| Dorothy Levitt Mayers digital photography July 21 - August 23, 2001  Reception: Thursday, July 26, 4:00 - 6:00 P.M.
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| Artist's statement: MY NEW YORK The streets of New York are an education in themselves and I have often walked them, enthralled by their teeming life, diverse architecture, shop windows filled with intriguing artifacts, and the noise, smells and--often--madness of Manhattan. I have lived in a college dormitory room on west 116th, in a five-flight walk-up tenement in the Village, on a friend's sofa in "Hell's Kitchen" (west 20's), slept in the broom closet of a flat within a flat on west 69th street, and in a shared apartment in Yorkville (east 80's) which looked out on the platform of the 3rd Avenue elevated station where strangers waiting for their trains stared into our livingroom and bedroom on hot summer evenings. To support my "college habit," I worked for the Psychological Corporation as an on-site interviewer, which took me to Brooklyn and the Bronx as well as Manhattan, going from door to door, ringing bells and asking questions (a job I wouldn't consider these days, but New York was a more innocent place in the '50's). This contact with the "average" New Yorker was another aspect of my education and gave me an awareness deeper then I could have ever have had as a superficial observer. I met my husband, Irwin, when we were students at Columbia University and after receiving my degree we moved to Berkeley to enable him to complete his studies at Cal. I took a job teaching and, as time went on, chose photography as my major form of art expression. Notwithstanding my affection for the Bay Area, I have returned to New York innumerable times over the years and have used my camera to document impressions of one of my very favorite cities. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE I organized the photography program for the Oakland Public Schools, and have been professor of Art Education at the California College of Arts and Crafts. I have led my own photography workshops in London, the English countryside, Paris, the south of France on the Du Midi Canal, Rome, Edinburgh, and Prague. Currently I teach two photography classes privately. My students have exhibited at the Oakland Museum, Berkeley Store Gallery, Elmwood Gallery, Alpha Photo Gallery, Los Medanos College, the Mezzanine Gallery of the Kaiser Building, St Paul's Towers, and at Bucci's, as well as numerous other sites in the Bay Area. My classes in Photography feature open enrollment with no prerequisites. They emphasize both traditional and digital photography, color, black and white, slides and prints, visual literacy, and portfolio development. Dorothy Levitt Mayers The photographs in this show are for sale: Framed 11X14: $325 Matted (unframed) 11X14: $225 |