Katherine Cummings received her B.F.A from the Art
Institute of Boston in 2005.
Her photography has been shown in Boston, Chicago and
Seattle. The photographs are printed using a 19th
century alternative process. She mixes her own
chemistry and gold tones the images, making each
printed photograph one-of-a-kind. Katherine resides in
Seattle, WA. She continues to photograph natural
history images and is currently working on new
portfolios.
Natural history museums began as cabinets of
curiosities. To gather material, a scientist would go
into the field. His only options of recording what he
had seen were to either draw it or kill it. If he
chose the later, specimens were sent to the
taxidermist.
When I am in a museum, I act as a taxidermist. I am
preserving the animals through photography. I use my
camera to look into their eyes and give a small amount
of life back to them.
I use the POP (printing-out paper) process because it
is a historical process and yields rich detail and
subtle tone. It is a perfect match for my subject
matter: old, yet timeless. In my final presentation,
the square format and wooden frames reference early
display cases.
DAN ROCHA
Artist Statement
Painting for me is about an idea, more specifically the idea of a contemplative object. It is an object that that carries with it a reflective quality on the nature of beauty. As a painter I am concerned with some very formal attributes of painting; namely color, composition, texture, depth, illusion and the emotive/spiritual qualities they evoke to arrive at this end.
I often use the semblance of a grid as a net of rationality over what appears to be a chaotic or myopic painting. As a technical device the contrasting grid increases the depth of field, and suggests some measure of objectivity over a seemingly chaotic / amorphous painting. It also helps perceptually to bring the viewer back to the surface, and maintain an overall focus; giving equal bearing to all elements in the piece. The images presented are intentionally ambiguous if they are identifiable at all, shifting emphasis on the intuition of the viewer.
The use of saturated color, with a soft focus of composition, holds a mild tension that evokes this meditative quality. All said, and done, these paintings are intended as reflective objects.
Some of the exhibitions in which I have been included are the Berkshire Museum of Art, Whistler House Museum of Art, University of Massachusetts Gallery, The Danforth Museum, and the Pleiades, and Viridian Galleries both in New York. Additionally my work is in various public collections; The Enterprise Bank in Lowell, Fidelity Investments, and New England Life Insurance, both in Boston, MA are a few. Private collections include Germany, The Netherlands, Ireland, and the US.
I received my painting degree from Massachusetts College of Art, B.F.A., and a Masters Degree from Cambridge College with a thesis on Human Response to Color.
Dan Rocha
Nancy Grace Horton’s work has appeared in numerous
books and periodicals, her most recent photo book Portsmouth
published in 2007. She works with editorial clients such as
The Boston Globe, Yankee and Rolling Stone Magazine and humanitarian
organizations including the NH Humanities Council and the
Earth Institute at Columbia University and recently photographed
in Ghana, Africa.
Her workshops, Learning to See, bring teens and Senior Adults
together, using the art of telling a story with an image and
photography as a tool to learn, experiment and collaborate
together. Final pieces are made into different media, including
exhibition, books, and web slide/video shows and connect participants
to learning more about their community. Upcoming projects
with Heartwood College, Maine College of Art, Portsmouth Middle
School and a small village in Mexico.
Her portfolio’s include live performance photographs
of over 200 world class musician; an on going series entitled
Entrada, images exploring the power of curiosity; and narrative
portraiture.
She has been recognized by Better Photography Asia Edition
along side Robert Farber and Patrick Demarchelier and other
world know photographers as standouts in people photography.
Horton’s images tell stories. Either stories you recognize,
or stories you see from viewing one of her images.
Artist Statement
As a photographer, I am drawn to the power of creating curiosity,
with the traditional tools of the trade; camera, film and
light meter.
With, leading lines, color, texture and a dream like narrative,
I capture a moment and emphasize a mysticism that evokes question.
For me, making a photograph is discovering an image that warrants
being enlarged for viewing and exploration, dissolving the
medium.I seek images encompassing people and places that become
symbolic still-lifes. These abstract compositions become color
fields, geometric, minimalist and painterly.
With the use of film and new technology, I explore traditional
in-camera techniques presently focusing on square compositions
exposed onto medium format color film.With the goal of having
the opportunity to print straight photographs large scale,
my presentation also explores mixed media and mounting on
a variety of substrates including canvas, copper and other
metals, fabric and using tar, acrylic medium and encaustic.
My work is driven to influence the viewer to step in and
have a connection, and many of my images are based on my ongoing
series Entrada which explores the translation of Salida y
Entrada from Spanish to English meaning, cues, beginnings,
exits, departures and solutions.
In this age of greed, war and unrest, I want to let the viewer
escape for a moment,captured by a memory or thought, yet explored.
Maureen Chase, of New Hampshire Native American heritage,
was ordained as a non-denominational minister at Harvard Divinity
School and has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art and English
from Emmanuel College in Boston. She studied fine arts and
theatre in Berlin, Germany and has also trained in photography
at the Massachusetts College of Art and the New England School
of Photography.
Maureen, extensively trained and experienced in chakra-based
energy healing, lives in downtown Lowell, Mass. She conducts
spiritual ceremonies for life passages such as weddings, memorials
and births and is legally registered with the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts. Maureen has studied with native elders across
the country as well as Michael Harner and Sandra Ingerman
of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies. She has a B.A. in
Natural Theology and Sacred Healing from the Healing Light
Center Church Seminary in Los Angeles, California (a 4-year
program).
Rev. Maureen Chase, a certified SpiritSong facilitator helping
others find their true voice, recently received a grant from
the Germeshausen Foundation through Harvard Divinity School's
Center for the Study of World Religions’ Women Healing
Women program to teach SpiritSong to women with breast cancer
called the Medicine Voice Project. Through Harvard's Religion,
Health and Healing initiative she held circles for women with
breast cancer at The Virginia Thurston Healing Garden, a community
of support for women with breast cancer in Harvard, Mass.
For over thirty years I have been looking through the viewfinder
of a camera in search of images that elicit an intuitive response
to form and color, to the abstract.
As a photographer and painter I am constantly experimenting
on how to creatively combine my two passions. I photograph
an image then might manipulate the image to see how far I
can push the envelope with color and stroke while still creating
a photographic image that evokes a response and tells my stories.
My images show that perceptions run much deeper than the
“realities” we acknowledge with our eyes. I am
constantly discovering the abstract quality; the way the light
evokes feeling. I reveal that simplicity – perhaps with
some dissonance and tension – that illustrates the thought,
the feeling, or purely a moment in time, that is the heart
of each image.
My explorations are the result of the ongoing evolution of
what digital imagery can express.
Because change is the only constant in life, I find something
new on a daily basis and apply it to my art. I will share
my new discoveries on a regular basis.
