SUSO member Martin Greene will be lecturing.
Location: Y Bar, 301 North Street Pittsfield
Martin Greene has exhibited in many Berkshires galleries. Of recent, he is represented by the Sohn Fine Art Gallery in Stockbridge. He was included in their exhibit “A Summer Ramble,” as well as in an exhibit at the Cranwell Resort & Spa. Before that, for many years, he was represented by the SKH Gallery in Great Barrington. His work was continuously shown there and he was also included in the following exhibits: Photographers of the SKH Gallery, Small Works Big Art, and SKH Modern.
He has had solo exhibitions at the Becket Arts Center and the Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson, NY. His photos have been exhibited at Simon’s Rock College’s Atrium Gallery and the Gallery at Liebowitz; the USS Constitution Museum in Boston; the Norman Rockwell Museum in Lenox; the Lichtenstien Center for the Arts in Pittsfield; and the Ferrin Gallery at Canyon Ranch. A print of his was in the Berkshire Museum’s Power of Place exhibit and is included in their permanent collection.
Martin began his career as a photographer in the United States Air Force and then worked as an assistant to Richard Avedon. He shifted his focus to become a practicing psychoanalyst and a university professor. Following that, he returned to photography and took numerous courses at the International Center for Photography in NYC. He is a founding member of the Berkshire Photography Group. He lives with his wife in a home overlooking the Jug End State Park in South Egremont, Massachusetts, the site of many of his photographs.
On Photographing in Museums
I find being in a museum extremely stimulating and photographically inspiring. My eyes are drawn to the vast array of art as well as to the space that surrounds the art, the visitors looking at the art, and the physical properties of the building that houses the art, amongst them windows, doors, even staircases. I will discuss the museum as a creative arena for taking photos, illustrating this through the use of images I’ve captured in museums.
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