SOLO EXHIBITION opens October 1, 2010 at Page Bond Gallery
stay tuned for more details
SUMMER SOLSTICE at Page Bond Gallery July 7-August 30, 2010
Summer Solstice, the annual summer group exhibition of gallery artists, will open at the Page Bond Gallery, 1625 West Main Street, Richmond VA, with a reception honoring the artists, Wednesday, July 7, 2010 from 7 to 9 PM. The exhibition will remain on view through Friday, August 30, 2010.
I have a piece, entitled "In light and water we are cleansed", in the show - another preview of work for my solo show at the gallery this fall.
More information and images are available under Current Exibition here
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I have a piece, entitled "In light and water we are cleansed", in the show - another preview of work for my solo show at the gallery this fall.
More information and images are available under Current Exibition here
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Free Cyanotype Workshop with Alyssa Salomon January 8, 2010
Start the New Year with a bit of fun & creative experiementation ... and THINK BLUE
Alyssa Salomon will be a featured artist during this month's Second Friday Art Sampler at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond, January 8, 2010. Students will get an introduction to cyanotype photography, and have a chance to make cyanotype prints on a variety of paper and even fabric.
For more information or to reserve a seat in this free two-hour workshop call 804.353.0094.
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Alyssa Salomon will be a featured artist during this month's Second Friday Art Sampler at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond, January 8, 2010. Students will get an introduction to cyanotype photography, and have a chance to make cyanotype prints on a variety of paper and even fabric.
For more information or to reserve a seat in this free two-hour workshop call 804.353.0094.
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COLD PRESS at PAGE BOND GALLERY December 9, 2009 through January 30, 2010
New Work by Alyssa C Salomon is included in COLD PRESS at Page Bond Gallery
The Page Bond Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of prints by national and international artists including Polly Apfelbaum, John Baldessari, Ross Bleckner, Mel Bochner, Caio Fonseca, Helen Frankenthaler, Lucian Freud, Mary Heilmann, Ellsworth Kelly, Patsy Krebs, Martin Puryear, Ed Ruscha, Richard Serra, Julião Sarmento, Joel Shapiro, Amy Sillman, Donald Sultan, Terry Winters, and Peter Wüthrich. In addition, recent work by gallery artist will be on display, including William Berry, Katherine Kadish, Ann Lyne, Kristi Hager, Kris Iden, Kathleen Markowitz, Holly Morrison, Ruby Palmer, Curtis Ripley, Alyssa Salomon, Tanja Softic, Duston Spear, Peri Schwartz, Robert Strini, Soonae Tark, Randy Toy.
Cold Press opens at the Page Bond gallery, 1625 West Main Street, with an opening reception honoring the artists, Friday, December 11, 2009 from 7 to 9 PM. The exhibition extends from Wednesday, December 9 through Saturday, January 30, 2010.
Cold Press reflects the creative and continuous expression of artists represented by the Page Bond Gallery as well as other gallery favorites. During the season of giving this group exhibition highlights the importance of art, with an emphasis on works on paper, and the creativity of the human spirit.
For more information on any of these artists or the Page Bond Gallery and the artists represented, please call Page Bond or Allison Fiebert at 804 359 3633 or visit www.pagebondgallery.com. Email Page Bond Gallery.
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The Page Bond Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of prints by national and international artists including Polly Apfelbaum, John Baldessari, Ross Bleckner, Mel Bochner, Caio Fonseca, Helen Frankenthaler, Lucian Freud, Mary Heilmann, Ellsworth Kelly, Patsy Krebs, Martin Puryear, Ed Ruscha, Richard Serra, Julião Sarmento, Joel Shapiro, Amy Sillman, Donald Sultan, Terry Winters, and Peter Wüthrich. In addition, recent work by gallery artist will be on display, including William Berry, Katherine Kadish, Ann Lyne, Kristi Hager, Kris Iden, Kathleen Markowitz, Holly Morrison, Ruby Palmer, Curtis Ripley, Alyssa Salomon, Tanja Softic, Duston Spear, Peri Schwartz, Robert Strini, Soonae Tark, Randy Toy.
Cold Press opens at the Page Bond gallery, 1625 West Main Street, with an opening reception honoring the artists, Friday, December 11, 2009 from 7 to 9 PM. The exhibition extends from Wednesday, December 9 through Saturday, January 30, 2010.
Cold Press reflects the creative and continuous expression of artists represented by the Page Bond Gallery as well as other gallery favorites. During the season of giving this group exhibition highlights the importance of art, with an emphasis on works on paper, and the creativity of the human spirit.
