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Portfolio Review Sessions

Student and Professional

Saturday, November 03 - 9:30AM to 3:30PM
Aztlan Center

Portfolio Reviews for Students and Professionals. Reviewer Biographies follow after review registration instructions.
The reviews will be taking place Saturday from 9:30am until 3:30pm in the Eagle 3 room of the Aztlan Center, 112 Willow Street, a half-block from the Center for Fine Art Photography.

To request the reviewers of their choice, participants will be asked to list their top 5 choices on a piece of paper and deposit that paper in a designated box between 10am and 5:00pm Friday, Nov. 2 or between 8am and 8:30am Saturday, Nov. 3. The box will be located in the registration area in the Aztan Center on Friday and in room Eagle 3 on Saturday morning. Near the box will be a list of all the reviewers and the times they will be reviewing (most reviewers will each do 5 reviews over a 2-hour period).

Here's how the reviewer assignments will work:
Starting at 8:30am on Saturday, Nov. 3, SPE SW review organizers will pull the slips of paper out of the box one at a time. For each slip of paper pulled from the box, the organizer will look at the participant's first choice of reviewer and will match the participant with that reviewer in the earliest spot available. If the first-choice reviewer is already booked up, the organizer will assign the second-choice reviewer, and so on. The slip of paper is then deposited in a second box for the next round, which will begin after all the paper slips are pulled from the first box.

The assignments for all reviews will be posted in room Eagle 3 by 9am Saturday (30 minutes before the reviews will begin). Please be sure to check your assignments between 9am and 9:15am.

Sabin Aell
sabinaell.com
Sabin Aell is an international award-winning artist and designer. Born and educated in Austria, her resume includes international exhibits in Berlin, London, Seoul, Adelaide, Stockholm, Vienna and the United States. Her media as an artist ranges from photography to mixed media to installation. After living eight years in Vienna and eight years in Frankfurt, Sabin moved to Denver in 2006. Two years later she and her husband opened HINTERLAND, an art space, where she curates and exhibits adventurous contemporary art (hinterlandartspace.com). As a designer, Sabin's work reaches back to an intense career as a multimedia designer. During the last 10 years, she has grown her experience into product, jewelry and interior design. In 2009, she founded her company Subsequently Now Productions (subsequentlynow.com). Her most recent project together with her husband's company, Custom by Rushton, was the design and build of the expansion of City O' City, a vegan restaurant in Denver. Sabin's work mirrors our desire to get closer to the edges and explore uncertainties. She finds herself in Friedrich Nietzsche's quote: One must have a chaos inside oneself to give birth to a dancing star."

Liz Allen [tentative]
Director, Northlight Gallery/School of Art, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, Arizona State University

Joann Brennan [tentative]
Joann Brennan is Associate Professor of Photography and Chair of Visual Arts at the University of Colorado Denver. Before arriving in Denver Joann taught photography and digital imaging at Princeton University in New Jersey and The School of Art and Design at Alfred University in New York. Her photographic work has explored the complex relationship between wildlife and human concerns. Her photographs speak from multiple perspectives as she explores the impact of contemporary culture on natural resources. She is an active member of the Society for Photographic Education where she has served as an officer for the southwest and northeast regions. Joann is co-founder of Progetto Perugia a studio art program in Perugia Italy. She was curator of the Women's Study Gallery at Princeton University and she curated a show of contemporary photography at the School of Art and Design, Alfred University. She received her BFA and MFA from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, MA. Selected one-person shows include, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA, Southern Light Gallery, TX, The Roy H Parks School of Communication at Ithaca College, Robert C. May Gallery at the University of Kentucky, University of California, Berkeley Extension Center and Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. Selected Collections include New Mexico State University, Paine Webber, John Szarkowski Curator, Princeton University Art Museum, Toby Jurovicz Associate Curator and Danforth Art Museum.

