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Gary Breece Exhibition in Star News

‘Somewhere In-Between’ is a journey in creativity

 

This photo by Gary Breece will be among those featured at an exhibit at S.A.L.T., a photography studio and gallery at 805 N. Fourth St. The exhibit runs from Sept. 26 through Oct. 17. Contributed photo

By Kim Henry

Gary Breece is a filmmaker and photographer living and working in New York and Wilmington. Among his many current ventures is a collection of his photography titled, “Somewhere In-Between,” which will be displayed at Kelly Starbuck’s photography studio, SALT Studio, 805 N. Fourth St.

The work spans three decades, two continents and a journey into the outback of North Carolina, where Breece reclaimed his soul after a challenging chapter of his life.

Opening 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, Sept. 26, as a part of Wilmington’s Fourth Friday Gallery Walk, Breece’s images are divided into three series.

The first, “We The People,” draws on Breece’s journalistic roots as he explores the political implications of the Iron Curtain in countries as far flung as Cuba, Germany, and Ukraine.

Moving from the late 1980s into the mid-1990s, the second series, “San Fernando,” finds the artist living in Los Angeles but being drawn from the intensity of the city into the remote areas of the surrounding desert.

“I needed an escape from the noise and pressure of the film and TV industry. I found solace in photography and it became my reprieve,” explains Breece, whose video and digital content production company Public Address System specializes in corporate social responsibility, cause marketing and public affairs communications.

The final series, “Off Route,” finds Breece astride his motorcycle driving through the countryside of North Carolina following a debilitating illness and the death of his brother in 2009.

“I consider many of the color photographs from this series to be self-portraits. Whether it’s the beached ship’s precarious struggle against its inevitable entropy, or a road covered in a chaotic scribble of yellow lines, each image depicts landscapes or subjects that are themselves perhaps off route, just as I was during that time,” Breece said. “One of my favorite photos is of a simple, massive, mound of dirt. It was just one of those moments – the light, the air, the position – it all came together.”

The free exhibit will remain open five days a week, noon to 5 p.m. through Oct. 17 or by appointment (call 910-367-5720) at SALT Studio, whose gallery is dedicated solely to photography. See SALTStudioNC.com for more information.

SALT Studio
805 N 4th Street
Wilmington, NC 28401
http://saltstudionc.com
910 367 5720

Photographer, Owner, Curator: Kelly Starbuck

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Courtney Johnson Exhibition in Encore Magazine

Beyond the Darkroom: Courtney Johnson transforms film negatives with thought-provoking subjects

Sep 2 • Art, ARTSY SMARTSY, FEATURE

Before the advent of the camera, cliché-verre was known as a main form of capturing images on transparency. Artists would take surfaces like smoked glass and etch, paint, or draw on them a bounty of subject matter. Though the camera has taken over as the modern technique to instantly capture our surroundings, few artists still dabble in the obscure 19th-century frame of work. Locally, UNCW professor of photography, Courtney Johnson, thrives off the alternative processes of photography, including historical and non-silver photographic processes, such as cyanotype and platinum palladium. She also enjoys cliché-verre (“glass-negative” in French) and is in the process of creating a nine-part series focused on cities. Part one, “Cycle of Cities I: Collapse,” is now on display at SALT Studio off 4th Street.

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Pictured above: “IN WATER II: Courtney Johnson’s cliché-verre style showcases New Orleans 2005, with water dropped onto the film negative wherein she’s etched the Louisiana cityscape. Courtesy photo”

“I came up with the idea through a combination of my interest in cities as a modern phenomenon, both visually and socially, and my fascination with mythology,” Johnson tells. 

She first debuted the cliché-verre “Glass Cities” in 2010 at Jenkins Johnson Gallery in NYC. It focused on nighttime city scapes and skylines, and highlighted the modern conviences and phenomenon of electricity as compared with traditional landscape. She received a great deal of recognition; yet, Johnson wanted to push the style even further. 

