Everything Under the Sun: Cyanotype and Lumen Prints by Fruma Markowitz | Opening Reception
October 18 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
On display in The Meetinghouse Gallery
Everything Under the Sun: Cyanotype and Lumen Prints by Fruma Markowitz
October 18 – November 22, 2026
Opening Reception:
Sunday, October 18, 2026 from 2-4 pm in the downstairs gallery.
The Gallery is open Tuesdays – Sundays 8:00 am – 4:00 pm for viewing. (Closed Mondays).
Artist’s Statement
Everything Under The Sun is my first solo show at The Meetinghouse. I’m showing a collection of cyanotype and lumen prints, most of which were created during my 2022 Artist Residency at the Weir Farm National Park, in Wilton, CT. While there, I created a visual diary by making one lumen print per day, and a collection of cyanotype prints using the many native wildflowers and invasive plants growing at the farm. I also photographed John Weir’s barn studio and home, with the intention of one day creating a hand-made artist book, combining his work and mine as two artists having a relationship engaged with an identical landscape, albeit separated by both process and time. Everything Under The Sun is the commencement of this work. It is the ecological foundation upon which more complex images will follow.
What are you looking at?
Cyanotype is a non-toxic photographic process that uses a mixture of two iron salts, potassium ferricyanide and ferric ammonium citrate, to create an emulsion that is sensitive to UV light. The prints are made by laying objects, in this case botanical cuttings, on paper painted with the cyanotype solution, covered with a sheet of glass, and placed in the sun for about 10-15 minutes. They are then washed in water, dried, and the results are what you see here.
Lumen prints are made in a similar fashion, but rather than mixing any chemicals, the artist uses old-fashioned analog black and white darkroom paper as the substrate. Botanicals are laid on the paper and held in place with the same sheet of glass, exposed in the sun, resulting in very colorful and unexpected patterns. The variation in color is caused by the way a certain brand of darkroom paper has been manufactured, combined with the natural chemicals secreted by the botanic cuttings when they heat up in the sun.
About the Artist
Fruma Markowitz’s photography practice focuses on historical, experimental, and hand-made processes, with an emphasis on cyanotype and lumen photography, textile-based mixed-media collage, and, most recently, hand-made artist photobooks. Family life, womanhood, cultural histories with shared legacies, and environmental concerns are where she mostly draws inspiration for making images.
Fruma exhibits her work in local galleries near her home base in Black Rock, CT, as well as in national and international venues. Locally she belongs to the Artists’ Collective of Westport and New England Bookmakers Association. She has won recognition for her work from the Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers as well as full-portfolio publication and review of her work in DekUnu Arts (2023), FLOAT Magazine (2024), and Lenscratch (Oct. 2024). In July 2025, she won the Arthur Griffin Legacy Award at the Griffin Museum Juried Members Exhibition.
Fruma has taught photography to women in crisis at Project Return Home in Westport and to cancer survivors at The Creative Center in NYC, and, more recently, at Five Points Art Center and her private home studio. In July, 2025, Fruma led two workshops at the Experimental PhotoFest in Barcelona, Spain.
Fruma was a member of the first graduating class (1984) at the Bezalel Academy of Art & Design in Jerusalem, Israel, where she earned a BFA in photography and was the recipient of the Agfa Award, the Jerusalem Student Award and numerous merit scholarships.
