The exhibition I researched, photographed and designed for the Kangerlussuaq Museum opened on September 7 with a wonderful and heartwarming program attended by the American consul at the US Consulate in Nuuk (the exhibit was funded by the US Embassy in Copenhagen Small Grant Program), Greenland’s capital, and the deputy mayor of Kangerlussuaq, both of … Read More
Author: Helen1um
Two Bears and Variations 30th Anniversary
In 1993, I painted the constellation-themed mural Two Bears and Variations on the side of 1224 W. Lombard Street in the Sowebo section of Baltimore. The design was selected from submissions to the Baltimore Mural Program by the community association. I based it on a series of small paintings I had made inspired by Baroque star … Read More
Walking in Antarctica — in California
That’s my tent at the Lake Hoare field camp in the photo above — now on view from June 16 to August 6 at the Temecula Valley Art Museum in Temecula, California, as one of the 33 photographs and 4 sculptures in my traveling solo exhibition Walking in Antarctica. Bring your cellphone and earphones and … Read More
Tributo: A Tribute to Ice in Argentina
Passersby in Buenos Aires can see Fractal Arch, Erebus Ice Tongue Cave, my photograph of baroque ice formations against the baroque revival design of the exterior the Palacio de las Aguas Corrientes. You might be surprised to learn that this gorgeous building in the style of a French renaissance palace covered in some 300,000 glazed ceramic … Read More
Life Cycles — Los Angeles Center for Photography — In-Person & Online Exhibition
4/5/23 Update to Original Post: I’ve been photographing Los Angeles’s Indian laurel fig street trees for years and Green Dot, Manchester Avenue, Los Angeles will be shown in LA in Life Cycles, an upcoming group exhibition exploring our relationships with nature in an urban environment sponsored by the Los Angeles Center for Photography. One of … Read More
Online Features: Lenscratch and Call for Entry
Walking in Antarctica was featured in a post by Aline Smithson on her popular photoblog Lenscratch.com with photographs and text. And my Greenland project was featured on Call for Entry’s social media as part of their ongoing #rechargethearts series. Read them and see the rest of the photos here: Lenscratch | @callforentry
Walking in Antarctica Begins Its Run
Part of of “A Walk Over the Canada Glacier” from Walking in Antarctica when it premiered in 2017 at Goucher College, Baltimore. The four photos shown above and one below are among the 33 photos and 4 sculptures now on view as the first stop of a five-year tour of Helen Glazer: Walking in Antarctica … Read More
From Antarctica to Jupiter
In 2015 I photographed the underside of sea ice from inside the underwater Observation Tube in Antarctica in 2015. The Ob Tube, as it’s known around McMurdo Station, is a steel manhole with windows that is inserted through the ice adjoining McMurdo Station during the research season. This photo was just licensed by the University of Texas to illustrate an … Read More
The Print Center 96th Annual
Big Bird, Los Angeles Street — shown above framed and hanging in our home — is one of five of my photos from my Urban Tree Portraits series now on view online in The Print Center 96th Annual (the rest are shown below). The Print Center is a venerable Philadelphia institution — as you may have surmised from the fact … Read More
Walking the Shores of Tasersuatsiaq (aka Lake Ferguson)
Panorama of Tasersuatsiaq (also known as Lake Ferguson) with boathouses of the Kangerlussuaq Roklub (Rowing Club). South of Kangerlussuaq is a bridge over Qinnguata Kuussua (the Watson River) and a fork in the gravel road. Turn left and the road climbs Black Ridge and the TACAN, bear right and the road follows the edge of … Read More