Skott Chandler
www.skottchandler.com
Skott Chandler is a photographic artist and educator living and teaching photography in Denver, at the Art Institute of Colorado. Skott came to photography late in his undergraduate career while studying studio art at Southern Utah University. During that time, he experimented with the photographic medium, testing the limits of the ideals of photography. After graduating from Southern Utah University as the Outstanding Graduate of Art and Design, Skott further pursued his photographic career in the MFA program at Savannah College of Art and Design. While attending SCAD, he was chosen for a scholarship to help the school create a book and photograph archive of the swiftly vanishing historic buildings in the Sham Shui Po district of Kowloon, Hong Kong. Skott has exhibited work throughout the United States, as well as internationally in Bordeaux, France, Hong Kong, and Geneva, Switzerland. Photography collector and curator W.M. Hunt and Klompching Gallery owner Darren Ching selected Skott to exhibit at Brooklyn's Klompching Gallery in their inaugural FRESH 2011 photography competition. Skott has also been exhibited and recognized by Gallery 263 in Cambridge, MA, as one of the Top 30 Emerging Artists Under 30 for 2011.

Karl Dukstein [tentative]
Professor and Director of the Visual and Media Arts Program at Front Range Community College, Fort Collins campus

Paula Gillen
www.gillenedits.com
Paula Gillen is a freelance photo editor/researcher, consultant to photographers, and a designer who works with individuals to design and produce self published books and printed pieces. Her background is in fine art, photography and journalism. Paula has 20 years of experience in NYC working as a photo editor and researcher for highly regarded cultural publications, consumer magazines and books. Now based in Boulder, Colorado she continues to work freelance on ongoing projects as a photo researcher. She has located and licensed images for web, print, and video. She has extensive knowledge of stock agencies, photographers, and archival sources. She is experienced with securing payment, license, and copyright for commercial use of images.

Carol Golemboski
Carol Golemboski uses antiquated objects as metaphors in carefully staged scenes. Her process, defined by the use of black and white film and traditional darkroom printing, combines photography and drawing in ambiguous and provocative ways. Her psychologically charged still life images draw on past eras to suggest the continuum of human emotions and anxieties, particularly relating to the experience of women. Carol received 1st Prize in Center's 2007 Project Competition for her series Psychometry. She has been the recipient of numerous grants, including fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Virginia Commission for the Arts, the Saltonstall Foundation, and Light Work. She is represented by the Robert Klein Gallery in Boston, the George Billis Gallery in Los Angeles, and Kevin Longino Fine Photographs. Carol is currently an Associate Professor and the Area Head of Photography at the University of Colorado Denver.

Patti Hallock
www.pattihallock.com
Patti Hallock received her BFA in photography from the University of Colorado at Denver in 2004 and her MFA in photography 2007 from Parsons, The New School for Design in New York City. Patti's photographic work has focused on expressing loneliness and isolation and the ways in which we experience those feelings within or because of our environment. She is currently examining the myth of the American West and its many faces through the landscape. Patti teaches photography at the University of Colorado at Denver. She has a passion for teaching digital photography, especially Digital Fine Print. She would like to review student portfolios. Some of her interests include night photography, projects about suburbia or the American West.

Rupert Jenkins
Rupert Jenkins has been Exhibitions Director of the Colorado Photographic Arts Center since September 2011, and Executive Director since January 2012. From 2007-2011 he worked as Editor and ad hoc curator for the University of Denver's Victoria H. Myhren Gallery. Rupert was director of the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery from 1995-2005, and is former Associate Director of SF Camerawork (1989-1995). While in those positions he curated, juried, and organized numerous exhibitions of photography. His most recent curatorial projects are Situating Robert Adams (November 2011 for CPAC) and Warhol in Colorado (co-curator/catalog editor, January 2011 for the Myhren Gallery. He is currently working with Evergreen, CO, photographer Vivian Keulards on a solo show of her work for CPAC, January 2013.

Micah Messenheimer
Micah Messenheimer is curatorial assistant in the Department of Photography at the Denver Art Museum and an active member of the board of directors of the Colorado Photographic Arts Center. Prior to beginning at the DAM in February, 2010, he worked as a digital imaging specialist at the University of Denver Visual Media Center and assisted with archival inventorying and research of the Vittorio Sella photographic collection at the American Alpine Club Library. Micah holds an MA in art history and museum studies from the University of Denver, an MFA in visual art from San Francisco State University, and a BFA in photography from Ball State University. His essay, "On Entropology: The Vivid Waters of David Maisel and Robert Smithson," was recently published in the 2012 Petrie Institute of Western American Art publication Elevating Western American Art.

