Recent News

My slideshow of "Lost Venice" was a semi-finalist for the Palm Springs Festival Slide Show.

My image of "Stella on a pancake" will be shown at the Rayko Art Center's 5th Annual exhibition. Opening Weds. Jan. 18th, 6-8p.

My image of Awnings won first prize in the cityscapes category and will be shown at the Palais de Glace Exhibition in Buenos Aires in 2012.

As part of the photo festival in Lishui, I was asked to curate a show with the theme "American Stories". I chose Aline Smithson and Yvette Marie Dostatni's work.

Curated by Christian Cummings & Doug Harvey,
Santa Monica, CA
July 22 - August 24, 2011

Crista Dix and Aline Smithson have done the incredible! They have galvanized the photographic community and created Life Support Japan. Prints are available for $50 each and the work is breathtaking!
http://wall-spacegallery.com/displayShow.php?showID=124&collection=3

The Ragdale House Speaks
Durand Art Institute
Lake Forest College
555 N. Sheridan Road
Lake Forest, IL 60045 ...more

The "Ragdale House Speaks" book signing and photography exhibition, Saturday, Nov. 6th, 5-7pm at the Ragdale House in Lake Forest, IL. The show will remain up until the New Year.
www.ragdale.org

My image of "On the Lagoon" got an honorable mention in The Urban and Country Landscape contest of the Worldwide Gala Photography Awards. You can see all the winners if you click here.

A solo exhibition of new work "Everything Matters" opens at the Chicago Photography Center, 3301 N. Lincoln Avenue. Chicago August 13th and runs through Sept. 3.
Click here for the New City review or here for the Chicago Tribune review.

Harvey Stein selected this image of mine for the exhibition BED TWO at the Umbrella Arts Gallery, 317 East 9th St, suite 2, New York. Thursday, May 13- June 12, 2010

My image Sunday Morning was included in the Vermont PhotoPlace Gallery exhibition "Nostalgia", juried by Larissa Leclair.
April 9th - May 1st, 2010 5-7pm at 3 Park Street, Middlebury, Vermont

I have been asked to photograph the artists and writers colony Ragdale for a book the Director, Susan Tillett, is writing about the main house which was designed and built by architect Howard Van Doren Shaw. It is an amazing collaboration and I am so honored to be a part of it. Ragdale is a magical place and the house is about to undergo a historic renovation.

I was so honored to have an exhibition of my Venice photographs at the Loyola University Museum of Art in Chicago, Dec. 4th - Jan. 17th 2010. Click here to read a review of the show.