Richard Allen Ashmore Fine Prints: August 2011

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Repeat Photograph Selected for num6ers Exhibition

This Fall, A Smith Gallery, in Johnson City, Texas, will exhibit my repeat photograph Windmill Triptych, 2008, from my series Revealing Time, in their juried show num6ers. The exhibition was juried by Amanda Smith, owner/director of A Smith Gallery, and Carol Watson.

An online gallery of the exhibit has been posted.

num6ers can be viewed from September 30 – November 6 at A Smith Gallery, located at 105 N Nugent Avenue, in Johnson City, Texas. The gallery is open Fridays and Saturdays from 11am – 6pm and Sundays from 11am – 3pm. Artists’ reception will be held on Saturday, October 22, from 4 – 7pm.

Windmill Triptych, 2008

18.9 X 7 inches (47.9 X 17.7 cm)

Hurricane Ike Photo Selected for Showcase Exhibition in Oregon

In early October, the Newspace Center for Photography, in Portland, Oregon, will open their 3rd Annual Members’ Showcase Exhibition. This juried exhibit will include my photograph Port Bolivar Community Cemetery, 2008, from my series Hurricane Ike: Images from the Debris Field. The exhibition was juried by Newspace Executive Director Chris Bennett and Staff.

The 3rd Annual Members’ Showcase Exhibition can be viewed from October 7 – 30 at the Newspace Center for Photography, located at 1632 SE 10th Avenue, in Portland, Oregon. The gallery is open Monday – Thursday from 10am – 10:30pm and Friday – Sunday from 10am – 6pm. Artists’ reception will be held on Friday, October 7, from 6 – 9pm.

Port Bolivar Community Cemetery, 2008

19.3 X 22 inches (49 X 54.6 cm)

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Hurricane Ike Photo Honored with International Award

I recently learned that my photograph, Nail, Screws, and Nuts, 2008, was awarded Third Place in the Open Category of the PHOTOcentric 2011 exhibit. The photo is from my series: Hurricane Ike: Images from the Debris Field.

PHOTOcentric 2011 was juried by Larry Fink and Stephan Perloff and will be on display at the Garrison Art Center in Garrison, New York from September 10 through October 2.

PHOTOcentric 2011 Announcement Poster

Nails, Screws, and Nuts, 2008

27.9 X 22 inches (70.9 X 55.8 cm)

TPS 20th International Competition Exhibition Artists’ and Public Reception

This past Saturday, August 27, saw the exhibit opening of the TexasPhotographic Society’s 20th International Competition. The exhibit, which will tour galleries throughout Texas for one year, premiered at A Smith Gallery in Johnson City, Texas.

Included in this show is my work Storm, Sandoval County, New Mexico, 2009. It was one of 60 photographs chosen for the exhibit out of 939 photos submitted in the competition from around the world. Juror for the exhibit was Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Professor of Art at the University of Massachusetts – Lowell.

In addition to my print being selected for the show, it was also selected for use on the poster announcing the exhibit!

A Smith Gallery (512-422-4080) is located at 105 N. Nugent Avenue in Johnson City, Texas. The gallery is open Friday – Saturday, 11am-6pm, and Sunday, 11am-3pm.

TPS 20th International Competition Exhibition Poster

Photo from the TPS 20th International Competition Exhibition Artists’ and Public Reception.

Photo from the TPS 20th International Competition Exhibition Artists’ and Public Reception.

Storm, Sandoval County, New Mexico, 2009

12.9 X 8.5 inches (32.7 X 21.7 cm)

Friday, August 26, 2011

Black and White 2011 Artists’ and Public Reception

On Friday, August 5, The Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, Colorado held it’s Artists’ and Public Reception for their Black and White 2011 exhibit. The exhibit included my work Childhood, 2010, one of 46 photographs chosen for the exhibit out of 3,048 photos submitted in the competition from around the world. Photographs from the reception seen below were provided by the gallery.

Juror for the exhibit was Catherine Edelman, of the Catherine Edelman Gallery in Chicago.

With the opening of Black and White 2011 on June 17, the gallery also uploaded a virtual gallery of the exhibit for those that cannot view the exhibit in-person.

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 Black and White 2011 Artists’ and Public Reception.

