Bruno V. Roels: Sensory Memory

June 25 - October 31

Bruno V. Roels’ new edition for Gallery FIFTY ONE is called ‘Sensory Memory’.

The title refers to the memory process that allows individuals to retain impressions of sensory information after the original stimulus has ceased. The title is also a nod to the way the prints were made: the photographic paper was moved during exposure in the dark room, so instead of a photograph of one palm tree, the image becomes a multiple of that same image.

All prints in the edition are different and some have been touched with ink. This edition fits perfectly in Roels’ oeuvre: it touches on the nature of the analogue photographic process, playing with repetition and variation, while using his favorite imagery: palm trees.

Audre Lorde, Robert Alexander: Powerful and Dangerous: The Words and Images of Audre Lorde

March 22, 2020 - February 15, 2021

The Alice Austen House presents Audre Lorde in photographs and historic texts.

Powerful and Dangerous explores the intersection between language, activism and photographic messaging. The exhibition holds up a lens to the contemporary women’s, LGBTQ+, and Black Lives Matter movements and considers how Lorde’s words resonate today. Due to COVID-19 the exhibition has been extended with online programs until 2021. A series of public programs, including scholars talks, readings, outdoor film screenings and artist-led photo walks in the Staten Island neighborhood of Stapleton where Lorde’s home, now an LGBTQ Historic landmark, will take place through 2021.

This exhibition is curated by Victoria Munro with contributions by Clare Coss, Blanche Wiesen Cook, Jean Weisinger, Dagmar Shultz, Jennifer Abode and JEB. 

Scholars talks will include: Clare Coss, Blanche Wiesen Cook, Jewelle Gomez, Cheryl Clark, Elizabeth Lorde Rollins, M.D. and Alexis Pauline Gumbs.

Film presentations by Dagmar Schultz and Jennifer Abod with audio interview by Jennifer Abod.

Acting Out: Cabinet Cards and the Making of Modern Photography

August 14 - November 1

Acting Out: Cabinet Cards and the Making of Modern Photography offers the first-ever in-depth examination of the photographic phenomenon of cabinet cards. Cabinet cards were America’s main format for photographic portraiture through the last three decades of the nineteenth century. Inexpensive and sold by the dozen, they transformed getting one’s portrait made from a formal event taken up once or twice in a lifetime into a commonplace practice shared with family and friends.

All Art Arizona 2020

August 22 - October 3

This year’s All Art Arizona presents exciting work created by both well-known and emerging artists living in our own back yard, the state of Arizona.

This ten year tradition at Art Intersection highlights the breadth and diversity of art created by Arizona artists. The range of acceptable artwork encompasses sculpture, glass, photography, painting, ceramics, wood, printmaking, mixed media, artist books, and more.

All Art Arizona attracts artists, art collectors, and art lovers from all over the state to one of our best known exhibitions of the year. Visit the Art Intersection galleries, bring your friends and family, to enjoy this unique exhibition and range of art by Arizona artists.  As always, the exhibition is free and open to the public during business hours. While you are here, get involved by voting for the Viewer’s Choice Award, to be announced shortly after the exhibition closes. As always, the exhibition is free and open to the public during business hours.

The number of guests in the galleries is currently limited to fifteen (15) at a time. Depending on traffic through the galleries, there may be a wait to enter.

Chris Anderson, Chuck Grove, Cyril Bailleul, David H. Miller, Dinesh Chitlangia, Douglas Powell, Eric Burkard, Eric Kunsman, Ferney Coy, Gail Mitchell, Gerald Alderman, Hannah Butler, Jari Poulin, Jeremy Janus, Jinwoo Hwon Lee, Karey Walter, Leslie Andrews, Manuel Morquecho, Marilyn Maxwell, Mark Caceres, Mary Farmer, Michael Joseph, Nathan Dean, Nina Cammarata, Rene Borrero, Shirley Nannini / Windflow Trish Lawrence: APG > ATL: Airport 2020

September 17 - November 11

Reception: Thurs September 24, 7-9pm

Register for the Virtual Opening & Juror Talk with Amy Miller –  9/24 @7pm ET

https://www.atlantaphotographygroup.org/events/2020/9/17/exhibition-airport2020

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Atlanta Photography Group presents APG > ATL: Airport 2020, a group show juried by Amy Miller, the Executive Director of Atlanta Celebrates Photography (ACP). This exhibition features multiple works by APG artists, one of Atlanta’s premier photography organizations. From a national call for entries, Miller selected 30 photographs for this exhibition currently on view at the world’s busiest airport. An annual highlight of the Atlanta Celebrates Photography Festival, the exhibition regularly welcomes 260,000 travelers a day to the city. If your plans bring you to the airport, be sure to stop by the main atrium of the domestic terminal for an oasis of calm among the traveling chaos this Fall.

All exhibition images are printed on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta Paper, courtesy of Hahnemühle.

