Thanks to all who came to see my work at the Joyce Gordon Gallery. 406 14th St., Oakland in July.

Open Studio 2014

Open studio time again. Hope you'll come on over!

My Work currently On View At Repeat Performance on Fillmore St., San Francisco

My work is currently on view at Repeat Performance, 2436 Fillmore St., San Francisco.
                     

                                                                                                      Lynn Mueller 2013
                                            Tuesday - Saturdays 11:30 to 5:30

Spam is annoying but occasionally it transcends into art:

Sometimes its fun to read the spam I get from my blog. I especially like the ones that tell me about my insightful articles! Since I mostly post photos only without "articles" its always flattering to know how well written and informative my non-written writing can be!! BUT this one takes the cake:

 Its like you read my mind! You seem to know a lot about this, like you wrote the book in it or something. I think that you can do with a few pics to drive the message home a little bit, but other than that, this is magnificent blog. A great read. I will certainly be back. Look at my blog - http://------------. 

I was deeply affected by this review and vow from now on to include more images to back up my "arcticles"

http://www.sfgate.com/performance/slideshow/102nd-San-Francisco-Symphony-Gala-69484/photo-5134992.php#Shooting Film at the gala. Film Canisters on my strap gets the attention of a photographer younger than my camera.

Open Studio 2013

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Lots to look at!

Aquarium

Four twigs

2 new images

Night Path

  Dinner at 8

Madly trying to prepare new work for upcoming East Bay Open Studio.


                                   

Bryant Park Looking East                           Madison Square, NYC               Blank Bill Board                
                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

                   Pine Needles                                                                                                Skaters / Night 

                                                                                                      

I currently have work on exhibition in three shows:

Dis/Order Juried Annual 2013
Selected by Naomi Beckwith
Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
December 7, 2012 - January 11, 2013 at ProArts in Oakland

Wonder Artists Annual
Berkeley Art Center
December 6, 2012 - January 27, 2013

Berkeley Civic Center Juried Annual
April 2012 - April 2013

Coming in 2013: I will have a piece in:

Transport: Where We Go From Here:
January 22, 2013 - February 15, 2013 at ProArts

OPEN STUDIO 2012    June 2 -3 & 9 - 10   

          11:00 - 6:00

Come join me to look at photographs, chat, and perhaps take home a bargain to treasure. 

Tip for visitors without a car: On the second weekend, June 9 & 10 You can catch a free shuttle from the North Berkeley BART Station every half hour from 10 am to 6 pm both days to the LIVE OAK CRAFTS FAIR, which is only a 2 block walk from my OPEN STUDIO.

Exhibition November 5th-December 4th

Corner Billboard: From The Billboard Series 2

EBOS Open Studio JUNE 4 - 5   and JUNE 11- 12 

             from 11:00 to 6:00

Lots of new work to see and talk about. Good eats & wine!

Setting Bricks, Embarcadero

About My Work:

For four decades I have been making photographs using the same 35mm format camera and a single lens.  I look for irony, poignancy, and metaphor and am interested in translucency, layers, perforation of surfaces, veiled views, and glimpses of hidden worlds. Frames within frames, doors, windows, gates, and mirrors are recurring actors on my visual stage.  I am a benign voyeur making up unverifiable stories from snippets of information snatched from an open gate or window. 

I am fascinated by photography’s ability to consider and express the passage of time by stopping it or to suggest the past or future in one captured fraction of a second.  I am interested in how a photograph may conjure or emphasize a subject by its very absence from the image. The edges of the frame are as important to me as the middle, and what I choose to leave out of the frame is as crucial to the meaning and content as what I choose to leave in. Therefore, I compose very carefully in the camera and always print the full frame.

Ultimately my work is a desire to recognize the unseen.  That is, I seek to discover in the mundane a fragment of the world that may have been looked at but not perceived.  I want to allow the viewer a moment’s pause to see what is normally so easily missed.  My work uses light, texture, gesture, geometry, juxtapositions, and the play of scale and space within the frame.  By isolating and combining objects I can reveal their overlooked importance or suggest new meanings.

The images that I make allow me to pose questions for which there are myriad possible stories and ideally make the viewer pause and ponder rather than know with certainty.

My portfolio includes black & white gelatin-silver prints, color photographs, handmade books, and photogravure prints.

My Resume:

Publications:                       19 Views of Paris 2011
                                                Billboards 2010

Legs Mostly Walking 2009

Exhibitions:                         Dis/Order, ProArts Juried Annual 2013
                                               Wonder Berkeley Art Center 2012
                                               Berkeley Civic Center Juried Annual 2012 -2013
                                               Essentia 66 Photographs 2011
                                               Green, Berkeley Art Center 2010-2011

Berkeley Arts Festival 2009

Pro Arts Juried Annual 2008

Pro Arts Juried Annual 2007

                                                New Visions: Introductions 2006, Pro Arts

                                                San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

                                                San Francisco Art Institute

Collections:                        Chicago Art Institute

                                              Getty Art Museum

                                              MOMA, N.Y.

                                              San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

                                              San Francisco Art Institute

                                              Private Collections

Residency, Kala Institute 2011

San Francisco Art Institute BFA, Photography 1972

Pratt Institute, 1967 – 1970  

Window Sill: Late Afternoon Light