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BOAAT Press | Rachael Banks

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Congratulations to Texas Woman’s University Alumna, Rachael Banks, for being selected as a finalist for the BOAAT Press 2015 Photography Competition. Images from Between Home and Here will be featured in the July / August Issue with Camilo Ramirez and Yorgos Efthymiadis.

Rachael Banks is a Louisville, KY native who is living and working in Dallas, TX. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree in photography from Texas Woman’s University and Bachelor of Arts degree in photography and painting from Bellarmine University in Louisville, KY.

A Certain Displacement, Cliff Gallery | Kristina Smith and Ashley Whitt

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Congratulations to Texas Woman’s University Alumnae, Kristina Smith and Ashley Whitt, for their group exhibition, A Certain Displacement, in Cliff Gallery at Mountain View College. The exhibition is June 15 – August 7, 2015, with a reception on June 20, 2015, from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM.

A Certain Displacement:
Rachel Rushing, Kristina Smith, and Ashley Whitt

Exhibition: June 15 – August 7, 2015

Reception: Saturday June 20, 2015 | 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM

A Certain Displacement is a collaborative project between three emerging North Texas artists: Rachel Rushing, Kristina Smith, and Ashley Whitt. Each artist explores transitory states of being related to their shared experiences of commuting, collaborating, working, and living across multiple social geographies. Through the investigation of place and identity, this project encompasses video and a combination of historical and contemporary photographic processes to create installations that invite viewers to become immersed in surreal, disorienting environments.

The title specifically references the experience of being an adjunct instructor in the Dallas / Fort Worth area. Contemporary higher education is undergoing great scrutiny, in part due to the still-recent economic recession of 2008. With external pressures pushing against rising tuition costs, much of America is now re-examining the value of higher education and the cost of attendance. As a result of this examination, new light is being shed on those in instructional positions. According to the American Association of University Professors, as much as 76% of faculty across all types of institutions are adjunct, or contingent, faculty.

As members of the group of 76%, these three artists use a variety of photographic processes to explore their circumstances. Processes: this word refers to chemical, mechanical, or digital changes occurring. It also refers to a compulsion found in each artist to work through, to operate in a way that meets their pragmatic needs and simultaneously fulfills their personal creative practices. Processes become rituals to make sense of a lifestyle that is often overwhelming, unpredictable, and ultimately contingent.

http://www.mountainviewcollege.edu/Academics/acaddivisions/Ahss/arts/Pages/artgallery.aspx

A World Imagined, Silver Eye Center for Photography | Kelli Connell

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Congratulations to Texas Woman’s University Alumna, Kelli Connell, for having her work included in a two person exhbition, A World Imagined. The exhibition is at Silver Eye Center for Photography in Pittsburgh, PA, from April 3 – June 13, 2015. There is an closing reception Saturday, June 13, 2015, at 6:00 PM.

Exhibition: April 3 – June 13, 2015

Closing Reception: Saturday, June 13, 2015 | 6:00 PM

A World Imagined features the work of Kelli Connell (Chicago, IL) and Sara Macel (Brooklyn, NY) who each explore the emotional and psychological terrain of personal relationships. Each artists’ projects offer opportunities to reflect on authorship, on photographic construction, and on ways in which we define relationships through our subjective experiences of them. Kelli Connell’s photographs in Double Life invent a relationship that visualizes, through digital manipulations, questions around intimacy and identity; Sara Macel’s May the Road Rise to Meet You is a collaborative examination of her relationship with her father at the end of his career.

The exhibition is organized by Leo Hsu, adjunct professor, Carnegie Mellon University, writer, and photographer, and David Oresick, Executive Director, Silver Eye Center for Photography.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Kelli Connell’s (b. 1974) body of work entitled Double Life has been widely received and included in numerous national solo and group exhibitions. Her work is in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Columbus Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Microsoft, The Haggerty Museum of Art, The Philadelphia Museum of Art and The Dallas Museum of Art. Publications include MP3: Midwest Photographers’ Publication Project (Aperture and The Museum of Contemporary Photography), Vitamin Ph: New Perspectives in Photography (Phaidon) and Photo Art: The New World of Photography (Aperture). Connell’s first full-length monograph entitled Kelli Connell: Double Life was released by DECODE Books in August 2011.

