Philly Nights
Danielle Lange, a self-taught amateur photographer from Delaware, focuses on discovering extraordinary beauty in everyday moments. She integrates mindfulness into her art, teaching others to appreciate the world’s beauty and nature’s therapeutic qualities.
Photography is my passion and my therapy. My pictures are a visual diary of my peaceful moments. When my mind is complicated, I go outside and find beauty. I then capture my discovery. Mindfulness grounds me…necessary for refocus. The art of mindfulness is to pay attention inwardly and outwardly. Be a daydreamer! Be an explorer! Be an Imagineer! Always foster your curiosity and sense of adventure. Embrace the journey. LIVE. LAUGH. LOVE. CREATE.
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Fifty years of experience in fine art photography, glamour, nudes, and stock photography. Helped form The Art Institute of Colorado Photography Department and was President of The Colorado Photographic Arts Center for five years. Produced a “How-to Video” called “Glamour Photography on Location with Dick Nosbisch.” Have exhibited extensively in the United States and various countries. In the permanent collection of The Denver Art Museum, The Colorado Photographic Arts Center, The Denver Press Club, and the (C.E.P.A.) Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Arts in New York and The Art Institute of Colorado. Early in my career, I was honored to be the first photographer to be accepted into the Albright Art Museum Member’s Gallery Lend-Lease program in Buffalo, New York.
CURRENTLY, producing my audio podcast “MEMORIES & INTERVIEWS OF THE GREAT PHOTOGRAPHERS – from Ansel Adams to Annie Leibovitz. available on my web page or Apple. Spotify, or Google podcasts. Also manage and play drums in my jazz band called “ALTITUDE: Jazz and Beyond.” Life is exciting and fantastic.
”Photography is not just for capturing an image, it is for opening your imagination and creativity.” ABSTRACTS-PHOTO GENESIS SERIES
”My abstract takes a form that challenges accepted ideas of what photographs should look like. The title of my abstract work is called: “PhotoGenesis” – The manipulation of the original photo negative into an abstract form. Instead of just capturing an image, I enhance and manipulate the image and let the individual do a self-exploration of what it “is” and how it was created. What it “is”, is not what is essential to me. By use of color, shapes, and suggested textures I changed what the original photographic image was. Like my water droplets series, my whole purpose is to let the imagination go wild and to spur the individual captivated by an image to ask, “What is that and how does he do it?”
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My work has been juried into: “Lasting Impressions 2025” – Evanston Arts Center; “Reflecting 2025”– Maryland Federation of Art; 38th Annual McNeese National Works on Paper Exhibition; “In the City” exhibit juror Christina Gomez (Art Institute Chicago); North American Print Biennial juror Elizabeth M. Rudy (Associate Curator of Prints Harvard Art Museums, Boston); Dubuque Museum of Art Biennial juror Pamela Hugdahl (Executive Director, Rochester Art Center); Rockford Art Museum Biennial Juried Exhibit of Contemporary Artists; Andrew James Wulf, Ph.D. (Director – Albany Museum of Art); Gary Freeburg (Professor/Director of Duke Hall Gallery of Fine Art at James Madison University); Amanda C. Burdan (Associate Curator – Brandywine River Museum of Art); Christiane Paul (Director Media Studies at New School, NY and Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art); Felice Frankel (Science photographer/research scientist); Malcolm Daniel (Curator of Photographs – Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC); Kenneth Baker (Art Critic, San Francisco Chronicle); Keith Carter, internationally recognized photographer/educator; William Lieberman, Director of Zolla/Lieberman Gallery – Chicago; Annette Carlozzi (Sr. Curator at Blanton Museum of Art); Dr. Jefferson Harrison (Chief Curator Chrysler Museum of Art); Charlotta Kotik (Curator of Contemporary Art Brooklyn Museum of Art); David Houston (Chief Curator –Ogden Museum of Southern Art); Dr. Russell Panczenko (Director – Museum of Art, Madison Wisconsin); Siri Engberg (Walker Art Center); Stephen Phillips (Phillips Collection – Washington DC); Sam Gilliam (international artist); and Ed Paschke (international artist).
