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Call for Entry | Black and White 2016

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Image Credits | Vicki Reed, Tony Ysursa, Jamey Stillings
THEME | Black and White 2016
All capture types and photographic processes are eligible to submit.

JUROR | Rodney Smith
Rodney Smith is a legendary photographer with an impeccable sense of style and an eye to match. His own work is mostly Black and White and only shoots film. Smith’s forty year career includes work for New York Times, GQ and BMW amongst others.
HONORS | AWARDS

Juror’s Selection| $400.00

Director’s Selection | $200.00

Two LiveBooks Website Awards: Valued at $399 from liveBooks

Honorable Mention Awards: 2 year membership and a three image submission for an upcoming call for entry.

Additionally:

Artists’ selected for the exhibition will receive the following:

  • Press releases sent to artists’ choice of media outlets
  • Professional installation images
  • Invitation to complimentary portfolio reviews, lunch and portfolio sharing
  • Promotion on The Center’s large social media platform
  • In-gallery and online exhibition with links to artists’ websites

 

For More Information about the Black and White 2016 Call For Entries, click here

Call for Entry | Emerging Photographer

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Photo by Luisa Dorr

Due: March 7, 2016
Emerging Photographer | PDN
Each issue, Emerging Photographer features a new group of talent with five or less years of professional experience, selected by editors from Emerging Photographer, PDN and Rangefinder.

We love the diverse work we receive from photographers around the world, all with different styles and stories to tell. One of last year’s selected photographers, Luisa Dorr, immediately grabbed our attention with her documentary series on a young girl, Maysa, who aspires to become Miss Brazil. From the intimacy of the photos, to her use of beautiful light, to the careful 10-image edit of her series, we knew that Dorr deserved a platform for her series. She and nine other photographers each received features in the Winter 2015 issue, which was sent to photo editors, art buyers and creative directors, in addition to galleries and photo festivals. Digital editions are posted on issuu.com (see them atwww.issuu.com/eephotogroup).

We want your work for the next issue. Visit emerging.pdncontests.com to enter. for more information on how to enter.

Photos by Luisa Dorr
prizes

»  A feature in Emerging Photographer magazine

»   Print distribution to a targeted list of 8,000 industry creatives, plus additional distribution at major photography festivals and events

»  Online promotion to PDN‘s network of 200k followers

Selected photographers will have the opportunity to consult with and sell their winning series throughCoEdit Collection
categories
Travel/Landscape
Fine Art
Documentary
Portrait/Fashion

Visit emerging.pdncontests.com for all information on how to enter. Check out the FAQpage for category descriptions, guidelines for entering and more.

Join PHOTO+ membership to receive a 30% offentry fees.

The Inventions of Light | Susan kae Grant, panelist

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Congratulations to Texas Woman’s University’s Professor of Art, Susan kae Grant, for being a panelist at Toronto-Montreal-Lille:The Inventions of Light Conference. The conference is February 24 through 26, 2016.

Susan is paticipating in the following panel at the conference:

Morning Session A: Shadows of the Invisible

A discussion of the uncanny ability of photography to reveal what is invisible to the naked eye. Features three artists whose imaginative pursuits expand on the scientific curiosity that once was the main impetus behind imaging phenomena beyond the realm of the visible.

Moderator: Claude Baillargeon (Oakland University)

Wild Nights, Imaging the Unseen
Michael Flomen (independent artist)

The Radiant Forest
Marie-Jeanne Musiol (independent artist)

Night Journey Project
Susan kae Grant (Texas Woman’s University)

Susan kae Grant received an MFA in Photography and Book Arts in 1979 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Since 1975 she has produced 13 limited edition handmade books. Her most recent book, “Shadowed Memory” was created during a 2005 residency at Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester New York. She taught at Wayne State University from 1979-1981 and joined the faculty at Texas Womanʼs University in 1981 where she is currently Professor and Head of the Photography area. She is on the staff of the International Center of Photography where she teaches bookmaking workshops. In 2003 and 2005 she was the recipient of the Society for Photographic Education “Freestyle Crystal Apple Award” and “The Excellence in Photographic Teaching Award” in 2004 from the Santa Fe Center for Photography.

The Landscape Redefined, Carneal Simmons Contemporary Art | Kalee Appleton

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Congratulations to Texas Woman’s University Alumna Kalee Appleton for having work in group exhibition, The Landscape Redefined at Carneal Simmons Contemporary Art in Dallas, TX. The exhibition runs from February 20 to March 26, 2016.

Exhibition Dates: February 20 – March 26, 2016

Opening Reception: February 20, 2016

Additional artists exhibiting will be Sherry Giryotas and Gwen Davidson.

Carneal Simmons Contemporary Art is located at 1415 Slocum Street in the Dallas Design District. Gallery hours are Noon to 5:00 pm, Tuesday through Saturday and by appointment.

