Feeling sad to be moving studios every couple months, but so glad another one opened up!
This little spot will be my home base for now. No darkroom, so you’ll probably be seeing me on campus!
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Winter studio
Just finishing up my winter studio at Headlands Center for the Arts. It’s been a great month for quiet contemplation, bike rides, making pictures and catching up with old friends. On my last day, I sat in my chair and watched the shadows trace the setting sun.
New work – Paramnesia at Louie-Meager Art Gallery
My latest exhibit is hung and ready to open this Friday in the Louie Meager Art Gallery. The display includes many recent, and previously unseen photographs from the series, Paramnesia.
An artist talk and reception will be held September 17th at 4-5pm. Visitors can also view the work during regular gallery hours. I am happy to arrange a private viewing for collectors who cannot attend gallery hours.
Photo Series Paramnesia by Artist and Ohlone College Photography Instructor Naomi Vanderkindren- Louie-Meager Art Gallery
- Exhibit runs: August 28 – September 28, 2015
- Open to the Public
- Art Gallery Hours:
- Monday and Wednesday: 11:00am – 4:00pm
- Tuesday and Thursday: 10:00am – 3:00pm
- During Smith Center events
- Reception and Artist Talk: Thursday, September 17, 2015 at 4:00pm
The Louie-Meager Art Gallery at Ohlone College presents the photo series, Paramnesia, by artist and Ohlone College photography instructor Naomi Vanderkindren. The exhibition will be on display from August 28 through September 28, 2015. Ms. Vanderkindren will present a lecture on her work on Thursday, September 17 at 4:00pm in the gallery.
Ms. Vanderkindren’s ongoing series, Paramnesia, takes the viewer through conflicting interpretations of reality. She utilizes historic techniques and stylistic approaches that create suggestions of old photographs. These encourage the viewer to feel connections to history, though hers is a fabricated one. On closer inspection, the viewer finds a modern world, rather than an historic one, complete with power lines and litter. In the end, the world we find in her images is one that distorts rather than informs. Like the memory disorder of the same name, Paramnesia is an ever-changing amalgamation of objective truth, expectation and fantasy. This is a world that exists only through photographic illusion.
Naomi Vanderkindren has a special interested in 19th century photographic history specifically the dry-plate glass process for creating negatives. She makes her own dry-plate negatives with similar light sensitive coatings as were first developed in 1871. “All my negatives are made from sheet glass, which is typically recycled from old picture frames and windows. The glass is then prepared with a light sensitive coating. There are anomalies that emerge from this technique, such as scratches and dust. I see them not as flaws but as an important part of the image. They are part of the history of the negative, and contribute to the overall feel and visual illusion.“ Vanderkindren employs a wide range of alternative methods that draw attention to photographic artifice and reveal assumptions about the medium as historic document.
Louie-Meager Art Gallery
Photos-To-Go
Photos (To Go) is a special product developed for Shadow Shop at SFMOMA 2012. Each package contains a set of silver gelatin prints on a theme. Collect them all!
“A temporary and alternative store/distribution point embedded within the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s fifth floor galleries, Shadowshop will stock hundreds of artists’ multiples, small works, tchotchkes, catalogs, books, zines, media works, and other distributive creative output.”
Paramnesia
All memories and all photographs are works of fiction, whose meanings are intertwined with elements of truth. Interpretations of both are transient, constantly incorporating new ideas and experiences. In light of that philosophy, I regard my photographs as autobiographical fictions. They hold true evidence of the world, while distorting the past and suggesting something else. The images provide metaphoric cues about my own history and, in less concrete ways, they are amalgamations of memories, fantasies and actual experience. I have named this body of work after the memory disorder that produces a similar commingling of fact and fiction: paramnesia.
Reconstruction
The subject of memory has always dominated my work. In recent years, this has taken the form of explorations of process and the suggestive nature of photographs. I am forever fascinated by the power of photographic images over memories, even their power to distort our memories. This newest work follows the same train of thought, seeking to reconstruct and construct the past through photographic suggestion. I’ve based these images on photographs, stories and longings culled from my own family and inner anxieties. Anything that makes a shadow can form an image in the darkroom, and I create my negatives using multiple layers of collage, pencil drawings, and photographs printed on typing paper. I titled these “photogenic drawings” after the early inventor Talbot’s description of his first experiments using the shadows of objects to make images.
Advanced Photography Seminar at SU – Winter 2013
I’m excited to be returning to Stanford this Winter to teach Advanced Photography Seminar. Enrollment is open now!
