Paul Cava
Sexual Nature #10
2003
Archival pigment print
7" x 17-1/2"
(17-3/4" x 28" framed)
2/10

Courtesy of JDC Fine Art.

About the work

Much of my art related to montage and collage is constructed through juxtaposition where I invite the viewer to consider images, relative and distant through association. This technique is not unlike the structure of a poetic literary metaphor where the reader makes a leap to connect the dots.

I hope my work presents opportunities to imagine, to dream and to make that leap towards an emotional and psychological connection between the art and the viewer.

Bio

Paul Cava was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1949. Beginning his career as an artist in the late 1960's Cava made his first explorations as a poet, multi-media artist, filmmaker, photographer and painter and finally settling in the last three decades on a hybrid form of expression that synthesized his previous efforts and anticipated the current digital use of photography by combining photographs, words, collage, drawing, painting, and printmaking into his own visual language, the core of which is a personal visual poetry.

As a fine artist Cava has exhibited paintings, drawings and photo-based works from 1976 to the present in galleries and museums in the United States and Europe, and his work has been collected by a broad range of private and public institutions, including The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Princeton University Museum of Art, and The Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. His work has been featured in many publications including Eyemazing Magazine and Das Magazin. Cava was a recipient of Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grants in 1981 and 1999. In fall 2005, the German publisher Edition Galerie Vevais released Children of Adam, a volume of Cava's photo-based art and Walt Whitman's poetry.

John E. Dowell
6 Million
2005
Archival ink jet print
34" x 28" (framed)
2/12

About the work
A photograph taken in Atlanta in 2005

Bio
John E. Dowell, Jr., a nationally recognized artist, captures the pulse of cities and agricultural landscapes of America in his large-scale photographs. Working primarily from sunset until dawn, he focuses on the surface of buildings, the reflections of their exteriors and, quietly, their interior spaces. Illuminating the unseen, he brings awareness to a single moment.

For the past several years, he has also built extended photographs of the modern agronomy. These crops provoke thoughts of cultural, political and economic concerns that are often overlooked. He strives to incite the viewer to re-examine their assumptions of place and time. Now imagine being inside a field of cotton, corn, or a banana plantation. Sense the evolution of history.

An artist and master-printer for more than four decades, Dowell's fine art prints, paintings and photographs have been featured in more than 50 one-person exhibitions, and represented in the permanent collections of 70 museum and public collections. Among them are the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, France. Dowell's photographs are in the Houston Museum of Fine Arts and have been added to his work in the collections of the Fogg Museum of Harvard University, the Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design and the Lehigh University Museum.

John Dowell is a Philadelphia native and Professor Emeritus of Printmaking at the Tyler School of Art at Temple University.

Ada Trillo
Joanna
Photograph
26" x 39-1/5", framed 35" x 48"
A.P of an edition of 3

About the Work
Trans_Borders

Between 2015 and 2020, chances of asylum for Latin American trans women seeking asylum in El Paso, TX increased by 60% when a New York judge heard their cases.

Joana like so many women in the LGBTQ+ community from Central America suffered from physical and verbal abuse and extortion in her country. The danger of falling victim to homophobic-related crimes is so extreme for trans women in countries like El Salvador that the life expectancy is 35 years.

"Yo pasé por dos cárteles por 9 meses porque me brinque la barda. Después como castigo me mandaron a la hielera por 13 días sin banarme comiendo solo galletas y jugo. Después de alli empiezo mi proceso de Asilo en los Estados Unidos."

"I went through two jails for nine months because I jumped the border wall. Then, as punishment, I was sent to the icebox for 13 days without being allowed to take a shower and eating only cookies and juice. Then my asylum process started in the United States."

Bio
Ada Trillo (she/they) Is first-generation Mexican-American artist based on the East Coast. Born and raised in the U.S./ Mexican border region of Juarez and El Paso, her work focuses on sex trafficking, climate and violence-related international migration, and long-standing barriers of race and class.

"I see myself as an artist...who captures the face of injustice with the hopes that history can stop repeating itself".

