Wendy Paton
An award winning fine art photographer, Wendy Paton was in the throws of a successful ground breaking career training and driving Standardred race horses in New York, when in 1981 her interest in photography emerged.
Wendy studied photography at the International Center of Photography in New York City, learned the intricacies of night photography from Michael Kenna, and darkroom printing techniques from her mentor and collaborator, master printer Chuck Kelton.
Paton’s series of black and white candid night images, “Visages de Nuit” (Faces of Night) was first exhibited in 2009 in “Clues To Identity”, at the International Center of Photography Education Gallery. Her first solo solo exhibition in New York followed in March of 2010 and her first exhibition in Germany in January 2011 at in focus gallery.
Philip Clark of THE ARTPOINT observes, “ Wendy’s works are portraits and stories captured with the craft of perception and the energy of visual instinct. In “Visages de Nuit” her eye is that of celebrant as well as voyeur, and in graphic compositions of black-and- white that mesmerizes us, Paton offers personal and intimate glimpses of our human, ineffable presence.”
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2017
- SHADOW, LIGHT AND CHEMISTRY, GROUP SHOW, IN FOCUS GALLERY, KOLN, GERMANY,
- ART KARLSRUHE, IN FOCUS GALERIE
2016
- WENDY PATON | THREE DAYS IN ROSEMONT FESTIVAL AMERICA 2016
- CENTRE CULTUREL GEORGES POMPIDOU, VINCENNES, FRANCE; CONFERENCE / ROUNDTABLE: VISION DE L'AMERIQUE
2015
- LOVE IS . . . . . , GROUP SHOW, IN FOCUS GALERIE COLOGNE, GERMANY
2014/15
- WENDY PATON | NUIT BLANCHE, MICHENER ART MUSEUM, DOYLESTOWN, PA
2014
- KEEP IT MOVING, HOEHNE CLARK GALLERY, DOYLESTOWN, PA
- WENDY PATON | VISAGES DE NUIT, DAVIS ORTON GALLERY, HUDSON, NY
- "MASTERPIECES", GROUP SHOW, DEUTSCHES FOTOMUSEUM, LEIPZIG, GERMANY, CURATED BY IN FOCUS GALLERY; COLOGNE; GERMANY
2013
- NUIT BLANCHE, SOUS LES ETOILES GALLERY, NYC
- VISAGE DE NUIT ARTIST TALK NY PHOTOGROUP SALON, SOHO PHOTO GALLERY, NYC
- TITLES & ICONS, GROUP SHOW, IN FOCUS GALERIE COLOGNE, GERMANY2012
- Lumiere Brothers Center For Photography, Moskau, Russia, 04.09. – 04.10.2012
2011
- AMERICAN PORTRAITS, IN FOCUS GALERIE, COLOGNE, GERMANY
2010
- KEEP IT MOVING, ARTSOURCE INTERNATIONAL, NYC
- VISAGES DE NUIT, SOUS LES ETOILES GALLERY, NYC
- "(POR)TRAIT REVEALED" - GROUP SHOW, RAYKO GALLERY, SAN F/RANSISCO, CA
- INSIDE OUT:PORTRAITURE TODAY, GROUP SHOW, WATCHUNG ARTS CENTER (INVITED ARTIST)
2006
- TABLEAU - WHITNEY CENTER, HAMDEN, CT
AWARDS
2009 FIRST PRIZE WINNER
EDITOR'S CHOICE AWARD, CENTER, SANTA FE, NM
IMAGE: CLIGNANACOURT MADAME FROM THE SERIES VISAGES DE NUIT
JUROR, SIMON BARNETT, NEWSWEEK MAGAZINE
COMPLETED PORTFOLIOS
2010 - KEEP IT MOVING
2008 - VISAGES DE NUIT
2006 - TROIS AMIS
2006 - TABLEAU
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
BIBLIOTHÈQUE NATIONALE DE FRANCE
MUSEÉ DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE: CHARLEROI, BELGIUM
THE JAMES A. MICHENER ART MUSEUM
THE LUMIERE BROTHERS CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY, MOSCOW
INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY, EDUCATION GALLERY COLLECTION
INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY, PERMANANT LIBRARY COLLECTION
PERSONAL COLLECTION: HIS SERENE HIGHNESS PRINCE ALBERT II OF MONACO