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Full Name

Pearl Jones Tranter

Artist Bio

Digital Printmaking/Photography/mini movies

ARTS RESUME
EDUCATION
1970 B.A. Art University of California at Berkeley
1972 M.A. Art University of California at Berkeley [Painting/Sculpture]
1975 M.A. Art San Francisco State University [Printmaking]
1992 MFA Art San Francisco Art Institute [Photography]

AWARDS
1972 First Prize Ms. Magazine National Photo Contest
1980 Fellowship Fulbright Grant, Visual Arts, Italy
2005 Award Juried Photography Show, Vallejo Artist Guild, Vallejo CA
2008 Juror Award AXIS Galleryís 3rd Annual Juried Exhibition, Sacramento CA

GUEST LECTURES
1982 Intermediate Photography class, UC Berkeley Architecture Dept.
2002 The Italian Work, Berkeley Camera Club, Berkeley CA
2004 Digital Fine Art Prints, The McCune Room, JFK Branch, Vallejo Library

ONE PERSON SHOWS
1975 ìCarol Tranter-Recent Worksî UC Art Museum, Berkeley CA
2005 ìPhotography by Pearl Jones Tranter,î Fetterly Gallery Satellite venue, Vallejo CA
2008 ì?Valentines?î Barbie and me at artissimo Gallery, Napa CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2001 ñ 2007
2001-2006
Elder Arts Celebrations 2001-2005: Diego Rivera Gallery, SFAI, SF CA; Yerba Buena Arts Center, SF CA; San Francisco Public Library, SF CA; Off the Preserve, Napa CA;
The de Young Museum, digital fine art print, San Francisco CA
. PRINT and .PRINT2, exhibitions of digital fine art, Laney College Gallery, Oakland CA.
ìWild Women III,î Fetterly Gallery, Vallejo Community Arts Foundation, Vallejo CA
Juried Photography Show, Vallejo Artistís Guild, Vallejo CA, award recipient
Mare Island Views ñ Fetterly Gallery, Vallejo Community Arts Foundation, Vallejo CA
Digital Fine Arts Prints, Heather Miroís Salon Gallery, Taos NM.
2007
Sonoma Valley Museum of Art Biennial 2007, digital fine art print, Sonoma CA
Digital Explorations, fine art prints from BCC*, Fetterly Gallery, Vallejo CA
Chaos, Order, and the Empire State Bldg., 3-person show, Vallejo Artists Guild
2008
BCC Digital Arts Club Prints, Sea Ranch Lodge, Sea Ranch CA
Our Best to You, BCC Digital Arts Club Prints, Au Coquelat, Berkeley CA
Pro Arts Open Studios, BCC Digital Arts Club at Berkeley City College, Berkeley CA
AXIS Gallery, 3rd National Juried Exhibition, Sacramento CA
ìEvery Bit Counts, ì Alameda Museum, Alameda CA
NEW VISIONS, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland CA
THE ART OF DEMOCRACY, final days of G. W. Bush, The Inferno Gallery, Oakland CA
ART AND ARCHITECTURE HOME TOUR 2008, Vallejo Arts Foundation, Vallejo CA
2009
The Urban Forrest, Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum, Vallejo CA
Thinking Big, Gualala Arts, Burnett Gallery, Gualala CA
The Alameda Museum, Alameda CA
The Addison Street Windows, Berkeley CA
Mare Island in Transition, Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum, Vallejo CA

MEDIA: Several of my mini movies can be seen on Vallejoís Community Access Television.

*BCC Berkeley City College.

Artist Statement

HAPPY 50th BIRTHDAY BARBIE
SCANNED ASSEMBLAGE DIGITAL FINE ART PRINTS

ABOUT THE IMAGES

Barbie is the best model to work with. She is just the right height to fit on a digital scanner, with a little adjustment and occasional stitching.. She adapts. She inspires.
She delights. She almost never ìshows her age.î And, she never complains. When attitude is called for, she has it. During my work to show women in history and myth, her willingness to take on any role gave my images a new depth by her presence.

Viva Barbie!

Some of my work involves appropriation of the art of earlier artists, painters; such as,
Frida Kahlo, Bottecelli. Other work involves imagery of Western and Eastern female traditions.

ABOUT THE PROCESS

I make scanned assemblage using a digital scanner as a shallow depth of field
camera to make ìportraitsî of women in myth and reality using dolls to represent
the characters. On occasion, I write stories on these prints, mostly in counterpoint
to the image but occasionally as an exact reference to the image.

Recent work combines images digitally photographed as well as those scanned.
I work toward creating traditional illusions of space on a two dimensional background as
well as ambiguous spacial Illusionary events "fooling the eye" made possible by Photoshop software.

History

Member for

14 years 8 months