Obscura Gallery congratulates Joyce Tenneson on receiving the prestigious 2018 Lucie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Portraiture! The Lucie Awards celebrates the remarkable achievements of the masters in photography and has included other such luminaries as Herman Leonard, Duane Michols, Rosalind Fox Solomon, Joy Ross, Nan Goldin, David Burnett, Greg Groman, Dowoud Bey, Lord Snowdon, and Harry Benson.
Congratulations to Gallery artist Aline Smithson for being a finalist in the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize with her photograph, Melanesia, from Fugue State series. The print will be exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in London from October 18th – January 29th, 2019.
Please join us Saturday, August 11, 4-7pm as we celebrate the Indian Market festivities taking place the entire month of August in Santa Fe. Obscura Gallery will have a selection of 19th-21st Century photographs of the Southwest on display alongside the Brant Mackley Gallery exhibition ‘Animals in Native American Art’ at our gallery.
EDWARD CURTIS, Girl and Jar, San Ildefonso, NM, 1905, 15.5 x 11.5″, Photogravure on Holland Van Gelder paper from Portfolio 17. Plate 590.
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Opening Reception: July 14, 2018, 4-7pm
Exhibition is on view through August 3, 2018
Obscura Gallery is thrilled to present our inaugural photographic exhibition this Summer in our newly renovated gallery space at 1405 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, New Mexico. LIMELIGHT, celebrates five pioneering contemporary female artists each debuting brand new work or work never before exhibited in New Mexico. Included in the exhibition are Susan Burnstine, Brigitte Carnochan, Coco Fronsac, Aline Smithson, and Joyce Tenneson.
The exhibition is inspired by and celebrates the late New York Greenwich Village pioneering gallerist Helen Gee and her gallery, Limelight, started in 1954. Gee’s gallery was the first successful and enduring exhibition space devoted exclusively to selling photography during the post Second World War era in New York. Gee’s memoir, Helen Gee: Limelight, a Greenwich Village Photography Gallery and Coffeehouse in the Fifties, was recently published by Aperture as an e-book and was originally published by University of New Mexico Press in 1997.
THE EXHIBITION:
SUSAN BURNSTINE, Crossing West, 2018, 16×16â€, archival pigment ink print, edition of 15.
We are debuting never-before exhibited, new, color work entitled Where Shadows Cease, by Southern California artist, Susan Burnstine. Burnstine portrays her dream-like visions entirely in-camera, rather than with post-processing manipulations, by creating her own hand-made cameras and lenses that are frequently unpredictable and technically challenging. In the past Burnstine has portrayed her visions through the monochromatic lens of black and white, and this new work, incorporating color, brings a new sense of reality to her dreamlike visions.
BRIGITTE CARNOCHAN, Sunday Morning Roses, 2013, 16 x 20â€, platinum palladium, edition of 10.
Northern California artist Brigitte Carnochan is exhibiting still lifes from her garden in the platinum palladium process, imbuing a sensuality to the still life as she does so in her nudes and botanicals. Prolific in every series she produces, Carnochan’s work is always elegant, alluding to the poetic and inspired by literature.
COCO FRONSAC, Dionaea Muscipulae et le ruban jaune, 2016, mixed media on vintage photograph, 5.5×4â€, edition of 1.
Obscura is proud to introduce Coco Fronsac to the United States photography circuit for the first time with this exhibition. Fronsac is well known in her home-city of Paris, France for her unique one-of-a-kind pieces in which she draws and paints on 19th century vernacular photographs. With this medium, she creates a surreal world inspired by her collection of tribal masks from mostly the Western indigenous world.
ALINE SMITHSON, Geisha, 2017, 15.5 x 13.5â€, archival pigment ink print, edition of 15.
We are debuting new work by Southern California artist, Aline Smithson. Smithson exhibits a selection from her new project, The Fugue State, which speaks to the fading away of specific memories and identity – as the work serves as an in-between of the future and the past. The images are created from bleached negatives, winding the film stock in various ways, and then reinterpreting them in the digital darkroom, resulting in vivid color portraits and patterns.
JOYCE TENNESON, Apple Tree, 11.5 x 17â€, archival pigment ink print mounted to aluminum, edition of 20.
Obscura will also be exhibiting golden landscape images by Maine artist Joyce Tenneson. The Alchemy of Light series began in 2012 as a series in mixed media with gold leaf and result now in digital prints from the originals. The exhibition includes quiet, mood-evoking photographs of trees in her similar style and portrayal of ethereal, mystical portraiture in which she is so known for.
