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Above are the ten photographs chosen for exhibition at Blue Sky Gallery in Portland.
“Kerry Tremain’s photographs of birds invite the viewer into the elegant wonder of the natural world. Each image captures a distinct avian spirit, a connection to nature, and a breath of freedom. These are quiet, patient meditations on beauty.”
–Laara Matsen, Co-founder and Editor of The Norwegian Journal of Photography
NEWS
BLUE SKY, the Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts gallery, chose ten of my photographs for its 2024 Pacific Northwest Drawers exhibit in Portland. Juror Aline Smithson selected among submissions from photographers in five northwestern states and British Columbia. The unique program enables visitors to view and handle matted prints in a series of drawers in the gallery. The ten photographs, shown above, opened April 4 and will continue until March 2025 at Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Avenue, Portland, OR.
LINDA OKAZAKI’S gorgeous new book, Into the Light, is now available. I wrote the lead essay for the book, which grew from her recent retrospective at Bainbridge Island Museum of Art. I also wrote the intro to Brian Goodman’s recently published photography book, People, Places, Things.
RED-TAILED TROPICBIRD, the cover photograph on my book Aves, won a second place award in the annual Washington state artists exhibit at Collective Visions Gallery in Bremerton. Greg Robinson, curator of Bainbridge Island Art Museum, juried the show.
2023 EXHIBITS RECAP. Neah Bay Doves was voted the People’s Choice Winner and garnered the curator’s Honorable Mention in the recent Fresh Talent exhibit at Bainbridge Arts and Craft—and a 42x60-inch framed print was sold. My summer show at the Northwind Art in Port Townsend was well attended and sold well. Framed photographs and prints from that exhibit, Outside In, are available.…. And Coho Gold was sold to a collector and featured last fall at Port Angeles Fine Art Center.
KEEP UP with my notes and essays on birds, photography, politics, personal histories, and other things that interest me on my new Substack, Wild Things!
Photograph by and courtesy of Myron Gauger
WILD THINGS covers art & photography, birds & wildlife, politics & personal histories. It’s a new —and free—online publication I produce with my wife, a doctor and fiber artist, and friends.
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What people are saying about Aves.
“Kerry’s photographs represent a sophisticated contemporary interpretation of the relationship of humans to birds—in life, mythology, and art. He captures the seemingly magical essence that has fascinated us throughout time.”
— Renée Dreyfus, Distinguished Curator of Ancient Art, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
“The first Kerry Tremain bird photograph I ever saw was an image of a common crow. It was beautiful, evocative, mysterious, and anything but common. Across this collection, you see and feel the work of a true master, a true lover of the avian world.”
— Bill Curtsinger, veteran photographer for National Geographic and author of Extreme Nature
“Stunningly elegant photographs of our avian dinosaur friends, with an eloquent introduction and exquisite design. Truly a work of fine art. Bravo!”
— Ray Troll, artist, author, musician, co-host of the Paleo Nerds podcast
“The birds are delicate and beautiful. Often the light is exquisite ...There is sensual magic flying near.”
— Larry Fink, photographer, author of Social Graces
“Kerry Tremain’s aviary photography is a true jewel in the world of art, combining a deep understanding of composition, color and nature. His knowledge and love for birds comes through in the poetry of these remarkable images. ”
— Steve Brodner, award-winning illustrator, cartoonist, and journalist, and instructor at School of Visual Arts.
“Tremain’s patient hours in the field yield stunning moments of unexpected beauty, captured with formal elegance and intriguing ambiguity.”
—Linda Okazaki, artist
“Beguiling photographs... Tremain appropriates the visual cues of traditional nature-based imagery, which are then fused with elements of poetry and lyricism.”
— LensCulture
“AVES is the plural of bird in Latin, Avis, but it is also a word that seems to perch at the intersection of description and suggestion where the magnificent photographs in this collection reside.”
—From the Introduction to Aves: Photographs of Birds by Kerry Tremain written by Brad Matsen, author of Jacques Costeau: The Sea King, Descent: The Heroic Discovery of the Abyss, and Death and Oil: A True Story of the Piper Alpha Disaster on the North Sea
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