For more information on any of these artists or the Page Bond Gallery and the artists represented, please call Page Bond or Allison Fiebert at 804 359 3633 or visit www.pagebondgallery.com. Email Page Bond Gallery.
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Prague Post - May 7, 2009 "Art on a Slow Simmer"
Art on a slow simmer
A thoughtful convergence of international work in Horazdovice
May 7, 2009
By Mimi Fronczak Rogers
Prague Post
"Slow art" is how gallery director Barbara Benish characterizes the work in Galerie Califia's latest show, "Hand-Werk," calling to mind the Slow Food movement of leisurely braises and simmers - honest ingredients cooked with care. With so much contemporary art the aesthetic equivalent of a McDonald's hamburger, a show like "Hand-Werk" invites viewers to slow down and savor some soul-satisfying work that blends strong concept with painstaking process.
Yet "Hand-Werk" has a completely contemporary sensibility, and art-savvy viewers will notice elements of deconstruction and irony along with feminist art practices. This group show brings together four contemporary artists from the United States, one artist from Germany and one from the Czech Republic - the only man in the show. ...
American Alyssa C. Salomon, who lives in Virginia, is a standard-bearer for darkroom magic in the digital age. Her captivating photographs are made using the 19th-century cyanotype process, which yields mysterious deep-blue images. The artist embraces arcane and time-consuming processes (she mixes and applies the chemicals herself), and her resulting pictures are poetic and haunting. ...
Hand-Werk
at Galerie Califia Ends May 10. Horažovice Chateau, Horazdovice, south Bohemia. Open Thurs.-Sat. 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
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A thoughtful convergence of international work in Horazdovice
May 7, 2009
By Mimi Fronczak Rogers
Prague Post
"Slow art" is how gallery director Barbara Benish characterizes the work in Galerie Califia's latest show, "Hand-Werk," calling to mind the Slow Food movement of leisurely braises and simmers - honest ingredients cooked with care. With so much contemporary art the aesthetic equivalent of a McDonald's hamburger, a show like "Hand-Werk" invites viewers to slow down and savor some soul-satisfying work that blends strong concept with painstaking process.
Yet "Hand-Werk" has a completely contemporary sensibility, and art-savvy viewers will notice elements of deconstruction and irony along with feminist art practices. This group show brings together four contemporary artists from the United States, one artist from Germany and one from the Czech Republic - the only man in the show. ...
American Alyssa C. Salomon, who lives in Virginia, is a standard-bearer for darkroom magic in the digital age. Her captivating photographs are made using the 19th-century cyanotype process, which yields mysterious deep-blue images. The artist embraces arcane and time-consuming processes (she mixes and applies the chemicals herself), and her resulting pictures are poetic and haunting. ...
Hand-Werk
at Galerie Califia Ends May 10. Horažovice Chateau, Horazdovice, south Bohemia. Open Thurs.-Sat. 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
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Virginia Museum Fine Arts Professional Fellowship
February 5, 2009 - I've been awarded a 2009-2010 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship in Photography for current work in the cyanotype medium. This is my second VMFA Fellowship and a tremendous honor.
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Contemporary Investigations in Historic Processes
Penland School of Craft - Summer 2009
I'll be teaching a jazzed up historic process class at Penland in the beautiful mountains of western North Carolina, Session 5, July 19 - August 4, 2009.
Among my goals is to have us print cyanotypes on eggs as well as have each student make at least one 20 x 30 print from a contructed negative!
For more information visit Penland.org
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I'll be teaching a jazzed up historic process class at Penland in the beautiful mountains of western North Carolina, Session 5, July 19 - August 4, 2009.
Among my goals is to have us print cyanotypes on eggs as well as have each student make at least one 20 x 30 print from a contructed negative!
For more information visit Penland.org
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in the Library at Page Bond Gallery
Page Bond Gallery is featuring a selection of my large cyanotype works & a pair of daguerreotypes with a solo installation in the gallery's Library January 8 through February 28, 2009.
During the same run, PBG is exhibiting MAGGIE: Photographs by Emmet Gowin and Elijah Gowin. Margaret Ennis Booher Cooper, affectionately known as Aunt Maggie, is 98 years of age. She lives alone in the same house she and her husband, Willie Commodore Cooper, moved into when they were married in 1930. Father and son, Emmet and Elijah, have made extensive bodies of images of and around this deep and mysterious woman.
