STU LEVY
PHOTOGRAPHY
Portland, Oregon 97205
StuLevyPhoto.com
Born: February 19, 1948 Cincinnati, Ohio
My photographs often involve fragile landscapes in which I feel a sense of timelessness . The landscape, however, is only my stimulus or point of departure. I ask the question, “What else is the landscape,” and it is the “what else” that I try to photograph.
A selection of these was published as a Lenswork Monograph in 2014.
I also create “Grid-Portraits” of artists and craftsmen. Using several images contact printed together, a space and time scan is made of the subjects in their environments. In addition, references are made to the making of the photograph and to my own interaction with the subjects as I explore the process of perception and visual synthesis. A monograph has been published by Nazraeli Press.
In 1995 I printed 82 vintage Minor White negatives of two Victorian houses for the permanent collection of the Portland Art Museum and for publication in the book “Heritage Lost”, published by the Oregon Historical Society and the Portland Art Museum.
Gallery Representation
Augen Gallery 716 NW Davis Street Portland, OR 97209 www.augengallery.com 503 546 5056
Gallery 270 270 Westwood Ave Westwood, NJ 07675 gallery270.com 201-871-5076
Selected Collections:
Center for Photography Tucson, Arizona
Central Washington University Ellensberg, Washington
Cincinnati Art Museum Cincinnati, Ohio
City Hall Collection Eureka, California
Federal Reserve Bank Portland, Oregon
George Eastman House Rochester, New York
Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida Gainesville, Florida
High Museum of Art Atlanta, Georgia
Kaiser Permanente Portland, Oregon
Miller Nash LLP Portland, Oregon
Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago, Illinois
Museum of Photographic Arts San Diego, California
Oregon Health and Science University Portland, Oregon
Portland Art Museum Portland, Oregon
Portland Visual Chronicle Portland, Oregon
San Francisco Civic Center, Earl Warren Building San Francisco, California
Santa Barbara Museum of Art Santa Barbara, California
Seattle Arts Commission Seattle, Washington
Seattle Art Museum Seattle, Washington
Tacoma Art Museum Tacoma, Washington
Tonkon Torp LLP Portland, Oregon
Washington State Arts Commission Olympia, Washington
Wilson Centre for Photography London, England and Santa Monica, California
Books
Cranial Czar, Eh? Nazraeli Press, One Picture Book #30 2005 Grid-Portraits Nazraeli Press 2010 Honk If You Love Stieglitz Nazraeli Press, One Picture Book #75 2012 Stu Levy, Photorgaphs 1979 – 2013 (Monograph) Lenswork 2014
Featured Exhibitions:
Augen Gallery Portland, Oregon 2019
Augen Gallery Portland, Oregon 2016
Augen Gallery Portland, Oregon 2014
Viewpoint Gallery Sacramento, California 2013
Augen Gallery Portland, Oregon 2010
Emerald Art Center Springfield, Oregon 2009
Verve Gallery Santa Fe, New Mexico 2007
Camerawork Gallery Portland, Oregon 2007
Buckley Center, University of Portland Portland, Oregon 2005
Fairbanks Gallery, Oregon State University Corvallis, Oregon 2004
S. K. Josefsberg Studio Portland, Oregon 2003
Baldwin Gallery Middle Tennessee State Univ. Murfreesboro, TN 2002
Photographer’s Gallery of Palo Alto Palo Alto, California 1999
S. K. Josefsberg Studio Portland, Oregon 1998
The Ansel Adams Gallery Yosemite National Park and Pebble Beach, CA 1996
Alinder Gallery Gualala, California 1994
Catherine Edelman Gallery Chicago, Illinois 1994
Hill Galler Aspen, Colorado 1992
Southern Light Gallery Amarillo College, Amarillo, Texas 1992
Scheinbaum and Russek Sante Fe, New Mexico 1991
Port Angeles Fine Art Center Port Angeles, Washington 1991
The Silver Image Gallery Seattle, Washington 1990
Blue Sky Gallery Portland, Oregon 1990
The Ansel Adams Gallery Yosemite, California 1988
The Silver Image Gallery Seattle, Washington 1988
Chemeketa Community College Salem, Oregon 1987
Photographic Image Gallery Portland, Oregon 1987
University of Oregon Museum of Art Eugene, Oregon 1987
