Richard Allen Ashmore Fine Prints: July 2011

Thursday, July 28, 2011

New Logo Unveiled!

In addition to the recent website revision and launch of the new Blog and Google+ page, I’ve now uploaded a logo for the company, which you can see on all of the sites.

Sunday, July 24, 2011

I had the opportunity today to become one of the first members of Google’s new social network, Google+ by posting a page there for my photography. I invite you all to stop-by the page and take a look at what the new Google+ has to offer!

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Massively Revised Website, Including New Blog, Finally Uploaded!!!

Being long overdue, my website has finally been updated. There have been so many changes and additions, that “updated” is really a poor word choice to describe this launch. It’s been rebuilt from the ground-up!

Although it retains the stylistic feel of the former site, it is much easier to navigate and represents my work much better. Major additions and updates include: updated and new portfolios, containing numerous new images; updated and expanded exhibition history and current exhibits; new publications page, with links to catalogs from juried exhibitions; Facebook link; link to an external blog that is also being introduced with this update; and numerous other enhancements that make the website much more effective and efficient.

Thank you for your continued interest in my work, and I invite you to stop by to visit the new website and blog, as well as the Facebook site.

Sunday, July 17, 2011

Hurricane Ike Photograph Selected for New York Gallery

Opening in September, the juried exhibit PHOTOcentric 2011 will include Nails, Screws, and Nuts, 2008, a photograph from my series Hurricane Ike: Images from the Debris Field.

PHOTOcentric will be exhibited at the Garrison Art Center in Garrison, New York. Located an hour north of New York City, the gallery is situated on the banks of the Hudson River directly across from West Point Military Academy.

Jurors for PHOTOcentric were photographer Larry Fink and Stephan Perloff.

Larry Fink is a professional photographer who has won National Endowment of the Arts and Guggenheim Fellowships. He has had solo exhibits at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the San Francisco Museum of Art, in addition to several exhibits in Europe.

Stephan Perloff is the founder and editor of The Photo Review as well as the editor of The Photograph Collector.

PHOTOcentric 2011 can be viewed from September 10 through October 2 at the Garrison Art Center (845-424-3960), located at 23 Garrison’s Landing, in Garrison, New York. The gallery is open Tuesday-Sunday 10am – 5pm. Artists’ reception will be held on Saturday, September 17 from 6-8pm.

Nails, Screws, and Nuts, 2008

27.9 X 22 inches (70.9 X 55.8 cm)

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Photograph Selected for The Poetry of Shadows International Exhibit

Next month, Photoplace Gallery in Middlebury, Vermont will exhibit my work Grand Gulf, 2008 in their exhibit The Poetry of Shadows. Juror Catherine Z. Anderson, Associate Professor of Art at the University of Montana (academic website), selected the photo from approximately 1000 photographs submitted internationally. Photoplace Gallery has posted an online gallery of the exhibit.

This exhibit complements a previous exhibit at the gallery from this past spring entitled The Language of Light. Light was juried by Paul Paletti, owner of the Paul Paletti Gallery in Louisville, Kentucky, who chose my photo Storm over Point Lookout, 2010 from over 1300 images submitted internationally for that exhibit. Photoplace Gallery also has posted an online gallery of the exhibit as well.

The Poetry of Shadows can be viewed from August 16 through September 10 at Photoplace Gallery (802-989-2359), located at 3 Park Street, in Middlebury, Vermont. The gallery is 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, September 9.

Grand Gulf, 2008

17.3 X 17.3 inches (43.9 X 43.9 cm)

Selected for The Poetry of Shadows

Storm over Point Lookout, 2010

13 X 8.6 inches (32.9 X 22 cm)

Selected for The Language of Light

Monday, July 11, 2011

Photographs Chosen for International Exhibit Celebrating Farmers and Agriculture

Later this month, Darkroom Gallery in Essex Junction, Vermont, will display two of my photographs in their exhibit Down on the Farm. The show was juried by renowned portrait and documentary photographer Paul Mobley (blog) who recently authored a book the book American Farmer: Portraits from the Heartland (Amazon).

My photos that were selected include, Barbed Wire, 2006 and Farm, Montrose, Colorado, 2011. A virtual gallery of the exhibit has been posted.

Down on the Farm can be viewed from July 19 through August 12 at the Darkroom Gallery (802-777-3686), located at 12 Main Street, in Essex Junction, Vermont. The gallery is open 11am-4pm daily or by appointment. Artists’ reception will be Friday, August 5.

