Photography is Dead…Long Live Photography!

January 8 – February 20, 2021

Juried on the eve of our national election, amid a global pandemic and the groundswell for social justice and the renewed civil rights movement, this exhibition was conceived as a way to honor the role artists play during times of stress and upheaval.  We find ourselves in an aesthetic interregnum, wrestling anew with familiar issues alongside unknown conceptual parameters.  And so, the prevalent themes of the featured images range from isolation to uncertain intimacy, from surreal beauty to hyper-militant agitation, from abject introspection to political resistance.  Throughout, though, there is a drumbeat of history and desire, as the collected works cohere to become a time capsule of shattered conventions and new possibilities.

We are in this together, alone, united, at odds, yet ready for evolution.  Or, perhaps, revolution.

These are proofs.  In-progress works.  Projects in transition, thoughts battered by a gathering disturbance.  Along with a few older works, imbued unexpectedly with new significance.  As the chorus swells between acts.  It seems an appropriate time to consider who we are and where we are heading.

• HANNAH ALTMAN • SUSAN BURNSTINE • ADRIENNE CATANESE • BRIDGET CONN • DEBI CORNWALL • MATTHEW DAVID CROWTHER • BARBARA DIENER • ELIZABETH ELLENWOOD • DYLAN EVERETT • CRISTINA FONTSARE • WILLIAM GLASER WILSON • JUSTIN HAMEL • MURIEL HASBUN • PAULA HUMBERG • KEI ITO • SVETLANA JOVANOVIC • GALINA KURLAT • JAKE LAHAH • NAVA LEVENSON • SARAH MALAKOFF • COLLEEN MULLINS • DREW NIKONOWICZ • ELIN O’HARA SLAVICK • AAMINA PALMER • ALINA PATRICK • RACHEL PHILLIPS • TOM RIDOUT • SUSAN ROSENBERG JONES • ELEA JEANNE SCHMITTER & LE MASSI • ZACHARY P STEPHENS • DERRICK WALLER • IRIS WU •