Friday Evening Event at the Lionheart Gallery for Jennifer Schlesinger-Hanson

The Lionheart Gallery is honored to have Jennifer Schlesinger-Hanson at the gallery from Santa Fe, New Mexico, this Friday evening from 5:30 to 7:30 for a reception. We hope you can stop by and meet Jennifer and learn more about this fascinating alternative process photography technique. Read more about Jennifer in this article on Artsy.net about the exhibit Other Worlds: Dreamy Narratives from Three Women Visionary Photographers.
View photographs from the exhibit.

Making Albumen prints is a long process but well within the abilities of most persons. The Albumen print was invented in 1850. Albumen printing became the first commercial process for producing multiple photographic prints from a single negative. It remained the most viable photographic print making process for over 40 years. Albumen printing was replaced by sliver gelatin coated commercial paper at the turn of the 20th century.

Albumen is the egg white, the clear liquid contained within a chicken egg. Albumen is used in the print process to bind the photographic light sensitive chemicals to paper. In other words, egg white is the emulsion coating on to the paper.

Jennifer Schlesinger’s makes her own Albumen solution, hand coats her paper, uses digital negatives and contact prints her images.

Jennifer Schlesinger Hanson is an artist, curator, and educator based out of Santa Fe, New Mexico. She graduated from the College of Santa Fe in 1998 with a B.A. in Photography and Journalism and was an adjunct Professor there from 2005-2006. Schlesinger Hanson has exhibited widely at Southwest regional institutions such as the Marion Center for Photographic Arts (SFUAD) and the Santa Fe Art Institute, as well as national institutions such as the Southeast Museum of Photography and the Chelsea Art Museum. Her work has been published online and in print with international publications such as Black and White Magazine U.S and UK, the cover article for Diffusion Magazine Volume III, and Fotoritim. Schlesinger Hanson is represented in many public collections, including the Southeast Museum of Photography, FL; The New Mexico Museum of Art, and the New Mexico History Museum / Palace of the Governors Photo Archives. She has received several honors in recognition of her work including a Golden Light Award in Landscape Photography from the Maine Photographic Workshops and the Center for Contemporary Arts Photography Award in Santa Fe, New Mexico, both in 2005. She has been awarded many distinctive nominations such as the Santa Fe Prize for Photography by the Center and the Eliot Porter Fellowship by the New Mexico Council for Photography. She was the Assistant Director of Santa Fe Art Institute from 2003-2005 and has been the Director of VERVE Gallery of Photography since 2005.

The Lionheart Gallery is at 27 Westchester Avenue in Pound Ridge, New York www.thelionheartgalery.com 914.764.8689