Exhibition Dates: September 17, 2020 – November 11, 2020

The online opening is Sept 24, 2020 from 7pm to 9pm and includes a juror talk and Q&A with the attending artists. (Registration is required)

Location: Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, Main Atrium – Domestic Terminal, 6000 N Terminal Parkway, Atlanta, GA, 30320

This exhibition is free and open to the public during regular airport hours

Virtual Opening & Juror Talk with Amy Miller: Sept 24, 7-9pm

Please join us for a juror talk with the Executive Director of Atlanta Celebrates Photography, Amy Miller, where she will discuss her process for selecting the artists and their images for the exhibition, chat with the artists and take questions regarding the selections.

Website exhibition, opening event, juror talk & registration link: www.AtlantaPhotographyGroup.org

Group exhibition of photographic artists. Juror: Barbara Griffin: Strange Time, a virtual & small print exhibition

September 17 - October 10

Reception: Wed September 30, 7-9pm

REGISTER FOR THE VIRTUAL OPENING & JUROR TALK – 9/30/2020

https://www.atlantaphotographygroup.org/events/2020/09/17/exhibition-strange-time

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It’s definitely been a STRANGE TIME and the Atlanta Photography Group is highlighting interesting photographs that express the uniqueness of our current situation. From new photos to those from photographers archives, APG has organized a virtual & small print exhibition to share the interpretation of STRANGE TIME.

All photographic processes are welcome and all genres are acceptable, from landscapes, cityscapes and people, to animals, abstracts, botanicals and more, we’re excited about the images.

We are delighted to have Barbara Griffin as the juror of the exhibition. Barbara has selected more than 100 images to display in the gallery and on our online platforms during September.

Images are displayed online in our virtual gallery and as prints only (no framing required). All prints are available for sale. Prints are 8×10/8.5×11 up to 11×14/11×17.

See the website for more information and to register for the online opening & juror talk.

Jon Henry: Stranger Fruit

September 1 - September 30

Opening Reception and Lecture: September 12, 2020 6–10pm

Lecture: September 12, 2020 8:00pm EST

Big Day Gallery is pleased to present film photographer Jon Henry’s Stranger Fruit depicting the modern day African American Mother and Child echoing the form of The Pieta. This work reflects on family, socio political issues, grief, trauma and healing within the African American community.

Gallery Hours – Saturday and Sunday 12–6pm and M–F by appointment

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Alison Wright: Grit and Grace, Women at Work

March 14 - October 12

From India to Africa, tea fields to technology, women are the resilient hard-working backbones of their communities. These 30 images by photographer Alison Wright, a National Geographic Traveler of the Year, showcase the magnetic stories of remarkable women living in post-conflict or hard-to-reach areas in developing countries whose perseverance is often overlooked.

Wright’s vivid portraits illuminate a shared determination among women in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East to create better futures through creativity, ingenuity, and drive. They celebrate the individuals and grassroots organizations committed to finding creative solutions to the challenges these women face, because empowering women benefits not only the individuals and their families, but their villages, their nations, and our world.

— Katherine Gass Stowe, Curator

This project is presented in partnership with The Vermont Women’s Fund.

Dimitra Lazaridou, Chul Hyun Ahn, Zoë Charlton, Alfonso Fernandez, Carol Miller Frost, Carol Brown Goldberg, Mel Kendrick, Jae Ko, Ben Marcin, Rania Matar, Beverly McIver, Jackie Milad, John Ruppert, Nora Sturges, John Waters: SUMMER ’20

July 16 - September 26

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Charles "Teenie" Harris: In Sharp Focus: Charles “Teenie” Harris

January 25, 2020 - May 1, 2022

CMOA is thrilled to announce the creation of a dedicated gallery for the Teenie Harris Archive. This space will feature iconic examples of Harris’s photographs and host a number of educational programs and community events inspired by this world-renowned collection.

Harris—who was a photographer for The Pittsburgh Courier, one of the nation’s most influential black newspapers—created an unparalleled chronicle of African American history and culture during the mid-twentieth century. As both a member and documentarian of the black community, Harris remains an iconic figure in Pittsburgh to this day. With this installation, the museum celebrates Harris’s legacy and looks forward to creating opportunities for creative collaboration with local partners. The installation opens January 25, 2020, and will be ongoing.

The Teenie Harris Gallery is organized by Dominique Luster, archivist, and Charlene Foggie-Barneett, archive specialist, Teenie Harris Archive.

Keliy Anderson-Staley, Omar Imam, Rubén Martín de Lucas: What is Home?

September 11 - October 31

Catherine Edelman Gallery is excited to open the Fall season with What is Home? featuring work by Keliy Anderson-Staley, Omar Imam and Rubén Martín de Lucas. 