In “Cycle of Cities: Collapse” she  aims to bridge the gap between traditional and new methods again—analog and digital, painting and photography, included. The city represented in each negative dictates how she treats the image. For instance, if she’s mapping a city that’s been burned, she’ll light fire to the negative. Or if she’s working on a city that’s been flooded, she’ll drop water on the film.

“I subject my negatives to similar environmental hazards that befell the cities they represent, like breaking negatives of cities that were bombed [as seen in ‘Infijar III,’ Baghdad, 1991-present, which represents the ongoing wars waged on the Middle East],” according to Johnson.

Having traveled extensively throughout North and South America, Europe and Asia, Johnson lived in Malaysia for three years of her childhood. The impact of residing in the Far East left an indelible imprint. 

“I am particularly interested in patterns and the tension between two-dimensional and three-dimensional planes, as well as the impressive skylines I saw being built,” she says. 

Folks will see 2D influence in “Collapse” and even references of the ancient Indonesian batik style, which uses wax and dye to create imagery, traditionally on cloth. “In terms of pattern recognition, there’s a universal design to cities, much as there is to universal myths, which connects places and people throughout space and time,” Johnson tells. “Having lived in and visited so many different places has allowed me to make connections I’m not sure I would otherwise make.” 

Represented in “Collapse” are New Orleans 2005 in “Water II” (representing Hurricane Katrina); London 1666 in “Fire II” (representing the great fire that destroyed the City of London inside the Roman city wall); and Hiroshima 1945 in “Bakuhatsu II” (representing the atomic bomb), among others. Seven of nine images are showcased on black pieces of 8-by-10-inch glass or photo film. 

“I paint in negative—all colors and densities are reversed—red on the negative prints cyan on the positive, clear on the negative prints black,” she describes. “Then I scan, enlarge and print the images digitally on photo paper.”

Unlike modern digitizing, the images Johnson creates will not pixelize as they’re enlarged. There is no grain in cliché-verre, so the size can expand on an infinite scale. 

“At 8-by-10 feet, it becomes reminiscent of pointillism [the technique of painting small, distinct dots of pure color to form an image], in that the piece changes dramatically if the viewer is up close or further away,” Johnson explains. “You can view all the small details at the large scale.”  

Johnson currently is working on the next phase of Cycle of Cities entitled “Afterlife.” It will feature natural pigments, smoking glass and layering. “Most of my work is about the tension between nature and the human-made,” she states. She’s also planning the launch of The Lab: Wilmington Community Darkroom. It will be membership-based and offer traditional darkroom amenities and a digital laboratory. Her show at SALT Studio hangs through September 20th.

DETAILS:
Cycle of Cities I: Collapse

Photography by Courtney Johnson

The Gallery at SALT Studio
805 N. 4th St. • 910-367-5720
www.saltstudionc.com
Open Monday – Friday 12pm-5pm – by appointment on Saturday
Contact Kelly Starbuck at 910.367.5720 to ensure the gallery is open and that the photographer is not on location for a shoot.

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Courtney Johnson Exhibition in the Star News

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Fourth Friday: Courtney Johnson makes cities crumble on glass and film

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Cliché-verre is French for glass negative. It’s also the name of a process that is a hybrid of both photography and painting.

Wilmington-based photographer Courtney Johnson employed cliché-verre to create the apocalyptic map-like cityscapes featured in her recent series, “Cycle of Cities I: Collapse,” on display at The Gallery at Salt Studio, 805 N. Fourth St.

Johnson is an assistant professor of photography in the University of North Carolina Wilmington’s Department of Art & Art History.  She specializes in photographic alternative processes, such as the work she did when she invented the underwater pinhole camera in 2012 (read more on that here)

“Collapse” is part one of Johnson’s nine-part “Cycle of Cities” series “chronicling mythological themes of the rise and fall of cities through the “monomyth” or hero cycle.”  From Johnson’s artist statement:

“‘Cycle of Cities I: Collapse’ explores the death and destruction of cities by fire, water, and explosions. Images refer back to many historical events such as the 2004 Tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and the Civil War.”

