Thursday, September 29, 2011

Photograph of Shangri La Selected for International Exhibit

Opening in November, Photoplace Gallery in Middlebury, Vermont will exhibit my work Adrift, 2011 in their international exhibit Again: Reflections and Photography. 
   
Adrift, 2011, was recently photographed at Shangri La Botanical Gardens and Nature Center in Orange, Texas.  Reminiscent of an impressionist painting and invoking a romantic mood, the surrealist and dream-like color photograph captures the reflection of cypress trees in a pond containing floating leaves.
  
Juror Sylvia de Swaan selected the photo from approximately 950 photographs submitted internationally to be included in the exhibit.  Born in Romania, de Swaan is a New York-based fine art photographer whose photographic work focuses on “themes that include personal history, individual and collective memory and identity, the state of the world and the neighborhood where I live. I’m interested in the construction of narrative and how meaning is created through juxtaposition and editing.”
  
Photoplace Gallery has posted an online gallery of Again: Reflections and Photography.
  
Presently, a limited edition print of Adrift, 2011, framed by international award-winning fine art framers John and Phyliss Nazworth, can be viewed and is available for purchase at Pinehurst Gallery in Orange, Texas. 
  
Pinehurst Gallery and Custom Picture Framing (409-882-9008) is located at 2498 Martin Luther King, Suite C, in Orange, Texas.  The gallery is open Tuesday-Friday, 10am-5pm, and Saturday, 10 am-2pm. 
   
Again: Reflections and Photography can be viewed from November 8 through December 3 at Photoplace Gallery (802-989-2359), located at 3 Park Street, in Middlebury, Vermont.  The gallery is open Tuesday-Friday 11am – 4pm and Saturday 10am – 2pm or by appointment.  During Thanksgiving (November 23-25), the gallery will be closed. Artists’ reception will be held on Friday, November 11 from 5pm – 6:30 pm. Website: www.vtphotoworkplace.com. 
  
Other websites showcasing de Swaan’s work:
  
   
Adrift, 2011
16.4 in X 16.4 inches (41.6 X 41.6 cm)
Copyright 2011 Richard Allen Ashmore - All Rights Reserved.
  
   
Adrift, 2011 framed and exhibited at Pinehurst Gallery in Orange, Texas

Friday, September 23, 2011

New Photographs to be Exhibited at Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) Exhibits

Beginning September 30 and running through mid-November two new photographs from my series Embracing the Light:Perspectives on Mortality will be on exhibit at galleries in Lubbock, Texas for the annual Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) Celebration.

The Buddy Holly Center’s Fine Art Gallery will open their exhibit, Celebración, Friday, September 30.  The exhibit will run through Sunday, November 6 and will be exhibiting my photograph The Eldest Child, 2011. The photograph was made at a cemetery on the Brandon Hall Plantation north of Natchez, Mississippi. The small cemetery is the resting place of eight of the Brandon’s twelve children. Seven of these children died in their youth before the death of their parents, with six of them dying before becoming teenagers. A few years ago, someone that visited the cemetery took enough of an interest so as to develop a website detailing a history of the family, including the stories of how each of the children died.  It’s a very interesting!
  
The International Cultural Center at Texas Tech University will open their Día de los Muertos exhibit, Friday, October 21.  The exhibit will run through Thursday, November 17 and will be exhibiting my photograph San Juan Mission Cemetery #1, 2009.  It was made near Farmington, New Mexico and exhibits hundreds of white crosses marking the nameless graves of Navaho Indians.  The cemetery dates to the early twentieth-century.
  
Both exhibits will be part of the annual Día de los Muertos Procesión, to be held in Lubbock on Friday, October 28 from 5pm – 10pm. 
  
The Buddy Holly Center’s Fine Art Gallery (806-775-3560) is located at 1801 Crickets Avenue in Lubbock, Texas.  The gallery is open Tuesday – Saturday 10am – 5pm and Sunday 1pm – 5pm.
  
The International Cultural Center at Texas TechUniversity (806-742-3667) is located at 601 N. Indiana Avenue in Lubbock, Texas.  The gallery is open Monday – Friday 8am – 5pm. 
   
The Eldest Child, 2011
25.6 in X 17.1 inches (65.1 X 43.6 cm)
Copyright 2011 Richard Allen Ashmore - All Rights Reserved.
   

San Juan Mission Cemetery #1, 2009
25.9 X 17.3 inches (65.8 X 43.9 cm)
Copyright 2009 Richard Allen Ashmore - All Rights Reserved.

Photograph Selected for Spooky Show

Next month, Lightbox Photographic Gallery in Astoria, Oregon will exhibit my work Terlingua, 2008 in their exhibit Spooky Show III.  Jurors for the exhibit were Chelsea and Michael Granger, Directors of Lightbox Photographic Gallery.  The exhibit will showcase photographs that are “haunting, mysterious, spooky or creepy in mood or subject, images that create a sense of unease, while maintaining an element of beauty.”
 
Spooky Show III can be viewed from October 8 through November 5 at Lightbox Photographic Gallery (503-468-0238), located at 1045 Marine Drive, in Astoria, Oregon.  The gallery is open Tuesday-Friday 10am – 6pm and Saturday 10am – 5pm.  Artists’ reception will be held on Friday, October 8 from 5pm – 9 pm.
  
 
Terlingua, 2008
6.6 X 6.6 inches (16.7 X 16.7 cm)
Copyright 2008 Richard Allen Ashmore - All Rights Reserved.

Monday, September 12, 2011

Two Photographs Win International Awards from the Geological Society of America

I am honored to have had two photographs win awards in the 3rd Annual Geological Society of America Photo Exhibit.  An exhibit of winning photographs will be on display from October 9 – 12 at the Minneapolis Convention Center, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during the 2011 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting. 

Jurors for the exhibit were: Dr.Ellen Bishop, Dr. Marli Miller, and Dr. Steve Weaver.

The winning photographs include: The Twelve Apostles #1, 2011 (Second Place – Geological Processes Past and Present Category) and The Goosenecks of the San Juan River, 2007 (Honorable Mention – Iconic Landscapes Category).

An online gallery of all entries is planned to be posted soon.
 
   
 
The Twelve Apostles #1, 2011 
25.8 X 17.2 inches (65.6 X 43.8 cm)
Copyright 2011 Richard Allen Ashmore - All Rights Reserved.
    
 
 
The Goosenecks of the San Juan River, 2007 
52.0 X 9.9 inches (132.1 X 25.0 cm)
Copyright 2007 Richard Allen Ashmore - All Rights Reserved.

Photograph Selected for The Nature of Trees International Exhibit

Next month, Photoplace Gallery in Middlebury, Vermont will exhibit my work Windsor Ruins, 2002 in their exhibit The Nature of Trees.  Juror Sean Kernan selected the photo from approximately 1600 photographs submitted internationally to be included in the forty-piece exhibit.  Photoplace Gallery has posted an online gallery of the exhibit. 

The Nature of Trees can be viewed from October 11 through November 5 at Photoplace Gallery (802-989-2359), located at 3 Park Street, in Middlebury, Vermont.  The gallery is open Tuesday-Friday 11am – 4pm and Saturday 10am – 2pm or by appointment.  Artists’ reception will be held in conjunction with the Middlebury Arts Walk on Friday, October 14 from 5pm – 7 pm.

Windsor Ruins, 2002 
46.4 X 15.1 inches (188.0 X 38.3 cm)
Copyright 2002 Richard Allen Ashmore - All Rights Reserved.