Inspired Retired Visual Artists
  • Inspired Retired Visual Artists-home
  • Galleries
    • Doug Brooks, Ceramic Artist
    • Rosemary Brooks, Fine Art Painter
    • Alan Neuberg, Watercolorist
    • Larry O'Neill, Fine Art Painter
    • Michael Padwee, Photographic Artist
    • Ira Pearlstein, Found Object Art/Low Tide Art
    • Bob Roher, Glass Mosaic Artist
    • Vince Tancredi, Glass Artist

Michael Padwee,
​Photographic Artist

Picture
Photo by Roan Caffrey
I was given my first camera--a Kodak Brownie--on my Bar Mitzvah, and I have carried a camera almost continually since then. I used my camera to document the anti-Vietnam War, the anti-nuclear movement, and the New York City labor movement from the 1960s to the present, and I hope the new "Occupy" and Climate Justice movements will grow and keep me busy in the future. As a member of the “Minority Photographers” group in the 1970s, I participated in a number of exhibits throughout New York City and Westchester County, including New York's "Bus Show" in 1975, as well as a one-person show, “Mindscapes and Other Memorabilia”, at The Darkroom Gallery in Manhattan.  Two of my photos were published in the magazine Women: a Journal of Liberation, and more recently, one of my photos, "Moondog", was published in a literary magazine, The Oxford American.  In 2011, two of my photos were selected for a group show at the Self Made NY gallery in Brooklyn; in 2012 one of my photo collages was the cover art work for the internet art and poetry magazine Inertia,  www.inertiamagazine.com/ issues/012/; from 2014 to the present I've exhibited at venues in Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. In December 2023 I also exhibited in Barcelona, Spain. My wife and I were co-authoring a monograph about stained and dalle de verre glass artist Robert Pinart. (I still am.) More of my architectural photos can be seen in my blog, "Architectural tiles, glass and ornamentation in New York". In 2019 my sister, Lynn Padwee, organized a photo exhibit in the Monroe Township (NJ) Public Library, "One Family--Three Photographers: Aaron, Lynn and Michael Padwee", dedicated to my wife, Susan, who died in 2019, and our son, Aaron, who was killed in 2018. The pandemic gave me some space to work experimentally with surrealistic and abstract manipulation of photos, some of which are presented below. 

Contact: [email protected]
My photography website: 
https://www.irva.studio/michael-padwee-photographic-artist.html      
​My Long Island City-Artists webpage: https://www.licartists.org/michael-padwee
My Crevado Portfolio (in progress): https://michaelpadwee.crevado.com



Click on the paired photos to expand them. Hover your cursor over the paired photos to see more information.
Picture































​

​"Going to the Kill Shelter" (2024)

Picture
 "For Sale" (2018)


Picture
"Homage to Guastavino" (2023; Digital photo--dye sublimation image printed on an aluminum panel; 24"W x 12 5/8"H; $350)
My article about the Guastavinos can be accessed at ​https://www.academia.edu/38098792/Commercial_and_Personal_Art_Tiles_of_Rafael_Guastavino_Jr
Picture
"Portrait of the Artist: Robert Pinart" (2015, Tshuvah window, New City Jewish Center) My article about Robert Pinart can be accessed at https://tilesinnewyork.blogspot.com/2015/09/introducing-stained-and-dalle-de-verre.html.
Picture
"Street Bazaar, Istanbul" (2022, digitally manipulated photo printed on an aluminum panel, 24" x 15", $500)
Picture
"Istanbul Domes" (2023; Digital photo--dye sublimation image printed on an aluminum panel; 18"W x 12 1/4"H; $300)
Picture
"Carroll" (1970/2022, 18" x 9.5", dye sublimation image printed on an aluminum panel, $350)
"Calatrava's Fin" (2022, 18" x 9", dye sublimation image printed on an aluminum panel, $350)
"Vessel Series #8: Ants" (2022, 18" x 11", dye substrate image printed on an aluminum panel, $350)
Picture
"Pandemic Series: Into the Light" (Photo collage, 2020, 24" W x 12"H, dye sublimation image printed on an aluminum panel, $500)

Picture
"Pandemic Series: Out of the Dark" (Photo Collage, 2020, 24"W, dye sublimation image printed on an aluminum panel, $500)
Picture
"Pandemic Series: Containing Delta" (2021, 24"H, dye sublimation image printed on an aluminum panel, $500)
PANDEMIC PORTRAITS
Picture
"My Restricted Life During the Pandemic" (2020 - 2021, consisting of almost 250 photos of my neighborhood during the pandemic, NFS)
"Masks" (2021, Matte-printed on an 8" x 12" aluminum panel, $150)
"Milford Sound On My Mind" (2020, Matte-printed on an 8" x 12" aluminum panel, $150)
Picture
"Space/Time Continuum-1" (2021, 24"W, dye sublimation image printed on an aluminum panel, $500)
Picture
"Derived from an Islamic Architectural Tessellation-1" (2021, 36" x 15", glossy dye sublimation print/photo collage printed on an aluminum panel, $500)
Picture
"Steeplechase in Winter" (Photo collage, 1974/2017, 24"W, dye sublimation image printed on an aluminum panel, $500. Best of Show in Photography, New Hope [PA] Arts Center, 2022 Members' Salon.)

Picture
"Ghost Buildings Canvas" (2021, Digital photo, 16" x 9.3", $150 unframed)
"Under the World Trade Center Construction Site" (1974)
"Ablutions, Blue Mosque, Istanbul" (2011)
​         For an architectural and ceramic tour of Istanbul, see my two articles at http://architurist.blogspot.com/2013/12/an-architectural-and-ceramic-tour-of.html and http://architurist.blogspot.com/2014/01/an-architectural-and-ceramic-tour-of.html​.

