I am pleased to announce my upcoming inclusion in Obscura Gallery’s winter show “Small Works.” Included in the show will be pieces from my Gravity, Going in Circles, and Was im Licht series.
Obscura Gallery is located in the Canyon Road Art District of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
The exhibition runs from November 30, 2024 through January 11, 2025.
An opening reception will be held Saturday, November 30.
With great pleasure I am announcing my upcoming presentation as part of the PhotoAlliance Fall Lecture Series. I will be discussing the reoccurring themes and concepts which have appeared in my work throughout my career.
I will be the opening speaker followed by local experimental photographer Klea McKenna.
The event takes place on Sunday, September 15, 2024 at 6pm in the Bayfront Theatre at the Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture in San Francisco.
For more information and to purchase tickets go to:
https://www.photoalliance.org/2024-sept-klea-mckenna-and-max-kellenberger
Niniane and I are delighted to have been invited by Ann Jastrab of CPA to give an online talk on Tuesday, August 6 at 4pm PST.
Niniane and I have been working together for the last nine years and together we have solved many challenges in the darkroom and the studio.
https://www.photography.org/events/online-artist-talk-max-kellenberger-and-niniane-kelley
I have donated a print from my Gravity series to the FotoFest Fine Print Auction, which will be held in Houston, Texas this March. I’m looking forward to once again attending this year’s gala at The Hangar at Silver Street Studios.
Visit the FotoFest website for information on how to attend and to see all of the beautiful work available in this year’s auction.
Gravity #8, 2018 Toned 8x10 Gelatin Siver Print
Fine Print Auction Preview
Saturday, March 10–19 | 9 AM–5 PM
Director's Tour and Talk
Thursday, March 14 | 12 PM
Artist Reception: Biennial 2024 Fine Print Auction
Thursday, March 14 | 6–8 PM
Live Auction and Gala
Thursday, March 21 | 6–10 PM
6 PM Reception with donating artists
7 PM | Dinner and Auction
I am thrilled to have a selection of work from my "Gravity" series showcased in Critica volume 5: Visible and Invisible.
Critica is an inclusive and transdisciplinary publishing platform that focuses on offering a reflective and aesthetic space to consider complex social and cultural issues through a psychoanalytic and creative lens.
My feature can be seen on their website critica.press
I am very excited to be in a two-person show put on by Cordon|Potts at the Chung 24 Gallery in San Francisco with Jacqueline Walters. On display will be work made on traditional gelatin silver paper but produced without cameras or lenses.
I will be showing unique 20x24 inch toned photograms first displayed at my solo show at Corden|Potts in 2019 alongside brand new three-dimensional collaged pieces made from toned silver prints, continuing my exploration of utilizing circular shapes in my work. More images from Going in Circles can be seen on my website.
Untitled (1/6/2024) from the series Going In Circles.
8x10 collage of toned gelatin silver prints floated in custom frame.
The exhibition will be on display January 25 through February 24, 2024.
Opening reception is Saturday, January 27 from 3-5 pm
On Saturday, February 24 there will be an artist’s talk from 3-4 pm, followed by a closing reception until 6 pm.
Chung 24 Gallery is located at 4071 24th St, San Francisco in the Noe Valley neighborhood. Open hours Wednesday through Saturday from 12-6 pm.
I am very excited to announce that my short film “Cutting” has been accepted into the de Young Museum’s triennial exhibition for Bay Area artists.
The exhibition will be on display at the de Young Museum in San Francisco September 30, 2023–January 7, 2024
During the opening reception on September 30 there will be a special screening of all video art in the Koret Auditorium. Opening day will also feature live music, workshops, and much more.
Visit the FAMSF website for more information.
In support of two amazing Northern California photo institutions I have donated two of my photographic prints to their annual fundraising auctions.
On display right now at the Center for Photographic Arts in Carmel is a 4.5 inch toned silver gelatin print from my Corner series. The exhibition will be up through September 28, and bidding is open online through iGavel Auctions.
