Photo, New York, NY 2017 Unseen: Photography Beyond the Visible, Providence Center for Photographic Arts, Providence, RI 2017 Wake, Sleep, Repeat: Repetition in the Everyday, Adobe Art Gallery, Castro Valley, CA 2017 Honoring Trees, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT 2017 Wanderlust, Dickerman Prints, San Francisco, CA 2017 Black + White, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO 2017 Somerville Toy Camera Festival, Nave Gallery, Somerville, MA 2017 Holga and Friends out of the Box, Tammy Cromer Photo|Gallery, Dallas, TX 2017 Beyond Landscapes, Gray Loft Gallery, Oakland CA 2017 Nature’s Way, LightBox Gallery, Astoria, OR 2017-2018 Salon at the Triton, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA 2018 13th National Competition, Fotofoto Gallery, Huntington, NY 2018 Seeing Red, Gray Loft Gallery, Oakland, CA 2018 Art/Act: Local – Natural Harmony, David Brower Center, Berkeley, CA 2018 One, New York Center for Photographic Arts / Jadite Gallery, New York, NY 2018 The Magic of Collaboration, Adobe Art Gallery, Castro Valley, CA 2018 Secret Gardens, Nave Gallery, Somerville, MA

Teaching “The Amazing Holga Camera,” guest lecture, Photo Forum, Civic Arts Education, Walnut Creek, CA, January 19, 2010. “Plastic cameras: Creativity + Randomness = Magic,” guest lecture, Berkeley Camera Club, Berkeley, CA, September 30, 2014.

J. M. Golding 3 Bibliography Pinhole Days – J. M. Golding, 591 Photography Blog, October 20, 2010, http://www.591photography.com/2010/10/pinhole-days-j-m-golding.html Civic Arts Education, City of Walnut Creek, CA, winter course catalogue, 2011 Burstyn, Deborah. “Pinhole” photography merges the modern, archaic. Contra Costa Times, March 3, 2011. Civic Arts Education, City of Walnut Creek, CA, summer course catalogue, 2011 Journey to the river, Square Magazine, June 16, 2011 special issue, pp. 100-111. Available online: http://issuu.com/square_magazine/docs/stenoflex_competition_fr-uk?viewMode=magazine Beach Days on 591 ~ J. M. Golding, 591 Photography Blog, October 15, 2011, http://www.591photography.com/2011/10/beach-days-on-591-j-m-golding.html Gehring, Luke (2011, October 19). Visual experiences: “Small works: A juried exhibition.” Erie Reader. 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Available online: http://lenscratch.com/2015/05/the-2015-cell-phone-exhibition-part-2/ Golding, J. M. (2016, January 1). “From darkness we find each other.” The 2015 Favorite Photograph Exhibition. Lenscratch. Available online: http://lenscratch.com/2016/01/the-2015-favorite- photograph-exhibition-part-vi/ Golding, J. M. (2016, Feburary-March). “The land transforming,” “At the frontier of the known world,” This moment always,” and “untitled (from the series, Before there were words).” Wonder- full (group exhibition). F-Stop Magazine, Issue #75. Available online: http://www.fstopmagazine.com/pastissues/75/groupexhibition.html Benbow, Cary (2016, February 27). Interview with photographer J. M. Golding. F-Stop Magazine. Available online: http://www.fstopmagazine.com/blog/2016/02/interview-with-photographer-j- m-golding/ Golding, J. M. (2016). “From darkness we find each other.” Square Magazine, issue SP06. Available online: http://www.squaremag.org/SP06-FR-GB.pdf