Barbed Wire, 2006

17.1 X 12.8 inches (43.4 X 32.5 cm)

Farm, Montrose, Colorado, 2011

52 X 23.7 inches (132.1 X 60.3 cm)

Sunday, July 10, 2011

Lenscratch Photo Blog Features Childhood in Summer Exhibition

Originally published on Facebook, Monday, July 4, 2011 at 10:45am.

To celebrate the Fourth of July, Aline Smithson’s blog, Lenscratch, has opened an online gallery exhibition entitled Summer, which features my photograph Childhood, 2010.

Lenscratch is a very highly acclaimed photography blog and is considered one of the top ten photography-related blogs on the Internet by Source Review, Wired.com, and InStyle Magazine.

Aline Smithson is a photographer, editor, writer and educator. Having been featured in numerous publications and gallery exhibitions, she has curated and juried numerous gallery exhibitions and online magazines, in addition to developing and editing Lenscratch.

Childhood, 2010

24.3 X 17.3 inches (61.8 X 44 cm)

12 12 Gallery Opens International Juried Works on Paper 2011, Including an Online Gallery for the Exhibit

Originally published on Facebook, Monday, June 27, 2011 at 1:49am.

The 12 12 Gallery in Richmond, Virginia has opened their exhibit the International Juried Works on Paper 2011. The gallery has also uploaded a virtual gallery of the exhibit for those that cannot view the exhibit in-person.

Juror for the exhibit was Dan Welden, a master printmaker, painter, teacher and author. My work Who'll put flowers on a flower's grave?, 2010 is one of 45 art works chosen for the exhibit.

The exhibit is on display now through August 19.

The 12 12 Gallery (970-224-1010) is located at Zero E. 4th Street, #39 in Richmond, Virginia.

Who'll put flowers on a flower's grave?, 2010

16.9 X 15.8 inches (43 X 40.1 cm)

The Center for Fine Art Photography Opens Black and White 2011, Including an Online Gallery for the Exhibit

Originally published on Facebook, Saturday, June 18, 2011 at 8:43am.

The Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, Colorado has opened their exhibit Black and White 2011. The gallery has also uploaded a virtual gallery of the exhibit for those that cannot view the exhibit in-person.

Juror for the exhibit was Catherine Edelman, of the Catherine Edelman Gallery in Chicago. My work Childhood, 2010 is one of 46 photographs chosen for the exhibit out of 3,048 photos submitted in the competition from around the world.

The exhibit is on display now through August 6, with public and artists’ reception on Friday, August 5, from 6-9pm.

The Center for Fine Art Photography (970-224-1010) is located in the Poudre River Arts Center at 400 North College Avenue in Fort Collins, Colorado. The gallery is open Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm, and Saturday, 10am-3pm.

Childhood, 2010

24.3 X 17.3 inches (61.8 X 44 cm)

Photographs Receive International Award, B&W Special Issue #84 Available for Purchase Worldwide

Originally published on Facebook, Sunday, June 5, 2011 at 9:01pm.

This week, the Special Issue #84 of B&W + Color featuring the 2011 Black and White Portfolio Competition Awards arrived on newsstands in the US and Europe.

Of the 498 international artists that submitted over 8,000 photographs for the competition, work from my project Hurricane Ike: Images from the Debris Field was selected for a Merit Award. From that series of photos, three images from the project were published in this issue on pages 90-91: Beatles Record, 2008; Electric Stove Coil, 2008; and Playboy, Vol. 33, No. 12 – December, 1986, 2008.

Published in over 50 countries, B&W + Color is a prestigious photographic journal featuring black and white and, beginning recently, color fine art photography from international artists. Issue #84 can be purchased in the US at major booksellers (Barnes & Nobel, Books-a-Million, Borders Books, Book People, etc.) and newsstands, as well as online via B&W + Color’s website.

As I’m currently in Melbourne, Australia, the magazine will not be available here for several more weeks. Thankfully, Marie-Louise Cadosch (blog), a photographer from Switzerland also featured in the issue with a Merit Award, was kind enough to provide a scan of the magazine cover and pages featuring my work.