Kalee is a photography-based artist and educator living in Dallas, Texas. Originally from Hobbs, NM, she attended Texas Tech University and received a BFA in Photography in 2005. Shortly after graduated she worked as a commercial corporate and aviation photographer before attending Texas Woman’s University, where she received an MFA in Photography in 2014.

15th Annual JEG Photography Exhibition

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15th Annual Joyce Elaine Grant Photography Exhibition
TWU East | West Galleries

Exhibition Dates: February 15 – March 9, 2016

Opening Reception: February 16, 2016 | 5:30 – 7:00 pm

Guest Lecture with Juror, Dr. Rebecca Senf: February 16, 2016 | 4:00 – 5:00 pm

Juror’s Statement:

Theme: “Nourish: Food as Sustenance and Pleasure”

Food is the foundation of life; it is sustenance for our bodies and can be the source of great pleasure. We live in a time where food is abundantly available, and yet we have to evaluate grocery store items to determine if what is being offered is actually “real food.” (Fruit Loops, Cheetos, Twinkies, Cheez Whiz. Not real food.)

This is a moment of farm-to-table, locavore, slow food, craft and small batch production, as well as a panoply of ways to describe what we eat, including veganism, pescetarianism, flexitarianism, paleo, and gluten-free. Food (and eating) can be fraught with negative emotions, like guilt, sadness and regret, while at the other end of the spectrum, making food for others can be a profoundly generous and nourishing act. These dichotomous ideas, and range of diets, complicate our relationship to food.

Naturally food has inspired art, and this dynamic selection of works demonstrates that photographers have explored food in all its stages, with a wide range of concerns. Everything from abstracted and aestheticized images of food to pictures that document where our meals come from, these photographs go from appetizing to repulsive, sometimes managing to be both simultaneously.

Grab a napkin, pull up a chair, and find yourself something to eat. Just watch out for the Twinkies.

Artists in exhibition:

Rob Stephenson, Brooklyn , NY (Solo Show Award)

Chris Ireland, Stephenville, TX (Coupralux Award)

Tara Sellios, Somerville, MA (Freestyle Photographic Supplies Award)

Caren Alpert, San Francisco, CA (Imaging Spectrum Award)

Josh Dryk, Arlington, TX (Red River Paper Award)

Amelia Morris, Indianapolis, IN (Arlington Camera Award)

Jacinda Russell, Muncie, IN (Arlington Camera Award)

Deedra Baker, Denton, TX

Mary Ellen Bartley, Wainscott, NY

Tatyana Bessmertnaya, Plano, TX

Gema Camacho, McKinney, TX

Jo Ann Chaus, Upper Saddle River, NJ

Lauren Christlieb, Conroe, TX

Barbara Ciurej and Lindsey Lochman, Chicago/Milwaukee, IL/WI

Christine Collins, Boston, MA

Hannah Cooper McCauley, Ruston, LA

Rebecca Foley, Saint Joseph, MO

Alexa Frangos, Chicago, IL

Julia Freeman, Friendswood, TX

Claire Giroux, Dallas, TX

Lindsay Godin, Iowa City, IA

Darlene Kaczmarczyk, Grand Rapids, MI

Amanda Keller Konya, Los Angeles, CA

Stephen Kleinatland, Dover, TN

Julia Kozerski, Milwaukee, WI

Isabella La Rocca, Berkley, CA

Rubi Lebovitch, Tel Aviv, Israel

Ivan Lopez, Arlington, TX

Tiffany Milow, Denton, TX

Lydia Panas, Kutztown, PA

Miriam Romais, Saratoga Springs, NY

Andi Schreiber, Scarsdale, NY

Richella Simard, Manchester, NH

Catherine Slye, Phoenix, AZ

Nick Smith, Milwaukee, WI

Timothy Wells, Ypsilanti, MI

Next Chapter: 154 Glass Street | PDNB Gallery

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Gallery view by Don Netzer

THE NEXT CHAPTER: 154 GLASS STREET

Exhibition Dates: February 27 – April 23, 2016

Artists Reception: Saturday, February 27, 2016 | 5 – 8 PM

THE NEXT CHAPTER: 154 GLASS STREET
February 27 – April 23, 2016
Artists Reception:
Saturday, February 27, 2016 from 5 – 8 pm

For Immediate Release, Dallas, TX –

PDNB Gallery celebrates their new gallery location with a group exhibition of gallery artists. This show is dedicated to their creative spirit. Without their courageous imagination, we would not be celebrating our Next Chapter. Many of the artists will be attending the opening reception, including Bill Owens (California), Keith Carter
(Beaumont), Peter Brown (Houston), Philip Lamb (Dallas), Stuart Allen (San Antonio),William Greiner (Louisiana) and Bill Kennedy (Austin). The list of artists attending is increasing each day.

