Lincoln PhotoFest
Date(s): February 1, 2009 thru February 28, 2009
Time(s): 12:00 AM
Lincoln PhotoFest, coming in February 2009, will be a community-wide celebration of photography. Exhibitions will include Sheldon Museum of Art's Evolving Eden: Three Photographic Perspectives. The exhibition will present works by internationally acclaimed artists Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Hans Eijkelboom and Edward Burtynsky.
Many art galleries across Lincoln and some alternative spaces will feature work by nationally known artists, established local artists and some of the city’s finest young emerging photographers.
In connection with Lincoln PhotoFest, Sheldon Museum of Art is organizing a Photo Scavenger Hunt and a Photography Symposium. Please click the links for details.
Assurity Life Insurance Company has provided generous support for Lincoln PhotoFest.
PhotoFest Exhibitions in Lincoln
A to Z Printing Burkholder Gallery Eisentrager-Howard Gallery Elder Gallery Gallery Nine Great Plains Art Museum Governor's Mansion Gallery Haydon Art Center Hillestad Gallery Kiechel Fine Art Lentz Center for Asian Art Lux Center for the Arts
www.atozprint.com
8230 Cody Drive
New York photographer R. Wayne Parsons, Shell Game
The series Shell Game consists of color photographs of seashells. While the vivid colors and interesting compositions are of interest in their own right, the use of props and text in many of the images expands the range of the exhibition beyond the purely decorative to include witty and tongue-in-cheek commentary on cultural and social issues. Exhibition opening on Thursday, February 5, 5-7 p.m. Exhibition is on view during normal office hours, weekdays 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
www.burkholderproject.com
719 P Street
Encyclopedia
Allen Maretz's exhibition Encyclopedia suggests the accumulation, ordering and presentation of knowledge. The way in which our culture chooses to define, examine and comment upon itself is the sprawling subject of this body of work. The images capture subtle moments of light, scenes within scenes and individuals responding to and moving through information in real and fabricated worlds.
www.unl.edu/art/facilities_eisentrager-howard
Richards Hall, University of Nebraska-Lincoln City Campus
Vacant Spaces: Memory and Implied Presence in Contemporary Photography, curated by Rosemary Burk. Artists include Toni Pepe, Jennifer Little, and Rebecca Sittler-Schrock.
www.nebrwesleyan.edu/services/elder_gallery
Nebraska Wesleyan University Campus
Beyond the Edge: Photography Invitational, including work by: Jan Christensen, Jim Butkus, Terry Evans, Bill Ganzel, Ted Orland, Susan Bowen, Rocky McCorkle and Cole Thompson.
The exhibition will be on view from February 3 through March 13. Exhibition reception will be held Friday, February 6, 5-7 p.m.
www.gallerynine.com
124 S.9th Street
Photo Finish, Photography in Art is exhibition featuring member artists and guests creating new works in a variety of mediums that begin with, incoporate, or grow from photography. The exhibition will be on view February 4 through March 1. Public reception, Friday, February 6, 7-9 p.m.
www.unl.edu/plains/gallery/gallery.shtml
1155 Q Street
Somewhere in a Prairie Town, an exhibition by Jeffery Haller, and Fragments and Fusion an exhibition by Susan Schenk from Jan. 6 through Feb. 6.
www.governorsresidence.ne.gov/
14th and H streets
Mina Lee, Nebraska State Capitol in Black and White
www.haydonartcenter.org
335 N. 8th
Hours: Thursday-Saturday 11 a.m - 5 p.m. and by appointment
Exhibition : 3 one-person shows: Davida Kidd, Vancouver B.C., Canada www.davidakidd.com;
Ana De Orbegoso, New York/Lima, Peru, www.anadeorbegoso.com;
Tara Welch, Honolulu, Hawaii, www.tarawelch.net (under construction).
