SILVER

Images from the SILVER show can be purchased and shipped to anywhere in the World for the Holidays or Just because....  All Framed Images are gelatin silver processed which makes them unique as a collection.  Contact Christine to learn sizes and prices of any particular image- xtinex@earthlink.net or 609.932 6828

Silver Openning Day

Can't Make it to SILVER, Let Silver Come to You

Artists L- R, row by row: Julia Blaukopf, Eric Mencher, Kass Mencher, Sarah Bones, Dave DiDonato, Michael Penn, Larry Fink, Ted Adams, Stephen Perloff, Angelo Benedetto, Genevieve Coutrobis

SILVER

A special collection of Black and White Silver Prints

ARTISTS INCLUDE:

Micheal Penn, Sarah Bones, Larry Fink, Genevieve Coutroubis, Stephen Perloff, Ted Adams, Julia Blaukopf, Orville Robertson, Dani Bogenhagen, Eric Mencher, Stephen Hammond, Kass Mencher, David DiDonato, Angelo Benedetto, Amie Potsic,
Sasha Phyars Burgess

Open Reception: October 10th, Sunday  1:00 - 3:00

Coming in the Fall....

                                        Image by Michael Penn   -   Philadelphia

Photo 612 is hosting SILVER 

a Special collection of bxw Silver Prints 

Look for more news to come 

  Image by Sarah Bones - Dog in Alley, Cuba

Show Extended thru August

The Gate by Dae Rebeck Sanchez - This image has sold and has gone to a great home, but the show remains

Dae & Margaux will have their work up at Photo 612 through August

Be Sure to phone to make an appointment to stop by

Dae Rebeck Sanchez Special Edition Print

The Gate

                          Printed on 8 1/2 " x 11" Archival Inkpress Rag
                                                        Image size 7" x10 1/4"

                                                      Edition of 10 - $25.00 each  

         comes in acid free envelope with acid free backer

              All signed editions to be mailed out June 19

 This special Edition Print is only available online 
and thru Photo 612
  

Dae Rebeck Sanchez

I stumbled upon Dae Rebeck Sanchez's work a few years back.  I happened to see a card of hers at Moore College of Art & Design.  I was immediately taken with her style and decided to look her up.  As luck should have it she had just moved back to this area after living in New Mexico :)  That seems so long ago!

Dae Rebeck Sanchez is a mixed media artist who has shown in museums, galleries, art centers and fine art festivals regionally and abroad. Dae works primarily with oil and acrylic paints, photo based transfers and collage on wood panel. Her narrative layered paintings focus on big skies, women, urban/suburban decay, pattern and the circus. She studied at The Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico and received her degree from Moore College of Art and Design. Most recently Dae won “Best in Oil and Acrylics” at the 2009 Chestnut Hill Arts Festival and “Best in Mixed Media” at the 2007 Manayunk Arts Festival. Currently Dae is growing her commission business providing customers with unique photo based mixed media portraits.To learn more about Dae and her art: visit her at www.daerebeck.com

Coming in June

              Dae  Rebeck Sanchez - The Couch Series: Tent

                                      Mixed Media on Wood Panel       

Margaux Kent : "We Were Victorious Often"

Giclee Print on German Etching Paper 

OPEN RECEPTION

SATURDAY, JUNE 19TH

1:00- 3:00 PM 

Personal| Universal - Amie Potsic

Personal| Universal is a collective of six women photographers brought together by a passion for travel, exploration and a concern for social change -

 Each woman in this project is being spotlighted weekly.... All 6 women were asked the same 5 questions - In the simplicity of the questions comes some insight into their  Personal universal 

Show hangs thru May 16 

Contact Photo 612 to make an appointment to view the show 

at xtinephoto@earthlink.net OR 609.932 6828

Limited Edition Julia Blaukopf  Print is still available ~ scroll down on this page for more information

Amie Potsic

Amie Potsic received her MFA in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute and is currently the Director of the Career Development Program at the Center For Emerging Artists in Philadelphia.

She is an established photographic artist who has done much of her work abroad in Asia, the Middle East, Europe, South America, and Mexico.

 

Your favorite color- 

Purple

Name three artists you are inspired by-

W. Eugene Smith

Shirin Neshat

Louise Bourgeois

Define your personal universe-Has it (your personal universe point of view) changed since the development of this project-

Personal Universal, for me, refers to the fact that we experience universal truths through an entirely personal means.  My work often asks universal questions and encourages the viewer to consider the universal human experience through the lens of cultural context.  That which is universal - justice, love, life, and death – is experienced as personal by people all over the world.  This particular project has not changed my point of view but has deepened it.  Exhibiting my work with these women artists whose work is thoughtful, socially responsible, challenging, and beautiful allows my work to exist in a dynamic conversation on the issues we are all addressing.