The Webster dictionary defines home as “one’s place of residence; the social unit formed by a family living together; a familiar or usual setting.” If you ask most people how they define home, it is either where they currently live, or where they grew up. But for many people today, home is not always tangible, due to displacement, border restrictions, or lack of safety. What is Home? brings together three photographers who each interpret the concept of home in very unique ways. The show opens September 11 and runs through October 31, 2020. To avoid crowds, the opening reception will be from noon – 7:00 pm on Friday, September 11.

For more than fifteen years, Keliy Anderson-Staley [b. 1977, Boston, MA] has been working on [Hyphen]-Americans, a photographic tintype portrait series that encapsulates what America looks like today. Using a large-format camera, Anderson-Staley photographs anyone interested in having their portrait taken, regardless of age, sex, or ethnicity, as she continually adds to her collection of more than 4000 portraits. In 2017, after her Houston home and studio were flooded by Hurricane Harvey, she created Shelter in Place, a wooden house constructed of 560 portraits of local residents, as a testament to the strength and resilience of Houstonians. The idea of building a house of strangers redefines the concept of home.

In 2012, Syrian activist turned photographer Omar Imam [b. 1979 Damascus, Syria] was kidnapped and tortured by a militia and only let go when a friend intervened. Soon after, Imam left Damascus, first settling in Beirut, and now residing in Amsterdam with his wife and children. Syrialism is Imam’s response to the reality of torture experienced by himself and other refugees who settled in Lebanon and other European countries. Like his earlier work, Imam met and talked with numerous refugees who had been abducted, recreating painful memories to bring awareness about the psychological and physical torment that continues today. No longer able to live in their native homelands, each person pictured has had to adopt a new place to call home.

Rubén Martín de Lucas’ [b. 1977, Madrid, Spain] work challenges the concept of home by constructing arbitrary boundaries in unexpected places. In Minimal Republics, he creates photographs about the concept of borders and our need for the structure they provide. Martín de Lucas creates each image the same: define and allocate 100㎡ of space and inhabit it for 24 hours. From wheat fields to soccer fields to expanses of dried earth, unidentified pieces of land are transformed into a temporary residence for one.

All three artists create work that invites us into different physical spaces that challenge the definition of home. We hope this exhibition inspires visitors to think about the concept of home and the inherent complexities this word invokes. 

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Curated by Robert Hirsch, William Graebner, Gary Goldberg, Anne Arden McDonald, Martin Kruck, Edward Bateman, Nir Evron, Amy Friend, Alejandro Cartagena, Marcus DeSieno, Kevin Kline, Peter Leighton, Joseph Mills, Jürgen O. Olbrich, Rod Summers, Henryk Ross, Willyum Rowe, Paul Shambroom: Wild Things: Disrupting the Photographic Archive in the Age of a Pandemic

September 19 - December 20

Wild Things: Disrupting the Photographic Archive in the Time of a Pandemic explores the polarity between the mechanical realism of the camera and chance expressionism of time, nature, and the maker’s hand that liberates images from their literalness and launches them into unexpected territory. The project delves into the slipperiness of photographic realism by offering visual evidence of how the malleability of photographic processes can change an image’s meaning. 

This exhibition features nineteen international artists hailing from Canada, England, Germany, Israel, Mexico, the Netherlands, Poland, and the United States whose photographic-based images disrupt a strict literal interpretation into a fresh metaphorical discourse. Like the Novel coronavirus (COVID-19) that postponed the opening of this exhibition, the project artists reimagine normalcy by making what was once taken for granted uncertain, thereby giving viewers fresh ways of pondering our existence. Hence, images made for one purpose take on a different significance, connoting how a photograph is more than it denotes. It posits that a photograph can be an active shapeshifting process that continuously evolves rather than simply a fixed document of what once happened in the past. 

This project examines our society’s post-fact dilemma by recognizing that “truth” is a contested and illusive objective. The past is constantly revised according to the attitudes of the present. This breakdown in the old agreements about certainty is the new reality; explained in terms of conflicting and often incompatible narratives. 

In the age of Fake News, conspiracy hoaxes, and misinformation, people need to see and understand how our society’s ideas of truth are transitory and are the product of an argument and agreement. In these works, the relationship between an artist and a viewer is to offer a transformed understanding about what is authentic. 

These artists wrestle with the ontological status of things by provoking an examination of what we collectively agree exists and how meaning fluctuates over time. Collectively, their works proclaim there are boundless ways for one to photographically imagine our world. 

A full-color, 75-page catalog, with an essay by Robert Hirsch, accompanies the exhibition. 

Robert Hirsch is an artist, curator, educator, historian and author of Seizing the Light: A Social & Artistic History of Photography; Light and Lens: Photography in the Digital Age; Photographic Possibilities: The Expressive Use of Concepts, Ideas, Equipment, Ideas, Materials, and Processes; Exploring Color: From Film to Pixels and Transformational Imagemaking: Handmade Photography Since 1960. Hirsch has exhibited in over 200 solo and group shows as well as curated numerous exhibitions. A former CEPA Gallery Executive Director, Hirsch operates Light Research. More at: www.lightresearch.net