Exhibits
Current, Upcoming and Ongoing Events
Acme Food & Beverage Company Carrboro, NC. 28 gum prints on display through August.
FRANK Gallery. Chapel Hill, NC. Member. Open Tuesday through Sunday.
Manbites Dog Theater. Durham, NC. Black and white theater work for the company, dating back to 1987, including 18 prints made possible through the Adopt-A-Photo program. Ongoing.
Somerhill Gallery, Durham, NC. Open Monday through Saturday.
Selected Exhibits, Workshops and Lectures
Ackland Art Museum Hands-On Photography: Pictorialism Then and Now. Out of the Studio lecture series co-sponsored by the Orange County Artists Guild and the Ackland. September 11, 2009.
Chautauqua Institution. Chautauqua, NY. A practicum on the early years of photography exploring both the chemical and aesthetic issues of the time. June 28 through July 5, 2009.
The Affordable Art Fair. New York City. June 12-15, 2008.
ERUUF Gallery. Durham, NC. Solo exhibit. Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship. Jan 11 - February 22, 2008.
Migration: A Gallery. Charlottesville, VA. Photography Invitational: We All Live in Bordertowns. November 16 - December 20, 2007.
Sawtooth Gallery. Winston-Salem, NC. Three person show in conjunction with the Haiku North America annual convention. August 15- September 15, 2007.
East End Gallery. Carrboro, NC. Solo exhibit. Gum prints of N.C. beach scenes. July, 2007.
Sky Art Gallery. Aberdeen, NC. Solo exhibit. Gum bichromate photographs. May-June, 2007.
Manbites Dog Theater, Durham, NC. Photographic Designer, At the Vanishing Point, by Naomi Iizuka, directed by Jeff Storer. May 24-June 9, 2007. Review.
Acme Food & Beverage Company. Carrboro, NC. A selection of large format work. January-February, 2007.
Caffe Driade. Selected photos. Chapel Hill, NC. December, 2006.
Migration: A Gallery "Film Photography Now: Peter Filene and Alan Dehmer". Charlottesville, VA. Show runs September 1 - October 5.
Migration: A Gallery. "Journey Home: Introducing 20 contemporary artists from Virginia and across America to Charlottesville." April-May, 2006. This is the opening show in a new gallery in Charlottesville, VA. Selected gum bichromate prints will be on display throughout the year.
"Photography Unplugged: Gum Bichromate Photographs by Alan Dehmer". Student Union Art Gallery, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, NC. December, 2005-January 2006.
Collector's Choice: The Winter Show Exhibition, 2005. Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art, Greensboro, N.C. December, 2005.
"Scenes from North Carolina". ManBites Dog Theater located in downtown Durham, NC. September-October, 2005.
Arts at the Meadow, Meadowmont, Chapel Hill, NC. September 10, 2005.
Benjamin Vineyards & Winery, Saxapahaw, NC, July-August, 2005.
Somerhill Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC. Photographic images are on display for purchase year-round at the Somerhill Gallery in the Eastgate Shopping Center in Chapel Hill. Open Monday through Saturday 10 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Tel: (919) 968-8868.
Manbites Dog Theater, Durham, NC. Retrospective photos of Manbites Dog productions since 1988.
"Alternative Process Group Show", Durham Arts Guild, April-May, 2005.
Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China. September, 2004. The "Old is New Again" exhibit (below) was asked to be part of the alternative photography component of this major photo festival. After the festival ended, our prints were selected for inclusion in a travelling tour, and were put on display in several universities, as well as in the Forbidden City in Beijing! Mine came home to me in a hand-made wooden crate painted a light sea green, with Chinese calligraphic markings on the side, with a silk scroll commemorating my participation.
Old is New Again: Alternative Processes group show. Green Hill Center For North Carolina Art, Greensboro, NC. January-May, 2004.
Juried Exhibition. Art Institute and Gallery, Salisbury, Maryland. February 2001.
Art in Motion: Work by the Visual Arts Teachers from Durham School of the Arts, Bivins Gallery, Duke Institute of the Arts, Durham, NC, September-October, 2000.
Ghana: Two weeks, nine students, many cameras. Institute for Documentary Studies, Durham, NC. October-November, 1998. This exhibit was the culmination of a year-long project with my seventh grade social studies students. We learned about Africa in the classroom and after school for a whole school year, did every kind of fundraiser we could think of, and travelled to Ghana, West Africa, for a two-week study tour. Upon returning, the Institute for Documentary Studies hosted an exhibit of the students' work, which I curated and to which I contributed photographs of the students interacting.
RetroDog. One-man photo exhibition at Manbites Dog Theater, Durham, NC, December 1994.
States of America. One-man photo exhibition at Manbites Dog Theater, Durham, NC, January 1992.
Eleventh NC Photographers Annual Exhibition, Raleigh, NC. November, 1991.
Collections/Museums
The Neuberger Berman Art Collection
Awards
Durham Arts Council Grant. 2002 season.
"Judges' Choice" Award. Art Institute and Gallery, Salisbury, Maryland. February 2001.
North Carolina Press Association annual competition, 1988. First place: News photography; Third place: Feature page photography.