Trillo documents the migration of people through Central America and the US-Mexico border while traveling alongside her subjects through dangerous conditions. Trillo typically exhibits images in black and white, focusing on her protagonists and capturing "the spark, the feelings in their eyes." Her projects have been featured in international publications, including The Guardian, Vogue, Smithsonian Magazine, and Mother Jones. Trillo's work is in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and other institutional and private collections. Her awards include The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Fellowship, The British Journal of Photography Female In Focus Best Series Award, and The Me & Eve Grant from the Center of Photographic Arts in Santa Fe (2020). Trillo's images have been exhibited in the U.S., Japan, Luxembourg, Italy, England, France, and Germany. She holds degrees from the Istituto Marangoni in Milan and Drexel University in Philadelphia.

Susan Abrams
Lush
Silver print photograph on paper handmade by the artist
15" x 19"; (framed 21.5" x 25.5")

About the Work
I am a photographer and papermaker. I have been immersed in the complexities of handmade paper for many years, exploring the unique structural and textural qualities of the material. This piece is an example of my work photographic work, printing directly onto my handmade paper using an applied silver emulsion. Although this image is part of a small edition every step in the process yields opportunities for variations resulting in a unique print that embodies my artistic intention as well as the unexpected.

Both my mixed media and photographic my work focus on natural patterns and textures. I am looking for an essence not easily defined. "Pretty" is not it, although the work is often elegant. I am interested in the natural cycles that are part of life, capturing the universal forces of generation, growth and decay.

Bio
Susan Abrams is a photographer and papermaker and has exhibited in many venues participating in group exhibitions and mounting diverse solo shows. A few of the institutions where her work has been seen include the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Print Center, the Lancaster Museum of Art, the Humanities Gallery at LIU, Brooklyn, NY and at the Irish Museum of Modern Art. She was awarded first place in the 2003 Photo Review International Competition, First Prize for Photography in Art of the State (PA) and has received numerous other awards. Her article, "Hand Papermaking for Photography" appeared in the December/January 2004 issue of Camera Arts Magazine. Abrams' work is included the collections of The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Free Library of Philadelphia, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, McGraw Hill, and Merck & Company as well as other private and corporate collections in the United States and England.

Jaime Alvarez
Gabled Shadow
2021/2022
Archival inkjet print
17.5" x 12.5" x 2"
(framed)

Eric Kunsman
585.427.9848 - Stoney's Plaza, 2852 West Henrietta Road, Henrietta, NY 14623
2018
Archival pigment print
24'' x 24''
(unframed)
3/15

About the Work
Change in technology has accelerated rapidly in recent years, and in many areas it has outpaced the ability of policy makers to make those advances equally available to socially and economically vulnerable citizens. There also appear to be unconscious biases that come into play, judgements that are formed about people who aren't able to access contemporary technologies in their daily lives, and who continue to depend on technologies and systems that just a decade or so ago were accepted as "normal." Those unacknowledged biases, those judgements that are made without basis in fact, can unfortunately lead to ignorant assumptions that incorrectly mislabel a neighborhood or community; or may even lead to dangerous situations when employed by policy makers.

Through Felicific Calculus I hope to challenge negative perceptions of these social markers that lead people to conflate poverty with crime. I hope the juxtaposition of the images and the mapping overlays may engage viewers in examining their own gut perceptions of social markers, like payphones and payphone use, and to explore the gaps between their prejudgements and the reality of how those phones actually serve individuals who may be less privileged. Though they are relics to most of us, payphones remain important for residents trapped in lower economic circumstances.

Bio
Eric T. Kunsman (b. 1975) was born and raised in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. While in high school, he was heavily influenced by the death of the steel industry and its place in American history. The exposure to the work of Walker Evans during this time hooked Eric onto photography. Eric had the privilege to study under Lou Draper, who became Eric's most formative mentor. He credits Lou with influencing his approach as an educator, photographer, and contributing human being.