ARTSTUDI 270 – 01 with Naomi Vanderkindren
Design your own projects, refine your skills and expand your understanding of
photography. This course is directed toward advanced photography students who seek greater independence while receiving guidance and feedback. The seminar offers a tailored curriculum to suit the needs and interests of the students. Focus may include: weekly critique, discussions, technical demonstrations, photographic exercises, theory or field trips. Meets Wednesdays 7-9:30 in AG7
Bold Rush!
I am super excited to be included in this traveling show! First stop, LA. Come on out and check it out!
http://www.thebolditalic.com/events/5279-bold-rush-los-angeles
Summer Intensive Ends
This year I ran a compressed course in photography through the Arts Intensive, September Studies program at Stanford. This is such an amazing program! The program is just over two weeks and we met everyday and all day to explore photography. Many of the students had never worked with film photography. But, in just over two weeks, they produced a professionally presented, gallery ready exhibit. I couldn’t be more proud! Great work everyone!
Vision Perfected
What a great day at Headlands! It was a rare sunny afternoon spent celebrating art and Headlands programming. Many thanks to everyone who participated and dropped by my booth!
Perfect Vision is coming soon!
I’m hard at work designing the Perfect Vision! (what is perfection anyway?)
Come join in the fun this weekend at Headlands. There’s so much to do and so much fun to be had!
Headlands Center for the Arts
Join me for a fun filled day at Headlands. I’ll be staffing my Perfect Vision Station where you can make your own experimental pinhole glasses. Come on by for a visit!
Read more below about the event!
Celebrating 30 years of supporting art and artists, Headlands invites you to a family-friendly, artist-driven festival in the Fort Barry Parade Ground of the Marin Headlands, a part of the Golden Gate National Parks. An array of artist projects, games, musical entertainment, bike & surf activities, artist-led hikes, hands-on projects, and local artisan vendor booths will be on-site to delight and engage party-goers of all ages.
CARRAVANIVERSARY: Headlands 30th Birthday Party
Free Admission | Buy tickets for games, bites, & goodies on-site
Between You and Me reviewed by Newsreview.com
Between You and Me reviewed by Newsreview.com
Between You and Me
Please join me for the reception of “Between You and Me”, featuring photography by Jamil Hellu and myself. The reception coincides with 2nd Saturday Art Walk in Sacramento.
July 9 – August 6, 2011
Reception: Saturday, July 9th, 6-9pm
Jay Jay
5520 Elvas Avenue
Sacramento, CA 95819
916-453-2999
hours: wed-sat 11-4 and by appointment
for a map of the art walk and more info
07/09/11
Reconstruction at Lake Gallery just a week away!
Excitement is growing, and so are the boxes of art ready to install at Lake Gallery. Join me as I introduce this new experimental work to San Francisco. Palms Spring, a local band, will provide auditory entertainment. Can’t wait to see you there!
Reception June 10th 7-9:30 (music at 8:30)
On display June 10 – July 15th
Lake Gallery
661 Divisadero at Grove
San Francisco, CA
L A K E G A L L E R Y
presents
RECONSTRUCTION
Photogenic drawings by Naomi Vanderkindren
Naomi Vanderkindren is an artist concerned with the past. She believes that the past, as defined by memory, is constantly changing in relation to new influence. One of the most suggestive influences, she asserts, is the photographic medium. With it, Vanderkindren plays with history and reconstructs it in a way that suits her own psychology.
At Lake Gallery, Naomi Vanderkindren presents, Reconstruction. This selection of images represents her efforts to build a personal relationship with the past. Rather than photographing the outside world to find it, she reconstructs the past by literally piecing together elements of her own familial history. Accordingly, she “constructs” the negatives for her richly textured, silver gelatin prints through collage of her own images, drawings, photocopies and family photographs printed on typing paper. Piecing together her own family history based on fantasy and longing, Naomi Vanderkindren presents a vision of the past that never could have been.
Naomi Vanderkindren received a BFA from San Francisco Art Institute, an MFA from Stanford University and completed the Headlands Center for the Arts Graduate Fellowship. She has exhibited in numerous solo, two-person and group exhibitions on both East and West coast and continues her art practice in San Francisco.
Reception June 10th 7-9:30 (music at 8:30)
June 10 – July 15th
Lake Gallery
661 Divisadero at Grove
San Francisco, CA
06/03/11
Double Date
Double your pleasure on April 28th with Bay Area Artist for Japan and Shadowshop final days!
