Mort Panish - Old Barn Window - Freeport

"Old Barn Window"

Mort Panish
Mort Panish Digital Art Photography
Phone: 207-865-3969
email: mort@att.net
Page: http://www.mortpanish.com

Exhibits:
PRIOR TO 2002 (Incomplete List):
Permanent exhibitor at the Doubletree Gallery in Upper Montclair N.J. from about
1975 to 1983. Numerous exhibits.
North Salem Gallery, North Salem N.Y.
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton N.J.
Lever House, New York
Summit Art Center, Summit N.J.
St. John’s Church, Newark, N.J.
Bergen Museum of Art and Science, Bergen N.J.
Nabisco Gallery, E. Hanover, N.J.
Palmer Gallery of the Springfield Public Library, Springfield, N.J.
Work exhibited online has received ALPHA’s “Photo Excellence Award”.

Palmer Gallery of the Springfield NJ Public Library. (2002)
Treasure Room Gallery of the Interchurch Center, New York City (2002)
Rose Royce Gallery, Montclair NJ. (2002)
Rose Royce Gallery, Montclair NJ. (2003)
Rose Royce Gallery, Montclair NJ. (2004)
Berlix Corp. Gallery, Wayne NJ (2004)
Eleven Center Street Center for the Arts, Brunswick ME (Peoples Choice Award 2005).
Metrowest Center, Whippany NJ 2004 - 2010. A series of 50 montages that attempt
briefly to tell the stories of a number of Holocaust survivors. Done for the Memory to History
project of the Metrowest Center. These montages are periodically exhibited at the center.
The Gallery on Main St – Freeport Historical Society, Freeport ME (2008)
Edgecomb Gallery – Freeport ME 2009-2010

Artists Statement
The abstract form that can be read into some photographs, even those with strong context, is what turns me on. I find this quite analogous to the beauty of the graphical or mathematical demonstration resulting from a good piece of scientific research. Both have abstract beauty and real context. For this scientist-photographer that’s what gives the high.
My earlier images featured conventional silver and color printing techniques plus a retro-photographic method (gum printing). Because of the advent of very high quality printers, and archival pigments and papers, I have transitioned to all Giclee (high quality digital) printing. My exhibition photographs were taken either digitally or on photographic film (in which case the images were subsequently digitized). This transition has permitted me to take advantage of the versatility, for creative work, of digital manipulation of images. No effort is made to force the images to look like conventional silver or color prints. Actually, I find it a distinct artistic advantage to manipulate some images to look less like photographs.

About the artist: Born in Brooklyn, N.Y. 1929. Married Evelyn 1951. Three children.
Education: Photography with J.G. Lootens, N.Y., Brooklyn College, Denver University (B.S. 1950, Michigan State University (Ph.D. Chemistry & Physics 1954). Received six major scientific awards, elected to National Academy of Sciences (1987) and National Academy of Engineering (1986). Retired 1992. Was introduced to photography at the age of 12 and have done art photography as an avocation ever since.