pecan tree series

On the last day with the family in Dexter this winter holiday, I went back to the transplanted pecan trees that I photographed in the snow last year.

Bridgette was describing the trees in San Diego as very Dr. Seuss-ian and how they may have inspired Theodore Geisel. I find these trees even more wonderous. They haven't changed much in a year but I can tell they are on their way back. Twenty minutes before sunset (top) and 5 minutes after sunset (bottom).

extra hard leaving this place

From a short little walk with half of the dog pack. This is a view looking west over the reservoir on the Bogle ranch this morning before the wind storm hit. Air temperature in the high 50's, December sun hitting my dark sweater, looking for trout in the water...it's going to be extra hard leaving this place.

hope, new mexico style

Happy Holidays. Yesterday, Christmas Eve, Bridgette and I stopped briefly in Hope, New Mexico, a tiny speed trap of a town 30 minutes away from Artesia.  

I have had studio withdrawal for the last ten days and am anxious to get back to the basement to commence work on the anthotypes as well as the Vandyke Brown prints for the Governor's Awards. In the meantime, it's good to do a little camera work even though it feels like I will have to come back here in a year's time with the 8x10 Burke and James camera. No room for it this trip. The back of the car is packed with six years worth of images in museum cases and clam shell boxes.

Opening Reception Date for Image Ohio Eleven

In response to an email, the director of Roy G Biv gallery, Justin Luna, wrote me with the date for the opening reception for ImageOhio 11.

The opening reception will take place on Thursday, Jan 20 from 6-8pm at the Fort Hayes Shot Tower gallery. If bad weather strikes, there is a  snow date of Thursday, Jan 27, 6-8pm.


Below is a detail from an unfixed top panel of Roots with Dirt Clumps in Sixteen Pieces.

To Do List, File Under Found Images

mental note to add this to the do list...

Found images, slides actually, of Cypress Garden water skiers performing. All the slides have all shifted into the deep magenta having lost most of their cyan layer. I plan on printing these in gum and want to maintain the color shift visible in the surviving images.

Jud Yalkut's Review of Sinclair's Exhibitions Last Month

Here is a link to Jud Yalkut's review of Glen Cebulash's exhibition last month at Sinclair College's Triangle Gallery. This appeared in an insert in the Dayton City Paper early in November (2010). At the end of the review there are a couple of paragraphs on the "from walking" exhibition in the Works on Paper gallery.


http://www.onestopnewsstand.com/dayton/expressionism-and-constructivism

50 cc of pokeberry juice

Preparation for future anthotypes. This is the last of this year's pokeberry juice. I am hoping it is enough to coat a large sheet of Fabriano or two. In the image you get a hint of my laboratory set-up. Coffee filters stained with pokeberry juice, a graduated cylinder and transfer pipette. Even a hand made circular filter made from Japanese paper. I haven't thrown these away, hoarder that I am. Perhaps an image of Dr. Frangst will make it onto three of the stained filters for the Naturalist exhibition.

black tape and the arm of Laura Lisbon

Yesterday, I was documenting paintings and drawings by Laura Lisbon in her studio and at OSU's clean space. There are a few incidental snaps I want to work with.

Here is something that will become something else, "Arm of Laura Lisbon".

Governor's Awards: Who's Getting Original Artwork By an Artist Named Schanberger

The Ohio Arts Council has announced the winners for next years Governor's Awards which will be given out on Arts Day, May 11th 2011.

From Amy McCay's press release on the Ohio Arts Council website...

Seven winners were chosen to receive the 2011 Governor’s Awards for the Arts in Ohio. Winners were selected from 73 nominations submitted by individuals and organizations throughout Ohio. The Awards will be presented at a luncheon ceremony honoring winners and members of the Ohio Legislature at noon on May 11, 2011 at the Columbus Athenaeum in downtown Columbus. The luncheon is hosted by the Ohio Arts Council and Ohio Citizens for the Arts Foundation. Winners will receive an original work of art by Dayton photographer Francis Schanberger.

The seven award categories and recipients are: Arts Administration, Art Falco, PlayhouseSquare (Cleveland); Arts Education, Michael Lippert (Dayton); Arts Patron, Mary Wolfe (Perrysburg); Business Support of the Arts, Freund, Freeze & Arnold (Dayton); Community Development & Participation, Lancaster Festival (Lancaster); Individual Artist, James Friedman, photographer (Columbus); Irma Lazarus Award, Dr. Wayne Lawson (Columbus). Their full bios are listed below.




                              

For the biographies of the winners as well as the full article please visit the Ohio Arts Council website at http://www.oac.state.oh.us/News/NewsArticle.asp?intArticleId=578

NYAB Event - "Winners of Soho Photo's Sixth Annual Alternative Processes Competition" Exhibition

Today is the last day for the 2010 Soho Photo Gallery Alternative Processes Exhibition.


NYAB Event - "Winners of Soho Photo's Sixth Annual Alternative Processes Competition" Exhibition

Opening hours

From 1pm to 6pm
Closed on Mondays, Tuesdays

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Between W Broadway and Church St. Subway: 1 to Franklin Street

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Here's Looking at You: Portraits in Ohio January 27 - April 17, 2011

Here's something to put on the radar because December will be over before you can say nuciferous.

