Debra Bloomfield
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Debra Bloomfield is an American
photographer.
Bloomfield's work is included in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, and The Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England, among others. She has received the 1991/92 San Francisco Foundation's James D. Phelan Art Award in Photography for her "Trotsky Series", and the 2005 Western Heritage Literary Award in Photography for her monograph "Four Corners". Photographic works include Swimming Pools, Hothouse, Frida/Trotsky, Four Corners, Memory, Oceanscapes, and Wilderness / Up North. She has photographed extensively in Mexico, the American Southwest, Alaska, and California, and has taught photography in the Bay Area for over 30 years.
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Primarily in color and often in large scale, her photographs are born from an intense emotional response to location and memory. Her images draw on the visual language of metaphor and explore the relationship between interiority and the external world.
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photographer.
Bloomfield's work is included in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, and The Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England, among others. She has received the 1991/92 San Francisco Foundation's James D. Phelan Art Award in Photography for her "Trotsky Series", and the 2005 Western Heritage Literary Award in Photography for her monograph "Four Corners". Photographic works include Swimming Pools, Hothouse, Frida/Trotsky, Four Corners, Memory, Oceanscapes, and Wilderness / Up North. She has photographed extensively in Mexico, the American Southwest, Alaska, and California, and has taught photography in the Bay Area for over 30 years.
Biography
Bloomfield received a B.A. and M.A. from San Francisco State University in 1976 and 1981, respectively. She lives in Berkeley, California.Photography career
Bloomfield has photographed the American landscape for over thirty years. She teaches photography at the San Francisco Art InstituteSan Francisco Art Institute
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Primarily in color and often in large scale, her photographs are born from an intense emotional response to location and memory. Her images draw on the visual language of metaphor and explore the relationship between interiority and the external world.
Major publications
- "Still: Oceanscapes by Debra Bloomfield," 2008 Chronicle Books. Forward by Terry Tempest WilliamsTerry Tempest WilliamsTerry Tempest Williams , is an American author, conservationist and activist.Williams’ writing is rooted in the American West and has been significantly influenced by the arid landscape of her native Utah in which she was raised...
, interview with Corey Keller. - "Four Corners," 2004 University of New Mexico Press. Essays by Debra Bloomfield, Linda ConnorLinda ConnorLinda Connor is an American photographer who photographs spiritual and exotic locations including India, Mexico, Thailand, Ireland, Peru, Nepal, Egypt, Hawaii and the American Southwest....
, and Douglas Nickel.
Selected exhibitions
- "Backyard Oasis: The Swimming Pool in Southern California, 1945-1982," Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA, 2012
- "Altered Reality," Julie Nester Gallery, Park City, UT, 2011
- "The Summer Show," Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2011
- "A Grand View: Arizona Landscape Photography," Etherton Gallery, Tuscon, AZ, 2010
- "Oceanscapes," Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2008
- "Marvels of Modernism," George Eastman House Internation Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, NY, 2008
- "Nineteen Going on Twenty," The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI, 2007
- "Oceanscapes," Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2004
- "Oceanscapes," Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM, 2004
- "The Landscape of Time and Place," Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ, 2004
- "Monumental Landscapes," Fahey/ Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2004
- Art Chicago, Chicago, IL, Robert Koch Gallery, 2004
- "Four Corners Project," Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM, 2001
- "California Current--The Photographer's Perspective," Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Culture Center, Los Angeles, CA, 1997
- "Points of View: Photography from the Collection," Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 1996
External links
- Fahey/Klein Gallery http://www.faheykleingallery.com/photographers/bloomfield/personal/bloomfield_pp_frames.htm
- Julie Nester Gallery http://www.julienestergallery.com/artists_detail.php?artistsID=9851
- Etherton Gallery http://www.ethertongallery.com/html/archive/gallery/landscape/bloomfieldThumbs.html
- Robert Koch Gallery http://www.kochgallery.com/artists/contemporary/Bloomfield/index.html
- Richard Levy Gallery http://www.levygallery.com/artists/debra_bloomfield/debra_bloomfield.html
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