http://textilegallery.unl.edu
University of Nebraska-Lincoln East Campus
Hours: Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. and weekends by special request. Call (402) 472-2911
Exhibition - Lia Cook, Berkeley, California: In Touch: Faces and Mazes
Exhibition dates: March 16-April 10 2009
Lia Cook uses an electronic Jacquard hand loom to weave faces that dissolve into continuously changing maze like patterns. As the faces fragment, a perceptual shift occurs, moving through a place of transition and ambiguity to reveal the physical, tactile nature of the constructed image. Drawing on familiar and childhood sources, Lia Cook uses a detail, often re-photographed, layered and re-woven in oversize scale, to intensify an emotional and/or sensual encounter.
www.kiechelart.com
5733 S. 34th St., Suite 300
Opening February 6, the exhibition Multi-media Artists: Focus on Photography includes works by Keith Jacobshagen, Paula Day, Neil Christensen, Hal Holoun and Francisco Souto.
www.unl.edu/lentz
1155 Q Street
Hours: Tues-Fri 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sat. 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sun. 1:30-4 p.m.; Mon. closed
Conversing with the Ancients by Chinese photographer Hong Lei.
www.luxcenter.org
2601 N. 48th St.
Hours: Tues-Sat, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Converging/Diverging, works by Dana Fritz and Larry Gawel, Feb. 6-28
Flowers Don’t Argue, Park II, works by Herb Friedman, Feb. 6-28
www.modernartsmidwest.com
800 P St, 3rd Floor
Hours: Tues-Sat 11-5
Survey: Photography 2009,
including photographs by: Bill Adams, Denver, CO, Frauke Bergemann, Berlin, Germany, Roger Bruhn, Lincoln, NE, Jim Butkus, Omaha, NE, Mike Farrell, Lincoln, NE, Larry Ferguson, Omaha, NE, Skylar Hawkins, Omaha, NE, Dave Lovekin, Hastings, NE, Firth Macmillan, New York City, Vera Mercer, Omaha, NE, Dennis Morimoto, Greeley, CO, John Spence, Lincoln, NE, and Don Tremain, Texas.
Museum of Nebraska History
www.nebraskahistory.org/sites/mnh/index.htm
15th and P Streets
Hours: Tuesday - Friday 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday 1-4:30 p.m.
Photographs by John Johnson (1880-1953), African-American Lincoln resident, plus a unique Ambrotype of Abraham Lincoln.
The Project Room
www.projectroom.us/
1416 O Street
Omaha artist Natalie Linstrom makes large photo-based, digitally manipulated
prints that have an ephemeral, abstract, other-worldly feel. Sheila Talbitzer sets up and photographs scenarios and presents them as series that embody a metaphorical narrative about personal experiences.
Rotunda Gallery
www.involved.unl.edu/gallery/rotunda
14th and R streets in University of Nebraska-Lincoln City Campus Union
In the exhibitiion Beside Ourselves Becky Aiken, Sarah Moore and Jessica Northup explore environments through the use of photography.
So-Oh Fine Art
www.so-oh-art.com/index-4.html
7121 Pioneers Blvd
Group exhibition including: Anne Leighton Massoni, Chesterfield, MD,
Steve Ryan, Lincoln, NE, Robb Siverson, Fargo SD, Roxann Graber, Lawrence KS, Stan Krehbiel Jr., Wichita KS, Emily Copper, Lincoln, NE, Renee Johnson, Lincoln, NE, Carolyn Miller, Eagle, NE, Karen Rinaker Hays, Bennet, NE, Julie Carter, Lincoln, NE, and Matel Loop, Lincoln, NE.
Tugboat Gallery
www.tugboatgallery.com
116 N. 14th St.
Exhibition Lost, Forgotten, Erased, or Misplaced, is curated by Kim Thomas and includes artists Allison Grant, Cory Prahl, Sheila Talbitzer, and Justin Kohmetscher.
The Unitarian Church gallery
www.unitarianlincoln.org
6300 A Street
Two young emerging artists, Michael Evnen and Kayleigh Speck, present works closely based on their own experiences and friendships.
WorkSpace Gallery
workspacegallery.googlepages.com
440 N 8th
Hours: Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-5:30 p.m. and selected First Fridays 6-8 p.m.
Works by Carol Golemboski.
Location: Sheldon