Eric holds his MFA in Book Arts/Printmaking from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia and holds an MS in Electronic Publishing/Graphic Arts Media, BS in Biomedical Photography, BFA in Fine Art photography all from the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York.

Eric is an educator at the Rochester Institute of Technology for the Visual Communications Studies Department at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf and the School of Photographic Arts & Sciences.

Eric was named one of 10 B&W photographers to watch of 2018 by BW Gallerist, B&W Best Photographers of the Year 2019 by Dodho Magazine, and won the Association of Photography (UK) Gold Award for Open Series in 2019, Finalist, Top 200 for Critical Mass in 2019, 2020, & 2021, Top 15 Photographers for the Rust Belt Biennial. His project Felicific Calculus was also awarded a Warhol Foundations Grant through CEPA Gallery in Buffalo, NY.

Eric has held 39 solo exhibitions and counting. At this point, his work has been exhibited in over 250 galleries and museums and featured in Bloomberg Business Week, Dodho Magazine, Dek Unu, All About Photo, and LensWork.

He has been featured with online articles by Humble Arts Foundation, Analog Forever Magazine, Catalyst: Interview, One Twelve Publishing, to name a few. He is currently represented by HOTE Gallery in Los Angeles, CA, and Malamegi in San Daniele del Friuli (Udine), Italy.

John Carlano
Magnolia warbler
2014
Photography
15" x 12"
(framed)

About the Work
Excerpt from the series Fallout Considerations 2014.

Recollections of fears of annihilation in the early 1960's as child

Bio
John Carlano is a working photographer in Philadelphia since 1978. He taught photography at what is presently The University of the Arts from 1980-2018. John works both commercially and has maintained a fine art studio practice as well through out those years, having exhibited nationally and internationally.

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Brian C. Moss
DayBreak (Santa Monica, June 1, 2020)
2020
Archival pigment print
11" x 14"
1 of 3

About the Work
As an artist, Moss uses various media including collage, computers, drawings, installation, language, photography and sculpture. His projects ask viewers to question the ways that perception and visual media structure and interrelate all facets of physical and emotional experience. Moss' varied and wide-ranging practice includes documentary photography, multi-media installations, public art and collaborative community-based art projects.

This particular photograph was shot in Santa Monica on the morning after peaceful protests around the murder of George Floyd devolved into looting and chaos.

Bio
Brian C. Moss is an artist, photographer and teacher. Born and raised in Philadelphia he attended Tyler School of Art and earned a BFA (painting, photography and art criticism) in 1984. In 1992, he moved to Los Angeles to attend graduate school at the California Institute of the Arts where he received his MFA in photography. He has taught in universities throughout the Los Angeles region since 1997, as well as Parsons / New School in New York. His work has been widely exhibited across the United States and he has received funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, Rockefeller Foundation, Durfee Foundation, Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture, Santa Monica Cultural Affairs Division, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Olson Color Expansions, Kodak and Astra-Zeneca.

Leah R Macdonald
Lily Crying
2022
Toned silver monoprint

19" x 15"

About the Work
This is a one of a kind toned silver print made in the darkroom from a 4 x 5 view camera negative- the print had wet glass on the surface of the photographic paper while it was exposed - then I toned it. This piece is a part of my Lost Light Luv Legacy project started to archive my silver monoprints in October 2021-2022

Bio
Leah Macdonald makes her portraits into artifacts, one-of-a-kind conceptions that suggest the imperfection and multiplicity of memory. The heart of her mixed media work, a poignant sense of revisitation and return. Her passion is sharing her art and creativity with others through teaching workshops, art exhibitions and her prolific internet portfolios. Her new technique "photogestic" is the fruition of all her years of experimenting with altered surface analog photography and mixing media. It combines her three skills in art: photography, collage and encaustic painting. When transforming photographs from slivers of reality to complete fantasy, she expresses the tales of womanhood. She uses collage to place her figures in new and surreal environments. Her intuition with encaustics allows beeswax to embellish and veil her models. She carefully draws on the wax to decorate and control the visibility of the subject. Layering these mediums by manipulating surface texture and color grants her the ability to express her imagination and bring her art vision to life.

