Sam Joyner

Biography:

Sam Joyner
About the Artist

Light everywhere, and it constantly changes. And I too love the light, perhaps the light only.
--Czeslaw Milosz

Over the past 20 years, Sam Joyner has studied with master photographers Bruce Barnbaum, John Sexton, Ruth Bernhard, Sally Mann, Jerry Eulsman, Howard Bond, Paul Capinagro, George Tice, Mark Klett, Linda Connors, Marilyn Bridges, Don Kirby and others at 14 photography venues including the Ansel Adams photography Workshop, Yosimite, California; the Maine Photographic Workshop, Rockport, Maine; and the Oklahoma Arts Institute at Quartz Mountain. His work has been juried into numerous exhibits, receiving various awards including Best of Show at the 1995 Lawton Arts for All Festival and juror’s awards in the 1998 and 1999 Tulsa Mayfest. His work has been seen in three one man shows at the McMahon Gallery and Leslie Powell Gallery in Lawton and in numerous group shows statewide including M.A. Doran Gallery and Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa. The artist has been published in Nimrod Literary Journal. He is a former director and current member of the Visual Arts Coalition and the Tulsa Photo Collective and Wichita Wildlight Society. Sam Joyner also serves as a United States Magistrate Judge in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is represented by the M.A. Doran Gallery of Tulsa.

In spite of all things dark and discouraging, the photographer’s special challenge is to go beyond the clichés and stereotypes of our over-imaged, media-manipulated world and find the evidence of yes—to reveal scenes of awe, wonder, and curiosity with honesty- to find the quiet beauty of coherence, rhythm and order. When the camera and the one who winks its eye do their work well, the photograph may go beyond the literal and touch the timeless and universal. Metaphor is often a part of the process. Light, line, and form speak of things beyond the subject being photographed.

--Sam Joyner

Résumé:

RESUME - SAM A. JOYNER

Sam Joyner is a United States Magistrate Judge (retired 1-2-2009), Federal Building, Tulsa, Oklahoma. He resides in Tulsa, with his wife and son.

ARTS INSTRUCTION: Fine art black and white photography study has been through master photographers at 17 workshops over the last 12 years including:

a. Ansel Adams Photography Workshop, Yosemite, California, one week program (1986), Instructors: Martha Casanave, Ted Orland, Dave Bohn, David Bayles.

b. Maine Photographic Workshop, Rockport, Maine, three week program (1987). Instructors: Paul Capinegro, Arnold Newman, Robert Steinberg.

c. Morningbird Ranch, Lawton, Oklahoma (May,1988) - Instructor - Douglas Kent Hall, Martha Casanave. d. Ojo Caliente, N. Mex. workshop: Linda Connor, David Bayles (Oct., 1988)

e. Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, Village, Colorado, one week program horse pack trip, instructors: Mark Klett and Linda Connor (1989). Grand Gulch Canyon Workshop.

f. Morningbird Ranch, Taos, New Mexico (1989) - Instructors: Phillip Hyde and Dave Bohn

g. Oklahoma Arts Institute Adult Program at Quartz Mountain with the following instructors: 1985 - Ted Orland, Paul Capinegro, David Blust. 1989 - Jerry Uelsmann, Sally Mann. 1990 - George Tice, Mark Klett, Linda Connor. 1991 - Robert Steinberg - Platinum Printing, Cole Weston. 1992 - John Sexton

h. Friends of Photography, Monterey, CA (1991) - Instructors: Ruth Bernhard, Chris Burkett, Dick Arentz (Platinum Printing).

i. Howard Bond, Denver, COL (1992).

j. Palm Beach Photographic Workshops, Palm Beach, FL--one week--Instructor: John Sexton (1994).

k. Howard Bond, Lawton, OK (1995). l. Bruce Burnbaum, Tulsa, OK (1995).

m. Ruth Bernhard and John Sexton, “Gift of the Commonplace” John Sexton Studio, Carmel Valley, CA (1997).

n. Marilyn Bridges, Tulsa, Aerial Photography, (2-22-98).

o. Huntington Weatherill, Digital Photography, Tulsa, OK (1999).

p. Chuck Farmer, Santa Barbara, CA; Large Format Workshop in Jackson, WY (9-22-2001).

q. Chuck Farmer, Wynn Bullock anniversary workshop, Monterey, CA. (2002). With Richard Garrod and Huntington Weatherill.

r. Bruce Barnbaum, Granite Falls, Washington. With Don Kirby, ( 9-29-03).

GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND AWARDS: Work has been jurored into and exhibited at numerous art shows and group exhibitions. Individual awards include:
a. Best of Show among all artists--Lawton Arts for All Festival (1995).

b. Third Place (all artists)--Lawton Arts for All Festival (1994).

c. First Place in Photography--Duncan Fall Fest (1990, 1992, 1993). ` d. Exhibited in numerous group shows with the Lawton Wichita Wildlight Society and Tulsa Photo Collective.

e. Juror’s award–Tulsa Mayfest Invitational Gallery–1998, 1999. Jurored into the gallery in 2000 through 2007. f. Jurored into General Small Works show, Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK (2000, 2001).

g. Oklahoma Bar Association Statewide Art Show–1st place in Photography (2000, 2002).

h. Exhibited in numerous group shows in and is represented by Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK. (1999 through 2003) i. Jurored into Oklahoma Centerfold Show, Leslie Powell Gallery, Lawton, Oklahoma. (2002). INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITS AND ARTS PRESENTATIONS: a. One Man Show entitled "Metaphor" at McMahon Auditorium Gallery, Lawton, Oklahoma - 20 prints - April 5, 1991 through April 31, 1991.

b. One Man Show entitled "In the Marrow Bone" - Leslie Powell Gallery, Lawton, Oklahoma, January 10, 1992 - February 28, 1992. 52 prints.

c. Lunchbag Lecture on "Creativity" at Leslie Powell Gallery, Lawton, Oklahoma, September 20, 1990.

d. Gallery Talk - "Metaphor in Photography", McMahon Auditorium Gallery, Lawton, Oklahoma, April 5, 1991.

e. Gallery Talk on Photography for Gifted and Talented Secondary and Elementary Students, Leslie Powell Gallery, Lawton, Oklahoma February 12, 1992 and February 19, 1992.

f. Three man show--”Tres Amigos”--Pictures Gallery, Tulsa Photo Collective (1993).

g. Lunchbag Lecture--”Saying Yes to the 90's--Through the Humanities”, Leslie Powell Gallery, Lawton, OK (1995).

A. Tattletale Lecture–“Using the Humanities to Cope with a Less than Humane World”. Exhibition of 35 original prints at the Summit Club, Tulsa, OK and lecture on the value of the humanities in our daily lives, with an emphasis on poetry and photography. (11-20-97).

B. Twenty-Eights prints in a two person show at the Leslie Powell Gallery, Lawton, OK (October, 1998).

C. Seven prints in a six person show at Sobo Gallery, Tulsa, OK.(2001)

D. Ten prints in two person show at Nimrod Writers Conference, (Oct., 2002).

E. Thirty six prints in a two person show at Leslie Powell Gallery, Lawton, OK. (Nov. 2005).

F. Thirty prints in one person show at Nimrod Writers Awards Conference (Oct. 2006).

G. Thirty-five prints in three person show at M.A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK. (August, 2007).

H. Thirty-two prints in a one person show at the Oklahoma Capitol building gallery administered by the Oklahoma Arts Council. (April 15, 2013 to June 16, 2013). GRADUATE WORK: Graduate work in the Master of Liberal Studies Program, University of Oklahoma under Art Professor Cecil Lee, and professors in philosophy and law produced a Master Degree in 1987 and a 175 page thesis entitled "Humanities in Law School for Moral Development".

ORGANIZATIONS: TULSA ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL: Board Member. 2011 to present. Program Committee Chair.
NIMROD INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL, Tulsa University. Chairman of the Advisory Board 2003 through the present.
Former president and co-founder and current member of the Wichita Wildlight Photographic Society in Lawton, Ok.
Former director and present member of the Oklahoma Visual Artists of Oklahoma.
Former member of the Individual Artists of Oklahoma.
Current member of the Tulsa Photo Collective. Former member of the Tulsa Photo Collective Forum.

PHOTOGRAPHIC PUBLICATIONS: Nimrod Literary Journal, The Expanding Circle, (Un. Of Tulsa, Spring, 2002). Seven Photographs published.