Coming up on September 16th is the opening of the SF Camerawork exhibition for their auction. I have donated a silver gelatin print, “Abstracts” from the series Was im Licht erscheint. The auction will take place at the Camerawork gallery in Fort Mason on Saturday, September 30.
2022 is almost over and though I haven’t posted an update in a while that doesn’t mean that I haven’t been busy. Here is a quick overview of what I’ve been up to the last six months…
In July I attended a Carbon Transfer Printing workshop with Don Nelson (top left, below), held at the Photographer’s Formulary in beautiful rural Montana.
It was an amazing five days learning about this challenging darkroom technique and getting to know the other talented photographers in the class. I hope to continue to experiment with the carbon printing process in the new year.
September and October were busy months! First I attended the Fotofest portfolio review in Houston, Texas, and then I was in two exhibitions on two separate continents.
Fotofest is an amazing opportunity to present my work to dozens of industry professionals as well as being able to meet other inspiring photographers from around the world. I was thrilled to have my photogravure print “Eucalyptus” selected for inclusion in the benefit auction and I was happy to see that it sold for well over the projected price.
“THE LAND AND THAT WHICH LIVES ON IT: CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE CURIOUS NATURE OF OUR PLANET” at the Fitton Center for Creative Arts in Ohio was part of the FotoFocus Biennial 2002. This show, curated by Kent Krugh, brought together work by nine contemporary photographers working with concepts of landscape and nature. Included in the exhibition were three of my chine-collé photogravure prints.
Next up was “DESSIN” at the KUNSTRAUMhochdorf gallery in Switzerland, where they presented my video work as well as gelatin silver prints resulting from the “Scratched” video-making process. I was thrilled to be able to make a visit back to my home country and attend the opening with my brother and his wife.
Lastly, I was excited to see my photographs of the jazz quartet Om in the cover story on the 50th anniversary of the band in the Swiss magazine Jazz’N‘More. I had first photographed them in 1978 when I was just 22, and then I recently had the opportunity to recreate the photograph with the group in the fall of 2021.
Preludium (left) and Fugue (right) BWV 847 - Laptop showing the video of the process of making this work
Currently on view at Rick Wester Fine is a group show co-curated by Mary Shah and Rick Wester titled: Love Devotion Surrender Dedication
I am pleased to be represented with two very recent works. They are 11x14” silver gelatin contact prints of abstract drawings made by scratching on pieces of plexiglass. Also on display is a video showing the process of the creation. Both pieces were inspired by a preludium and a fugue taken from J.S. Bach’s “Welltempered Piano”
The show is up through September 11, 2021. For more information go to:
A few days ago Photomonitor published this wonderful essay about my “Gravity” series. It is written by Christin Paige Minotte with whom I worked together on a project in 2010. Christin has since then moved to Florida where she is working both as a commercial and fine art photographer. And as it turned out she is a fabulous writer, too! Thank you Christin! I I also owe a big thank you to Frazier King who I first met at Fotofest review in 2018. He connected me with Christiane Monarchi of Photomonitor and so my last big thank you goes to her and Photomonitor!
To read the essay go to:
https://photomonitor.co.uk/essay/kellenberger_minnotte/
To visit more of Christin’s work:
I am pleased to announce that I have one of my prints in the upcoming CPAC annual print auction. Rick Wester of Rick Wester Fine Art - https://www.rickwesterfineart.com - connected me with CPAC. Samantha Johnston and Wendy Schneider picked “Old Car, San Francisco, 1998” a toned silver gelatin print for the auction. Online bidding starts on April 20, 2021
I hope the auction will do super well and help the Center to keep all the wonderful work going!
I am thrilled to have one of my prints in this year’s annual SFCamerawork auction “See How Beautiful I Am”.
After some consideration with Rick Wester, the representing gallery in New York, we decided to donate my Untitled #10, from “Gravity” , Toned Silver Gelatin Print, 2018.
