NEWS-NEWS-NEWS
Flooded Desert, July 2007, called the "best show" - The New York Times,
Frugal Traveler/Santa Fe. Dec 23, 2007. See PRESS link
December 2007- Three of Neptune's photographs were purchased by the city of Aztec, NM and installed
as part of New Mexico's Art in Public Places program.
Teresa Neptune is featured in B &W Magazine, Issue 51, May/June, 2007.
Spotlight Feature, pages 86 -90, see PRESS link for details.
From B & W Magazine, Issue 49, February/March, 2007:
MORE ON MONEY by Michael More: Big Money Invisible Gold. See "Press" link.
"(Neptune) has aquired, more remarkably, whatever it takes to make a picture that transmits what the
19th-century critic John Ruskin called 'the invisible gold,' the indefineable value that keeps a work
perpetually nourishing and instructive."
Teresa Neptune was awarded the 2005 Willard Van Dyke Memorial Grant for Photography
by the New Mexico Council on Photography for her portfolio of 10 photographs
from the series, "Wind River."
"Wind River": Neptune's photographs from the set of the documentary film, "Silent Thunder" shot on the Wind
River, Arapaho/Shoshoni Reservation in Wyoming, during five days in June of 2005
"Silent Thunder," Dir: Angelique Midthunder, 2005, funded in part by PBS & NAPT, documents the
unique method of training horses developed by Arapaho elder, Stan Addison; a quadriplegic who has
the gift of, "horse medicine." Please visit www.midthunder.com.
The photograph, "Bathers, Belize, 2005" (see "assorted works" link-gallery page) was aquired by the
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, for their permanent collection, April 2006.
Artists Statement
As an encroaching high-tech world threatens to engulf our senses at every turn the elegant
simplicity of black and white imagery gives us a necessary reprieve, a moment
of refuge. The lure of simplicity itself compels me to capture simple moments; ironies,
juxtapositions, shadow and light that exsist for one moment and are gone forever.
As these moments are preserved in the images we are given a second chance to
glimpse the fleeting relationships that constantly shift and rearrange to make up the
next moment and the next. These photographs invite us to pause and become aware
of the miraculous beauty that surrounds us. Beauty as simple, complex and transient
as life itself.
Teresa Neptune