Artist Talk with Alan Vlach and Al Wachlin Jr.

  • Date: October 11, 2015
  • Time: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
  • Location: PhoPa Gallery, Portland

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Please join us to hear Al Wachlin and Alan Vlach speak on their work and current exhibition on the closing day of "Barns and Back Roads."

Al Wachlin Jr. is a native Philadelphia fine art photographer. He first became interested in photography while attending Northeastern University. This interest continued and grew after transferring to Temple University where he studied finance. He is not just an artist, but also an organizer. In 2001 he co-founded the Light Room, a non-profit darkroom, with the mission to promote photography in Philadelphia through community outreach, public exhibitions, and darkroom facilities. He has coordinated studio tours and helped host artist exhibitions including two regional photography competitions. In the past 14 years he has been a part of numerous group and solo shows.

Alan Vlach is a fine art photographer with a deep commitment to the traditional darkroom while fully embracing new technologies. He works extensively with digital enlarged negatives and historical processes as well as digital printmaking. In 1999 he began a formal study of the medium with George DeWolfe. Since then, he has attended workshops with Marilyn Bridges, George Tice, Tillman Crane, Brenton Hamilton, Sean Kernan, Mark Nelson, Josephine Sacabo, Paul Taylor and Lewis Kemper. In 2004 – 2005 he attended the Certificate Program at Rockport College. In 2006 he began capturing images digitally, working in Photoshop to create enlarged negatives and positives for use in historical processes including platinum/palladium, kallitype, salted paper, cyanotype and, most recently, photopolymer gravure. He has been teaching at the Maine Media Workshops since September 2007. Alan resides in Trenton and Portland, Maine.

Their exhibition "Barns and Back Roads" is on view at PhoPa Gallery from Sept. 2 - Oct. 11.

 

 

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132 Washington Ave.
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