Impa­tiens capensis

“Impa­tiens capen­sis” is acrylic on panel and mea­sures 14″ x 50.” It is inspired by Tapawingo Springs.

EDUCATION

1999 MFA, Uni­ver­sity of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN

1993 BA in Art, cum laude, Welles­ley Col­lege, Welles­ley, MA

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2010 Tran­si­tive Geo­gra­phies: Con­tem­po­rary Visions of an Evolv­ing South, Geor­gia Col­lege, Milledgeville, GA

2009 Peach Tree Trail, UAB, Birm­ing­ham, AL

eARTh Exhi­bi­tion, Wire­grass Museum, Dothan, AL

Cel­e­brat­ing Con­tem­po­rary Arts in Alabama, John­son Cen­ter of the Arts, Troy, AL

2008 Energy in the 21^st, 21^st Street Stu­dio, Bim­ing­ham, AL

New Work, Amanda Schedler Fine Art, Birm­ing­ham, AL

Vis­it­ing Artist Show, Sam­ford Uni­ver­sity, Birm­ing­ham, AL

New Work, Coleman/Schedler Fine Art, Fair­field, CT

What They’re Doing Now: The Best of 25 Years, MGAC, Birm­ing­ham, AL

2007 Land­scape into Art, Mar­a­lyn Wil­son, Birm­ing­ham, AL

2006 Next Young Art Stars, Intro­duc­tions ’06, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA

Alabama Mas­ters: ASCA Fel­low­ship Recip­i­ents 2005–2006, Peach Tree Trail: Sum­mer, Wire­grass Museum of Art, Dothan, AL

Alabama Mas­ters: ASCA Fel­low­ship Recip­i­ents 2005–2006, Alabama Artist Gallery, Alabama State Coun­cil on the Arts, Mont­gomery, AL

Made in Birm­ing­ham, Space 301, Mobile, AL

Peach Tree Trail, Bare­hands Gallery, Birm­ing­ham, AL

COLLECTIONS

South­ern Progress Cor­po­ra­tion, Birm­ing­ham, AL

Col­lec­tion of For­mer Duke Uni­ver­sity Pres­i­dent Nan­nerl O. Keohane

Welles­ley Col­lege, Rare Book Col­lec­tion, Welles­ley, MA

Pri­vate Collections

PUBLICATIONS AND OTHER MEDIA

James R. Nel­son Alabama Peach Trees Cap­tured in All Their Sea­sonal Glory. The Birm­ing­ham News, 5/17/09 p. 3G

Court­ney Barnes, Stylecourt.blogspot.com Jan­u­ary 10 and Jan­u­ary 26, 2009

James R. Nel­son. Sam­ford Selects. The Birm­ing­ham News, 3/9/08, page 3F

Karen Phillips Irons, South­ern Accents, Travel Sec­tion: Birm­ing­ham, Sep/Oct 2007.

Alexa Steven­son, Con­necti­cut Cot­tages and Gar­dens, Octo­ber 2007.

Erika Alexia Tsoukanelis, Fair­field County Home, Sep­tem­ber 2007.

Brett Levine, Artist Pro­file, Birm­ing­ham Home and Gar­den, May/ June 2007.

Jerry Cul­lum. Young Artists Go Deep, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 07/09/06

James R. Nel­son, Peach Tree Trail, Birm­ing­ham News, 2/19/06.

Jes­sica Dal­low, Art Papers, March/April 2005.

Beth Venn , New Amer­i­can Paint­ings, book #58, South­ern Edi­tion, Sum­mer 2005.

Inter­viewed by Georgine Clark, Alabama State Coun­cil of the Arts Radio Series, aired 3/22/05.

Expres­sions of Place, Alabama Arts, Vol­ume XXI (cover)

Michael Hueb­ner, Five Birm­ing­ham Artists among 53 par­tic­i­pat­ing… Birm­ing­ham News, 6/19/05.

AWARDS

SouthernArtistry.org Online Artist Reg­istry, 2005

Indi­vid­ual Artist Fel­low­ship, Alabama State Coun­cil on the Arts, 2004

Emerg­ing Artist Award, Magic City Art Con­nec­tion, Birm­ing­ham, AL, 2002

Liri­o­den­dron tulipifera

Turkey Creek Nature Preserve

Quer­cus alba

“You’ve got to see what they did with Turkey Creek!” my mom said after I arrived for a long-delayed visit in May of this year. She had recently moved to a place about a mile from Turkey Creek and her old mem­o­ries of Turkey Creek as a dan­ger­ous and dirty place were quickly erased after see­ing all the work the Fresh­wa­ter Land Trust has put into the preserve.