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During the same run, PBG is exhibiting MAGGIE: Photographs by Emmet Gowin and Elijah Gowin. Margaret Ennis Booher Cooper, affectionately known as Aunt Maggie, is 98 years of age. She lives alone in the same house she and her husband, Willie Commodore Cooper, moved into when they were married in 1930. Father and son, Emmet and Elijah, have made extensive bodies of images of and around this deep and mysterious woman.
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Cyanotype Wonder Weekend June 6 & 7, 2009
I'll be running my two-day Cyanotype Wonder Weekend workshop at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond June 6 & 7, 2009.
Think BLUE! Explore ways to make photographic prints through the 19th century cyanotype process with & without cameras. The course will include methods for creating negatives, procedures for mixing & applying your own chemistries & toning for colors from blue to red to yellow. Cyanotypes offer rich options for photographers & non-photographers to make images on paper. Most chemistry will be provided although students are expected to supply paper & other materials. Great for photographers, printmakers, & anyone interested, working at all levels.
Information & registration available soon at www.visarts.org
or by calling 804.353.0094.
Think BLUE! Explore ways to make photographic prints through the 19th century cyanotype process with & without cameras. The course will include methods for creating negatives, procedures for mixing & applying your own chemistries & toning for colors from blue to red to yellow. Cyanotypes offer rich options for photographers & non-photographers to make images on paper. Most chemistry will be provided although students are expected to supply paper & other materials. Great for photographers, printmakers, & anyone interested, working at all levels.
Information & registration available soon at www.visarts.org
or by calling 804.353.0094.
Daguerreotype Workshop October 10-12, 2008
Alyssa Salomon teaches "Mirror with a Memory", a daguerreotype making workshop, Friday, October 10 to Sunday, October 12, 2008 at the Visual Arts Center, Richmond VA.
For more information and to register, call 804.355.0094 or visit
http://visarts.org/artclasses/
For more information and to register, call 804.355.0094 or visit
http://visarts.org/artclasses/
Art & Coffee September 23, 2008
Tomorrow is the first second Tuesday, and that means the debut of The Visual Arts Center of Richmond's new morning program, "Art & Coffee". Join VisArts at 9:30 for coffee, biscotti and "Every Picture Tells a Story: Reading Photographs," a talk by photographer and snapshot collector Alyssa Salomon, who will show examples from the medium's 170 years and discuss photography's formats, styles and uses.
For more information about this program or the Visual Arts Center visit
http://visarts.org
For more information about this program or the Visual Arts Center visit
http://visarts.org
"The Other Show" featured in C-ville 5/27/08
"And Now For Something Completely Different ... Your Guide to the Wildest Art Show in Town"
by Brendan Fitzgerald
C-ville Issue #20.22 :: 05/27/2008 - 06/02/2008, Charlottesville VA
Visit C-ville's website for the complete article featuring video of my piece and other work in The OtherShow.
http://www.c-ville.com/index.p
Fitzgerald's review is excerpted below:
"'The Other Show,' the current art show at Piedmont Virginia Community College that runs through August 21, is based on the space between vision and revision, the move from a comfortable idea towards a less comfortable one. Curator and local artist Rob Tarbell collected 40 pieces of art from 20 artist -- one exemplary of each person's style, and another that strays from each person's norm. 'I asked fellow artists, "What do you do?" But I followed with "What else?"' Tarbell writes in a book accompanying the exhibit. 'And the answer was always interesting.' ...
"3. Radio, radio
When you first arrive at the Dickinson Building, remain in your car. Turn the radio frequency to either 98.9FM or 101.3FM and, for the next 10 minutes, keep your eyes closed as the radio broadcasts the noise of impending disasters -- wreckage by wind, water, fire, all of the natural elements.
The woman behind that sonic manipulation, 'Vague Apocalypse,' is Alyssa Salomon, and she is primarily a photographer. The northern portion of the PVCC gallery is filled with her daguerreotypes, photos developed on the chemical compound silver halide that bear names like 'Nothing, Blue Skies' and kinda resemble holograms.
