NEWS
A TROUBLING FUTURE: A DISCUSSION OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND CLIMATE ANXIETY
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
EXPERIMENTAL TRASH: EPISODE 040
CAMP RADIO
OCTOBER 4, 2023
FROM HERE TO THE HORIZON: PHOTOGRAPHS IN HONOR OF BARRY LOPEZ
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE
JANUARY 27, 2023 - MAY 26, 2023
Sheldon and the Barry Lopez Foundation for Art & Environment have organized an exhibition of the Home Ground Collection titled From Here to the Horizon: Photographs in Honor of Barry Lopez. The exhibition, which will have its inaugural presentation at Sheldon from January 27 through June 30, 2023, is accompanied by a fully illustrated exhibition catalogue, with contributions from Debra Gwartney, Robert Macfarlane, and Jurovics.
ON THE ARCTIC EDGE: ARTISTS EXPLORE THE FAR NORTH
Marion Belanger, Clare Benson, Steve Giovinco
Scandinavia House, NYC
October 21, 2022 - February 18, 2023
ON THE ARCTIC EDGE:PANEL DISCUSSION
FEBRUARY 4, 2023
LITHOSPHERIC SHIFT (Solo exhibition)
Bradley University
Heuser Art Gallery
Peoria, IL
August 29 - October 7, 2022
Photographs from Lost Lake will be shown at the Ragusa Foto Festival:
Harmony, A Quest for Understanding
Ragusa Foto Festival
August 21-24 Lugilo, Italy
Object Lesson,
Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA
September 21, 2021 - January 8, 2022
On the Basis of Art: 150 Years of Women at Yale,
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
September 10, 2021 - January 9, 2022
Plants & Insects: Mining the Archive
A permanent installation at the Connecticut Agricultural Experimental Station, New Haven, CT.
In collaboration with artist Martha Lewis, and commissioned by the State of Connecticut,
Capturing Sustainability in the Arctic - a virtual panel with Marion Belanger, Clare Benson, Marek Ranis, Andri Snaer Magnason & Tim Frandy.
March 24, 2021 @ 2:00
Virtual Roundtable discussion with the Women’s Environmental Workshare Collective members Margaret LeJeune, Judy Natal, Martina Shenal, Marion Belanger, Dana Fritz, and Terri Warpinski. October 1, 2020
On the Basis of Art: 150 Years of Women at Yale
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Opening August 2020 (DELAYED DUE TO COVID-19)
(Re)Framing Our Identities
CGIL Art City Bologna, Bologna, Italy
January 23, 2020
Eye on the West, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT
September 1, 2018 to December 16, 2018
Marion Belanger: The States Project: Connecticut
By Robert Calafiore
March 28, 2018
ARK/HIVE
March 8- May 18, 2008
The Institute Library Gallery
847 Chapel Street
New Haven, CT
www.institutelibrary.org
WINTER ASTERISM
Marion Belanger, Debbie Hesse, Martha Stewart
TheatreWorks Hartford
233 Pearl Street
Hartford, CT
A Survey of Color Photography from Its Prehistory to the Present Day
February 2 - April 29, 2018
Atrium Gallery, Marshall Fine Arts Center
Haverford College
Haverford, PA
A diverse group of photographers, photographs, and processes from the Daguerreian era (1839 to 1855) to today’s digital era take viewers on a tour of color photography’s history, demonstrating how color photography has grown to become the norm when it was once the exception.
