Anita Getzler

The earth offers her beauty in grandiose as well as diminutive scale. My photographs are moments of observing what goes unobserved: of honoring that smaller part of the whole. And in its grandeur, that part becomes an abstract world unto itself. My intention is to remove all notions of time, view with clarity, and transcend the materiality of the image in order to honor the harmony of Nature’s grace, beauty and power.

The images meet the viewer dynamically, evoking a sense of compassion and awe as they are reminded of the beauty in the smaller and more immediate parts of the environment. It is my experience that a photograph of a ripple of water can elicit a stronger sense of fragility than an image of a mighty river. By cropping the landscape into smaller gems, viewers often more readily appreciate the vulnerability of nature. They comprehend the complexity of a tiny portion of tree bark and recognize, in an emotional way, that not even a single piece of our natural world should be sacrificed. Through this visceral connection, the viewer’s appreciation of the natural resource is deepened, and in so doing, they become more engaged in preserving it.

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, with honors

University of California Berkeley

Master of Arts, California State University Los Angeles

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2012 Arlee Celebration: Montana Powwow

Chamber Gallery, City Hall, Las Vegas

2011 Elemental

Tecopa Artist Basin Gallery, Tecopa, California

2000 New Works: Photographs by Anita Getzler

Marjorie Barrick Museum, University of Nevada, Las

Vegas

1986 Reflections on Doubtful Sound

Sierra Nevada Museum of Art, Reno

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2012 What those Who Teach Can Do

The Art Institute of Las Vegas Gallery, Henderson

The Year of the Dragon Exhibit

Historic Fifth Street School Gallery, Las Vegas

2008 Goldwell Open Air Museum Artists

The Water Street Gallery, Henderson

2004 Arlee Fourth of July Celebration

University of Montana, Missoula

People’s Center, Pablo, Montana

2002 eight: An Exhibition of eight Las Vegas Photographers

Marjorie Barrick Museum; University of Nevada

2001 REGIONAL VIEW: Seven Western States Artists

College of Southern Idaho, Twin Falls, Idaho

2000 Contemporary Art 2000: 20 years/20 artists

Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, California

1999 F - STOP Gallery, Santa Barbara, California

1998 H20 An Exploration of the Element Water

Smallworks Gallery, Las Vegas, Nevada

1997 Unto Every Person There is a Name

Jean Weinberger Museum of Jewish Culture, Las Vegas

Yosemite Renaissance XII Exhibition

Yosemite, California (traveling exhibition)

1996 Mona, Mona, Mona

Heat, Contemporary Arts Collective, Las Vegas, Nevada

The Dedication Exhibit

Marjorie Barrick Museum of Natural History, Las Vegas

1987 Rebirth

Jones Visitor Center Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno

1986 17th Annual Juried Photography Exhibition

Houston, Texas Juror: Van Deren Coke

Resolutions: A Group Show, photographs

Nevada Gallery, Reno Gazette Building

1984 Four Photographers

Photography Gallery, Otis/Parsons School of Design, LA

1983 Solidarnosc in Paris

St. Andrew's Priory Fall Festival, Valyermo, California

1982 Water Images

Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca.

Ocumicho: The Real and Surreal

Sonrisa Gallery, Los Angeles, California

GRANTS AWARDED:

2011 and Professional Development Grant, Nevada Arts Council

2002

2000 Jackpot Grant, Nevada Arts Council

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

2012 “Art -Time Jobs”, Las Vegas Review Journal, Steve

Bornfeld, February 9, 2012

2001 “20 years/20 artists: Contemporary Art 2000”,

Catalogue for Juried Art Exhibition at the Korean

Cultural Center

Los Angeles, California

2000 “Streams of Consciousness”, City Life, Gregory Crosby,

January 6, 2000.

“City Picks”, Las Vegas City Life, February 2000

1997 “Unto Every Person There is a Name”, Scope Magazine,

Gregory Crosby, May,1997

1996 “Arts”, Scope Magazine, Gregory Crosby, May 1996

“Capturing fire and ice on film”, Las Vegas New Times,

Christel Wheeler, June 20-26, 1996