J. M. Golding 5 Benbow, Cary (2016, June 29). Falling through the lens: Interview with J. M. Golding. LensCulture Magazine. Available online: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/jm-golding-falling-through-the- lens Benbow, Cary (2016, July 1). Falling through the lens with J. M. Golding: An invitation into mystery. Wobneb Magazine. Available online: https://wobnebmagazine.com/2016/07/01/falling-through- the-lens-with-j-m-golding/ Golding, J. M. (2016, August 14). A day’s journey inward. Inside the Outside. Available online: http://www.inside-the-outside.com/jm-golding-days-journey-inward/ Golding, J. M. (2016, September 2). “Forest discovery.” The last days of summer. Lenscratch. Available online: http://lenscratch.com/2016/09/the-2016-last-days-of-summer-exhibition-part-4/ J. M. Golding [portfolio and artist profile], Mother F-Stop, November 8, 2016. Available online: http://motherfstop.wixsite.com/motherfstop/single-post/2016/11/08/J-M-Golding Golding, J. M. (2016, December). “Knowing you are in the world.” Black & White Magazine, issue #118, p. 21. Golding, J. M. (2016, December). “A vortex in the path.” The 2016 Favorite Photograph Exhibition. Lenscratch. Available online: http://lenscratch.com/2017/01/the-2016-favorite-photograph- exhibition-2/ Golding, J. M. (2016, December). “A vortex in the path.” Your Favorite Holga Photo – 2016 Edition. Available online: http://holgajen.blogspot.com/2017/01/your-favorite-holga-photo-2016- edition.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+HolgaJen +%28The+Holga+Darkroom%29 Golding, J. M. (2016, December-January). “Reaching for the light,” “The shadow of tomorrow” Crossing the distance,” and “In a realm of knowing.” Open Theme (group exhibition). F-Stop Magazine, Issue #80. Available online: http://www.fstopmagazine.com/pastissues/80/index.html Golding, J. M. (2017). “The undeniable existence of ephemeral beauty.” In Selinsky, Kier, & Selinsky, Libby Duncan (Eds.), The f/D book of pinhole. Subjective Press. Golding, J. M. (2017, April 22). “Somewhere in another world.” The 2017 Earth Day Exhibition. Lenscratch. Available online: http://lenscratch.com/2017/04/the-2017-earth-day-exhibition-part-4/ Golding, J. M. (2017, June-July). “No ill omen (Friday, January 13)”, “Unimagined wonder is waiting to be born”, “The land remembers, the land heals”, and “Once upon a time in the forest). Color (group exhibition). F-Stop Magazine, Issue #83. Available online: http://www.fstopmagazine.com/pastissues/83/index.html Golding, J. M. (2017). “The creek in the rain #2” and “The creek in the rain #3. Instant Film, Shoot Film. Available online: http://www.shootfilm.uk/instant-film Golding, J. M. (2017, August 23 – November 21). “You are beyond all words.” Flora, Don’t Take Pictures. Available online: http://www.donttakepictures.com/gallery-flora/ Golding, J. M., & Reynolds, Sue (2017, September 8). “Day never ends”/ “Where I Walk Into My Deepest Self.” Photographic Conversations, Lenscratch Fine Art Photography Daily, available online: http://lenscratch.com/2017/09/the-2017-photographic-conversations-exhibition-part-2/ Reynolds, Sue, & Golding, J. M. (2017, September 8). “Bringing the light inside”/ “Half-imagined #5.” Photographic Conversations, Lenscratch Fine Art Photography Daily, available online: http://lenscratch.com/2017/09/the-2017-photographic-conversations-exhibition-part-2/ Golding, J. M. (2017, December). “You within/within you.” Black & White Magazine, Issue #124, p. 22. Golding, J. M. (2017, Autumn). “Somewhere in another world.” Shots Magazine, Issue #137, pp. 30-31. Golding, J. M. (2017, fall). “To see the other in the self” and “This moment always.” Diffusion IX, 50, 117.

J. M. Golding 6 Golding, J. M. (2018, January 1). “In both worlds.” Favorite Photograph of 2017 Exhibition, Lenscratch Fine Art Photography Daily, available online: http://lenscratch.com/2018/01/favorite-photograph-of- 2017-exhibition-part-3/ Golding, J. M. (2018, April-May). “We have today,” “If you were here beside me”, and “These hills do not blow away.” Open Exhibition. F-Stop Magazine, Issue #88, available online: http://www.fstopmagazine.com/groupexhibition.html

Collections Lúz Gallery, Victoria, BC, Canada Photosmedia Center, Erie, PA Private collections

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