The following is a press release from the Ohio Arts Council Website.

The Ohio Arts Council's Riffe Gallery Presents Here's Looking at You: Portraits in Ohio January 27 - April 17, 2011
by Amy McKay
The Ohio Arts Council’s Riffe Gallery will present Here’s Looking at You: Portraits in Ohio from January 27- April 17, 2011.
Curated by Kay Koeninger, the exhibition features 14 Ohio artists who stretch the idea of what a portrait can be. Through their eyes, we see not only the world but ourselves and others in a transformative new light.They are not constrained by a past art form but are energized and profoundly inspired by it, using a variety of mediums—from photography to charcoal to stoneware to acrylic painting—to create unforgettable portraits.
“The Ohio artists whose work is represented here use a dizzying array of approaches and materials,” said Curator Kay Koeninger. “Some do portraits of dear friends or of strangers; some do portraits based in fantasy and imagination; others do self-portraits. But despite their variety, all offer us a strong dialogue between viewer and subject that is unique in art; all offer us a unique insight not only into others but also ourselves.”
Join the Riffe Gallery for the opening of Here’s Looking at You on Thursday, January 27 from 5 to 7 p.m. Curator Kay Koeninger will lead a tour of the exhibition on Friday, January 28 from noon to 1 p.m.
Artists in the show include: Amy Kollar Anderson (Dayton), Leslie Adams (Toledo), Sid Chafetz (Columbus), Ruth Finley (Cleveland), Leesa Haapapuro (Dayton), Marcella Hackbardt (Mount Vernon), Chas Ray Krider (Columbus), Baila Litton (Cleveland), James Pate (Dayton), Ellen Jean Price (Oxford), Leslie Shiels (Cincinnati), Francis Schanberger (Dayton), Marty Shuter (Columbus) and Chun Arthur Wang (Columbus).
The Riffe Gallery will also host a free family workshop and two creative writing workshops in the gallery during the exhibition. Join Dayton artist Leesa Haapapuro in creating your own portrait in clay! Registration is required as space is limited; all children must be accompanied by a registered adult. Register for the Family Workshop online at www.riffegallery.org between, Monday, January 31 to Monday, March 28, 2011. Ohio author and educator Mimi Brodsky Chenfeld will lead the creative writing workshops on February 28 and March 7 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. More details and registration information are forthcoming.
Here's Looking at You: Portraits in Ohio is presented by the Riffe Gallery with support from the Ohio Building Authority, and media support from CD101, CityScene, Ohio Magazine, Time Warner Cable and 90.5 WCBE.

a photographer photographing

From Japan this morning came a photograph that threw me back in time. Five years and as many months Satoru Yoshioka came to visit me a few times at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Marin. This is a photograph he took of me while I was photographing the lagoon and marsh just east of Rodeo beach. Just close your eyes and imagine the sound of coyotes howling in the mist.

Please visit Satoru Yoshioka's website at http://www.sypi.com/

Dr. Frangst in Pokeberry Anthotype

Maybe this is the start of several anthotypes that will show up in the March "the Naturalists" exhibition.

mathematics in intense pink and I have no idea what is this

studio update.

Mathematics in intense pink. Today I will be making the first layer of a two color gum bichromate using Intense Pink. At somepoint Kate Bush's Lionheart will be playing. The image is a found object (seen on left side of the picture) picked up walking through South Park on the way to school. I have no idea what this is. If you know, please email me at frangst@gmail.com.

Last Chance for "from walking"

push past your prejudice. from walking is not pedestrian or maybe it is but not in that way. You have only a few more days to see my response to the exhibition space in Sinclair College's Building 13, namely the Works on Paper Gallery.

I de-install on Friday, November 19th.

forgotten but not lost

Have you ever had one of those moments where you looked at a snapshot and couldn't remember the ins and outs of the picture. I completely forgot about OOVAR. Two weeks ago in some mad dash I carefully framed two pieces, dropped them off in Columbus and then forgot about them. It's not senility but rather two birthdays that just happened for Bridgette and myself.

The Ohio Online Visual Artist Registry juried exhibition is underway. From November 8th until January 3rd you can look at work representing a small sampling of the type of art made by Ohioans that display their work online...but in a real space.  The Sixth Annual OOVAR exhibition is on display at the Main Branch of the Columbus Metropolitan Library. Go to the second floor and in the Arts and Humanities section you should easily locate the exhibition.

and the OOVAR site is...


http://www.ohioonlinearts.org/

Tribeca Gallery Preview

Maybe this will bring some additional traffic to the Alternative Processes Exhibition...

 

Soho Photo Gallery will be taking part in the Tribeca Gallery Preview event on Saturday, November 13th. Soho Photo is currently showing the Sixth Annual Alternative Processes Competition, juried by France Scully Osterman and Mark Osterman, in the gallery upstairs along with Dan Burkholder's "The Next Phase: iPhone Photographs". Both exhibitions will run from Nov. 2nd until December 4th. I have two Vandyke Brown Prints in this showing of Altenative Processes: "Sting Ray / Kite" (Honorable Mention) and "Two Leaf Stems".

