Andrea received seven Honorable Mentions in this year’s International Photography Awards competition entitled OneShot Harmony. The judges made their determinations based on the originality, creativity and excellence of execution of the submitted images. Among Andrea’s recognized photographs was this one taken in Los Angeles in 2016.
As artists in the permanent collection of the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, we are once again invited to participate in the 2018 Annual Art Auction on June 2 and the Big Names, Small Art Auction on May 24. The main auction attracts some of the most renowned art collectors in the area.
Andrea was contacted by Better Photography (India) magazine for a feature article about The City Reflections Project portfolio. Along with multiple images for the magazine there will be an interview about her work and her process. The publication will be coming out this summer in their Fine Art issue. This is India and Southeast Asia’s leading photography magazine and reportedly one of thirty of the best photography magazines in the world. We are pretty excited!
This month saw individual gallery tours with some new customers. It is always a fun experience introducing people to our work.
We took the month off for the holidays.
On the fourth of this month, Chris Ann Bachtel hosted an invitation only release party for Andrea’s new work titled, Jellies. The response to this event was incredibly enthusiastic. The energy of over 100 people was palpable and well exceeded our expectations. We cannot thank Chris Ann enough for the work she did to make this event a reality. Leslie Hunter and her event staff did an outstanding job preparing the food, staging the building, and so competently serving such a huge crowd.
This was the fourth year of our participation in the Davis Art Studio Tour and we had another great experience with a very receptive crowd. Thanks again to the Davis Art Center’s Mike Azevedo and Stacie Frerichs for their tireless efforts at organizing and promoting the tour.
This was the month of final preparation for the two big Fall events in October and November. We also participated in the first of two Opening Receptions for the Davis Art Studio Tour.
Andrea began a new project she is calling Jellies. Seemingly a departure from her graphic architectural portfolios, there is a common thread in the fluidity of her new work and her liquid reflections.
On August 28, Andrea will be presenting her work to the Napa Valley Photographic Society.
Rob’s special limited edition prints from the award winning Hidden Treasure: Restoring Putah Creek portfolio are now available and on view at the gallery. These special prints produced for Putah Creek Council are signed and numbered (1/50) and are printed on 20” x 24” archival matte paper. Once these unique prints are sold they will not be released again.
Portion of the June 25, 2017 blog post titled "On Reflection."
We are excited to let you know that Lumas Gallery, Singapore sold 222 of Andrea’s City Reflections prints to the brand-new Oakwood Premier Oue Singapore apartment complex.
Rob will be participating in the Putah Creek Council‘s annual stewardship potluck Wednesday April 19th at 6:00 p.m. at the Berryessa Brewing Company in Winters. Both special limited edition prints will be available for purchase as well as larger prints. This is a great opportunity to meet everyone involved with the restoration of Putah Creek.
This month was focused on reviewing past work not yet published. As has happened before, Andrea discovers she overlooked a unique photograph from the 2015 Dallas shoot.
Rob announced the release of two special limited edition prints from the award winning Hidden Treasure: Restoring Putah Creek portfolio produced exclusively for the Putah Creek Council. The prints are signed and numbered (1/50) for the images Willow and Spring on Lake Solano. Twenty prints of each image have been assigned to the Putah Creek Council for gifts to donors and annual awards. The image size is 11” x 14” printed on a 20” x 24” archival matte paper. The remaining thirty prints of each image are available to the public for purchase. This is a rare opportunity to own a signed and numbered print for $100. The next available size is 16” x 20” (edition of 5) and sells for $325.
Small gallery tours were peppered throughout this month. We also took some much needed time off.
Andrea was featured on the international photography website, LensCulture, in an article entitled 111 New Street Photography Discoveries. The selections and text are by Jim Casper, Editor and Publisher.
