RAiR | 1996
Dore Gardner
Massachusetts-based photographer Dore Gardner (1946- ) received a BFA from Ohio State University (1969), undertook Fine Arts Graduate Studies at Massachusetts College of Art (1978), and obtained a MEd from Lesley College (1979). Between 1980 and 2013 Dore held 20 solo exhibitions including ones at the Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the Museum Voor Volkenkunde, Rotterdam, Holland. She also participated in about fifty group shows. Dore received awards from Morganstern Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, among others. Her photographs belong to such collections as the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and have been published in Aperture and other photographic publications and journals of contemporary criticism. Her work about the famed Mexican healer Nino Fidencio (‘Nino Fidencio: A Heart Thrown Open’) was published by the Museum of New Mexico Press. Dore is on the faculty at the School of the Museum of Fine Art at Tufts University. She is working on a photographic book project titled ‘Reverence, Dread and Wonder; My Year in Roswell’.
AMoCA Collection, Kachina Dancer Roswell, NM, 2016, Vintage gelatin silver print, 16” x 20”
Roswell Museum and Art Center
Rair exhibition • laurel farrin “niÑo fidencio, a heart thrown open ” •march 8 - may 26, 1996
