CATHARINE STEBBINS » certain places

Certain Places reviewed in The Oregonian

admin — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:40:33 +0000

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.

Group Show: Spring Arts Collective Gallery

admin — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:40:19 +0000

Spring Arts Collective Gallery, Los Angeles CA
During the Downtown Art Walk

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

Certain Places book: at blurb.com

admin — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:08:46 +0000

certain places by Catharine Stebbins and Greg Chandler

4Culture: Seattle Public Art Acquisition

admin — Sat, 10 May 2008 19:23:07 +0000

My image “edom no 2″ has been acquired by 4Culture, a Seattle public art initiative. As part of the Portable Collection: Landscapes, it will reside along with pieces by 33 other national artists in the Harborview Medical Center’s new Norm Maleng Building.

News Release

Art of Photography Show – Lyceum Theatre Gallery

admin — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:52:40 +0000

The Art of Photography Show 2008

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

Places review – ARTScene CA

admin — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 21:46:04 +0000

PLACES show at drkrm reviewed in ARTScene

CONTINUING AND RECOMMENDED

Perhaps due to the absence of any human traces the lush color photographs by Catharine Stebbins seem somehow haunted. Without the reference to humanity, these intense images exist in a timeless place where weeds or grass or twigs or a ripple on water are the most significant things going. Addressing the overlooked within the immensity of the L. A. experience is not a new topic, but these 40″ x 40″ shallow focus images (referred to by stebbins as eco-tableau vivant and organic mise en scene) find their own elegant perspective (drkrm., Northeast Los Angeles).

ArtScene, Vol. 26, No.8, pg.50, April 2007

Places – drkrm Gallery

admin — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 23:22:54 +0000

A solo exhibition featuring a selection of images from my series Certain Places.

March 10 – April 14, 2007
drkrm Gallery
Los Angeles CA

Artist Reception
Saturday March 10
7 – 10 pm