9th  INTERNATIONAL BOOK ART FESTIVAL CORRESPONDENCE (traveling 2012-2014)
Group show includes 2 of my pinhole photo objects.

First exhibition: 01.08.2012 – 01.29.2012
Płocka Galeria Sztuki
ul. Sienkiewicza 36, 09-402 Płock, Poland
www.plockagaleria.com

The exhibition will travel from 2012 – 2014 in Poland & the UK.  The 2012
Exhibition Schedule in Poland includes the following 7 additional venues:

[March] – Galeria Miejska, Tarnów
[April] – Książnica Pomorska, Szczecin
[May] – Biblioteka Miejska, Lublin
[June] – Galeria Dwór Karwacjanów, Gorlice
[July/August] – Szklany Dom, Centrum Edukacyjne, Ciekoty, Dworek
Żeromskiego
w planach Kielce – towarzyszące w  nowym
Centrum Design
[September] – Biblioteka Śląska, Katowice
[October]- MCK BWA, Nowy Sącz

In celebration of its new location, Goosefish Press will exhibit work by
friends, supporters, and mentors, including one of my pinhole cyanotypes.

The Goosefish Press, Inc.

January 6 – February 29, 2012

450 Harrison Avenue, number 65
Boston, MA

“A Novel Idea,” Hampden Gallery Incubator Project Space
UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA
December 11, 2011 – February 2011

This group show includes an altered book of mine.

Panopticon Gallery’s 40th Anniversary Exhibition
Boston, MA
September 8 – October 31, 2011

Opening reception with the Artists: Thursday, September 8th from 5:30-8:30pm
Panopticon Gallery is proud to be celebrating its 40th Anniversary, and with it, our biggest group exhibition to date! From September 8th through October 31st, the gallery will be displaying close to seventy-five individual artists who have been associated with Panopticon Gallery during its forty-year run.

In 1971, Tony Decaneas opened a small one-room gallery in the basement of 187 Bay State Road in Boston, Massachusetts. His first exhibition was a group exhibition of local photographers. This exhibition paved the way for many group and solo exhibitions to come. Panopticon Gallery soon began exhibiting photographs by many of today’s most noted photographers, including Ansel Adams, Garry Winogrand, Alfred Stieglitz, Bradford Washburn, Ernest C. Withers, Constantine Manos, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Paul Caponigro, Elliott Erwitt and Edward Weston.
In the mid 1970′s, Panopticon Gallery moved to Newbury St, then back to Bay State Road before moving its gallery and imaging business to Moody Street in Waltham, Massachusetts in 2000. In 2004, the gallery opened its second location inside the Hotel Commonwealth in Kenmore Square, where it currently resides.

In early 2010, Mr. Decaneas sold the gallery to Jason Landry who continues to host outstanding exhibitions by internationally recognized photographs as well as local and national emerging artists.

Today, the gallery is noted as being the oldest fine art photography gallery in New England specializing in contemporary, modern and vintage photography. They represent established and emerging photographers with a primary focus on developing and expanding their careers. The gallery regularly assists collectors buying, selling and locating photographs and supports local educational institutions and regional art museums.

More Back Forty
Art Complex Museum
Duxbury, MA
September 18, 2011 – January 15, 2012

Recent work by artists who have exhibited there over the past forty years.

Discoveries
Photographs by Eva Timothy, Jesseca Ferguson and Fran Forman
Panopticon Gallery
Boston, MA
May 4 – June 6, 2011

Reception with the Artists Wednesday, May 4, 2011 | 5:30-7:30pm
Third Thursday Gallery Talk Thursday, May 19, 2011 | 6pm

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
- Galileo

When a discovery is made or uncovered, it is often front-page news. With the invention of photography in the 19th century, it forever changed the way we see and remember the world and ourselves. Panopticon Gallery is please to be exhibiting work by photographers Eva Timothy, Jesseca Ferguson and Fran Forman, three women revisiting history through the assemblage of imagery and objects and the act of rediscovery.

Eva Timothy studied at the Oxford School of Photography in the U.K. and holds a Licentiate Certification from the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain. Her monograph, Lost in Learning was awarded First Place, People’s Choice at the Px3 Competition and was a finalist for the Julia Margaret Cameron Award.

Jesseca Ferguson works primarily with pinhole photography, 19th century photographic processes and collage. Her work has appeared in solo and group exhibitions in the United States and abroad. Handmade Pictures by Jesseca Ferguson, a solo show of thirty-five of her works, will be on exhibit at the Fox Talbot Museum in England from January through June 2011.

Fran Forman creates photo-based tableaus by combining her illustrative and photographic skills with a passion for surrealism, paradox, illusion, assemblage, and the dislocations of time and place. Forman received her MFA from the College of Fine Arts at Boston University.

What is Contained: The Book as Subject and Object
Gallery 360
Northeastern University
Boston, MA
March 6 – April 12, 2011

Deborah Davidson
Laura Davidson
Jesseca Ferguson
Peter Madden
Amanda Nelsen
Rosamond Purcell
There is something profound about the object of a book, which has remained unchanged for centuries. The book as a container of ideas, narrative, images, and text is ever compelling for artists, designers, writers, and for those who critique and understand culture. The significance of the book is emphasized in light of our rapidly changing media technology.  As subject, object or both, the book is what unifies the six artists in this exhibit. It is still an essential part of what they value as a society, contributing to the ongoing conversation and concern about the fate of the book and of reading, itself. This exhibition is presented by the Northeastern University Humanities Center’s Artists and Practitioners in Residence Program and Gallery 360. Deborah Davidson is an Artist in Residence with the Humanities Center’s APRP Program from March 15th – 17th, 2011.

Handmade Pictures by Jesseca Ferguson
Fox Talbot Museum
Lacock Abbey, Lacock, Chippenham
United Kingdom
January 2 – June 26, 2011

The Rebirth of Handmade Pictures

At a time when digital photography is king and analogue photography seems to have fallen into the dustbin of history, the Fox Talbot Museum is looking to the past to find the future of photographic art. From its earliest days, photography became an art by combining the aesthetic eye common to all the arts in selecting the scene to represent and a command of the technical skills necessary in creating the final print.

As good as digital photography can be, many photographic artists miss the hands on feel of analogue photography. The ease of making pictures using digital cameras and a computer printer goes against the grain of artists who are used to working with both their eyes and hands to create art.

This exhibition is titled Handmade Pictures because the work was all done by the artist with no computer or factory printing. It features the work of Jesseca Ferguson, a Boston artist who chooses to continue working outside the technological mainstream. Jesseca uses pinhole cameras, the most basic of cameras, to create negatives and then prints them on fine artists paper using hand coated 19th century processes, in particular the cyanotype and salted paper prints.

Jesseca’s pictures are still life assemblages created in her studio. They are small, closed sets, sometimes boxes, in which objects are arranged to create an artistic and psychological balance that imparts meaning to the viewer. The meanings of these objects is left intentionally ambiguous and meant to stimulate our memory of the past and its place in the present. Using taxidermied objects, astronomical, musical or art historical images and fragments of architecture and old toys, Jesseca weaves images that create a story in the viewers mind. The story varies from viewer to viewer as the fragments are ambiguous enough not to dictate but to stimulate memories of our own past and create a story that’s uniquely personal.