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September/October 2013 N E W S L E T T E R In Viewpoint’s Main Gallery Gary Cawood Stu Levy Excavation Grid-Portraits September 11 to October 5 October 9 to November 2 Members Reception: September 13, 5:30 - 8:30 Members Reception: October 11, 5:30 - 8:30 Gary Cawood began his ongoing body of photographs, Excavation, in 2006. “Since the natural landscape is considered expendable in our culture, the surface scars we create seemed like an intriguing subject to explore,” he explains. “I selected sites that were exca- vated long ago, and at first I focused on the surprising forms and colors created by ero- sion. Soon I began adding throwaways to the compositions. Like the land, much of the stuff we buy is considered disposable and makes its way to sites like these. I utilized the scarred landscape as a context for the stuff we abandon.” In the latest images in the evolving project, Cawood finds himself continued on page 2 Stu Levy, The No-Bull Captain Ferricyanide Rides Again (Jay Dusard) In Stu Levy's Grid-Portraits, in which several negatives are contact-printed in a grid arrangement to create “a space and time scan,” function both as environmental portraiture and as explorations of how we perceive complex imagery. Referring to the phrase Henri Cartier-Bresson famously used to characterize his pho- tographic ideal, Levy states, “this work gives a new meaning to 'The Decisive Moment', for the lattice- window view presents a maze of scrambled time and recombinant architecture.” continued on page 3 Gary Cawood, Crushed Globe Viewpoint Photographic Art Center • 2015 J Street, Suite 101, Sacramento, 95811 • 916-441-2341 • www.viewpointgallery.org Gallery Hours • Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday: 12 to 6 p.m. • Friday, Saturday: 12 to 5 p.m.. • Sunday, Monday: Closed September/October 2013 Page 2 N E W S L E T T E R Gary Cawood, continued from page 1 Viewpoint Exhibit Schedule drawn to “the castoffs of the landscape itself rather than man-made stuff. By focusing more on the natural September elements, the recent work emphasizes the ability of the landscape to recover and reinvent itself, even as we Main Gallery continue to disrupt its inherent balance.” Gary Cawood Step Up Gallery The word excavation suggests archeology. But “while Robert Hubbell archeologists try to reconstruct a logical narrative from discarded objects, my purpose is to create a more October poetic interpretation,” Cawood states. “I carefully Main Gallery select the items to be included in the compositions, Stu Levy based on an intuitive sense of the contradictions Step Up Gallery inherent in our culture and in our environment.” Garret Cotham “Essentially I'm doing still life using whatever I find at November the excavated site – mud, rock, ash or plant material – as part of the setup. This staged approach, focusing Main Gallery on relatively small details, tends to emphasize formal Magnus Stark, David Ashcraft, order, and indeed I delight in the contemplative aspect and Jimmy Fike of view camera work. But I also consciously mimic the Step Up Gallery haphazard look of the discarded, which can in turn be Rebecca Gregg ordered by the process of seeing photographically.” December As he continues this ongoing body of work, Cawood Main Gallery observes, “there seems to be a growing awareness of Twelve Show the havoc our lifestyles impose on the environment. Step Up Gallery I'm hopeful that a more sustainable lifestyle will Student Show emerge from our depleted economy, and that future generations will have the wisdom to capitalize on the Exhibit schedule subject to change possibilities of less. Such a transformation would require a creative mindset, a vision based on real After receiving a Bachelor of Architecture needs and higher aspirations.” degree from Auburn University in 1970, Cawood began a serious study of photogra- phy in 1972, earning a Master of Fine Arts in Photography from East Tennessee State University in 1976. He is currently professor and head of the photography area at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Cawood's photographs have been widely exhibited throughout the U.S., including over sixty solo shows. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Mid-America Arts Alliance, and the Arkansas Arts Council. His work is in many public collections, including the Smithsonian National Museum of American Art, Baltimore Museum of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Library of Congress, the Amon Carter Museum, and the New Orleans Museum Gary Cawood, Trumpet Vine Flowers of Art. His website is garycawood.com. September/October 2013 Page 3 N E W S L E T T E R Stu Levy, Honk If You Love Stieglitz (Jerry Uelsmann) Stu Levy, continued from page 1 “Perception involves the visual synthesis of high school, and since the 1980s his black-and-white incremental spaces at finite points of time,” photography has been widely exhibited, published, Levy explains. “These photographs of artists and collected. He is also a popular workshop instruc- and craftspeople explore and challenge our tor, most notably co-instructing the annual Shore Acres perceptive processes by testing the limits of Workshop on the Oregon coast with Don Kirby since discontinuity, in both space and time, which 1984. Among his influences he lists Minor White, our brains will accept in reading an image.” Ansel Adams, Josef Sudek, numerous photographer- friends, the spiritual teachers Ram Dass and Carlos As compositional elements the Grid-Portraits Castaneda, jazz and the Grateful Dead. His website often include “the photographer as voyeur” is stulevyphoto.com. and “material artifacts involved in making the photograph” such as Polaroid photographs. For Levy, “this self-referential element further emphasizes the act of perceiving, and in Welcome, addition attests to the collaborative relation- ship between the photographer, his subject, Viewpoint's Newest Members! and the objects in their environments.” Rick Brown Mark Mitchell A monograph of Grid-Portraits was published James Canning Melanie Nicolas by Nazraeli Press in 2010. Mark Chandler Gerald & Gail Pogoriler Stu Levy was born in Cincinatti. After his col- Michael Dolinar Mary Reynolds lege rock band failed to make it big, he went Dale Green Suzanne Rumbaugh on to med school, becoming a physician and Jack Headley Michael Schumacher practicing family medicine in Portland, Ore- Penelope Kahn Raymond Sienkiewicz gon, where he has resided since 1974. But Linda Merksamer Keith Williams photography has remained a passion since September/October 2013 Page 4 N E W S L E T T E R Viewpoint Calendar September October Print Night, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 7 p.m. Print Night, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 7 p.m. Field Trip, Coach Maintenance Company (Bus Yard), Workshop, Jim Klein, Matting and Framing, Saturday, Williams, Saturday, Sept. 7, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. Oct. 5, 9 a.m. - noon Board Meeting, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 7 p.m. Workshop, Tim Baskerville, Introduction to Night Photo- graphy on Mare Island, Saturday, Oct. 5, 4 - 10 p.m. Members Reception, Friday, Sept. 13, 5:30 - 8:30 p.m. Workshop, Josh Miller, Fall, Lake Tahoe, Sunday, Workshop, David L. Robertson, Black-and-White Digital Oct. 6, 1 - 7:30 p.m. Conversion, Saturday, Sept. 14, 9 a.m. - noon Board Meeting, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 7 p.m. Second Saturday Reception, Sept. 14, 5:30 - 9 p.m. Field Trip, Bodie Ghost Town and Eastern Sierra, Friday Art Review Afternoon, Sunday, Sept. 15, 2 - 4 p.m. & Saturday, Oct. 11 & 12. Portfolio Night, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 7 p.m. Members Reception, Friday, Oct. 11, 5:30 - 8:30 p.m. Workshop, Seán Duggan, iPhoneography Crash Second Saturday Reception, Oct. 12, 5:30 - 9 p.m. Course, Saturday, Sept. 21, 9 a.m. - noon Portfolio Night, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 7 p.m. Workshop, László Bencze, The Art of Seeing, Saturday, Sept. 21, 5 - 8 p.m. Workshop, Seán Duggan, The Adobe Lightroom Import & Library Modules, Saturday, Oct. 19, 9 a.m. - noon Workshop, Donald Satterlee, Compositing Images, Sunday, Sept. 22, 9 a.m. - noon Art Review Afternoon, Sunday, Oct. 19, 2 - 4 p.m. Members Night, Gene Kennedy: How Does a View Members Night, TBD, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 7 p.m Camera Work?, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 7 p.m. Workshop, George Aiello, Introduction to Time-Lapse Workshop, William G. Miller, An Introduction to Bird Photography, Sunday, Oct. 27, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m Photography, Saturday, Sept. 28, 8:30 a.m. - noon Workshop, Terry Nathan, Building With Light, Sunday, Sept. 29, 8 - 11 a.m. For printing, there is a full-page calendar on the last page of this Newsletter. Auction News: event sponsors and staff to find. Before the event there are expenses to track, at the event there are sales to Six Volunteers Needed write up, and afterwards there is accounting to do. 2014 Fundraising Auction Committee has four mem- The annual fundraising auction is critical to bers and they were also on the 2013 Auction Commit- Viewpoint. Our last auction raised $16,000, tee, but Viewpoint is going to need people to plan and about 15% of Viewpoint's annual budget. organize the 2015 Fundraising Auction. That's why Our goal for 2014 is $20,000. we need at least six volunteers. As mentioned elsewhere in this Newsletter, The Auction Committee needs trainees. 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