Where do you want to travel to next-

China/Mongolia/Russia via the Transiberian Express

Personal| Universal- Jill Katz

Personal| Universal is a collective of six women photographers brought together by a passion for travel, exploration and a concern for social change -

 Each woman in this project is being spotlighted weekly.... All 6 women were asked the same 5 questions - In the simplicity of the questions comes some insight into their  Personal universal 

Show opens March 27th TOMORROW

Show hangs thru May 16

Jill Katz

Jill Katz is a photographer living and working in Philadelphia. She is a graduate of New York University where she received her MA in Art Education and is currently the Director of Marketing and Communications at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at the University of Pennsylvania.  The subject of much of her work is based on international travels to Asia, Central Europe, and Cuba

When Broken Glass Floats, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Archival pigment print

7 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches

2005

Favorite Color:  

Purple. Depending on its hue it can be both regal and spiritual. A deep purple can be quietly commanding and the fleetingness of a lavender sky strangely beautiful. It has significant depth in its derivations from a strong warm and strong cool color and has both these warm and cool inherent properties.

Three Artists You are Inspired By:

William Eggleston and Stephen Shore. Through their documentary style color snapshots of the American landscape they turn the aesthetics of ordinary rural and urban landscapes into personal poetry. Their work calls attention to the formal concerns of color and composition while isolating moments when the banality of the everyday is aligned to make the perfect moment that makes you feel something extraordinary. I am also inspired by the photos of photojournalist Steve McCurry who has the ability to convey a person’s true essence and to capture human emotion.

Define Your Personal Universal:  Has your Personal Universe point of view changed from the start of this project?

I have always been curious how place affects a person’s ability to adapt, grow, belong and feel content. It is something constant that pushes me out of my comfort zone and allows me to think about place outside of what is familiar. This has stayed true throughout the development of this project. The timing of this show came together organically. Through knowing this group of photographers over the years we have shared common experiences about our travels and how through our work we hope to impact viewers in some way.  This project reinforces the importance of the awareness of the places we live as they continue to change, modernize, become vulnerable, evolve, and are threatened, and to think responsibly about our role in it.

Where do you want to travel to next? 

Israel and Turkey. It has been over twenty years since my first visit to Israel. I know it will feel like a very different place now from what I remember. Because Turkey is so near I would like to visit there as well.

LIMITED EDITION SALE PRINT continues

Fish Pull by Julia Blaukopf

This special Edition archival pigment print is available only online

Image comes signed by artist -Julia Blaukopf

Images will be posted via US post on  March 27th as part of the Personal Universal Opening-
A Second Mailing will go out May 16th as part of the Personal Universal Closing- 

Editions:

10x8 - Edition of 100 for $25

14 x 11 - Edition of 40 for $65

20 x16- Edition of 5 for $300

ORDER YOUR IMAGE NOW

SIZES

10x8 $25.00 14x11 $65.00 20x16 $300.00

Personal| Universal - Julia Blaukopf

Personal| Universal is a collective of six women photographers brought together by a passion for travel, exploration and a concern for social change -

 Each woman in this project is being spotlighted weekly.... All 6 women were asked the same 5 questions - In the simplicity of the questions comes some insight into their  Personal universal 

Show opens March 27th

Julia Blaukopf
Julia Blaukopf has worked as a photographer and creative partner with organizations and businesses in Copenhagen, Kenya, Ghana, Lithuania and throughout the US. Julia creates social art and focus on visual storytelling through photographs, mixed media works and large-scale fabric installations.

Favorite Color: 
pearl white and copper

Three Artists You are Inspired By:
Graciela Iturbide, Hannah Höch, & Gordon Parks

Define Your Personal Universal:  Has your Personal Universe point of view changed from the start of this project?
Personal | Universal is the duality that embodies my experience of traveling.  The reflections I create define the personal. 
The themes the camera carries from each place represent facets of the universal. My personal universe is a dream.  The act of travel is like living in a story.  The images I create reflect the glimpses of time and place.