The show opens with a public reception 6 to 9 p.m. Friday Aug. 22, in coordination with Fourth Friday Gallery Nights, a monthly self-guided art crawl throughout Downtown Wilmington’s studios and galleries organized by the Arts Council of Wilmington and New Hanover County.

“Cycle of Cities I: Collapse” hangs through Sept. 20.

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Waxenvine Exhibition in Encore Magazine

BOROUGH TO BOROUGH: NYC’S WAX+VINE MAKE SALT STUDIO THEIR NEW HAUNTING GROUND

Jun 3 • Art, ARTSY SMARTSY, FEATURE MAIN

The Brooklyn Arts District (BAD) is in the midst of a resurgence: Condos are rising, sauces are reducing, beer is flowing, and the arts are arting. These are the cornerstones of big cities’ hip districts, which is why the timing couldn’t be better to welcome artists from the NYC borough of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to Wilmington’s northside borough, BAD. They’re coming to cast shadows across The Gallery at SALT Studio (805 N. 4th St.).

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“Haunted” consists of a multi-layered photographic collaboration by WAX+VINE, made up of husband and wife creatives Scott Irvine and Kim Meinelt. They created the 24-photo collection  exclusively for their SALT exhibit after receiving an invitation from the studio’s proprietor Kelly Starbuck—who also happens to be a a long-time friend of the couple.

Mirroring Irvine and Meinelt’s collective exhibition persona, “Haunted” blends soft and hard textures—like lead, cotton, concrete, leaves, bone, and feather—to produce a pressed and tangled amalgam of illusory scenes. Though not scary, the imagery captivates and completely avoids color. “I didn’t want ‘Haunted’ to have a negative feeling to it,” Irvine states. “It’s an interesting word, like an echo.” Irvine rejects terms like “darkness” that paint black-and-white photography in a bad light. “It’s about finding those weird moments in the mundane where something is really interesting that’s maybe overlooked,” he says.

Describing the duo is a lot like explaining the juxtaposition of yin and yang: Their presence is magnetic and surreptitiously affects the other. Irvine is reserved; he prefers to pull back from subjects and takes comfort in a wide field shot. Meinelt is the opposite; she’s outgoing and approaches people and photography through a macro lens. Their introverted-extroverted energies find harmony and create a balance in the relationship while amplifying personal style.

In high school Irvine cut his teeth on a 35mm camera, and began shooting old buildings and factories near his home. While attending Rochester Institute of Technology, he studied abroad for a year in Salzburg, Austria, which he credits toward his artistic development. “Before then, I really hadn’t been knowledgeable about art history,” he says. “Living and traveling throughout Europe helped me understand the history of both art and photography, which I believe helped to make me a better photographer in general.”

After graduating with a BFA in photography and sculpture, he moved to New York City, established a darkroom, and practiced the traditional silver-gelatin development process. The formula creates rich photographic texture and imposes a degree of deterioration. He used the techniques to create stunning portraits which fueled his freelance career. Incidentally, he received his biggest payoff when they caught Meinelt’s eye. “Everything is in color, and to me color is very distracting,” Meinelt explains. “The feeling of black and white draws you into sort of a different era. It feels calmer.” 

A fan of Irvine’s work five years prior to meeting him, Meinelt owned one of his pieces. She took it down when he visited her for the first time.

After attending the North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem for set design and scenic painting for two years, Meinelt began working as a freelance designer and painter in NYC. In 1993 she crossed paths with designer Eileen Fisher. After two years of designing window displays for Fisher, Meinelt joined full-time as the creative concept director, a title she still holds today.

Three months after they met, Irvine and Meinelt traveled to Southeast Asia, a trip foreshadowing their foray into collaborative photography; they only packed one camera. The creation process for their new show pays homage to their trip and places two opposing techniques together with as little resistance as possible. 

