Michael Padwee,
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Photo by Roan Caffrey
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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
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
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"Going to the Kill Shelter" (2024) |
"For Sale" (2018)
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"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
My article about the Guastavinos can be accessed at https://www.academia.edu/38098792/Commercial_and_Personal_Art_Tiles_of_Rafael_Guastavino_Jr
"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.
"Street Bazaar, Istanbul" (2022, digitally manipulated photo printed on an aluminum panel, 24" x 15", $500)
"Istanbul Domes" (2023; Digital photo--dye sublimation image printed on an aluminum panel; 18"W x 12 1/4"H; $300)
"Carroll" (1970/2022, 18" x 9.5", dye sublimation image printed on an aluminum panel, $350)
"Pandemic Series: Into the Light" (Photo collage, 2020, 24" W x 12"H, dye sublimation image printed on an aluminum panel, $500)
"Pandemic Series: Out of the Dark" (Photo Collage, 2020, 24"W, dye sublimation image printed on an aluminum panel, $500)
"Pandemic Series: Containing Delta" (2021, 24"H, dye sublimation image printed on an aluminum panel, $500)
PANDEMIC PORTRAITS
"My Restricted Life During the Pandemic" (2020 - 2021, consisting of almost 250 photos of my neighborhood during the pandemic, NFS)
"Space/Time Continuum-1" (2021, 24"W, dye sublimation image printed on an aluminum panel, $500)
"Derived from an Islamic Architectural Tessellation-1" (2021, 36" x 15", glossy dye sublimation print/photo collage printed on an aluminum panel, $500)
"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.)
"Ghost Buildings Canvas" (2021, Digital photo, 16" x 9.3", $150 unframed)
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.
"Two Great White Egrets Dancing" (Forsythe Wildlife Preserve, NJ-2019)
"Reflected View from 1 Whitehall Street, Manhattan" (Reflections series, 2019, dye sublimation image printed on an aluminum panel, $500)
"Reflection Series: Untitled" (2021, digital photo, 16"H, dye sublimation image printed on an aluminum panel, $500)
"Mildendo" (Photo collage, 1984/2006, 16"W, $200 unframed))
"St. Pancras Station", (London, digital photo, 2012, 18"W, printed on metallic coated paper, $150 unframed))
"Sunset from the Highline", digital photo, 2019)
"Fruit Room of Ahmed III", (Harem, Topkapi Palace, Istanbul, 2011)
"Portrait of the Artist: Moondog" (1972, Louis Thomas Hardin, 1916-1999)
"City in Ruins" (Photo collage, 2008/2009)
Study of people entering the Victoria & Albert Museum (Photo collage, London, 2012)
Atrium, Brooklyn Army Terminal
Wetlands (Wrightsville, NC-2017)
Aaron Padwee's Ghost Bike (Queens, NY--2018)
Interior, Sulimaniye Camii (Istanbul, 2011)
PPG Place (Pittsburgh, Reflections Series, 2010)
Two Meadowhawk Dragonflies Mating (Plainsboro, NJ Preserve--2019)
Tungurahua Volcano, near Ambato, Ecuador (2019)
Vicuña crossing the road at 14,000 feet on the Chimborazu volcano (Ecuador, 2019)
"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.
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.
Skipper on Mexican Sunflower (2020)
Heatherwick Vessel Series, Hudson Yards, Manhattan (Studies in Abstraction)
"Vessel #1 - Ants" (2019)