The Glass Street space is larger, with a dynamic ground floor gallery space, which leads upstairs to another gallery level. The location is west of Riverfront Blvd., across the street from The Dallas Contemporary. Other art galleries in the neighborhood west of Riverfront include Cris Worley, Holly Johnson, Circuit 12, SITE 131, and Sun to Moon Gallery.
Look for the large neon Playboy Bunny logo (by Richard Phillips) on Riverfront and Glass Street. PDNB Gallery is located nearby.

Artists included in this exhibition:
Bill Owens, Bill Kennedy, William Greiner, Paul Greenberg, Delilah Montoya, Michael Kenna, Kevin Horan, Chema Madoz, Jock Sturges, Jack Ridley, Jeffrey Silverthorne, Don Schol, Jimmy & Dena Katz, Chris Verene, Jesse Alexander, Jesús Moroles, David Graham, Carlotta Corpron, Esteban Pastorino Diaz,  Earlie Hudnall, Jr., Keith Carter, Barbara Maples, Ida Lansky, Al Satterwhite, George Krause, Nickolas Muray, Neal Slavin, John Albok, Wu Jialin, Stewart Cohen, Mariana Yampolsky, Philip Lamb, Morris Engle, Harold Feinstein, Mario Algaze, Jan van Leeuwen, John Herrin, Stuart Allen,
Peter Brown, Geof Kern and more.

NOT PHOTOGRAPHY | Erin Cluley Gallery

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NOT PHOTOGRAPHY

CHIVAS CLEM – PARIS, TEXAS
ADRIAN FERNANDEZ – HAVANA, CUBA
HILLARY HOLSONBACK – DALLAS, TEXAS
EMILY PEACOCK – HOUSTON, TEXAS
KEVIN TODORA – DALLAS, TEXAS
JASON WILLAFORD – DALLAS, TEXAS

With an essay by DANIELLE AVRAM

Exhibition Dates: FEBRUARY 20 – APRIL 2, 2016

Opening Reception: SATURDAY FEBRUARY 20, 2016 | 6:00-8:00PM

ERIN CLULEY GALLERY will open NOT PHOTOGRAPHY – an exhibition of photographic works by six artists – on Saturday February 20th, 2016 at 414 Fabrication Street.  The exhibition will open with a reception for the artists from 6:00-8:00 pm.  The exhibition has been organized by Erin Cluley Gallery and will be accompanied by an essay written by Dallas-based curator/writer Danielle Avram.

With the evolution of technology, the language being used by artists within photographic process is rapidly changing.  Access to cameras in handheld devices enables any one person to declare themselves an amateur photographer.  Artists are interrogating this notion and responding by using photography as a tool within a more sophisticated, multi-faceted process.  The final product is the result of a shift in traditional photographic approach with the use of unconventional treatment, process, and presentation.

NOT PHOTOGRAPHY brings together artists on the forefront of developing this new visual dialogue and will encourage viewers to ask the question — is this photography or is it not?

Using appropriation of images from the internet which have been culled from television and finally transposed on to the canvas, CHIVAS CLEM’s spray-tanned works become a commentary on the narcissistic reality of opportunism and effortless celebrity.  ADRIÁN FERNÁNDEZ exploits the photographic process by zooming (way) in on his collection of Cuban stamps of the twentieth century.  The result is a series of vignettes mimicking that of a pointillist painting and conceptually making connections between the reality of contemporary Cuban society and the skewed perspective of the outside world.  HILLARY HOLSONBACK continues her masquerade-like self-documentation using the camera to frame critical investigations of identity, the body, commodity fetishism, voyeurism, mass media, and gender identity.  EMILY PEACOCK combines the romantic documentation of memory with images of inanimate objects like wallpaper, fabric, and marble.  The focus on these details makes reference to the trimmings of the house which Peacock grew up in, the emotional weight that a photograph carries, and the ongoing collaboration with her family as pa art of her process.  In keeping with his belief that the photograph goes beyond the framed picture and conventional studio photography, KEVIN TODORAwill transform his photographic works into large-scale, free-standing sculpture. Manipulating the traditional forms of display and taking it to a heightened level, Todora will use images activated by illusions of depth and battling subject matter. JASON WILLAFORD uses billboard vinyl as the catalyst for what is transformed into quilted, dimensional painting.  High resolution, printed scans of the works result in a highly-detailed, compressed vignette commenting on the inundation of advertising and the insecurities which arise out of a media-saturated contemporary life.

