James Chressanthis

James Chressanthis, ASC has been looking through a camera and making images since he was ten years old. He has been concerned with photography in all his artwork: black and white and color photography, collage mixed media and performance art and in motion pictures and television. He met Robin Becker in the photography darkroom in college.

As a director and cinematographer who has earned a diverse range of nearly 40 credits since the early 1990s, including documentaries, independent features, television movies and episodic series. He shot the Emmy®-nominated Four Minutes and Life With Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows and additional photography on the Oscar®-winning Chicago. He began his career shooting nearly 100 break-through music videos with such artists as Bobby McFerrin, James Brown, Hammer, NWA and Dr. Dre.

Since 2005, Chressanthis has been a director and cinematographer of the popular dramatic series Ghost Whisperer. He recently completed the Renée Zellweger produced film Living Proof, starring Harry Connick Jr. His feature film directing debut No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos premiered at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival and screened at 24 film festivals worldwide. No Subtitles is currently screening as a part of the PBS series Independent Lens and available on DVD at www.laszloandvilmos.com.


Robin Becker

Robin Becker is a mixed media artist. My artworks are collages of visual poems of what I see around me. They become monoprints of color photo imagery on silk that I apply to canvas. Wet paint extends the images beyond the borders into my dreams and written thoughts.
 
My artwork uses layers of color and imagery from my photographic journeys: images of rooms, portals, passageways and vignettes of architectural details.

In these monographs a window is blown out by light during a moment, while lines trace a faintly darkened inner room.  In other rooms the windows become portals to unknown territories.

The photographs become the paintings, the paintings become allusions of rooms from memory, fragments that become shrines for contemplation.

The words I write in wet paint are spontaneous thoughts to remember the emotion of the moment from long ago.

All these diary-journals begin with travels with my love, Jim and now with our daughter Zoe. We've traveled for a long while together on a path of discovery for some kind of wisdom.