Enjoy Breathe An Exhibit Of Small Works At Alex Ferrone Gallery

. Breathe Small Works Exhibition November 18, 2023 - January 15, 2024 . Alex Ferrone Gallery Cutchogue, New York . Saturday, December 2, 5-7 pm Artists’ Reception Holiday Tree Lighting and Caroling . Closing a chaotic year with a soft exhale, "Breathe" features serene, meditative photography, painting, mixed media, and sculpture to relax the senses from 2023 and help you recharge for 2024. Presented are small works under 18 inches from local and national artists including: . Bob Barnett Patricia Beary Arduina Caponigro John Paul Caponigro John Cino Carolyn Conrad Laura Dodson Cora Jane Glasser Eleanor Goldstein Linda Hacker Thomas Halaczinsky Katherine Liepe-Levinson Kathleen Massi Scott McIntire Wendy Prellwitz Barbara Stein Pamela Waldroup Constance Sloggatt Wolf . Learn more here. . Arduina Caponigro...

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The 9 Poets Collective Celebrates The Launch Of The Maine Standard

 . The Nine Poets Collective has been meeting since June of 2020 when they each signed up for a chapbook intensive offered by Maine Media and led by presidential inaugural poet Richard Blanco. The group continues to write and support each other with monthly gatherings on Zoom, and an annual poetry picnic. . With the launch of the new literary journal from DownEast books, The Maine Standard, the Nine Poets are featured with selections of poems that speak to each of their “obsessions” and an introduction by Richard Blanco. In this event with The Poets Corner, we celebrate the launch of the Maine Standard with readings from all nine poets. . This special event highlights both the power of poetry and the value of online...

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On Beauty With Richard Misrach

   Read our View Camera Conversation here. Read Quotes by Richard Misrach here. View 12 Great Photographs by Richard Misrach. View more Creativity Continues events at The Santa Fe Workshops. . On Beauty - An Inspiring Evening With Photographer Richard Misrach Wednesday, December 13, 2023 – 6:00-7:00 pm (Mountain Time) . Creativity Continues at Santa Fe Workshops with On Beauty, a conversation between Richard Misrach and John Paul Caponigro. Our hour of inspiration will begin with a short presentation of images by Richard Misrach. Next, Richard and John Paul will discuss the role of beauty in art (and specifically photography) as a source of nourishment for individuals and as a force for social change.   “Beauty can be a very powerful conveyor of difficult ideas.” – Richard Misrach “It’s hard for art to really solve problems but...

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Two Generations Resources

   At first glance, both artists seem a world apart – Paul works in straight, small-scale, analog, black-and-white gelatin silver prints, and John Paul works in composited, large-scale, digital color ink prints. Upon further reflection, you’ll find their shared sensibilities run much deeper and are far more significant than the surface differences. Both masters, with a strong dedication to their craft and a deep reverence for nature, Paul Caponigro and John Paul Caponigro, create mystical spaces with powerful atmospheres of silence that resound with spirit. In these deep moments of quiescence, both rekindle our most primal ways of being and awaken our most essential natures, reminding us that we live not apart from nature but as part of Nature.   Explore the art...

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Exhibit – Two Generations – Obscura Gallery – Sep 15 – Nov 18

. . Two Generations . Paul Caponigro & John Paul Caponigro . Obscura Gallery     Inquire about prints here. . Receive the ebook Images & Quotes here   Purchase the printed Catalog here.   View the Virtual Exhibit here.     Sep 15 – Nov 18 Sep 15 – 4 pm Gallery Talk Sep 15 – 5 - 7 pm Opening Sep 30 – Online Talk   . Obscura Gallery proudly presents Two Generations: Paul Caponigro and John Paul Caponigro, a father-and-son exhibition including over two dozen photographs highlighting the careers of this family of artists.   For both artists, Santa Fe was home for over twenty years (1970 - 1990s) while Paul lived here raising John Paul in a community of artists. Now, decades later, their work will be shown together in this joint exhibition at Obscura Gallery.   At first glance, both artists seem a world apart...

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Writing My Way Back To Antarctica

  My life-long writing practice has expanded to include creative nonfiction and poetry with environmental and ekphrastic emphases.   I'm preparing multiple manuscripts on Antarctica and many pieces are being published in international literary journals.   The following pieces are selected from my published works here.   Click Listen to hear me read.   Licking Icebergs Neologism January 2024   Polaris Australis Kokako – New Zealand September 2023   Superman Has A Fortress Of Solitude In Antarctica Indelible April 2023   Invisible Deluge Masque & Spectacle March 2023   Eye Listen The Wild Word December 2022   Waking To Antarctica The Royal Photographic Society Journal – United Kingdom November 2022   Talking With Eliot Porter Listen Drifting Sands July 2022   Ekphrastic Responses To My Antarctica The Ekphrastic Review – Canada April 2022   My Antarctica FRAMES – Switzerland April 2022  ...

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