November 19, 2020, 6-8pm
Featuring Yorgos Efthymiadis, with PRC members
Fern Nesson, Karen Davis, and John Bunzick
Landscape imagery isn’t just sunsets. Join us to view photographs and discuss the concept of Urban Landscape and the quiet moments to be savored on city streets. This event features photographer and creator of The Curated Fridge, Yorgos Efthymiadis who captures images on neighborhood strolls as a way to understand his new home. Through these images he addresses longing, looking in, peeking out to the other side, and dreaming of the possible future, “There is always an element that leads you in; a hope that dreams will be fulfilled, that stability will prevail, that this sense of loneliness and seclusion will fade away.” Efthymiadis is an artist/curator from Greece who resides in Somerville, MA, and a board member of Somerville Arts Council. He was a Critical Mass finalist in 2018, a finalist for the 2017 Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship, and a recipient of the St. Botolph Club Foundation 2017 Emerging Artist Award. He has exhibited nationally and internationally and is represented by Gallery Kayafas in Boston. In 2015 he created a gallery in his own kitchen, titled The Curated Fridge.
Fern L. Nesson is a fine art photographer from Cambridge, Massachusetts, and she received her an MFA in Photography from Maine Media College. Nesson’s spare photographs distill reality to its essence, highlighting its energy through placement of forms and the use of abstraction. She creates photographs glowing with interest and life, demonstrating that even the unlikeliest of subjects can offer beauty and magic to a careful observer. Nesson has exhibited in venues such as Les Rencontres de la Photographie in Arles, France, the MIT Museum, The MetaLab at Harvard, Beacon Gallery in Boston, Auburn Gallery in Los Angeles and at the Griffin Museum of Photography.
Karen Davis’ work is featured at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) and
in the collections of Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW)/Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art; Lishui Museum of Photography (China); Houghton Rare Books Library, Harvard University and corporate and private collections. Davis will be presenting work from two recent series, Hudson Trios and Warren Street Blues. Since moving to Hudson, NY more than ten years ago, she has been making pictures to capture its essence. Since the pandemic and shut-down photographing in the streets has become a daily activity. Six months into the pandemic Davis accepted a challenge to photograph with a specific color in mind then write about it. She chose the color blue and slowed down her practice to see her environment with new eyes. This exercise resulted in Warren Street Blues.
John Bunzick does not work from a particular theoretical or conceptual photographic approach, instead, his work is process-based, in that he goes out in the city to see what he can find. This requires a “seeing” state of mind as he gravitates towards a somewhat formal approach composition and framing, seeking out buildings and structures that have a quiet formality telling something of the people who made and cared for them. John Bunzick has been taking photographs since childhood and learned the importance of mastering technique to get desired results from his father, a photoengraver. He now works exclusively digitally for its greater color range, accuracy and control than is possible with film. Bunzick worked for many years for architecture firms which fostered his love of the built environment. He has exhibited his work nationally and internationally including venues such as Panopticon Gallery, Boston, MA, Gallery 21, Budapest, Hungary, Griffin Museum, Winchester, MA, and at the San Diego Art Institute. Currently Bunzick serves as the President of the Photographic Resource Center, and in the 1970’s was on the board of the Cambridge Photo Coop, Cambridge, MA. John Bunzick has a BS in Organizational Behavior from Lesley University and lives in Somerville, MA.