All images are available for purchase as cards and prints on archival paper or aluminum. Please
contact me for sizes, prices and shipping. Also available are metal prints to withstand outdoor conditions.
I paint with my camera. Although I keep current on photography past and present, I am influenced more by painters than by other photographers.
Since childhood I have been intrigued by light, color and patterns. In an effort to capture and create an amalgam of my visions, I first studied art, composition and color theory, and then moved forward into photography and design at colleges in Milwaukee and Chicago. I always came back to photography as the most honest way to capture what I saw. I moved to New Hampshire in 1971 working through the years as a layout artist and copywriter, freelance studio photographer, therapeutic riding instructor and mother. However, I never put down my camera.
Fast forward to the digital age and freedom from the traditional dark room and chemicals. I began again to look into the “secret life” of natural and manmade objects with a slightly different and more humble view. I found patterns at which I have “looked” all my life, but am truly “seeing” now. LIght can add a shadow here or dramatic lighting there in a confounding number of patterns and colors. I find this truly humbling and mysteriously beautiful.
In my photographs I attempt to share my vision of the mystery and beauty around us. I cannot, nor do I want to compete with nature, but simply freeze a special moment. The beauty I find is not limited to nature. Manmade objects and structures possess fascinating angles and colors even in their state of decay. I compose with my camera, altering color as minimally as possible, and occasionally eliminating it because the pattern stands by itself. Playing with size, the way the photos are mounted, printed and framed adds a little question mark...an extra hint of mystery. I hope you enjoy sharing my visions. All photos are printed with archival inks and mounted with acid free materials or printed on metal to provide many years of life.
My photographs are available in many custom sizes. I do all my own matting and framing for prints on paper. Prints are also available unmounted.
Please contact me for information on pricing.
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.” - Albert Einstein
MARY GERAKARIS - CV
Born Milwaukee, Wisconsin 1948
Education
1969/70 Ray Vogue School of Design, photography and graphic design, Chicago, IL
1966/69 University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, fine art major
Solo and Joint Exhibits
2022 Featured Artist solo online exhibit with Artsy Shark, a collection of my abstractions
with narrative.
https://www.artsyshark.com/2022/12/01/featured-artist-mary-gerakaris/
2019 “Borders of Consciousness: Dreaming In Color”, joint exhibit of fiber art by
Shari Wolf Boraz and abstract photography on aluminum by Mary Gerakaris
at AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, NH.
October 11 through November 19, 2019
2018 Life In the Abstract, solo online exhibit by Exhibitions Without Walls,
http://exhibitionswithoutwalls.com/soloexhibitions/life-in-the-abstract/ 2017 Selected Works on Metal and Paper, Local Corporate Office (they wish to remain
anonymous), Lebanon, NH
2016 Selected Works on Paper and Metal, Lake Sunapee Bank, New London, NH
Selected Works on Paper and Metal, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center,
Williamson Building Gallery, Lebanon, NH
Selected Works on Paper and Metal, Norwich Library, Norwich, VT
2015 Works on Paper and Metal, Stella’s Restaurant, Lyme, NH
Collection of Works on Paper and Metal - CREARE center, Etna, NH
2014 Patterns Around Us, Benefit show for High Horses Therapeutic Riding Program
2013 Patterns Around Us, Benefit show for High Horses Therapeutic Riding Program
2012 Abstract and Macro, Stella’s Restaurant, Lyme, NH
Group Exhibits
2023 Letters, Numbers and Symbols, juried show at Praxis Gallery in Minneapolis, MN.
Selected photo, “The Third Rail”.
AVE Holiday Group Exhibit, AVA Gallery and Art Center, Lebanon, NH
2022 AVA Holiday group exhibit, AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, NH
CSA Art Shares, In the spirit of a traditional CSA (Community Supported Agriculture),
the Library Arts Center in Newport, NH swapped out agriculture for artwork for
an innovative CSA (Community Supported Arts) program. Juried selection of 10
photographs.
2021 Selections - 6 abstract photos on aluminum at a juried group exhibit of selected artists
in Newport, NH at the Library Arts Center
2020 ArtEtc - Group exhibit in Northfield, VT
Symmetry - “Squared” shortlisted for online exhibit sponsored by The Motif Collective
2019 Stormy Weather - “Tempête Rouge” shortlisted for online exhibit sponsored by The
Motif Collective
New Visions of Designed Environments - “Bonaire Abstract”, BSA Space, Boston
Society of Architects, 280 Congress Street, Boston, MA
Naturally New England - “Study In White”, “Ascutney View”, “Verdant Morning”,
“Clinging to the Past”, juried exhibit in Sunapee Harbor, NH,
sponsored by Center for the Arts New London, NH
2018 Street - “Perspective” and “Walk This Way”, shortlisted for the online exhibit
sponsored by the Motif Collective.
