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BAPC celebrates its 20th Anniversary!
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BAPC celebrates its 20th Anniversary!
/in Bay Area Photography Exhibitions, Blog, Events, Exhibitions, Public Events /by Steve GoldbandBAPC celebrates its 20th Anniversary with an exhibit at Harvey Milk Photo Center.
September 26-October 26, 2019
Stay posted for more info.
Mitch Nelles @ Coastal Arts League’s ‘California Views’
/in Events, Member News /by Steve GoldbandMitch Nelles’ image, Chinatown #2, has been selected for the Coastal Arts League upcoming juried photo show, “California Views” which runs from September 12 – October 6. Gallery address is 300 Main Street, Half Moon Bay. The gallery is open Thursdays through Mondays, 12-5 PM. Opening reception for California Views is Saturday, September 14, from 2-5 PM
Ari Salomon @ Bokeh Bokeh
/in Blog, Member News /by Ari SalomonHis series of vertical panoramas won a Portfolio Award in the San Francisco Bay International Photo Show. It was published this week on “Bokeh Bokeh” (an online photo Zine).
“Bokeh” is the aesthetic quality of the blur produced in the out-of- focus parts of an image produced by a lens. “Bokeh Bokeh” features works from all photographic genres – fine art, documentary, portraiture, street, … focuses (or blurs?) on work that is original, beautiful, startling.
see more at
https://bokehbokeh.photo/article/ari-salomon-floating-worlds
Welcome Tamara Danoyan
/in Events, Member News, New members /by Steve GoldbandWelcome Tamara Danoyan as BAPC’s newest member! Tamara showed work to the collective last night from her series Watermarks.
Philip Krayna showing Spray @Era Art Bar
/in Member News /by Steve GoldbandEra Art Bar, Oakland, California
Opening Reception June 6, 2019, 7:30pm
June 6-31, 2019
As Oakland and the Bay Area gentrifies and artists and galleries are displaced, graffiti may be one of the most visible and accessible showcases for creativity. This collection of oversize, enlarged images show discarded spray paint cans—the tools of the graffiti artist—collected from abandoned buildings, train tunnels, and back alleys throughout the East Bay.
www.boxxcar.com
Dan Fenstermacher: first place @Peninsula Photo Contest
/in Blog, Events, Member News /by Steve GoldbandOne of Dan Fenstermacher’s photos from Morocco has been selected for first place in the Travel category at the Peninsula Photo Contest. The show will be up May 21st June 23rd at the Palo Alto Art Center and the with an opening reception May 23 at 6pm.
Rose Borden @Atlantic Gallery NYC
/in Events, Member News /by Steve GoldbandRose Borden’s image Color Abstract 01 is being shown as part of the Abstracted Reality show of the Professional Women Photographers.
Atlantic Gallery
548 West 28th Street, Suite 540, NYC
June 4-15, 2019
Opening Reception: June 6, 6pm
Ellen Konar/Steve Goldband @ PhotoPlace Gallery
/in Blog, Events, Member News /by Steve GoldbandJuror Laura Moya has selected Ellen and Steve’s image April 7 12:06 from their series Fertile Ground to be included in the upcoming show Intentional Spaces in PhotoPlace Gallery of Middlebury Vermont.
The show runs from June 20-July 13 2019.
Philip Krayna shows at Arbuckle Gallery
/in Events, Member News /by Steve GoldbandBreaking the Mold:
San Jose’s Oldest Foundry
Arbuckle Gallery, History Park, San Jose, CA
Through July 21st, 2019
Featuring portraits of workers at Kearney Metal Works, the oldest metal foundry in San Jose, this solo exhibit of photographs documents the changing face of manufacturing and heavy industry in rapidly-evolving Silicon Valley.
Location: Arbuckle Gallery, 635 Phelan Ave, San José, CA 95112
Hours: Tues–Fri, 12:00pm–5:00pm; Sat–Sun, 9:00am–5:00pm
Rusty Weston at Black Box Gallery
/in Blog, Events, Member News /by Steve GoldbandRusty Weston’s She Heard Footsteps
Rusty Weston’s image She Heard Footsteps from the series Unrealized will be seen in Portraiture: Through the Lens at Black Box Gallery in Portland, Or., curated by Todd Johnson. The exhibition runs from May 1-20, 2019.
Dan Lythcott-Haims shows at Mirada Art in Half Moon Bay
/in Blog, Events, Member News /by Steve GoldbandOn April 12-14 11am-6pm Dan Lythcott-Haims will be showing his work at 337 Mirada Art located at 337 Mirada Rd Half Moon Bay, CA
Dan will also be showing in his own room (separate from BAPC) from
April 26-28 at stARTup Art Fair, Room 205, Hotel del Sol, 3100 Webster St. San Francisco.
Cindy Stokes at Center for Fine Art Photography
/in Blog, Events, Member News /by Steve GoldbandCindy Stokes’ work Rise from the series Form and Formless will be shown in the show Life of Water at The Center for Fine Art Photography, curated by Jennifer Shaw. The exhibition runs from June 5-July 1, 2019