Sharon Johnson-Tennant

Before Night Fall

2023

Peonies, 2022 Unique Cyanotype print Cyanotype gives a contemporary edge to this flirty dialogue made from vintage magazines, and brings conversation to the counterculture of the "swinging sixties". + Cyanotype hand-printed on Arches BFK Rives French watercolor paper + Deckled Edges on all four sides + Signed and editioned on front in pencil + Letter of Authenticity + Printed in Los Angeles, CA WHAT IS A CYANOTYPE? cyan = blue type = print Cyanotype is a historic photographic processes, invented in 1842 and used by Anna Atkins–the first female photographer. The process involves coating watercolor paper with light-sensitive chemistry made of iron salts. Photographic negatives are laid on top, exposed in the sunlight, and then washed in water to develop into the deep Prussian-blue unique to cyanotypes. Brings a moment of beauty and conversation to any space. ABOUT THE ARTIST: Alexandra DeFurio...

Sharon Johnson-Tennant is a photographer living in Los Angeles, California. She received a degree in Fine Arts from Skidmore College in New York and continued with graduate studies ...

Edition 2/15 +2 AP Sharon Johnson-Tennant is a photographer living in Los Angeles, California. She received a degree in Fine Arts from Skidmore College in New York and continued wit...

Edition of 1 with 2 AP Carol Erb is a Los Angeles based photographer whose constructed and staged realities explore themes of isolation, ethics, and human nature. Drawing on the in...

Edition of 1 with 2 AP Small Wonders is a series of constructed still life images and text made during the pandemic of 2020-2022. It is the product of countless hours of home confin...

Edition of 1 with 2 AP Small Wonders is a series of constructed still life images and text made during the pandemic of 2020-2022. It is the product of countless hours of home confin...

From the transformative to the ephemeral, the birth and death of a butterfly is reimagined in Roberta Fineberg's photo series based on a poem by the 13th Century Persian poet Rumi who believed: ‘Whatever you know, or don’t - only love is real...

From the transformative to the ephemeral, the birth and death of a butterfly with a broken wing is reimagined in a photo series by Roberta Fineberg inspired by a poem by the 13th Century Persian poet Rumi who wrote: ‘Whatever you know, or don’t - only love is real...

From the transformative to the ephemeral, the birth and death of a butterfly is reimagined in a photo series by Roberta Fineberg inspired by a poem by the 13th Century Persian poet R...

For Dream Span a contemporary color photograph of a butterfly, Roberta Fineberg explores the natural and man-made world in which a caterpillar breaks free of its skin for a metamorph...

For the image “Cloud” the artist Roberta Fineberg’s attention and equilibrium remained anchored on an anthropomorphic cloud during an unusual springtime (the pandemic 2020) in New York. Sheltering in place, with the soul of the City laid bare, birds sang louder than usual outside city dwellers’ windows. Sunlight illuminated the empty streets, formerly bustling. Nature reigned. A contemporary color photograph, Cloud, 2020 by Roberta Fineberg is 18" x 24" (sheet size) an archival pigment print on baryta paper in an edition of 5. Photograph is signed by the artist. Provenance: RF Archive *** Artist Bio: As a photographer and visual artist, Roberta Fineberg (RF) focuses on the themes of serendipity, inventiveness, and development of ideas for her photography, video, installations, works on paper, and painting. Drawn to experimentation, she explores diverse mediums and subjects such as the ephemeral (butterfly series), stolen moments (documentary work), play, timelessness, the enduring, and significance of matter. In July 2022, Roberta Fineberg’s Double Helix was included in a Sotheby’s auction in New York City and exhibited in the preview show Contemporary Discoveries. Selected exhibitions include: Time Gallery New York (2022), Phyllis Harriman Gallery New York studio shows (2022; 2020), CADAF online art...

from a series of Industrial Style still life photographs captured at a high performance race car repair shop 48 x 72inches / 122cm x 183cm signed edition of 7 27 x 40 inches / 69cm...