Yet 'Vague Apocalypse' arguably nabbed Salomon more attention, including a 2007 'Best in Show' nod from the Contemporary Art Center of Virginia. Tarbell says that 'Vague Apocalypse' and the daguerreotypes are both examples of antiquated technology, outdated media, but that’s not the only connection between Salomon's work. While one radio transmitter hidden in the PVCC gallery broadcasts disaster after disaster, another plays Irving Berlin's 'Blue Skies.' This radio broadcast will continue, 24 hours a day, until the show ends in late August. Forecast: Blue skies, with a 50 percent chance of annihilation. You’ve been warned."
by Brendan Fitzgerald
C-ville Issue #20.22 :: 05/27/2008 - 06/02/2008, Charlottesville VA
Visit C-ville's website for the complete article featuring video of my piece and other work in The OtherShow.
http://www.c-ville.com/index.p
Fitzgerald's review is excerpted below:
"'The Other Show,' the current art show at Piedmont Virginia Community College that runs through August 21, is based on the space between vision and revision, the move from a comfortable idea towards a less comfortable one. Curator and local artist Rob Tarbell collected 40 pieces of art from 20 artist -- one exemplary of each person's style, and another that strays from each person's norm. 'I asked fellow artists, "What do you do?" But I followed with "What else?"' Tarbell writes in a book accompanying the exhibit. 'And the answer was always interesting.' ...
"3. Radio, radio
When you first arrive at the Dickinson Building, remain in your car. Turn the radio frequency to either 98.9FM or 101.3FM and, for the next 10 minutes, keep your eyes closed as the radio broadcasts the noise of impending disasters -- wreckage by wind, water, fire, all of the natural elements.
The woman behind that sonic manipulation, 'Vague Apocalypse,' is Alyssa Salomon, and she is primarily a photographer. The northern portion of the PVCC gallery is filled with her daguerreotypes, photos developed on the chemical compound silver halide that bear names like 'Nothing, Blue Skies' and kinda resemble holograms.
Yet 'Vague Apocalypse' arguably nabbed Salomon more attention, including a 2007 'Best in Show' nod from the Contemporary Art Center of Virginia. Tarbell says that 'Vague Apocalypse' and the daguerreotypes are both examples of antiquated technology, outdated media, but that’s not the only connection between Salomon's work. While one radio transmitter hidden in the PVCC gallery broadcasts disaster after disaster, another plays Irving Berlin's 'Blue Skies.' This radio broadcast will continue, 24 hours a day, until the show ends in late August. Forecast: Blue skies, with a 50 percent chance of annihilation. You’ve been warned."
SELECTED REVIEWS & PRESS
"And Now For Something Completely Different …", Brendan Fitzgerald.
C-ville. May 27, 2008
Art Papers. Review, Vittorio Colazzi. September 2006
"Magic Made with Mirrors", Harry Kollatz. Theresa Pollak Awards for Excellence in the Arts. Richmond Magazine, September 2006
Feature Portfolio, The Daguerreian Society Newsletter, September-October 2005
"Where's the fun in one-hour photos?" Jacob Spears, The Pitt News, September 22, 2005
"Playing With Light", Jessica Clarke, Daily News-Record, February, 11, 2005
"Loud and Clear", Steven L. Jones, -Style Weekly-, September 29, 2004
"Step Right Up", Paulette Roberts-Pullen, Style Weekly, November 20, 2002
"Alyssa C. Salomon, Daguerreotypist", Jessica Ronky Haddad, Style Weekly, January 8, 2002
"Daguerreotype update: Sunny North Side driveway", Roy Proctor, Richmond Times Dispatch, December 23, 2001
"Memorable Achievements", Deborah McLeod, Style Weekly, December 26, 2000
"Book Marks", Margaret Regan, Tucson Weekly, January 6, 2000
ART PAPERS, Review, Kerry Mills, November/December 1998
C-ville. May 27, 2008
Art Papers. Review, Vittorio Colazzi. September 2006
"Magic Made with Mirrors", Harry Kollatz. Theresa Pollak Awards for Excellence in the Arts. Richmond Magazine, September 2006
Feature Portfolio, The Daguerreian Society Newsletter, September-October 2005
"Where's the fun in one-hour photos?" Jacob Spears, The Pitt News, September 22, 2005
"Playing With Light", Jessica Clarke, Daily News-Record, February, 11, 2005
"Loud and Clear", Steven L. Jones, -Style Weekly-, September 29, 2004
"Step Right Up", Paulette Roberts-Pullen, Style Weekly, November 20, 2002
"Alyssa C. Salomon, Daguerreotypist", Jessica Ronky Haddad, Style Weekly, January 8, 2002
"Daguerreotype update: Sunny North Side driveway", Roy Proctor, Richmond Times Dispatch, December 23, 2001
"Memorable Achievements", Deborah McLeod, Style Weekly, December 26, 2000
"Book Marks", Margaret Regan, Tucson Weekly, January 6, 2000
ART PAPERS, Review, Kerry Mills, November/December 1998
