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Racing Time, 2019
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Catherine Panebianco is an artist whose work longs for a sense of place, catches hold of memories, and chases the sprits of those we currently love, and those that continue surround us from our past. Her work explores how we connect with others, with our past, and with ourselves.
Panebianco received the 2020 LensCulture Critics Choice Top Ten Award, 2020 CENTER’s Project Launch Award and was a 2019 Photolucida’s Critical Mass Top 50. The series also won 1st place in the International Photography Awards for Fine Art, was a finalist for the National Photography Awards for the Texas Photographic Society & a San Francisco Bay International Photography Competition Portfolio Award. Her work has been exhibited widely in the U.S. in: Griffin Museum of Photography, Soho Photo Gallery and the Center for Fine Art Photography. She has been featured in D Republica, The Guardian and B + W Magazine. |
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No Memory is Every Alone series is printed at 12" x 12" on Hahnemuhle Fine Arts Bayrta, $450 per limited edition prints. For sales or matt and framed prints please contact Catherine at cjpanebianco@stny.rr.com for interest.
Reflective Recollection, 2018
"NO MEMORY IS EVER ALONE is a visual conversation between me and my dad. Every Christmas, he used to bring out a box of slides that he photographed in his late teens and early 20s and made us view them on an old projector on our living room wall telling the same stories every year. It was a consistent memory from a childhood where we moved a lot and I never felt like I had a steady “place” to live and create memories.
I realized that by holding the slides in my current landscape, I created not only a connection between his life and mine, but a trail of memories, each that had its own association for both of us. A lot of these slides are of my mom, they were together almost 60 years. She passed away and I feel like her spirit, and all the spirits of the past, are constantly around us. These little vignettes of family life in my current “space” comforts me that she and others are still near, watching over me. They create a “home” for me wherever I go.
I did not want to Photoshop that connection. Part of the process that was necessary for me was to find the right location and physically unite my dad’s slides with how I live today – a place within a place, a memory within a memory. I hope these tiny fragments of my family’s life spark a sliver of recollection in your own mind."
I realized that by holding the slides in my current landscape, I created not only a connection between his life and mine, but a trail of memories, each that had its own association for both of us. A lot of these slides are of my mom, they were together almost 60 years. She passed away and I feel like her spirit, and all the spirits of the past, are constantly around us. These little vignettes of family life in my current “space” comforts me that she and others are still near, watching over me. They create a “home” for me wherever I go.
I did not want to Photoshop that connection. Part of the process that was necessary for me was to find the right location and physically unite my dad’s slides with how I live today – a place within a place, a memory within a memory. I hope these tiny fragments of my family’s life spark a sliver of recollection in your own mind."
Dashed Divinity, 2018
Elegant Eccentric, 2019
Sunday Supper, 2019
“I didn’t want to Photoshop my hand and the slide in,” she reflects. “I wanted that feeling of connection between the past and present.” A bright, country dining room acts as the perfect backlight for a faded, magenta-toned slide of a dinner party; a luminous white snowfall brightens an Ektachrome slide of a similar blanketed setting;." from LensCulture.com
“I didn’t want to Photoshop my hand and the slide in,” she reflects. “I wanted that feeling of connection between the past and present.” A bright, country dining room acts as the perfect backlight for a faded, magenta-toned slide of a dinner party; a luminous white snowfall brightens an Ektachrome slide of a similar blanketed setting;." from LensCulture.com
Uncertain Quest, 2019
Organic Gentlewoman, 2020
Timeless Loyalty, 2019
"The stairs of a house act as the perfect contextual backdrop of an old Kodachrome transparency of a bristly dog". from LensCulture.com
"The stairs of a house act as the perfect contextual backdrop of an old Kodachrome transparency of a bristly dog". from LensCulture.com
Isolated Warmth, 2017
A field Alone, 2017
Reflections of Youth, 2018
Domesticated Domicile, 2020
Suspended Summer, 2019
Debonair Kitsch, 2020
Woodland Stripling, 2019
"The process of exchanging memories and stories through photographs is a ritual that many of us are familiar with. Whether we find ourselves leafing through a box of old photos tucked away for safekeeping, flipping through an album of faces lost but not forgotten, or sifting through orphaned snapshots at a flea market, our engagement inflates flat images with renewed movement, color and energy. For photographer Catherine Panebianco, the Christmas holidays are particularly associated with the act of storytelling through photographs. Her mind holds years worth of memories of her father hauling out his collection of photographic slides, projecting them for the family to see and enjoy, clicking through the illuminated images while he and Panebianco’s mother tell stories reignited by each glowing memory." from LensCulture magazine award winner
Strained Outing, 2020
Strawberry Fields, 2018
Disjointed Devotion, 2017
Freewheeling Filly, 2019
Kindred Tribe, 2020
Blossoming Queen, 2019
Prepared Pubescent, 2020
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Unfettered Future, 2020
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Meditative Musings, 2016
When Panebianco started the project, her mother was still alive, and was very taken by her daughter’s reinterpretations.
