Member News

Ari Salomon at Sanchez Art Center

08/21/2023/in Member News /by Ari Salomon

Ari Salomon will participate in the 15th Annual 50|50 Show from Sept 8 – Oct 9. This is an annual fundraiser where the gallery invites 50 artists to each create a grid of 50 artworks. Each artwork is 6″ square. Juror is Marianna Stark. See Ari’s site for the schedule and links to ticketed and free events.

1220-B Linda Mar, Pacifica, CA 94044

His work was also recently featured on Lenscratch as a highlight of the Medium Photo Portfolio Reviews.

Neo Serafimidis in Juried Exhibition at Black Box Gallery

08/11/2023/in Member News /by Neo Serafimidis

Neo Serafimidis’ photograph titled Albany CA was selected by juror Todd Johnson for inclusion in Black Box Gallery’s exhibition, Vision: Black and White.

The show is on display August 1-20, 2023 at Black Box Gallery in Portland, OR and on the gallery website.

Gene Dominique gets honorable mention at PhotoPlace Gallery

07/30/2023/in Member News /by Neo Serafimidis

Gene Dominique’s composite silhouette, called Jeopardy, has been selected for inclusion in the Decisive Moment show coming this fall to PhotoPlace Gallery. Juror Aline Smithson also gave the image an honorable mention. The show is set for exhibition at PhotoPlace Gallery in Middlebury, VT from September 7 – 27.

Neo Serafimidis in Juried Exhibition at PhotoPlace Gallery

07/20/2023/in Member News /by Neo Serafimidis

Neo Serafimidis’ photograph Cornell Ave, 9:57 pm is from his Neighborhood Nights series. It was selected by juror Ann Jastrab for PhotoPlace Gallery’s Capturing the Light exhibition. It will be on display at the PhotoPlace Gallery in Middlebury, VT from July 14 to August 11, 2023, and online at the gallery website.

Cornell Ave, 9:57 pm

Ellen & Steve Konar-Goldband finalists in FRESH competition

07/08/2023/in Blog, Events, Member News, Photography Competitions /by Steve Goldband

Ellen and Steve have been selected by gallerist/jurors Darrin Ching and Debra Klomp Ching as finalists

in the portfolio competition FRESH. Their series Bayscapes, of images from above in the San Francisco Bay salt works,

was honored. Klompching gallery, in Brooklyn, NY specializes in emerging photographers.

The related exhibition runs from September 13-October 21, 2023.

Outgoing from the series Bayscapes by Ellen Konar and Steve Goldband

Rusty Weston places in Photo Review 2023 Competition

07/07/2023/in Member News /by Neo Serafimidis

Blaze, from Weston’s series Re-envisioning, earned a fourth-place prize in The Photo Review’s 2023 International Photography Competition. The winning images will be exhibited at the Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia from Aug. 5 – Oct. 29th. The competition was juried by Deborah Willis, Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellow. The image was shot in SF’s Mission District in March 2022.

Gene Dominique in Atlanta Photography Group Exhibition: Joy and the Everyday

06/28/2023/in Member News /by Neo Serafimidis

Gene Dominique has an image in Atlanta Photography Group’s exhibition, Joy and the Everyday, juried by Jean Dykstra, Editor, Photograph Magazine, and is also an award winner!

Mitch Nelles Receives Excellence Award in Black and White Magazine

06/08/2023/in Member News /by Neo Serafimidis

Images from Mitch Nelles’ “Faces at Flea Markets” and Pillar Point Harbor” series have been selected by Black and White Magazine for their Excellence Award for their 2023 Portfolio Contest. The six images chosen will be published in their Special Edition Issue #161 which should be coming out in June.

Tamara Danoyan at Studio Gallery San Francisco

05/18/2023/in Member News /by Neo Serafimidis

Tamara’s photograph Summer Rain is in Studio Gallery’s show, On the Road, a big new show that explores the lure of travel and the open road. Classic cars meet classic locales, bikes and trains take you past roadside attractions, and even Kerouac makes an appearance. All the while 85 local artists ask the age old question, “Are we there yet?!”

It runs May 4 – 22, 2023

Rusty Weston’s Unnatural World in Three Upcoming Shows

05/14/2023/in Member News /by Neo Serafimidis

Photographs from Rusty Weston’s series Unnatural World will appear in no less than three upcoming shows

In July, the image Valley/Building shot just outside of Death Valley, will appear in a group show called Environment at the Glasgow Gallery of Photography, in Scotland.
In June, Valley/Burn will appear in a show called Landscape Perspectives at Gallery 1137 in Art Works Downtown, in San Rafael, California. The group show was juried by gallerist Kim Eagles-Smith. Please join Rusty at the opening on June 9th, 5-8 p.m.
In May, Valley/Burn was juried into an online group show called In Sight at the O’Hanlon Center for the Arts in Mill Valley, Ca. The exhibition was curated by Shana Lopes, Assistant Curator of Photography at SF MoMA.