MIXED EMOTIONS

A Juried Photography Exhibition March 8 - April 12, 2025 Artists’ Reception Saturday, March 8th 6-8PM

We look at a photograph and have a reaction. You find the image happy, humorous or pleasant, but on further observation the context changes and we see joy amidst squalor. A photograph can have a narrative that causes us to see layers of meaning and emotion. Joy and Angst, Confinement yet Freedom, Achievement along with Disappointment, Tranquility with a Pending Storm, Aging and Vitality, Struggle/Success. We asked artists to send us images that convey contrast and mixed emotions.

Contributing Artists:

Andy Levinson, Anthony Marino, Cheryl Auditor, Eva Jane Krause, Gina Cioffi Loud, Gina Ziegler, Jeff Smith, Judy Grimes, Julia Muench, Julie Murray, Kamelia DeSoucey, Katherine Blohm, Kathleen Brannigan, Lesley Husband, Lisa Kolarcsik, Maria Savidis-Markatos, Maria Zdroik, Richard Huff, Richard Salls, Stacy Smith, Sydney Thuss, Tania Kimche, Thomas j Camal

Juror: Bruce Cohn

Originally from Brooklyn, NY, Bruce moved from Staten Island to Atlantic Highlands, NJ, six years ago. He has been involved with photography since age eleven and continued his interest through high school and college. He became a wedding photographer and videographer and had the opportunity to teach digital, 35mm black and white film and pinhole photography at Totten Intermediate School, Staten Island and wrote a “Photography Curriculum Guide for Middle Schools”. He was a volunteer and board member at the Alice Austen House Museum, Staten Island, NY. Bruce has exhibited at the Michael Ingbar Gallery, the International Center of Photography, the Umbrella Arts Gallery, the Fountain House Gallery, all in NYC and the Atlantic Highlands Arts Council and Canterbury Juried Art Show, in NJ. His photos have been published in the Staten Island Advance, Metropolis and the New York Times magazines.

He received his BFA from Pratt Institute, MS from Richmond College and has taken photo courses and workshops with Eugene Richards, Willis ”Buzz” Hartshorn and Harvey Stein. Bruce has more recently photographed in Argentina, Morocco, Greece, India, Mexico and New Mexico. He returned to photograph again in India, February 2023.