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Preparing for “Haunted” proved a visually taxing experience for the pair. “For every one that worked, there were a hundred that didn’t,” Irvine explains. Wanting the pieces to evolve organically, they spent two months sorting through existing photos, both digital and film, all from their travels, neighborhood and natural history museums. Hundreds of images were uploaded to the computer and fused by Photoshop until a unique combination surfaced. 

“We really [tried] not to be too precious about it,” explained Meinelt. “It feels really important to me. I feel like it’s about having fun.” Meinelt, who is no stranger to serious design editing, spent a lot of solo time flipping through images for shapes and shadows and noting how artifacts related to each other in positive and negative spaces. 

The result: a geologic layering of light, shadow, texture, and beauty that transforms two individual visions into one. “It’s a consistency of seeing things a certain way,” Irvine says. “It all starts to add up to be this one thing. So then it’s not just one photo; it’s a vision of images that become the show.”

In addition to “Haunted,” a portrait collection by Irvine is on display. Reminiscent of his roots, all of the portraits were developed in his darkroom and feature a discontinued sepia tone that he will one day re-create. The subjects range from friends and neighbors to artists and well-known musicians, like Interpol, Amanda Palmer (Dresden Dolls), Ian Astbury (The Cult), and Nick Zinner and Karen O (Yeah Yeah Yeahs).

DETAILS:
HAUNTED

Work by WAX+VINE (Waxenvine)
Exhibition through July 23rd

The Gallery at SALT Studio
805 N. 4th St.
Wilmington, NC 28401
910-367-5720

**Call to confirm the gallery is open. SALT Studio is a working commercial and portrait photography studio and is closed when on assignment at another location. We are happy to schedule a private viewing for you!**

www.saltstudionc.com

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Austin Young Exhibition in Encore Magazine

YOUNG STAR: AUSTIN YOUNG’S PHOTOGRAPHS WILL BE ON DISPLAY AT S.A.L.T. STUDIO

Apr 23 • Art, ARTSY SMARTSY, FEATURE MAIN

The selfie has been a cultural fascination for centuries. From the early cave painters at Lascaux to today’s camera-toting/Instagram culture, we are consumed with preserving self-depictions.

INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP: Photographer Austin Young generates photographs that showcase the intimacy between the subject and artists, as seen with above's Jeffree Star. Photograph by Austin Young

INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP: Photographer Austin Young generates photographs that showcase the intimacy between the subject and artists, as seen with above’s Jeffree Star. Photograph by Austin Young
Although most people’s homes are filled with pictures of themselves and family members, the power of portraiture is often marginalized. Austin Young’s appreciation for his subjects reveals itself to be unparalleled. He crafts photos that fully embody his muses and shed light upon the accessories and the soul of life.

Growing up in the doldrums of Reno, Nevada, Young turned to records to break up the monotony of his sleepy, small-town life. “My father gave me a camera when I was younger,” he professes. “He was also a photography enthusiast, so I started taking pictures of all of my friends.”

Finding pop-culture as a source of inspiration, the developing artist would sit in his room, ingraining the larger-than-life likenesses of icons like Debbie Harry and Siouxsie Sioux into his brain. He channeled a Warhol-like fascination in the God-esque portrayals of celebrities, which in turn illuminated a lifelong passion—a love of iconography.

“Living near Las Vegas, I used to beg my parents to take me to concerts,” Young tells. “I saw Olivia Newton John and Sonny and Cher,”

Exposure to a world that existed outside the confines of Reno titillated the young man. So, he moved to big cities and traveled the world, from Paris to LA. Young made a name for himself by encapsulating subcultures along the way—generating renderings of drag queens, performance artists, and the like. Living in New York in the early ‘90s, he often would visit various clubs to capture its life.  Yet, portraits evolved from his experiments.  He felt their intimacy would resonate no matter what content one portrays. “It’s a big responsibility to be a portrait artist because you have to capture  someone in a way that represents them,” Young elaborates.