Photo from Black and White 2011 Artists’ and Public Reception.

Childhood, 2010

24.3 X 17.3 inches (61.8 X 44 cm)

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Photograph Commemorating Texas Blues Artist Selected for Exhibit in Oregon

Early next month, the newly opened Black Box Gallery in Portland, Oregon will exhibit my photograph ‘Gatemouth’ Brown, 2008 in the exhibit Still Life: Objects, Images and Patterns juried by Lori Nik.

Nik is a New York-based still life photographer, recognized internationally for her meticulously detailed, hand created, models that appear real and documentary. Having won numerous awards for her photography, her work has been exhibited and collected internationally.

The photograph ‘Gatemouth’ Brown, 2008 is of the grave of a Grammy award-winning blues artists from my hometown of Orange, Texas. Gatemouth was in ill health and living in New Orleans in the summer of 2005. While evacuating from Hurricane Katrina, Gatemouth succumbed to his illness. Locals speculate that the three jars of grape jelly on his tomb, left by an admirer, refer to a song about grape jelly that Gatemouth wrote. Coincidentally, the photograph I made of his grave was produced a few weeks before Hurricane Ike struck the area all but destroying the cemetery.

Still Life: Objects, Images and Patterns can be viewed from 1 – 20 September at Black Box Gallery (503-407-5337), located at 811 East Burnside Street, Suite 212, in Portland, Oregon. The gallery is open Thursdays and Fridays from 12pm – 5pm. Artists’ reception will be held on Friday, September 2 from 5pm – 8:30pm.

'Gatemouth' Brown, 2008

17.3 X 25.9 inches (43.9 X 65.8 cm)

Saturday, August 6, 2011

Photograph Selected for International Exhibition

Later this month, A Smith Gallery in Johnson City, Texas will be the first host of the Texas Photographic Society’s 20th International Competition Exhibition. My photograph Storm, Sandoval County, New Mexico, 2009 was selected for this exhibit by the competition’s juror, Arno Rafael Minkkinen, from approximately 1000 photographs submitted by 150 artists.

Minkkinen, Professor of Art at the University of Massachusetts – Lowell, has been published and exhibited internationally. Some of the collections in which his work resides include the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, Massachusettes, the Centre Pompidou and Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris, the Musée de l’Élysée in Lausanne, the Center for Creative Photography in Arizona, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. He has published six monographs: Frostbite (1978), Waterline (1994, winner of the 25th Rencontres d’Arles Book Prize), Body Land (1999), SAGA: The Journey of Arno Rafael Minkkinen, 35 Years of Photographs (2005), Homework: The Finnish Photographs (2008), and Balanced Equation (2010).

The Texas Photographic Society’s 20th International Competition Exhibition can be viewed from August 26 through September 25 at A Smith Gallery (e-mail), located at 105 N Nugent Avenue, in Johnson City, Texas. The gallery is open Fridays and Saturdays from 11am – 6pm and Sundays from 11am – 3pm. Artists’ reception will be held on Saturday, August 27 from 4pm-7pm.

After the exhibit closes at A Smith Gallery, it will tour Texas at various other galleries and museums for one year.

Storm, Sandoval County, New Mexico, 2009

12.9 X 8.5 inches (32.7 X 21.7 cm)

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Photographs Selected for Where in the World Exhibition

Opening in October, Mpls Photo Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota will exhibit my work Triptych: Crystal Beach, Texas after Hurricane Ike, 2008 and Windsor Ruins, 2002 in their exhibit entitled Where in the World. Juror Toby Kamps, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas selected the photos.

A graduate of the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art and the Getty Museum Leadership Institute, Kamps has written on contemporary art and artists for numerous exhibition catalogues and magazines. He has been Senior Curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Maine College of Art, Portland; and Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.

Where in the World can be viewed from October 7 through November 27 at the Mpls Photo Center (612-643-3511), located at 2400 North Second Street, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The gallery is open daily from 12pm – 6pm. Artists’ reception will be held on Friday, October 14 from 7pm-10pm.

Triptych: Crystal Beach, Texas after Hurricane Ike, 2008

32.0 X 32.0 inches (81.3 X 81.3 cm)

Windsor Ruins, 2002

46.4 X 15.1 inches (188.0 X 38.3 cm)