Join us for an artist talk featuring Portland photographer Stu Levy, whose meditative, black and white images of Portland Japanese Garden are featured in our current exhibition Designing Nature: Elements of Harmony. Levy will share insights from his practice and experience, including his training with renowned artist Ansel Adams, through a presentation and conversation with Aki Nakanishi, Director of Japan Institute and the Arlene Schnitzer Curator of Culture, Art, and Education.
Levy, a neighbor of the Garden for more than 50 years, has captured its timeless beauty through his monochrome scenes that echo across the years. From flowing water to mist in the trees, these images evoke meditative moments through a unique perspective.
About the Artist:
Stu Levy is a photographer living in Portland, Oregon. He was a co-founder of the Portland Photographic Workshops and has led photography workshops on the Oregon Coast for over 30 years. He studied with Ansel Adams and was an assistant instructor for Ansel’s workshops in Yosemite and Carmel; he was also an instructor at the Ansel Adams Gallery Workshops.
His photographs are in many public and private collections including The Center for Creative Photography, the George Eastman House, the Portland Art Museum, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the High Museum of Art (Atlanta), Museum of Photographic Arts, San Francisco Civic Center, Portland Visual Chronicle and the Wilson Centre for Photography.
He was one of the founders of the Photography Council of the Portland Art Museum and was the Council President from 2003 to 2006.
He is also on the Board of Directors of Photolucida and the Pacific Northwest Photographers Archive.
Portland Japanese Garden would like to thank The Miller Foundation for their support of arts and culture programming.