A Ragdale Residency Fellow, I am a juried member of the Illinois Arts Council’s Arts-In-Education Roster. My work has been exhibited at Northwestern University, Concordia University, Rockford Art Museum, and the Alexandria Museum of Art. I was also a fine art consultant and advisor for Grumbacher/Prismacolor, along with developing a program for Blick Art. My artwork is in corporate, university, and private art collections.
A simple moment in time leaves a permanent impression, providing the artist with inspiration to create. Taking time to observe, reflect, and ultimately create is the tangible way for an artist to share a special moment with others. With the “Photographer”, the artist is monumental in size and takes central focus, emphasizing the importance of capturing special moments. “Memories Boxed – Holding” is a quiet piece communicating that lives are comprised of loving moments in time. “Promise” emphasizes the beauty of moments to come.
As an artist, I am a visual storyteller. Art is my voice, and I create visual puzzles with purposeful ambiguity. A curator has described my artwork as “smart and thoughtful and dense with information; gorgeous with color. Mysterious and challenging…puzzles for the viewer to solve”.
Piano Baby
Annalise Sconzo is a self-taught photographer from the East End of Long Island interested in the theme of Soul, Mind & Spirit found in daily life. She was introduced to the art of photography, using a digital camera, in her High School Art Class and enjoyed taking photos of people and events for the annual school yearbook and photos of her pets at home.
Interested in the psyche she attended St. Josephs’ University and earned a B.S. degree in psychology and a certificate as a certified Alcohol and Substance Abuse Counselor. Later, the artist returned to school earning a M.S. degree in School Counseling from St. Bonaventure University in 2023. She is currently employed as a School Counselor at a public school. Concurrently, as a photographer, she has drawn upon her experiences, with a diverse population, for the past 12 years employing her interest in feelings, thoughts, behavior, mood, and emotion in her work.
She lives in a small town on the South Shore of the island with her 2 daughters, 2 dogs, and an old cat.
I am excited by the mood and emotions of people living everyday life. Mood and Emotion: This exploration is my passion and inspiration. Children are often my subjects. Nothing is posed, planned, or contrived. To candidly observe a child fully immersed in an innocent and unself-conscious activity is delightful. To capture that moment with the camera is magical. I want to bring my viewer into that moment with me taking hundreds of photos just to find that one special one that catches a meaningful expression of self or soulful spirit.
Often, I choose to print my photographs in black and white or sepia. Paring down to the simplicity and single focus of mood and emotion, the play of light and shadows, without the distraction of color, lends a timeless feel to each piece. Sometimes, the contrast and lighting are rendered, more or less, to thoughtfully improve the feeling of the photo.
My counseling experience with children and adults has given me a diverse palette of moods and emotions that I strive to explore and illustrate in my photos. Moods and Emotion found in daily transactions is my study and goal in my artistic exploration.
Pickers (Nr.1)
James Long, b.1953, Cape Verdean-American, after receiving a degree from Rhode Island School of Design, he moved to New York City where he lives, and works. With an extensive background in lighting design, as an educator, he taught architectural lighting for the better part of two decades. His work in lighting design helped to establish studio projects that included site-specific installations ‘Skew’ Neon Pendant Light, ‘Profound Feelings of Disquiet’ InLight Richmond, VA, ‘Light | Shadow | Dream’ Illumination Gesu Façade, Montreal, and ‘Tendril’ Lamp Lighting Solutions Barcelona, which garnered awards of excellence from juried competitions in the United States, Canada, and Spain. Additionally selected group exhibitions included award-winning digital media and photography exhibited throughout the US.
