Lenscratch Feature

Honored to have my work selected for this Lenscratch feature on photography in the State of Delaware: https://lenscratch.com/. (Features - The State Project - Delaware)

Garden's Edge Exhibition

This exhibition was put together during the time that we were isolating in Delaware during the Covid 19 pandemic. I thought it would be interesting to look back over a few decades of work and pull together grarden-related images from various portfolios. Here’s the link.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Spyx0CwvsMsMj2XS7dB4DmSTiro4ewj3UoahD5FuubM/edit#slide=id.p1

WHYY Video

A Penland Post

I owe so much to Penland for the education I received there, for their on-going support, and for the many friends I have made there. Its a very special place.

Alan Klotz Gallery — Virtual Exhibition

Alan Klotz has posted a really insightful overview of my work. Thank you, Alan!

Metcalf Collection #1, 2016, 24 x 20 inches

I have known Alida Fish for over 40 years, and have always been fond of her work. There is a balance there that I have always been drawn to, between the art and the craft of the photograph. They are like partners in a dance, that she choreographs with such grace and good taste. She will tell you, as will her work, that she has always been interested in fashioning a world of her own creation...I had one of those...it was under my bed. Alida's elements of this world, seem to be drawn from museums of art, and

of natural history. Viewing an Alida Fish exhibition is a lot like visiting a cabinet of curiosities, where great emphasis is placed on the wonder-filled, specimen-like presence in her subjects. They seem to exist in a timeless vacuum, or as Alida would have it, in a world of their own. This isolation, like peering into an Easter Egg diorama

is a very singular space, and is amplified by the technique used in their manufacture. 

Metcalf Collection #4, 2016, 24 x 20 inches

Alida used to do traditional tintypes, but that has now metamorphosed into oxidized aluminum plates on which she transfers a photographic emulsion. The emulsion slips off its paper, and settles onto the oxidized, textured surface of the plate. They defy scanning as jpegs...the surfaces don't translate, so forget about viewing them on a computer. They must be seen in the flesh, as it were. And, because of the many variables involved in their fabrication, copies cannot be made, they are unique. A fact, totally fitting and proper.

Winged Maple Seed, 2016, 10 x 8 inches

Alida's subjects are few in number but vast in variation. She is drawn to plant forms, and seeds, insects, and sculptural details-especially friezes, whose body parts she borrows.

Winter Leaves 2, 2016, 24 x 20 inches

Concurrent with our virtual exhibition of her most recent work, Alida is part of a

group show at the Florence Griswold Museum, in Old Lyme, CT, titled, In Place: Contemporary Photographers Envision a Museum. (October 1, 2016 - January 29, 2017)  The photographers involved were invited, by curator Amy Kurtz Lansing, to 

apply their artistic powers to the grounds, or to the collections of the museum itself. Alida's choice was easy.

Seed Burst 2, 2016, 24 x 20 inches

The William Metcalf Collection, housed at FGM in some 24 drawers, contains moths, butterflies, bird's nests, and eggs. She found the nests and eggs in pretty good shape, but, she told me, the insects were disintegrating and disappearing. Fortunately Alida covets nothing more than decay...ashes to ashes, dust to dust...it's the way of the world. 

Kneeling , 2015, 10 x 8 inches

Alida is starting to print these images on 20 x 24 aluminum plates, rather than her

usual 8 x 10's. Six of these new sized pictures are in the Florence Griswold Museum show. They are the first 6 images on our website. They are available for sale through 

us, along with the others on our website, but the Griswold pieces won't be available until the show is over on January 29th.

Standing Legs, 2015, 10 x 8 inches

Penland Book: Inspired

Just released " Inspired, - Life in Penland's Resident Artist and Core Fellowship Programs". I am happy to be included in this book just released by Penland School of Crafts. It showcases the forty plus years of the Core Fellowship and Resident Artist programs. I am always amazed by the passion so many people express for the ways Penland has changed their lives. The book does a great job of capturing what is so special about Penland.

"In Place" at the Florence Griswold Museum

From October 1, 2016, through January 29, 2017, my work will be part of an exhibition at the Florence Griswold Museum entitled "In Place: Contemporary Photographers Envision a Museum". Ten photographers have been commissioned to focus on various aspects of the museum's collections, spaces, and landscape. The show features some of the images I photographed of their William Metcalf naturalist collection which was assembled in the early 1900's. Metcalf was one of the original Lyme Art Colony painters. He collected moths, butterflies, bird's eggs, and bird nests.  Thanks to curator, Amy Kurtz Lansing, and museum Director, Jeffrey Anderson, for including my work in this exhibition.