With several compelling bodies of work, Young’s work makes social commentary, too, like with gender stereotypes. His pieces subvert the traditional constructs society has set forth. Instead, he illustrates genderless subjects.“[It] really calls into question our concept of beauty and identity,” he describes.

Although simple, his photos reflect a bonding relationship between a model and photographer, each artists in their own rights. He highlights the reflective nature ably allowing him to reveal the complexities and emotions of his muse. Through his collaborative “Tranimal Workshops,” he gathers artists, participants, and various materials in both gallery and museum spaces. Models, transgenders or otherwise, are invited to transform into art themselves, whether they morph into a creature straight from Chernobyl or pose in a Glamour Shot fashion, but have a raven growing from a black beehive.

In addition to his portraiture, Young is the co-founder of the art group, Fallen Fruit. With fellow artists David Burns and Matias Viegener, he began mapping fruit trees that were growing over public property in LA. The collaboration has expanded to include public projects, site-specific installations and happenings in various international cities. Although his work for this collective centers on fruit, Young’s whimsical muses, eye for color and post-modern pop-art style remain evident.

Young’s photographs have not only caught the attention of the art world, but also local photographers and gallery owners of Salt, Kelly Starbuck and Horace Long. Featuring a small retrospective of Young’s work, “Portraits” is his first solo art show in North Carolina.

Long has been a fan of Young’s work for years. “I have guided him through images to curate this exhibition,” Long proclaims. “I have known [Young] for many years, and I’ve always been drawn to his work—even before I knew him—for its pop and subculture references. He documents the famous and infamous in a style that is distinctively [his own].”

Through his specific style, Young has  produced photographs of Debbie Harry from Blondie, Siouxsie Sioux, Margaret Cho, Leigh Bowery, Tori Spelling, Sandra Bernhard, almost all of the “Rupaul’s Drag Race” queens, and hundreds more.

This exhibition will open with a reception on April 25th from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. and will be on display through May 17th. S.A.L.T.  Studio is located in the historic Modern Baking Building.

 

DETAILS

Portraits

Photographs by Austin Young
S.A.L.T. Studio • 805 N. 4th St.
Reception: April 25th, 6 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Gallery hours:
Mon. – Fri., 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Hangs through May 17th
www.saltstudionc.com

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Austin Young Opening in the Star News

Screen Shot 2014-04-21 at 8.08.17 AM (2)When Salt Studio co-owner Kelly Starbuck warned Los Angeles photographer Austin Young of some of her clientele’s conservative art taste, he replied, “It’s good to understand the audience. I like to push them of course.”

“Portraits” opens at the Gallery at SALT Studio, 805 N. Fourth St., with a public reception 6 to 9 p.m. April 25, in coordination with Fourth Friday Gallery Nights, a self-guided tour through downtown Wilmington’s studios and art spaces.  Young creates honest representations of his subjects in vivid and somewhat controversial portraits that transcend distinctions between fashion and gender with stunning, computer-enhanced color.

“A portrait is really about being in the moment with the subject,” Young writes in his artist statement.  “I want the sitter to feel absolutely present and vulnerable. I want to capture their spirit in this state. I hope this comes across in my work. I’m a visual person. I really look at someone when I take their portrait and then I meditate on their spirit while I’m working on the image. I think my portraits seem very simple and effortless but yet reveal the complexity of the subject. I consider my work to be emotional. It is an emotional connection to the subject.”

“Portraits” runs through May 17.

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The Gallery at SALT Studio article in the Star News

Don't be a Dishwasher

From Wilmington all the way to New York City, Portland, Oregon, Squamish, British Columbia, and Klaipeda, Lithuania, The Gallery at SALT Studio, 805 N. Fourth St., is stretching wide in 2014 to bring in an impressive sampling of regional, national, and international photographers.

SALT’s “2014 Preview Show” offers a taste of what’s to come at the Brooklyn Arts District photography-only gallery.  The exhibition opens with a public reception 6 to 9 p.m. Feb. 28, in coordination with Fourth Friday Gallery Nights (click here to see what else is going down this Fourth Friday.)

