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STATE OF AFFAIRS: American Landscape
The Center for Photography at Woodstock is pleased to announce STATE OF AFFAIRS: American Landscape, a panel discussion centered on artists whose work includes landscape, nature, and the environment, and the question how Covid-19 has affected landscape photography and photo-based environmental advocacy.
This online event was held on Thursday, July 23. The discussion was moderated by Ruben Natal-San Miguel and featured photographers Carolyn Marks Blackwood, Larry Fink, Ellen Jantzen, Pipo Nguyen-duy and Nancy Oliveri.
The panel discussion is available to view for free on The Center for Photography’s Vimeo account.
Photography can serve as a powerful catalyst for change. Activism and consciousness can be developed with the creation and dissemination of photographs. Join us as we discuss how photographs and photographers can and have been active elements of transformative change.
Our sincere thanks for the support of New York State Council on the Arts, the Joy of Giving Something Foundation, and the Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation.
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ARTIST BIOS
RUBEN NATAL-SAN MIGUEL is an architect, fine art photographer, curator, creative director and critic. His stature in the photo world has earned him awards, features in major media, countless exhibitions and collaborations with photo icons such as Magnum Photographer Susan Meiselas. Gallery shows include: Asya Geisberg, SoHo Photo, Rush Arts, Finch & Ada, Kris Graves Projects, Fuchs Projects, WhiteBox Gallery, Station Independent Projects Gallery and others. His photographs were featured in a solo exhibition, titled Making the Invisible Visible at CPW in 2019. Ruben created his newest series, Still Life & Alive, by collecting found personal around his home.
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Situated in Rhinecliff, New York, photographer CAROLYN MARKS BLACKWOOD reframes segments of nature’s various elements, air, ice, and water, from her surroundings along the Hudson River, into perspective bending abstract photographs with painterly expression. Just like her predecessors of The Hudson River School, the romantic landscape of the Hudson offers Blackwood a plethora of color and activity from the splendor of seasonal changes. Blackwood documents such ephemeral moments by creating ambiguous fragments of vivid color fields, geometric abstractions, and flattened motifs, capturing great detail within the elements that would otherwise remain unnoticed.
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Working as a professional photographer for over sixty years, LARRY FINK has had one-man shows at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of Modern Art amongst others. He has shown work in museums all over the world. Larry recently exhibited a retrospective of his work at Fotografia Europea in Italy, and also had a 2019 solo show at the deCordova Sculpture Park Museum in Massachusetts and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
In 2017, Larry was the recipient of the Lucie Award for Documentary Photography. In 2015, he received the International Center for Photography Infinity Award for Lifetime Fine Art Photography. He has also been awarded two Guggenheim Fellowships and two National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Photography Fellowships. He has been teaching for over fifty- two years, with professorial positions held at Yale University, Cooper Union, and lastly at Bard College, where he is an honored professor emeritus. Since 1984, fifteen monographs have been published on Larry’s work. The most recent books include The Polarities (L’Artiere Editions: 2017) chronicling five years of recent work, and The Outpour (L’Artiere Editions: 2017) containing images taken at and around the Women’s March on Washington, D.C.
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ELLEN JANTZEN was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. Her early college years were spent obtaining a degree in graphic arts; later emphasizing fine art.
Ellen spent two years at FIDM (the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising) in downtown Los Angeles. Here, she obtained her advanced degree in 1992. After a few years working in the industry, including several years at Mattel Toy Company as a senior project designer, she became disillusioned with the corporate world and longed for a more creative outlet. Having been trained in computer design while at Mattel, Ellen continued her training on her own using mostly Photoshop software.
As digital technology advanced and the newer cameras were producing excellent resolution, Ellen found her perfect medium. It was a true confluence of technical advancements and creative desire that culminated in her current explorations in photo inspired art using both a camera to capture staged assemblages and a computer to alter and manipulate the pieces. Ellen has been creating works that bridge the world of prints, photography and collage.
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PIPO NGUYEN-DUY was born in Hue, Vietnam. Growing up within thirty kilometers of the demilitarized zone of the 18th Parallel, he describes hearing gunfire every day of his early life He immigrated to the United States as a political refugee.
Pipo has taken on many things in life in pursuit of his diverse interests. As a teenager in Vietnam, he competed as a national athlete in table tennis. He also spent some time living as a Buddhist monk in Northern India.
As an artist, Pipo has received many awards and grants including a Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography, a National Endowment for the The Arts, an En Foco Grant; a Professional Development Grant from the College Arts Association; an American Photography Institute’s National Graduate Fellowship, NYC. Pipo is a professor teaching photography at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. He is represented by ClampArt, NYC.
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NANCY OLIVERI is a Brooklyn-based artist born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1958. Her photographic vision was shaped by the large screen version of reality presented in the Blob, Goldfinger, and Invasion of the Body Snatchers at the drive-in movie theater where her father worked. She later studied analog photography and filmmaking at Hartford Art School in the early 80s which at the time was focused on Conceptual Art. Her six self -published photo books (olive&root) have been exhibited and honored with awards including the Tokyo International Foto Awards, The Paris Px3 and the Julia Margaret Cameron Awards in Barcelona among others. Her solo exhibitions include American Dreams 2016 at the PH21 Gallery in Budapest and Gowanus, 2017 at the Ripe Art Gallery in Long Island and numerous group exhibitions internationally and in the US. Her work has been featured in White Hot Magazine of Contemporary Art, Musée Magazine, Float Magazine, L’Oeil, Arcade Projects and others. Writer James Prochink noted that Oliveri’s work often crosses categories and genres but that common threads tie the pictures together which are mostly about life itself. “Life caught for a moment like a firefly in a child’s hand. She is also a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with psychoanalytic training and has maintained a private psychotherapy practice in Manhattan for the past 25 years.
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