… An Intimate Encore is a fine art, multi media photographic series shot in one
unique location, The Lillian Booth Actors Home in Englewood, New Jersey; an
assisted living and nursing home for retired performing arts and entertainment
professionals. This series of poignant black & white portraits creates a
respectful and honest visual narrative of the individual subjects’ state of mind
and their emotional, physical and mental health as they cope with and overcome
the challenges of aging, while still continuing to share their talent, living
together in an innovative and creative atmosphere. All of the images in this
photographic series were captured on film using a Hasselblad medium format
camera, and created and printed by the artist in a traditional darkroom.
Wendy Paton is an award winning American photographer, best known for her dramatic black and white, candid, nocturnal portraits; living and working in the U.S. and Paris.
Paton’s keen interest in photography began in 1981 while in the throes of a groundbreaking career training and driving Standardbred racehorses. She went on to study at the International Center of Photography in New York City, learned the intricacies of night photography from Michael Kenna and darkroom printing from her mentor and collaborator, master printer, Chuck Kelton.
Paton had her first solo exhibition in New York City at Sous Les Etoiles Gallery in 2010 and has had numerous exhibitions in galleries and museums throughout the U.S. and Europe.
In 2012 the launch of her first monograph, Visages de Nuit published by Kehrer Verlag, coincided with the solo museum exhibition, Wendy Paton: Visages de Nuit, in Moscow at The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography. In 2014 Paton’s first U.S. solo museum exhibition,
Wendy Paton: Nuit Blanche, opened at The James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Her images have been published in numerous international publications as well as exhibition and museum catalogs, and appeared on CNN and Russia Today television.
Her photographs are included in the permanent collections of Musee de la Photographie, James A. Michener Art Museum, Lumiere Brothers Center of Photography - Moscow, International Center of Photography, Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Personal Collection of Prince Albert ll of Monaco as well as other notable private collections.
“Paton’s images are portraits and stories captured with the craft of perception and the energy of visual instinct. Her eye is that of celebrant as well as voyeur, and in graphic compositions of black and white, she offers personal and intimate glimpses of our human, ineffable presence”.
Philip Clark, The ARTPOINT.
Awards Awards:
2009 First Prize winner, Editors Choice Award, CENTER, Santa Fe
Permanent Collections:
Spallart Collection, Austria
Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Museé de la Photographie: Charleroi, Belgium
The James A. Michener Art Museum, Pennsylvania
The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography, Moscow
ICP, Rita K. Hillman Gallery Collection, NYC
ICP, Permanent Library Collection, NYC
Personal Collection: His Serene Highness Prince Albert II of Monaco
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2016 Three Days in Rosemont, Festival America,Vincennes
2014/15 Nuit Blanche, Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA
2014 Keep It Moving, Hoehne Clark Gallery, Doylestown, PA, Keep It Moving, Hoehne Clark Gallery, Doylestown, PA
2013 Visages de Nuit, The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography, Moscow; Nuit Blance, Sous Les Etoiles Gallery, NYC
2012 Keep It Moving, National Arts Club, NYC
2010 Visages de Nuit, Sous Les Etoiles Gallery, NYC; Keep It Moving, Artsource, NYC
2006 Tableau, Whitney Center, CT
Selected Group Exhibition:
2017 Art Karlsruhe, Art Fair, Karlsruhe, Germany; Light, Shadow & Chemistry, In Focus Galerie, Cologne, Germany
2015 Fotofever, Paris, France; Love Is . . . . In Focus Galerie, Cologne, Germany; Meisterwerke, “Masterpieces”, Deutsches Fotomuseum, Leipzig, Germany
2013 Titles & Icons, In Focus Galerie, Cologne, Germany; Two For the Road, Red Filter Gallery, Lambertville, NJ
2012 What’s in a Face, Panopticon Gallery, Boston, MA; Portraits, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Ft. Collins, CO
2011 Holiday Exhibition, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA; Contemporary American Photography, American Portraits, In Focus Galerie, Cologne, Germany
2010 (Por)Trait Revealed, Rayko Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Inside Out: Portraiture Today, Watchung Arts Center
2009 Through the Lens, A Female Perspective, Artsource, NYC;
The Curve, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA;
Clues to Identity, ICP, Education Gallery, NYC
2008 The Monmouth Museum Invitational Exhibition, New Jersey; The Invisible Age, Rayko Gallery, SF, CA
Publications:
Visages de Nuit, Pub. Kehrer Verlag; Titles & Icons, Pub. In Focus Galerie; WENDY PATON | NUIT BLANCHE, Pub. James A. Michener Art Museum; LOVE IS . . . . Pub. In Focus Galerie