I grad­u­ated from Birmingham-Southern, con­vinced I would be chang­ing the world through Infor­ma­tion Tech­nol­ogy. I relo­cated first to Austin and then to San Fran­cisco dur­ing the ‘dot com’ craze of the late 90s. Over the years, my inter­est in IT has waned while my inter­est in the nat­ural world has grown. I am a self-taught botan­i­cal and nature pho­tog­ra­pher with a focus on orchids and wild­flow­ers. I’ve pho­tographed the nat­ural world in Ecuador, Peru, Bor­neo, and Aus­tralia. Cur­rently I am in the field pho­tograph­ing the incred­i­ble diver­sity of Cal­i­for­nia wild­flow­ers every week­end over the 7 month wild­flower sea­son and serv­ing on the Boards of two orchid related non­prof­its in San Fran­cisco: The San Fran­cisco Orchid Soci­ety (http://www.orchidsanfrancisco.org/) and Orchid­Ma­nia (http://www.orchids.org).

I’m excited to be a part of the con­tin­ued effort to pre­serve the beau­ti­ful lands in my home state.

 -Eric Hunt, San Francisco

Turkey Creek

“Turkey Creek” is a series of seven pho­tographs stitched together and printed on can­vas. With so much rain the water lev­els have been high; they raced around this 180 degree drop at Turkey Creek. After look­ing at this for a while I won­dered if this is a water gap, a place where the creek existed before the moun­tains caus­ing it to cut through the moun­tain as it pushed up. “Turkey Creek” mea­sures 20″ by 60.”

 
Beth Maynor Young is an accom­plished con­ser­va­tion pho­tog­ra­pher who has spent much of her life chron­i­cling the nat­ural beauty and rem­nant wild places of the con­tem­po­rary South. In 1990, she founded Cahaba River Pub­lish­ing, a conservation-motivated firm that sup­ports her life’s pas­sion: nature and land­scape pho­tog­ra­phy. Today, Beth’s pho­tographs give us a mov­ing vision of the nat­ural world and speak qui­etly yet deeply of our need to pre­serve the South’s unique envi­ron­men­tal heritage.

Her pho­tographs are mostly from unpro­tected places—each with its own story of bio­log­i­cal com­pro­mise and immi­nent threat. But these places also embrace a South­ern tradition—of being saved and pre­served, of restora­tion and resurrection.

Beth is now print­ing her fine art pho­tographs with Epson print­ers and inks, which offer bril­liant col­ors and truly archival prints. Sadly, with the cur­rent threats to streams and wildlife habi­tats that come from urban sprawl and over-development, her pho­tographs may last longer than many of the places she has photographed.

Her con­ser­va­tion pho­tog­ra­phy is part of many pri­vate and cor­po­rate art col­lec­tions across the coun­try. The renown pop­u­lar­ity of her work is a tes­ta­ment to the impor­tance of envi­ron­men­tal issues and the cal­iber of her photography.

Head­wa­ters: A Jour­ney on Alabama Rivers, is her newest book, which can be ordered on her web site. Alabama has a geol­ogy and biol­ogy story that trumps any other state in the U.S. This story of Alabama is told by a mas­ter story teller, John C. Hall.
She is cur­rently pho­tograph­ing a book on the Lon­gleaf Pine For­est as well as one on the Black War­rior River Watershed.

River Waves

Water Sculp­ture

Charles Seifried has been in busi­ness for over 25 years doing work in the com­mer­cial field. He has worked with many adver­tis­ing agen­cies through­out the US, and his work has been seen in USA Today, Wall Street Jour­nal, South­ern Liv­ing, Cook­ing Light, Out­side, Busi­ness Week, Econ­o­mist, New York Times, Bet­ter Homes, and a host of oth­ers. Charles has had photo assign­ments that have taken him from Peru to Alaska and from Colum­bia to Puerto Rico. Charles has won many Addy Awards includ­ing first place in the Lon­don Inter­na­tional Awards.

Presently, he has 5 books out and is work­ing on num­ber 6. The titles are “Alabama Canyons, the Bankhead National For­est”; “Alabama Out­doors”; “Through the Gar­den Gate” (A gar­den book of Huntsville, AL); “Gar­den Views of Decatur and Mor­gan County”; “Alabama, Sim­ply Beau­ti­ful”; and he is fin­ish­ing a book on the Alabama creeks and rivers.