Beatles Record, 2008

18.2 X 20.9 inches (46.2 X 53 cm)

Electric Stove Coil, 2008

19.3 X 21.9 inches (49 X 55.6 cm)

Playboy, Vol 33, No 12 - December 1986, 2008

19.3 X 24.6 inches (49 X 62.4 cm)

Center Forward 2011 Artists’ and Public Reception

Originally published on Facebook, Sunday, June 5, 2011 at 12:39pm.

This past Friday, June 3, The Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, Colorado held it’s Artists’ and Public Reception for their Center Forward 2011 exhibit. The exhibit included my work Grave Exhibited by Hurricane Rita, 2008, which was one of 57 photographs chosen for the exhibit out of 2,675 photos submitted in the competition from around the world. The photograph from the reception seen below was provided by the gallery.

Juror for the exhibit was Hamidah Glasgow. She is Executive Director of The Center for Fine Art Photography and has been a reviewer at several major international photographic festivals including PhotoLA, FotoFest, Critical Mass, and Photolucida 2011.

With the opening of Center Forward 2011 on May 6, the gallery has also uploaded a virtual gallery of the exhibit for those that cannot view the exhibit in-person.

The exhibit is still on display through June 11.

The Center for Fine Art Photography (970-224-1010) is located in the Poudre River Arts Center at 400 North College Avenue in Fort Collins, Colorado. The gallery is open Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm, and Saturday, 10am-3pm.

Photo from Center Forward 2011 Artists’ and Public Reception.

Grave Exhumed by Hurricane Rita, 2008
16.7 X 25.9 inches (42.5 X 65.8 cm)
Copyright 2008 Richard Allen Ashmore - All Rights Reserved.

Illuminance Opens in Lubbock, Photograph Awarded First Place!

Originally published on Facebook, Friday, May 6, 2011 at 10:26am.

Last night, the juried photographic exhibit Illuminance opened at the Buddy Holly Center Fine Arts Gallery, in Lubbock, Texas.

Of the six photographs of mine chosen for the exhibit, Who'll put flowers on a flower's grave?, 2010 was awarded First Place. Made at a catholic cemetery in New Iberia, Louisiana, it depicts an empty vault containing discarded flowers. The photograph’s title was inspired from the lyrics of a Tom Waits song entitled: Flower’s Grave.

Illuminance was juried by Jill Enfield, a professional photographer who specializes in fine art, editorial and commercial photography and currently a professor at the Parsons The New School for Design in New York City.

This is the second consecutive time my work has been honored at Illuminance. Javelina Draw - Black and White, 2005 was awarded the Juror Award at the last installment of Illuminance in 2007 by juror Cliff Deal, photographer, photo historian, and Director of Museums for the Louisiana Department of State Museums.

My other work on display in Illuminance include: Childhood, 2010; Grand Gulf, 2008; Santa Elena Canyon, 2009; Secluded Relic, 2002; and Storm over Point Lookout, 2010.

Illuminance, a biennial juried photographic exhibition, will be on display at the Buddy Holly Center Fine Art Gallery (806-775-3560) from now until June 12. The gallery is located at 1801 Crickets Avenue in Lubbock, Texas. Illuminance will be featured on Lubbock's First Friday Art Trail on May 6 and June 3.

After Illuminance closes on June 12, Flowers will be part of the International Juried Works on Paper exhibit at the 12 12 Gallery in Richmond, Virginia from June 24 through August 19.

First Place: Who'll put flowers on a flower's grave?, 2010

Who'll put flowers on a flower's grave?, 2010

16.9 X 15.8 inches (43 X 40.1 cm)

Saturday, July 9, 2011

Photographs Chosen for International Exposure in Photographic Journal

Originally published on Facebook, Thursday, May 5, 2011 at 1:29am.

I learned today that one of my photographic portfolios has won an Award of Merit in the 2011 B&W + Color Portfolio Competition. Several of the photographs from the winning portfolio will be printed in the June 2011 special issue of B&W + Color (Issue #84), a professional photographic journal available in over 50 countries.

I entered more than one portfolio at the time of submission and do not yet know which portfolio was selected for this award. As soon as I know which portfolio was awarded and which images were chosen for printing, I will post an update.

Again, the 2011 B&W + Color Portfolio Competition special issue (Issue #84) will be available in early June in over 50 counties (in about three weeks!). Locally, you should be able to find a copy of the journal at major booksellers, such as Barnes & Nobel, Books-a-Million, Borders Books, Book People, etc.

B&W + Color Website

Photograph Chosen for International Exhibit

Originally published on Facebook, Tuesday, May 3, 2011 at 12:12pm.