The Shape of Things - “A Land Faraway”, Juried exhibit at Praxis Gallery,
Minneapolos, MN
Works on metal an paper - New London Hospital, New London, NH
Annual juried exhibit - "The Door", Library Arts Center, Newport, NH
Street Photography - "La Visiteur", shortlisted for the online exhibit sponsored
by The Motif Collection
Black & White, a juried exhibit, - "Botanical Dance", "Saffron" and
"The Sundowners", Library Arts Center, Newport, NH
2017 AVA Gallery Juried Exhibit, "College Street Garage" and "In the Beginning",
AVA Gallery and Art center, Lebanon, NH.
Abstractions, "In the Beginning", online exhibit through Cape Cod Cultural Center,
Cape Cod, MA
CFA Spring Members' Show, "Botanical Dance" and "Faded Glory",
New London Inn, New London, NH
Free For All, "Botanical Dreams On Fire", online group exhibit, Exhibition Without Walls
Camera USA® 2017: National Photography Exhibition and Award,
"Tropical Overlay", Naples Art Association, Naples, FL
2016 CFA Fall Juried Show, "Through the Looking Glass", "Cover #4", New London Inn,
New London, NH
CFA Juried Show, NHAA's Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery, Portsmouth, NH
Juried Show, Library Arts Center, Newport, NH
2015 Juried Members Show, AVA Gallery, Lebanon, NH; juried by Susan Stickler director
of the Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH
Holiday Show - group show AVA Gallery, Lebanon, NH
2014 Online Juried Show, Photographers Forum Magazine/show catalog
All In the Family - works of Mary, Peter and Dimitri Gerakaris, Tavern Club,
Boston, MA
Holiday Show - AVA Gallery, Lebanon, NH
2013 Natural Florida, juried exhibit, Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, Sarasota, FL
CFA Exhibit - group juried show Center for the Arts, New London, NH
Images - group juried photography show at 1650 Gallery in Los Angeles, CA
Workshops and Classes given
2021 Zoom presentation for AVA Gallery and Art Center - an interactive presentation/tutorial
for assisted living complexes and AVA members. Lebanon, NH
2017 Improving Your Photographs - A course on camera settings, how to use them
and basic composition.
Osher study group sponsored by Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
2016 Improving Your Photographs - A course on camera settings, how to use them
and basic composition.
Osher study group sponsored by Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Awards and publications
2021 Shortlisted for Minimalism, “Red and White” - online exhibit by the Motif Collective
Top Class Badge - issued by View Bug <a title="viewbug photo contests"
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Day Dreamer Badge - issued by View Bug <a title="viewbug photo contests"
href="https://www.viewbug.com/photo-contests"><img style="width:200px;"
alt="viewbug photo contests" src="https://www.viewbug.com
/media/images/layout/badges/daydreamer.png"/></a>
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2020 “Fall Award” and “Top Class Award” - Issued by View Bug
<a title="viewbug photo contests" href="https://www.viewbug.com/photo-contests"><img
style="width:200px;" alt="viewbug photo contests"
src="https://www.viewbug.com/media/images/layout/badges/top_class.png"/></a>
2019 Shortlisted “The Third Rail” - Minimalism an online exhibit sponsored by
LensCulture Exposure Photography Awards
Award of Excellence, “Caribbean Sunset”, Art That Lifts the Spirit online exhibit
sponsored by Manhattan Arts International
2018 Award of Excellence, "Clinging To the Past", New Beginnings online exhibit
sponsored by Manhattan Arts International
2017 Daily UV Interview - https://dailyuv.com/news/914404
Finalist "Yawkey Way", Shadows online competition, Motif Collection
Published in "Light - A Journal of Poetry and Photography", issue 2, Dwell,
"Seeing In Black and White"
Published in "Light- A Journal of Poetry and Photography", issue 3, Solitude,
"Fog's Necklace"
2016 Best in Show "Cover #4", Center For the Arts Fall juried show, New London Inn,
New London, NH
Finalist "Botanical Dreams in Red", Exhibition Without Walls online exhibit
2012 Second Place, "Pine Island Sunrise", Marie Selby Botanical Gardens juried exhibit,
Sarasota, FL