JONATHAN PAZER
Poetry, Art & Abstract Photography
www.pazer.com
Biography
Jonathan Pazer is a poet, artist and abstract photographer. He is a graduate of Syracuse University, with an MS in Education and a law degree from Union University’s Albany Law School. He began to show his photography in 2011 in New York’s Hudson Valley. He was a founding member in 2012 and then chairman of the Gardiner, New York, Artists’ Open Studio Tour. He showed his abstract photographs and his ekphrastic poetry on the tour until 2018.
In 2015 he became a founding artist and member on the Board of Directors of Roost Studios, Inc., a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit community art space, gallery and gift shop in the village of New Paltz, NY. Roost Studios Gallery showcased contemporary work of Hudson Valley artists, as well as providing space for: Calling All Poets, Tai Chi, Tango, and kids programs. His solo ekphrasis show at Roost, in 2016, during The Year of the Poem, included more than fifteen of his abstract images, displayed alongside a poem written for each. This show coincided with the release of his self-published book, Seven Dimensions of the Unseen, which documented the show’s images and their accompanying poems.
Jonathan became a member of CAPS, Calling All Poets, a Hudson Valley poetry organization that was hosted at Roost. He was later invited to contribute poems and images to Ekphrasis 2017 (Volume 1), a poetry collection published by CAPS.
In the Fall of 2018 Jonathan and his wife, Andrea McFarland, also an artist, moved from New York to Mendocino, California. They are both artist members of the Mendocino Art Center and have participated in various member and juried shows there.
In November 2019, Jonathan had his first West Coast solo show at Mendocino Art Center (Exhibition Info) (MAC), where he exhibited both older images and poems, and a new series of digital pin-hole camera images taken in and around Mendocino and Fort Bragg. These new images were a unique combination of Jonathan’s long standing interests in origami and photography and were created with a hybrid pin-hole/digital camera, which he had designed and constructed himself. The MAC show featured these new images that were each accompanied by a new poem.
Following the success of his solo show at the MAC, in March of 2020, Jonathan was offered an opportunity to join the Mendocino Coast Photographers' Gallery in Fort Bragg, CA. If you visit the gallery you can see his latest photos, his driftwood and wire sculptures, and his current poetry book. He is presently in the draft stage of his second poetry and photography collection, which will feature images of the Mendocino coastline and poetry from the MAC show along with other images and new poems.
Before practicing the creative arts full-time, Jonathan practiced law and was a partner at Pazer, Epstein & Jaffe, a New York City law firm.
Recent Exhibition Highlights
Since 2011, he has been showing his abstract photography images and later his poetry, in and around the Hudson Valley, until November 2018, when he relocated with his wife to the Mendocino area.
2021
YEAR ROUND: Mendocino Coast Photographers' Gallery in Fort Bragg, CA. He is showing his most recent work along with older images. His poetry book, Seven Dimensions of the Unseen: poetry and abstract photography of constructed lightscapes, is available at the gallery and also in paperback on Amazon.com. It presents the images and poems of his solo ekphrasis show at Roost Gallery in 2016. Also at the MCPG gallery are his driftwood and wire sculptures.
APRIL 2021: Selected as a responding writer for Ekphrasis 2021 an annual collaboration event between the Writers of the Mendocino Coast and the Artists' Co-op of Mendocino, Gallery of Traditional and Contemporary Fine Arts. This collaborative effort by these local powerhouse groups, seeks to marry stories and poems to paintings and sculptures. Art exhibition and poetry readings are expected to be scheduled for Oct. 21, 2021.
2020
MARCH 2020: Invited to join the Mendocino Coast Photographers' Gallery in Fort Bragg, CA, as an exhibiting photographer.
2019
NOVEMBER 2019: Mendocino Art Center (MAC), his first West Coast exhibition titled: Seven Dimensions of the Unseen and New Work, this show presented both older images and poems, and a new series of digital pin-hole camera images taken in and around Mendocino and Fort Bragg. These new images were a unique combination of his long standing interests in origami and photography and were created with a hybrid pin-hole/digital camera, which designed and constructed. The MAC show featured these new images that were each accompanied by a new poem.
MAY 2019: His digital photo collage image: “Sometimes when I lose my way, I find what I’m looking for," was selected for the garden-themed, Members’ Juried Exhibition in May 2019 at the Mendocino Art Center, where it sold.
2018
YEAR ROUND: Roost Studios Gallery, New Paltz, NY. He participated in various member shows from 2016 until November 2018.
APRIL 2018: After being chosen to be a responding poet, his poem “The Other Side,” was selected as part of a juried ekphrasis reading and painting exhibition, Art & Words: An Exhibition of Art & Poetry Inspiring One Another at Emerge Gallery, in Saugerties, NY. April 7 - April 30.
MAY 2018: Gardiner Open Studio Tour - Showing his new Images and poetry.
2017
YEAR ROUND: Roost Studios Gallery, New Paltz, NY. He participated in various member shows from 2016 until November 2018.