The show features work by photographers scheduled to exhibit in 2014.  Internationally, SALT is exhibiting works by Canadian artist Leeta Harding and Lithuanian artist Edis Jurcys.  Locally, SALT is featuring Wilmington photographers Gary Breece and Harry Taylor, whose ambrotype greenhouse installation is currently on display at the Cameron Art Museum.   Out of New York, SALT is bringing in Mariette Pathy Allen (she’s responsible for “Don’t Be a Dishwasher” pictured above) and “WAX + VINE,” a.k.a. Scott Irvine and Kim Meinelt.  Austin Young is based in Los Angeles, and Christopher Rauschenberg is from Portland, Oregon.

Rauschenberg’s Portland-based Blue Sky Gallery was actually the inspiration for SALT Studio, studio co-owner and photography Kelly Starbuck said.

SALT issued a statement including biographies of each of its 2014 artists, copied below:

 

Gary Breece:

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Gary Breece is a creative director and award-winning producer/director with more than 15 years of experience in marketing, campaign creative development, commercial & documentary production, as well as earned media placement and media buying. Gary began his career as a field producer at a Washington news bureau conducting interviews and producing segments for sixty-five local news stations nationwide. With an established background in news production, Gary moved to Los Angeles and launched Focus Productions, a company which produced and distributed video news releases and client-sponsored documentaries for Fortune 500 companies including Nike, McDonald’s, Campbell’s Soup, Ralston Purina and Midas. In recent years, Gary launched Public Address System, creating, producing, directing and disseminating commercials, public service announcements and long form film-based productions for cause-related and corporate social responsibility awareness campaigns. His credits now include campaigns, spots and short films for McDonald’s, Energizer, Mastercard, Whole Foods, The College Board, American Cancer Society, American Heart Association, Live Earth and Dow among others.

Gary’s fine art photography has been exhibited in Brooklyn, NY, ACME Art Studios and other galleries in the Wilmington area.

 

Leeta Harding:

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BORN:  1966 Squamish, British Columbia

EDUCATION:  1996 B.F.A. Photography, Emily Carr University of Art and Design Vancouver, BC

WORK:  1996-2009 Cover photographer, Featured Interviews with Helmut Newton, Ruth Ansel, Ebon Moss Bachrach, Index Magazine, NYC

1996-98 Photographer, In Her Closet, Harper’s Bazaar, NYC

Contributing photographer, New York Magazine and The New York Times Magazine, Interview, Details, Vice Magazine, Lucky, Spin, Vibe, YM, Cosmo Girl and numerous European art and culture magazines

Exhibitions: Numerous national and international solo exhibitions over the last 25 years.

 

Edis Jurcys:

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Jurcys grew up in a small beach town, Klaipeda, Lithuania. He studied film in the prestigious Soviet Union Film Institute VGIK and spent eight years working as a cameraman for Moscow State Television.

In 1989 he moved to the United States to unite with his  wife in Los Angeles. Currently he  lives in Portland Oregon and works full time as a still photographer and videographer.

He has had many solo exhibitions in the USA and abroad.  His work is in hundreds of private collections.

In 2004 he published my first book of B&W photographs, called “Thread” and in 2008 ghe published his second book ” Silence of the Crane Feathers”.

 

Mariette Pathy Allen:

Mariette Pathy Allen has been photographing the transgender community for over 30 years. Through her artistic practice, she has been a pioneering force in gender consciousness, contributing to numerous cultural and academic publications about gender variance and lecturing throughout the globe. Her first book “Transformations: Crossdressers and Those Who Love Them” was groundbreaking in its investigation of a misunderstood community. Her second book “The Gender Frontier” is a collection of photographs, interviews, and essays covering political activism, youth, and the range of people that identify as transgender in mainland USA and won the 2004 Lambda Literary Award in the Transgender/Genderqueer category. She has also been a valuable consultant to several films about gender and sexuality.

