Caleb was published in Apeture Foundation last year as an Honorable Mention. Here is what they had to say about him!

Using the laws of physics as a springboard, Caleb Charland puts elements such as fire, water, and man-made compounds to the artistic test in his series Demonstrations. In these alchemic images, he captures scientific phenomena in moments of still life as well as full-tilt action, calling to mind such forebears as Harold Edgerton and his freeze-frame milk droplets.

What happens when a can of WD-40 is sprayed directly into a flame? Don't try this at home, instead, take in Charland's gelatin-silver rendering of a ghostly chemical cloud enshrouding a lit candle. The disembodied hand in the far right corner is a nod to the wizard behind the curtain. In another pyrotechnic feat, a drill outfitted with a sparkler creates a perfectly symmetric spiral of light.

The yin and yang of strength and frailty are summoned by a weighty horseshoe magnet held in place with string and a cluster of delicate nails. Though the nails and the magnet are attracted to one another, in one of those sleight-of-hand tricks of nature, they never touch. In another poetic image, a trio of glasses act as vessels for water in its three forms: as a liquid, a solid, and a gas.

Among his influences, Charland cites children's books of science experiments and the kinetic art of Peter Fischli and David Weiss. - SC

StoneCrop gallery is featured in the July/August Issue of New England Home and Architecture Magazine:

Design Destination Ogunquit Maine by Cheryl and Jeffery Katz

What better way to wile away an afternoon than to drive along the Maine Coast to Ogunquit? The quintessential New England Village boasts three-and-a-half miles of beach and and one-and-a-quarter-mile footpath along the rocky coast that joins the town center to the harbor.

At StoneCrop Gallery the photography gallery's charming owner, Dana Berenson might show you the work of Israeli Artist Yoav Horesh or, if your really lucky give you a tour of her house.The house built in the early 1020's by artist Grace Merrill, boasts a great room constructed from salvaged materials including hand-hewn pine timbers from an old barn and an eighteenth century-stone fire place.

805 Shore Road., (207)-361-4215 www.stonecropgallery.com

Jason Landry of the Online Magazine Big Red and Shiny wrote a rave review of Yoav Horesh's Seascape Exhibit. Please Check it out.

Yoav Hores @ StoneCrop Gallery

Stonecrop Gallery exhibition features Henry Horenstein

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OGUNQUIT - Stonecrop Gallery's midsummer exhibition, "Humans and Other Creatures," features the photographs of New England icon Henry Horenstein.

For nearly four decades, Horenstein has been an author, artist, photographer and professor. He has published more than 40 books, and his work has been featured in the Smithsonian Museum, the Harvard Museum of Natural History and galleries throughout the United States and Europe.

"Horenstein is a New England treasure," said gallery owner Dana Berenson. "He has a remarkable ability to adapt his vision and style to his subject matter, from documentary projects to more abstract and conceptual series. There is truly no one else like him."

The Stonecrop exhibition features selections from several different bodies of work, including "Humans," a study of the human form, and "Creatures," with images of animals in zoos and aquariums.

The Horenstein exhibition will run through Aug. 16 at Stonecrop Gallery in the historic Stonecrop House on Shore Road, next to the York-Ogunquit town line, just outside of Perkins Cove and 100 yards from the Ogunquit Museum of American Art.

The gallery is open from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Thursday through Monday, or by appointment.

Directions and gallery information are available at http://www.stonecropgallery.com/.

Stonecrop Gallery a home for fine photography

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By Amy Phalon
yorkweekly@seacoastonline.com
August 29, 2007 6:00 AM
YORK — Continuing a nearly 100-year-old creative legacy, Dana Berenson has reopened the Stonecrop Gallery on Shore Road near the York-Ogunquit town line.

A woman looks works of fine art photography during a recent artists' opening at StoneCrop Gallery.

StoneCrop gallery owner and photographer Dana Berenson sits surrounded by fine art photography within the Shore Road gallery.

The gallery is located in Stonecrop house, which according to Berenson has sheltered artists and art galleries since it was built by painter Grace Merrill in the early 1920s. Merrill named the house Stonecrop after the tiny yellow blooms that grow along the rocky ledge into which the house is built.

The new gallery currently features the abstract black and white photography of Caleb Charland of Brewer. His photography offers a strikingly different perspective on ordinary household objects. "He is a young photographer, a recent graduate from Massachusetts College of Art, who is taking the photo world by storm," Berenson said.

One of the mesmerizing Charland photographs offered for sale at Stonecrop is titled "15 — hours." The photo records a candle burning over a 15-hour period. "He said that the Edgar Allen Poe Society bought 15-hours," Berenson said. "He was really happy about that."

Past shows included the work of Henry Horenstein, who lives in Boston. Horenstein has published dozens of books of photography including "Honkey Tonk Humans," devoted to the world of country music. Some of Horenstein's work is still available at Stonecrop as well as a few photographs by Thomas Gearty, also of Boston, who does some of his work with a digital camera.

Berenson plans to offer the work of these three artists, as well as her own photography at Stonecrop until the end of October, when she will close for the winter as her neighbor The Ogunquit Museum of Art ends its season.

"I'm really looking forward to featuring the work of photographers from Maine and New England again next season," she said.

Berenson has been the steward of Stonecrop house for the past two years. She said that before her, it was occupied by artists including painter Ruth Seeger and printmaker Beverly Hallam.

The home is a completely unique post-and-beam, shingled structure constructed from the wood of an old barn salvaged by Merrill. She also collected materials from old houses and buildings slated for demolition. "It's basically a recycled house," Berenson said.

The Stonecrop Gallery offers a preview of available artwork on its Web site, www.stonecrop gallery.com.

YORK, MAINE—May 8, 2007—For most of the last century, historic and picturesque Stonecrop House was the home of Cape Neddick artists. This spring, current owner and artist Dana Berenson will revive that artistic tradition when she opens Stonecrop Gallery for its first full season on Friday, May 25.

The gallery is located in the unique, majestic home on Shore Road, next to the town line between York and Ogunquit just outside of Perkins Cove and 100 yards from the Ogunquit Museum of American Art. Stonecrop Gallery will be one of the few art resources in the area to exclusively feature fine photography.

“Stonecrop Gallery opened for a trial run last summer, and got a great response from tourists and the community,” says Berenson. “We’re thrilled to open up for the full season for 2007 and proud to continue the tradition of showing fine art at Stonecrop.”

Previous owners include such artists as  Beverly Hallam  and  Ruth Seeger.  Berenson will show her own work, which includes both black-and-white and color images. Her subjects range from travel photography to documentary photography of the Maine coastal region.

This month’s opening exhibition will also feature a new body of work by New England photographer and gallery artist Thomas Gearty. Gearty’s photographs are color prints from a new series made on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts.

Stonecrop Gallery is open from 11 to 6 p.m., Thursday through Monday, or by appointment. The gallery will remain open from Memorial Day weekend to the first weekend in October. Directions and gallery information at www.StonecropGallery.com.