“She really loved what I was doing. She gave me the first slide of herself and loved the final image. She passed away about a year and a half ago, so she only saw part of the project,” Panebianco explains. “But through making this work, and seeing that so many of the slides made by my dad were of my mom, was really touching. They were together for 60 years, and this project really makes me feel like she is still here—her spirit is in these images, still in my life. These spirits of our past still surround us in our present life.”
When Panebianco started the project, her mother was still alive, and was very taken by her daughter’s reinterpretations.
“She really loved what I was doing. She gave me the first slide of herself and loved the final image. She passed away about a year and a half ago, so she only saw part of the project,” Panebianco explains. “But through making this work, and seeing that so many of the slides made by my dad were of my mom, was really touching. They were together for 60 years, and this project really makes me feel like she is still here—her spirit is in these images, still in my life. These spirits of our past still surround us in our present life.”
“I think that because of the pandemic, family has become so much more important to people,” she reflects. “We all have photos or old slides within our families, and figuring out a way to activate them in traditions is important. I hope that people feel comforted by the fact that the spirits of their loved ones surround them today as we go about our own lives. They are part of your landscape.” from LensCulture.com
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EXHIBITIONS/AWARDS & PUBLICATIONSAwards & Honors
LensCulture Critics Choice Award • Critics Choice Top 10 • 2020
Project Launch Grant Winner No Memory is Ever Alone • CENTER • Santa Fe, NM • 2020
Finalist • Monochrome Awards • Spirit Walk • 2019
Critical Mass Top 50 • No Memory is Ever Alone Portfolio • Photolucida • Portland, OR • 2019
International Photography Awards • 1st Place Fine Art Category for No Memory is Ever Alone series • Los Angeles, CA • 2019
National Photography Award Finalist • No Memory is Ever Alone series • Texas Photographic Society • Houston, TX • 2019
Gold Award for Meditative Musings from the No Memory is Ever Alone series & Portfolio Award for No Memory is Ever Alone series • San Francisco Bay International Photography Competition • San Francisco, CA • 2019
10th Julie Margaret Cameron Awards • Runner-up & Finalist for Cell Phone Category Series for Benny Was A Good Boy • 2017
Portfolio Competition Benny Was A Good Boy (Semi-finalist) • Soho Photo Gallery • New York, NY• 2017
Critical Mass Finalist • Photolucida • Benny Was A Good Boy • 2016
Honorable Mention Vulnerable • International Mobile Phone Awards • 2016
Solo Exhibition
No Memory is Ever Alone • Octagon Gallery • Westfield, NY • 2021
Benny Was A Good Boy • A Smith Gallery • Johnson City, TX • 2018
Group Exhibitions
Life • Juror: Alyssa Coppelman • Sunday Supper Honorable Mention, Uncertain Quest & Debonair Kitsch • A. Smith Gallery • Johnson City, TX • 2021
Memory • Sunday Supper • Juror: Fran Forman • SE Center for Photography • Greenville, SC • 2021
Texas Photographic Society •TPS 29: The International Competition • Weightless Light • Houston, TX • 2020
Black + White • South x Southeast Photo Gallery • Molena, Georgia • 2020
Black & White 2019 • Juror’s Award for Spirit Walk • PhotoPlace Gallery • Middlebury, VT • 2019
