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May 14 at 6:30pm

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by Chas Bowie
Thursday July 30, 2009, 9:44 AM

Review: Amy Stein at Blue Sky Gallery and Catharine Stebbins at Newspace

Getting down
Silence and solitude overwhelm the low desert landscapes of Altadena, Calif., photographer Catharine Stebbins, on view at Newspace. Culled from her “Certain Places” series, the square compositions offer worm’s eye views of the land in soft, muted tones.

With her camera resting directly on the dry ground, Stebbins uses an evocatively shallow depth of field to render only a small slice of the photo in focus. In lesser hands, these would be little more than pretty nature pictures, but Stebbins works with a painterly sense of light and a poet’s sense of space and nature.

As if to argue against the majestic landscapes of fellow Californians Ansel Adams and Carleton Watkins, Stebbins’ photographs reveal very little of the land. But what she does show — the jazzy composition of a bramble patch, the bonsailike grandeur of a palm-sized stone and the dappled quality of early morning light on a cluster of sage leaves — are intimate spaces of profound and quiet beauty.

Newspace Center for Photography, 1632 S.E. 10th Ave.; 503-963-1935, www.newspacephoto.org. Hours: Monday-Thursday 10 a.m.-8 p.m., Friday-Sunday 10 a.m.-6 p.m., through Aug. 2.

© Catharine Stebbins "end no 2" 2006

Opening October 9, 2008
Artist Reception 7 – 9pm

Group Show featuring the work of Amerikan Blackheart, Michael Cannon, Karen Florek, Amanda Keller-Konya, Aline Smithson, Catharine Stebbins and Kim Ye

by Cate McQuaid, Globe Correspondent | August 6, 2008

EXTREME VIEWS

Of the two group shows now at Bromfield Gallery, a juried exhibit of photo-based work chosen by photographer Harvey Stein, is the better. The theme covers explosions, hugely pregnant women, inflatable toys, and weapons, and you’d think that would be all over the place, but because it’s all so extreme it hangs together beautifully. Highlights include Allison Jones’s “Karo Elder, Ethiopia,” showing a vividly painted Ethiopian holding up a machine gun, and Andy Bloxham’s “Beta 19,” in which the photographer seems to have caught a man in the act, examining his inflatable doll with a stethoscope in bed. Andy  Holzman’s “Deluge,” a black-and-white photo, illuminates driving rain, looking like a shower of sparks over a boat’s prow.
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July 30 – August 23, 2008
Bromfield Gallery, Boston MA

Opening Reception
Friday, Aug 1
5:30 – 7:30 pm

“fish 3:02″ from my series Microwavae Eruptus was accepted into this national competition juried by Harvey Stein, New York photographer.
“…this national competition of photography and photo-based artwork interprets the title phrase in unexpected ways, from the silly to the sublime, from inflatables to explosions to angry “blow-ups.”
bromfieldgallery.com

“fish 3:02″ 2007

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© Catharine Stebbins "edom no 2" 2005

April 25 – May 23, 2008
Lyceum Theatre Gallery, San Diego CA

International photography competition juried by Carol McCusker, Curator of Photography at the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego.

“cobb no 1″ 2006