From over a thousand artists around the world who submitted their work, we were honored to be two of the 45 artists selected for the International Juried Competition at the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, CA. Andrea’s image Rooftop Dream (from the City Reflections Project) and Rob’s After Spring Rain (from the Close To Home portfolio) will be on display from November 12 to December 23. This year’s juror is Linde B. Lehtinen, PhD., Assistant Curator of Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
This is the month of the Davis Art Studio Tour October 15 and 16, 10am to 5pm. Tickets are $10 each and can only be purchased in person or online at the Davis Art Center. There will be 31 participating artists and a sample from each artist will be on display at the Davis Art Center from October 12 to November 3.
The kick-off event for the Tour will be the Opening Reception at the Davis Art Center, Friday October 14 from 6pm to 9pm.
Lumas Gallery in Berlin highlighted Andrea’s piece Infinite Mirror on their Facebook page. It was viewed by over 10,000 people in less than a week!.
We have also been busy this month preparing for the Davis Art Studio Tour in October which is being hosted by the Davis Art Center.
Andrea was invited to present her work to the Gold Rush Chapter of the Photographic Society of America. This chapter includes photography groups from Redding to Fresno and parts of Nevada. There was a great turn out and the audience enthusiastically received her presentation of The City Reflections Project and Elements. The new work from Los Angeles is now up on the website.
We traveled to Los Angeles to shoot Andrea’s two projects. With our Film LA permit in hand, we shot in the downtown for five days. Look for new work from this, our tenth city, in the coming months.
Rob Stone — Andrea in L.A.
The invitation we each received to participate in the annual Art Auction, the Crocker Art Museum’s biggest event of the year, led to an experience that went beyond either of our expectations. Watching our large pieces of work being bid on and selling so well was simply thrilling. Just before the close of the Auction, Andrea’s image was the object of a bidding war and brought in over the stated value of the piece.
Andrea's image, Luminosity, was purchased for the May cover of S7, a Russian Airlines travel magazine with a circulation of 100,000.
Mid-month was the annual Big Names/Small Art Auction at the Crocker Art Museum attended by over 1400 avid art collectors and enthusiasts! This fundraiser features artists' work that can only be 12" x 12" or smaller and the bidding starts at twenty-five dollars. It was a really fun event where we had the opportunity to meet the buyers of our two pieces. With many regional artists participating, including Gregory Kondos and Wayne Thiebaud, this is a chance to acquire something special for your home or office. If you are looking for a small piece of art we highly recommend you check it out next year.
The April 1 reception for our Salon des Exclus show at Yolo Arts 625 Gallery was well attended by over 135 people. The response to the originality of the four portfolios by featured artists Andrea Stone, Rob Stone, Joseph Finkleman and Michael Radin was very enthusiastic.
We focused on preparing for the upcoming exhibits April 1 (Gallery 625), May 19 (Big Names, Small Art; Crocker Museum), and June 4 (Crocker Museum’s Art Auction). We also applied to the Davis Art Center for inclusion in this year’s Davis Art Studio Tour this October.
The month started out with a bang! We were each invited to participate in the Crocker Art Museum's 38th Annual Art Auction Season this May and June. The two events are Big Names Small Art (BNSA) and Art Auction. This honor also brings with it the opportunity to give back to this wonderful institution.
We will both have one image in each event that will be exhibited in the Museum for three weeks before the auctions take place.
Rejection is the fate of most artists be it in the 21st, 20th or 19th century when Emperor Napoleon III felt pressured to order an exhibition of rejected works at the Salon des Refusés in Paris.
Salon des Exclus consists of four artists with four unique visions who have all struggled with rejection and disinterest from traditional venues. We have been excluded for not being edgy enough, for being too edgy. We have been excluded because our art doesn't look like photography. We have been excluded because it wasn't pink enough or not quite the right format or size.
We came together to support each other and to explore ways for our art to find broader exposure. Together we reject the idea that our art be relegated to anonymity.
