: N e w s : : BRUCE MYREN

UPCOMING/CURRENT

SPE Northeast Regional Conference
I am the conference chair of the 2010 SPE Northeast Regional Conference at the Rhode Island School of Design. This year's conference will be held November 5-7 and the theme is "The Experiential in Photography," with artist Spencer Finch as the keynote speaker. For more information about the conference, click here.

Exhibition in Lincoln, Nebraska
In March and April of 2011, Workspace Gallery in Lincoln, Nebraska will be showing prints from my ongoing project "The Fortieth Parallel."

Teaching
I will be teaching a section of Large Format/View Camera at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) for the second time in fall 2010.

RECENT

SPE National Conference and Regional Chair
In March 2010, I attended the Society for Photographic Education's national conference where I was voted Northeast Regional Chair. This fall, we are organizing a Regional Conference at RISD.

RSVP: Arbor, Michael Mazzeo Gallery
In 2009, I was invited to participate in Michael Mazzeo's first online gallery, RSVP, titled Arbor. You can view a work from "The Fortieth Parallel" along with 53 others (my image is number 50 in the slideshow). Click here to view it.

Photography Book Now, Blurb
I entered Blurb's 2009 photobook competition by creating a book version of "The View Home." You can purchase my book by clicking here.

Teaching
In May 2009, I graduated with my MFA at UConn. I started teaching fulltime at the New England Institute of Art (NEIA) in fall 2009 and recently received my official appointment.

Landscape and Memory September through November 2009 some of the photographs from "The Fortieth Parallel" will be included in a group show called Landscape and Memory, at The Gallery Project in Ann Arbor, Michigan. This is the second time that Catherine Meier has invited me to participate in one of her curated exhibitions.

Houston Center for Photography’s
27th Anniversary Membership Exhibition
July 10 - August 23, 2009
2009's exhibition was juried by Katherine Ware, Curator of Photography at the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe. I am honored to have three images from my series Fort Juniper selected along with 25 other artists.

Gallery 303, Solo Exhibition
In Summer 2009, I showed two bodies of work (selections from "Fort Juniper" and "Markers: Memory") at NEIA’s Gallery in a show titled Locations: Recent Work by Bruce Myren. The show will encompass multiple floors and run July 1st - September 8th.

Jones Library, Amherst, MA
As a result of my "Fort Juniper" work, I was invited to show work in the special collections section of the Jones Library. This showing, during summer 2009, was coupled with a reading of Robert Francis’s poems. The showcase is a part of Amherst, MA’s 350th anniversary celebration.

Teachingphoto.com
Click here to read my essay about my experiences at grad school, 2009
TeachingPhoto.com is a Web site for and by photography teachers. It is published by Henry Horenstein (RISD), author of Black & White Photography, Beyond Basic Photography, Color Photography, and coauthor (with Russell Hart) of Photography, as well as monographs CREATURES, ANIMALIA, AQUATICS, HONKY TONK, CLOSE RELATIONS, CANINE, and RACNG DAYS.

College Art Association and Society of Photographic Education
I attended CAA in 2008 and SPE in 2009. At CAA, I spoke on an ARTspace panel on my involvement with the exhibition Landscape: Fact and Fiction shown at the William Benton Museum of Art in the winter of 2006. Participants included Judith Thorpe, Thomas Bruhn, Janet Pritchard, and Kelly Dennis -- all of the University of Connecticut, Storrs. I spoke at the Society of Photographic Education’s National Conference in Dallas, TX in the graduate student track.

SELECTED 2007

Visiting Artist
In October 2007, I was a visiting artist at Metropolitan Community College in Omaha, Nebraska. Best of all, Omaha is about an hour away from the 40th parallel (roughly the border of Kansas and Nebraska) and I was able to visit 4 new points as well as the Sixth Principal Meridian.

View Camera magazine, July/August 2007
Four of my panoramas were highlighted in 2 color, fold out spreads in the summer issue.

Art in Embassies Program
My image of the Sumner monument in Harvard Square was been accepted into the Art in Embassies Program. It was featured in the residence of the new ambassador to Cameroon from 2007 to 2010.

Groundtruthing, curated by Vaughn Bell
August, 2 – 26, 2007
Soil Gallery, Seattle, WA
Artists included Margot Anne Kelley, Bruce Myren, Tara Rodgers, Thom Heileson, Vaughn Bell, Sarah Kavage, and Nicole Kistler. From the website: "Groundtruthing brings us artists from across the country, each with a different approach to the idea of going “on location.” With current mapping technology such as GIS, remote sensing, and GPS devices we can know the surface of the earth with more detail and specificity then ever. The artists in this exhibition access mapping technologies and data as a resource in examining geography as a personal and social phenomenon. Using media including photography, video, sound, and performance, these artists explore the significance of topography. The work gives us an experience of both the journey and the destination, and develops new narratives of how we relate to the places we visit, inhabit and explore."

Landscape: Fact and Fiction, curated by Janet Pritchard
William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut at Storrs
January 17 – March 3, 2007
Artists included Deborah Bright, Linda Connor, Robert Dawson, Frank Gohlke, Emmet Gowin, Betty Hahn, Mark Klett, Bruce Myren, John Pfahl, Mark Ruwedel, and Alec Soth.

IN OTHER NEWS

I was selected as one of 150 finalists to participate in Critical Mass 2006, an annual juried competition. I attended the Photolucida portfolio reviews in 2007 and will attend Fotofest in 2010.

The Fortieth Parallel
The Center for American Places has expressed interest in publishing the project. Interested funders for this project and publication can contact bruce@brucemyren.com.

All photographs on this site are copyright the artist. The works are archival ink jet prints made by scanning film, then printing with an Epson 4000 on Crane’s Museo Silver Rag. Prints are for sale and inquires are welcome.