The University of Texas at Austin, Bachelor of Journalism (1979)
Grants and Awards
Artist's Residency, Yaddo, 2008 First Place and Second Place , International Photography Awards (Lucies), 2006 Who's Who in America 2005 - present Honorable Mention, Golden Light Awards, Fine Art Competition 2005 Finalist, Critical Mass Competition, Portland, OR, 2004 Who's Who in American Women 1997- present Honorable Mention, Fellowship competition, Silver Eye Center for Photography, 2003 Best of Show & Purchase Prize, Photoview Invitational, Longview Museum of Fine Art, 2000 Second Place, Photowork 2K, 2000 Honorable Mention, Santa Fe Center for Visual Arts Project Competition, 1998 and 1999 Honorable Mention, Governor's Exhibition, Texas Photographic Society, 1999 Best of Show, 5th Annual Governor's Exhibition, Texas Photographic Society, 1996 Juror's Choice, Best Title, and Third Place, Viewpoint ; Clifton, Texas, 1998 Juror's Commendation, Photoview, Longview Art Museum; Longview, Texas, 1996 First Place and Second Place, Viewpoint, Clifton, Texas, 1996 Honorable Mention, State of the Art National Juried Competition, Ithaca, New York, 1995 Honorable Mention, Photographers' Forum, 1994 and 1992 Honorable Mention, Phoenix Gallery Annual Juried Competition, 1994 Honorable Mention, Fourth Annual Prints and the Paper Competition, San Diego, 1994 Local History Project Grant (Texas Historical Commission); The Views of My Family: One Hundred Years of Photographs in Liberty County, project director; 1992
Museum of Fine Art Houston Paul Simon & Edie Brickell Collection, New York Samuel Dorksy Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY Texas Midcontinent Oil and Gas, Austin Longview Museum of Fine Art Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP, Austin The White House, Washington DC The University of Texas at Dallas Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Photography Collection, The University of Texas Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY Wittliff Collection of Southwestern & Mexican Photographers, Texas State University, San Marcos
Chicken Tawk , co-author, a dance/theater production performed at Dia Center for the Arts, New York, 1991. Capitol Report , executive producer, KUHT-TV, broadcast on PBS stations throughout Texas 1989 Ð2001; moderator Ð April 1993
2008 Whispering Walls, Kohler Arts Center, Kohler, Wisconsin 2007 Of A Place, Tyler College, Tyler, Texas 2006 Still Life, Rudolph Projects, Houston 2005 New Work, Rudolph Projects, Houston 2003 Church & Home, Laity Lodge 2002 From Of A Place, Texas State Capitol, Austin, Texas Of A Place, Galveston Art Center; Galveston, Texas Of A Place, Breckenridge Museum of Art, Breckenridge, Texas Of A Place, Contemporary Arts Center; Abilene, Texas Except for Memory, SRO Gallery, Texas Tech University; Lubbock, Texas Of A Place, Longview Museum of Fine Art;\, Longview, Texas Untitled, dberman gallery; Austin, Texas 1999 From Of A Place, Southwest Center for Art & Craft; San Antonio, Texas Of A Place, Women & Their Work, Austin, Texas Except for Memory, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon 1998 Except for Memory, Rudolph Poissant Gallery; Houston, Texas 1997 The Zedler House, Mayfair Gallery, Austin, Texas 1996 Tuscany Revisited, Mayfair Gallery, Austin, Texas 1995 Small Scenes, Texas Department of Agriculture, Austin, Texas Common Places Rare Moments, Humphries Cultural Center, Liberty, Texas Interiors and Still Lifes, Mayfair Gallery, Austin, Texas
The O.Henry Prize Stories 2004, Laura Furman, ed Texas Photographic Society 9th Annual Governor's Exhibition (catalog) 2000 Invitational Winners' Exhibit (catalog), Longview Museum of Fine Art, 2000 Photography Quarterly, Center for Photography at Woodstock, October 2000 Image 2000, Plano Art Center (catalog) 2000 Newsletter for the Photographic Artist, Calumet, Summer 1999 and Summer 1998 Of A Place, Women & Their Work (catalog), 1999 Blue Sky #26 , 1999 The Photo Review, Langhorne, PA, Summer 1998 and Summer 1999 Heritage, Texas Historical Foundation, Fall 1997 PhotoAmericas (catalog), 1999 and 2000 New American Talent, Texas Fine Arts Association (catalog), 1996 8 x 10 Contemporary American Photography, Queens College, CUNY (catalog), 1996 Alexandria Museum of Art September Competition, (catalog), 1995 Best of Photography Annual: 1992 and 1994 (Photographer's Forum)
