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Min Enghauser
USA
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About
Min Enghauser
I am an artist who uses photography as my medium. In 1992, I received a Bachelors of Fine Art in Photography with a minor in Printmaking from Shepherd College, now Shepherd University, in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. My training was in all things traditional – film, darkroom and alternative (19th century) processes. Things I still to this day hold dear and try always to honor in my work. My work is old school colliding with new school. Until recently, I shot exclusively black and white or color print photographic film, combining it with modern digital processes, using high end film scanners, post-production software and digital pigment ink printing. I began digital capture in 2018 using fast antique lenses on a modern camera body, but there is still film waiting patiently for me in the fridge.
Artist Statement
The work presented with my profile is a sample of the digital capture I started in 2018. These are intimate studies in and around small wooded areas and walking trails squeezed into suburban places.
I began making photographs as a child; exploring, learning and becoming aware through photography. For me, photographs, and the act of making them, are glimpses of timeless Spirits and of the pure and unbiased realities of nature.
The eye of the camera, unlike the eye of the viewer, does not look at life subjectively, no judgment is passed, no value placed, no claim staked. In that it is the most like the Mind’s eye. When I photograph I try to detach. I don’t question the attraction I have to a subject - it’s an attraction so it’s primal. I expose the film and move on, not interfering, not questioning, not staking a claim.
It is in the printmaking part of the process when the photographs become mine and to what I was reacting becomes clear and what is to be revealed is revealed, if only to me. I tweak and fuss the image until the sense of light, the tones and textures elicit familiar feelings, primal attractions, a sense of Spirit of place. And I delight in that something that is unanticipated, that something that I thought could not be seen. In making the photographs mine they become my teachers. They impart an orderly quietness of symmetry in which Spirit reveals itself.
Although a long and loyal maven of the traditional wet darkroom, the new technological advancements in photography and digital printing offer me a way of rendering to paper what I see as the inherent beauty of photographic film. My photographs are made on film, scanned into the computer and then interpreted using the timeless sensibilities of the traditional fine art photographic printmaker.
In 1992, I received a Bachelors of Fine Art in photography from Shepherd College in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. In 2006 I was juried into the renowned Torpedo Factory Artists Association and became a resident artist at the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria, Virginia from 2007 to 2022.
EXHIBITIONS
2022
Tribute
Torpedo Factory Artists @ Mosaic, Fairfax, Virginia Group Show, February 2022
Deliverance
Torpedo Factory Artists @ Mosaic, Fairfax, Virginia Group Show, January 2022
2021
Wicked
Torpedo Factory Artists @ Mosaic, Fairfax, Virginia Group Show, September 2021
Passion
Torpedo Factory Artists @ Mosaic, Fairfax, Virginia Group Show, August 2021
Renewal
Torpedo Factory Artists @ Mosaic, Fairfax, Virginia Group Show, June 2021
Colour of Sound
Torpedo Factory Artists @ Mosaic, Fairfax, Virginia Group Show, April 2021
Art Blossoms
Torpedo Factory Artists @ Mosaic, Fairfax, Virginia Group Show, March 2021
Hold Me Close
Torpedo Factory Artists @ Mosaic, Fairfax, Virginia Group Show, Feb 2021
Winter's Tales
Torpedo Factory Artists @ Mosaic, Fairfax, Virginia Group Show, January 2021
2020
Lost Time
Torpedo Factory Artists @ Mosaic, Fairfax, Virginia Group Show, August 2020
Green
Torpedo Factory Artists @ Mosaic, Fairfax, Virginia Group Show, March 2020
R.E.D.
Van Landingham Gallery, Alexandria, Virginia Group Show, Feb 2020
All We Need Is Love
Torpedo Factory Artists @ Mosaic, Fairfax, Virginia Group Show, Jan 2020
2019
Freedom
Torpedo Factory Artists @ Mosaic, Fairfax, Virginia Group Show, June 2019
Text
Torpedo Factory Artists @ Mosaic, Fairfax, Virginia Group Show, February 2019
2016
Juxtaposed:Structure
Artists & Makers Gallery
Collabrative Show with Photographer Pete McCutchen
2014
3rd Annual Invitational Exhibition
Multiple Exposures Gallery, Alexandria, Virginia
Group Show, Juried by Jack Rasmussen; November 2014
Episode 1: Grand Opening Exhibition
Episode Gallery, Arlington, Virginia Group Show, October 2014
Water's Ways
Gallery at National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland Solo Show, September 2014
2013
Reflections, Target Gallery, Alexandria, Virginia Award: Best in Show
Group Show, November 2013
2nd Annual Invitational Exhibition
Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, Virginia Group Show, November 2013
2012
1st Annual Invitational Exhibition
Multiple Exposures Gallery, Alexandria, Virginia
Group Show, Juried by Brooks Jensen; November 2012
Diverging Mediums / Photography VS Phoneography
Target Gallery, Alexandria, Virginia Group Show, May 2012
Six Years of Hillyer Artists
Hillyer Art Space, Washington DC Group Show, November 2012
2011
Desert Dwell: Photographs from the Anza-Borrego Desert
Hillyer Art Space, Washington DC Solo Show, November 2011
Desert Dwell: Photographs from the Anza-Borrego Desert
Edison Gallery, Washington DC Group Show, March 2011
2010
4th Annual Photography Masters Cup
Honorable Mention; Nature Category Online Competition, August, 2010
Desert Dwell: Photographs from the Anza-Borrego Desert
Multiple Exposures Gallery, Alexandria, VA, Solo Show, February 2010
2009
Juried Member Show
Multiple Exposures Gallery, Alexandria, VA, December Group Show
Night Gallery Rosslyn
Ellipse Art Center, Arlington, Virginia Group Show, November 2009
Juried Member Show
Multiple Exposures Gallery, Alexandria, VA, December Group Show, January 2009
2008
Juried Member Show
Multiple Exposures Gallery, Alexandria, Virginia Group Show, January 2008
Photo 2008
Ellipse Gallery, Arlington, Virginia
Award: Juror’s Choice by David Griffin, Director of Photography, Nat Geo Magazine
Group Show, 2008
Juried Member Group Show
Multiple Exposures Gallery, Alexandria, Virginia February 2008
The Standing People
Multiple Exposures Gallery, Alexandria, Virginia Solo Show, December 2008
the last little show
Gallery at Black & White, Arlington, VA – December
2007
New Members, New Visions
Multiple Exposures Gallery, Alexandria, VA, December
Staff Show
Gallery at Black & White, Arlington, VA, December
Featured Artist
Thomas Moser Showroom, Georgetown, Washington DC, September
Juried Member Group Show
Multiple Exposures Gallery, Alexandria, VA, August
2006
White in Black & White
Gallery at Black & White, Arlington, VA, June
Newly Juried Members Show 2006
The Target Gallery, Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria VA, March Group Show
Woman’s National Democratic Club, Washington, DC January Ellipse: Photo 2006
2005
Ellipse Gallery, Arlington, VA, January 2005
Photography is Dead; Long live Photography
Sandy Springs Museum, Sandy Springs, MD, December
Ellipse: Photo 2005
Ellipse Gallery, Arlington, VA, January
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