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Photography of Michael A. Smith and Paula Chamlee to be exhibited at Messiah College

	Photograph by Paula Chamlee Click on image to download print-quality version
	Photograph by Michael A. Smith Click on image to download print-quality version

GRANTHAM, Pa. (Nov. 12, 2004) — Beginning in December, the Aughinbaugh Art Gallery at Messiah College will conclude its fall season with photography from the award-winning artists Michael A. Smith and Paula Chamlee in an exhibit titled, “This is Not a Pipe – Magritte, An Exhibition of Photographs.” The show begins Friday, Dec. 3, and continues through Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2005, in the gallery, located in the lower level of Climenhaga Fine Arts Center on the college’s Grantham campus. A reception for the artists and gallery talk with the husband and wife photographers will be held on Friday, Feb. 4, 2005, from 6 to 8 p.m. The gallery will be closed from Dec. 17 to Jan. 4, 2005, for the college’s winter recess and Jan. 27 to 30 for January Term recess.

About Michael A. Smith and Paula Chamlee

A photographer since 1966, Smith uses an 8 x 10-inch view camera along with an 8 x 20-inch and 18 x 22-inch cameras and has photographed different locations in the United States, Canada and Europe. More than 100 museums in the United States, Europe and Asia feature his work in permanent collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Bibliotèque Nationale in Paris, the Stedlijk Museum in Amsterdam, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

He has received two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and has been commissioned to photograph four American cities. His book, the two-volume monograph, “Landscapes 1975-1979,” was awarded Le Grand Prix du Livre at the Rencountres Internationale de la Photographie in Arles, France. Other books include “Michael A. Smith: A Visual Journey – Photographs from Twenty-Five Years,” “The Students of Deep Springs College” and “ Tuscany: Wandering the Back Roads, Volume II,” which was published with his wife’s book, “ Tuscany: Wandering the Back Roads, Volume I.”

Chamlee began her career as a painter before becoming a photographer. Since the 1990s, the primarily self-taught photographer has worked mostly with an 8 x 10-inch view camera. Chamlee has received numerous grants, including The Leeway Foundation grant for “Excellence in Photography.” Her photographs have been displayed in individual and group exhibitions and featured in many museum collections, including The Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Cincinnati Art Museum, and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas in Austin.

During the 1990s she traveled throughout the United States photographing the natural landscape of the American west. Her photographs and excerpts from her journal, along with an essay by Estelle Jussim, were published in 1994 in her first monograph, “Natural Connections: Photographs by Paula Chamlee.” In her second book, “High Plains Farm,” Chamlee photographed and wrote about the farm where she grew up, located on the high plains of the Texas panhandle. Her third book, “ San Francisco: Twenty Corner Markets and One in the Middle of the Block,” features small, family-owned markets situated in the California city. Her most recent book, “ Tuscany: Wandering the Back Roads, Volume I,” was published along with Smith’s “Volume II.”

Smith and Chamlee are currently working on a book of still-life photographs titled, “The Bonsai of Longwood Gardens.”

About the Aughinbaugh Art Gallery

Located on the lower level of the Climenhaga Fine Arts Center on Messiah College’s Grantham campus, the M. Louise Aughinbaugh Art Gallery exhibits the work of internationally recognized artists from around the world, as well as faculty and students. The gallery features new exhibitions on a monthly basis ranging from traditional studio areas and the fine crafts, to conceptual art and installation. Gallery programming supplements campus classroom instruction by bringing practicing artists to campus to demonstrate techniques in classes and by organizing special evening lectures and afternoon gallery talks. The gallery also functions as a hands-on teaching laboratory for students in the college’s course on museum studies. Aughinbaugh Art Gallery is open Mondays through Thursdays, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; on Fridays from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.; and on Saturdays and Sundays from 2–5 p.m. The gallery will be closed from Dec. 17 to Jan. 4, 2005, for the college’s winter recess and Jan. 27 to 30 for January Term recess .

About Messiah College

Messiah College, a private Christian college of the liberal and applied arts and sciences, enrolls more than 2,900 undergraduate students in 50 majors. Established in 1909, the primary campus is located in Grantham, Pa., near the state capital of Harrisburg. A satellite campus affiliated with Temple University is located in Philadelphia.

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ARTICLE DATE: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2004
ARTICLE NUMBER: MC-153-04

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