Rebecca Bruyn defines herself as an alternative photographer who uses an antique method from the mid 1800’s called Cyanotype printing from images taken with a 35 mm camera and/or a cell phone camera.
She creates unique one of a kind handmade photographs on watercolor paper by using sunlight to develop the image.
Though she has dedicated the last 18 years to cyanotypes, in 2013 she found herself immersed in the world of iPhoneography or Digital Art becoming an active contributor to the mobile photography art movement through a variety of Facebook pages dedicated to the mobile art community. She is now more than ever inspired to share this new creative outlet with others to demonstrate the enormous capacity of creativity that the iPhone can offer. Her recent digital art now feeds her passion with the cyanotype prints allowing her work to span 3 centuries of photography; using the early form of photography from mid 1800s to express her digital art of the early 21st century.
Exhibitions
2017 Rosewind Gallery, Ebb & Flow
2017 Rosewind Gallery, First Light
2016 Cotuit Center for the Arts – Balancing Act
2015 Cape Museum of Fine Arts – Addison Art Gallery/After Hopper Exhibit
2015 Cape Cod Art Association – Fluent Photography/All Cape Cod
2015 Cotuit Center for the Arts – Opposites Attract
2014 Cape Cod Art Association — All New England
2014 Cotuit Center for the Arts – Seeing the Light
2013 Cotuit Center for the Arts – Making Waves
2011 Blue Gallery – September Exhibit
2011 Provincetown Art Association Museum/Juried Show & Member Show
2008 Truro Fine Arts Gallery – September Exhibit
2002 Provincetown Art Association Museum-Members Only
2002 Snow’s Library – Cape Cod Viewfinders Camera Club Show-Orleans
2001 Snow’s Library- Cape Cod Viewfinders Camera Club Show-Orleans
2001 The Chatham Creative Arts Center
2000 Framing Gallery/Orleans
2000 The Chatham Creative Arts Center
1999 Provincetown Art Association & Museum/Juried Miniature Show
1999 The Chatham Creative Arts Center
1995 Jamaica Plain Open Studios- “Roslindale Arts Exhibit”
1993 Horn Gallery / Babson College / The Photographers Circle
1992 Wohlfarth Gallery/ Provincetown/ Fall Show – “Autumn”
1991 Provincetown Art Association & Museum/ Juried Photography Show
Studies/Workshops
2016 Provincetown Art Association and Museum – taught at the Art of iPhoneography workshop
2013 Truro Center for the Arts-Castle Hill / Peter Madden
2002 Digital Imaging/James Warren
2001 The Cape Cod Photo Workshop / Chip Forelli
2000 The Cape Cod Photo Workshop/ Alternative Processes/ Sheryl Jaffee
2000 Cyanotype Photography Workshop/M.M. Battelle
1980 New England School of Photography – B&W Workshops/Boston
Awards/Competitions
2017 “Dune in Winter” – Exhibition EARTH, Porto, Portugal
2016 Alternative Printing Process – B&W Photography magazine- “The Blue Door”
2016 “Winter Dune Flight” – Mobile Device Exhibition/Indiana, 1st place
2015 Cape Cod Art Association – Fluent Photography & All Cape Cod– Honorable Mention
2010 Provincetown 100th anniversary of Pilgrim Monument – wine label competition
1999 Chatham Arts Center/ Juried Show – “The Moors” – 3rd place
Memberships
2014- Truro Cultural Council
2007- The Truro Group
1999-2005 Cape Cod Viewfinders Camera Club
1995-1996 Roslindale Arts Association- Boston
1992-1994 Photographers Circle – Boston