Salon Jane Celebrates Ten Years: Photography Reimagined

The Carl Cherry Center for the Arts in Carmel announces a new exhibit: Salon Jane Celebrates Ten Years: Photography Reimagined, opening November 1st from 5 to 7pm, and continuing through Nov 30. In addition, a walk through with the artists will be offered from 2-3pm on November 9. The exhibit and events are free and open to the public.

Salon Jane is honored to present its ten-year celebration exhibit at the Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, an important part of Carmel’s artistic history and culture, set in a vital region of photography.

Salon Jane is a six-member artist collective formed in Monterey, California, in 2014. The photographer members are Martha Casanave, Susan Hyde Greene, Jane Olin, Anna Rheim, Robin V. Robinson, and Robin Ward.

Over the past 10 years, the members of Salon Jane have created an intimate bond, facilitating a safe and inspiring environment for their artistic risk-taking and creative evolution. At their regular meetings, they share feedback about their work through hours of in-depth discussion and hold space for art-related life challenges.

The Monterey Peninsula has a long tradition of straight photography set forth by Edward Weston, Ansel Adams and others. However, the artists of Salon Jane inhabit an island of innovation that pushes against these strict boundaries. Each member artist nods to photography but expands on it in diverse and unexpected ways.

From aerial to underwater, abstract to representational, digital to darkroom, wall art to books, the work produced by these artists is wide ranging. In content and process, each artist’s work transcends the ordinary and taps into mystery. While they have evolved beyond formal straight photography, the members are equally concerned with artistic and photographic excellence and are grounded in historical processes.

Salon Jane quickly developed into a group of exhibiting artists. Their first exhibition was at Green Chalk Gallery in Monterey in 2015 and was followed by four unique exhibitions through 2022. In 2018, Salon Jane became a vital part of the Monterey Museum of Art’s Year of the Woman with their exhibition, The Ethereal Zone. In early 2021, the group exhibited work made during the pandemic at the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, with a show titled Present Tense. Each exhibit has been fully supported by Salon member presentations, demonstrations, and discussions.