Well known for her work in pinhole photography,[2] Bass has work in the collection of the Polaroid Corporation.[3] Bass has taught numerous workshops in pinhole camera across the United States including EMRYS Foundation, Penland School of Crafts[4] and University of Memphis[5] and Space One Eleven. Known for her portable pop-up pinhole cameras, The first of these cameras was a giant pinhole she made out of a pop-up camper -- "Pinky's Portable Pop-up Pinhole Camera and Darkroom".[6] She made this piece for the "Itinerant Photography Project" in 1989.[7]
In March 1997, Bass was honored by the Georgia Commission on Women for "Georgia Women in the Visual Arts".[8]
2007: Bass' work was chosen by curator, Jon Coffelt as the inaugural artist for the new book arts program at SPACE Gallery in New York, NY. Bass exhibited her Cuerpos Santos Series.[10] SPACE Gallery, New York, 2007.
Exhibitions with othersedit
For Donna' Barrister's Gallery curated by Deborah Luster featured works by Pinky Bass, Ruth Marten, Danna Moore, Laura Noland-Harter, Donna Service, Barrister's Gallery, New Orleans.
The Lensless View: Contemporary Pinhole Photography curated by Diana H. Bloomfield along with work by Rebecca Sexton Larson, Scott McMahon, Christopher Sims, Sarah Van Keuren and Sam Wang.
"Voices Rising: Alabama Women at the Millennium by the Alabama State Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts.[12] This exhibition was made into a video presentation (also called Voices Rising) that ran on Alabama Public Television,[13]
On/of Paper curated by Pieter Favier included artists from across the country illustrating the diversity of paper, a medium many art critics may overlook. Each artist featured used paper in some fashion to create their featured art. Bass showed a series of her hand-stitched photography at Space 301 in Mobile, Alabama.[citation needed]
Politics, Politics: Nice Artists Explore the Political Landscape curated by Anne Arrasmith and Peter Prinz of Space One Eleven. Included Clayton Colvin, Peggy Dobbins, Randy Gachet, binx Newton, Arthur Price, Jules Trobaugh, Paul Ware, and Stan Woodard.[citation needed]
Tangle of Complexes: Photographing in Mexico. Birmingham, Alabama: Space One Eleven, 1996. Includes Pinky/MM Bass; exhibition catalogue; text in English and Spanish; first edition; paperback, 24 pages, 28 cm. The Women in Photography International Archive (now within Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University) has a copy (as noted in "Publications centered on single photographers: Books A–C."
How to make a PinHole Camera on pages 15 and 23 from The Book of Alternative Processes by James Christopher, Delmar Press, Albany, NY, 2001, Dewey, 771. ISBN0766820777.
The Polaroid Book. By Barbara Hitchcock, Steve Crist, Taschen, 2005 Hardback. 400 pages. ISBN3-8228-3072-0.
Pinhole Photography: Rediscovering a Historic Technique. E. Renner, 1995, 288pp.
Sleep: Bedtime Reading. By Roger Gorman and Robert Peacock. Universe Publishing, 1998. 96pp ISBN9780789301123.
Red Bluff Review. By Sonny Brewer, 1995.
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Coat of Many Colors, directed by Michelle Forman and Carolyn Hales, 2001 documentary for television featured Pinky Bass as herself.[14]
"Memento Mori: Positive/Negative" contains black and white images. Alabama Public Television.
"Working Proof" on YouTube is a Butoh performance by Pinky Bass filmed by Doug Baulos at , Birmingham, Alabama on 2-02-07
Referencesedit
^Huntsville Museum of Art, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Mobile Museum of Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts: as one of twelve participants in "Voices Rising: Alabama Women at the Millennium"; "Professor Elected for National Exhibit", 2006-09-18 at the Wayback MachineUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham press release, 24 March 2000. Bass is mentioned as among "13 exciting photographers" (and a list of 14) participating in the exhibition "Making Pictures" at Asheville Art Museum: "Asheville Art Museum in Asheville, NC, Features American Photography", Carolina Arts, June 2000. Birmingham Museum of Art: "Museum Hosts 50th Anniversary Party and Statewide Premiere of Documentary on Alabama Artists 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine". Contemporary Arts Museum Houston: Bass is listed as among the 22 participants in The International Pinhole Photography Exhibition, June 30–September 9, 1990, Exhibition History, 1990s, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. High Museum of Art: as mentioned in an auction page for her work Aburrations II 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine, the Light Factory. Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art: Bass is mentioned as one of 13 participants in "Pure Light: Southern Pinhole Photography", 2003. "Pure Light: Southern Pinhole Photography", website of Jan Kapoor.
^EMRYS Foundation: EMRYS Foundation 2006-12-02 at the Wayback Machine. University of Memphis: "Lectures", Number, no. 37, Winter 2000 2006-01-11 at the Wayback Machine (PDF).