A com­mer­cial pho­tog­ra­pher for more than twenty years, Lee Isaacs is just now com­ing to terms with his “place in art”. While an art stu­dent at the Uni­ver­sity of Alabama at Birm­ing­ham in the mid 70’s, he dis­cov­ered pho­tog­ra­phy quite by chance. “In those days, there weren’t enough resources to go around, so the begin­ning sculp­ture stu­dents had to reuse the same chunk of clay every week, for the entire semes­ter. Because we weren’t fir­ing our pieces, the teacher asked us to bring in cam­eras to record our work.” A friend loaned him a cam­era and got him started. It didn’t take long for Lee to become more inter­ested in fram­ing a pic­ture in the view finder than in mak­ing the sculp­ture itself. By the third week he found myself tak­ing pic­tures for all the projects in the entire class.

 He began to see things in a new way. Lee was hooked and had to learn more! At that time, UAB didn’t have a pho­tog­ra­phy pro­gram. When he asked the chair­man of the depart­ment about pho­tog­ra­phy as an art form, he looked puz­zled and replied, “Oh…, you mean Pho­to­jour­nal­ism. That’s over in the Eng­lish Depart­ment, they offer it in the Spring.”

 Even­tu­ally, Lee Isaacs found a pro­gram in pho­tog­ra­phy at UAB’s Spe­cial Stud­ies, where he laid the foun­da­tion for his career. Over time, he’s become expe­ri­enced in both loca­tion and stu­dio set­tings. His skills have served a num­ber of indus­tries, which include min­ing, man­u­fac­tur­ing, archi­tec­ture, bank­ing, health care, com­mu­ni­ca­tions, and pub­lish­ing. Sub­jects range from food to prod­uct to por­trai­ture, with exten­sive exper­tise in both color and b&w films; in 35mm, 120mm, 4x5 and 8x10 for­mats and in more recent times, dig­i­tal cap­ture and out­put. Spe­cial skills include exten­sive work with alter­na­tive processes (Polaroid dye-transfer, color laser image trans­fer, pin­hole cam­era tech­nique, and more). He has lec­tured many stu­dents from grade school to col­lege age and has led a num­ber of work­shops in nature pho­tog­ra­phy, stu­dio and loca­tion light­ing, as well as alter­na­tive processes.

Fair­fax Nabers has painted for all of a fairly long life at this point and shown her paint­ings for about 40 years. She has painted in almost every media includ­ing oils, acrylic, pas­tels and tem­pera, but her favorite choice would be acrylic paints on can­vas. Her favorite sub­jects have remained con­stant– flow­ers, land­scapes of happy places main­tained by good gar­den­ers, chil­dren– always in a good mood, and ani­mals. Her best crit­ics have been her chil­dren and grand­chil­dren and those are the paint­ings she enjoys the most to paint.

She has shown in Fai­hope, Per­dido, Atlanta, and Birm­ing­ham, and you can find her paint­ings at Lit­tle House on Lin­den in Home­wood. She has shown in one-man shows and group shows and plans a show for the fall of 2010.

Randy­pan is the moniker and cre­ative, alter-ego of Graphic Artist, Doward Williams. Hav­ing been involved in art in some form or fash­ion since birth, Doward’s back­ground is in pho­tog­ra­phy.
He stud­ied abroad at Cen­tral St. Mar­tins in Lon­don and also at Auburn Uni­ver­sity, where he won the Lethander Award in the Spring of 2000 for a multi-media instal­la­tion on pop­u­lar cul­ture in society.

Doward fin­ished his BFA in Graphic Design with a minor in Art His­tory in 2006 from the Uni­ver­sity of Alabama in Huntsville.
He was awarded Best in Show for Print Work at the Spring Stu­dent Show at UAH in 2006.

Doward cur­rently works as a free­lance Graphic Designer in Huntsville, Alabama and lives with his wife, Katie, daugh­ter, Kenedey and their dog Wiley.

The Infra­struc­ture Remains

The Bridge

The Tree Speaks

Res­ur­rec­tion of Light

 

Res­ur­rec­tion of Light Detail

Craig Car­son is a metal artist and incor­po­rates recy­cled and scrap metal, wood, and other objects into his works.

“The Infra­struc­ture Remains” is mixed met­als and mea­sures 48″ tall. “The Bridge” is mixed met­als and reclaimed wood and mea­sures 16″ tall. “The Tree Speaks” is metal and mea­sures 14″ by 22.5″. “Res­ur­rec­tion of Light,” a floor lamp, mea­sures 75″ tall. All works are inspired by the Turkey Creek Nature Preserve.