This summer, the 12 12 Gallery in Richmond, Virginia will display a recent work of mine in their exhibit, the International Juried Works on Paper. The photograph, Who’ll put flowers on a flower’s grave?, 2010, was made at a catholic cemetery in New Iberia, Louisiana and depicts an empty vault containing discarded flowers. The photograph’s title was inspired from the lyrics of a Tom Waits song entitled: Flower’s Grave.

Currently, the photograph is on exhibit at the Buddy Holly Center Fine Arts Gallery in Lubbock, Texas in the juried exhibit Illuminance, on display now through June 12.

Works on Paper was juried by Dan Welden, a master printmaker, painter, teacher, and author. He is the inventor of the Solarplate method of printmaking and co-author, with Pauline Muir, of Printmaking in the Sun.

The International Juried Works on Paper can be viewed from June 24 through August 19 at the 12 12 Gallery (804-233-9957), located at Zero E. 4th Street #39, in Richmond, Virginia. The gallery is open Thursday-Friday, 12:pm-4pm, Saturday, 11am-6pm, Sunday, 12 pm-5pm, and by appointment. Opening, artists’ reception, and juror gallery talk will be Friday, June 24.

Who'll put flowers on a flower's grave?, 2010

16.9 X 15.8 inches (43 X 40.1 cm)

The Center for Fine Art Photography Opens Online Gallery for Center Forward 2011

Originally published on Facebook, Saturday, April 30, 2011 at 7:17pm.

With the opening of Center Forward 2011 at The Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, Colorado, the gallery has also uploaded a virtual gallery of the exhibit for those that cannot view the exhibit in-person.

Juror for the exhibit was Hamidah Glasgow. She is Executive Director of The Center for Fine Art Photography and has been a reviewer at several major international photographic festivals including PhotoLA, FotoFest, Critical Mass, and Photolucida 2011.

My work, Grave Exhibited by Hurricane Rita, 2008, was one of 57 photographs chosen for the exhibit out of 2,675 photos submitted in the competition from around the world.

The exhibit is on display now through June 11, with public and artists’ reception on Saturday, June 3, from 6-9pm.

The Center for Fine Art Photography (970-224-1010) is located in the Poudre River Arts Center at 400 North College Avenue in Fort Collins, Colorado. The gallery is open Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm, and Saturday, 10am-3pm.

Grave Exhumed by Hurricane Rita, 2008

16.7 X 25.9 inches (42.5 X 65.8 cm)

New Print on Display at Pinehurst Gallery!

Originally published on Facebook, Wednesday, Friday, April 29, 2011 at 7:04pm.

This week saw the unveiling of a new print of mine! 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.

A limited edition of the print was framed by international award-winning fine art framers John and Phyliss Nazworth of Pinehurst Gallery in Orange, Texas. The print is now on display at their gallery and is available for view and purchase.

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.

Adrift, 2011 framed and exhibited at Pinehurst Gallery.

Adrift, 2011

16.4 X 16.4 inches (41.6 X 41.6 cm)

Photo Accepted for Exhibit at The Center for Fine Art Photography

Originally published on Facebook, Wednesday, April 13, 2011 at 8:31am.

This summer, Childhood, 2010 will be on display in Fort Collins, Colorado at The Center for Fine Art Photography in an exhibit entitled: Black and White 2011. Catherine Edelman, of the Catherine Edelman Gallery in Chicago, was juror for this exhibit. If you are in the area this summer, please stop and view this exciting exhibit!

Childhood, 2010

24.3 X 17.3 inches (61.8 X 44 cm)

Texas National 2011 Opens in Nacogdoches

Originally published on Facebook, Sunday, April 10, 2011 at 9:47pm.

Great opening last night for Texas National 2011! The exhibit is on display through May 21, at The Cole Art Center in Nacogdoches, Texas.

Día de los Muertos Exhibit Openings, Friday, October 29

Originally published on Facebook, Wednesday, October 27, 2010 at 1:50pm.

Everyone,

I would like to invite you all to the openings of two Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) exhibits in Lubbock this Friday, October 29, where will I have photographic work exhibited. The exhibits showing my work will be at the International Cultural Center (ICC) on the Texas Tech campus and at the Buddy Holly Center (BHC). The ICC opening will be from 5:00 pm-6:30 pm, and the BHC opening will being at 6pm.