JANUARY 2017: Calling All Poets, selected two of his poems and their accompanying images to be included in a poetry and image anthology: Ekphrasis 2017 (Volume 1), Edited by Marcy Bernstein & Greg Correll.
MAY 2017: Gardiner Open Studio Tour, Spring 2017. May 7th - 8th, Gardiner, NY www.GOSTartists.org
2016
YEAR ROUND: Roost Studios Gallery, New Paltz, NY. He participated in various member shows from 2016 until November 2018.
OCTOBER 2016: His first book, Seven Dimensions of the Unseen: poetry and abstract photography of constructed lightscapes, debuted at his Roost Gallery exhibition and became available on Amazon.com. It presents the images and poems of his solo ekphrasis show at Roost Gallery in 2016.
OCTOBER 2016: His solo show, Seven Dimensions of the Unseen, opened at Roost Gallery in New Paltz, Oct. 1st, 2016 and featured all the images from his book, with the accompanying poems, plus a few more..
NOVEMBER 2016: Two-Thousand-Sixteen was the Year of the Poem. he participated in poetry reading with "Calling All Poets " of his recently released book, Seven Dimensions of the Unseen.
GARDINER OPEN STUDIO TOUR
2012 - 2018: Gardiner Open Studio Tour - He is a past chairman and founding member of the Gardiner Open Studio Tour where he showed his work with GOST from 2012 thru 2018. He was Chairman of this arts group from 2013 through the Spring 2016 tour. He is very proud of the work that GOST did to put a spotlight on the extraordinary density of talented artists in Gardiner, NY.
GOST members, with ongoing support of many local businesses, put together an outstanding open studio tour to give the public an opportunity to visit local artists in their studios each year. In addition, GOST also organized many other showings of members’ work throughout the year at local venues. GOST members also participated in community fundraising with the donation of artist works for charity auctions. The tour succeeded year after year in bringing local artists together with the greater Gardiner, and New Paltz community, and drew arts tourists to Gardiner from far and wide, adding to the reputation of his town as home to many excellent and community engaged artists.
For more information about the Gardiner Open Studio Tour, Member Artists, and for Maps and an Artist Guide to the tour: https://www.gardineropenstudiotour.com
HONORS
OCT 2013 RHCAN - Red Hook Community Art Network Gallery, Red Hook NY.
- Juried Group Show (Jeff Jacobson, jur.), PhotoGRAPHY 2013. Honorable Mention Award given to ‘Roadside Attractions.’ (Gallery closed ~ 2016)
"Open Sundays", a 30” square digital collage was chosen as the advertising piece used in the advertising press kit for the New Directions 2014 show, an international juried show at the Barrett House Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY.
Poetry, Art & Abstract Photography
www.pazer.com
Biography
Jonathan Pazer is a poet, artist and abstract photographer. He is a graduate of Syracuse University, with an MS in Education and a law degree from Union University’s Albany Law School. He began to show his photography in 2011 in New York’s Hudson Valley. He was a founding member in 2012 and then chairman of the Gardiner, New York, Artists’ Open Studio Tour. He showed his abstract photographs and his ekphrastic poetry on the tour until 2018.
In 2015 he became a founding artist and member on the Board of Directors of Roost Studios, Inc., a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit community art space, gallery and gift shop in the village of New Paltz, NY. Roost Studios Gallery showcased contemporary work of Hudson Valley artists, as well as providing space for: Calling All Poets, Tai Chi, Tango, and kids programs. His solo ekphrasis show at Roost, in 2016, during The Year of the Poem, included more than fifteen of his abstract images, displayed alongside a poem written for each. This show coincided with the release of his self-published book, Seven Dimensions of the Unseen, which documented the show’s images and their accompanying poems.
Jonathan became a member of CAPS, Calling All Poets, a Hudson Valley poetry organization that was hosted at Roost. He was later invited to contribute poems and images to Ekphrasis 2017 (Volume 1), a poetry collection published by CAPS.
In the Fall of 2018 Jonathan and his wife, Andrea McFarland, also an artist, moved from New York to Mendocino, California. They are both artist members of the Mendocino Art Center and have participated in various member and juried shows there.
In November 2019, Jonathan had his first West Coast solo show at Mendocino Art Center (Exhibition Info) (MAC), where he exhibited both older images and poems, and a new series of digital pin-hole camera images taken in and around Mendocino and Fort Bragg. These new images were a unique combination of Jonathan’s long standing interests in origami and photography and were created with a hybrid pin-hole/digital camera, which he had designed and constructed himself. The MAC show featured these new images that were each accompanied by a new poem.
Following the success of his solo show at the MAC, in March of 2020, Jonathan was offered an opportunity to join the Mendocino Coast Photographers' Gallery in Fort Bragg, CA. If you visit the gallery you can see his latest photos, his driftwood and wire sculptures, and his current poetry book. He is presently in the draft stage of his second poetry and photography collection, which will feature images of the Mendocino coastline and poetry from the MAC show along with other images and new poems.
Before practicing the creative arts full-time, Jonathan practiced law and was a partner at Pazer, Epstein & Jaffe, a New York City law firm.