Roddy MacInnes
www.roddymacinnes.com
Associate Professor, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado
Roddy MacInnes has been teaching photography at the University of Denver since 2001. After leaving Scotland at age 15, he has worked as a merchant seaman, a fur trader, a bush pilot and a minerals prospector. He considers himself to be an autobiographical photographer, and in this capacity he has been documenting his life through photography for over forty-five years. He received a Master of Fine Arts in photography from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a Bachelor of Arts in photography from Napier University in Edinburgh, Scotland. One of his latest photography project was inspired by two albums of photographs he discovered in an antiques mall in Denver, CO. A North Dakota woman made the photographs in 1917. Through this project, Roddy explored issues surrounding the relationships between photography and the construction of identity.

Jeremias Paul
www.jeremiaspaul.com
Jeremias Paul, born in Erlangen, Germany, has been living in the United States for the past 25 years where he spends his time teaching and making art. Since 2007, Jeremias has been an Assistant Professor of Photography at Southern Utah University, where he serves as the head of the photography program. After earning his M.F.A. and B.F.A. in Photography from Savannah College of Art & Design, Jeremias taught at Boston University's Photographic Resource Center and the New England School of Photography. Jeremias has been a member of the Society for Photographic Education since 2005 and is currently the chair of it's southwest region. In Jeremias' photographic work, he is primarily interested in notions about how experiences of spaces are perceived, understood, and formed into memory. His series Mikado investigates how multiple photographs contextualize themselves collectively and how their implication is changed through the eyes of each viewer's experience with the image's physical arrangement. Jeremias' work is continually exhibited throughout the United States.

Mary Anne Redding
Mary Anne Redding has been the Chair of the Photography Department at the Santa Fe University of Art & Design since January 2012. For the past five years, she was the Curator of Photography at the New Mexico History Museum/Palace of the Governors where she curated two major exhibitions: Contemplative Landscape and Through the Lens: Creating Santa Fe. Recent exhibitions included: David Taylor: Working the Line; A Passionate Light: The SX-70 Polaroids of H. J. Waldrum at the Albuquerque Museum of Art; and Separating Species & Grasslands at 516 ARTS, Albuquerque. Previous professional positions include: Director and Curator at the New Mexico State University Art Gallery, and, Executive Director and Curator of the Light Factory in Charlotte, NC. Mary Anne has published numerous essays on photography and contemporary art. Recent publications include Through the Lens: Creating Santa Fe published by the MNM Press; Grasslands/Separating Species published by Radius Books in conjunction with the exhibition at 516 ARTS in Albuquerque; the introduction to Light in the Desert: Photographs by Tony O'Brien; and the forthcoming book, Gila: Radical Visions/The Enduring Silence, photographs by Michael Berman due in October 2012.

Erik Schubert
www.erikschubert.com
Erik Schubert (b. Omaha, NE) received his M.F.A. from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and his B.F.A. from Columbia College, Chicago. Erik has taught photography at MassArt, Greenfield Community College and is currently a Instructor of Photography at University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. Erik has been in several exhibitions throughout the U.S. including Boston Young Contemporaries, SPECTRA: National Photography Triennial, and was featured as the Photographic Resource Center's NEO Emerging Artist. In 2010, Erik was included in the On the Road: A Legacy of Walker Evans exhibition at the Robert Lehman Art Center. In 2011, he was included in Contemporary Culture a two-person exhibition at Panopticon Gallery Boston, MA, Skewed Demographic exhibition and auction at the Queens Museum and MassArt MFA Alumni exhibition at Fountain Gallery Brooklyn, NY. In 2012, Erik was included in the Small Prints exhibition at the Boston Flash Forward Festival curated by the Humble Arts Foundation.