The Silver Image Gallery Seattle, Washington 1986
Photographic Image Gallery Portland, Oregon 1986
Sunbird Gallery Bend, Oregon 1986
The Maryhill Museum Goldendale, Washington 1987
Governor's Reception Office Salem, Oregon 1984
The Silver Image Gallery Seattle, Washington 1984
Eastern Washington University Cheney, Washington 1984
Camerawork Gallery Portland, Oregon 1982
Photographs Appear in the Following Publications:
Looking at Images Brooks Jenson 2014
Grateful Dead (Vinyl and CD) 4/18/1970 Family Dog at the Great Highway, San Francisco 2013
Photographer’s Forum (Clair Sykes Interview) September, 2013
Financial Times (London) Weekend Magazine Grid-Portrait, Michael Wilson Oct 13-14, 2012
View Camera Magazine Grid-Portraits Sep-Oct 2007
Lenswork #59 Side Canyons of the Colorado 2005
Golden Gate Bridge #176 (Sailboat & Shadow) Oceans (Rizzolli) 2002
Three photos Standing Up Country (Rio Nuevo Publisher) 2000
Article and three photos :
("The Landscape, the Environment and the View Camera") The Rangefinder May, 1994
Grid-Portraits Camera and Darkroom Magazine May, 1993
Landscape photos Wilderness at the Edge (Utah Wilderness Coalition) 1990
"Ice, Oneonta Creek" Object & Image (Craven, Prentiss-Hall) 1990
Northwest Magazine The Oregonian, Portland, Oregon 1990
Grid-Portrait Photographic Possibilities (Hirsch, Focal Press) 1990
Grid-Portrait Photo Metro 1990
Grid-Portraits Zyzzyva 1989
Grid-Portrait Mississippi Mud 1989
Commitment to Vision Catalog University of Oregon Museum of Art 1986
Interview with Charis (Weston) Wilson American Photographer August, 1979
Group Exhibitions:
Landscape Photoplace Gallery Middlebury, Vermont 2020
Members Show Lightbox Gallery Astoria, Oregon 2019
Nature’s Way (a search for beauty) Lightbox Gallery Astoria, Oregon 2017
PDX 30 Lightbox Gallery Astoria, Oregon 2016
PDX 40 Lightbox Gallery Astoria, Oregon 2015
The 21st Century Handmade Print Gallery 270 Englewood, New Jersey 2015
Place: Framing the Oregon Landscape Oregon Historical Society Portland, Oregon 2014-2015
Blue Sky at 40 Portland Art Museum Portland, Oregon 2014
Grand Canyon: Travels along the River Venice Arts Gallery Venice, California 2013
Album—Artist Portraits of Artists Marylhurst University Art Gym Marylhurst, Oregon 2010
Shape of Time Oregon Jewish Museum Portland, Oregon 2009
Resurrection: A new look at old photographic processes 23 Sandy Gallery Portland, OR 2008
Contrasting Objectives:
15Pacific Northwest Photographers Whatcom Museum of History & Art Bellingham, Washington 2006
Digital Photography Portland Art Museum Portland, Oregon 2003
Oregon in the Ozarks Arts Center of the Ozarks Springdale, Arkansas 2002
Deceit of the Intellect (Portraits) Benham Gallery Seattle, Washington 2001
Photo Americas Director’s Choice Portland State University, Portland, Oregon 2000
Oregon Landscape Photography Portland Community College Portland, Oregon 1999
Water! (Curator, Linda Wolcott Moore) Photo Metro Gallery San Francisco, CA 1996
Sunbird Gallery Bend, Oregon 1996
Blue Sky 20th Anniversary Show S. K. Josefsberg Studio Portland, Oregon 1996
Regional Landscape S. K. Josefsberg Studio Portland, Oregon 1994
The New Face of the Portrait Fuller Art Museum Brockton, Massachusetts 1994
Focus 94 Center for Photographic Arts Carmel, California 1994
Nat. Invit. Contem. Photog. Exhibit Central Washington University Ellensburg, Washington 1994
Alternatives 94 Ohio University Athens, Ohio 1994
Disappearing Oregon Benton County Historical Museum Philomath, Oregon 1994
Mountain West 4th Biennial Utah State University Logan, Utah 1993
Crosscut 93 Portland Art Museum Portland, Oregon 1993
Vision at the End of the Trail Portland Art Museum Portland, Oregon 1993
Current Works ’92 Society for Contemporary Photography Kansas City, Missouri 1992
Oregon Biennial Portland Art Museum Portland, Oregon 1991
The Legacy of Minor White Portland Art Museum Portland, Oregon 1991
Illuminance ’90 Lubbock Fine Arts Center Lubbock, Texas 1990
Juried Photography Exhibit Jewish Community Center Houston, Texas 1990
