Clickers & Flickers Photography Network: Jeff Charbonneau and Eliza French: “Conspiring in the Realm of Imagination”

CONSPIRING IN THE REALM OF IMAGINATION
Presented By: JEFF CHARBONNEAU & ELIZA FRENCH * Date: April 27, 2010 (Tuesday) * Time: 6:30 - 10 p.m. * Location: The Castaway, 1250 Harvard Road, Burbank, CA 91501 MAP * Reservations: (626) 794-7447 (Required at least 5 days prior to the event)
Jeff Charbonneau and Eliza French have been working together since a mutual interest in the photographic medium brought them together. They have been collaborating to create fantasy-based images since 2004. Their performance-based images are created through a partnership from conception to finish and have been featured in two solo shows at Robert Berman Gallery as well as numerous group shows, international art fairs, and a museum exhibition currently traveling in the United States. Jeff Charbonneau is a masterful printer working in traditional black and white darkroom technique. He attended the University of Wisconsin and UCLA for graduate studies where he studied music, anthropology and photography. He has divided his time between the motion picture & television industry and photography for twenty years. He has won several Emmy Awards for his work in television and has been featured in fine art gallery and museum exhibitions. Having spent many years learning traditional film based photographic methods, he prefers engaging in the “dance with light” in the darkroom over the computer monitor. Eliza French is a native of San Diego, California and was influenced early on by art exhibitions at the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park and the Museum of Contemporary Art in La Jolla which she visited often as an adolescent. After attending NYU for both art history and screenwriting at Tisch School of the Arts, she earned a degree in Art History from UCLA and remained in Los Angles to work in television production a the Jim Henson Company. In 2003 she returned to UCLA to learn traditional photographic and wet darkroom technique. Shortly thereafter she became the Associate Director of RoseGallery in Santa Monica, an internationally recognized gallery of photography. Here she worked intimately with artists such as Graciela Iturbide, Chris Killip, Lise Sarfati, Todd Hido, Martin Parr and many others whose work became a major inspiration to her own pursuits. In 2008 she became a full-time artist in collaboration with her partner. The artists are currently represented by Robert Berman Gallery at Bergamot Station, Santa Monica.
RESERVATIONS AND PAYMENT REQUIRED IN ADVANCE C&F members: $49 at least (5) days in advance. $55 less than 5 days prior to the event. Non members: $59 at least (5) days in advance. $65 at the door, only if space is available.