Jessica Somers ~ 2010 in Review, Winter 2011 Happenings

 
Time Will Lose Us, from the Becoming We series

 

Happy New Year! I hope everyone has had a wonderful holiday season and an enjoyable 2010. For the past several months I have been working on images for my series in progress, Becoming We. Many of the images express the life changing experiences I have had this year, among them getting married, building a home and my upcoming Auntie-hood. A selection of Becoming We images are now on my website.

In addition to these personal milestones of 2010 I have a lot to be thankful for in my photographic career as well. In this newsletter I have included the events I feel most fortunate and proud to have been involved in along with some upcoming exhibitions for the start of the new year.

Wishing you all happiness and peace in 2011,

Jessica

 

 

Upcoming Exhibits and Publications:

A selection of exhibits and venues my work can be seen in this Winter

Photo LA
John Cleary Gallery Booth, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, CA
January 13 – January 17, 2011,
Opening Reception – January 13, 6-9pm

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Group Show of Work By New Artists
Galerie BMG
, Woodstock, NY
January 14 – February 14, 2011
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Alternative Processes Show:
Mills Pond House Gallery
, St James, NY
January 8 – February 4, 2011, Opening Reception
– January 8, 2-4pm
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Lofiography
Gallery 360
(formerly Sixth Street Gallery), Vancouver, WA

ongoing during February 2011, Opening Reception: Friday, February 4th, 5-9pm
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My work will be included in the group showcase for Volume III of Diffusion Magazine, look for this issue in Spring 2011

Workshops/Classes:

This Spring I will be teaching Intro to Alternative Photographic Processes at Art Institute of Boston.

Returning this summer to Tunxis Community College in Farmington, CT is the very popular Alternative Photographic Processes class. It begins June 2nd and runs for 5 weeks..

A workshop on the Ziatype process at PhotoSynthesis in Manchester, CT is in the works. Stay tuned. Date: TBA

To view instructional videos of the ziatype process click here

2010 in Review: 

Selected Exhibitions and projects:

Alternatives: Unconventional & Uncommon Processes, MPLS Photo Center, Minneapolis, MN

Classical Methods, Contemporary Visions: Figurative Photography in the Alternative Process, The Coburn Art Gallery, Ashland, OH

Affordable Art Fair, New York, NY, John Cleary Gallery Booth

Found: Discoveries of FotoFest and PhotoNOLA, John Cleary Gallery, Houston, TX

100 Photographs, One Hundred Days Project, Collaborative online art project

AIPAD Photography Show, John Cleary Gallery Booth, Park Avenue Armory, New York City, NY

Going Forward Looking Back, Practicing Historic Photographic Processes in the 21st Century, seen in the following venues during 2010: UMASS/Dartmouth, New Bedford, MA, Trustman Art Gallery, Simmons College, Boston, MA, Shepherd Gallery, Maine Media Workshop, Rockport, ME

 

 

Selected publications and awards:

Finalist, Clarence John Lauglin Award, a New Orleans Photo Alliance Grant

Art New England, November / December 2010: Volume 31, Issue 6, Photographers Drawn to Historic Processes By Carl Little

Classical Methods, Contemporary Visions: Figurative Photography in the Alternative Process, Exhibition Catalog – Photograph used as cover image

Alternatives: Uncommon and Unconventional Processes, Book to accompany exhibition at MPLS Photo Center, Minneapolis, MN

 

John Cleary Gallery Blog, ,Niniane Kelley & Jessica Somers, June 10, 2010

 

Diffusion Magazine, Issue 2, 2010

The Hartford Courant, “Tunxis Instructor Receives National Teaching Award,” February 2010

Filmwasters.com, Guest Gallery #51, January 2010

 

Gallery Representation:

John Cleary Gallery

Galerie BMG

 

Workshops and Classes:

Modern Tintype Demonstration, Photosynthesis LLC, Manchester, CT

Two Day Dry Plate Tintype Workshop, PhotoSynthesis LLC, Manchester, CT

Ziatype Workshop, PhotoSynthesis LLC, Manchester, CT

Alternative Photography, Fall semester, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT

My work will be included in the group showcase for Volume III of Diffusion Magazine, look for this issue in Spring 2011