2008 Women & Their Work 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Austin Comer Collection: Social/Scene, University of Texas at Dalls 2007 Art in Public Places, Austin City Hall 2006 Pilsner Urquell International Photography Awards Best of Show Exhibition, opening at Serpentine Gallery (London) and touring eight European countries (Curator: Collin Westerbrook) Intimate Spaces, The Methodist Hospital Center for Performing Arts Medicine, Houston 2005 Austin City Hall Inaugural Exhibition, Austin, Texas Scope Miami, Rudolph Projects, Miami, FL The Material Image: Surface and Substance in Photography, Simon Gorsky Museum, New Paltz, NY The Art of Devotion, Houston One Square Foot; Mark Woolley Gallery, Portland, OR Place Ð Photographs from the Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas; Austin Photographs from the Galleries, Fotofest Gallery, Houston 2004 Inside/Outside: Texas Women Photographers; Grace Museum, Abilene The Summer Show, dberman gallery, Austin Off Site/On Target, Austin City Lofts 2003 Inside/Outside: Texas Women Photographers, Houston Center for Photography Divergences, Concordia University, Austin 5 x 7 x X; Arthouse, Austin Sunny Side Up, Arlington Museum of Art Fellowship 2003; Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburg Southwestern Photography, Northlight Gallery, Tempe Gallery Artists/Fotofest, Rudolph Projects, Houston Inside/Outside: Texas Women Photographers; Women & Their Work, Austin, Galveston Art Center Photographic Resource Center Juried Exhibition, Boston Chairs, Concordia University, Austin HCP Juried Membership Exhibition; Houston Center for Photography Photography: The Creative Imperative; Southwestern University, Georgetown Tragedy and Transformation, Episcopal Theological Seminary, Austin 2001 Recontres Internationales de la Photographie (RIP), Arles, France and touring Europe Invitational: Spirituality and Creativity, Southwest School of Art & Craft; San Antonio Gallery Artists, dberman gallery, Austin Daily Life, Rudolph Projects, Houston Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Art, Houston Rudolph Projects in Marfa; Paisano Hotel, Marfa, Texas 2000 Islands of Order: A Decade of Collecting, Harry Ransom Humanities Center, Austin 24/7 Waking Breaking Making; Center for Photography at Woodstock Photowork 2K, Poughkeepsie (Juror: Michael Sand, Aperture) Shutters, The University of Dallas; Dallas (three person) Director's Choice, PhotoAmericas, Portland, Oregon Image 2000 Invitational, ArtCentre of Plano, Plano, Texas Governor's Exhibition, Texas Photographic Society, touring (Juror: Anthony Bannon, Eastman House) HCP Juried Membership Exhibition, Houston Center for Photography (Juror: Ellen Handy, ICP) Longview Invitational, Longview Museum of Art Photo Derived Works, Rudolph Poissant Gallery, Houston 1999 Governor's Exhibition, Texas Photographic Society, Austin Texas Photographic Society Members' Only Show, touring 1998 Governor's Exhibition, Southwest Craft Center, San Antonio (Juror: Steve Yates, NM Museum) Photowork 98, Barrett House Galleries, Poughkeepsie 1997 The Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art, Cullen Center; Houston (Juror: David A R Ross, Whitney) Phoenix Gallery National Juried Competition, New York (Juror: Laura Hauptman, MoMA 6th Annual Governor's Exhibition, Texas Photographic Society, San Antonio Shepherd College 8 th Annual Photo Exhibit, Shepherdstown, West Virginia Positive Negative 12, Slocumb Galleries, Johnson City, Tennessee Photograph Texas, Texas Historical Society, touring The Dishman Competition, Beaumont, Texas