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Penland's 26th Annual Benefit Auction, August 12 - 13, 2011 Special Photography Portfolio Penland School is in the preliminary stages of planning a new photography studio that will allow the school's photo program to teach contemporary image making using photographic techniques that span the history of the medium: from daguerreotypes to digital. As part of the fundraising for this project, photographer, instructor, and trustee Alida Fish has worked with a group of past Penland instructors to create a suite of photographs that have ties to the Penland campus or environs.
These photographs include direct depictions of the Penland environment, photographic constructions that were made at Penland, and an abstract image by Murray Riss that was inspired by the spirit of Penland. The technical diversity of these photographs exemplifies the exciting range of Penland's photographic program. Included here are several 19th century processes, a photograph that was transferred to a china plate, a digital photograph printed onto an a sheet of aluminum, and an image made using a flatbed scanner. The sale of these works will go directly toward Penland's new photography studio. Penland is grateful for and proud of the support these artists have shown for the future of the photography program.
These photographs will be part of Penland's 2011 Annual Benefit Auction, which takes place August 12 - 13. You may bid by attending the auction or as an absentee bidder by paying a $25 bidding fee (includes printed catalog).
Click here for complete auction information, including reservations and a schedule of events
Or call 828-765-2359, ext. 40 or e-mail Click on the thumbnail images to see larger images of the photographs.
Dan Bailey Crab Tree Falls #2/10 Retail value: $2,500 Lot 420
Dan Bailey is a wizard when it comes to new technologies. He has a well-established reputation for his work in film, animation, and interactive video. However, he has never abandoned his life-long love of photography working with the panoramic image for most of his career. With this image of Crab Tree Falls, a beautiful site near Penland, he has created an intriguing photograph by digitally stitching a series of photographs that make both vertical and horizontal parnoramas. Through this complex process, Dan seeks to illuminate hidden spaces and invent new perspectives. Dan Bailey is the director of the Image Research Center at the University of Maryland Baltimore Campus. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and the Pompidou Center in Paris.
Pinky/MM Bass Clay Bodies Retail value: $1,000 Lot 307
"This work represents issues and processes that I explored with my friend and collaborator, ceramic sculptor Kitty Couch. Our work together included building an eight-foot walk-in camera obscura on the Penland campus, clay photographs made by mixing Kitty's clay with liquid photo emulsion (one of these pieces is part of this triptych), several Penland classes we taught together, and our mutual interest in the human body."
Pinky Bass's work is in the collections of the High Museum in Atlanta and the Birmingham Museum in Alabama.
Deborah Brackenbury Yellowjacket Retail value: $250 Lot 215
"During my first spring class at Penland it rained a lot. My students were getting cabin fever and I needed to show them that subject matter could be found in unexpected places, so I started a taxidermy shop using bugs I found. It pushed me into a series I have worked on for years. And the act of hunting, exploring, and questioning what a photograph can be pushed my students into some of the most curious and intriguing subject matter I had seen in a while. So, the rain turned out to be lucky bad luck."
Deborah Brackenbury is an artist working in several different media. Her work has been exhibited at the George Eastman House in New York and at SOFA Chicago.
Robin Dreyer Memorial Retail value: $500 Lot 317
"This is an image of the Penland knoll with a large tripod that was built as a memorial to photographer, carpenter, and Penland neighbor Tom Mills. The structure stayed in place for several months as a poetic reminder of Tom’s presence and absence. The salt print is one of the earliest photographic processes. They are made by successively coating a sheet of paper with salt and silver solutions and exposing in contact with a large-format negative."
Robin Dreyer is the communications manager at Penland School of Crafts. His work is in the collection of the Asheville Art Museum.
Dan Estabrook The Kiss Retail value: $3,200 Lot 206
For more than fifteen years, Dan Estabrook has worked with historical photographic techniques to explore intimate issues of love, sex and death. Because Dan works with handmade processes, each piece is unique. Dan has taught ten times at Penland; this image was produced while he was teaching in fall 2010.
Dan Estabrook's work is represented by the Catherine Edelman Gallery in Chicago, Daniel Cooney Fine Art in New York City, and Jackson Fine Art in Atlanta.
James Henkel Apple Ring Retail value: $1,200 Lot 439
"This photograph was made in my Penland studio in the summer of 2007, using apples I collected from the tree up the hill from the Pines dining hall. It is part of a larger series of work titled Table Arrangements."
Scott McMahon Accordion Players/Vista Retail value: $450 Lot 337
This image was created at Penland using a large pinhole camera and a roll of large-format aerial film.
Dana Moore Unfinished Nest Retail value: $800 Lot 341
This image of a nest that Dana found near Penland was made on a flatbed scanner.
Murray Riss Untitled Retail value: $1,200 Lot 345
"After having spent two weeks teaching at Penland, I had the opportunity to work with a large Polaroid camera. The atmosphere of Penland was still in my being."
Sarah Van Keuren View at Penland Retail value: $900 Lot 359
"The narrative impulse is strong in my work. For me, the fundamental mystery is the passage of time, the invisible medium we live within. I want to arrest an illuminated point in time and encapsulate it in glazes of gum Arabic and sensitized watercolor pigment with a veil of cyanotype cast over it. I want my images to outlast me."
Sarah Van Keuren teaches at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Her work is in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington, DC. |
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