BORN: 1948 Cincinnati, OH
My photographs often involve fragile landscapes in which I feel a sense of timelessness. The landscape, however, is only my stimulus or point of departure. I ask the question, “What else is the landscape?” and it is the “what else” that I try to photograph. A selection of these was published by Lenswork in 2014.
I also create “Grid-Portraits” of artists and craftsmen. Using several images contact printed together, a space and time scan is made of the subjects in their environments. In addition, references are made to the making of the photograph and to my own interaction with the subjects as I explore the process of perception and visual synthesis. A monograph has been published by Nazraeli Press.
In 1995 I printed 82 vintage Minor White negatives of two Victorian houses for the permanent collection of the Portland Art Museum and for the publication “Heritage Lost”, published by the Oregon Historical Society and the Portland Art Museum.
FEATURED EXHIBITIONS
2023 Once in a While, You Get Shown the Light, Augen Gallery, Portland, OR (upcoming)
2019 Augen Gallery, Portland, OR
2016 Augen Gallery, Portland, OR
2014 Augen Gallery, Portland, OR
2013 Viewpoint Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2011 Brick Wall Gallery, Spokane, WA
2010 Augen Gallery, Portland, OR
2009 Emerald Art Center, Springfield, OR
2007 Verve Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2007 Camerawork Gallery, Portland, OR
2005 Buckley Center, University of Portland, Portland, OR
2004 Fairbanks Gallery, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
2003 S.K. Josefsberg Studio, Portland, OR
2002 Baldwin Gallery Middle, Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN
1999 Photographer’s Gallery of Palo Alto, Palo Alto, CA
1998 S.K. Josefsberg Studio, Portland, OR
1996 The Ansel Adams Gallery, Yosemite National Park and Pebble Beach, CA
1994 Alinder Gallery, Gualala, CA
1994 Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL
1992 Hill Gallery, Aspen, CO
1992 Southern Light Gallery, Amarillo College, Amarillo, TX
1991 Scheinbaum and Russek, Santa Fe, NM
1991 Port Angeles Fine Art Center, Port Angeles, WA
1990 The Silver Image Gallery, Seattle, WA
1990 Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
1988 The Ansel Adams Gallery, Yosemite, CA
1988 The Silver Image Gallery, Seattle, WA
1987 Photographic Image Gallery, Portland, OR
1987 University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, OR
1987 The Maryhill Museum, Goldendale, WA
1986 The Silver Image Gallery, Seattle, WA
1986 Sunbird Gallery, Bend, OR
1984 Governor’s Reception Office, Salem, OR
1984 The Silver Image Gallery, Seattle, WA
1984 Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA
1982 Camerawork Gallery, Portland, OR
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 Nature’s Way (a search for beauty), Lightbox Gallery, Astoria, OR
2017 PDX 30, Lightbox Gallery, Astoria, OR
2016 PDX 30, Lightbox Gallery, Astoria, OR
2015 The 21st Century Handmade Print, Gallery 270, Englewood, NJ
2014 Place: Framing the Oregon Landscape, Oregon Historical Society, Portland, OR
2014 New Work by Gallery Artists, Augen Gallery, Portland, OR
2014 Blue Sky at 40, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
2013 Photographs Off the Wall, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA
2013 Grand Canyon: Travels along the River, Venice Arts Gallery, Venice, CA
2010 Album—Artist Portraits of Artists, Marylhurst University Art Gym, Marylhurst, OR
2009 Shape of Time, Oregon Jewish Museum, Portland, OR
2008 Altered Landscapes, Newspace Gallery, Portland, OR
2006 Contrasting Objectives: Fifteen Pacific Northwest Photographers, Whatcom Museum
of History and Art, Bellingham, WA
2003 Digital Photography, Portland, Art Museum, Portland, OR
2002 Oregon in the Ozarks, Arts Center of the Ozarks, Springdale, AR
2001 Deceit of the Intellect (Portraits), Benham Gallery, Seattle, WA
2000 Photo Americas Director’s Choice, Portland State University, Portland, OR
1999 Oregon Landscape Photography, Portland Community College, Portland, OR
1996 Water! (Curator, Linda Wolcott Moore), Photo Metro Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1996 Sunbird Gallery, Bend, OR
1996 Blue Sky 20th Anniversary Show, S.K. Josefsberg Studio, Portland, OR
1994 Regional Landscape, S.K. Josefsberg Studio, Portland, OR