Water • Racing Time from No Memory is Ever Alone • A. Smith Gallery • Johnson City TX • 2019
Self & the Family • Sunday Supper & Elegant Eccentric Juror’s Honorable Mention • The Center for Fine Art Photography • Denver, CO • 2019
Southern Tier Biennial Honorable Mention Award • Sunday Supper from No Memory is Ever Alone • Tri-County Arts Council • Olean, NY • 2019
Erie Art Museum Annual Show • Meditative Musings from No Memory is Ever Alone • Erie, PA • 2019
The Contemporary Portrait • SE Center for Photography • Greenville, SC • 2018
Light • A. Smith Gallery • Johnson City, TX • 2018
Water • PhotoPlace Gallery • Middlebury, VT • 2018
Shades of Black & White • Benny Was A Good Boy #5 • SE Center for Photography • Greenville, SC • 2018
Annual Spring Show • Benny Was A Good Boy #11 • Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA • 2017
Southern Tier Biennial • Stay and Whisper • Olean, NY • 2017
Visual Narratives - From Benny Was a Good Boy Series • The Center for Fine Art Photography • Denver, CO • 2016
Animilia • Lake Lens • A. Smith Gallery • Johnson City, TX • 2016
The Elevated Selfie • Lightbox Photographic Gallery & Griffin Museum of Photography • 2016
Collections
Bryn Larsen • Photo Relevance Gallery • Houston, TX • 2020
Publications
D Magazine la Repubblica • Feature No Memory is Ever Alone • January 2021
The Observer/Guardian • Feature No Memory is Ever Alone • November 2020
PopSugar • Feature No Memory is Ever Alone • 2020
Colossal • Feature No Memory is Ever Alone • 2020
What Will You Remember? • Palimpsest • Domesticated Domicile from No Memory is Ever Alone • 2020
The Guardian • Critics Choice Winners Feature • No Memory is Ever Alone • 2020
LensCulture • Feature No Memory is Ever Alone by Cat Lachowskiyj • 2020
What Will You Remember? • Dog Days • Timeless Loyalty from No Memory is Ever Alone • 2020
Lenscratch Feature • The CENTER Awards: Project Launch Grant Winner • 2020
What Will You Remember? • Elegant Eccentric from No Memory is Ever Alone • 2020
Shadows & Light Magazine • Portfolio Spotlight The Whole Body of Things • April/May 2020
What Will You Remember? • Dog Days • Timeless Loyalty from No Memory is Ever Alone • 2020
Black & White Magazine • Spotlight Feature Benny Was A Good Boy • April 2020
Dodho Magazine • Feature - No Memory is Ever Alone • 2020
Geo Wissen Magazine • Death & Dying • Benny Was A Good Boy • 2019
Geo Wissen Magazine • Human and Animal Edition Nr. 60 • Benny Was A Good Boy • 2017
Feature Shoot - One Photographer's Love Letter to Her Elderly Dog • 2016
Metro News - This Photographer Said Goodbye to Her Dog by Documenting His Final Years • 2016
Teaching Experience
The Best Part of Me Self-Portrait Project - Love Elementary After School Program • 2019
The Best Part of Me Self-Portrait Project - Washington Middle After School Program • 2018
Audubon Community Nature Center – iPhone-o-Graphy, Jamestown, NY • 2015 & 2016
Women Create Salons – Creating a 365 Project & iPhone-o-Graphy, Jamestown, NY • 2014 & 2016
Chautauqua Institution Special Studies Program, IPhone-O-Graphy, Chautauqua, NY
Chautauqua Institution Special Studies Program, Pet Photography Workshop, Chautauqua, NY
Vanguard Grant - Southwestern High School Advanced Photography Workshops, Lakewood, NY
Grants
The Best Part of Me • Tri-County Arts Council Arts in Education Grant • 2018
Dream a Little Dream • Tri-County Arts Council Arts in Education Grant • 2020