Pinky Bass

{{Short description|American pinhole photographer}} {{Infobox artist | name = Pinky Bass | image = | imagesize = | caption = Pinky Bass Work- Fran's Scorpion II | birth_name = Marion Winchester McCall | birth_date = | birth_place = Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | death_date = | death_place = | education = | field = Photography | movement = Pinhole photography | works = | awards = }}

'''Marion M. Bass''', known as '''Pinky Bass''' or '''Pinky/MM Bass''', is an American photographer, known for her work in pinhole photography.

==Work== Bass, a resident of Fairhope, Alabama, has exhibited at museums including the Asheville Art Museum; Birmingham Museum of Art; Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Huntsville Museum of Art in Huntsville, Alabama; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts in Montgomery, Alabama; Mobile Museum of Art in Mobile, Alabama; National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) in Washington, D.C.; Philadelphia Museum of Art; and Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.<ref>Huntsville Museum of Art, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Mobile Museum of Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts: as one of twelve participants in "Voices Rising: Alabama Women at the Millennium"; "[http://main.uab.edu/show.asp?durki=27838 Professor Elected for National Exhibit]", {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060918191156/http://main.uab.edu/show.asp?durki=27838 |date=2006-09-18 }} University of Alabama at Birmingham press release, 24 March 2000. Bass is mentioned as among "13 exciting photographers" (and a list of 14) participating in the exhibition "Making Pictures" at Asheville Art Museum: "[http://www.carolinaarts.com/600ashevilleam.html Asheville Art Museum in Asheville, NC, Features American Photography]", ''Carolina Arts'', June 2000. Birmingham Museum of Art: "[http://www.artsbma.org/awnews.htm Museum Hosts 50th Anniversary Party and Statewide Premiere of Documentary on Alabama Artists] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927035646/http://www.artsbma.org/awnews.htm |date=2007-09-27 }}". Contemporary Arts Museum Houston: Bass is listed as among the 22 participants in The International Pinhole Photography Exhibition, June 30–September 9, 1990, [http://www.camh.org/exhib_ex_history_1990.html Exhibition History, 1990s], Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. High Museum of Art: as mentioned in [http://www.lightfactory.org/auction/specsBidding.asp?aid=4 an auction page for her work ''Aburrations II''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927223422/http://www.lightfactory.org/auction/specsBidding.asp?aid=4 |date=2007-09-27 }}, the Light Factory. Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art: Bass is mentioned as one of 13 participants in "Pure Light: Southern Pinhole Photography", 2003. "[http://www.jankapoor.net/PureLight.html Pure Light: Southern Pinhole Photography]", website of Jan Kapoor.</ref>

Well known for her work in pinhole photography,<ref>[http://www.carolinaarts.com/405upstairs.html www.carolinaarts.com/405upstairs.html]</ref> Bass has work in the collection of the Polaroid Corporation.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.polaroid.com/studio/polaroidbook.html |title="The Polaroid Book" @ Polaroid.com |access-date=2008-06-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080525121608/http://www.polaroid.com/studio/polaroidbook.html |archive-date=2008-05-25 |url-status=dead }}</ref> She has taught numerous workshops in pinhole camera across the United States including EMRYS Foundation, Penland School of Crafts<ref>[http://www.pinhole.com/events/571 Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC]</ref> and University of Memphis<ref>EMRYS Foundation: [http://www.emrys.org/home.asp EMRYS Foundation] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061202032429/http://www.emrys.org/home.asp |date=2006-12-02 }}. University of Memphis: "Lectures", [http://www.numberinc.org/pdf/No37.pdf ''Number,'' no. 37, Winter 2000] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060111220807/http://www.numberinc.org/pdf/No37.pdf |date=2006-01-11 }} (PDF).</ref> and Space One Eleven. The first of her portable pop-up pinhole cameras was a giant pinhole she made out of a pop-up camper: "Pinky's Portable Pop-up Pinhole Camera and Darkroom".<ref>The camera is mentioned by Christopher James, ''The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes'' (Thomson, 2002; {{ISBN|0-7668-2077-7}}), 15. This part of the book is reproduced within [http://www.delmar.com/resources/samp_chaps/photography/0766820777/0766820777_01.pdf the publisher's sample PDF].</ref> She made this piece for the "Itinerant Photography Project" in 1989.<ref>Christopher James, [http://www.delmar.com/resources/samp_chaps/photography/0766820777/0766820777_01.pdf The Pinhole]", chap. 1 of ''The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes'' (PDF).</ref>

In March 1997, Bass was honored by the Georgia Commission on Women for "Georgia Women in the Visual Arts".<ref>"[http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/1997_98/fulltext/hr455.htm HR 455 - 'Georgia Women's History Month'; recognize month of March, 1997]"</ref>

==Exhibitions== ===Solo exhibitions=== Bass has had over 40 solo exhibitions, many of which traveled.{{Citation needed|date=June 2015}} *2006: ''BodyWorks'' at the University of Montevallo, Bloch Hall Gallery in Spring 2006.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.montevallo.edu/art/artgallery.shtm |title=Works, University of Montevallo solo exhibition |access-date=2007-02-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070208143928/http://www.montevallo.edu/art/artgallery.shtm |archive-date=2007-02-08 |url-status=dead }}</ref> *2007: Bass was chosen by curator Jon Coffelt as the inaugural artist for the new book arts program at SPACE Gallery in New York, NY. Bass exhibited her ''Cuerpos Santos Series''.<ref>"[http://www.colophon.com/gallery/pinkybass/ Cuerpos Santos Series images shown here]" Colophon.</ref> SPACE Gallery, New York, 2007.