1994 The New Face of the Portrait, Fuller Art Museum, Brockton, MA
1994 Focus 94, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA
1994 National Invitational Contemporary Photography Exhibit, Central Washington
University, Ellensburg, WA
1994 Alternatives 94, Ohio University, Athens, OH
1994 Disappearing Oregon, Benton County Historical Museum, Philomath, OR
1993 Mountain West 4th Biennial, Utah State University, Logan, UT
1993 Crosscut 93, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
1993 Vision at the End of the Trail, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
1992 Current Works ’92, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO
1991 Oregon Biennial, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
1991 The Legacy of Minor White, Portland, OR
1990 Illuminate ’90, Lubbock Fine Arts Center, Lubbock, TX
1990 Juried Photography Exhibit, Jewish Community Center, Houston, TX
1990 Northwest Invitational, Kern Art Center, Eugene, OR
1989 Positive/Negative, Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR
1989 Photographic Multiplicity, Marylhurst College, Lake Oswego, OR
1989 Center for the Eye: Old Friends, Oregon School of Arts and Crafts, Portland, OR
1989 A Celebration of Portland Photography, Portland Community College, Portland, OR
1988 Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
1988 Oregon Biennial, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
1987 New Photographics 87, Central Washington University, Ellensberg, WA
1987 Landscape Photography, Museum of the Rockies, Bozeman, MT
1987 Photography in the West: A Modern View, The Rockwell Museum, Corning, NY
1986 Northwest Juried Art 86, Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum, Spokane, WA
1986 Art in the Mayor’s Office, Portland, OR
1986 Commitment to Vision, University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, OR
1986 Three Points, Twelve Views, Portland, Art Museum, Portland, OR
1986 Three Points, Twelve Views, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
1986 Three Points, Twelve Views, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, British Columbia
1986 New Photographics 86, Central Washington University, Ellensberg, WA
1986 Images of Northern Arizona, Coconino Arts Center, Flagstaff, AZ
1985 American Landscape Exhibition, Main Street Gallery, Fort Bragg, CA
1985 Introductions: 1985, The Photographer’s Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
1985 Northwest Vision, University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, OR
1985 Photographic Image Gallery, Portland, OR
1984 New Photographics 84, Central Washington University, Ellensberg, WA
1984 Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR
1984 Point Lobos as Icon, Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA
1984 Northwest Vision, University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, OR
1984 Photo Show II, La Jolla, CA
1984 U.S. Biennial II, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
1984 Water Show, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
1983 Recent Photographic Acquisitions, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
1983 Members Exhibit, Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA
1983 The Silver Image Gallery, Seattle, WA
1982 Members Exhibit, Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA
1980 Members Exhibit, Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Looking at Images, commentary by Brooks Jensen, Lenswork, Portland, OR, 2014, p.118 (illustration)
Grateful Dead (Vinyl and CD), Family Dog at the Great Highway, San Francisco, recorded April 18, 1970, released by Rhino Records, November 29, 2013 (illustrations)
Claire Sykes, “Mental Landscape: A Conversation with Stu Levy,” Photographer’s Forum, Fall 2013, pp. 22-31 (illustrated)
Jobey, Liz. “The name’s Wilson, Michael Wilson,” Financial Times UK, October 12, 2012 (illustration)
D.K. Row, “Wintry windows to talent,” The Oregonian, December 2, 2010, p. E1 (illustrated)
Meagan Driscoll, “First Thursday Picks December 2010,” PORT. Portlandart.net (illustrated)
D.K. Row, “D.K. ‘s hot sheet,” The Oregonian, April 6, 2007, p.38 (illustrated)
View Camera Magazine, Grid-Portraits, Sept.-Oct. 2007 (illustration)
Lenswork #59, Side Canyons of the Colorado, 2005’ (illustration)
