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Thursday, 7 January 2016
In the Land of Dali

While visiting Portland, Oregon in the summer of 2011 I became consciously aware of the incredibly beautiful abstract patterns reflected in the windows of the Downtown. As I began to photograph these images, I found myself composing what appeared to be paintings. My initial awareness turned into an excitement and a passion for exploring more opportunities to capture this abstract art. I started to associate to the way metal and glass, like structure and openness, represent the tension between elements in modern architecture. While the metal framework demands conformity, the glass reflections seem to explode almost in defiance of this structure and, in the end, seem to transcend their captors.

We can try to look directly at the world and never truly see it. Reality, without intention, is inevitably distorted through the lens of our personal histories. It is like light on a window, deforming the objects it is reflecting. Although never fully objectively real, there are elements of reality most of us could agree on and that is why fragments of objects (a fluorescent light shining in a window, a car parked on a rooftop garage, or a rivet driven into steel) remain in these images as illustrations of how we see what's in front of us.

The City Reflections Project, through its imagery of colors, shapes and patterns, represents the way we place discordant pieces of our lives in proximity to each other, deconstruct the whole of an experience, embellish, elaborate and abstract the simple, plain and ordinary truth that is life.

Artist ( Description ): 

I have had a lifelong interest in color, form and design that twenty years ago led to exploring photography as the medium of my artistic vision. Through a variety of training courses, including a particularly influential workshop with David Alan Harvey, I began to develop a signature viewpoint that is exemplified most in my City Reflections Project and, recently, in my City Reflections II series.

I would have to say that my work is best characterized as an intense meditation, which abandons the larger perspective for the smaller, more intimate scene. This style, whether in my interpretive landscape work or in my exploration of the urban cityscape, is quite evident. The images are often close up and tend to share an abstract interpretation with a literal one. The combination of abstraction and reality remains in my current work and is now often infused with a dream-like or a hyper-realistic quality.

Images from the City Reflections Project were selected for exhibit at the 2012 Modesto International Architecture Festival. I have had the honor of being published in three internationally acclaimed online photography magazines including LensWork Extended #106, Lenscratch (featured photographer, December 15, 2013), and on the cover page of LensCulture. In November 2013, I received a Grand Prix Juror of Merit Award for Rooftop Dream in the International Fine Art Competition in Paris.

Twenty-fourteen was a very interesting year. The City Reflections portfolio garnered more international recognition with feature articles in La boite verte (France), Fubiz (France), Plataforma Urbana (Chile), ArchDaily (Mexico, Brazil), and Cosas de Arquitectos (Spain) among others. In August I was interviewed and published in the printed South Korean magazine Photo+ and I also licensed six images to the Lumas gallery in Berlin to sell and display my work throughout their 38 European galleries. At the end of the year I was featured in the arts and architecture quarterly printed magazine A + E (Morocco).

Nationally, images from my City Reflection Project were exhibited in a group show at the Panopticon fine art photography gallery in Boston, MA for the summer of 2014. In November of 2014, Bricks And Mirrors was selected for the 2015 International Juried Exhibition at the Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA.

In February 2015, the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, CA acquired Doorway To The Daily Diaryfor their permanent collection.

My work can be found on the Stone Photography website and at the Stone Photography Studio, both of which I share with my husband Rob Stone. I have had award-winning images selected for multiple juried shows in Northern California, including Viewpoint Photographic Art Center, The Blue Line Gallery and Gallery 1855 (solo show, December 2014).

I am represented by Lumas (Berlin, DE), Art Consulting Services (Sacramento, CA), DSA Fine Arts (Beacon, NY), Kinzelman Art Consulting (Houston, TX), DAC Art Consulting (Atlanta, GA), and ICArt (Miami, FL).

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530-756-6319
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Our limited edition archival pigment on paper prints are produced exclusively at our studio. These handmade images are of the highest quality using only paper and inks that insure state of the art permanence. All are signed, dated and numbered on the front of each print. A certificate of authenticity describing the photograph and the archival print making process is provided with each piece.

Our images are available in three sizes with five editions in each size. The price increases with editions 3,4, and 5 in each of the sizes. We reserve two artist proofs for each image. Prints greater than 30" x 40" are available with certain images in editions of two. Some select images (30" x 40" and greater) have international representation and are offered in larger editions. The Synergy series is offered in three sizes with 30 editions in each size. The price increases after edition number 10 in each of the sizes.

Please contact us regarding the print you are interested in for specific dimensions and price.

If you would like to view the work, please call us (530-756-6319) to arrange an appointment at our studio.

Venue ( Address ): 

429 F Street, Suite 5
Davis, CA, 95616
Phone: 530-756-6319 
International: +1-530-756-6319

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