Bay Area Artists for Japan is a relief effort to aid victims of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. The benefit will run from April 28 to 30, 2011, selling artwork generously donated by Bay Area artists. 100% of the proceeds will be donated directly to Japan Red Cross Society.
Opening Reception: April 28 (Thu), 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Gallery Hours: April 29 (Fri) 30 (Sat), 11:00AM – 5:00PM
Location: Mina Dresden Gallery, 312 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94103 (Google Map)
(the space was donated by Ms. Dresden for the event)
http://www.bayareaartistsforjapan.org/
“A temporary and alternative store/distribution point embedded within the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s fifth floor galleries, Shadowshop will stock hundreds of artists’ multiples, small works, tchotchkes, catalogs, books, zines, media works, and other distributive creative output.”
SHADOWSHOP FINAL DAYS Closing Party!
Thursday, April 28, 5 – 8:30pm
Fifth floor overlook gallery, SFMOMA
151 Third Street, San Francisco
Permalink | 04/20/11
Reconstruction in the Palo Alto Patch
Reconstruction this week at Clayman Institute
The installation is nearly finished and I look forward to seeing you all at the reception this Wednesday. All of the work is available for sale, and prints from the editions may be purchased and delivered by mid December. Identical framing may also be available or ordered. Studio visits will be offered in mid December. Email for details.
For those who are unable to attend the reception, the exhibition will be open for public view through January 17th. Exhibits may be viewed Monday – Friday, 9am – 4:30pm (excludes university holidays). Please check with the Clayman Institute to confirm hours.
Permalink | 11/28/10
Reception at the Clayman Institute
I am very pleased to announce the reception date of “Reconstruction” at the Clayman Institute! I will be on site for the duration to discuss and answer questions. Light refreshments will be served.
Reception: Wednesday, December 1 2010, 5:00-7:00pm
Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research
Serra House, 589 Capistrano Way
Stanford, CA
Directions
Map
The Clayman Institute:
“Founded in 1974, the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University is one of the nation’s most distinguished research organizations devoted to the study of gender. The Clayman Institute creates knowledge and seeks to implement change that promotes gender equality at Stanford, nationally, and internationally.”
“”Art at the Institute” exhibits artists, female and male, whose work critically engages with contemporary discourses around gender. Work seen at Serra House ranges from paintings to photography, computer manipulated images, weaving, prints, and mixed media, and illustrates artists’ rich use of imagery, form, political perspectives, and grrrl attitude. The program will highlight the ways contemporary art takes part in the ongoing dialogues surrounding gender.”
Permalink | 11/04/10
Arts Benicia: small works
I’m proud to be participating in Arts Benicia’s upcoming show: small works.
Arts Benicia is proud to present small works, an exhibition featuring small works of all media by select Arts Benicia members, and other local and regional artists. This exhibit is intended to present unique, first-rate work created in the Benicia and Bay Area community.
November 20 – December 19, 2010
Opening Reception: Saturday November 20, 6:00-9:00 PM
Family Art Day: Sunday December 5, 1:00-3:00 PM
Closing Reception: Saturday December 18, 6:00-9:00 PM
Permalink | 11/01/10
End of year with Clayman Institute
I’ll be finishing the year with two great local shows, at the Clayman Institute and Arts Benicia
At the Clayman Institute, I’ll exhibit “Reconstruction”. These are all new works using collage, drawings, layered paper and photographs. As photography was once known, these are “photogenic drawings”. The exhibition will run through in November and December and reception date will be announced soon.
Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research
Serra House, 589 Capistrano Way
Stanford, CA
Buyers looking to take home a piece before the holidays can receive a custom framed print from the edition. I’m also welcoming folks into my studio in November and December to view other unknown works, large and small.
11/01/10
Exhibition Ends at Lake Gallery
The exhibition at Lake Gallery has come down and I’m directing my attention to new projects. I have a feeling that I’ll be announcing a local group show soon, so check back or drop me an email to get added to my new publicity list.
The School of Photography at Orange Coast College
My work will be on display at Orange Coast College beginning in February. If you’re in the area, drop in see a selection of photographs from my glass-plate negatives. Also check out the stellar student work and facilities.
On display February 1- March 8, 2010
Orange Coast College
2701 Fairview Road
Costa Mesa, California 92626
There are plenty of other exhibitions and projects in the works for 2010. Since many shows get confirmed just weeks before opening, check back for details. You can also join my new email list for updates and exhibitions. Simply drop me a note at vanderkindren@gmail.com.