We were invited by YoloArts in Woodland, CA to present works by the Salon des Exclus, a group we formed nearly three years ago with photographers Joe Finkleman and Michael Radin. This is a very exciting prospect as each of us has a very clear and different vision. The show will run from March 31 to May 3 and will be titled Salon des Exclus: Exhibition #One. The opening reception will be held on April 1 from 5:30 to 8:30pm at Gallery 625 in the Erwin Meier Administration Building, 625 Court Street, Woodland, CA.
Andrea was invited to speak to the Photography Club of Davis about the genesis and development of her City Reflections Project. It was a great evening with a very receptive audience.
Rob was interviewed by the Davis Enterprise for his story about the Hidden Treasure: Restoring Putah Creek portfolio.
October was a very social month for us as we hosted two different groups at the gallery. The first was for the VIP invitation-only reception for the official release of the portfolio Hidden Treasure: Restoring Putah Creek.
In addition to Putah Creek Council members, Senator Lois Wolk, left, spoke about her work and commitment to the restoration effort and her appreciation of the imagery of Hidden Treasure.
The following week we hosted another champagne reception for forty people to preview new work from Andrea's recent travels to Miami and Dallas. It was such a great event that we plan on doing periodic invitation-only soirees for people to view the work in a relaxed and fun atmosphere. If you would like to be included, please contact us and you will be placed on the invitation list.
Andrea was selected as one of the Lumas gallery artists to have her image City Landscape (Chicago 2011) displayed in the halls of the new MS5 German cruise ship that will launch in 2016.
Rob continued to develop images for the Hidden Treasure portfolio. He also completed production on a set of greeting cards and two limited edition posters which he plans to release in 2016.
Andrea began developing the Little Windows series from her Miami shoot. Look for these on the website at the beginning of the year.
Andrea has been developing a new series within the City Reflections gallery entitled Synergy. These photographs represent a new conceptual space she is exploring. Thus far there are five images which will be offered in three sizes, with the largest being 19" x 76".
Rob's image, Willow, was selected for Slice: Juried Exhibition Of Contemporary Art at the Pence Gallery in Davis. The Opening Reception was on July 10 and the show will run until August 20. Rob was awarded the Third Place Award from the 28 selected artists at a very exciting and well-attended opening.
We want to thank the 200 plus people who came to our gallery on the Davis Studio Art Tour last month. It was so wonderful meeting everyone and sharing our passion for photography.
DALLAS & MIAMI: This was a busy month traveling to Dallas and Miami shooting Andrea's project, City Reflections. Each city presented unique challenges but some good photos were taken. Look for them on our site mid-summer.
PUTAH CREEK: Rob has been advancing his Hidden Treasure: Restoring Putah Creek portfolio and has committed to donating 50% of his sales from these images (up to $3,000.00) to the Putah Creek Council to help with their restoration efforts of Putah Creek.
AWARDS: We are pleased to announce that we entered the International Color Awards competition and received seven nominations between us. International Color Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence in color photography. This celebrated event shines a spotlight on the best professional and amateur photographers worldwide and honors the finest images with the highest achievements in color photography. The 8th Annual Jury members included captains of the industry from Christie's, Paris; Frieze Art Fair, London; DB Agency, Milan; Clair Galerie, Munich; Edinburgh Film Festival; Art Beatus Gallery, Hong Kong; Gup Magazine, Amsterdam; and Eyestorm, London who honored Color Masters with 541 coveted title awards in 33 categories.
This month we are preparing for the Davis Art Studio Tour, April 11th and 12th. This is a wonderful opportunity to visit the studios of the many talented artists that live and work right here in Davis.
In their most recent printed edition, the Moroccan arts and architecture magazine A+E published an article about Andrea and her City Reflections Project.
Last summer we had the privilege of showing our studio to Scott Shields, Chief Curator, and Dianna Daniels, Associate Curator, from the Crocker Art Museum. This month we were both asked for a print for the museum's permanent collection. They selected After Spring Rain from Rob's Close to Home Project and Doorway to the Daily Diary from Andrea's City Reflections Project.
