123XYZ was first exhibited at Gallery@MSY in South Pasadena, September-November 2009.
View the exhibition catalogue here!

123XYZ, a collaborative project with Marilyn J. Galosy, will be on view at Wildfire Post-Production Studios beginning May 14, 2010.

Reception for the Artists
Wine & food
May 14 at 6:30pm

RSVP to natasha@wildfirepost.com
You may also email or call the studios at 323-951-1700 to schedule a viewing at your convenience.

640 S. San Vicente Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90048

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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

I’m pleased to have my image “end no 1″ grace the cover of Newspace Center for Photography’s summer 2009 catalog. And even more thrilled about my upcoming two-person and show artist’s talk at the gallery in July 2009!