Surrounded Everywhere by the Sea is featured in AIN'T-BAD MAGAZINE
RIFT / FAULT is featured in ANOTHER PLACE magazine
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RIFT / FAULT REVIEWED IN SAINT LUCY"S BOOK REPORT #1
Review by Mark Alice Durant
"Belanger’s approach to image-making is informed not only of her understanding of the history of photography, but more urgently, how precarious human life / culture is claiming a bit of territory on the skin of this earth. Plate tectonics, geothermal forces, volcanic activity, and climate change hover just outside, or just below the frame, all of which can and will make human claims of dominance and control, a sad boast. In Belanger’s vision, humans seem to occupy slivers of the planet, living out their lives in tentative and temporary settlements, holding their collective breath hoping that today at least will be spared inevitable cataclysm"
DOCUMENTING THE UNSEEN FORCES OF TECTONIC PLATES
Review by Meg Miller/ FAST CO DESIGN
"That these lovely, tranquil, and muted photos conjure up thoughts of natural disaster at all is a testament to Belanger’s skill as a landscape photographer. "
WOMEN IN COLOUR
August 19 - September 2017
RUBBER FACTORY is pleased to present a group exhibition exploring the pioneering role of women in the use of color in photography. Women in Colour, the British spelling, advances fresh, new scholarship through a distinct and separate category; color, tracing its origins to gender-specificity. Color orbits an artist’s universe; color theory (RGB=YMC) is photography’s planet. The British Victorian, Anna Atkins (1799-1871) was the first woman photographer, albeit camera-less, and the first in color, through the cyanotype method (1842) taught to her by Sir John Herschel. Pioneering his method with Talbot’s photogram (non-color), Atkins created images in Prussian blue that included her handwriting, thus introducing text and image; she also made the first photo-book (1843). These seminal moments in photographic history suggest an innovative use of color by women within the medium which continues today.
Why do women choose color? Color is technically challenging and expensive, does this fact underscore female power, financial autonomy, breaking taboos of physical strength, visual intelligence and the “woman artist” stereotypes in art, science, and chemistry? What was photography’s role in this? With the recent discovery of tetrachromacy, stating that women with this gene can discern color better than men, who have a higher rate of color-blindness, the hypothesis gains ground. It states the singular recognition of women practitioners, whose historical and contemporary collective contributions in color photography remain under-exposed.
Artists included in the group exhibition:
Amanda Means, Carrie Mae Weems, Cindy Sherman, Ellen Carey, Elinor Carucci, Jan Groover, Liz Nielsen, Laurie Simmons, Patty Carroll, Meghann Riepenhoff, Merry Alpern, Marion Belanger, Moira McDonald, Penelope Umbrico, Renee Cox, Susan Derges, Whitney Hubbs
HYPOALLERGENIC REVIEW OF RIFT / FAULT
BY ALLISON MEIER
"It’s a photographic tour of places where humans continue to build, whether subdivisions or geothermal plants, even as recent histories of tsunamis and lava flows are visible."
PHOTO EYE REVIEW OF RIFT / FAULT
by Adam Bell
" Defined by walls or atmospheric fog, marked by cracks, shifting earth or seismometers, the images are full of the evidence of disruptions long past or held in check, monitored and left undisturbed. Each image is a tensive stage."
BROAD STRIPES AND BRIGHT STARS
Branford College
Yale University
OCTOBER 1 - NOVEMBER 28, 2017
Ely Center of Contemporary Art
New Haven, CT
JUNE 29 - AUGUST 12, 2017
A group show curated by Dave Coon and Aicha Woods
The Birthday Club Project website has been launched!
Since meeting at the Yale MFA program in the late 1980’s, the photographers Marion Belanger, Mary Berridge, Ann Burke Daly, Laura Letinsky, Tanya Marcuse, and Jennette Williams have been getting together to critique work in progress, celebrate milestone birthdays, and give photographs as presents.
Exhibition of 8 photographs from River
Five Points Gallery
33 Main Street
Torrington, CT
May 11- June 1
Converging to a Center: Photographs from the Collection of Andrew Szegedy-Maszak and Elizabeth Bobrick
Davison Art Gallery
Wesleyan University
301 High Street
Middletown, CT
March 31 - May 28
This amazing exhibition includes photographs from Robert Adams, Joe deal, Marion Belanger, Jem Southam, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Sasha Rudensky, Jem Southam, and George Georgiou among others.
Honoree, The 2016 Shpilman International Prize for Excellence in Photography Awarded by the Israeli Museum, Jerusalem, the Prize was dedicated this year to issues of locality, of the relation between the work of art and its affiliation with certain geography.
Marion Belanger Lectures on
Rift / Fault, published by Radius Books.
Sponsored by the College of the Environment, Wesleyan University.
November 28, 2016 4:30 Downey House, Room 113
Solo Exhibition / Passing Moments
REAL ART WAYS
Hartford, CT
November 17, 2016 - February 17, 2017
Curated by David Borwaski
Exhibition Supported by the Connecticut Commission on the Arts Grant