Rob's opening reception at Gallery 1855 for Close to Home had a great turn out. Andrea's opening reception at Carmel's Center for Photographic Art for the International Juried Portfolio Competition was also a success with over 200 people in attendance.
Also this month, as a result of Andrea's December show at Gallery 1855 and Rob's current exhibition, we were both asked to share our projects and processes with Davis High School and Da Vinci photography students as well as the University Farm Circle photographers. Both teaching experiences were so much fun and inspiring for us to hear about project ideas from budding and experienced artists.
Andrea has her first solo show featuring work from the City Reflections Project at Gallery 1855 in Davis. The show will run for the entire month of December and the reception will be from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., Sunday December 14th.
Look for Rob's solo show at Gallery 1855 in January featuring work from the Close To Home portfolio. The reception will be from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., Sunday January 4th.
Andrea is one of 33 artists selected for the 2015 International Juried Portfolio Exhibition at the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, CA. "Bricks And Mirrors", from the City Reflections Project, will be on display from January 10th to February 28th.
This month was spent working on developing new images for our respective projects.
Lumas requested a sixth picture, "White Tower", for distribution in their European galleries. Andrea now has six images from the City Reflections Project that are available on their website for distribution anywhere in the world.
Rob is working with the Putah Creek Council and Rich Marovich, Putah Creek Streamkeeper, and has begun creating a photo essay of this extraordinary treasure in Yolo County. This project, like Close To Home, explores man's efforts to restore and reconnect with the natural world.
Lumas gallery, headquartered in Berlin, saw Andrea's work when LensCulture published City Reflections last January. They contacted her in May and asked if she would be willing to enter into a contractual agreement to give them license to sell large, off-size limited editions of her limited edition images. She signed the contract this month. They selected five of Andrea's images and will be running 250 editions in two large sizes of each. The work will be available in any number of their 30 brick and mortar galleries, on-line, and in their catalogues. They have one gallery in SoHo, one in Dubai and Moscow, and in most major cities in Europe including two galleries in Paris.
Photo+, a printed monthly photography magazine in Seoul, South Korea, wrote to Andrea and asked if they could run a feature article on her for their August edition. They saw her City Reflections Project in Lenscratch last December and wanted to publish her photographs along with an interview about this body of work. We received a copy of this edition at the end of this month and have it at our studio for those of you who want to take a look. It's a beautiful magazine with 100,000 subscribers.
The Panopticon gallery's Opening Reception was beautifully curated and well attended. The show and Andrea's work, in particular, received a terrific review by writer Elin Spring. Read review.
The folio for Close To Home was released this month and went on sale for the first time during the Davis Art Studio Tour. This folio measures 8.5" x 11" and includes a beautiful heavyweight cover, four pages of text with a title page, project description and a list of the eight images printed on Canson Infinity Baryta Photographique paper. Each folio is signed and hand numbered and each of the eight images is suitable for framing.
We are thrilled to be participating in the Davis Art Studio Tour on May 31st and June 1st. This event takes place every year and features the studios of local artists. We have attended these tours for many years and have thoroughly enjoyed getting a peek at the spaces where art is created. Our studio/gallery will be open from 10:00 am until 5:00 pm both days, along with the 26 other participating artists. The Artery will host an Opening Reception for the tour on May 30th from 7:00 to 9:00 pm and will feature a piece of art from each studio. Tickets with accompanying maps are $10.00 each and may be purchased at The Artery or at each artist's location the weekend of the tour.
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"Triptych" is one of the new images from Houston now available to view on our website in the City Reflections gallery. All of them are labeled Houston, Texas as the location.
In his Close To Home Project, Rob continues to develop a narrative of man's hand in nature's landscapes all within the confines of the city limits of Davis, California. New pictures from this project will be on display at our studio gallery during the Davis Art Studio Tour.