The work I have on exhibit this year include, a photograph of the Port Bolivar Community Cemetery, after being ravaged by Hurricane Ike. This image, on display at the ICC through mid-November, is a part of my Hurricane Ike Debris Fields series and was jury-selected for this year's Texas Photographic Society's 24th Members' Only Show, displayed at Baylor University's Martin Museum of Art.

In honor of the grand reopening of the BHC Fine Art Gallery, I made a special panoramic photograph for their Celebración exhibit. On display at the BHC through early December, the nearly five-foot long photograph depicts the desecrated Orviss Vault, located in Calvert, Texas. Built in the 1870's, the mausoleum began as the final resting place of D.A. Orviss and his wife until the vault was looted for possible valuables. The bodies have since been removed by human intruders and/or animals, and only smashed, empty coffins remain inside the vault. Left neglected and abandoned in the woods of East Texas for nearly a century, the cemetery has become the subject of many ghost stories and paranormal investigations.

I hope you all can attend the exhibits at sometime during their run. And for those attending the openings this Friday, I hope to see you there!

Richard

Port Bolivar Community Cemetery, 2008

19.3 X 22 inches (49 X 55.8 cm)

Orviss Vault, 2010

52 X 22.2 inches (132.1 X 56.3 cm)

Ashmore Shows Photographic Work in National Juried Exhibit at Austin Gallery

Originally published on Facebook, Wednesday, October 13, 2010 at 10:29am.

11 October 2010 – Richard Allen Ashmore, a national award-winning photographer, has been selected to show his photograph The Poet, 2006 in the juried exhibit 'Essence: The Truth in the Portrait' in Austin at Austin Details Art + Photo Gallery from 14 – 30 October 2010. The exhibit's opening reception will take place at the gallery on Friday, October 15, from 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm. The public is invited to attend the opening reception and admission is free.

Ashmore’s photograph was selected for exhibit along with work from nine other artists from throughout the United States. 'Essence: Portrait' is a nationally competitive photography exhibit, produced and juried by Jann Alexander founder/director of Austin Details Art + Photo Gallery.

In addition to the jury-selected work, the exhibit also will highlight art by internationally acclaimed portrait photographer William Coupon. Coupon, an artist from New York City, has photographed numerous United States presidents, world leaders, and entertainment and sports celebrities, among other iconic figures.

Like Coupon, all jury-selected artists in this exhibit have taken a non-traditional approach to portraiture. "We’re presenting ten artists who portray their subjects’ hidden qualities--the essence--in their portraits", said Alexander.

Ashmore's work, The Poet, 2006, is a portrait of Michael Frels, an artist Ashmore knew when he lived in Lubbock, Texas. The image, taken at a quaint coffee shop, is a composite digital photograph. "It was Michael's idea to shoot a panoramic portrait", said Ashmore. "Shooting a near life-sized composite portrait can be very tedious and time-consuming, and Michael's expression gives this photograph an intimacy and a timelessness all its own . . . he was as much an artist in front of my camera that night as he is with his own creative endeavors."

This is the third time The Poet, 2006 has been selected for juried exhibitions in Texas, being selected for display at 'Illuminance 2007', at the Buddy Holly Center in Lubbock, and for 'The Texas Photographic Society's 23rd Annual Members' Only Show', at the Dishman Art Museum at Lamar University in Beaumont.

A geologist, biologist and artist, Ashmore’s documentary work reveals his interests and professional training in the sciences, art, human nature, history, and architecture. Many of his photographs are high-resolution composite panoramic images. Over the past several years, he has experimented with and employed low and wide-angle techniques to give his photographs a sense of intimacy, producing for the viewer an illusion of being with the photographer at the time the photographs were taken. Many of his photographic subjects have been affected by human interaction and, thus, reflect part of the human condition and society's impact on the environment and each other.

Ashmore is represented in Texas by Pinehurst Gallery in Orange and The Spirit of the West Gallery in Alpine. Since 2006, he has presented work in 33 exhibits, including 11 national juried exhibitions, four solo exhibitions, and seven invitation-only exhibitions. He has been awarded two national first place awards at juried exhibitions and has work permanently archived and on display at Texas Tech University’s Southwest Collection and Lamar University’s Department of Earth and Space Sciences in addition to numerous private collections. The Poet, 2006, as well as other of his work, can be viewed at Ashmore’s website.

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The Poet, 2006

16.3 X 37.6 inches (41.5 X 95.5 cm)