Monica Kane Stewart

Monica Kane Stewart is a portrait and fine art photographer, mixed media artist, and designer who resides in the North County coastal area of San Diego. After a career of 15+ years working with technology in Silicon Valley in the San Francisco Bay Area, Monica earned her Bachelor's Degree in Visual Arts with a Studio emphasis, while raising her three children. She came full circle from working with technology to creating studio art, to the perfect combination of both technology and art in her photography work.

Monica's approach to fine art landscape portraiture is both spontaneous and process-driven. She creates artwork from her initial captured image(s) as she would create sculptures and paintings: process-driven, and time intensive post-processing & treatments. 

Monica prefers hand editing versus working with pre-defined recipes & actions, as again the time-consuming editing process (which develops spontaneously and not pre-planned) is part of the creation of the final piece. 

Her images tell stories through the interactions among individuals, as well as their interaction with their surrounding space, landscape, and situation. She tends toward a quiet minimalist landscape that features one or more people, and draws out the relationship between landscape and person. 

Along with her own artistic style, her finished products draw from her experience creating sculpture, installation art, and painting.


Exhibitions:

Women In Photography International Juried International Competition, October 2012
Juror Choice Honorable Mention

Photo LA, Santa Monica, CA International Los Angeles Photographic Art Exposition, January 2012
Women In Photography International

Photo LA + Art LA Projects 2011, Santa Monica, CA, Art Exposition, January 2011

The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards, “Storyteller” Juried International Competition, January 2011
Accepted into first screening and exhibited in WonderPick Gallery

Women In Photography International, “Black & White & Color” Juried Competition, January 2011
Juror Choice Honorable Mention

The Gallery at Paper Mill Village, Marietta, Georgia, “Atlanta Retro Americana”
Juried Exhibit, July 2010

Women In Photography International, A Decade of Images, 2000-2010, Juried Competition, June 2010
Juror Choice Honorable Mention

Upstream People Gallery, Omaha, NE, “Faces” Juried International Art Exhibition, March 2010
Special Recognition

UPDATE: Photographer response - NO NEW UPDATES: AUGUST 2014 - APRIL 2017

Subject: Re: Your exhibitions Re: WED Eve 10pm ... VERY LAST update - Sorry, this is IT!
Date: 2017-05-06 10:45
From: Monica Kane Stewart <monica@15thstreetphotography.com>
To: WIPI-CHARTER <members@womeninphotography.org>

Ok, I'm so confused. I thought there was no ability to update the photos
in my gallery / yale listing. Mine are sooooo outdated of my work.
But that's what I understood. So I took no action. My bio doesn't need
any updates.
Is everything complete? Do you need anything from me?
Does WIPI no longer exist?

Thanks,
Monica

Women In Photography International Charter Member

Monica Kane Stewart
San Diego, California
mkanestewart@gmail.com
http://www.MonicaKaneStewart.com


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UPDATE: Photographer response - NO NEW UPDATES: AUGUST 2014 - APRIL 2017

UPDATE FINAL: May 2017 website content 1999-2017
womeninphotography.org file transfer to the Beinecke.
All organization files, computer, external hard drive, printed materials, photographs,
DVDs, books, competitions files and onsite installation art work