Her life’s work is currently being archived by Duke University’s Rare Book and Manuscripts Library, and the Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s Studies. She is currently working on an in-depth study of transgender women in Cuba, which is to be published in a book titled, “Trans Cuba” on Daylight Press, and another project about transgender veterans in the US. In addition to her work with gender, Mariette’s background as a painter frequently leads her to photographic investigations of color, space, and cultural juxtapositions such as east/west, old/new, handmade/manufactured. Mariette lives in New York City with a rotating cast of friends and loved ones.

This summer The Gallery at SALT Studio will be exhibiting her never before exhibited body of work called ‘Scapes’ of photographs taken all around the globe.

Allen has exhibited world wide in numerous and solo shows. She is also in the collection of many major art museums.

 

Christopher Rauschenberg:

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Rauschenberg was born in New York in 1951, son of famed post-modern artist Robert Rauschenberg. He as practiced photographic art since 1957, and has a B.A. in Photography from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington.  He has taught photography and art from 1982 to 1996 at Marylhurst University in Lake Oswego, Oregon.

He has photographed all over the world. He has had 105 solo shows and many group shows world wide. Available monographs of his work include three books, seven print-on-demand books and a deck of cards.

He is a co-founder and past president of Photolucida, co-founder, co-curatator and Board Chairman of Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, OR where over the last 37 years he has co-curated and co-produced 724 solo exhibitions and 48 group shows. He is a co-founder and current member of the co-op Nine Gallery and has edited and produced around 60 art and photography publications.

His work is in the collections of 11 major museums and was the Bonnie Bronson Fellow for 2003.

 

Harry Taylor:

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Harry Taylor is a fine art photographer based in North Carolina. Harry mostly works in the Wet Plate Collodion process, this involves large format cameras, up to 16×20 and on site processing in a portable darkroom. This work explores the American South; Harry’s home and base. Harry’s work has been featured in Haven, Garden and Gun,Our State, Coastal Living, Slate.com, Juxtapose, NPR radio pictures blog, Time lightbox, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, and most recently the Oxford American.

In 2011, Harry was honored to be invited to the World-Renouned Sianoja Simposio International  De Artist En Noja, Spain, as the sole representative from the United States. Harry currently has an installation called, “Requiem in Glass: Brady’s Greenhouse” on view in the Cameron Art Museum.

 

“WAX + VINE” photographers Scott Irvine & Kim Meinelt:

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Scott Irvine is a graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology where he received a B.F.A. in Fine Art Photography. His photography has been exhibited in several NYC galleries including Bridgewater Fine Art, E3 Gallery, Robert Mann Gallery and Mine Gallery in Brooklyn, where he has a permanent residency exhibiting his work. He recently had his first solo European show in Prague, and had two photographs sold in the February 2008 Christie’s Photographs Auction. He was included in the group show Obsessions curated by John Zorn, at the MEM Gallery in Osaka, Japan. Scott was one of the featured artists in the 2010 New York Photography Festival, which was curated by Lou Reed. He has been featured in several prestigious photography publications including Blind Spot and is a regular contributing photographer for the music magazine, The Sentimentalist, which has allowed him to work closely with many notable musicians and bands. Other steady clients include book covers for HarperCollins Publishers and CD packages for John Zorn’s CD label, Tzadik. He has self-published photography books with the online publisher Blurb. In his spare time, Scott works with metal, designing and welding custom steel frames for his photographs and plays guitar in the indie rock band, Submarine Bells. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

“WAX + VINE” photographer Kim Meinelt:    Artist and Visual Director at Eileen Fisher;  Interior Designer

 

Austin Young:

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Austin Young is a Pop-Culture Architect, photographer and trans media artist. Young has been documenting pop, sub, and trans culture since 1985 through portraiture.

Young’s video works play with pop-culture and camp, celebrity, gender and identity.

