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Opening Celebration for

Eye on the West: Photography and the Contemporary West

Beinecke Library, Yale University

I’m excited to be a part of this major exhibition. I hope you can join me for the opening reception featuring a keynote address by Eric Paddock, Curator of Photographs for the Denver Art Museum, on Friday September 21 at 4:30, followed by a reception at 5:30 on the mezzanine

On Saturday, September 22, the public is invited to three panel discussions with the photographers at 9:30 – 10:45 am, 11:15 am – 12:45 pm, and 2:00 – 3:15 pm. I will be on the 11:15 panel discussing “Capturing traces of a disappearing past”

The show is currently on view and runs through December 16, 2018

Additional information about the exhibit here

IOWA: Echoes of a Vanishing Landscape

I’ve returned from my book tour in Iowa. Please join me in celebrating the Connecticut launch of my new book!

I’m heading to Iowa shortly to do book talks about IOWA: Echoes of a Vanishing Landscape, my new book. Here are my scheduled events to date. I’ll update the list as more locations are added. I hope you can join me at one!

Prairie Lights bookstore, Iowa City – Monday 10/16, 7:00pm

Daniel Fitzmaurice interviewed David Ottenstein and Robert Lisak about their current exhibit “Capitol America” at the New Haven Museum. The program, Artbeat, aired February 15th, on WNHH Community Radio. You can listen to the interview here

The well-attended opening reception for Capitol America at the New Haven Museum was a lot of fun. The exhibit will remain open through June 30, 2017.

The photos below are ©Defining Studios

Second floor of the Museum rotunda

David Ottenstein, left, with Robert Lisak

Capitol America, my photographic project with colleague and friend, Robert Lisak, is the newest exhibit at the New Haven Museum. Featuring 18 of our black and white photographs along with a digital presentation of another 160 or so images, the show is hanging in the museum’s beautiful 2-story rotunda and on view through June 2017. New Haven Museum, 114 Whitney Ave, New Haven, 203-562-4183

The New Haven Independent’s Arts editor, Brian Slattery, has written a thoughtful and informative review of The National Parks Seen: Two Views, my current show with Robert Lisak at the EleMar Gallery in New Haven. Read the review here.

“The National Parks Seen: Two Views” is on exhibit at the gallery at EleMar New England, 2 Gibbs St., through Jan. 14. EleMar is open Mon. through Thurs., 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Fri. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Sat. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Admission to the gallery is free.

Swiftcurrent Lake, Glacier NP, 2013

The National Parks Seen: Two Views

Photographs by David Ottenstein and Robert Lisak

OPENING RECEPTION Sunday December 4th, 2:00 – 5:00pm

The Gallery at EleMar, 2 Gibbs St, New Haven, CT   203-782-3544

December 4, 2016 – January 14, 2017

M-Th 9:00am – 4:30pm, Friday 9:00am – 4:00pm, Saturday 9:00am – 1:00pm

David Ottenstein and Robert Lisak’s photographs in The National Parks Seen: Two Views, capture the beauty of our national parks and also explore the attempts to reconcile the lofty goals our national parks embody – the desire to preserve pristine nature, to accommodate thousands of visitors, and to reflect the meaning of the American character.

My next photo exhibit is another joint effort with Robert Lisak. We’ll be showing our work from National Parks at the Gallery at EleMar New England in The National Parks Seen: Two Views. The Opening Reception is Sunday, December 4 from 2:00 to 5:00 pm. The Gallery is in New Haven at 2 Gibbs St. The show will be up through January 14, 2017

Robert Lisak and I will be exhibiting photographs from Capitol America, our book project on State Capitol buildings. We’ll be in Robert’s Erector Square studio as part of City Wide Open Studios in Building 7, 2nd floor, Studio 1. Saturday and Sunday October 29-30, 2016 from noon to 6:00 each day.