Nancy Ridenour

I am a digital photographer with a variety of interests. I enjoy photographing flowers in my gardens, Florida birds, cement sculptures in the Cornell Arboretum, New York City buildings and people, relics from my past, zoo animals, raptors, and Still Life. I have enjoyed photographing bridges and architecture in Manhattan and transposing them into abstract interpretations of the originals. I also enjoy the macro lens for intimate flower photography.

For the November 2023 SOAG Gallery show, I developed a new portfolio. Having spent five years working in Asia, I have collected many artifacts that decorate my home. In addition to these artifacts, I have several copper tubing sculptures that I constructed for my home and gardens. For this exhibit I combined my artifacts and sculptures with flowers growing in my gardens—starting in May with peonies in bloom and ending in October with colorful dahlias. They were photographed against a black background, using ambient light and fresh flowers.

The artifacts came from China, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), Korea, Thailand, and Laos. Most of my copper sculptures are abstract renderings of sculptures I have seen elsewhere. The large ones are a combination of flexible copper tubing, copper pipes, and cement bases. The large sculpture, Expecting was burnished with a propane torch to achieve the colors. All the images shown the gallery and elsewhere were professionally printed on canvas and mounted for hanging.