Photographer and writer Beth Shibata
“Done” (Lone Pine), by Beth ShibataIn the picture, there’s a story Through marshes and pines with photographer Beth Shibata Was another year going to slip by without my writing about Beth Shibata? Almost, but not quite, and especially not after the Redondo Beach resident and photographer had work shown in New York and Barcelona. Furthermore, just this month, one of her photographs received an honorable mention at the Palos Verdes Art Center (in a show juried by Ruth Weisberg, artist, professor, and former Dean of the USC Roski School of Art and Design). “Did We Have Fun!” (Lone Pine), by Beth ShibataThe latter image (“Did We Have Fun!”) was taken near Lone Pine and is part of an ongoing series that Shibata has tentatively titled “The Owens Valley Suite.” She’s been going up there for about ten years with the Henry Fukuhara Workshop, which consists mostly of plein air painters and is headed up by Ron Libbrecht who runs the APC Fine Arts Gallery in Old Torrance. (For many years, the late Fukuhara held annual painting workshops at the Manzanar Relocation Camp, a tradition APC continues) Currently, Shibata is a member of PADA, the Photographic and Digital Artists group that is based…
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