Paramnesia at Lake Gallery
The reception at Lake was a blast! Thanks to all who came out for the big night and especially, Ssleeping desiresS (who rocked the house!) and all the fine folks over at Lake for being such gracious hosts. If you missed the event, the work will be on display/sale through February.
PARAMNESIA runs from January 8th through February 14th
LAKEGALLERY
661 Divisadero Street @ Grove
San Francisco CA 94117
Entrance on Grove Street
11am – 5pm Monday thru Sunday
The exhibition at Artbusiness.com
Paramnesia at Lake Gallery
At Lake Gallery, I will exhibit recent photographs from my ongoing series, Paramnesia. I often consider these images to be autobiographical fictions, which use the suggestive power of photography to combine factual experience, memory and fantasy. The series is titled after the memory disorder that produces a similar confusion between fact and fiction. The exhibited work utilizes dry-plate glass negatives, which are hand prepared from previously used glass.
Musical guest, Ssleeping desiresS will provide entertainment at the reception.
PARAMNESIA runs from January 8th through February 14th
Opening reception January 8th, 7 – 9:30pm
LAKEGALLERY
661 Divisadero Street @ Grove
San Francisco CA 94117
Entrance on Grove Street
11am – 5pm Monday thru Sunday
Coming soon: Non*Mart
I am very excited to participate in Non*Mart. Please join me at the opening reception, where I will be installing pockets. There are several other super fun activities for opening night, so be sure to check the website for details.
Non*Mart is a design studio, shop and art show that offers a platform for exploring a more relational, less commercial means of economic exchange. Stop by the opening event to find out how you can participate. Opening night special events include a book swap, style swap (clothing exchange), logo removal service, pocket tailoring and more.
Opening:
Friday November 6th
Y2Y Gallery
251 Balboa Street, SF 94118
6 to 8pm.
Non*Mart Contributors: (partial list)
Lauren Davies
Miriam Dym
Benoit Gasnier
Kathryn Kenworth
Francesca Pastine
Alison Pebworth
Sasha Petrenko
Stephanie Syjuco
Claudia Tennyson
Naomi Vanderkindren
Family Pictures at Root Division
ROOT DIVISION PRESENTS: Second Saturday July 2009: Family Pictures
Curated by Michelle Townsend, new mother of Nolan William Balocki, born May 25, 2009
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 11th, 7–10 pm
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – When curator Michelle Townsend first proposed the exhibition Family Pictures, she was not yet expecting what would became a baby boy, born at the precise time she was to review submissions. Just as baby Nolan chose to be born outside the confines of a typical 9-month gestation, so to the 33 artists in Family Pictures have chosen to defy orthodox definitions of family. Bay Area artists (and curators) are shaking off the trappings of gender, age, and bloodline.
In order to best visualize the collective insight born of this exhibition, we need but to borrow one thing from the past – Technicolor. We, a most strange and adaptive species, are looking for, and finding, fresh ways to experience belonging. The age of the nuclear family was, in retrospect, sterile and pale.
Art has always been a form of protest and Family Pictures does not digress. There is an underlying fever in the work, a pie-in-the-face aimed at any formula for genealogical harmony. Perhaps one should not be surprised, bearing in mind the recent politicization and subsequent disallowance of something as integral to family life as marriage.
Featured Artists:
Laura Ball
Elizabeth Bernstein
Jan Blythe
Colby Claycomb
Adele Crawford
Melissa Day
Chris Fraser
Michael Hession
Rachael Jablo*
Audrey Jones
Heike Liss
Jessamyn Lovell
Cathy Lu
Dan Lydersen
Carolyn Mason & Susannah Slocum
Masako Miki
Shelley Monahan
Camilla Newhagen
Mary Parisi
S. Patricia Patterson
Jana Rumberger
Julie Shustack
Jim Sienkiewicz
Andrea Slattery*
Marta Spurgeon
Kirk Stoller
Lien Troung
Marie Van Elder
Naomi Vanderkindren
Serena Wellen
Carmen Winant
David Yun
Root Division Resident Artist*
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 11th, 7–10 pm
Sliding Scale Suggested Donation: $2-$20
Exhibition Dates: June 8th–28th, 2009
Gallery Hours: Wednesdays- Saturdays, 2–6 pm (or by appointment)
http://www.rootdivision.org
New Family Album – Installation Complete
The installation (performance) of New Family Album is complete. The project was a complete success. If it wasn’t for the scores of visitors and participants I wouldn’t have been able to pull it off. I cannot express how grateful I am to all who supported the project and to the Headlands Center for the Arts.