We found out that two of Andrea's images from the City Reflections Project were chosen for exhibition in a group photography show at the Panopticon Gallery in Boston that will run from June 13th to September 9th. The title of the show is "Abstract Expressionists". We will be there for the Opening Reception and then head to NYC for another shoot there.
Also this month, two very popular French websites, La boite verte and fubiz, published works from The City Reflections Portfolio which led to soaring statistics of new visitors to our website from every continent in the world!! A great treat!!
Andrea had a second opportunity to participate in international reviews in Houston which were very positive. Before the reviews began, she had a chance to shoot a series of photographs that truly show an evolution in her thinking about this work.
Our studio/gallery is finally completed. We are so grateful to all the people who helped us, with special thanks to Lonnie Smithson (construction) and Max Kamber (paint).
Our studio gallery is nearing completion and some informal tours have begun. We are preparing to go to Houston next month for another set of international reviews for Andrea's work. While we are there we hope to shoot more city reflections!
Andrea's City Reflections portfolio was published on the cover page of the acclaimed international magazine, LensCulture, following a positive review in Paris by the editor, Jim Casper.
As a result of having her work seen in Paris, Andrea was invited to be the featured photographer in the global blogzine, Lenscratch, on December 15th. This changed her/our exposure of our work in a major way. Now, for the first time, the international community has discovered Stone Photography. The traffic to our website has grown considerably and continuously. We are very grateful to Aline Smithson, editor of Lenscratch!
Andrea received her Grand Prix de la Decouverte Juror of Merit Award at a ceremony in Paris on November 6th. It was definitely a once in a lifetime experience. She also participated in Paris FotoFest, a three-day event where an international group of curators, gallerists, and publishers reviewed photographers' portfolios from around the world. We truly have never seen so much talent and originality. Andrea took part in the Open Portfolio evening where she and her fellow FotoFest participants displayed their images to the Paris public.
Rob was honored this month as well when he became a nominee in the 8th Annual Black and White Spider Awards for the image Frank Gehry's House in the category of architecture. This international competition drew over 9000 entries.
Andrea and Rob were invited to participate in a group photography show entitled "Celebration of Life" at the 1855 Gallery. The reception is Sunday, October 13th from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm but the show will be up for the entire month of October.
Also in September, Andrea's "Rooftop Dream" was selected by Scott Shields of the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento for the Lottery For The Arts at the Blue Line Arts Gallery in Roseville. This big event will take place on October 11th at 6:00 pm.
"A few weeks ago I found in LensWork (magazine) the truly glorious and amazing work of photographer Andrea Stone. I was happy to find that these images could also be seen on "The Stone Photography" website, which Andrea shares with her husband Rob Stone.
Ms. Stone relates her transformative moment as being drawn to Claude Monet's work "The Magpie," and with that to the realization of what an image can be. She has made a study of cityscapes reflected in distorted patterns in window glasses. But such a description is really way too mechanical, because what she has created is in itself transformation. It bridges photography with impressionist art, creating magical pictures that could just as easily be paintings. When the building doing the reflecting is by architect Frank Gehry, the end result is simply amazing! Looking at her work is one of those great wow moments, when you just fall in love with photography all over again."
Claude Monet, "The Magpie," from the Wikimedia Commons. Original in the Musee D'Orsay and in the public domain in the United States.
Andrea won a Grand Prix de la Decouverte Juror Award of Merit from the 2013 International Fine Art Photography Competition in Paris. "Rooftop Dream", from the City Reflections Project, was chosen as one of the top ten images in the Cityscape/Architecture category by one or more of the international jurors out of 5,000 contest submissions!!! This includes an invitation to attend the Salon de la Photo in Paris for the award ceremony November 7, 2013!
Converting the second floor loft to make way for the new production studio.
Running out of room at the home studio (!), we decided to expand Stone Photography by remodeling our previous office space in Downtown Davis. The new venue will be a production studio and gallery. As before, the studio will be open by appointment and special events. We will be planning several Open Houses by year's end, extending into the beginning of 2014.
