Artist Statement
Interstices between real and imaginary places interest me. One’s thoughts jump back and forth between the two, effortlessly, hundreds of times a day. The moon is tangible, but also mythic, which is a compelling dichotomy. It waxes and wanes, directs tides, and waltzes into poetry. I’m pursuing a fusion of seeing the moon as it appears, and as the camera allows one to see it.
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Contact information:
aevans@gis.net
(617) 547-4018
Born in Norfolk, VA Grew up in Virginia Beach and Richmond, VA I currently live in Cambridge, MA.
I first began photographing at the age of 10 with my mother's Brownie.
Cameras I have used are: Argus 35mm with a bellows, a homemade pinhole camera, Nikon FE2, Sinar 4x5, Mamiya 330 2&1/4 with a bellows, assorted Diana & Arrow plastic cameras, Nikon F-100, Nikon D-100, and a Hasselblad.
Educated at the following: Virginia Commonwealth University, New England School of Photography (2-year program), Massachusetts College of Art (BFA in Photography), Harvard University (VES Dept.), and Bard College (towards an MFA).
Some of my favorite photographers are: Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Diane Arbus, Robert Frank, Richard Misrach, Sarah Moon, Cindy Sherman, David Akiba, Roy Decarava, Henri Cartier Bresson, Fredrick Sommer, and Rineke Djikstra.
I work as a photographer shooting weddings, events, and editorial portraits using both film and digital media.
Jason Byron Gavann
Artist Statement:
My approach has always been more like a filmmaker than a still photographer. For over the last 20 years, using my twin lens Rolleiflex and a special color technique called the cross process, I have pursued my love of taking portraits and working with the narrative—narrative not as the unfolding of a simple story but rather as the building up of many different photo shoots of the same person, place or thing over a long or short period of time. Transience and sentimentally combined with storytelling, dress-up and make believe have been the most obvious things that I do when putting together a portfolio. “Joey/April”, “The Yellow Portfolio” and “Here Lies The Heart” are all examples of portfolios that have taken years yet I still consider them works in progress. The sexual charge of male and female role playing as well as the romantic, intellectual and provocative documentaries that fuel my desire for taking photographs is constantly being inspired by the people I meet, the places I live and my favorite muse, my dog Pie.
Erik Hansen
Resume:
Contact information:
100 Acton St.
Maynard, MA 01754
978-394-2042
hansenphotography@mail.com
Education:
1966 Rutgers University, B.A.
1968 School of Visual Arts, New York City, Basic photography
Work Experience:
- 1968-72 Assistant to two photographers in New York City
- 1972-75 Commercial photographer specializing in editorial illustration for book publishers in California and Boston
- 1975-92 Commercial staff photographer for various studios in Boston area accenting advertising and catalogs
- 1992- 2003 Self-employed photographer specializing in high tech products, people with products and portraiture.
My clients have included:
- Polaroid
- Schick Razor
- Walden Sports
- Agfa
- Bose
- Black and Decker
- Becton Dickinson
- Arthur D. Little
- Gillette Stationery Group
Publication:
- 1970 Feature article in Popular Photography, “The Liberated Pro ”
- 1975- 2003 Various national magazines, catalogs and text book publishers, including: Business Week, ID Magazine Innovation, Psychology Today, P2/ Fort Point, cover photo
Interests:
Active in white water and sea kayaking; studying history, specific eras and personalities; volunteering in environmental organizations
Exhibits:
- 1997 Open Studios, Allston, MA
- 1998 Open Studios, Allston, MA
- 2001 Open Studios, ArtSpace Maynard, MA
- 2002 Open Studios, ArtSpace Maynard, MA
- 2003 New England Photographers 03, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA (May through September)
- 2003 Homage to James McNeil Whistler, Whistler House Museum of Art, Lowell, MA (June through September)
- 2003 One man show, Zona Photo Lab, Somerville, MA ( August)
- 2003 One man show, Acton Public Library, Acton, MA (November)
- 2003 Honorable Mention, Photo 2003 Black and White Classic, Brush Art Gallery, Lowell, MA (November)
- 2004 Dual show with paper making artist, Gail Erwin, Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA (February)
- 2005 New England Photographers 2005: A Competitive Exhibition of Regional Contemporary Photography, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA, May-July
- 2005 3 Spaces + 160 Artists, A Survey of Studio Art from Artspace-Maynard, Emerson Umbrella and the Mil at Littleton, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA, June-Aug.
