Robert Schultz, a retired Roanoke College English professor, has found new success as a visual artist, taking photographs from the Civil War era and reproducing them in leaves.
Twice delayed, ‘Ansel Adams in Our Time’ opens with still urgent themes
Updated May 11, 2021;
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The Portland Art Museum started promoting “Ansel Adams in Our Time” well over a year ago. Organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the exhibition had the makings of being a blockbuster. It would present the work of the most famous American landscape photographer, and the Portland Art Museum was going to be the show’s only West Coast venue. In Boston, more than 200,000 people came to see it during its 10-week run in early 2019. And then COVID-19 hit.
The museum moved the show’s opening date out twice, from fall 2020 to January 2021 and then to May to accommodate state mandated closures. As the museum reopens, this should be an easy win for it, in spite of ongoing restrictions that will limit the number of people allowed in the galleries. But this show was never simply a retrospective of Adams’ work or a greatest hits tour. Instead, it bolsters Adams’
Portland exhibitions reveal complex legacy of landscape photography
Posted May 10, 2021
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Landscape photography has become the most ubiquitous art form of our time, thanks to smartphone technology and social media. Yet lost in the deluge of National Park selfies is an essential dilemma about our love of these natural places, and how we choose to represent them.
That dilemma is brought to light at two photography exhibitions in downtown Portland this spring, both of which challenge the legacy of Ansel Adams, the vanguard of modern landscape photography.
At the Portland Art Museum’s “Ansel Adams in Our Time” (May 5 to Aug.1) the legendary photographer is both celebrated and questioned, while modern photographer Johnnie Chatman makes a more pointed critique in his affecting show “i forgot where we were…” at Blue Sky Gallery (April 1 to May 29).
South Seattle College faculty will host a virtual speaker series titled
Artist as Storyteller: Adaptation, Resiliency, and Environmental Justice, with the first event tomorrow (Tuesday, March 9).
The series, supported by the
Seattle Colleges Performing Arts Fund, will welcome BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) artists, performers and activists to share their work and explore what it means to be an artist in today’s social and cultural climate. All events are free, open to the public and hosted virtually on Zoom.
From beatboxing and butoh to drag, photography, and tattoos, the Artist as Storyteller speaker series will feature six artists. It begins on March 9, 2021 and concludes on June 8, 2021. Links to learn more and join each speaking event are available at
Process and invention: Four West Coast photographers expanding the medium
Meghann Riepenhoff, Ice #78 (29-34℉, Big Creek, WA 03.09.20), 2020. Unique Dynamic Cyanotype, 42 x 88 inches.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
.- From the landscape photography of Ansel Adams and Carleton Watkins to Eadward Muybridges panorama of San Francisco, the West Coast of the United States has long been an epicenter of American photography. Process and Invention, a new viewing room by Haines Gallery, brings together works by four photographers whose analog practices draw from this storied lineage while expanding the possibilities of their chosen medium.
The images and alternative processes of John Chiara, Binh Danh, Chris McCaw and Meghann Riepenhoff owe as much to this history of photography as they do to the West Coasts stunning and varied environs. Together, they represent an exciting new generation of artists who are reinvigorating handmade photography in our digital age.