:: Upcoming 2013  Exhibitions  ::

 

May 18-19        Los Altos Rotary Fine Art in the Park, Los Altos, Ca  Booth 227

May  25 & 26    Ojai Art in the Park, Ojai, Ca

June  22 & 23    La Jolla Festival of the Arts, La Jolla, Ca

July  20 & 21     Connoisseurs Marketplace, Menlo Park, Ca

July 26-28         Bellevue Art Festival, Bellevue, Wa   Booth P 03

Aug 31-Sept 2   Sausalito Art Festival, Sausalito, Ca

Sept  21 & 22     Mill Valley Fall Arts Festival, Mill Valley, Ca

 

::  Recent Past Events  ::

Oct 2012   The G2 Gallery, Venice, Ca

May  2013    Award of Excellence, Saratoga Rotary Art Show, Saratoga, Ca

April 2013   Indian Wells Arts Festival, Indian Wells, Ca

Mar 2013   La Quinta Arts Festival, La Quinta, Ca

Feb 2013   Great Fair, Fountain Hills, Az

Jan 2013   Southwest Art Festival, Indio, Ca

Dec  2012  KPFA Crafts Fair, San Francisco, Ca

Oct 2012   La Jolla Art & Wine Festival, La Jolla, Ca

Oct  2012  Beverly Hills Art Show, Beverly Hills, Ca

Aug 2012   Palo Alto Art Festival, Palo Alto, Ca

Aug 2012   Park City Kimball Arts Festival, Park City, Ut

 

 

::  Biography  ::

Please see the profile of Fred and his work in  InMenlo magazine.

In a career spanning 30 years in photojournalism, I have had the pleasure of contributing to numerous magazines and newspapers around the world. I have no plans to give up my day job and still look forward to accepting many more Northern California assignments covering the people and events from the major metropolitan areas of San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose to the wine country of Sonoma and Napa Valley and to the high tech engine of innovation that is Silicon Valley. I hope to continue visiting these new places and documenting their stories in the intimate and graceful way that photography allows. In addition to my editorial photography, beginning in 2008, I embarked on a new and very exciting photo venture by introducing a portfolio of fine art landscape and nature photographs.

Having the good fortune to call the San Francisco Bay Area home and with its proximity to the Sierra, the great deserts, and the coastline, as a photographer, I am offered a magnificent opportunity to capture the diverse natural beauty of California through my lens. In contrast to the nature and landscape photographs produced from these travels, I have begun a second body of work, an intimate and macro look at the plants and flowers found in our own home garden. This collection of portraits is appropriately titled ‘Cindy’s Garden’, for my wife, whose love and encouragement has enabled me to pursue this wonderful endeavor. The process and satisfaction of seeking the ‘big’ picture from Yosemite National Park and the Eastern Sierra to Death Valley and to Big Sur on the Central Coast, is as gratifying as when I step into the garden in search of the ‘big’ picture from our small world.

To me, these galleries are a reminder that beauty is ever present…we simply have to look.

Fred Mertz