I am getting old and there is still so much to do. I am interested in the oddity of what made life on this planet possible and the weird way we have on how to struggle for our survival. One has the sense that the decisions made by us in the next few years will determine what the outcome of how we humans will be remembered. I am amazed at what the best of us have accomplished and appalled at what the worst of us has done. As an artist I get a chance to put down a little of what I understand and how I feel. I don't know if anyone gets the message but I can't help trying.
Jaromir Stephany
Jaromir Stephany
Artist working primarily in photography and a teacher of photography and history of photography
Associate Professor of Visual Arts
Born Rochester New York, March 1930
Education:
Rochester Institute of Technology, APS 1956, B.F.A. 1958 (Photography)
Indiana University (Bloomington), MFA 1960 (Fine Arts)
Career History:
Curatorial Staff- International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House 1960-66 ;
Lecturer in History of Photography, Rochester Institute of Technology 1960-65;
Chair, Department of Photography & Film, Maryland Institute 1967 / 1973;
Associate Professor, University of Maryland Baltimore County 1973 until retired 1999;
Continued as Associate Professor Emeritus teaching part-time and as volunteer conservator in the UMBC Special Collections.
Career-Related Activities:
Active in the Society for Photographic Education, Mid-Atlantic Region, as chair, treasurer and as editor of newsletter, Available Light, 1980-98;
Volunteer Curator of Photography, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1970-74.
Creative Works:
Noted for working with cliché-verre photographic process. Work deals with abstract images with science fiction themes. Current work is strongly computer-based ; questions human survival.
Work in collections:
Baltimore Museum of Art
Detroit Museum of Art
International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House
St. Petersburg Museum of Art, Florida
UMBC Albin O. Kuhn Library, Special Collections
School Affiliation:
University of Maryland Baltimore County
Visual Arts Department / Library
Baltimore, Maryland 21250
fEXHIBITIONS: Selected list
1959 George Eastman House, Photography at Mid-Century (National Traveling Exhibit)
1960 Indiana University, Thesis Exhibition, with Jerry Uelsman
1960 Museum of Modern Art, Sense of Abstraction, Group Exhibition
1963 New York State Fair, 20th Century Masters of Photography (Traveling Exhibit-- New York and Canada), Group Exhibition
1964 Smithsonian Institute, Science & Technology Bldg., 40 prints (one of
five photographers in 200-print show)
1970 Major show at Baltimore Museum of Art, 50 prints (One of six photographers)
1971 Major show with the Maryland Arts Council Traveling Exhibition (One of six photographers)
1974 Foto Gallery, New York City, One-man show (Review in Popular Photography, April 1975)
1975 Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA, Twelve photographers, UMBC Library, Catonsville, MD, SOLO show
(Review in SunPaper, August 31, 1975)
1979 Cliché- Verre: Hand Drawn, Light Printed. A major exhibition on camera-less photography organized by the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Museum of Fine Arts-Houston. A catalog with extensive historical and biographical material was published in 1980.
1981 Major exhibition with John Bloom, Meg Ojala, and Jack Sal at the International Center of Photography, New York, NY. Work shown was new and extension of Cameraless Images.
1982 Major exhibition of Cameraless images and interpretations of aerial photographs of the
Chesapeake Bay
, G.H. Dalsheimer Gallery,
Baltimore
,
MD.
1983 COLOR Photographs included in a new survey of “Lensless Photography” at the
Franklin
Institute
Science
Museum
.
1984 IBM Gallery of Science and
Art
,
New York
, NY. Color work exhibited.
Series of color cliché-verre photographs shown at Morris Mechanic Theater,
Baltimore
,
MD.
Progressions at UMBC Bay Flight, a multimedia exhibition
1988 MESSAGES TO THE COSMOS, exhibition of 120 color photos. UMBC
Library Gallery, reviews published, solo exhibition.
1990 Art Faculty exhibition, UMBC, group show
1992 Art Faculty exhibition, UMBC, group show
1993 College Art Department Gallery, College Park, MD, group exhibition
1994 Intergalactic Lawn Chair Encounters, Halcyon Gallery, Baltimore, MD,
33 prints, solo exhibition.
Art Faculty exhibition, UMBC, group show
1996 Art Faculty exhibition, UMBC, group show
1998 State of the Art , traveling exhibition through 1999, group show
1999 Art Faculty exhibition, UMBC, group show
2002 Marlboro Gallery, group show,
Prince
Georges
Community College
,
Largo
, MD
2003 Art Faculty exhibition, UMBC, group show
2003 Curated "Photography Now", group show, Anne Arundel Community College, Severna Park, MD
WORK IN COLLECTIONS:
Baltimore
Museum
of
Art
Detroit
Museum
of
Art
International
Museum
of Photography at
George
Eastman
House
St. Petersburg
Museum
of Art,
Florida
UMBC Albert O. Kuhn Library, Special Collections
Several private collections
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