Works from What Has Been Will Be Again and Snowbird are on view in concurrent exhibitions in Houston, Chicago, and Tampa. Gallery press releases for each show are below.
MAPPING PERSPECTIVES
THROUGHLINE COLLECTIVE, Houston
March 8-30
Throughline will open its first juried exhibition, MAPPING PERSPECTIVES, on Friday, March 8 at 3909 Main Street, Houston, TX 77002, held in conjunction with the biennial photography festival FOTOFEST HOUSTON. An opening reception will take place the same evening, from 6 to 9pm; a special celebration for the juror is planned for the following Friday, March 15, from 6-9pm. Juried by Samantha Johnston, Executive Director & Curator of the Colorado Photographic Arts Center (CPAC), in Denver, Colorado, the exhibition features a broad range of lens-based work by artists from across the United States.
The theme of this year’s FotoFest is “Critical Geography”, which seeks to re-examine traditional Western and historical understandings of geography while expanding these investigations to new realms. In the spirit of this theme, Mapping Perspectives explores power structures, inequalities, and dominant ideologies within and across marked boundaries. Given we live in a world where influence comes from more than geographical coordinates, Mapping Perspectives examines how photographs capture ways in which culture, society, economics, politics, and religion shape our environments.
Participating Artists: Tya Anthony, Barron Bixler, Christa Blackwood, Leah Dyjak, Jesse Egner, Farima Fooladi, Dana Fritz, Gabriela Gamboa, Edward Gia, Vidya Giri, Megan Jacobs, Sam Jentsch, Bree Lamb / Muscle Memory Collective, Morgan Levy, Diane Meyer, Nancy Newberry, Caroline Philippone, Vann Powell, Jared Ragland, Laurie Smith, Chang-Ching Su, Kathleen Tunnell Handel, Johanna Warwick
Juror’s Statement: Boundaries extend far beyond lines on a map. They encompass power structures, inequalities, and dominant ideologies that mold our lived environments and influence our daily interactions. As you navigate this exhibition, I invite you to consider how boundaries shape your own lived experience. What measured boundaries are deconstructed when we seek to find the forces that connect us?-Samantha Johnston, Executive Director & Curator, Colorado Photographic Arts Center
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CONTEXT 2024
FILTER PHOTO, Chicago
March 22-April 27
Filter Photo is pleased to announce Context 2024, our tenth annual survey exhibition of contemporary photography. This year's exhibition was juried by Sarah Kennel, the Aaron Siskind Curator of Photography and Director of the Raysor Center at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and features the work of 23 artists.
"We are inundated on the daily with an ocean of images, yet the clarity, finesse, and power of the photographs in Context 2024 speak to a collective desire for making work that means something, that can cut across the blaring noise. Across portraiture, documentary, landscapeand experimental work, the artists in this exhibition show us that in these troubled and troubling times, photography retains the capacity to reveal, to connect, to delight, and to bear witness, even as the medium continues to evolve and shape-shift. The resurgence of history as a key photographic concern shapes several documentary projects that trace the origins of our collective myth-making; others bear witness to who we are and how we live, both together and apart from each other. Wry, lucid, and penetrating portraits and self-portraits powerfully assert presence and subjectivity and invite us to see identity formation as a subtle, complex, and shifting phenomenon. Some reveal cracks in the American dream, others chart complex global histories, and others still link us to our attachments and our losses, both personal and collective. Pictures, of course, accrue meaning over time and through social engagement. Several artists cannily reuse found imagery or draw on established pictorial traditions to expand meaning. Some interrogate or interrupt photographic conventions and materials as a way to call attention to urgent political, social and environmental issues. Other artists carefully conjure an intimate, tangible sense of place, inviting us to both consider our relationship to our environment and imagine alternative ways of being."
—Sarah Kennel, Aaron Siskind Curator of Photography and Director of the Raysor Center for Works on Paper, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA)
Dr. Sarah Kennel joined the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) in 2021 as the inaugural Aaron Siskind Curator of Photography and Director of the Raysor Center for Works on Paper. A specialist in nineteenth and twentieth-century photography, Kennel has curated, published, and presented widely on topics ranging from nineteenth-century French photography and historic photographic processes, to European modernism and understudied women photographers. She has also written extensively on the relationship between painting and photography in nineteenth-century France and completed a dissertation on the relationship between dance and the visual arts in early twentieth-century culture. Before joining VMFA, Kennel held positions at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, and the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. Dr. Kennel launched her curatorial career at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Kennel holds a doctorate and a Master of Arts in art history from the University of California, Berkeley and a Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University.
Artists: Sara Abbaspour, Jimmie Allen, Peter Cochrane, Yvette Marie Dostani, Matt Eich, Charlotta Hauksdottir, Khim Mata Hipol, R. J. Kern, Tom Lau, Denise Laurinaitis, Tanya Lunina, Andriana Nativio, Laura Allen Noel, Luigino (Louie) Palu, Jason Pevey, John Prince, Jared Ragland, Astrid Reischwitz, Kathryn Rodrigues, Maggie Shannon, Forrest Simmons, Mitchell Squire, Constance Thalken, Brad Ziegler
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Just as Your Ship's Drifting in They're Pushing Out the Tide
TEMPUS VOLTA, Tampa
March 6-May 2
Juried by Jenal Dolson, Just as Your Ship's Drifting in They're Pushing Out the Tide will showcase works from artists Gina Lee Robins, Amber Toplisek, Ian Wilson, Justin Quaid, Brandin Vance, Jared Ragland, Amy Jones and Elizabeth Molitor in TEMPUS VOLTA. Artists were selected from a national open call for works from all backgrounds and by mediums that explore themes of uncertainty, resilience, and change.
About the Juror: Jenal Dolson lives and works in Chicago as an artist and arts professional. She received her MFA in 2020 from the University of South Florida, and her B.A. in 2007 from the University of Waterloo (Ontario, Canada). She has participated in residencies at The Dorland Mountain Arts Colony (Temecula, CA), Tempus Projects (Tampa, FL), Artscape Gibraltar Point (Toronto, ON), and the Vermont Studio Centre (Johnson, VT). Recent exhibitions include the Roper Gallery, Frostburg State University (Frostburg, MA) and the Kimball Arts Center (Chicago, IL). She currently holds the position of gallery director at ANDREW RAFACZ (Chicago, IL) and has a studio space at Mana Contemporary, in Pilsen (Chicago, IL.)
Tempus Projects is dedicated to nurturing established and emerging local, national, and international artists through exhibitions, collaborations, residencies, and events. The non-profit organization promotes artists working in all media, and develops, organizes, and hosts award-winning exhibitions and events within a range of media and a varied survey of artists. Tempus Projects provides a space for culturally diverse artistic expression, dialogue, and reflection contributing to the visual arts community in the Tampa Bay region.
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