In his series of photographs Romancing Σtone, Jonathan Spath unifies two areas of deep personal interest - math and photography.

The photos, taken in a former granite quarry on Cape Ann, MA, also reflect his style of photographing which "looks further and deeper into everyday surroundings to discover what singular perspectives may exist both in the object and the space around the object," he says.

Romancing tone is featured at the Griffin Museum at Digital Silver Imaging in Belmont, MA.

"The stones' shapes, tones, textures, and scale were all of initial inte...

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February 7, at 3 PM

Evans discusses her project Glimpses of Memory and the frescoes themselves, which have a tactile, aged, and worn quality.

Admission is FREE for seniors and their friends. Sponsored by Salter Healthcare, Winning Farm, and New Horizons.

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When Glenna Evans moved into an 1890 Victorian home, she discovered many "forgotten treasurers," from old encyclopedias and medical books, to windows, doors, and screens. "Abandoned, their value and beauty were covered in dust," Evans says. "I wondered what stories they could tell." The pictures are modern, mixed-media frescoes. Classic frescoes were created by applying paint onto fresh wet plaster. Evans has been perfecting a technique of "printing" photographs o...

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Elliot Ross has big questions about relationships between the species, which he explores in his photographic series Animal.

"Each image in Animal is not only a portrait of a non-human animal; it is, in many ways, a self-portrait," says Ross. "And also a question; what can be known and what is unknowable about individuals of other animal species?"

Animal is featured in the Griffin Gallery of the Griffin Museum January 21 through March 28. An opening reception with the artist is January 21, 7-9 PM.

In describing the underlying question of his series, Ross quotes contemporary Am...

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As a child growing up near the Phoenix Zoo in Arizona, Laszlo Layton spent summers there studying animals and natural history. He later worked in the motion picture industry for more than 20 years and spent his evenings and weekends painting.

When he read about contemporary photographers reviving 19th-century photo printing processes, he became fascinated by the oldest formulas for handmade photographic prints. He restored an old Deardorff studio view camera and was inspired to rediscover his youthful interest in zoology.

Cabinet of Curiosities and Pictorial Zoology, two series of his photogra...

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