She was born in Philadelphia, she attended college in San Francisco and then went on to receive her MFA in Photography from the California College of Art. She enjoyed a long and varied career path within the arts:commercial photography, professional analog printer and college professor. She was the Education Curriculum Director at the Manayunk-Roxborough Art Center. In 2007 she was asked to do a live encaustic painting demonstration on the Martha Stewart show. Other highlights include a solo retrospective of encaustic nudes at Wexler gallery in 2010. In 2016 she was the scenic director of In My Body Musical. In 2017 she was selected as the recipient of the NewCourtland Fellowship by The Center for Emerging Visual Artists.In 2018 she was an artist in residence at the Encaustic Castle. She recently launched a new website; Lost Light Luv, it features her legacy analog photography. Her encaustic photography art is represented by Inliquid Arts, Saatchi Art, GalerieBMG, Venvi Gallery and Cerulean Art Gallery in Philadelphia. She has also self published numerous handmade artist books.

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German Vazquez
RENE
2021
120 Medium Format Film on Digital Print
20" x 16" framed

About the Work
My approach to Photography presents a critical viewpoint on the ideas related to religion and sexuality, particularly in colonized countries such as Puerto Rico. Inspired by paintings from Baroque and Rococo and gestures like Titian's The Venus of Urbino, Sandro Botticelli's The Birth of Venus in art history as well as Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights.

Growing up in Puerto Rico, an island with very strong and deep rooted religious beliefs. Which created a fear to be your true authentic self , due to societal and religious oppression towards the LGBTQ+ Community and as I began to explore stories similar to my own experiences within the Queer community. Queer & Trans people are often targeted, As nature becomes that safe place where they can reconnect with themselves and release themselves from hatred and colonial oppression This current series is not just a reflection, but a documentation of the human beings who are tired of living in spaces where they do not feel welcomed, loved or protected !

One of the most important goals to me as a Queer artist of color is redirecting our views on this community from the trauma that surrounds them, and finding ways to highlight by celebrating the life of each individual with confidence, sexuality and gender identity. To overcome the stereotypical judgment and condemnation that was placed into our culture, and endangered the shared experience of primal safety and visibility.

Bio
German Ayala Vazquez is a Photographer , Creator and Visual Artist. Born in Bayamón Puerto Rico, currently living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is a 2020 Graduate with a Bachelor of Fine Art in Photography at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Where he was awarded The Adolf and Geraldine Paire full scholarship in 2018 to complete his studies in Fine Art photography. During this time, he was able to continue his interests in editorial and fashion photography while gaining expertise in the studio, documentary and Fine Art environment. Over the years German has won multiple awards for outstanding studio work from Profoto, and the 2020 TheNikon/Ben Rose Prize. He currently has work exhibited in Puerto Rico and Philadelphia has also been featured in multiple publications including Vogue Italia, Fluid Culture, Hunger Magazine amongst many others. His main focus is to not only to become a Storyteller in the Fashion Photography Industry, but to serve as an outlet to focus on conceptual and specific bodies of work to represent for the BIPOC LGBTQTT+, community.

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Richard J. Boutwell:
Near Egilsstadir, Iceland
2004
Gelatin silver contact print
7-5/8" x 9-1/2", framed 18" x 16"

Bio
Richard J. Boutwell, originally from Joshua Tree, California, is a photographer and printmaker based near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

In 2002, Boutwell relocated to Bucks County, Pennsylvania to enter an intensive apprenticeship with the photographers Michael A. Smith and Paula Chamlee. He worked as their assistant in the field, studio, and darkroom until 2008. He then became their full-time printer and ran the scanning and digital studio at their photography book publishing company, Lodima Press, until 2015.

His photographs have been included in national and international group exhibitions and private and public collections. He has served as a guest lecturer on the history of landscape photography at mid-Atlantic colleges and universities.

