NEWS
September 28-29, 2024, I am participating in the Cazenovia Art Trail.
Here is my bio written for the event.
RECENT EXHIBITIONS
I absolutely love photographing trees and am grateful to live in a place where I can capture the beauty of trees in all four seasons. In August 2024, Wendi Schneider selected my image, Entwined, to be part of a Juried Online Exhibition: In Honor of Trees, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT.
Entwined, View Sizes/Prices
Entwined ©Brooke T Ryan
Solo Show: EARTH-WATER-SKY, Cazenovia Public Library and Museum
For the month of June, 2024 I had a solo exhibition at the Cazenovia Public Library and Museum called EARTH-WATER-SKY. Cazenovia is my hometown, and I enjoyed showing some of my photographic art of the local natural world.
Sanctuary – A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX
UPDATE: “Beach Trail at Dusk” won the Visitors’ Award on the A Smith Gallery’s Instagram page!
Sometimes the theme of an exhibition really resonates with me. My image, “Beach Path at Dusk,” was selected by Kevin Tully with A. Smith in Johnson City, Texas for an online exhibition of 55 images running March 1 – April 11, 2024. It is also among the 27 images included the exhibition book.
Beach Trail at Dusk – View Sizes/Prices
Beach Path at Twilight ©Brooke T Ryan
My photo, “Child’s Play, 1866” was selected by Holly Hart, Director of Decode Gallery in Tucson, Arizona, as one of 12 works included in the Square exhibition which opened February 10, 2024.
Child’s Play, 1866 – Limited Edition Prints
Child’s Play, 1866 ©Brooke T Ryan
Monochrome – PhotoPlace Gallery
My photo, Mushroom, was selected by Henry Horenstein for the exhibition, Monochrome, at PhotoPlace Gallery in Middlebury, VT, and received an Honorable Mention. The show is ran Feb. 2 – Feb. 23, 2024.
Mushroom – View Sizes/Prices
Mushroom ©Brooke T Ryan
52Frames
I’ve been participating in the 52Frames weekly photo challenge since 2020. Each week there are around 3000 submissions, and they select 52 of them to feature called 52Picks. I was excited to learn that two out of my last four submissions were selected as 52Picks.
My Story
Studies have indicated that spending time in nature – and even viewing images of nature – reduces stress and promotes relaxation. I photograph the natural world and create art that brings beauty and a sense of calm to living and working spaces around the world.
At age 12, I photographed in the woods and fields behind my house with my dad’s 1940s rangefinder camera. That year I also saved and bought a telescope, searching the night sky for celestial objects, relishing the quiet and calm beneath the black, star-studded blanket. I babysat some more and bought darkroom equipment. My dad built a little observatory on the hill behind our house and a darkroom space in the basement where I developed gelatin silver prints from my 35mm film.
By day I was out with my camera marveling at nature and capturing the beauty here on Earth. By night I was regularly gazing through time and space, mesmerized by the vastness of the universe. I wondered about Earth’s significance within that space.
Today, I often combine the pursuits of my youth using photo collage, juxtaposing the starry night sky with landscapes and seascapes to illustrate the eternal presence of the universe, the silent witness to the damage we cause our home. While I do capture flowers in bloom and vibrant sunsets, I am drawn to photograph nature’s more subtle beauty, extracting and enhancing it for all to appreciate using experimental photographic techniques and/or during post-processing.
Through time behind my camera, experimental processes, and manipulation while editing, my photographic art serves as a reminder of what we must preserve here on Earth.
My art has been sold by major retailers such as Macy’s, Wayfair, and Pier 1, is in private collections around the world, and has been included in numerous exhibitions.
Charitable Contributions
In 2024, with profits from my art business, I have supported Sea Shepherd and Food Empowerment Project, both of which have earned four-out-of-four stars on Charity Navigator. Much of my work is derived from nature, and it is in all of our best interest to preserve Earth, our home.
Exhibitions / Awards / Print Media / Blogs
EXHIBITIONS
2024
Sanctuary, A. Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX (Juror: Kevin Tully)
Monochrome, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT (Juror: Henry Horenstein); Honorable Mention
Square, Decode Gallery, Tucson, AZ (Juror: Holly Hart)
2022
AREA SHARE, The Art Gallery at Cazenovia College, Cazenovia, NY
2021
Quiet Landscape, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT (Jurors: Jacob and Alissa Hessler)
Quiet Landscape, Online Exhibition, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT (Jurors: Jacob and Alissa Hessler)
Hometown, Auburn Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Primary Colors, Online Exhibition, New York Center for Photographic Art, New York, NY; Juror’s Selection, an international call-for-entry, (Juror: Ann M. Jastrab, Executive Director, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA)
2020
Winterfest Exhibition, Cazenovia Public Library, Cazenovia, NY
2019
Member’s Exhibition, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Cazenovia, NY
Interpretation, Online Exhibition, Cape Cod Art Center, Barnstable, MA
Caz Arts Alliance Members’ Show, Cazenovia College Art Gallery, NY
In Motion – Juried Online Exhibition – Cape Cod Art Center, Barnstable, MA
Solo Exhibition, Common Grounds, Cazenovia, NY
2018
fPOE Group Show, Hotel 1857, Paducah, KY
2016
fPOE Group Show, Janice Mason Art Museum, Cadiz, KY
All Cape Cod, Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, MA
2014
Inspirations, Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, MA
2013
Points of View, Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, MA
2012
Photography Exhibit, Arts Alliance, Hudson MA
Ghosts, Spirits & Past Lives, Arts Alliance, Hudson, MA
Points of View, Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, MA
2011
Birds and Nests, Mariposa Art Gallery, East Sandwich, MA
2010
Artists of Madison County, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Cazenovia, NY
2005
Solo Exhibition – Common Grounds, Cazenovia, NY
AWARDS
2018 First Place Winner, Images of Madison County, Cazenovia, NY
PRINT MEDIA
2021 Amy Bleier Long, “Making it Special,” Central New York Magazine, January-February, 2021. 45
2018 Cazenovia Republican, exhibition announcement with photograph, Cazenovia, NY, February 2, 2018.
BLOGS
2021 Richard Kalman, “Artists of the Month: July,” Trending Artists, Artfinder (blog). July 2021. www.artfinder.com/blog/post/aotm-july21/#/
c. 2018 “Night Photography and the Fascination with the Stars,” Art Glossary, Artfinder (blog). www.artfinder.com/blog/post/night-sky-photography/#/