Picture
"Two Great White Egrets Dancing" (Forsythe Wildlife Preserve, NJ-2019)

Young Bald Eagle (Forsythe Wildlife Preserve, NJ-2019)
"Great Blue Heron and Treat" (D&R Canal, Princeton, NJ-2019)

Picture
"Reflected View from 1 Whitehall Street, Manhattan" (Reflections series, 2019, dye sublimation image printed on an aluminum panel, $500)

"Building Reflections-6B" (Manhattan, Reflections Series, 2012)
"Crown of Glass" (Reflections Series, Pittsburgh, 2012)

Picture
"Reflection Series: Untitled" (2021, digital photo, 16"H, dye sublimation image printed on an aluminum panel, $500)
Picture
"Mildendo" (Photo collage, 1984/2006, 16"W, $200 unframed))

"España Cañí" ("Tiled Facades of Madrid" series--2006)
"Portrait of the Artist: Toshiko Takaezu" (1971)
My article about the tiled facades of Madrid can be accessed at 
​https://tilesinnewyork.blogspot.com/2013/12/tiled-facades-in-madrid.html

Picture
"St. Pancras Station", (London, digital photo, 2012, 18"W, printed on metallic coated paper, $150 unframed))

"In the Still of the Night..." (2019; Orleans, OH)
"Pouring molten bronze in a Queens art foundry" (2019)

Picture
"Sunset from the Highline", digital photo, 2019)

"Rise Up!" (Occupy Wall Street, Liberty Park, Manhattan-2011. First Place, Amateur Photography, Labor Heritage Foundation, 2012.)

Picture
"Fruit Room of Ahmed III", (Harem, Topkapi Palace, Istanbul, 2011)

"Chrysler Building Exit"
"Victor Lundy's First Unitarian Church" (Westport, CT)

Picture
"Portrait of the Artist: Moondog" (1972, Louis Thomas Hardin, 1916-1999)
"Palisades Amusement Park" (1971)
"Dawn on Moose River" (Thendara, New York)

Picture
"City in Ruins" (Photo collage, 2008/2009)
"Spruce Pine, North Carolina" (1971)
"A Wedge of Egrets" (2019, Forsythe Wildlife Preserve, New Jersey)

Picture
Study of people entering the Victoria & Albert Museum (Photo collage, London, 2012)
"Through a window...darkly," (digital photo, East Midlands Parkway Station and the Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station, England, 2012)
"My Day at the Beach"

Picture
Atrium, Brooklyn Army Terminal
The New Museum (Manhattan)
Looking Toward the Levy (Photo collage)

Picture
Wetlands (Wrightsville, NC-2017)
45 Essex Street (Manhattan, 1974)
Zip It Up! (Wall mural, 35th Street and 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

Picture
Aaron Padwee's Ghost Bike (Queens, NY--2018)
Malaspina ("Tiled Facades of Madrid" series--2006)
El Burladero ("Tiled Facades of Madrid" series--2006)

Picture
Interior, Sulimaniye Camii (Istanbul, 2011)
Picture
PPG Place (Pittsburgh, Reflections Series, 2010)
"I Love Trash!"
Abandoned Prison Cell, Eastern State Prison (Philadelphia, 2019)

Picture
Two Meadowhawk Dragonflies Mating (Plainsboro, NJ Preserve--2019)
Sunset from Long Island City, Queens (2019)
Hummingbird Clearwing Moth (Brooklyn, NY--2019)

Picture
Tungurahua Volcano, near Ambato, Ecuador (2019)
On the road to Mindo, Ecuador (2019)
Rufous-tailed hummingbird, Amazilia tzacatl (Mindo, Ecuador--2019)

Picture
Vicuña crossing the road at 14,000 feet on the Chimborazu volcano (Ecuador, 2019)
Sunset over Quito, Ecuador (2019)
Packed dirt walls, Street Scene, Pasa, Ecuador (2019)

Picture
"An Ambato Quilt" (Ambato, Ecuador, 2019).
 The 1949 Ambato earthquake was the largest earthquake in the Western Hemisphere in more than five years. 
On August 5, 1949, the earthquake struck Ecuador's Tungurahua Province southeast of its capital, Ambato, and killed 5,050 people.
​The city of Ambato was effectively destroyed, but it has re-emerged in colorful, quilt-like fashion during the past 70 years.
"Orchard Illusion" (Photo collage, 2020)
"Storefront near the PTT Building (Istanbul. 2011)
Picture
Skipper on Mexican Sunflower (2020)
"Aphrodite Fritillary Butterfly #1" (WV, 2015)
"Aphrodite Fritillary Butterfly #2: Siphoning nectar" (WV, 2015)
Heatherwick Vessel Series, Hudson Yards, Manhattan (Studies in Abstraction)
Picture
"Vessel #1 - Ants" (2019)
"Vessel #5"
"Vessel #6"
"Vessel #4" (2020)
"Vessel #7"
Proudly powered by Weebly
  • Inspired Retired Visual Artists-home
  • Galleries
    • Doug Brooks, Ceramic Artist
    • Rosemary Brooks, Fine Art Painter
    • Alan Neuberg, Watercolorist
    • Larry O'Neill, Fine Art Painter
    • Michael Padwee, Photographic Artist
    • Ira Pearlstein, Found Object Art/Low Tide Art
    • Bob Roher, Glass Mosaic Artist
    • Vince Tancredi, Glass Artist