While shopping in an Indian-owned spice market, I was unnerved by the display of canned French ‘Madagascar Green Peppercorns’ its label artwork of black field hands, no hats, no shirts, no shoes, hard to believe it exists in 2022. With recent controversy depicting inappropriate images in product packaging featuring BIPOC ie; ‘Aunt Jemima’, ‘Uncle Ben’, and ‘Rastus’ the ‘Cream of Wheat man. The fact remains, this type of imagery is offensive to BIPOC. This label artwork represents visual injustice and societal acceptance of negative imagery I am bringing attention to this label artwork in the hope it will resonate with viewers to affect change.
Picking Flowers
I am currently a student in the UC Berkeley Postbaccalaureate program in Studio Arts and on track to graduate in the fall of 2023. I received a certificate of completion for Fine Arts from UC San Diego Extension in 2022. My work has been featured in the Tijuana Estuary Nature Center in Imperial Beach since March 2023. My portraits and wildlife paintings were accepted in the Del Mar Fair 2023 fine art exhibition and “Going on a Grand Adventure” received second place for acrylic portraits. “Beach Day” received third place in the Imperial Beach Art Exhibition for Spring/Summer in 2023. My portraits of people and pets are part of a number of private collections.
As a primary caregiver to four children, my work explores the connection between the environment and children. Using photographic references, I depict my personal experience of watching and guiding my children through the world during their lives. My purpose is to highlight the reciprocal process of the parent-child relationship and show it as never static, but changing over time. The combination of gestural and realistic rendering creates a sense of movement in my paintings. I like to show children engaging with nature, such as climbing trees or observing nature, as well as interacting with each other through imaginative play. Above all, I want to emphasize the importance of physical touch which connects us to each other. We are all seeking connection, between parent and child and also between strangers and friends. We all desire to be seen, heard and felt in some tangible way and my artistic practice makes that possible.
Picking Hope
Maude Gorman is an advocate-turned-designer, who uses art to express the human experience. As a youth survivor of sexual violence, Gorman has used her experiences in life to advocate for change in her community. She’s worked with the United Nations, U.S. Congress, and the U.S. military on sexual violence prevention. Her work in design focuses on creating unique spaces tailored to her clients’ design goals. Her artwork is a reflection of overcoming adversity and features topics ranging from climate change, grief and loss, and expressions of the human experience.
This piece, titled “Picking Hope”, is an artistic interpretation of the magic of choosing to hope for a better tomorrow. In times of trial and tribulation, through loss and grief, picking hope isn’t always as easy as picking flowers. However, there is still magic that exists in those moments – in choosing to believe that tomorrow will bring a better day, in choosing to pick hope despite the despair we may feel. This piece represents the beauty in the heartache and the triumph of the human experience while faced with overcoming adversity.
Pile Valley Walk
Robyn was born in Sydney NSW Australia and now resides on the Gold Coast, Queensland Australia. She comes from a long line of painters in her family so it’s in her DNA to be creative. Robyn is a self-taught artist and her love of the arts continues to evolve over the years. She has dabbled in many different art forms and is currently exploring and enjoying the many different facets and techniques of fluid art – a form of contemporary abstract art.
She received an award in the 2011 Art on Loftus exhibition in Sydney Australia and has been a finalist in a number of recent Australian Art Prizes including the:
• Hornsby Art Prize in 2011 and 2012
• Doyle Art Prize (2022 and 2023)
• Ipswich Art Awards (2023)
• Nimbin Art Fair (2023)
• Brisbane Rotary Art Show (2023)
She has recently been a Staff Pick and a Featured Artist on the Bluethumb Australia On Line Gallery (July 2023), a Featured Artist in the July 2023 edition of the Artistcloseup Magazine, a Finalist in the Grey Cube Gallery online art platform (July 2023) and a Finalist in the HMVC Gallery NY Freestyle Art Competition (August 2023).
She has successfully sold works entered into a number of these events, as well as through the Mistletoe Winery Art Gallery in the Hunter Valley NSW and other Australian venues.