Please take a look at the incredible artwork which is available. SFCamerawork has been an avid advocate for the arts and social issues. Thank you SFCamerawork and good luck!
This time of being locked down has given me the opportunity to start on a project which has been on my mind for a while:
DARK CLOUDS
I am seeing clouds on the horizon, above me, behind me. Dark clouds. Heavy, ominous. Not the hopeful ones, the heroic after-the-storm kind. The ones that are beyond knowing what they are holding. And then I see cities. Black silhouettes against the clouds. Man made.
This is work in progress. Film based, all toned silver gelatin prints. The blue cloud is a cyanotype. The panorama is the sketch for a mural sized print which hopefully I will get to make sometime this year.
Versunkene Stadt - Sunken City
The three small prints are one of a kind objects, stages in a box frame. With an object placed mounted hovering above the print. Depth adds another dimension.
Grosser Sandsturm mit Blauer Wolke - Great Sandsturm with Blue Cloud
Dunkle Stadt mit Vollmond - Dark City with Full Moon
Raumschiff im Abendhimmel - Spaceship in Evening Sky
Ende der Milchstrasse - End of the Milky Way
Katastrophe bei ruhiger See - Catastrophe in calm Waters
Holding “Spaceship in Evening Sky” • Framed 10”x12” 3D Object/Gelatin Silver Print
This year I have donated a cyanotype print from my Le Scarpe series to the FotoFest Fine Print Auction, which will be held in Houston, Texas this March.
Visit the FotoFest website for information on how to attend and to see all of the beautiful work available in this year’s auction.
POP-UP PREVIEW
February 8 - March 1, 2020Tue-Sat / 10am-5pm
4411 Montrose Blvd, Suite F
COCKTAIL RECEPTION
Saturday, February 8, 2020 / 6-8pm
4411 Montrose Blvd, Suite F
DIRECTOR'S TALK AND TOUR
Saturday, February 22, 2020 / 11am
4411 Montrose Blvd, Suite F
WHITEHALL PREVIEW
March 10-11, 2020 / 11am-5pm
The Whitehall Houston Hotel
LIVE AUCTION AND GALA
March 12, 2020 / 6pm
The Whitehall Houston Hotel
I am pleased to share that three images from the series Le Scarpe will be included in an exciting show of contemporary cyanotype work at the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, Ca.
Exhibition on view February 29–April 5, 2020
Opening Reception February 29, 5–7pm
This coming weekend I will participating in a pop-up group photography show at Dickerman Prints as part of ArtSpan’s Open Studio weekend. I will be showing some new unseen work along with a few recent favorites.
Opening Night Reception
November 1
6:00 - 9:00pm
ArtSpan Open Studios
November 2 - 3
11:00am - 5:00pm
Dickerman Prints
1141 Howard St, San Francisco
This summer I was pleased to participate in a group exhibition at the wonderful Bildhalle Gallery in Zurich, Switzerland. For their show Seaside they displayed three gelatin silver prints from my series Was im Licht erscheint.
Once again I’ve donated a photograph, Gravity #2, to support SF Camerawork for their 40th annual fundraising auction. The auction took place on September 21, 2019, and it was their most successful to date. I’m happy to say hat my photograph found a wonderful new home.
Gravity #2. Toned Gelatin Silver Contact Print.
SF Camerawork is an amazing organization which hosts exciting exhibitions and events and is a valuable resource to our photographic community and I am honored to be able to contribute my support to their mission.
I am thrilled to have been working with my assistant Niniane Kelly on this show, and loved to have the opportunity to present images that I’ve been quietly working away on over the last few years. A huge thank you to Liz and Jan at Corden Potts for being so supportive and generous and letting me take over the gallery for this show.
Thank you to everyone who came to the opening reception, and if you missed it we will have another reception on June 6 from 5:30-7:30 pm
You can also view the show during Corden Potts usual hours of Thursday through Saturday 11 am- 5:30 pm.