Where do you want to travel next?
being in Spain and travel down to North Africa and on through Egypt to Jordan and Israel

JULIA IS RELEASING A  SALE SPECIAL EDITION PRINT JUST FOR THIS EXHIBITION THAT WILL ONLY BE AVAILABLE ONLINE - LOOK FOR MORE INFORMATION ON HOW TO PURCHASE YOUR PRINT

Personal| Universal - Beth Uzwiak

Personal| Universal is a collective of six women photographers brought together by a passion for travel, exploration and a concern for social change -

 Each woman in this project is being spotlighted weekly.... All 6 women were asked the same 5 questions - In the simplicity of the questions comes some insight into their  Personal universal 

Show opens March 27th

Beth Uzwiak-
Beth Uzwiak is a visual anthropologist currently finishing her PhD at Temple University in Philadelphia. Beth Uzwiak creates works on paper and bookwork that integrates collage, sewing, drawing, printmaking, painting, text, and installation.

Artist:  Beth Uzwiak

Title:  Adoration

Medium:  Limited Edition Artist Book of Archival Pigment Printed Photographs

Size: 9’’x8’’ (closed) 9’’x75’’ (extended)

Year: 2009

Description: The photographs in this artist’s book capture a religious procession during Holy Week in Antigua, Guatemala.

Favorite Color:

It must be because it is the dead of winter, but yellow is my favorite color.  Bright, Mexican-house yellow.

Three Artists You are Inspired By:
Artists Louise Bourgeois and Kara Walker continually inspire me for their ability to transform intimacy, including violence, into visual form.  For the past year, I have been obsessed with the work of Susan Meiselas, not only her socially engaged photography, but how she uses images to activate memory and narrative. 

Define Your Personal Universal:  Has your Personal Universe point of view changed from the start of this project?
Recently, a Belizean friend described my personal universe as the “three sisters,” referring to the companion planting technique. My squash, maize, and climbing beans: art, research, and writing.  I am a visual anthropologist interested, quite broadly, in how images shape social action.  I also make images—photos, artist’s books, works-on-paper, paintings, collage—to record, process, and challenge my experiences.  My art is often ethnographic in practice and incorporates archival materials and oral histories.  My thoughts, actions, and dreamsare restless and never settle on one subject, medium, or place.  As a current artist-in-residence at the 40^th Street Studios in West Philadelphia, I am exploring new mediums and expressions.  I also teach undergraduate art history and anthropology classes and work as an editor for New City Community Press.
Where do you want to travel next?
During this exhibit, I will be in Belize to present findings from a two-year-long health research project there, and to photograph.  And where to after that?  Who knows? 

PERSONAL UNIVERSAL

Photo 612 is pleased to present.....

Personal| Universal - the manner in which we reflect and ‘re-order’ the world around us in pursuit of self-discovery

Personal| Universal is a collective of six women photographers brought together by a passion for travel, exploration and a concern for social change

Julia Blaukopf, Genevieve Coutroubis, Jill Katz, Amie Potsic, Beth Uzwiak , Elysa Voshell

 This exhibition looks at the places we live from a fresh perspective – the cycle of how the familiar continues to change, modernize, evolve and become vulnerable.  As a result, this forces us to contemplate places outside of our norm.

Each photographer has a different story, yet there is a shared vision and desire to create a common dialogue  - photographic visions are presented in various forms: fabric panels, books, prints and scrolls

Personal| Universal hangs from March 26 thru May 16

Open Reception March 27, 1:00 – 3:00 pm

This show was first released a year ago in Philadelphia – the story Continues

Look to learn about each artist Individually in the Coming WeeksPhoto 612 will be releasing a Special Limited Edition Print from this show that will only be available online…..

Happy New Year :)

Happy New Year Everyone :) Where to begin - Where to Begin! How about with Change?

Change is Liberation, no? Anyway!!!

Photo 612 has decided to make a bold move and delete it's website presence- The website www.photo612.info will self implode in March 2010.  A decision has been made that blogs and FB is much more timely and in the now- So please look for all updates on this blog. For even quicker more up to date news and photo news, join Photo 612 on Facebook.

I've received some notes concerning Photo 612's Juried show IV- Look for news in the Spring -

Gallery shows for 2010 include the girls from Personal Universal-  artists Genevieve Coutrobis, Elyssa Voshell,  Amie Potsic, Julia Blaukopf, Jill Katz, and Beth Uzwiak- also Look for a curated group show by DCCC - the Delaware County Camera Club

In the Fall, PHoto 612/ Christine Foster will be curating a BxW show-My clients seem to love BxW- Look for more news on that to come