Photographic Resource Center Members Exhibition, Boston 1996 New American Talent: The 12th Exhibition, Austin Museum of Art; Austin (Juror: Lisa Phillips, Whitney Museuam) 5th Annual Governor's Exhibition, Texas Photographic Society; San Antonio (Juror: Arthur Ollman (MoPA) 8 x 10 Contemporary American Photographers, Godwin Ternbach Museum, Flushing, NY Polaroid Transfers; Image Gallery; Longview, Texas (two person) Texas Photographic Society Members' Only Exhibition, Neindorf Gallery, Austin Do Your Own Thing (a Fotofest exhibit), Slover McCutcheon Gallery, Houston 1995 The Art of Photography 95, Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach New Directions , Poughkeepsi (Juror Matthew Drutt, Guggenheim) State of the Art National Juried Competition, State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca All That Remains, Slover McCutcheon Gallery, Houston 14th Annual Competition, Alexandria Museum, Alexandria, Louisiana TriState Plus, Beaumont Art League, Beaumont Artists' Council 26th Annual Juried Exhibition, Palm Springs Desert Museum Illuminance, Lubbock Fine Arts Center; Lubbock The Dishman Competition, Dishman Art Gallery, Beaumont 1994 Phoenix Gallery National Juried Competition, Phoenix Gallery, New York (Juror: Diane Waldman, Guggenheim) 4th Annual Prints and the Paper Juried Competition, San Diego Art Institute; San Diego (Juror: Terrie Sultan, Corcoran) Contemporary Artists Center All Media Exhibition, CAC; North Adams, Maine (Juror: Claire Bell, Guggenheim) Magnum Opus VII International Open Exhibition, Sacramento Fine Arts Center Expo XIII, Northport/B.J. Spoke Gallery Juried Competition, (three person), Huntington, NY TriState Plus Annual Juried Fine Art Exhibition, Beaumont Art League; Beaumont
Photographic Studies
Master Workshop: Duane Michals, Santa Fe Workshops, 1999 The Project Workshop: Sam Abell, Santa Fe Workshops. 1998 Toscana Photographic Workshops: Chris Rainier and Mark Haven, 1996; Keith Carter, 2000 Alternative Non Darkroom Processes: Marilyn Sward, Southwest Craft Center, 1996 Oaxaco Workshop: John Szarkowski, Geoff Winningham & Debbie Fleming Caffrey, 1994 Discovering the Intuitive: Larry Fink, Santa Fe Workshops, 1995 The Handmade Photograph: Elizabeth Opalinek, Maine Photographic Workshops, 1993 Advanced Darkroom Workshop: Joe Englander, 1993
Organizations
Texas Photographic Society, board member Women & Their Work, board member 2000 - 2004 Reviews Ò...subdued color prints offer intriguing glimpses into domesticity, time, tradition, and the sense of place. Calfee records the interiors of homes where the residents have lived for more than 50 years. The result, haunting and evocative color photographs, possess a monumentality and dignity that derive from the beautiful order and timelessness of these intimate interiors. Injections of humor are also present and recorded (such as the looming steer horns placed over a bedroom bureau), which are also aided by the artist's piquant titles. ~Catherine D. Anspon: ÒFotofest in the Galleries: Ten of NoteÓ Public News, March 4, 1998
ÒLaura Calfee's literary evocation of a ghost ridden, memory filled home depends on light and color to fill the viewer with a sense of palpable unease.Ó
~Barbara Head Millstein, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Curator of 24/7Waking Breaking Making Center for Photography at Woodstock, April 2000
ÒThe interplay of light and shadow is important in Laura Pickett Calfee's deceptively simple photographs, where everyday thingsÑwindows, sinks, mirrorsÑtake on a lyrical quality.Ó
~Elizabeth Wix: ÒProvocative and Lyrical MeditationsÓ Newsday, March 18, 1994
Ò ...Laura Pickett Calfee's color photographs picture a serene, harmonious world. Diffused light reflecting off well-worn surfaces, whether in rural Texas or urban New York, gives her compositions the timelessness of Shaker interiors.Ó
~ Helen A. Harrison: ÒDepicting Passion, in Its Many Guises and GarbsÓ The New York Times, March 20, 1994