Sara Macel (b. 1981) received her MFA in Photography, Video & Related Media at the School of Visual Arts in 2011 and her BFA in Photography + Imaging from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2003. Her work has been internationally exhibited and is in various private collections, including the Cleveland Museum of Art, Harry Ransom Center, and the Center of Photography at Woodstock. Her recent honors include Magenta Foundation’s Flash Forward, Top 50 Photographer’s in Photolucida’s Critical Mass Award, and she was named a winner in the New York Photo Festival. In 2012, Sara received the Individual Photographer’s Fellowship Grant from the Aaron Siskind Foundation. Her first monograph, May the Road Rise to Meet You, was published by Daylight Books in 2013, and a traveling exhibition of that work was shown in solo shows in 2014 at the Center for Photography in Woodstock and the Houston Center for Photography before coming to Silver Eye. She recently self-published a book of her series titled Kiss & Tell. In addition to her freelance work, Sara currently teaches photography at SUNY Rockland and was an artist-in-residence at The Wassaic Project in upstate New York.

ABOUT THE CURATOR

Leo Hsu is an instructor in the photography program at Carnegie Mellon University, and holds a PhD in Anthropology and a Certificate in the Program in Culture and Media from New York University. His writings appear in the online magazine Fraction (fractionmagazine.com). His previous collaborations with Silver Eye Center for Photography include HomeFrontLine: Reflections on 10 Years of War Since 9/11 (2011) and No Job No Home No Peace No Rest: An Installation by Will Steacy (2012).

CLOSING RECEPTION

Talk-tails: Closing Reception for A World Imagined
WHEN: Saturday, June 13, 2015, 6:00 pm
WHERE: Silver Eye Center for Photography, 1015 East Carson Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15203
Join us for a casual evening of photography and cocktails. A World Imagined curator Leo Hsu will be here to talk about the work of Kelli Connell and Sara Macel, while guiding guests through the exhibition and inspiration behind the work. Sip on a delicious cocktail generously provided by Pittsburgh’s own Wigle Whiskey and enjoy this last chance to see A World Imagined. A closing reception for the exhibition will follow the talk.
Suggested donation $5.00

Float Photo Magazine | Rachael Banks

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Congratulations to Texas Woman’s University Alumna, Rachael Banks, for having her series, Between Home and Here, featured on Float Photo Magazine, an online photography magazine. Take a look at the feature here.

“Float magazine was launched in March 2014 with the first issue “Into the Wild”. Float was created by Dana Stirling & Yoav Friedlander in the hopes of creating a new, fresh and young look at today’s Photography scene. We hope to create issues that will motivate us and others in creating new images and art. Inspire one another and share our creations with people all over the globe. Bringing together well-known photographers as well as young artists to have them share and learn in order to offers opportunities for exposure and community. We are a non-profit magazine, working in the online scene. Located in queens NYC.”

Rachael Banks is a Louisville, KY native who is living and working in Dallas, TX. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree in photography from Texas Woman’s University and Bachelor of Arts degree in photography and painting from Bellarmine University in Louisville, KY.

365 Artists 365 Days Project | Rachael Banks

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Congratulations to Texas Woman’s University Alumna, Rachael Banks, for being interviewed by 365 Artists 365 Days Project. Take a look at the interview here.

Rachael is a Louisville, KY native who is living and working in Dallas, TX. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree in photography from Texas Woman’s University and Bachelor of Arts degree in photography and painting from Bellarmine University in Louisville, KY.

ArtCon SKEWED | Sheryl Anaya

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Congratulations to Texas Woman’s University Alumna, Sheryl Anaya, for having an artist profile featured by ArtCon in conjunction with their SKEWED Art Auction. To view the interview, click here.

Sheryl completed her BFA in Photography and Sculpture at Texas Woman’s University in 2013. She is currently a Member of 500x Gallery and the Editorial Assistant for Light Leaked, an online photography journal.

Haaretz Photography Blog | Allison Jarek

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Congratulations to Allison Jarek for having her series, Hallowed Ground, featured on Haaretz Photography Blog. To view this feature, visit http://www.haaretz.co.il.

Allison received her BFA in Photography from the Savannah College of Art and Design in the spring of 2011 and recently completed her MFA in Visual Arts, Photography Concentration at Texas Woman’s University.

The Haunted Mind, Lillian Bradshaw Gallery | Ashley Whitt

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Congratulations to Texas Woman’s University Alumna, Ashley Whitt, for her recent solo exhibition, The Haunted Mind, at the Lillian Bradshaw Gallery in the Dallas Public Library. The exhibition ran from March 2 – March 28, 2015.

The Haunted Mind is an on-going series of self-portraits exploring themes of grief, duality, and psychological states. An alternative photographic process called dass transfer is used to create distortion and blurring within the images.

