Posts Tagged "Director’s Selection"

SARA FORREST

Posted by THE CENTER on Apr 6, 2011 in Current Exhibition, Featured artists, Human+Being, Post by Kate Donaldson | 0 comments

Mulu 1 © Sara Forrest; Director’s Selection

Sara Forrest spent the bulk of December 2010 in Ethiopia, at work on a photo documentary about patients and survivors of obstetric fistula titled Facing Hope. Working in collaboration with Allison Shigo, co-producer of the Emmy Award winning documentary on the same subject – A Walk to Beautiful – Sara raised funds for this project using Kickstarter. You can follow her experience via http://saraforrestphoto.tumblr.com

See more of Sara’s work at www.saraforrestphoto.com

DOROTHY O’CONNOR

Posted by THE CENTER on Feb 11, 2011 in Current Exhibition, Featured artists, Portraits, Post by Kate Donaldson | 1 comment

(Photo credit: Dorothy O’Connor, Nest from the series Scenes; Director’s Selection)

Georgia based photographer Dorothy O’Connor’s series Scenes is proof that photography projects often begin with one spectral idea and solidify when a more personal drive surfaces. O’Connor began this series “with a desire to build an image around fire.” As new photographs were completed, she discovered dream parallels and insights to unexamined emotions and experiences. This series has further evolved to include an installation component, utilizing live but silent models to literally draw O’Connor’s audience inside her head. The depth of cinematic detail involved in these undertakings calls to mind Gregory Crewdson or Jeff Wall.

Director’s Selection for the Portraits exhibition, Dorothy O’Connor recently held one such tableau vivant in her Southwest Atlanta studio.

See more of Dorothy’s work at www.dorothyoconnor.com

ERIC PICKERSGILL

Posted by THE CENTER on Oct 13, 2010 in Current Exhibition, Featured artists | 0 comments

(Photo credit: Eric Pickersgill, “Drift”; Director’s Selection)
(Photo credit: Eric Pickersgill, “Lying Back“)

(Photo credit: Eric Pickersgill, “Procession“)

Photographer Eric Pickersgill unwittingly began his foray into the fascinating world of liquid light when he signed on as still photographer for the experimental film “Fleeting“. Transferring his medium format images to large, nearly wall sized fabric canvases was accomplished with much trial and error and a whole lot of liquid photo emulsion.

In his own words:

Once the motion picture had been processed by hand I could see the imperfections of the film and how beautifully they addressed the performance. I knew that straight forward prints of the performance would do little justice to the complexity of the project. I quickly began to search for alternative methods of photographically placing an image upon its support. After months of drawing, planning, experimenting, and even dreaming I constructed a way of printing the photographs for Fleeting.

If you are interested in some behind the scenes insight into the production of these  images, check out Eric’s process here. You can also see more of Eric’s work at www.ericpickersgill.com

SHEILA LAYTON

Posted by THE CENTER on Aug 9, 2010 in Featured artists, Previously, Strange Beauty | 0 comments

(Photo credit: Sheila Layton, Persona 1; Director’s Selection)

In their jurors statement, Darren Ching and Debra Clomp Ching noted that Sheila Layton’s Persona 1 linked the image as evidence and as an extension of imagination.

The forest tableaux that Layton presents inhabits both realms, alternating between forensic document and birthday girl tripped up in enthusiasm. The interpretation is decidedly open ended. That said, Persona 1 certainly demonstrates the narrative power – and the power to generate narrative – of a singular photograph.

JESUS JIMENEZ

Posted by THE CENTER on Jul 16, 2010 in Consumption, Featured artists, Previously | 0 comments

(Photo credit: Jesus Jimenez, Energy Trace II, 621 Calorie Circle; Director’s Selection)

No, that isn’t a crop circle. This is the calling card of clever multimedia artist Jesus Jimenez. Awarded Director’s Selection, Energy Trace II, 621 Calorie Circle documents the aftermath of expending 621 calories walking in a circle. Jimenez’s piece goes far beyond a simple circle in the grass – this site specific work is an elegy to the fleeting nature of human existence.

From Jimenez’s artist statement:

I have found my inspiration in a personal obsession for the order, the trace and the object… My body of work is about staging and documenting absurd transitory and ephemeral situations for the camera to create not narrative, but descriptive images of a particular reality. My intention is to leave imprinted within these spaces my ideas and physical trace.

Check out this project in its entirety at www.jesusjimenez.com