Photo credits, clockwise from upper left: Ernestine Ruben, Gerrit Dispersyn, Julie Tennant and Jill Mudge.
Our November calendar of events is:
Lakefront Gallery Opening Reception on November 6th, 5-7 pm. Please join us for a reception celebrating a wonderful new exhibit by Princeton Photography Club Members, Ernestine Ruben, Gerrit Dispersyn, Jill Mudge, and Julie Tennant. Lakefront Gallery is located at RWJ University Hospital Hamilton, 1 Hamilton Health Place, Hamilton, NJ 08690. In-Person Only
Artist Talk and Print Swap at The Watershed Institute, 31 Titus Mill Road, Pennington, NJ 08534 on November 13th, 7-8:30 pm. Our gathering will feature a presentation by Renate Aller, who will talk about how her intentions, inspirations, and intuition have guided her projects from her early teenage years through to today.
Born in Germany, Renate Aller divides her time between her studios in New York, Princeton, and Mana Contemporary in Jersey City. Renate completed her formal art school education at Byam Shaw School of Art, now part of the University of London. “The Space Between Memory and Expectation” is her fifth monograph and published by Kehrer Verlag, including essays by Makeda Best, deputy director of curatorial affairs, Oakland Museum and Courtney J. Martin, executive director of the Rauschenberg Foundation. Renate’s works are in the collections of corporate institutions, private collectors and museums, including: Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, NM; National Gallery of Art, Washington DC; Yale University Art Gallery, CT; George Eastman House, Rochester, NY; New Britain Museum of American Art, CT; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany; Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI; New York Historical Society Museum, NY; Musée des beaux-arts du Locle, Switzerland; and Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY. More about Renate and her work at: RenateAller.com. In-Person Only
Invited Guest Speaker Presentation on November 20th, 7-8:30 pm. Please join us for a presentation by Rashod Taylor, who will discuss his background as a photographer and his inspirations, and present two bodies of work: My America and Little Black Boy.
Rashod Taylor is a fine art and portrait photographer whose work addresses themes of family, intimacy, legacy, and the black experience. He attended Murray State University and received a Bachelor's degree in Art with a specialization in Fine Art Photography. Since then, he has exhibited and published his work across the United States and internationally. His photographs are part of the permanent collections of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History & Culture, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Rashod is the 2021 recipient of the Arnold Newman Prize For New Directions in Photographic Portraiture. More about Rashod and his work at: RashodTaylor.com. Zoom Only
Photo of the Month on November 27th, 7-8:30 pm. All are encouraged to submit a photo, photo-collage, diptych or triptych to Charmaine Hofmann at charma23@yahoo.com. Please email your file no later than 4 pm of that day, include your name within the filename, and limit the file to a single 2 MB JPG. Zoom Only
Photos by Renate Aller
Photo by Rashod Taylor