^The camera is mentioned by Christopher James, The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes (Thomson, 2002; ISBN0-7668-2077-7), 15. This part of the book is reproduced within the publisher's sample PDF.
^Christopher James, The Pinhole", chap. 1 of The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes (PDF).
^"HR 455 - 'Georgia Women's History Month'; recognize month of March, 1997"
^. Archived from the original on 2007-02-08. Retrieved 2007-02-12.
^"Cuerpos Santos Series images shown here" Colophon.
^The Light Factory 2007-02-19 at the Wayback Machine, Charlotte, North Carolina, Contemporary Museum of Photography and Film
lists a Bass lecture at University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee
April 08, 2024
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Marion M Bass known as Pinky Bass or Pinky MM Bass is an American photographer known for her work in pinhole photography Pinky BassBornMarion Winchester McCallPittsburgh PennsylvaniaKnown forPhotographyMovementPinhole PhotographyBass a resident of Fairhope Alabama has exhibited at a number of museums including the Asheville Art Museum Birmingham Museum of Art Contemporary Arts Museum Houston the High Museum of Art in Atlanta Huntsville Museum of Art in Huntsville Alabama the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts in Montgomery Alabama Mobile Museum of Art in Mobile Alabama National Museum of Women in the Arts NMWA in Washington D C the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston Salem North Carolina among others 1 Well known for her work in pinhole photography 2 Bass has work in the collection of the Polaroid Corporation 3 Bass has taught numerous workshops in pinhole camera across the United States including EMRYS Foundation Penland School of Crafts 4 and University of Memphis 5 and Space One Eleven Known for her portable pop up pinhole cameras The first of these cameras was a giant pinhole she made out of a pop up camper Pinky s Portable Pop up Pinhole Camera and Darkroom 6 She made this piece for the Itinerant Photography Project in 1989 7 In March 1997 Bass was honored by the Georgia Commission on Women for Georgia Women in the Visual Arts 8 Contents 1 Exhibitions 1 1 Solo exhibitions 1 2 Exhibitions with others 2 Awards 3 Publications with contributions by Bass 4 Film 5 References 6 External linksExhibitions editSolo exhibitions edit Bass has had over 40 solo exhibitions many of which traveled citation needed 2006 BodyWorks at the University of Montevallo Bloch Hall Gallery in Spring 2006 9 2007 Bass work was chosen by curator Jon Coffelt as the inaugural artist for the new book arts program at SPACE Gallery in New York NY Bass exhibited her Cuerpos Santos Series 10 SPACE Gallery New York 2007 Exhibitions with others edit For Donna Barrister s Gallery curated by Deborah Luster featured works by Pinky Bass Ruth Marten Danna Moore Laura Noland Harter Donna Service Barrister s Gallery New Orleans The Lensless View Contemporary Pinhole Photography curated by Diana H Bloomfield along with work by Rebecca Sexton Larson Scott McMahon Christopher Sims Sarah Van Keuren and Sam Wang Id An Exhibition of Self Portraiture 2006 along with Dieter Appelt Judy Dater Nate Larson Robert Mapplethorpe Arno Rafael Minkkinen Constance Thalken and Bill Thoma 11 Voices Rising Alabama Women at the Millennium by the Alabama State Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts NMWA at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts 12 This exhibition was made into a video presentation also called Voices Rising that ran on Alabama Public Television 13 On of Paper curated by Pieter Favier included artists from across the country illustrating the diversity of paper a medium many art critics may overlook Each artist featured used paper in some fashion to create their featured art Bass showed a series of her hand stitched photography at Space 301 in Mobile Alabama citation needed Politics Politics Nice Artists Explore the Political Landscape curated by Anne Arrasmith and Peter Prinz of Space One Eleven Included Clayton Colvin Peggy Dobbins Randy Gachet binx Newton Arthur Price Jules Trobaugh Paul Ware and Stan Woodard citation needed Anthropology Revisited Reinvented Reinterpreted 2009 along with the work of Lee Isaacs Karen Graffeo Sara Garden Armstrong Janice Kluge Joel Seah The Chadwick s Mitchell Gaudet Kahn and Selesnick Mona Hatoum Beatrice Coron Kelly Grider Laura Gilbert among others The exhibition was curated by Jon Coffelt and Maddy Rosenberg for Central Booking in Brooklyn New York citation needed Awards editThis section of a biography of a living person does not include any references or sources Please help by adding reliable sources Contentious material about living people that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately Find sources Pinky Bass news newspapers books scholar JSTOR June 2007 Learn how and when to remove this template message Artist Residency Visual Studies Workshop Rochester New York 1988 Interdisciplinary Grant Regional Artist Project for The Itinerant Photographer 1989 North Carolina Visual Artistic Fellowship Grant 1993 North Carolina Visual Arts Project Grant 1992 Alabama Fellowship Grant Alabama State Council on the Arts 1991 Site Sculpture Grant Big Box Camera Arts Festival of Atlanta Georgia 1990 