UnBound12! Artist Features: IV
UNBOUND12!
July 7 – August 12
Join us for a breakdown of our annual juried + invitational photography exhibition. Each week, we’ll share information about our artists and the processes behind their pieces in the show.
SUPPORT THE EXHIBITION:
UnBound! is our “non-profit” play we make once a year, raising money which directly supports artists in the exhibition. Works in the show are available for purchase (like a normal exhibition), but friends can also give to the UnBound! Fund, which will be used by the gallery to acquire select works for the growing Candela Collection. One day, this collection will be donated to a notable arts institution. This year, we’re also hoping to extend the reach of funding, using a portion to help cover return shipments for artists who need it.
This exhibition supports photographers through exposure, but most importantly through collecting. If you purchase a piece, you are directly supporting that artist and adding to your personal collection; if you give to the UnBound! Fund, you are allowing an artist to be acquired for a permanent collection, or helping to cover an artist’s exhibition expenses. No matter what, your funds support an UnBound12! artist.
LIZA MACRAE | OAXACA, MEXICO/TIVOLI, NY
Ofrendas/Offerings, 2023.
Photo Zine, 10.75 x 8.25 inches,
44 pages. Open Edition $35.
The streets of Oaxaca are full of offerings. Every day hundreds of street vendors, individual entrepreneurs working with what is at hand, create works of art. The agency and relaxed spirit in the making of these offerings offer a physical beauty—as well as a profound way of life and living—that I cannot ignore. I share these photographs in order to continue the conversation of gesture and effort which in its simplicity has a profound effect on all of our spirits.
Liza Macrae studied at The New School and Parsons School of Design and worked at the Susan Harder Gallery, working closely with Andre Kertesz, Sylvia Plachy, and John Szarkowski. Determined to create the life she wanted, she left her home in NYC for a life in the country. There she learned to forage, grow vegetables, raise animals, and build houses. For the past two years, she has been living in Mexico.
Macrae has participated in group shows and a few solos, with an upcoming solo show in Oaxaca in November 2023. Exhibitions include Sawkille Gallery, Rhinebeck NY, Henry with Nancy Shaver, Hudon NY, Instar Lodge, Germantown NY, Paula Cooper Gallery, NY, NY Samuel Dorsky Museum, New Paltz NY, Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM, Chautauqua Institute, Chautauqua NY Turner Gallery, Santa Fe NM, 192 Books, NY, NY
ALEX CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS | ATLANTA, GA
what color is the air you breathe?, 2023. Artist Book (Maquette), 10 x 8 inches, 114 pages. $250.
These photographs are about the residue of the past and my inability to separate myself from these histories. In that way, the project is a collection of images about time travel; a description very fitting to the nature of photography. The photographs follow a lyrical narrative of violence and its cascading consistent descent throughout our country’s past. Images include; poisoned fruit, the neighborhood of Summerhill’s iconic destruction, intimate moments in protest, recreated famous historical photographs, stains from the klans entrenchment on the South, and technology assisted memories of civil war era Willams’ family reunion.
Alex Christopher Williams is a photographer working on long-form projects that deal to race, masculinity, and history. He is the author of Black, Like Paul, a monograph published by Monolith Editions. In 2022, Photo Plus nominated him for the for The 30 award. He has received the Collinsworth Acquisition Award from The Do Good Fund, the Judith Alexander Foundation Grant and the Ones To Watch from Atlanta Celebrates Photography amoung others. He is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The High Museum of Art, The Do Good Fund, Savannah College of Art and Design and in private collections. He runs Minor League.
PRISCILLA BRIGGS | MINNEAPOLIS, MN
dollars and sense: a zine about capitalism in the usa, 2021. Screenprinted Cover, Digitally Printed Image and Text in Interior, Saddle-Stapled Binding, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, 60 pages.
