Joan’s show opens on the 12th…

Photographs by Joan Benney are on display starting Wednesday at Concepia....

Joan Benney is one of the most talented women around the island, whether she’s doing plays (she plays Phebe in As You Like It this month) or making beautiful photos…and her pictures are the focus of a new show at Concepia.

Here’s more from John Sinclair:

Concepia presents…
Joan Benney.
THE ILLUSTRATIVE PORTRAIT
new photographic works

August 12th – October 9th 2009
Reception August 12th, doors open at 7 p.m.

Joan Benney was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the last in a family of nine. Many reliable sources point to her trajectory as an artist beginning beside her mother at the sewing machine. Through the ever present box of odds and ends on the sewing table she began a relationship with pattern, texture, composition and surprise. She studied film photography at the Photographic Center Northwest in Seattle.

She  is currently working on a series of portraits about transformation, based in cultural metaphor and set in the neighborhood wilderness of the community in which she lives.

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