Saturday, December 2, 5-7 pm Artists’ Reception Holiday Tree Lighting and Caroling
Closing a chaotic year with a soft exhale, “Breathe” features serene, meditative photography, painting, mixed media, and sculpture to relax the senses from 2023 and help you recharge for 2024. Presented are small works under 18 inches from local and national artists including:
Bob Barnett
Patricia Beary
Arduina Caponigro
John Paul Caponigro
John Cino
Carolyn Conrad
Laura Dodson
Cora Jane Glasser
Eleanor Goldstein
Linda Hacker
Thomas Halaczinsky
Katherine Liepe-Levinson
Kathleen Massi
Scott McIntire
Wendy Prellwitz
Barbara Stein
Pamela Waldroup
Constance Sloggatt Wolf
Obscura Gallery proudly presents Two Generations: Paul Caponigro and John Paul Caponigro, a father-and-son exhibition including over two dozen photographs highlighting the careers of this family of artists.
For both artists, Santa Fe was home for over twenty years (1970 – 1990s) while Paul lived here raising John Paul in a community of artists. Now, decades later, their work will be shown together in this joint exhibition at Obscura Gallery.
At first glance, both artists seem a world apart – Paul works in straight, small-scale, analog, black-and-white gelatin silver prints, and John Paul works in composited, large-scale, digital color ink prints. Upon further reflection, you’ll find their shared sensibilities run much deeper and are far more significant than the surface differences. Both masters, with a strong dedication to their craft and a deep reverence for nature, Paul Caponigro and John Paul Caponigro, create mystical spaces with powerful atmospheres of silence that resound with spirit. In these deep moments of quiescence, both rekindle our most primal ways of being and awaken our most essential natures, reminding us that man lives not apart from nature but as a part of Nature.
Join us (in person or online) for this fascinating exploration of changes in the medium of photography and, through it, the ways we see land and ourselves.
John Paul Caponigro, Eleanor Goldstein, Ryland West
“This exhibition presents the stunning capture of Antarctica’s glacial landscapes by noted photographer John Paul Caponigro (ME); striking Arctic evening icescapes by painter Eleanor Goldstein (NY); and ephemeral portraits of Alaska’s polar masses by photographer Ryland West (NY).”
1 – Saturday, July 15 – Opening
Works will be on display in both the gallery and the barn.
2 – Saturday, July 29, 3:30 pm – Artist’s Talks
Join us for the Artist Talks to learn of the artists’ firsthand witnessing and artistic documentation of the threatening disappearance of these majestic icy masses due to climate change.
3 – Sunday, July 30, 1 pm – Reading In The Barn
John Paul Caponigro and guests will read thematically related poetry and creative nonfiction.
4 – Sunday, July 31, 9:30 am – NPR on WLIW with Gianna Volpeg
Landscapes Within Landscapes 50 large prints survey the artist’s career; this exhibit illuminates how the perception of nature and the nature of perception are deeply intertwined. How we see the land changes how we see ourselves. The artist suggests we are land, not apart from nature but a part of Nature.
Process
25 small prints unveil the artist’s practices in detail, showing how process influences perception.
Enhanced with audio, video, and hybrid texts, the two exhibits combined offer a unique look into contemporary visions of land and changes in photographic practice.
Catalog A catalog expanding upon the exhibit will be available.
The Landscape
National Juried Small Works Exhibition
Juror: John Paul Caponigro, Photographic Visual Artist
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Exhibition Dates: November 26, 2022 – January 16, 2023
Reception: Saturday, November 26, 5-7 pm EST
Meet the Juror and Artists on Zoom: December 14, 7 pm EST – Register Here.
This is our tenth annual Small Works exhibition, and each work is affordably sized 13 inches or smaller for your Holiday gift list.
Our juror selected fifty-seven artworks by forty-six national artists working in photography, painting, and mixed media depicting the theme. These personal vistas of our land world include the expanse of outdoor scenery, varied environments and geography, and natural or man-made related landscape subjects.
About the Gallery Exhibition, The Landscape: Landscape (noun): a picture representing a view of natural land scenery; the landforms of a region in the aggregate; a portion of territory that can be viewed at one time from one place.
Our national juried exhibition welcomes entries of traditional and alternative photography in color or black & white, photo-based works, paintings, mixed media, and small sculptural works depicting the theme, The Landscape. Our Juror will be looking for thought-provoking, creative works expressing the theme with representational or abstract interpretations showcasing the natural land world, the expanse of outdoor scenery, environments, geography, and natural or man-made related landscape subjects.
After a year of staying close to home, travel around the world through the photography of twenty-three Maine artists. Curated by Bruce Brown, this exhibition features stunning photographs from every continent but our own. From natural vistas to manmade wonders to intimate glimpses into diverse cultures, the scope of this show is truly Worldwide.
Judith Allen-Efstathiou, Linda Alschuler, Roberta Baumann, Brendan Bullock, John Paul Caponigro, David Clough, Christian T. Farnsworth, Barbara Goodbody, Ella Hudson, Knapp Hudson, Carl Austin Hyatt, Nanci Kahn, Michael Kolster, Dennis Landis, Olga Merrill, K. Min, Munira Naqui, Robert Pennington, Damir Porobic, Ni Rong, Jan Pieter Van Voorst Van Beest, David Wade, and Katarina Weslien
See the exhibit in person at Cove Street Arts in Portland, Maine.