His photographs have been featured in major publications such as Interview magazine, OK, and Flaunt and have been in solo exhibitions and projects at LACMA (Los Angeles, CA), Machine Project (Los Angeles, CA), Hammer Museum (Los Angeles, CA), Berkeley Art Museum (Berkley, California); and as well as groups shows at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (Los Angeles, CA) and Stephen Cohen Gallery (Los Angeles, CA).

They have shown at festivals including Frameline, MIX, In addition to photography and filmmaking, Young is co-founder of Fallen Fruit, an art collective who use fruit as a common denominator to change the way you think about the world. Fallen Fruit has had major exhibitions at Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Hammer Museum; Salt Lake Art Center (Salt Lake City, Utah), Machine Project, Matadero (Madrid, Spain); LACE (Los Angeles) and ARS Electronic (Austria). Fallen Fruit is a Creative Capital grantee for 2013 and just completed LA Counties first Public Fruit Park in Del Aire with a grant from the LA County Art’s Commission.

 

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Last Day to view our first exhibition

The Gallery at SALT Studio – SALT Studio Photography

Today is the LAST day to see our inaugural exhibition: Team SALT: Horace Long Photography and Kelly Starbuck. The gallery will be open until 6pm this evening.
We close for two days to hang the show: 2014 Preview show, featuring fine art photographers from around the world! Opening reception Friday, February 28th from 6 pm until 9 pm. Catered by LA GEMMA FINE ITALIAN PASTRIES!

The Gallery at SALT Studio  and SALT Studio Photography, Wilmington, NC.
805 N 4th Street Wilmington North Carolina 28401
Located in the Historic Modern Baking Building in the Brooklyn Arts District of downtown Wilmington, NC

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2014 Preview Exhibition

When:

February 28, 2014
6:00 PM

 

Location:

Salt Studio
805 North 4th Street
Wilmington, NC 28401
Website: www.SaltStudioNC.com

Admission:

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Part of 4th Friday Gallery Night, The Gallery at Salt Studio presents its 2014 Preview Exhibition including some of the biggest names in fine art photography from the US and abroad. The exhibition includes the following artists slated for shows at the gallery in 2014: Gary Breece (Wilmington, NC); Leeta Harding (British Columbia, Canada); Edis Jurcys (Lithuania); Mariette Pathy Allen (New York City); Christopher Rauschenberg (Portland, OR); Harry Taylor (Wilmington, NC); Waxenvine: Scott Irvine & Kim Meinelt,  Collaborative Photographers (New York City); and Austin young (Los Angeles, CA). Catering provided by la Gemma Fine Italian Pastries along with SALT’s Signature hooch. HOURS: 6-9pm.

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The Gallery at SALT Studio in The Star News

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The Gallery at SALT Studio is the newest gallery to join Wilmington’s Fourth Friday art trail, a self-guided tour through Downtown’s art spaces from 6 to 9 p.m. on the fourth Friday of each month.

Located at 805 N. Fourth St., SALT stands out from the other art walk stops in that it will exclusively exhibit photography.

“When I moved back to Wilmington from NYC,” SALT co-owner and photography Kelly Starbuck said in a Facebook message, “I noticed there were very few gallery shows that were photography related. Since the popularity of photography has risen in the last few years, both Horace (Long) and I felt that fine art photography has been under represented in the Wilmington area. Therefore, we started coming up with ideas of how to shape our photo business.  We both wanted to have a photography gallery and we ended up finding just the perfect space to start a photo studio AND gallery.”

Tonight’s Fourth Friday reception features work by Long and Starbuck, or as they themselves, Team SALT.  In the future, the two hope to feature a wide variety of work by photographers from near and far.

“Our goal is to exhibit fine art photography by national, international, and local artists. The Gallery at SALT Studio strives to bring thought provoking, aesthetic, photo-based works of art to Downtown Wilmington.”

Stop by SALT 6 to 9 p.m. tonight for their Fourth Friday reception.

 

http://wae.blogs.starnewsonline.com/41783/salt-joins-the-fourth-friday-fun/