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About Frank Gohlke:
Gohlke received his B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin in English Literature. At Yale University, where he received his MA in English in 1966, Gohlke met Walker Evans and then studied privately with Paul Caponigro. Gohlke’s photographs came to notice in the influential 1975 group exhibition New Topographics: Images of a Man-Altered Landscape at the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester, New York.

He has taught at Massachusetts College of Art; the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley College; the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and the universities of Harvard, Princeton and Yale. As of September 2007, he is Laureate Professor of Photography at the University of Arizona and Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Creative Photography, both in Tucson, Arizona.

He is represented in many private and public collections, including the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris.

Gohlke has participated in important commissions from the Seagrams Corporation; AT&T; the Laboratorio di Fotografia in Reggio Emilia, Italy; the George Gund Foundation in Cleveland. He has received commissions for public projects for the Tulsa International Airport, for an office complex in Basel, Switzerland, for the City of Venice and for the Mission Photographique de la DATAR, a French government-sponsored agency documenting the French landscape.
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About Ben Nixon:
About Ben Nixon
Background

* Born: Spartanburg, South Carolina June 16, 1981
* Education:
o Sierra Nevada College
o Rockport College, Maine Photographic Workshops
o Professional Certificate Program 2001-2002
* Occupation: Photographer / Silver Printer

Professional Assistance

* Arno Rafael Minkkinen West Coast Assistant, 2008 to Present
* William Heick Fine Print Making, Oct. 2008 to Present
* Art Rogers Fine Print Making, Framing, Oct. 2002 to Present
* Arthur TressFine Print Making, Sep. 2004 to 2006
* Jack Welpott Assistant/Fine Print Making, Aug. 2002 to Nov. 2007

Group Shows

* 2009 Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, CA 09/25-11/02 (Three Person)
* 2009 Northwest Eye, Morris Graves Museum, Eureka, CA 02/09
* 2008 Marin Community Foundation, Recent Grant Recipients, 08/04-10/10
* 2008 Upstairs Artspace, Family Affair, Tryon, NC 06/07-07/12
* 2008 Grace Center, Three Family Artsits, Arden, NC 03/01-04/12
* 2008 Rayko Photo Center, Plastic Camera Show, San Francisco, CA 01/08-02/16
* 2007 Crescent Harbor Gallery, Crescent City, CA 07/31-08/26
* 2007 Images of Water, Morris Graves Museum of Art 07/07-08/07
* 2007 Photographers Show, Marin County Civic Center 03/17- 07/ 26
* 2007 Northwest Eye, Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, CA 02/07
* 2006 - Ongoing: Selections at the Saret Gallery, Sonoma, CA
* 2006, 2007, 2008 Auction, SF Camerawork Gallery, San Francisco
* 2006 18th Annual Mini Show, Bolinas Museum, CA 11/18-01/07/07
* 2006 The New Landscape, Piante Gallery, Eureka,CA 06/06
* 2006 Northwest Eye, Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, CA 04/06
* 2005 SF Camerawork Auction, Left Space, San Francisco, CA
* 2005 Auction Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art Gallery, Carmel, CA
* 2005 Toby’s Gallery, Point Reyes Station Sept. w/ Jack Welpott
* 2004 The Upstairs Gallery, Curator’s Choice, Tryon, NC
* 2002 Union Gallery, Rockport College, Maine
* 2001 Union Gallery, Rockport College, Maine

One-Person Shows

* 2009 Gallery 291, San Francisco, CA 11/12-12/20 (Two Person w/ Jock Sturges)
* 2008 Bolinas Museum, Drifters, Bolinas, CA - March 2008
* 2007 Piante Gallery, Eureka, CA May 07
* 2005 Point Reyes Community Center 11/01-12/01
* 2005 Rosetta’s Gallery, Asheville, NC - 05/28- 07/26
* 2004 Point Reyes Books, Point Reyes Station, CA
* 2003 The Vault Gallery, Point Reyes Station, CA

Awards and Grants

* Photolucida, Critical Mass 2010, Finalist
* Palm Springs Photo Festival 2010 Winner slideshow contest
* Northwest Eye 2009, Morris Graves Museum, Eureka, CA (Best in Show)
* Career Grant, Marin Arts Council 2007
* Northwest Eye 2007, Morris Graves Museum, Eureka, CA (Grand Prize)

Public and Private Collections

* Santa Barbara Museum of Art Permanent Collection
* Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA
* Numerous Private Collections throughout the United States

Publication

* SFCamerawork, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Auction Catalog
* Alligator Juniper 2007
* Center for Photographic Art, 2004, 2005, 2006 Auction Catalog
* Alligator Juniper 2004

Other

* One of Three Photography Judges, Sonoma County Fair 2007, 2008
* One of Three Photography Judges, Marin County Fair 2005, 2006, 2008

Gallery Representation

* Gallery 291, San Francisco, CA
* Saret Gallery: Vintage and contemporary fine art photography, Sonoma, CA
* Duncan Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
* Smith Anderson North, San Anselmo, CA
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