Gallery 110

Maylee Noah - Biography, Artist Statement, and Resume

 Biography

Maylee Noah has been pursuing her interest in photography for over 40 years. She received a Certificate in Fine Art Photography from the Photographic Center Northwest in Seattle in 2006.  Prior to that her art and photography education was scattered across classes at University of California in San Diego and University of Arizona while earning degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science.

Maylee’s photographs document her continuing interest in the outdoors, people, and cultures. She has been exhibiting since 1993. Venues include the Photographic Center Northwest in Seattle, the Lynnwood Convention Center in Lynnwood, WA, the Washington Gallery of Photography in Bethesda, MD, and the Richard E. Beasley Gallery in Flagstaff, Arizona. Maylee’s photographs have appeared in The Washington Trails Association Magazine and in The Photo Review.

Artist Statement

Photography is both an excuse and a method for exploring the world around me. Black and white photography allows enough abstraction for me to interpret a scene without removing its veracity. It allows me to share something of a place and of myself at the same time: to create a visual artifact of an experience. 

I work primarily with 35mm film and print in a conventional darkroom and occasionally with digital medium. Travel and outdoor activities provide most of my subjects. I like to find the romantic aspects of landscape and architecture but believe that the most interesting and unique photographs are images of people. 

Resume

MAYLEE NOAH        

BORN             November 1949

EDUCATION

1999-2006     Certificate in Fine Art Photography, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, Washington.

1974-1981     Master of Science in Computer Science, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.

1967-1971     Bachelor of Arts, University of California, San Diego.

SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2009             Vida Mirada: Photographs of Oaxaca, Gallery 110, Seattle.

2009             Tiger & Si, City Hall Gallery, Auburn, WA.

2009             Souvenir, Gallery 110, Seattle.

2008             Evergreen State of Mind, Gallery 110, Seattle.

2007             Tiger & Si: Environmental Portraits, Lynnwood Convention Center, Lynnwood, WA.

2006             Tiger & Si: Environmental Portraits, Thesis Exhibition, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle.

2004             Esprit des Lieux, Berlitz Language Center, Bellevue, WA.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009             Touch, Columbia City Gallery, Seattle.

2009             Glimpses in Time, Joyce Gordon Gallery, Oakland, CA.

2009             New Works Online, Silver Eye Center for Photography, http://www.silvereye.org/.

2009             Eleventh Annual Juried Krappy Kamera Competition Exhibition, Soho Photo Gallery, New York.

2009             At the Cellular Level, Brandt Gallery, Cleveland, OH.

2008             Midnight Oils, Mills Pond House Gallery, St. James, NY.

2008             Members 2: Returning Gallery Artists, Gallery 110, Seattle.

2008             The World Around Us, Gallery at the Shoreline Center, Shoreline, WA.

2007             13^th Annual Juried Photography Competition, Texas Artists Museum, Port Arthur, TX.

2007             Spectra ‘07 National Photography Triennial, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT. Curator: Peter MacGill.

2007             Demographic Tapestry: Strands of our Culture, Sammamish City Hall, Sammamish, WA. Curator: Dianne Elliot.

2007             Nature in the Balance, Museum of History and Industry, Seattle. Curator: Howard Giske.

2007             Northwest Exposure, National Parks Conservation Association Gallery, Seattle.

2006             Travel, Afar, Washington Gallery of Photography, Bethesda, MD.

2004             Bringing in the Wood, Coleville Arts Foundation Regional Gallery, Coleville, WA.

2004             Ninth Annual Photographic Competition, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle. Curator: Roy Flukinger

2004             La Petite XI, Alder Gallery, Coburg, OR.

2003             Paris Salon Show, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle.

2002             Paris Show / The First Sight, French – European Artistic and Cultural Center of Seattle.

2002             Passport Series / Sense of Place, Norton Building, Seattle. Curator: Margery Aronson.

2001             Take My Picture / Emerging Artists, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2009             Krappy Kamera XI, Soho Photo Gallery, New York, 1/2009.

2009             Washington Trails Association Magazine 1/2009.

2008             Exhibit in Print 2007-2008,Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle,12/2008.