- Juried Spring Photography Show, Stebbins Gallery, Cambridge, MA, April
Artist Bio:
Erik Hansen has been pursuing the art of photography for thirty-five years in the commercial world where he uses his skill and creativity to perfect techniques that he now also applies to his fine art. His formal training included history, art history and studio art at Rutgers University. After graduating, he became an assistant to two advertising photographers in New York City. Moving to Massachusetts, he was employed at various studios, giving him an opportunity to perfect his studio lighting techniques. While he gained experience in the commercial studio world, he started shooting personal images using natural light, including: portraiture, landscapes, abstract details, and self-assigned projects. As he spent more time working inside the studio, he experimented with artificial light. When he made the transition to creating his Imaginary TimeScapes, the familiar creative methods came naturally. Hansen constructs landscapes/timescapes in his studio and photographs them in black and white. The strong echo of history pervades much of his work. Though many hints are present, there is never an easy conclusion to assume. Time and place seem evasive. Since 1997, he has exhibited extensively in the Boston area. Hansen showed his work in Open Studios in Boston and Maynard, MA where he now has worked since 2000. Since then, he has exhibited in Acton, Zona Color Labs in Somerville, the Danforth Museum juried New England Photographers Show, the Brush Gallery juried show in Lowell, and the Kingston Gallery in Boston.
Steven Tavan
Artist Statement:
Halibut Point is a magical place, a sacred place. There, the crashing waves and the ever persevering rocks provide a continuing excitement mixed with stillness and solitude. I photograph at Halibut Point because it brings me closer to the Spirit beyond everything. When I was a young man, I went to sea to conquer The Fear. Now I return again and again to the sea shore, for the thrill of a seventh wave in a stiff gale and all that it portends. A crack in a slab of granite intimates the depths of one’s soul. For Wynn Bullock, photography was "a way of life." Edward Weston assured us that composition is simply "the strongest way of seeing." Photography helps me see the world more clearly, reveal that sight to others, and thereby give pleasure. The act of photographing causes me to look closely, carefully, and look everywhere. I proceed cautiously, with contemplation, until a visual gestalt occurs. Then I work furiously, rapidly, to make the image. Cartier-Bresson called this “the decisive moment,” while photographing situations in which people were continually moving through his visual field. The photographer of significant detail in the landscape experiences a similar moment when everything comes together. For the light, the wind, the shadows, the air, even the photographer, will never be exactly the same. When everything is flowing, I work, and it is joyous. The hope for these photographs is to reflect some measure of the enjoyment and excitement I feel when looking at the world. Please look deeply, and may you feel deeply as well.
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Steve received his early training and encouragement in photography from his father, a commercial photographer, and began free-lancing for local newspapers and commercial photographic studios while in high school. He studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Creative Photography Gallery with Professors Minor White and Jonathan Green. He later studied with Fred Picker and Martin Tarter at the Zone VI Workshops. Steve has photographed in Central and South America, Africa, Barbados, Bermuda, Canada, Israel, and throughout the United States, concentrating in New England and the desert Southwest. Though the bulk of his work is black and white, he has created and exhibited several color portfolios. Steve has been showing his work publicly for over 20 years, with one-man shows in 1981 and 1982 at the Draper Laboratory and the MIT Museum, both in Cambridge. In March 1990, one of Steve’s photographs won the best amateur entry of the annual Member’s Exhibition of the Fuller Museum of Art in Brockton, MA. His photographs have been displayed at three different centers of the Harvard Community Health Plan, between 1990 and 1995. His Israeli portfolio was displayed at Temple Emunah, Lexington, MA, during 1995; three images from that show were published in The Jewish Calendar, 5756, by Sharon and Michael Strassfeld. His work was also shown at the MITRE Corporation in Bedford, MA in 1996, the Zona Photographic Lab in Cambridge, MA in 2001, and the Newton Free Library, also in 2001. Working primarily in 4x5 format, Steve’s latest project, Sacred Places, Sacred Spaces, reflects on a synagogue renovation. Throughout his work Steve seeks images of significant details in the scene, to reveal things not readily seen, to find the “still, small voice” of the landscape, and hopefully, to bring to the viewer a sense of the wonder and mystery, a sense of the sacredness of space, place, and light. The current exhibition, Halibut Point, reflects Steve’s life-long fascination with rock and water, and their intersection. Through over 30 years living in New England, Steve has returned countless times to this beautiful former granite quarry at the northern tip of Cape Anne, Massachusetts. There, the crashing waves and the ever persevering rocks provide a continuing charge of joy and excitement mixed with ever-present stillness and solitude.
Bio:
Steve received his early training and encouragement in photography from his father, a commercial photographer, and began free-lancing for local newspapers and commercial photographic studios while in high school. He studied at MIT’s Creative Photography Gallery with Professors Minor White and Jonathan Green, and at the Zone VI Workshop with Fred Picker and Martin Tarter.
He has photographed in Central and South America, Africa, Barbados, Bermuda, Canada, Israel, and the United States, concentrating on New England and the desert Southwest. Though the bulk of his work is monochrome, he has created and exhibited several color portfolios.
While maintaining a full-time career as an engineer, Steve has pursued photography as his passion. He has exhibited at a variety of venues in the Boston metropolitan area, and had his work published in several calendars.
The current exhibition, Halibut Point, reflects Steve’s life-long fascination with rock and water, and their intersection. Steve has returned countless times over the last 30 years, to this beautiful former granite quarry at the northern tip of Cape Anne, Massachusetts, to revel in its exhilaration and stillness.