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"One of the most prestigious juried shows in San Diego, the Athenaeum’s 33rd Annual Juried Exhibition will be on view this summer and fall, July 26 through October 18, 2025. This year 315 artists entered about 900 works for consideration. Juror Malcolm Warner, art historian and curator, selected the final 29 artists and 29 works to exhibit." from The Athenaeum Music and Arts' web page.
Juror Malcolm Warner selected my image Turbulent for an Honorable Mention. |
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My photograph Paradise from Reverence: San Diego River was selected and received a Special Mention by juror Aline Smithson. This exhibition is for images created using alternative processes and is an annual exhibition at the Photographer's Eye in Escondido, CA.
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"LOS/NR is excited to announce everything and anything, a group show of striking artists from San Diego, CA working in video, painting, photography, sculpture and installation. This is a show about the fluff that is filling and wrapping the story structures of our lives, at each step, at each level - from being born to falling in love, to finding a passion, getting ill, and passing on." from Level of Service/Not Required gallery website. Exhibit Aug 1 - Sep 13, 2025 La Jolla, CA.
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The San Diego River Park Foundation has honored the San Diego River Artists Alliance with a permanent Gallery Wall in their newly opened River Studio at Grant Park. We will have regular exhibits here.
Our Inaugural Exhibition at the GALLERY WALL, RIVER STUDIO at GRANT PARK was held August, 2025.
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A San Diego Union Tribune article featuring artist Louise Russell and Rob Hutsel, CEO San Diego River Park Foundation, by Lisa Deaderick covers the The Hyde Art Gallery's One River, Many Stories exhibition, 2025, and the San Diego River Park Foundation's work for the river.
" From the early days of the Kumeyaay to people living in San Diego today, the river has ‘many stories’ to tell. The San Diego River Artists Alliance and the San Diego River Park Foundation partner for a new exhibition featuring various styles of art to tell the stories of the San Diego River at Grossmont College’s Hyde Art Gallery March 24 to April 24, 2025."
" From the early days of the Kumeyaay to people living in San Diego today, the river has ‘many stories’ to tell. The San Diego River Artists Alliance and the San Diego River Park Foundation partner for a new exhibition featuring various styles of art to tell the stories of the San Diego River at Grossmont College’s Hyde Art Gallery March 24 to April 24, 2025."
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In the main gallery photographs from Reverence: San Diego River are exhibited. These were captured with an 8” x 10” pinhole camera, the film is processed in my darkroom, scanned, edited in Photoshop, printed on PictoricoPro film, then white gold leaf is hand applied. The white gold leaf shimmers and expresses my reverence for the river, its precious and fragile nature, and our effects on it, past and present.
Outdoors in the Patterson Memorial Window hangs seven fabric cyanotype scrolls, 3 x 6-8 feet, each telling a different story of the river through quoted voices about the Kumeyaay, Birders, Japanese American farmers, Mission Valley Development, Boating, Homeless, and the river's voice.
Outdoors in the Patterson Memorial Window hangs seven fabric cyanotype scrolls, 3 x 6-8 feet, each telling a different story of the river through quoted voices about the Kumeyaay, Birders, Japanese American farmers, Mission Valley Development, Boating, Homeless, and the river's voice.
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LIVING AND PHOTOGRAPHING IN AN IMPERFECT NATION, 2025
Juror Arthur Ollman gave my entry 1 of the 4 Awards and said this, "And Russell by using tripod, pinhole annd scanner and photoshop has created a hybrid of processes and thus appearances. Then my employing the old romantic, classic viewpoint and pristine place selections she also gives us a fall from grace interruption of unlovely human intrusions. Identifying mundane places in ways that identify issues is a way to show a subtler and in-the-end more meaningful statement."
Juror Arthur Ollman gave my entry 1 of the 4 Awards and said this, "And Russell by using tripod, pinhole annd scanner and photoshop has created a hybrid of processes and thus appearances. Then my employing the old romantic, classic viewpoint and pristine place selections she also gives us a fall from grace interruption of unlovely human intrusions. Identifying mundane places in ways that identify issues is a way to show a subtler and in-the-end more meaningful statement."
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Four of my images from Reverence: San Diego River are included in this mixed media exhibit featuring the San Diego River.
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My image Above the Flood was included in Personal Territory by juror Andrea Jenkins Wallace, Anderson Ranch Arts Center.
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Four of my images from Earth Emotions were in the Snowcreek Collaborative exhibit in Escondido, Ca which is in San Diego's North County.