Other galleries taking part in the Tribeca Gallery Preview are Trans.LUXE Gallery, carriage trade, Cheryl Hazan Gallery, KS Art, Pelavin Gallery, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, Hal Bromm, and the MELA Foundation (Dream House).

Website

I have a new website but first ...

the old website, www.frangst.com, is temporarily disabled but eventually will point to my new site.

Please change your bookmarks to:

www.francisschanberger.com

It has most of the Forces of Nature and some of the new from walking. Most of the latter may be seen  here. Currently it doesn't have any artwork (Mis-Taken, Dr. Frangst and Sibling Rivalries), on it from before 2008 but I hope to have everything from 1997 to the present up on the website by the end of the week.

Opening Tonight at Soho Photo

The sixth incarnation of the alternative process photography competition opens tonight at Soho Photo Gallery. Both "Sting / Ray Kite" (honorable mention) and "Two Leaf Stems" are included in this 2010 exhibition of works by 40 artists from all over the world of alternative and historical process photography. The exhibition will run through the month of November.

The artists included in the exhibtion are:
May Perkins-Benton, Timothy McCoy, David Puntel, Jackie Bauer, Ilya Feldshteyn, Sarah Nesbitt, Mary Wanless, Loli Kantor, Stephen Murphy, Ron Cowie, Peter Lindstrom, Anne Hopkins, Ansley West, Travis Hocutt, Tony DeBone, Jan Kapoor, Michele Cole, Jennifer Spencer, Lyn Slate, Frank Lopez, Cynthia Morgan Batmanis, S. Gayle Stevens, Roxanne Guez, Lori Bell, Marky Kauffmann, Diana Bloomfield, Michael Frels, Yukiko Shimizu, Kelsey Vance, Bruce Rathbun, Karen Divine, Allan Barnes, Milo Fay, Cara Lee Wade, Thomas Harris, Gwen Walstrand, Michael McCullough, Barbara Ethan and Patty Rogers.

return to New York, Soho Photo's Alternative Processes Exhibition

Below is the press release for the latest incarnation of the Alternative Photography Exhibition at Soho Photo. Two Leaf Stems and Sting Ray / Kite (Honorable Mention) are both included.

The list of artists can be downloaded in pdf form at:

http://www.sohophoto.com/downloads/alt_process_winners_2010.pdf

For Immediate Release:                                November 2 to December 4, 2010 Blue Tree© Marky Kauffmann, 1st place Winners of Soho Photo's Sixth Annual Alternative  Processes Competition plus   The Next Phase: IPhone Photographs by Dan Burkholder    OPENING RECEPTION:    TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 6-8 PM    Gallery Hours:    Wednesdays - Sundays, 1-6 PM    and by Appointment    Contact: Wayne Parsons    info@sohophoto.com or 212.662.5532 New York, NY- Soho Photo is pleased to announce that its November show will feature the winning entries in its Sixth Annual Alternative Processes Competition as well as its guest exhibition by Dan Burkholder entitled The Next Phase: iPhone Photographs. This year's Alternative Processes Competition presents the winning images of some 40 photographers from across the United States. The hundreds of images that were submitted for this competition represent a wide range of alternative methods that can include beeswax paper negative, cyanotype, Van Dyke Brown, platinum/palladium, gum dichromate, gold toned salt print, tintype, and ziatype. This year's jurors were France Scully Osterman and Mark Osterman. Both are fine art photographers and scholars who specialize in early photographic processes, most notably, wet-plate collodion. Mark has researched, practiced and taught historic processes for over 20 years and is currently process historian at George Eastman House. France is an artist, writer, and educator at Scully & Osterman Studio and guest scholar at Eastman House. After selecting the winners, the jurors remarked, "We were particularly impressed to see a surge of new talent. The winning entries demonstrated an advanced level of sophistication in choosing a process to support their vision, competency with their medium of choice, and most importantly, they had something to say." A complete list of winners is at www.sohophoto.com. The 2010 competition's top winners are: 1st Place: Marky Kauffmann, Blue Tree 2nd Place: Ronald Cowie, Lisa's Hat 3rd Place: Peter Lindstrom, Camden Street In the Upstairs Gallery....

George Washington Bridge in Rain ©Dan Burkholder The Next Phase: iPhone Photographs by November guest exhibitor Dan Burkholder will be shown in our upstairs gallery. Burkholder says, "Photographing and stylizing images with the iPhone is one of the purest photographic phenomenon I've experienced during more than four decades of using a camera. With no gap between the moment of capture and time of enhancement, I find my emotional reaction to the subject becomes an integral part of the final image, in a way that's much more honest and fluid than waiting to return to the computer or darkroom."   Also in November, Gallery members who print in alternative processes will show some of their recent work.   Visit Soho Photo Gallery Soho Photo Gallery has been showcasing a broad spectrum of imagery by emerging and veteran photographers since 1971. The Gallery is in New York's historic TriBeCa district, three blocks south of Canal Street between West Broadway and Sixth Avenue. Subways: #1 to Franklin Street or the A, C, E,  N, R or #6 to Canal Street.