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Sheila Newbery

in the photolab gallery
January 16 to February 27, 2010
Artist's Reception
Saturday, January 16th 3 - 5pm

Ordinary Dancers is a series that takes contact
between individuals as a starting point, a given. The dancers aren’t professionals, they’re ordinary people, yet when I watch them, I’m moved by their attitudes, the essential gentleness of their motions; and I imagine that dancing is the closest one may come to a physical state of grace.

Dancing is both an intimate and a social act: it’s about immersion in the enveloping qualities of music, rhythm and motion. The needs it meets are primal.

Sheila Newbery's Ordinary Dancers is about photography as much as it is about dance. She is, after all, a photographer, wielding the power of the camera as a tool to explore one art, using another. And of course, photography is a wonderful way to capture elements of dance that dance itself does not fully address. The freezing of motion brings us an appreciation of form and gesture, and the blurring of light shows us what the our eye sees but our brain does not register. more →

Now reviewing portfolios
for exhibitions in Summer / Fall 2010

The Photolab Gallery is a not for profit gallery space made available to selected photographers to show-case and sell their work.

The Gallery provides the San Francisco Bay Area with an opportunity to expand its exposure to current excellent photographic work and local artists and to buy directly from the artists

The Photolab Gallery has shown over 135 exhibits since 1991, featuring the work of over 125 photo-graphers including several artists who have been invited to show more than once.

Many photographers whose work was shown in the Gallery have gone on to be represented by professional art galleries and stock agencies.

How to submit your portfolio

Before applying, we suggest you
1. Visit the Gallery in person to get a feel for our space and style and take a look at the current work on exhibit.
2. Sign up on the mailing list and come to at least one artist's reception.
3. Read the exhibition application to get familiar with our guidelines and requirements.

Most photographers contact us by email to receive an application and set up an portfolio review. Portfolios can also be submitted by mail in the form of cds or dvds, slides.

Portfolio Reviews
Portfolios are usually reviewed on Saturday mornings by appointment only. Please call or email Andrea McLaughlin to make an appointment.

Banner photo credit: Michele Hofherr

Upcoming Exhibits

Gallery Mini Show

Alejandra Chaverri
March 6 to April 10, 2010

no mini shows are scheduled

If you have an interesting, small exhibit
on a single theme or short subject
(4 to 8 pictures for one wall) and would be willing to hang it, usually on short notice, and take it down again, contact Andrea at Photolab: (510) 644-1400

we use these small exhibits for short periods (usually a week or 2 at most) between larger full exhibits.

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