Martha Casanave
I have been using a camera (or making cameraless photographic images) all of my teenage and adult life—that’s sixty years now. My work has always been project oriented. Every project has a similar arc, beginning with a slate so blank that I feel I’ll never photograph again. A trigger or sudden inspiration initiates experimentation, which evolves into exploration and discovery, during which period I am very productive and immersed. Eventually I begin to imitate myself and, without conscious decision, the project slows down and completes itself. Then I can write about it. Often when I look back at the projects I have done, I ask myself “Did I really do that? I couldn’t do it now…”
The work shown here is new and experimental: non-figurative cameraless photography called chemigrams. Cameraless photography is the most primitive kind, and reflects the very beginnings of the medium. Abstraction is a relatively new direction in the history of art.
see more work at marthacasanave.com
Susan Hyde Greene
As I became aware that the history of art is the history of people, I saw the possibility of bringing people together through the language of art.
Following the tradition of women using stitches to mend and heal, my quiet pictures portray the wonder and miracle that is our world. Through photographs cut apart and fractured pieces stitched together, they offer hope that humans will come together, assuring succeeding generations a healthy, peaceful, safe, and breathing world.
see more work at susanhydegreene.com
Jane Olin
My photographs always begin with a question or some curiosity that arises within me. In more than twenty-five years, I have rarely photographed the external world for its own sake, but for the ways in which it helps to reveal subconscious processes and evoke meaning. I focus on a single subject in a related series of images, which allows me to hone in on the heart of what I am after. I also have a contemplative awareness practice that is of central importance to me, and which guides and enhances my working methods and my output.
As an adventurer who likes to experiment, I find that pushing the boundaries of what is possible with both camera and darkroom techniques motivates my best work. I photograph with film and often use a pinhole or Holga camera for making images. I enjoy the darkroom process and take advantage of every tool and technique at my disposal. Playing with exposure, focus, and a wide variety of photographic chemicals, I embrace creative accidents, and willingly abandon darkroom rules, with the intention of expressing a distinctive vision by whatever method seems right. I sometimes print my gelatin silver pieces digitally, but only after darkroom work is completed.
see more work at janeolin.com
Anna Rheim
I am a storyteller. Handmade books are my favorite art form for my stories. Currently, members of my family of origin are my primary source material.
By combining writing, photographs, painting, and paper arts, I offer my stories with a variety of techniques to intrigue the viewer. Examining the humor and pathos of the human condition is my abiding interest. By creating handmade books, I invite viewers to hold my questions in their hand and reflect on their own experience.
After graduating from Stanford University with a BA in History in 1966, I studied black and white photography and mixed media at Monterey Peninsula College with Henry Gilpin, Roger Fremier, and Don Anderson, and color photography and printing at University of California Santa Cruz with Jack Fulton. I’ve taken private classes with many noted photographers including David Bayles, Ruth Bernhard, Martha Casanave, Lisl Dennis, Tom Millea, and Ted Orland.
see more work at annarheim.com
Robin V. Robinson
Robin V. Robinson explores mystery and metaphors found in all forms of life, focusing especially on the way we look at the planet and ourselves. Her newest images are based on ideas about the human species and the relative permanence of the earth, with questions about our brief time here. This unique moment on the planet is unsettling and desires perspective. Robinson’s images provide intimate suggestions of our physical and spiritual place in this liminal state.
Ongoing work includes in-water images evoking curiosity about the ocean’s deep landscape, how it relates to dry land, and what is “normal” for human beings, now and in our rapidly changing environment. Robinson’s “Surfacing” series explores the tension we feel on the water and in life, on the edge between what is above and below, between the known and unknown.
Robinson embraces the element of chance: “My time in the darkroom is full of ‘what-ifs.’ I use the experimental nature of chemistry to explore pathways which are magical, alchemical in feeling, transformational in the end. This type of play and chance are what I love about the analog photography process, not to mention a satisfying original print.”
Robinson studied with West Coast Photography mentors, and at City College SF and Foothill College. Her degrees in engineering and music from Cal Poly and Stanford Universities, and her personal studies of depth psychology contribute to her distinctive style of seeing and creating art. Robinson’s work is in the permanent collections of the Monterey Museum of Art, the Bibliotheque Nationale de France and the National Mariners’ Museum.
see more work at robinrobinson.com
Robin Ward
Robin is a visual artist and commercial photographer based in La Jolla, CA. She is a life-long artist and lover of nature. Throughout her youth, she painted photorealistic landscapes and wildlife with acrylic and oil. She began writing poetry and discovered photography in college. These passions shape her approach to creating art.
Robin chooses to create images that celebrate joy, mystery and the awe of the human experience, emphasizing our unison with the natural world. This has the effect of imprinting elevated emotions into memory.
Robin’s art has been recognized by International Color Awards and Black and White Spider Awards and has exhibited in numerous galleries and museums including the Monterey Museum of Art, LACDA and Triton Museum of Art.
