A Photographic Arbor Day

 

The last Friday of April is set aside annually in celebration of National Arbor Day, a holiday which encourages the planting and caring for of trees and other foliage.  According to our good friend, Wikipedia, it originated in Nebraska during the early 1870's and has since spread to a global level.

What better way to celebrate the greenest of holidays with a vertically integrated product: trees make paper, photographs are printed on paper, photographs on paper look FABULOUS on your walls!  See the logic there?

So in honor of the 140th Arbor Day here is a small forests' worth of the photography world's best trees!

Mitch Dobrowner: Wind Swept Tree

 

 

Maggie Taylor: Oh, Happy Day!

 

Jerry Uelsmann: Untitled, 1969

 

 

Josef Hoflehner: Elephant Hill Pathway

 

Jeffrey Conley: Snow Covered Branches

 

Takeshi Shikama: Central Park #21

 

Jeri Eisenberg: Magnolia, No. 9

 

 

Susan Burnstine: Forever

 

Brett Weston: Holland Canal

Niniane Kelley: Palm

 

 

Charles Grogg: Bonsai (Juniper)

 

 

Jefferson Hayman: Tree, Central Park

 

 

Keliy Anderson-Staley: Plum Tree

 

David Fokos: Haybales, Ripsa, Sweden

 

Henry Gilpin: Trees, Reflection

Dan Burkholder: Tree in April Snow, Catskills

 

Pine-ing for any of these images?  Don't have a collection and looking for one to take root?  Already have one but looking to branch out?  Want me to stop with these ridiculous tree jokes? Don't be such a crabapple! Come into the John Cleary Gallery or give us a call and we'd love to help find that perfect photograph for you.

Jeri Eisenberg Price Increase

 

Effective May 1, 2012, the price for Jeri Eisenberg's A Sojourn in Seasons waxed Kozo series will be undergoing an across-the-board price increase.

 

Magnolia, No. 9

 

Friends of the John Cleary Gallery will remember Jeri's exhibition that opened our 2011-2012 season.  For a reminder of those works, please visit our Bokeh exhibition page here or her artist page here.

 

Quaking Ash, No. 2

 

The current price structure is as follows, along with the updated price as of May 1:

Single Panel (36 x 22.5 inches): $1,600  / $2,000

Diptychs (36 x 22.5 inches):     $1,800  /  $2,100

Triptychs (36 x 34 inches):       $2,600  /  $3,000

Quadtypchs (36 x 45.5 inches): $3,500  /  $4,000

Additionally, please note that the last three of each run of editions will be priced based on a tiered system and do not reflect the general numbers above. 

 

Forsythia, No. 3

 

As always, inquire with the John Cleary Gallery to get the most up to date information on any of our fine art photographers!

Jeri Eisenberg: Bokeh

Please join us Saturday, September 17, from 6 – 8 p.m. for the opening of Jeri Eisenberg: Bokeh. The exhibition will run through Saturday, October 15. The artist will be in attendance for the opening reception.

Magnolia, No. 13, 2011

Bokeh, the Japanese term for an “aesthetic quality of the blur” in a photographic image, is the latest installment in Eisenberg’s Sojourn in Seasons: Sketching with Light Amongst Trees, with this exhibit focusing specifically on the foliage of the spring and summer months. Eisenberg began the series upon the advent of her father’s loss of both vision and memory and maintains the work is unabashedly retinal, as much object as it is image. Shot through a purposefully oversized pinhole or defocused lense and printed onto Japanese rice paper and lightly coated with wax, the images represent a distortion of recognizable form reminiscent to her fathers ocular and mnemonic deterioration.

Quaking Ash, No. , 2008

According to the artist, her work is “firmly grounded in the natural world, a particular place, a particular season, a particular time. But by obscuring detail, only the strongest brush strokes emerge: the images become sketches with light, literally and figuratively.” Ignoring grand vistas or exotic locales, Eisenberg focuses instead on the ordinary rather than the spectacular, on the common landscapes of day to day life.

Forsythia, No. 3, 2011

As a working and teaching photographer in rural upstate New York, Eisenberg has exhibited in spaces ranging from the Center for Photography at Woodstock Permanent Collection, Dorsky Museum, New Paltz, New York to the Cordon Potts Gallery of San Francisco. Corporate collections include Banana Republic (New York, NY), Vinson & Elkins, LLP (Houston, TX) and the Sheraton Hotel (Stockholm, Sweden), among others. Bokeh is Eisenberg’s second solo exhibition at the John Cleary Gallery, following her successful showing in March of 2009.

Giant Magnolia, No. 2, 2010

For more of Jeri’s work you can check out our Bokeh exhibit page at the John Cleary Gallery website here or please feel free to stop in or give us a call with any other questions.

Summer News and Hours

 

We here at the John Cleary Gallery are excitedly looking forward to our 2011/12 season and during these slower summer hours are taking the opportunity to renovate and paint in anticipation.  As such, following is the updated schedule through September.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To make an appointment, please call: 713.524.5070

 

With these changes we are also looking forward to some great things happening here in the next couple of months:

 

The response to our recent announcement of the upcoming release of Mitch Dobrowner’s book in conjunction with 21st Editions has been overwhelming!  As a reminder, many of 21st Edition's books sell out before the book is even available, so please reserve your copy as soon as possible, along with your print choice.  The book will be shipped in mid-September.

 

Our 2011/12 season will officially begin on Saturday, September 17th with the opening of Jeri Eisenberg: Bokeh, with an opening reception with the artist from 6-8pm.

Magnolia, No. 13

 

Catherine will also once again return to the Fall 2011 Affordable Art Fair in New York, NY Wednesday, September 21 through Sunday the 25th.  For more information on free tickets or if you have particular photographs you would like to see, please contact the gallery.

 

If you have any further questions regarding our summer hours or would like to schedule an appointment, please email us at info@johnclearygallery.com or call us at 713.524.5070.