GRANUCCI GALLERY
The Center for the Arts presents
January 30 through March 5
Artist Reception – Thursday, February 16, 6:00PM – 8:00PM
Comprised of Intermediate Photography students from the Fall 2011 class at Sierra College Nevada County Campus, this project was adapted from a final assignment of the semester. Each portfolio is a cohesive body of fine art work emphasizing a theme that holds the whole body of work together.
Our Instructor
Professional Photographer
Dana Bruce has been a professional fine art photographer for sixteen years specializing in large format photography. He emphasizes equally toned gelatin silver enlargements as well as platinum palladium contact prints. Though he will work with everything from 35mm to the 8 by 10 inch camera, his favorite format is the 5 by 7 inch camera. Most recently he had a show of his platinum palladium prints of bristle cone pines at the Viewpoint Photographic Art Center as well as at the Center for the Arts in downtown Grass Valley.
I have always loved photographs. For me they are a moment in time preserved forever.
This is as series on back doors. My desire was to capture the atmosphere that greets you at back doors. Typically the back door has a more familiar, relaxed and less guarded feeling. My hope was to capture a little of this in these photographs.
~Doris Bryant
I have never really considered myself an artist. I always thought there was some formula, a secret to creativity that I somehow lacked. And maybe I still don’t think of myself in those terms, but I have realized this: that every human act is art; everything we do, touch, see and speak is art, whether beautiful or obscene. There is no secret, we are all artists. The only difference is whether or not you’ve realized it yet.
-Sarah Taranto
Photography can capture more than a moment. It can capture someone’s imagination and curiosity.
Through my work, I try to call out and gain an audience by having them explore the subconscious mind. Through surrealism and portraiture, I distort and change reality to create another.
I don’t want someone to just glance at a picture and think nothing of it. I truly want someone to see a photograph of mine and be engaged with it, be thinking of what it means.
~ Peter Brennan
John Baca grew up in a place that barely ever existed and doesn’t anymore. A place where most people spent their time propping up things up, knocking them down and dragging them around in the dirt and mud. My work is as much about these things as it is anything else.
~ John Boca