===Exhibitions with others=== *''For Donna''' Barrister's Gallery curated by Deborah Luster featured works by Pinky Bass, Ruth Marten, Danna Moore, Laura Noland-Harter, Donna Service, Barrister's Gallery, New Orleans. *''The Lensless View: Contemporary Pinhole Photography'' curated by Diana H. Bloomfield along with work by Rebecca Sexton Larson, Scott McMahon, Christopher Sims, Sarah Van Keuren and Sam Wang. *''(Id) An Exhibition of Self Portraiture,'' 2006, along with Dieter Appelt, Judy Dater, Nate Larson, Robert Mapplethorpe, Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Constance Thalken and Bill Thoma.<ref>[http://www.lightfactory.org/exhibitions/past.htm The Light Factory] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070219184900/http://www.lightfactory.org/exhibitions/past.htm|date=2007-02-19}}, Charlotte, North Carolina, Contemporary Museum of Photography and Film</ref> *''"Voices Rising: Alabama Women at the Millennium'' by the Alabama State Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts.<ref>[http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2001/09/02/29072.html National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA)]</ref> This exhibition was made into a video presentation (also called ''Voices Rising'') that ran on Alabama Public Television,<ref>[http://www.aptv.org/vr/ Alabama Public Television, ''"Voices Rising"''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110518005050/http://www.aptv.org/vr/ |date=2011-05-18 }}</ref> *''On/of Paper'' curated by Pieter Favier included artists from across the country illustrating the diversity of paper, a medium many art critics may overlook. Each artist featured used paper in some fashion to create their featured art. Bass showed a series of her hand-stitched photography at Space 301 in Mobile, Alabama.{{Citation needed|date=April 2010}} *''Politics, Politics: Nice Artists Explore the Political Landscape'' curated by Anne Arrasmith and Peter Prinz of Space One Eleven. Included Clayton Colvin, Peggy Dobbins, Randy Gachet, binx Newton, Arthur Price, Jules Trobaugh, Paul Ware, and Stan Woodard.{{Citation needed|date=April 2010}} *''Anthropology: Revisited, Reinvented, Reinterpreted,'' 2009, along with the work of Lee Isaacs, Karen Graffeo, Sara Garden Armstrong, Janice Kluge, Joel Seah, The Chadwick's, Mitchell Gaudet, Kahn and Selesnick, Mona Hatoum, Beatrice Coron, Kelly Grider, Laura Gilbert, among others. The exhibition was curated by Jon Coffelt and Maddy Rosenberg for Central Booking in Brooklyn, New York.{{Citation needed|date=April 2010}}

==Awards== {{BLP unreferenced section|date=June 2007}} * Artist Residency, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York 1988 * Interdisciplinary Grant (Regional Artist Project) for "The Itinerant Photographer" 1989 * North Carolina Visual Artistic Fellowship Grant 1993 * North Carolina Visual Arts Project Grant 1992 * Alabama Fellowship Grant, Alabama State Council on the Arts 1991 * Site Sculpture Grant "Big Box Camera", Arts Festival of Atlanta, Georgia 1990 * International Print Exhibition Award, Print Club, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1990 * Southern Arts Federation/National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship 1995 * Resen Ceramic Colony Residency (Catalog Photographer), Republic of Macedonia 1997 * Residency, Western Carolina University, Cullowee, North Carolina 2000 * Residency, Oregon College of Art & Craft, Portland, Oregon 2004

==Publications with contributions by Bass== * ''Tangle of Complexes: Photographing in Mexico.'' Birmingham, Alabama: Space One Eleven, 1996. Includes Pinky/MM Bass; exhibition catalogue; text in English and Spanish; first edition; paperback, 24 pages, 28 cm. The Women in Photography International Archive (now within Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University) has a copy (as noted in "[http://www.womeninphotography.org/bookarchive/booksa-c.html Publications centered on single photographers: Books A–C]." * ''How to make a PinHole Camera'' on pages 15 and 23 from ''The Book of Alternative Processes'' by James Christopher, Delmar Press, Albany, NY, 2001, Dewey, 771. {{ISBN|0766820777}}. * ''The Polaroid Book.'' By Barbara Hitchcock, Steve Crist, Taschen, 2005 Hardback. 400 pages. {{ISBN|3-8228-3072-0}}. * ''Pinhole Photography: Rediscovering a Historic Technique.'' E. Renner, 1995, 288pp. * ''Sleep: Bedtime Reading.'' By Roger Gorman and Robert Peacock. Universe Publishing, 1998. 96pp {{ISBN|9780789301123}}. * ''Red Bluff Review.'' By Sonny Brewer, 1995.

==Film== * ''Coat of Many Colors,'' directed by Michelle Forman and Carolyn Hales, 2001 documentary for television featured Pinky Bass as herself.<ref>[http://www.alabamaarts.org/bass.html Alabama State Council for the Arts]</ref> * ''"Memento Mori: Positive/Negative"'' contains black and white images. Alabama Public Television. * ''Working Proof''<ref>{{YouTube|n06ksRGz108|''Working Proof''}}</ref> is a Butoh performance by Pinky Bass filmed by Doug Baulos at Space One Eleven<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080515220444/http://www.bham.net/soe/ Space One Eleven]</ref> Birmingham, Alabama on 2-02-07

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