My artworks are influenced by my love of nature and the environment in all its forms and beauty. My abstract fluid art pieces throb with vitality, with vivid hues ensnaring the soles of our world’s many different landscapes. The interaction of the color palette when manipulated over the canvas creates cells and lacing to generate texture, shape, depth, and movement.
I believe we are connected to the earth and this art form embodies not just beauty but the invisible energy that binds us to the land. To you the viewer the artwork could deliver a different kind of energy based on how you interpret it.
In my mind, I see my artwork not just as art but as a journey to self-discovery through the freedom this art form allows. A mosaic palette of rich, earthy, organic, vibrant, and authentic colors has been applied to create depth, textures, form, and movement in the painting to evoke a sense of belonging and connection. By embracing this art form, you step into a tale of cosmic harmony, journeying towards self-revelation through color and form.
This art form is unique and can never be replicated.
Pinegrenade
Debórah Anne Kaufman, a native of the Southern California Coastline, has demonstrated her exuberant, passionate creativity through writing, song, music, dance, and fine art, from the age of five. At the age of ten, she began her formal education in technical drawing, painting, and sculpture, especially focused on life drawing under the mentorship of Founder/Director, Ed Buttwinck of the Brentwood Art Center.
Inspired by the Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Debórah emphasizes the beauty, grace, and strength she sees in the human figure through realism. Honing her technical skills, she produces large vibrant, colorful pieces in acrylic paint and chalk pastel of the human figure and its interaction with nature.
Debórah received her BFA in Live Action and Computer Animation at the California Institute of the Arts. Her thesis, an educational film on child abuse, Into Your Heart, was premiered by the National Committee for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, archived in the National Library Clearinghouse of Information in Washington D.C., and distributed by AIMS Media.
Working in the entertainment industry, her work developed from realism to super-realism and surrealism through works including a children’s story, Roots ’N’ Wings by British musician and music video director Lol Creme, and Parasite Eve, a role-playing video game developed by Square, a sequel to the novel written by Hideaki Sena.
Debórah received a Master’s in Clinical Psychology, with a specialization in Trauma and Co-Occurring Disorders, and an emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy at Phillips Graduate Institute in 1991. She utilized realism, super-realism, and surrealism to explore and delve into the depths of the subconscious through Art Therapy.
Debórah explores the connection between people, animals, and the natural world, exploring our integration and virtues with nature versus our separation, sins, disconnection, and extinction.
From an early age, I recognize I have special gifts in the creative arts from writing to music, song, and dance, to drawing, painting, and sculpting, which I utilize to express and share my thoughts, feelings, and beliefs with others – Heart, Mind, Body, and Soul!
The moment I put pencil to paper, paintbrush to canvas, or hands to clay; time and space disappear as I immerse myself into the process. My conscious mind, free from judgment, I feel fully at peace with an exhilarating connection to nature and life around me within the Astral Universe.
As I strive to master the use of color, design, composition, perspective and perception, positive and negative space, human anatomy, and technical illustration; my work exemplifies realism, super-realism, surrealism, the subconscious and non-conscious mind.
I enjoy the challenge of double entendre, innuendo, puns, and play on words to explore and share my unique perspective, use of humor, and thought-provoking concepts and ideas beyond the mundane to expand individual, community, and global perceptions.
I seek to convey my concerns about being human at a crossroads, in which we must choose a path of positive virtues and a return to nature to gain insight, clarity, efficacy, empowerment, and enlightenment, to attain the 12 Laws of the Universe: divine oneness, vibration, attraction, correspondence, action, cause and effect, compensation, perpetual transmutation of energy, relativity, polarity, rhythm, and gender and the 12 Laws of Karma: The great law, creation, humility, growth, responsibility, connection, focus, giving and hospitality, here and now, change, patience and reward, and significance and inspiration; versus the negative path of immorality and the 12 Deadly Sins: pride, envy, greed, lust, gluttony, wrath, sloth, hypocrisy, ignorance, denial, tribalism, and Gnosticism, in which money, power, property, and prestige divert us from our primary purpose to extinction.