Bernard C. Meyers

34 Danforth Street, Suite 210, Portland Maine 04101

Contact at: bcm@meyersphoto.com

Professional Experience

1999-1990 Bernard C. Meyers, Commercial Photographer Industrial, Architectural, Advertising and Product photography. I maintain a 2400 sq. ft. studio using all formats 35mm through 8" X 10", primarily using 4" X 5", specializing in location lighting and visual problem solving.

1983-1990, Founder & Managing Director of Portland Photographics: a full service professional color lab serving commercial photographers and businesses throughout New England nationally recognized for exhibitions and portfolio printing, with a particular emphasis on Cibachrome Printing. Most visible nationally was my reputation for exhibition quality color printing. Some photographers of note I printed for include, Paul Caponigro, Ernst Haas, Burk Uzzle, William Albert Allard, Sam Abell, Alex Webb, and David Doubliet.

Teaching Experience

1994-95, 97-99 University of Southern Maine, Assistant Professor of Photography , Art department. Teaching all levels, Advanced, Intermediate and Photo 1, Color Photography Printmaking and Design.

1991-1999 University of Southern Maine, Lecture III/Assist. Prof, Art department, Photo 1, Black & White Photography for majors and as an open elective, Intermediate Color Photography, I developed this course as an introduction to color photography, theory and practical applications . I was responsible for setting up a color printing (RA-4) and film processing ( E-6 and C-41 ) facility. Intermediate Photography, Black & White Craft a course for photo majors intended to improve their black & white printing and processing techniques, expanding their personal vision.

1991 & 1993 Maine Photographic Workshops, Resident faculty, Spring semester Courses in Color Vision and Color printing to photo majors from the two year degree program, and resident students.

1994-1985 Maine Photographic Workshops, one week intensive Master classes in Cibachrome printing , specializing in advanced masking techniques.

Education

Rochester Institute of Technology, College of Fine and Applied Arts, Program: Fine Arts-Printmaking.

Master of Fine Arts degree, 1990, with high honors Thesis "Nagual Interpretations", accepted Spring 1990 Major area of studies involved lithography and etching, extensive work was accomplished in the areas of multi-plate color lithographic printing, photo-etching and photo-lithography.

Rochester Institute of Technology, College of Graphic Arts and Photography, School of Photographic Arts & Sciences, Program: Photo Illustration

Bachelor of Fine Arts degree 1977, with honorsAssociate of Applied Science 1975, with honorsMajor area of study was photography as a fine art with an emphasis in color photography, printing and processing.

Permanent Collections:

Portland Museum of Art, Cibachrome Color Photographs

Wallace Memorial Library, R.I.T. Archives, Rochester, New York 11" X 17" dye transfer photograph, and a 20" X 32" color lithograph, 1980 purchase award

Empire State Government Mall, Albany New York, 20" X 30" silk-screen print

Maine Cardiology Group

Various Private Collections

Exhibitions

One Man Shows:

November 1998, Uma Gallery, 30 West 57th St NY. NY, Nov. 19 - Dec 24 Photographs

November 1996, "Full Circle’, June Fitzpatrick Gallery Portland, Maine, an exhibit encompassing twenty years of printmaking and photographs.

October 1995, "Light Structure", Area Gallery University of Southern Maine, an exhibition of forty recent Black & White photographs

April 1991, "Moving Pictures", Betsy Evans Gallery, an exhibition of forty Cibachrome photographs

January 1990-1987 Portland Performing Arts Center, Photographs

July 1994-1985, Maine Photographic Workshops Gallery,

December 1981, Boris Gallery of Photography, Boston Ma.,

February 1981, International Center for Photography, Education Gallery, New York, N.Y.

Selected Group Shows:

Portland Museum of Art, Ernst Haas Memorial Exhibition, 1998

September 1995, “Photography: The State of the Art” Round Top Ctr. Arts Damariscotta Maine

Oct. 1994, New Faculty Show, University of So. Maine, New Art Space

Fall 1998-91, Faculty Show University of Southern Maine, Art Gallery

August 1989 Maine Artists Gallery, Rockport Maine, photographs

October 1987 " Work from Two Decades N.E. Regional S.P.E.

July 1981, Photography Invitational Gallery 10 Ltd., Washington D.C.

February 1981, "Flowers and Other Fantasies", Kathleen Ewing Gallery Washington D.C.,

Contact at: bcm@meyersphoto.com