International Print Exhibition Award Print Club Philadelphia Pennsylvania 1990 Southern Arts Federation National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship 1995 Resen Ceramic Colony Residency Catalog Photographer Republic of Macedonia 1997 Residency Western Carolina University Cullowee North Carolina 2000 Residency Oregon College of Art amp Craft Portland Oregon 2004Publications with contributions by Bass editTangle of Complexes Photographing in Mexico Birmingham Alabama Space One Eleven 1996 Includes Pinky MM Bass exhibition catalogue text in English and Spanish first edition paperback 24 pages 28 cm The Women in Photography International Archive now within Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University has a copy as noted in Publications centered on single photographers Books A C How to make a PinHole Camera on pages 15 and 23 from The Book of Alternative Processes by James Christopher Delmar Press Albany NY 2001 Dewey 771 ISBN 0766820777 The Polaroid Book By Barbara Hitchcock Steve Crist Taschen 2005 Hardback 400 pages ISBN 3 8228 3072 0 Pinhole Photography Rediscovering a Historic Technique E Renner 1995 288pp Sleep Bedtime Reading By Roger Gorman and Robert Peacock Universe Publishing 1998 96pp ISBN 9780789301123 Red Bluff Review By Sonny Brewer 1995 Film editCoat of Many Colors directed by Michelle Forman and Carolyn Hales 2001 documentary for television featured Pinky Bass as herself 14 Memento Mori Positive Negative contains black and white images Alabama Public Television Working Proof on YouTube is a Butoh performance by Pinky Bass filmed by Doug Baulos at Space One Eleven Birmingham Alabama on 2 02 07References edit Huntsville Museum of Art Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts Mobile Museum of Art National Museum of Women in the Arts as one of twelve participants in Voices Rising Alabama Women at the Millennium Professor Elected for National Exhibit Archived 2006 09 18 at the Wayback Machine University of Alabama at Birmingham press release 24 March 2000 Bass is mentioned as among 13 exciting photographers and a list of 14 participating in the exhibition Making Pictures at Asheville Art Museum Asheville Art Museum in Asheville NC Features American Photography Carolina Arts June 2000 Birmingham Museum of Art Museum Hosts 50th Anniversary Party and Statewide Premiere of Documentary on Alabama Artists Archived 2007 09 27 at the Wayback Machine Contemporary Arts Museum Houston Bass is listed as among the 22 participants in The International Pinhole Photography Exhibition June 30 September 9 1990 Exhibition History 1990s Contemporary Arts Museum Houston High Museum of Art as mentioned in an auction page for her work Aburrations II Archived 2007 09 27 at the Wayback Machine the Light Factory Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art Bass is mentioned as one of 13 participants in Pure Light Southern Pinhole Photography 2003 Pure Light Southern Pinhole Photography website of Jan Kapoor www carolinaarts com 405upstairs html The Polaroid Book Polaroid com Archived from the original on 2008 05 25 Retrieved 2008 06 01 Penland School of Crafts Penland NC EMRYS Foundation EMRYS Foundation Archived 2006 12 02 at the Wayback Machine University of Memphis Lectures Number no 37 Winter 2000 Archived 2006 01 11 at the Wayback Machine PDF The camera is mentioned by Christopher James The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes Thomson 2002 ISBN 0 7668 2077 7 15 This part of the book is reproduced within the publisher s sample PDF Christopher James The Pinhole chap 1 of The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes PDF HR 455 Georgia Women s History Month recognize month of March 1997 Works University of Montevallo solo exhibition Archived from the original on 2007 02 08 Retrieved 2007 02 12 Cuerpos Santos Series images shown here Colophon The Light Factory Archived 2007 02 19 at the Wayback Machine Charlotte North Carolina Contemporary Museum of Photography and Film National Museum of Women in the Arts NMWA Alabama Public Television Voices Rising Archived 2011 05 18 at the Wayback Machine Alabama State Council for the ArtsExternal links editClaire Wilson Pinky Bass The Encyclopedia of Alabama Retrieved 2021 04 10 Coat of Many Colors Alabama Public Television University of Montevallo shows an example of her photography with hand stitching Pinhole Camera Homepage shows an example of Bass pinhole camera work The Light Factory shows en example of her hand stitched sculpture Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts Pensacola Junior College Pinhole Visions Pensacola Florida 2006 EMRYS Foundation Greenville South Carolina lists Bass pinhole workshop the Barristers Gallery New Orleans Louisiana 2005 Group exhibition Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art Winston Salem North Carolina 2003 Group Exhibition Creative Loafing Charlotte North Carolina 2006 The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes Examples of Bass work on pg 15 Georgia Southern University George Anne Southern Daily critic Vanessa Keber Statesboro Georgia 1999 Number Inc 37 page 13 lists a Bass lecture at University of Memphis Memphis Tennessee Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Pinky Bass amp oldid 1216470471, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
