Contemporary Bay Area Photography

 

Photography by nine accomplished Bay Area photographers ranging from artists with decades-long careers and international reputations to a Santa Rosa Junior College student. This show includes color and B&W photographs made using processes including traditional silver gelatin and chromogenic prints, digital prints, platinum/palladium prints, and image transfers on found objects. 

 

THE ARTISTS

 

Holly Anderson: Anderson has been an art conservator for over 30 years, an artist working in various media, and a student of historic photographic processes. She combines these with contemporary digital processes. The panorama shown here is a digital print on aluminum from two 35mm transparencies. 

 

Bill Baldewicz: Baldewicz pioneered the art of furniture adorned with B&W white vintage images on doors and drawer faces using liquid silver gelatin emulsion. He now experiments with digital prints from 8mm movie film, including transfers onto wood, marble, and plaster. 

 

Bob Cornelis: Cornelis, a photographer of international reputation, has a wealth of experience in a variety of processes both modern and antique. He is known, in particular, for his exquisite platinum/palladium prints as well as handmade books and letterset work.  

 

Barbara Elliott: Elliott’s slightly disturbing images bring puppets, dolls, and mannequins to life. She has worked using a variety of processes including traditional silver gelatin, polaroid, polaroid transfer, digital photography, and platinum/palladium printing.  

 

Janis Crystal Lipzin: Lipzin creates experimental films and photographs, subjects she taught at the San Francisco Art Institute for 31 years. Here she shows color photographs made with a Kodak Brownie Starflex camera, with which she constructs cinematic events via exaggerated exposures, fugitive rhythms, and crescendos of diffracted light.

 

Maureen Lomasney: Lomasney imagined a new market for original, artist-made funerary urns 20 years ago and then built it, but her own interest in life’s stories is expressed in vignettes she composes of friends and surroundings in B&W and toned silver gelatin prints.

 

Michael Maggid: Maggid’s background is in photojournalism and commercial photography, but he now does fine art work in digital and alternative processes at The Magic Studio in Santa Rosa, creating utterly modern images that seem simultaneously nostalgic and painterly. 

 

Austin Reynolds: Reynolds is a young photographer, our Santa Rosa Junior College student. He has an eye for color and composition and a fascination with the quotidian. 

 

Colin Talcroft: Talcroft has become known recently as a collage artist but he has been a photographer since childhood. He has a substantial body of B&W work using the traditional silver gelatin process, but is showing recent digital images in this show. 

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