Exhibition Dates: July 15 – 28th, 2019
Reception: July 20, 1 – 6pm
Location: Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, New York

Group Pop Up Exhibition featuring selections from Fear Culture, USA alongside work by Chashama Studios and the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, taking place at BWAC a 25,000 square foot historic civil war era warehouse in Red Hook, Brooklyn.

Exhibition Dates: July 5 – 27th, 2019
Reception: July 5, 6 – 9pm
Location: South East Center for Photography, Greenville, South Carolina

Home, domicile, a dwelling-place. We’re looking for notions of home reinterpreted by the artist…a defining image that speaks to the idea of home, whether a memory, a marker, or a revelation. Color or BW, analog, digital or antique processes, photographers of all skill levels and locations are welcome.

Our jurors for Home are Lisa Woodward and Mia Dalglish. Lisa Woodward and Mia Dalglish are Co-Curators at Pictura Gallery, and they serve as portfolio reviewers for international photography conferences and festivals such as Fotofest, Photolucida, and Les Rencontres d’Arles. They also serve as guest critics for university classrooms and judges for photography competitions, and they conduct studio visits at various MFA programs. Mia is an alumnus of the Indiana University Photography Program. Upon graduation she worked at the International Center for Photography. Lisa is an alumnus of the Rhode Island School of Design’s photography program.

Exhibition Dates: June 7 – 23rd, 2019
Reception: June 7, 5-8pm
Location: CANO Oneonta, Oneonta, NY

The theme for this year’s Mansion Group Show is “Boundaries.” Artists may use their own interpretation of the theme – political, personal, formal or otherwise.

CANO’s Mansion Show is an annual juried art exhibition open to all artists, styles and media. Artists may submit up to three works of art, which have not been previously shown at CANO. The selected artwork and award winners are chosen by two outside jurors, Nick George, Luke Dougherty

Solo exhibition featuring work created during the course of my tenure as Hilla Rebay Post Baccalaureate Felllow in the Studio Arts department at Trinity College.

Exhibition Dates: May 13 – 30th, 2019
Reception: May 13, 4:30 – 6:30pm
Location: CCAN Gallery at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut

“The popular CBS reality show returns for an 11th round of voyeurism and psychodrama, as 12 strangers live together in a specially outfitted house where their every move is caught on camera… One by one a houseguest is evicted by his or her peers, until the last houseguest standing takes home the $500,000 prize…”

–Description of Big Brother Season 20 taken from Google, January 2019, (Excerpt)

…Is Always Watching functions as a commentary on privacy, surveillance, and entertainment. It prompts the viewer to re-examine their personal value of privacy within a society in which the commodification of personal data is increasingly normalized. This photo essay is made up of a series of screenshots from the popular reality television show Big Brother, sourced from online clips.

The work is meant to be unnerving. In highlighting the most bizarre, strange, or uncomfortable moments from online clips of various seasons of Big Brother, the imagery attempts to transcend my personal feelings and concerns regarding privacy to you, the viewer. Often the frames that were selected, or screen grabbed, were moments where the subject breaks the fourth wall with the viewer. I personally found that moment of recognition to be the most jarring or anxiety inducing.

In a time when mass surveillance is expected, I believe it is our right as a society to take every precaution to prevent our personal data from being exploited. In not exercising our right to inhibit third parties from peering into our lives via our uncovered webcams, our devices, and our app permissions, we invite unwanted eyes to view us in the same way that we view the figures in this photo essay.  

Exhibition Dates: April 1 – 30th, 2019
Location: Online in conjunction with FLEFF 2019 in Ithaca, NY

The 21st edition of the Finger Lakes Film Festival (FLEFF) investigates the theme of disruptions and invites submissions for its online group exhibition, Networked Disruptions.

disruption (n.): “a rending asunder, a bursting apart, forcible separation into parts,” early 15c., originally medical, “laceration of tissue”; general sense from 1640s, from Medieval Latin disruptionem (nominative disruptio) “a breaking asunder,” noun of action from past-participle stem of Latin “disrumpere, break apart, split, shatter, break to pieces,” from dis- “apart” (see dis-) + rumpure “to break,” from PIE root *runp- “to break” (see corrupt (adj.)).

Disruptions stop the flow of events, ideas, processes, and structures. They produce stoppages, breaks, and fissures where old flows are halted and new ones can emerge. In some cases, disruptions are productive, as in technological and political revolutions. In other cases, disruptions are destabilizing and counterproductive, as in severe weather patterns and market volatilities.

Global climate disruptions consist in unwanted and unnatural environmental changes. They give rise to rising air and water temperatures, to rising water and toxicity levels, to rising fears and anxieties. Disrupting consumerist habits, such as use of cheap fossil fuels to power single-person or single-family (“private”) automobiles and produce single-use (“disposable”) plastics, is an urgent response that can be distributed across the world.

Networked disruptions consist in outages, censorship, violations of privacy, and thefts of identities. Hackers have often worked to unlock content and interrupt the algorithms that narrow the aggregated information in our search engine results or our social media feeds.

This exhibition seeks projects that explore disruptions in relation to our natural and virtual environments. Ones that contribute to broadening dialogues and debates.

Curated by FLEFF Digital Curator Dale Hudson (New York University Abu Dhabi) and FLEFF Assistant Digital Curator Claudia Costa Pederson (Wichita State University)

The exhibition will launch in conjunction with the onsite festival in Ithaca, New York, United States.