Open Edition. $20
Priscilla Briggs is an artist based in Minneapolis, MN, who investigates representations of capitalism and consumerism as well as issues of social justice and the environment. Her work has been supported by numerous grants, most notably the McKnight Foundation, the Puffin Foundation, and the Minnesota State Arts Board. Her work has been exhibited internationally at venues such as the Landskrona Photo Salon in Sweden, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, and the Musei San Domenico in Forlì, Italy. Her artist monograph, Impossible Is Nothing: China’s Theater of Consumerism, was published by Daylight Books. Many images from the book were created during artist residencies at the Chinese European Art Center in Xiamen and Art Channel in Beijing. Priscilla recently launched Rose Bramble Books, an artist zine/book platform. Her work has been featured in print and online publications such as European Photography Magazine, Newsweek Japan, Photo District News, Hyperallergic, L’oeil de la Photographie, Lenscratch, and F- Stop Magazine. Priscilla received an MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art and is currently a Professor of Studio Art at Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota. She is a member of Rosalux Gallery and the TITLE Collective.
GRANVILLE CARROLL | PHOENIX, AZ
Dark Matter, 2022. Coil Bound Artist Book
with Screen Printed Soft Matte Covers,
Digital Offset, Black Paper, Black Ink, and Silver Ink, 9 x 6 inches, 148 pages, $40
Dark Matter by Granville Carroll is an artist’s book about darkness and light, the infinity of the cosmos and the divine, big bangs and subtle language. Themes relating to cosmic origins and thoughts on existence, life and death, are embedded in the writings and images. Comprised of heavy black paper with only silver and black printing, the reader of Dark Matter must adjust to an aesthetic where light reaches into an already compelling and infinite-seeming blackness. Dark Matter expands on Carroll’s themes of Afrofuturism, years of beautiful experiments with analog and digital photographic montage techniques, and poetry. This project extends from his greater work that “explores and expands ideas around racial blackness to encompass spatial blackness, temporal blackness, and spiritual blackness. Carroll highlights the imaginative qualities of the human mind through world building and storytelling to discover new futures and states of being.”
Granville Carroll is a visual artist, educator at Arizona State University, and Afrofuturist working with digital technology, poetry, and alternative processes to reshape the world. Carroll’s artwork explores photographic representation and vision to understand the process of existence and interpretation. Simultaneously, he expands ideas around racial blackness to encompass spatial blackness, temporal blackness, and spiritual blackness. Carroll highlights the imaginative qualities of the human mind through world building and storytelling to enable new futures and states of being. At the core of his practice is the investigation into metaphysics and the ontology of self and the universe.
Carroll is currently based out of Phoenix, Arizona. Carroll has been named Top 50 Critical Mass 2022 (Photolucida), a 2022 NYSCA/NYFA Fellow, 2022 JGS Photography Fellow, 2021 Silver List artist, Project Space AIR (Visual Studies Workshop). Carroll earned a BFA in photography from Arizona State University in 2018 and a MFA in photography and related media from Rochester Institute of Technology in 2020. His work has been shown in the United States and internationally. Most recently his work has been exhibited at the Zora Neale Hurston Museum, the Eskenazi Museum of Art, and Candela Gallery. His work has been published through KJZZ radio in Arizona, Fraction Magazine, What Will You Remember, Brink Literary Journal, Lenscratch, Humble Arts Foundation, and Black Is Magazine. Carroll’s images have also appeared in Light and Lens: Thinking About Photography in the Digital Age (Robert Hirst and Edward Bateman) and There’s Light: Artworks & Conversations Examining Black Masculinity, Identity & Mental Well-Being (Glenn Lutz). In 2022 his first artist book, Dark Matter was published through Visual Studies Workshop Press.
SARAH MALAKOFF | BOSTON, MA
Personal History, 2022. Hardcover Book, 4 Color Offset Press. 12 x 9 inches, 112 pages.
Edition of 1000. $48.
Sarah Malakoff’s large-scale color photographs are examinations of the home as both a refuge from and a re-creation of the outside world. She has had solo exhibitions at Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, Camerawork Gallery, Portland, Oregon, The Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro, Vermont, the Sol Mednick Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, Massachusetts, and Plane Space, New York, NY. Her photographs have also been shown at The NRW Forum in Dusseldorf, Germany, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., The DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA, The Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME, and The Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA. She received a 2001 and 2011 Artist’s Fellowship in Photography from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and a 2011 Traveling Fellowship from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Sarah Malakoff: Second Nature was published by Charta Art Books in 2013 and Personal History was published by Kehrer Verlag in 2022. She currently resides in Boston, Massachusetts, is an Associate Professor at The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, and is represented by Anderson Yezerski Gallery.