Living and Photographing in an Imperfect Union
Congratulations to our WINNERS, juried by Arthur Ollman:
- Lisa Tang Liu and James David Tabor Collaboration
- Kevin Baca
- Louise Russell
- Will Gibson
OUR STATEMENT:
“We the People, in Order to Form a More Perfect Union”… from the preamble to the U.S. Constitution, 1787, Philadelphia
Living and Photographing in an Imperfect Union
We came up with this theme after the November election, which triggered fear about the future
among so many artists. In this time of unmitigated chaos, the threat is real. We can only do what we can do…some of us create art. The photographers here have shown us through various ways of image-making, that their minds and hearts have grappled with this new reality and produced myriad ways of dealing with it. We need to continue. Please don’t stop.
We did not receive the number of entries we were hoping for, but what did come through was a wonderful variety, and juror Arthur Olmann was impressed, especially by those who chose the path of metaphor. Here is what he said when talking about his top four choices:
“There are so many ways to use metaphors, and some photographers found them. I was very pleased with the Tabor and Tang Liu entries. A great way to deal with the separations from others that we are experiencing….because of fear of one kind or another. Baca looked at the “edges” of our “civilization”, where the natural gives way to the synthetic….the interstices spaces. Gibson, by using infrared gives things that irradiated nuclear winter feeling, while still everything is so heavenly beautiful. And Russell by using tripod, pinhole and scanner and photoshop has created a hybrid of processes and thus appearances. Then by employing the old romantic, classic viewpoint and pristine place selections she also gives us a fall from grace interruption of unlovely human intrusions. Identifying mundane places in ways that identify issues is a way to show a subtler and in-the-end more meaningful statement.” A. O.
Please enjoy the results of this juried exhibition, selected by Arthur Olmann. We look forward to producing a Blurb book in the next several weeks. Stay tuned.
Donna Cosentino, Director
Congratulations to our WINNERS, juried by Arthur Ollman:
- Lisa Tang Liu and James David Tabor Collaboration
- Kevin Baca
- Louise Russell
- Will Gibson
OUR STATEMENT:
“We the People, in Order to Form a More Perfect Union”… from the preamble to the U.S. Constitution, 1787, Philadelphia
Living and Photographing in an Imperfect Union
We came up with this theme after the November election, which triggered fear about the future
among so many artists. In this time of unmitigated chaos, the threat is real. We can only do what we can do…some of us create art. The photographers here have shown us through various ways of image-making, that their minds and hearts have grappled with this new reality and produced myriad ways of dealing with it. We need to continue. Please don’t stop.
We did not receive the number of entries we were hoping for, but what did come through was a wonderful variety, and juror Arthur Olmann was impressed, especially by those who chose the path of metaphor. Here is what he said when talking about his top four choices:
“There are so many ways to use metaphors, and some photographers found them. I was very pleased with the Tabor and Tang Liu entries. A great way to deal with the separations from others that we are experiencing….because of fear of one kind or another. Baca looked at the “edges” of our “civilization”, where the natural gives way to the synthetic….the interstices spaces. Gibson, by using infrared gives things that irradiated nuclear winter feeling, while still everything is so heavenly beautiful. And Russell by using tripod, pinhole and scanner and photoshop has created a hybrid of processes and thus appearances. Then by employing the old romantic, classic viewpoint and pristine place selections she also gives us a fall from grace interruption of unlovely human intrusions. Identifying mundane places in ways that identify issues is a way to show a subtler and in-the-end more meaningful statement.” A. O.
Please enjoy the results of this juried exhibition, selected by Arthur Olmann. We look forward to producing a Blurb book in the next several weeks. Stay tuned.
Donna Cosentino, Director
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