“Show of note,” The Oregonian, October 15, 2004, p. 28 (illustrated)
Golden Gate Bridge #176 (Sailboat and Shadow), Oceans (Rizzoli), 2002 (illustration)
D. K. Row, “A Grid Lock on Portraits,” The Oregonian, March 6, 2003, p. E1 & E.6
Standing Up Country (Rio Nuevo Publisher), 2000 (illustration)
D.K. Row, “Metaphorical tableaux,” The Oregonian, June 26, 1998, (illustrated)
“The Landscape, the Environment and the View Camera,” Rangefinder, May, 1994 (illustration)
Grid-Portraits, Camera and Darkroom, May 1995 (illustration)
“Stu Levy grid portraits,” Camera & Darkroom, May 1993, pp.34-39 (illustrated)
Grid-Portrait, Photographic Possibilities (Hirsch, Focal Press), 1990 (illustration)
“Ice, Oneonta Creek,” Object and Image (Craven, Prentiss-Hall), 1990 (Illustration)
Landscape photos, Wilderness at the Edge (Utah Wilderness Coalition), 1990 (illustration)
Randy Gragg, “The Photographer as Voyeur,” Northwest Visions, May 27, 1990, p.19 & 21, (illustrated)
Grid-Portrait, Photo Metro, 1990 (illustration)
Northwest Magazine, The Oregonian, Portland, OR 1990 (illustration)
Grid-Portrait, Mississippi Mud, 1989 (illustration)
Grid-Portrait, Zyzzyva, 1989 (illustration)
Bill Donahue, “Darkroom with a View,” Willamette Week, July 16-22, 1987, p. 13 (illustration)
Commitment to Vision catalog, University of Oregon Museum of Art, 1986 (illustration)
Interview with Charis (Weston) Wilson, American Photographer, August, 1979 (illustration)
BOOKS
2014 Stu Levy Photographs 1979-2013 “In Search of the “What Else”, Forward by Carl Chiarenza, Lens Work, Publishing Monograph Series 2, Anacortes, WA
2012 Honk If You Love Stieglitz: Jerry Velsmann, A Grid-Portrait, Nazraeli Press, One Picture Book #75,
Portland ,OR
2010 Grid Portraits, Nazraeli Press, Portland, OR
2005 Cranial Czar, Eh?, One Picture Book #30, Nazareli Press, Portland, OR
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Center for Photography, Tucson, AZ
Central Washington University, Ellensberg, WA
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
City Hall Collection, Eureka, CA
Federal Reserve Bank, Portland, OR
George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Kaiser Permanente, Portland, OR
Miller Nash LLP, Portland, OR
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Portland Visual Chronicle, Portland, OR
San Francisco Civic Center, Earl Warren Building, San Francisco, CA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Seattle Arts Commission, Seattle, WA
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Tonkin Torp LLP, Portland, OR
Washington State Arts Commission, Olympia, WA
Wilson Centre for Photography, London, England and Santa Monica, CA
PHOTOGRAPHIC EDUCATION
1980 Owens Valley Photography Workshop, Bishop, CA
1979 Olivia Parker Workshop, Portland OR
1979 Ansel Adams Workshop, Yosemite, CA
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1990-present Instructor, Private workshops, Oregon Coast
1995, 1993, 1991 Instructor, Photographic Arts Workshops, Page, AZ
1994, 1992, 1990 Instructor, Coupeville Art Center, Whidbey Island, WA
1992 Instructor, Santa Fe Photographic Workshops, Bisti Badlands, NM
1989 Instructor, Ansel Adams Gallery Workshops, Yosemite, CA
1989, 1987 Instructor, Owens Valley Photography Workshop, Page, AZ
1988-1987 Workshop Instructor, Oregon School of Arts and Crafts, Portland, OR
1988-1984 Assistant Instructor, Ansel Adams Gallery Workshop, Yosemite, CA
1987-1982 Assistant Instructor, Friends of Photography Workshops, Carmel, CA
1987-1982 Instructor, Portland Photographic Workshops, Shore Acres State Park, OR
1987-1983 Instructor, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
1981 Assistant Instructor, Ansel Workshop, Yosemite, CA
LASER SCANNED DUOTONE POSTERS
1991 Punch Bowl Falls
1988 Sprints Trees and Falls
1986 Eel Creek Dunes IV (Commitment to Vision)
1986 Ramona Falls
1986 Lower Calf Creek Falls
1984 Havasu Stream
GRID-PORTRAIT POSTERS
1990 Linda Connor Photographs the Past
1989 Artist’s Proof and Consequences
AWARDS
Current Works ’92, Excellence Award, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO, 1992
Photo Metro Photo Contest, San Francisco, 1990
Best of Show and Honorable mention, Jewish Community Center, Houston, TX 1990
Cash Award, Lubbock Fine Art Center, Lubbock, TX, 1990
Purchase Award, Main Street Gallery, Fort Bragg, CA, 1985