Susan Burnstine and Brigitte Carnochan will both be present at the opening reception.
This exhibition is presented as part of PhotoSummer. PhotoSummer 2018 is organized by CENTER, Axle Contemporary, and American Society of Media Photographers in Santa Fe. Showcasing the work of a diverse group of established and emerging artists whose work is strong in concept and in execution, this collaborative effort highlights New Mexico as a place where excellent photographic work is produced, taught, and exhibited, as well as where people from near and far gather around photography.
Grand Opening Reception
June 22, 2018
Obscura Gallery and Brant Mackley Gallery are proud to invite you to our joint Grand Opening Reception and Celebration of our newly renovated shared gallery space at 1405 Paseo de Peralta in Santa Fe, New Mexico on June 22, 2018 from 4-7pm.
Obscura Gallery represents fine art photography with a special interest in the finest contributions to the history of photography both through contemporary and vintage works. Brant Mackley Gallery specializes in exceptional antique North America Indian, Oceanic, Asian, and African art.
Located in the Santa Fe downtown historic district two blocks east of the revitalized Railyard district in a renovated historic building, the two business entities co-occupy the 3,000 square-foot location.
The Grand Opening Exhibition includes a specially curated selection of each Gallery’s inventory including works by Obscura’s represented artists and other select inventory.
Grand Opening Reception: Friday, June 22, 2018, 4-7pm
Obscura Gallery and Brant Mackley Gallery are proud to announce a joint Grand Opening Reception of their newly renovated shared gallery space at 1405 Paseo de Peralta in Santa Fe, New Mexico on June 22, 2018. Located in the Santa Fe downtown historic district two blocks east of the revitalized Railyard district in a renovated historic building, the two business entities will co-occupy the 3,000 square-foot location. Obscura Gallery represents fine art photography with a special interest in contemporary approaches to the medium and vintage 19th-20th Century works. Brant Mackley Gallery specializes in exceptional antique North America Indian, Oceanic, Asian, and African art. The Grande Opening Exhibition will include a curated selection of each Gallery’s inventory.
The historically renovated building space shared by both galleries was built in 1932, and was home to the community grocery store called the Ortiz Food Store in the 1940’s. The second story addition of the building hosted the Mayor’s office during the Frank Ortiz mayoral term 1948-1952 while the grocery store continued below. The building also housed the Madayln photo studio in the 1970’s and most recently the Gold Leaf Framemakers in the 1990’s. Today the building was renovated as a commercial/residential occupancy and includes all new electric, plumbing, heating, and interior redesign while still keeping with the tradition of the adobe elements and historical qualities of the region.
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In this newsletter, two new artists, Michael Massaia and Michael Berman, are proudly being announced along with a growing inventory of 19th and 20th century vintage prints available for sale. In addition, I am thrilled to announce that the renovations at 1405 Paseo de Peralta are nearing completion! Events will begin to occur in the coming months including a joint Obscura Gallery and Brant Mackley Gallery Grande Opening in June. Please “save-the-date” as my first photography exhibition will be on view the month of July with an opening reception on July 14 and includes five Obscura artists. Stay tuned for a more detailed announcement about these events following soon.
Santa Fe Photographic Workshops Hosts a Workshop, ‘Classic Portraiture,’ with Two Santa Fe Obscura Gallery Artists, Kurt Markus and Norman Mauskopf.
March 4-9, 2018
Capturing the elusive “true likeness†of a person has always been a challenge—and often even a high calling—for photographers since the medium’s invention. Norman Mauskopf and Kurt Markus have a combined 75-plus years of working knowledge and expertise, and together over a period of five days they help you expand your technical skills as well as develop your eye for creative portraiture.
Visit the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops website here for more information.
We will be at the 2018 Classic Photographs LA fair this February.
Friday, February 2 | Opening Preview | 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Saturday, February 3 | 11:00 am – 7:00 pm
Sunday, February 4 | 11:00 am – 5:00 pm
Bergamot Station – Free Admission
Obscura Gallery
Suite G3, Booth 29
2525 Michigan Avenue
Santa Monica, 90404
www.classicphotographsla.com
Please visit the Classic Photographs LA website for more information.
Obscura Gallery
225 Delgado St.
Santa Fe, NM 87501
505-577-6708
info@obscuragallery.net
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