There is also an accompanying musical piece titled “SheIsWaitingInTheWoods” by Dan Bernardo.

Ashley graduated from Texas Woman’s University where she earned her MFA in Photography in 2012. She graduated from UT Arlington with a BFA in Photography in 2009. Ashley currently adjuncts in the Dallas/Fort Worth area for Dallas County and Collin County Community Colleges.

A Flexible Arrangement, Grey Matters Gallery | Kalee Appleton

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Congratulations to Texas Woman’s University Alumna, Kalee Appleton, for having five pieces from her series, Bit Rot, in the group exhibition, A Flexible Arrangement, at Gray Matters Gallery in Dallas, Texas. Curated by Nathan Green, this exhibition includes an impressive lineup of artists working in photography, including: Sterling Allen, Josh Rios, Barry Stone, Kevin Todora, and Casey James Wilson.

Exhibition Dates: March 28 – April 26, 2015

Gray Matters Gallery
113 N. Haskell Ave.
Dallas, TX, 75226
(214) 824-7108

Kalee received a BFA in Photography from Texas Tech University in 2005 and an MFA in Visual Arts, Photography Concentration from Texas Woman’s University in 2014.

Recent Successes and Artistic Endeavors | Joy Christiansen Erb

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A Letter from Joy Christiansen Erb | Recent Successes and Artistic Endeavors

“Fun 2014 Activities and News

Last year was filled with some amazing opportunities that allowed me to create and exhibit new artwork, participate in an artist residency program and travel to Turkey! With the help of a Faculty Improvement Leave from YSU, I was able to have the spring semester off from teaching to work on the development of a new body of work focusing on the topics of motherhood, imagination and collaboration.

In April, I traveled to Nebraska City, NE to participate in an artist residency at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, where I was able to meet and work with some amazing artists, authors, composers and community members. This is definitely an opportunity I would suggest for all of my artist friends! One of my pieces created at the residency titled 13 days apart (26 clementines), which is included in the KHN permanent collection, was recently on display in the inaugural exhibition titled The Residents at the Hastings College Art Gallery in Hasting, NE.

This past summer my work was included in the Griffin Museum of Photography’s 20thJuried Exhibition that was juried by Aline Smithson. I also had five photographs included in an exhibition titled, Environmental Portraiture at Newspace Center for Photography in Portland, OR that was juried by Melanie McWhorter.

The Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography featured the Portrait of a Mother series through a new online exhibition titled New Directions. In addition, David Bram selected one of my photographs to be published in the Fraction Magazine’s 62nd issue.

In November, I presented my work at the Society for Photographic Education’s MidAtlantic regional conference as one of seven photographers selected to speak on the subject of portraiture. The conference was a lot of fun and hosted in Lancaster, PA.

I am beyond excited to announce my recent invitation to participate in the Midwest Photographers Project (MPP). MPP includes a collection of more that 1,000 photographs by both prominent and emerging regional photographers. The collection is housed in theMuseum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, IL.

Last but not least, I had the chance to travel to and photograph in Turkey this past June with nine other colleagues from Youngstown State University and as well as two other amazing friends from the Niagara Foundation! It was an amazing trip that I could talk about for hours. You can see some of my photographs from Turkey on YSU’s website as well as on instagram. Follow me @jchristiansenerb!

Exciting 2015 Events

This year is off to a great start with a solo exhibition titled, Markers opening at thePittsburgh Center for the Arts this upcoming Friday, February 13 from 5:30-9:00pm. If you are in the Pittsburgh area, please stop by and visit the opening. There are several other great shows going up in the center as well, so it should be a fun evening. The exhibition will be up through May, so feel free to stop by when you are visiting Pittsburgh!

I am proud to have had my work selected by Ben Montague to be included in the Image OHIO 15 exhibition along with several of my other photography colleagues from Ohio. The show will be up for another two weeks closing on Friday, February 20th. I will be participating in an artist panel at 1pm that Friday if you are in the Columbus area and want to stop by the Fort Hayes Shot Tower Gallery.

In March, I look forward to participating in the Akron Art Museum’s Slide Jam: Beauty Reigns event and will be speaking about my work with several other artists. This summer will be a busy one planning for some upcoming exhibitions and talks in Florida, Illinois and Wisconsin. Check out my website to find out details about these upcoming events.

As new things develop and new work is made this year, I will be sure to keep you updated in my fall newsletter! Please keep me up-to-date on what is happening in your lives as well! Happy New Year and all the best in 2015!”