Recent Exhibition Highlights
Since 2011, he has been showing his abstract photography images and later his poetry, in and around the Hudson Valley, until November 2018, when he relocated with his wife to the Mendocino area.
2021
YEAR ROUND: Mendocino Coast Photographers' Gallery in Fort Bragg, CA. He is showing his most recent work along with older images. His poetry book, Seven Dimensions of the Unseen: poetry and abstract photography of constructed lightscapes, is available at the gallery and also in paperback on Amazon.com. It presents the images and poems of his solo ekphrasis show at Roost Gallery in 2016. Also at the MCPG gallery are his driftwood and wire sculptures.
APRIL 2021: Selected as a responding writer for Ekphrasis 2021 an annual collaboration event between the Writers of the Mendocino Coast and the Artists' Co-op of Mendocino, Gallery of Traditional and Contemporary Fine Arts. This collaborative effort by these local powerhouse groups, seeks to marry stories and poems to paintings and sculptures. Art exhibition and poetry readings are expected to be scheduled for Oct. 21, 2021.
2020
MARCH 2020: Invited to join the Mendocino Coast Photographers' Gallery in Fort Bragg, CA, as an exhibiting photographer.
2019
NOVEMBER 2019: Mendocino Art Center (MAC), his first West Coast exhibition titled: Seven Dimensions of the Unseen and New Work, this show presented both older images and poems, and a new series of digital pin-hole camera images taken in and around Mendocino and Fort Bragg. These new images were a unique combination of his long standing interests in origami and photography and were created with a hybrid pin-hole/digital camera, which designed and constructed. The MAC show featured these new images that were each accompanied by a new poem.
MAY 2019: His digital photo collage image: “Sometimes when I lose my way, I find what I’m looking for," was selected for the garden-themed, Members’ Juried Exhibition in May 2019 at the Mendocino Art Center, where it sold.
2018
YEAR ROUND: Roost Studios Gallery, New Paltz, NY. He participated in various member shows from 2016 until November 2018.
APRIL 2018: After being chosen to be a responding poet, his poem “The Other Side,” was selected as part of a juried ekphrasis reading and painting exhibition, Art & Words: An Exhibition of Art & Poetry Inspiring One Another at Emerge Gallery, in Saugerties, NY. April 7 - April 30.
MAY 2018: Gardiner Open Studio Tour - Showing his new Images and poetry.
2017
YEAR ROUND: Roost Studios Gallery, New Paltz, NY. He participated in various member shows from 2016 until November 2018.
JANUARY 2017: Calling All Poets, selected two of his poems and their accompanying images to be included in a poetry and image anthology: Ekphrasis 2017 (Volume 1), Edited by Marcy Bernstein & Greg Correll.
MAY 2017: Gardiner Open Studio Tour, Spring 2017. May 7th - 8th, Gardiner, NY www.GOSTartists.org
2016
YEAR ROUND: Roost Studios Gallery, New Paltz, NY. He participated in various member shows from 2016 until November 2018.
OCTOBER 2016: His first book, Seven Dimensions of the Unseen: poetry and abstract photography of constructed lightscapes, debuted at his Roost Gallery exhibition and became available on Amazon.com. It presents the images and poems of his solo ekphrasis show at Roost Gallery in 2016.
OCTOBER 2016: His solo show, Seven Dimensions of the Unseen, opened at Roost Gallery in New Paltz, Oct. 1st, 2016 and featured all the images from his book, with the accompanying poems, plus a few more..
NOVEMBER 2016: Two-Thousand-Sixteen was the Year of the Poem. he participated in poetry reading with "Calling All Poets " of his recently released book, Seven Dimensions of the Unseen.
GARDINER OPEN STUDIO TOUR
2012 - 2018: Gardiner Open Studio Tour - He is a past chairman and founding member of the Gardiner Open Studio Tour where he showed his work with GOST from 2012 thru 2018. He was Chairman of this arts group from 2013 through the Spring 2016 tour. He is very proud of the work that GOST did to put a spotlight on the extraordinary density of talented artists in Gardiner, NY.
GOST members, with ongoing support of many local businesses, put together an outstanding open studio tour to give the public an opportunity to visit local artists in their studios each year. In addition, GOST also organized many other showings of members’ work throughout the year at local venues. GOST members also participated in community fundraising with the donation of artist works for charity auctions. The tour succeeded year after year in bringing local artists together with the greater Gardiner, and New Paltz community, and drew arts tourists to Gardiner from far and wide, adding to the reputation of his town as home to many excellent and community engaged artists.
For more information about the Gardiner Open Studio Tour, Member Artists, and for Maps and an Artist Guide to the tour: https://www.gardineropenstudiotour.com
HONORS
OCT 2013 RHCAN - Red Hook Community Art Network Gallery, Red Hook NY.
- Juried Group Show (Jeff Jacobson, jur.), PhotoGRAPHY 2013. Honorable Mention Award given to ‘Roadside Attractions.’ (Gallery closed ~ 2016)
"Open Sundays", a 30” square digital collage was chosen as the advertising piece used in the advertising press kit for the New Directions 2014 show, an international juried show at the Barrett House Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY.