Mark Sink
www.gallerysink.com
http://mop2013.blogspot.com
Mark Sink is a private art consultant and photographer who represents and curates local and international cutting-edge fine art photography. Mark serves on the exhibition selection committee of Redline, a Denver visual arts center that houses galleries along with multimedia studio work spaces that are granted to selected emerging and mid-career artists. Mark is founder and director of MOP (Month of Photography) in Denver, an event that involves nearly 100 galleries, museums and art spaces in a regional celebration of photography. Mark is also an internationally recognized photographer who, for most of the 1980s, was friends, worked for and documented Andy Warhol and the Factory. Upon returning to Denver in 1991, Mark co-founded the Museum of Contemporary Art / Denver and opened his own gallery space, Gallery Sink. Now Gallery Sink Consulting, Mark independently curates a wide range of emerging talent, many found during portfolio reviews at Fotofest, SPE and Photolucida, placing them into various galleries and museum exhibitions as well as private and public collections. Mark is always searching for unique talent for his many ongoing curatorial exhibitions, projects and collection placements. He is looking for work that has craft, completed thought, in series and is ready for presentation in a professional gallery or museum setting.

Kerry Skarbakka
http://www.skarbakka.com
Kerry Skarbakka is a visual artist and educator working in photography and video. He received his B.A. in Studio Art with an emphasis in Sculpture in 1994 from the University of Washington School of Art. In 2003, he completed his MFA in Photography from Columbia College in Chicago. Kerry's work has been exhibited internationally in museums, galleries and art fairs. He has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Fifty-One Fine Art Photography in Antwerp, Belgium, Irvine Contemporary in Washington DC, and Lawrimore Project in Seattle. His work has been exhibited at the North Carolina Museum of Art, the Taubman Museum of Art in Roanoke, Virginia, Ahlen Art Museum, Ahlen Germany and the Warhol Museum. Publications include Afterimage, Art and America, ArtReview International and Aperture Magazine. Additionally, Kerry has received funding and support from the Creative Capital Foundation, the 1% for the Arts (City of Seattle) and the Illinois Arts Council. He is represented by Fifty One Fine Art Photography in Antwerp, Belgium and Contemporary Wing in Washington DC. Currently Kerry is faculty of Digital Media and Photographic Studies at Prescott College.

Aline Smithson
http://alinesmithson.com
http://www.lenscratch.com
After a career as a New York fashion editor and working along side the greats of fashion photography, Aline Smithson discovered the family Rolleiflex and never looked back. Now represented by galleries in the U.S. and Europe, she has exhibited widely, including solo shows at the Griffin Museum of Photography, the Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art, the Lishui Festival in China, the Tagomago Gallery in Barcelona and Paris, and the Wallspace Gallery in Seattle and Santa Barbara. In addition, her work is held in a number of museum collections. Her photographs have been featured in publications including PDN (cover), the PDN Photo Annual, Communication Arts Photo Annual, Eyemazing, Soura, Visura, Fraction, Artworks, Lenswork Extended, Shots, Pozytyw, and Silvershotz magazines. In 2012, Aline received the Rising Star Award through the Griffin Museum of Photography for her contributions to the photographic community. Aline founded and writes the blogzine, Lenscratch, that celebrates a different contemporary photographer each day and offers opportunity for exhibition. She has been the Gallery Editor for Light Leaks Magazine, is a contributing writer for Diffusion, Too Much Chocolate, Lucida, and F Stop Magazines and has written book reviews for photoeye. Aline has curated and jurored exhibitions for a number of galleries, organizations, and on-line magazines.

Alex Sweetman
Alex Sweetman is currently the director of media arts and a professor in the departments of art and art history, and in film studies at the University of Colorado in Boulder. His photographic education began as a student at the Center of the Eye in Aspen, where he had the opportunity to meet and work with many of the most important photographers in America. He did his graduate work with Nathan Lyons at the Visual studies workshop in Rochester, New York, where he had the pleasure of working with Joan Lyons, Newhall, Frederic Sommer, John Wood, and others. He taught history for over a decade at the Art Institute of Chicago, before taking a position to develop an interdisciplinary program in Media Arts in Colorado. His creative work is in the permanent collections of over three dozen museums in the US and abroad. He has produced major pieces of public art and a wide range of limited editions from letterpress. He has curated numerous exhibitions including the seminal exhibition at the California Museum of Photography in 1984 of a 375 book of the history of the photographic book. For over 35 years he has focused on the phenomenon of photo publishing and has worked to assemble one of the largest and finest public collections of its kind in the world. His photographic work over the last 25 years has been in panoramic color photography in the US and Mexico, which he is currently archiving and printing digitally.

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