Boutwell's personal work, originally influenced by early 20th-century modernists, shifted as he was exposed to the work of the New Topographics, along with the work of the 19th century colonial expedition and geological survey photographers. This led him to begin investigating his personal connection to the greater cultural, industrial, and environmental history of the landscape-mostly involving issues of water rights in the West, and the impact of recreation in the desert landscapes of the Southwest.

His current bodies of work are informed by aspects of archeology, family history and myth, and the influence of technology and social media on how we interact with the natural environment.In addition to his traditional landscape photography, he is now combining those photographs with found objects, historical materials, and appropriated mapping and scientific data.

Pauk Rider
Primitive 16
2010
Archival carbon ink print
8" x 8", framed 16" x 14"

About the Work
A series of images using discarded, ordinary, everyday found objects shot isolated on a plain white background. The presentation, ike a scientific record, gives these societal rejects new perspective and weight. The abandoned items become mysterious and intriguing modem relics. Though they no longer serve
any useful function, they possess an elegance and patina from their time spent weathered by the elements as if pulled from an archeological dig.

In the second part of the series, I have combined the discarded objects with textured surfaces that are meant to reference cave paintings. They give the impression of the efforts of a previous civilization to communicate the familiar of their world, but now a mystery to our world.

Bio
Paul Rider has lifelong roots in the Philadelphia area and eamed his BFA in Photography from Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA., (now University of the Arts). He received his MFA in Photography from Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah, GA.

Working in discrete series, Rider creates his imagery by constructing still life in the studio utilizing found objects and also through the use of abstract and documentary photographic styles. The compelling issue that has driven his work, is the interface and struggle between nature and manmade urban culture. All of his photographic projects share an elegant, visually compeling narrative and strong thoughtful, almost sculptural, composition.

He has taught at the university level since 2003. Rider's photographs have been exhibited in Europe and throughout the United States

Stuart Rome
PotGoat
2012
Pure pigment photographic print
11-1/2" x 11-1/2", framed 20-3/4" x 20-3/4"

About the Work
My photographs of California pot growers, the tribe of trimmer kids who work the harvest and the activists who run the dispensaries are a group at odds with government and yet are working as farmers cultivating plants that have been in demand since the beginning of culture; at odds with society but in demand by that same society. This is a sad commentary on our lack of honesty about who we are publicly and privately. Our lack of honesty has engendered as much pain and death as a 'war' and it has been waged against the poorest and most defenseless of our citizens. In 1982 Ronald Reagan spoke to his constituents of the difficulties of controlling the American counter culture and African Americans; soon after he gave his famous war on drugs speech which began a thirty year war that made a few Americans who built the new prisons rich and drug cartels even richer while the poor and predominately black population suffered. A new tipping point has been reached in public opinion; the war has been an abject failure. Whenever I think of all the lives cut short by this approach, I've felt a shame and anger that I have wanted to speak about in my own works.

Bio

Stuart Rome has worked as a photographer since the 1970's during which time he began exhibiting works in color - both landscapes and portraits, entitled, Modern Mythologies. His first solo exhibition was presented at the International Museum of Photography in 1978.

His interests in anthropology led to book projects photographing antiquities in Latin America and Asia as well as recording remnants of these expressions found in the rituals of trance. This documentary work led to landscape photographs of forests as a manifestation of pantheistic energy.

Patterning found in tribal art and textiles became the framework from which ideas about the natural world would emerge in his most recent published work, Drawn from Nature as well as ongoing Forest Pictures and the new series, "Oculus".

In 1985 Stuart Rome was hired to design and build a new Photography Program at Drexel University in Philadelphia, where he continues to teach until his retirement in 2019.

Stuart Rome has exhibited extensively over the years in solo and group exhibitions - in galleries and museums. Amongst his publications are: Maya, Treasures of an Ancient Civilization, Abrams, 1985; Forest, a monograph, Nazraeli Press, 2005; Signs and Wonders, The Southeast Museum of Photography, 2011. The John Simon Guggenheim fellowship was awarded in 2015 for his most recent work, "Oculus", photographs from within giant redwoods and sequoias.