Newsletters: August Show at Corden|Potts Gallery Features Jeri Eisenberg and Jacqueline Walters

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Quaking Ash No. 2 from the series A Sojourn in Seasons
© Jeri Eisenberg

Dear Kevin

Please plan to visit the gallery in the coming weeks for our new exhibit, which runs from August 2 through 30. It will feature the work of two gallery artists: Jeri Eisenberg's A Sojourn in Seasons and Jacqueline Walters' Traces series.

Corden|Potts Gallery is located at 49 Geary Street, Suite 410, in San Francisco. We're open 11 am to 5:30 pm Tuesdays through Saturdays, and until 7:30 pm on the first Thursday of each month.

A Sojourn in Seasons is Jeri Eisenberg's ongoing series depicting the common wooded landscape of her day-to-day life--places that are far more ordinary than spectacular. Though the images in this series are firmly grounded in the natural world--a particular place, a particular season, a particular time--Eisenberg photographs with a purposefully oversized pinhole or a radically defocused lens. "I capture trees and foliage as they are not often seen," she says. "Details are obscured, and only the strongest elements remain--the images become sketches with light, literally and figuratively." The pieces are translucent, reflective and tactile as a result of the infusion of encaustic into and on the surface of Japanese Kozo paper. They float off the wall (held in place on plexiglass bars by strong magnets at the top), and move with air currents in a room.

Jacqueline Walters' Traces series looks at what is found in the ever-changing patterns of the receding surf, or in the grains of sands that are constantly reshaped by the elements. Walters calls the beaches where she photographs "the edge of the world, the place where the land meets the sea." She says, "This is a place where, if only for an instance, the traces of our lives entwine with others; where people pause and then are gone but the influence of their presence lingers, just as footprints in the sand remain for a moment before disappearing with the changing tide." Walters' use of a pinhole camera and the resultant long exposures required to make the images are the perfect tools for capturing this feeling of impermanence.

Eisenberg, who is based in Upstate New York, has exhibited widely over the past ten years, including a 2009 exhibit at Corden|Potts Gallery, as well as exhibits at Kathryn Markel Fine Art, New York City; John Cleary Gallery in Houston; Lanoue Fine Art in Boston; Benham Gallery in Seattle; and Galerie BMG in Woodstock, New York. Eisenberg has been the recipient of Individual Artist Grants through the Arts Center of the Capital Region and the New York Council on the Arts, numerous Special Opportunity Stipends, and artist residency awards, including the Atlantic Center for the Arts. Her work is held in public and private collections, including the Center for Photography at Woodstock, Banana Republic, Weill-Cornell Medical Center, Lehigh University and the Schenectady Museum. Her work is also included in Encaustic: A Guide to Creating Fine Art With Wax, a Watson Guptill release in 2010.

In addition to her 2009 solo show, It's All About the Journey, and to being featured in subsequent group shows at Corden|Potts Gallery, Jacqueline Walters's award-winning work has been seen regularly in shows around the country and internationally. Earlier this year, her work was included in the 25th Members' Only Show of the Texas Photographic society, juried by Henry Horenstein, and the Fifth Annual International Juried Plastic Camera Show juried by Ann Jastrab. In 2011, Allison Nordstrom selected Jacqueline's work for an exhibit at Vermont PhotoWork Place and, in 2010, she won an honorable mention in The Black and White Single Image and Portfolio Selections from the Worldwide Photography Gala Awards juried by Tim Anderson. She was also a finalist that year for The Julia Margaret Cameron Award, juried by Mary Ellen Mark, Carol McCusker, Kim Weston, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Olivia Arthur, Vanessa Winship and Rosanna Checchi.

We look forward to seeing you in to the gallery some time in August for this exhibit of work by two wonderful artists.

Liz and Jan