This past winter, Andrea's City Reflections portfolio was accepted for publication by the international photography magazine, LensWork. Her work will appear in their online edition, LensWork Extended #106, the May/June issue. It will include a biography, the story behind the project, and an audio interview with the editor, Brooks Jensen. Needless to say, we are thrilled and proud of this accomplishment. For those of you who do not have a subscription to LensWork, we will make available the CD that will include everything in the publication. Just let us know.
We have made some exciting changes to our website, including transforming it into a true commerce site. Now you will be able to select a print and the size you want, place it in your cart, and check out with PayPal. PayPal is safe and secure, and you don't have to have a PayPal account to use it.
Finally, we are making headway with a goal we began talking about nearly three years ago. We envisioned our work, especially those large images shot in medium format, as ones that might find a home in the corporate world of financial institutions, law offices, hotels, and healthcare settings. Recently, we submitted our work for representation to two corporate art consulting firms, Art Consulting Services in Sacramento and DSA Fine Arts in New York, and we were accepted. We hope at some point, in the not-too-distant future, some of our photographs will be seen in public spaces!!
Saturday, November 10th, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. The show includes five of Rob's images that are all part of his larger project "Close to Home", a visual meditation on seeing what is hidden in plain sight in a small suburban town.
September brings some exciting news. Andrea has had four of her images selected for the juried art show at the 2012 Modesto International Architecture Festival. This is a great event promoting art and film that speaks to the creative contribution that architecture can make to the world we inhabit. The festival, running from September 15th through September 23rd, has lectures, films, exhibitions, tours and a gala first night opening on September 15th. The art show will be held in the newly opened Building Imagination Center where you can see Andrea's large prints for the first time.
In late July and early August we returned to Portland, where Andrea's City Reflections Project began just a year ago. We shot in Portland and continued on to Seattle and Vancouver B.C. Over the past month we have been developing some of those images, now posted on our website in the City Reflections Gallery.
We want to acknowledge Kerrie Bowers from the Fairmont Waterfront Hotel in Vancouver who facilitated access to the hotel's private observation deck. As a result, we were able to capture reflections that would have eluded us at street level. We are still working on the images from Vancouver, which we hope to release in October.
We are in two art gallery shows this month where examples of our newest work will be displayed. The first show, at the Viewpoint Photographic Art Center's Members' Show in Sacramento, will run from July 11th through August 4th. One feature of the gallery, which is a lot of fun, are the portfolio drawers containing the work of the members represented by the gallery. Our drawer contains a nice selection of matted 16" x 20" prints from our two new portfolios.
The second show, the 2012 Annual Juried Membership Show at the Blue Line Gallery in Roseville, will run from July 20th through August 18th. If you haven't discovered the Blue Line Gallery, you are in for a treat.
Finally, Rob has been selected as one of six artists representing the Viewpoint Photographic Art Center in the annual KVIE Art Auction this fall. His image entitled "Close To Home" will be auctioned during the live auction September 28th to the 30th. All proceeds go to our local PBS affiliate that serves the Sacramento region.
In the City Reflections Gallery we now have a new series of eight images, from our fall shoot in New York City, entitled Brandell's World. Kim Brandell's Trump Tower Globe sits at the southwest corner of Central Park at Columbus Circle. The first five images taken from this pounded metal structure at first appear abstract, but when you look closely, you will discover a world of reflections of people, taxis, and storefront signs at this busy intersection. The last three photographs, taken from the underside of this sculpture, capture abstract shapes, shadows, and textures, with the exception of the greenery from Central Park.
This fall we continued working on Andrea's project, City Reflections, with a trip to Chicago and New York City. We have now posted eleven new images from this shoot in the City Reflections Gallery.
We spent two weeks in each of these great American cities exploring their beauty. Included is a shot of the Chicago skyline at dusk and an original view of the Bean in Millennium Park.