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SUMMARY:Vaune Trachtman: NOW IS ALWAYS -- Artist Talk & Book Signing
DESCRIPTION:The Griffin Museum of Photography is pleased to have photographer and
  printmaker Vaune Trachtman for an in-person artist talk and book
  signing. Join us on Saturday\, May 2\, at 2 pm in our Main Gallery to
  learn about Trachtman's recently released photo book\, NOW IS ALWAYS\,
  published by Tusen Takk Press. Signed copies will be available for
  purchase. 
 
 © Vaune Trachtman© Vaune Trachtman© Vaune Trachtman© Vaune
  Trachtman©Vaune Trachtman\, Vaune Trachtman holding the Collector's
  Edition of NOW IS ALWAYS in her studio.
 
 About NOW IS ALWAYS 
 
 My parents died when I was young -- my father when I was five and my
  mother when I was 15. After that\, I was rarely in one place for very
  long\, but photography always helped keep me rooted and stable. It's
  taken me a long time to understand that much of my work has been a
  constant\, usually unconscious exploration and evocation of what it
  feels like to have lost them at such an early age. We all have our
  particular circumstances in life\, of course. I think mine are at the
  heart of what leads me to photograph liminal\, dreamlike spaces\, to
  combine my father's 1930's negatives with my own images\, and to
  explore mark-making and text. 
 
 I think that's also part of the reason I'm interested in the non-toxic
  direct-to-plate photopolymer gravure process. I'm always on the
  lookout for moments that contain something larger than themselves\;
  the picture I want to make is of an instant in time that is full of
  other times. The DTP method helps me feel like I'm doing that. I love
  that I can achieve the tonal richness of the earliest gravures without
  their toxicity\, and that I can conjure up the early chemists of
  photography and have a conversation with them about what photography
  can be. I also love that this process requires physical effort--the
  rubbing of plates\, the turning of the press--and that working with
  paper and ink is tactile and elemental. 
 
 In my work\, I want to create a feeling of collapsed-yet-expanded
  time. I want the viewer to look at the past\, and I want the past to
  look right back. I want the viewer and the subject to each feel the
  gaze of the other. And by working with archival images and
  handwriting\, I also want to integrate layers of technology and
  image-making history. I want to feel like I'm not only drawing with
  light\, I'm drawing with time. 
 
 © Vaune Trachtman© Vaune Trachtman© Vaune Trachtman© Vaune
  Trachtman\, Trestle© Vaune Trachtman\, Tenenment Roof #1© Vaune
  Trachtman\, Cycle© Vaune Trachtman\, Reverie© Vaune Trachtman\,
  Skull© Vaune Trachtman\, Strand (detail of tryptic)
 
 ©Vaune Trachtman\, Vaune Trachtman holding the Collector's Edition of
  NOW IS ALWAYS in her studio.
 
 Vaune Trachtman is a photographer and printmaker whose work honors
  historic processes while avoiding toxic chemicals. Formerly a master
  printer of silver-gelatin prints and asphaltum-based photogravures\,
  she began to feel that her immune system was being compromised by
  those processes. She now makes gravures with little more than light
  and water. Her images explore the evanescence of dreams and memory\,
  resulting in a fleeting\, wondrous\, sacred habitation (Od Review) and
  works that seem more like emanations than photographs (Boston Globe). 
 
 Work from her series NOW IS ALWAYS led to her selection for the
  Photolucida Critical Mass Top 50\, and her printmaking earned the
  Olcott Family Award in The Print Center's 97th ANNUAL International
  Competition. NOW IS ALWAYS was also named a Top Portfolio by
  Rfotofolio and an Outstanding Work by the Denis Roussel Awards. Its
  creation was supported by the Vermont Arts Council and the National
  Endowment for the Arts. She has had solo shows at the Griffin Museum
  of Photography\, the Vermont Center for Photography\, and Deerfield
  Academy. 
 
 Vaune was born in Philadelphia and now lives in Brattleboro\, Vermont.
  She received her BA from Marlboro College and her MA from New York
  University and the International Center for Photography. Her studio is
  in an old textile mill overlooking the Connecticut River. 
 
 Instagram: @vaune.art
LOCATION:Griffin Museum of Photography\, 67 Shore Road\, Winchester\, MA 01890
URL:https://griffinmuseum.org/event/vaune-trachtman-now-is-always-artist-t
 alk-book-signing/
CATEGORIES:Cultural\,Education
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