About Danielle Avram
Danielle Avram is a curator and writer based in Dallas, Texas.  Currently Avram holds the position of Curatorial Fellow with the Pollock Gallery at Southern Methodist University.  She previously managed The Power Station art gallery and Pinnell Collection in Dallas, and was curatorial assistant for the High Museum of Art in Atlanta in its departments of photography and modern and contemporary art. She has worked with artists such as Martin Parr, Alec Soth, Virginia Overton and Matias Faldbakken, and organizations such as SPE, Atlanta Celebrates Photography and Photolucida, among others. Recent projects include the Dallas Medianale (2015);Maury Gortemiller All-Time Lotion, The Reading Room, Dallas (2013); and Four Nights, Four Decades, The Power Station, Dallas (2012). Avram Morgan holds an M.F.A. from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, and a B.A. from the University of Texas at Dallas.

About Erin Cluley Gallery
Erin Cluley Gallery is a contemporary art gallery representing emerging and mid-career artists from Dallas and the United States.  The gallery presents a provocative program of artists working in both traditional and alternative forms including painting, sculpture, new media, photography, sculptural installation and public intervention.
The 2000 square foot space is joining a creative movement in the Trinity Groves development at the foot of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge in West Dallas.

 

Time In: Refocusing the Lens of Motherhood | Elizabeth M. Claffey

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Congratulations to Texas Woman’s University Alumna Elizabeth M. Claffey for having her work featured in Time In: Refocusing the Lens of Motherhood, an exhibition curated by Larry Gawel. The exhibition runs through February 21, 2016 at the Elder Gallery at Nebraska Wesleyan.

Nebraska Wesleyan’s Elder Gallery features a photography exhibit that explores children’s lives through their mothers’ camera lenses.

“Time In: Refocusing the Lens of Motherhood” runs through February 21. The exhibition — curated by Larry Gawel of WorkSpace Gallery in Lincoln — features 11 contemporary female photographers and mothers who have chosen their children as the subject matter in their photographic work while transcending the notion of the snapshot or the school portrait.

Featured artists include: Rocio De Alba, Middle Village, New York; Elizabeth Claffey, Bloomington, Ind.; Joy Christiansen Erb, Youngstown, Ohio; Tytia Habing, Watson, Ill.; Alaina Hickman, Omaha; Toni Pepe, Malden, Mass.; Suzanne Révy, Carlisle, Mass.; Heather Evans Smith, Winston Salem, N.C.; Sheila Talbitzer, Omaha; Jessica Tampas, Chicago, Ill.; and Jamie Tuttle, Evanston, Ill.

Elder Gallery hours are Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday-Sunday, 1 to 4 p.m.

A panel discussion with the curator and artists Alba, Habing, Révy, Tuttle and Talbitzer will be held Friday, February 5 at 4 p.m. Together they will share their thoughts on what transcends a snapshot, how one makes an image of a child have universal appeal, career vs. family for women in the arts, and technological advances for photographing children, among other topics. A reception will follow from 5 to 7 p.m.

Elder Gallery is located inside the Rogers Center for Fine Arts, 50th Street and Huntington Ave. Admission and parking are free.

Elizabeth is an Assistant Professor of Photography at Indiana University in Bloomington.  She is an honors graduate of Earlham College and has an MFA in photography from Texas Woman’s University, where she also earned a Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies.  She received a 2012-13 William J. Fulbright Fellowship, which she used to support her documentary and creative research in Eastern Europe.

Half Year Vol. 2 | Deedra Baker

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Congratulations to Deedra Baker for having her work featured in the Streit House Space Half Year Vol. 2 zine. Check out the zine here and add it to your photo book and zine collection.

Half Year Vol. 2 features work by:
Deedra Baker, Rachel Jump, Jen Ervin, William Douglas, Will Harris, Coralie Fournier-Moris, Andrew Janjigian, Andrew Frost, Aleksei Kazantsev, Gabriella Sturchio, Jesse Taylor Koechling, Charlotte Thoemmes, Trevor Powers, Celeste Ortiz, Brian Henry, Selina Roman, dent de lion, Misty Woodford, Grant Gill, Scott Norris, Julia Dunham, Viviana Levrino, Samantha Ylva Beasley, Deb Schwedhelm, Charalampos Kydonakis, Drew Nikonowicz, Jillian Freyer, Jordanna Kalman, Rebecca Drolen, Ekaterina Musatkina

Edited by Jordanna Kalman

Deedra received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2011, from Washburn University in Topeka, KS. She is currently working toward a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts with a Photography Concentration and Intermedia Secondary Concentration at Texas Woman’s University.

Ticka Arts | Deedra Baker

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Congratulations to Deedra Baker for having her series A Slight Hysterical Tendency featured as a February artist on Ticka Arts. Click here to view the feature.

Deedra received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2011, from Washburn University in Topeka, KS. She is currently working toward a Master of Fine Arts in Art with a Photography Concentration and Intermedia Secondary Concentration at Texas Woman’s University.