If you missed seeing the project, a select number of portraits will be on display as part of the “Family Pictures” exhibition at Root Division.
20/20
Back to the Picture SoMa is proud to celebrate its fourth year anniversary with its second annual 20/20 art show. This show brings together 20 local Bar Area Artists with 20 different visions, turning the gallery into an ambitious celebration of art and all the forms it can be created n.
Opening Reception: Tuesday June 11th, 2009 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Back to the Picture SOMA
1110 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
Artists include: Brisa Aceves, Eirik Aswand, Matt Atkins, Balthazar, Loren Butcharte’s, Krescent Carasso, Crystal Dent, Nizhoni Ellenwood, The Magnificent F., Maurincia Gandara, Trizy Grace, Jonathan Green, Jared Gutekunst, Daniel Lorenze, Andrew McPherson, Justin Morris, Roman Muradov, Pernilla Person, Ryan Sivertsen, and (me) Naomi Vanderkindren
New Family Album – June 1-14th 2009
It’s almost time for my mini-residency to begin. Don’t forget to journey over the bridge and see me (afterwards, you can have a picnic by the sea or sign up for dinner in the mess hall – reservations required
My fellowship at the Headlands Center for the Arts will culminate with a two-week residency in the Project Space. The public is invited to visit the studio throughout this period and participate in my installation: New Family Album.
New Family Album is an interactive art installation that explores the family photo album, as well as the power of our own desires and dreams about familial history. Visitors will have the opportunity to sit for a portrait, share their dreams about family and become adopted into a fictitious family tree. The family will expand throughout the installation and visitors are encouraged to return often.
Join the family: June 1-14
Open: Tuesday-Friday & Sunday, 12-5PM
Artist talk: June 18, 7:30PM
Headlands Center for the Arts
3rd Floor, Building 944
For directions: visit
Open House: Headlands Center for the Arts
Date: 4/19/2009 (Sunday)
Time: 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: 944 Fort Barry
Find directions here.
Ticket Info: ADMISSION IS FREE!
Mess Hall Cafe Open from Noon – 4:30PM
Just three times per year Headlands Center for the Arts invites you behind the studio doors of its world renowned Artist in Residence program to witness the creative process of writers, musicians, dancers, choreographers and visual artists of all kinds. This Spring welcomes a diverse group of individuals from California, New York, Portugal and the UK, all of each of whom are deeply engaged with environmental, national, physical, cultural, communal and aesthetic issues. Join us for the first Open House of 2009!
18 Months
The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery and PhotoAlliance are pleased to present Eighteen Months: Taking the Pulse of Bay Area Photography. This exhibition features over 100 photographs by local artists and was the result of an open call. 261 regional photographers submitted works to be considered and 22 outstanding artists were selected. Eighteen Months presents a broad survey of what local photographers have been pointing their cameras at over the last year and a half. The selected works celebrate the diversity of Bay Area photographic production while they also highlight the unique viewpoints of the exhibiting artists. The diversity of style, interest and creative approaches represented in this juried exhibition clearly illustrates how the photographic talent present in the Bay Area continues to grow with each passing year.
Exhibition: July 17 – September 19, 2008
Reception July 17, 5:30-7:30
Location: City Hall
Open House – Headlands Center for the Arts
Open Houses open studio doors to you. Three times each year Headlands artists open their studios to the public to show works-in-progress. Open House showcases artists working in a breadth of disciplines including visual arts, performing arts, film, video, literature and poetry. Open House is free to the public.
Date: 7/13/2008 (Sunday)
Time: 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: 944 Fort Barry
Mess Hall Cafe Open from Noon – 4:30PM
Link to directions: visit
Cream – from the top – Arts Benicia
An exhibition introducing artists that have risen to the top of their classes in the following Bay Area graduate arts programs: California College of the Arts; Mills College; San Francisco Art Institute; San Francisco State University; Stanford University; University of California, Berkeley; and University of California, Davis.
Exhibition: July 19 – August 31
Opening Reception: Sunday, July 27, 3-5pm
Artists’ forum: Sunday August 17, 3pm. Moderated by Kenneth Baker, SF Chronicle art critic