Northwest Invitational Kern Art Center Eugene, Oregon 1990
Positive/Negative Coos Art Museum Coos Bay, Oregon 1989
Photographic Multiplicity Marylhurst College Lake Oswego, Oregon 1989
Center for the Eye: Old Friends Oregon School of Arts and Crafts Portland, Oregon 1989
A Celebration of Portland Photography Portland Community College Portland, Oregon 1989
Blue Sky Gallery Portland, Oregon 1988
Oregon Biennial Portland Art Museum Portland, Oregon 1988
New Photographics 87 Central Washington University Ellensberg, Washington 1987
Landscape Photography Museum of the Rockies Bozeman, Montana 1987
Photography in the West: A Modern View The Rockwell Museum Corning, New York 1987
Northwest Juried Art 86 Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum Spokane, Washington 1986
Art in the Mayor's Office Portland, Oregon 1986
Commitment to Vision University of Oregon Museum of Art Eugene, Oregon 1986
Three Points, Twelve Views Portland Art Museum Portland, Oregon 1986
Three Points, Twelve Views Seattle Art Museum Seattle, Washington 1986
Three Points, Twelve Views Surrey Art Gallery Surrey, British Columbia 1986
New Photographics 86 Central Washington University Ellensberg, Washington 1986
Images of Northern Arizona Coconino Arts Center Flagstaff, Arizona 1986
American Landscape Exhibition Main Street Gallery Fort Bragg, California 1985
Introductions 1985 The Photographer's Gallery, Palo Alto, California 1985
Northwest Vision University of Oregon Museum of Art Eugene, Oregon 1985
Photographic Image Gallery Portland, Oregon 1985
New Photographics 84 Central Washington University, Ellensberg, Washington 1984
Coos Art Museum Coos Bay, Oregon 1984
Point Lobos as Icon Friends of Photography Carmel, California 1984
Northwest Vision University of Oregon Museum of Art Eugene, Oregon 1984
Photo Show II La Jolla, California 1984
U. S. Biennial II University of Oklahoma Norman, Oklahoma 1984
Water Show Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon 1984
Recent Photographic Acquisitions Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon 1983
Members Exhibit Friends of Photography, Carmel, California 1983
The Silver Image Gallery Seattle, Washington 1982
Members Exhibit Friends of Photography Carmel, California 1982
Members Exhibit Friends of Photography Carmel, California 1980
Photographic Education:
Ansel Adams Workshop Yosemite, California 1979
Olivia Parker Workshop Portland, Oregon 1979
Owens Valley Photography Workshop Bishop, California 1980
Teaching Experience:
Private workshops Oregon Coast Instructor 1990 to present
Ansel Adams Gallery Workshops Yosemite, California Instructor 1989
Ansel Adams Gallery Workshops Yosemite, California Assistant Instructor 1984-88
Ansel Adams Workshop Yosemite, California Assistant Instructor 1981
Coupeville Art Center Whidbey Island, WA Instructor 1990,1992,1994
Friends of Photography Workshops Carmel, California
Oregon School of Arts and Crafts Portland, Oregon Workshop Instructor 1987-88
Owens Valley Photography Workshop Page, Arizona Instructor 1987, 1989
Pacific Northwest College of Art Portland, Oregon Instructor 1983-87
Photographic Arts Workshops Page, Arizona Instructor 1991, 1993, 1995
Portland Photographic Workshops Shore Acres State Park, Oregon Instructor 1982-1987
Santa Fe Photographic Workshops Bisti Badlands, New Mexico Instructor 1992
Laser Scanned Duotone Posters:
Punch Bowl Falls 1991
Spring Trees and Falls 1988
Eel Creek Dunes IV(Commitment to Vision) 1986
RamonaFalls 1986
Lower Calf Creek Falls 1986
Havasu Stream 1984
Grid-Portrait Posters:
Linda Connor Photographs the Past 1990
Artist's Proof and Consequences 1989
Awards:
Current Works ’92, Excellence Award Soc. for Contemporary Photog., Kansas City, MO 1992
Photo Metro Photo Contest San Francisco 1990
Best of Show and Honorable Mention Jewish Community Center, Houston, Texas 1990
Cash Award Lubbock Fine Arts Center, Lubbock, Texas 1990
Purchase Award Main Street Gallery, Fort Bragg, California 1985