Richard Allen Ashmore Fine Prints

Monday, September 24, 2012

"Childhood, 2010" Wins Award from "South by Southeast Photomagazine"

South by Southeast Photomagazine awarded Childhood, 2010 third place in their November 2011 photography competition, entitled Family.

South by Southeast, a monthly online and quarterly printed magazine showcasing established and emerging photographers of the American Southeast, is published and edited by Nancy McCrary.

Childhood, 2010

24.3 X 17.3 inches (61.8 X 44 cm)

"Adrift, 2011" Wins Viewers' Choice Award at Juried Exhibit

Last winter, Darkroom Gallery in Essex Junction, Vermont, displayed two of my photographs, Adrift, 2011 and Storm, Sandoval County, New Mexico, 2009, in their exhibit Four Corners of the Earth, juried by George DeWolfe.

Adrift, 2011, photographed at Shangri La Botanical Gardens and Nature Center in Orange, Texas, was selected by the gallery's patrons for the exhibit's Viewers' Choice Award.

Reminiscent of an impressionist painting and invoking a romantic mood, Adrift, 2011 is surrealist and dream-like color photograph that captures the reflection of cypress trees in a pond containing floating leaves.

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.

Four Corners of the Earth was exhibited from 29 November through 23 December 2011 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.

Adrift, 2011

16.4 in X 16.4 inches (41.6 X 41.6 cm)

Adrift, 2011 framed and exhibited at Pinehurst Gallery in Orange, Texas.

Friday, December 9, 2011

Photograph Selected for Exhibit Celebrating Winter

Next month, A Smith Gallery, in Johnson City, Texas, will exhibit my photograph Saudade, 2011, in their juried show Winter, juried by Jean Caslin.

Caslin is a founding partner of Caslin Gregory & Associates: Consultants to Arts & Culture, which provides coaching for visual artists, as well as exhibition, fundraising, editorial, and event planning services for artists and organizations. From 1988 to 2005, she served as executive director and curator of Houston Center for Photography.

An online gallery of the exhibit has been posted.

Winter can be viewed from January 6 – February 12 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, January 28, from 4 – 7pm.

Saudade, 2011

18.2 X 18.2 inches (46.3 X 46.3 cm)

Hurricane Ike Photograph selected for the TPS 25th Members' Only Show

Originally published on Facebook, Friday, November 29, 2011 at 8:20pm.

Opening in January, Options Gallery at Odessa College in Odessa, Texas will host of the Texas Photographic Society’s 25th Members’ Only Show. My photograph Nails, Screws, and Nuts, 2008 from the series Hurricane Ike: Images from the Debris Field was selected for this exhibit by the competition’s juror, Henry Horenstein.

Horenstein is a widely published and exhibited professional photographer and the author of more than two dozen books, including the classic texts Black & White Photography, Beyond Basic Photography, and Color Photography, and monographs such as Creatures, Canine, and Racing Days. His work has appeared in Life, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, and Town & Country. Horenstein is currently a professor at the Rhode Island School of Design, where he has taught photography for more than twenty years.

Friends also having work selected for the exhibit include: Susan Barnett, Marti Belcher, Tami Bone, Polly Chandler, Susan de Witt, Steve Goff, Kirsten Hoving, Ellen Jantzen, Carol Serur, Sharon Shero, Amanda Smith, and Ashton Thornhill. In this exhibit, Polly Chandler was awarded Honorable Mention for her work Along an Icy Pond.

The Texas Photographic Society’s 25th Members’ Only Show can be viewed from January 9 through March 9 at Options Gallery on the Odessa College campus, located at 201 W. University, in Odessa, Texas.

Nails, Screws, and Nuts, 2008

27.9 X 22 inches (70.9 X 55.8 cm)

Silvershotz Folios 2011 Released!

Originally published on Facebook, Friday, November 29, 2011 at 7:44pm.

I am happy to announce this past week the 4th annual Silvershotz Folios 2011 was released, which includes six photographs from my portfolio Hurricane Ike: Images from the Debris Field. This year’s Folios contains the work of 31 artists from 12 countries, including work from my friends Marti Belcher and Ann George.

The Folios journal is a special edition collection of work by contemporary emerging artists who are carefully selected by a jury panel of industry experts. Photographers from around the world submit portfolios that are evaluated on the following criteria: technical skills, a themed and cohesive body of work, consistent excellence in every image in the folio and the intellect behind the folios presented.

By being selected for inclusion in Folios, contemporary artists are assisted by Silvershotz in the worldwide promotion of their work. The Folios acts a formal introduction and recommendation to galleries, collectors, and institutions around the world so as to further participants’ careers. This has resulted in increasing the sales of work by Folios artists, in addition to being offered one person exhibitions and reproduction of their work in other fine art publications.

Folios is distributed worldwide, with 10,000 journals being shipped to 1400 bookstores in 17 countries plus a further 2,000 journals being sent to leading galleries and institutions in 19 countries. Major booksellers sell and can order the journal, and it can also be purchased online.

The 2011 jury panel included:

Clive Waring-Flood, Editor, Silvershotz Magazine, UK & Australia

Mary Meyer, Gallery owner & publisher, Australia

Tim Rudman-FRPS, Fine art photographer, printer, author, educator, UK

Rosemary Wilman - Hon FRPS, President of The Royal Photographic Society to September 2011, UK

Stephen Perloff, editor of The Photo Review & The Photograph Collector, USA

Richard William Gadd, Director- Weston Gallery, USA

Saturday, November 26, 2011

“Childhood, 2010” Selected for International Exhibit of Decisive Moments

Beginning in January, the Mpls Photo Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, will display my photograph Childhood, 2010 in their exhibit Off the Cuff: The Spontaneous and Unrehearsed. This exhibit, juried by Madeline Yale, is the first scheduled exhibit of my work for 2012.

Childhood, 2010 depicts a decisive moment of children at play during the Telluride Bluegrass Festival in Telluride, Colorado.

A listing of work accepted for the exhibit has been posted.

Off the Cuff: The Spontaneous and Unrehearsed can be viewed from January 20 through February 26, in the Second Floor Galleries, at Mpls Photo Center, located at 2400 North Second Street, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The gallery is open from 12noon – 6pm daily. Opening reception will be Friday, January 20 from 7:00 – 10:00pm.

Childhood, 2010

24.3 X 17.3 inches (61.8 X 44 cm)

New Photograph to be Publicly Unveiled at The Kiernan Gallery

Early next month, The Kiernan Gallery in Lexington, Virginia, will display my photograph Triptych: Thermal Soaring, 2010 in their exhibit In Time. This show, juried by Blake Fitch, will be the second exhibit host by this newly opened gallery, owned and operated by Kat Kiernan.

Triptych: Thermal Soaring, 2010 was photographed in front of my home in Ransom Canyon, Texas. Photographed from one vantage point over a series of seconds, the photograph depicts the movement of vultures riding thermal updrafts above the rim of the canyon on a summer afternoon.

This will be the first time this photograph as been publicly displayed.

A virtual gallery of the exhibit has been posted.

In Time can be viewed from December 6 through January 7 at The Kiernan Gallery, located at 23B West Washington Street, in Lexington, Virginia. The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday from 11am-5pm.

Triptych: Thermal Soaring, 2010

52.0 X 15.3 inches (132.1 X 38.9 cm)