In her surreal photography series, Echoes from a Future Past, she creates digital composites of multiple original photographs of nature, architecture and artifacts to portray hybrid spaces and to experience intermingling realities.
see more work at robinward.photography
Martha Casanave
I have been using a camera (or making cameraless photographic images) all of my teenage and adult life—that’s sixty years now. My work has always been project oriented. Every project has a similar arc, beginning with a slate so blank that I feel I’ll never photograph again. A trigger or sudden inspiration initiates experimentation, which evolves into exploration and discovery, during which period I am very productive and immersed. Eventually I begin to imitate myself and, without conscious decision, the project slows down and completes itself. Then I can write about it. Often when I look back at the projects I have done, I ask myself “Did I really do that? I couldn’t do it now…”
The work shown here is new and experimental: non-figurative cameraless photography called chemigrams. Cameraless photography is the most primitive kind, and reflects the very beginnings of the medium. Abstraction is a relatively new direction in the history of art.
see more work at marthacasanave.com
Susan Hyde Greene
As I became aware that the history of art is the history of people, I saw the possibility of bringing people together through the language of art.
Following the tradition of women using stitches to mend and heal, my quiet pictures portray the wonder and miracle that is our world. Through photographs cut apart and fractured pieces stitched together, they offer hope that humans will come together, assuring succeeding generations a healthy, peaceful, safe, and breathing world.
see more work at susanhydegreene.com
Jane Olin
My photographs always begin with a question or some curiosity that arises within me. In more than twenty-five years, I have rarely photographed the external world for its own sake, but for the ways in which it helps to reveal subconscious processes and evoke meaning. I focus on a single subject in a related series of images, which allows me to hone in on the heart of what I am after. I also have a contemplative awareness practice that is of central importance to me, and which guides and enhances my working methods and my output.
As an adventurer who likes to experiment, I find that pushing the boundaries of what is possible with both camera and darkroom techniques motivates my best work. I photograph with film and often use a pinhole or Holga camera for making images. I enjoy the darkroom process and take advantage of every tool and technique at my disposal. Playing with exposure, focus, and a wide variety of photographic chemicals, I embrace creative accidents, and willingly abandon darkroom rules, with the intention of expressing a distinctive vision by whatever method seems right. I sometimes print my gelatin silver pieces digitally, but only after darkroom work is completed.
see more work at janeolin.com
Anna Rheim
I am a storyteller. Handmade books are my favorite art form for my stories. Currently, members of my family of origin are my primary source material.
By combining writing, photographs, painting, and paper arts, I offer my stories with a variety of techniques to intrigue the viewer. Examining the humor and pathos of the human condition is my abiding interest. By creating handmade books, I invite viewers to hold my questions in their hand and reflect on their own experience.
After graduating from Stanford University with a BA in History in 1966, I studied black and white photography and mixed media at Monterey Peninsula College with Henry Gilpin, Roger Fremier, and Don Anderson, and color photography and printing at University of California Santa Cruz with Jack Fulton. I’ve taken private classes with many noted photographers including David Bayles, Ruth Bernhard, Martha Casanave, Lisl Dennis, Tom Millea, and Ted Orland.
see more work at annarheim.com
Robin V. Robinson
Robin V. Robinson explores mystery and metaphors found in all forms of life, focusing especially on the way we look at the planet and ourselves. Her newest images are based on ideas about the human species and the relative permanence of the earth, with questions about our brief time here. This unique moment on the planet is unsettling and desires perspective. Robinson’s images provide intimate suggestions of our physical and spiritual place in this liminal state.
Ongoing work includes in-water images evoking curiosity about the ocean’s deep landscape, how it relates to dry land, and what is “normal” for human beings, now and in our rapidly changing environment. Robinson’s “Surfacing” series explores the tension we feel on the water and in life, on the edge between what is above and below, between the known and unknown.
Robinson embraces the element of chance: “My time in the darkroom is full of ‘what-ifs.’ I use the experimental nature of chemistry to explore pathways which are magical, alchemical in feeling, transformational in the end. This type of play and chance are what I love about the analog photography process, not to mention a satisfying original print.”
Robinson studied with West Coast Photography mentors, and at City College SF and Foothill College. Her degrees in engineering and music from Cal Poly and Stanford Universities, and her personal studies of depth psychology contribute to her distinctive style of seeing and creating art. Robinson’s work is in the permanent collections of the Monterey Museum of Art, the Bibliotheque Nationale de France and the National Mariners’ Museum.
see more work at robinrobinson.com
Robin Ward
Robin is a visual artist and commercial photographer based in La Jolla, CA. She is a life-long artist and lover of nature. Throughout her youth, she painted photorealistic landscapes and wildlife with acrylic and oil. She began writing poetry and discovered photography in college. These passions shape her approach to creating art.
Robin chooses to create images that celebrate joy, mystery and the awe of the human experience, emphasizing our unison with the natural world. This has the effect of imprinting elevated emotions into memory.
Robin’s art has been recognized by International Color Awards and Black and White Spider Awards and has exhibited in numerous galleries and museums including the Monterey Museum of Art, LACDA and Triton Museum of Art.
In her surreal photography series, Echoes from a Future Past, she creates digital composites of multiple original photographs of nature, architecture and artifacts to portray hybrid spaces and to experience intermingling realities.
see more work at robinward.photography