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My Journeys white gold leaf on vellum image was in the Gallery Photographers' Exhibit at Photographic Gallery at San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
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Juror Elizabeth Cheng Krist selected my image Sweet Water for The Center for Fine Art Photography's (UN) NATURAL CYCLES: Air, Water, Land online exhibit, 2022.
My image Two Voices was selected for Photographer's Eye Gallery's Alternative Process exhibit. The image is captured with an 8" x 10" pinhole camera and printed on translucent paper vellum with white gold leaf applied. Juror Christina Z. Anderson noted my work in her statement,
“Process is never the whole story, though; an image has to first be well-executed visually. Some examples that come to mind are....Louise Russell’s juxtaposed wild landscape/ wild graffiti,.."
“Process is never the whole story, though; an image has to first be well-executed visually. Some examples that come to mind are....Louise Russell’s juxtaposed wild landscape/ wild graffiti,.."
My image Journeys was selected by juror Donna Watson for Front Porch Gallery, Carlsbad, CA for their Juried Exhibit.
My pinhole image Seapool from my Parks and Gardens series was in the
Layered Light Exhibition at LIGHT ART SPACE in Silver City, New Mexico.
April 23 to June 26, 2021.
Layered Light Exhibition at LIGHT ART SPACE in Silver City, New Mexico.
April 23 to June 26, 2021.
The California Native Plants Society's Forever Forest art contest selected this piece, Interbeing, from my Ways of Knowing series, as 1st place in the Ecology section. May 2021
....................................................................................................................................................................I was the Medium Member Spotlight artist along with Douglas Stockdale for March, 2021.
....................................................................................................................................................................The catalog Ways of Knowing with a Foreword by Suda House accompanies my work in the Botany of Living exhibit at
The Photographer's Eye Gallery. It may be viewed and ordered on Blurb.
The eBook is free. The softcover book Preview includes the entire book so may be viewed online.
The Photographer's Eye Gallery. It may be viewed and ordered on Blurb.
The eBook is free. The softcover book Preview includes the entire book so may be viewed online.
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ARTIST TALK
Botany of Living exhibit at The Photographer's Eye Gallery
Here's the artist talk with myself, Douglas Stockdale, whose work is also in the exhibit, and Donna Cosentino, Gallery Director, discussing our work. Recorded Feb. 25, 2021
ARTIST TALK
Botany of Living exhibit at The Photographer's Eye Gallery
Here's the artist talk with myself, Douglas Stockdale, whose work is also in the exhibit, and Donna Cosentino, Gallery Director, discussing our work. Recorded Feb. 25, 2021
The passcode: =x3KAFT$
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Gerhard Clausing, Editor, PhotoExchange Journal, wrote a piece about the Artist Talk.
Gerhard Clausing, Editor, PhotoExchange Journal, wrote a piece about the Artist Talk.
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I was honored that my Points of View series was featured on Lenscratch with a beautiful write-up by Amanda Dahlgren. You can read it at http://lenscratch.com/2019/04/louise-russell-points-of-view/
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One of my Ways of Knowing images, Opuntia phaeacantha Delight was selected by juror Dan Leers, Curator of Photography with the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. PA for the Allegany National Photography competition and exhibition in Cumberland, Maryland.
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I presented my Points of View series at OPEN SHOW. Robert Sanchez, Saulo Cisneros, Mike Lewis, and Paul Turounet also presented at Open Show #4. http://www.openshow.org/en/sandiego/568. |
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One of my Parks and Gardens images, Foundation Remains, was selected by curator Russell Joslin for the SohoPhoto Gallery's Krappy Kamera Exhibit, March 2017.
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Size Matters: A Juried Exhibition Celebrating Small Works 2016
The signature exhibition of the Medium Festival of Photography, opening Oct. 22, 2016 at Low Gallery in San Diego’s Barrio Logan neighborhood.
The juror was Allie Haeusslein who is the Associate Director at Pier 24 Photography in San Francisco, one of the largest spaces dedicated to photography in the United States.
Low Gallery - 1878 Main St, San Diego, CA 92113
Phone for hours - (619) 757-060
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One of my J9 Suite images, Mom at the Fence, was selected by juror Susan Burnstine for the Alternative Cameras: Pinhole to Plastic exhibit
Place: PhotoPlace Gallery, 3 Park Street, Middlebury, VT
Dates: Dec. 22, 2015 to Jan 15, 2016
Opening: Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2015
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Three of my Land Marks pieces are in ART MAKES CHANGE, VISION LA'15 Arts Festival exhibit.
Place: Bergamot Station, Santa Monica in the former Santa Monica Museum of Art
Dates: Nov 30 - Dec 11, 2015 to align with Paris COP21 UN Climate Conference
Opening: Monday, Nov 30, 6 - 10 pm
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