Posts Tagged "Honorable Mention"

ELIZABETH CLAFFEY

Posted by THE CENTER on Apr 8, 2011 in Current Exhibition, Featured artists, Human+Being | 0 comments

Behind the Curtain from the series Blood Work © Elizabeth Claffey

Illness can make the familiar alien, bodies conspiring against the interests of their owners. Photographer Elizabeth Claffey explores the middling inter-space of medical treatment, the hospital a half way house feared by the outside world.

See more of Elizabeth’s work at www.elizabethclaffey.com

MAGDALENA SOLE

Posted by THE CENTER on Apr 1, 2011 in Current Exhibition, Featured artists, Human+Being, Post by Kate Donaldson | 1 comment

Porch with Family, Mississippi Delta © Magdalena Solé; Director’s Honorable Mention

New York based photographer Magdalena Solé is moved by the collective soul of the places she encounters with her camera. Born in Spain and raised in Switzerland, Solé is accustomed to approaching new communities from the outside in. When commissioned by the Dreyfus Health Foundation to focus on the culture of the Mississippi Delta, she counted herself fortunate to be absorbed into the community fabric like family. Solé’s Delta project will be published in a book titled New Delta Rising: Photographs by Magdalena Solé, with an introduction by Rick Bragg (University Press of Mississippi, Fall 2011). Solé holds an MFA from Columbia University. She was most recently featured in the Center’s Blue exhibition.

She writes:

I have returned to the Delta a dozen times.
Always for the same reason: the people.

See The Delta project in its entirety at www.solepictures.com

JAMI SAUNDERS

Posted by THE CENTER on Jan 4, 2011 in Blue, Current Exhibition, Featured artists | 0 comments

(Photo credit: Jami Saunders, Come and Go; Director’s Honorable Mention )

Leaving is a funny thing. We pat our pockets for keys, flip light switches, grab our bags. We cast a fleeting backward glance at the empty space where we just stood. But rarely do we immortalize the figures associated with the place – the left and leaving.  Here, photographer Jami Saunders considers both roles as she documents her brother’s last night in New York.

In her own words:

This is my brother and my best friend. We lived down the street from each other in Brooklyn. We saw each other a zillion times a day and talked even more. Then, as actors do, he moved to LA. This image was taken the night before he moved. His room was empty. And we processed the move as siblings that are photographers and actors do…he felt it out while I shot pictures…we said nothing…we shed tears…and we created something real to each of us forever.

See more of Jami’s work at www.jamisaunders.com

JONAS KULIKAUSKAS

Posted by THE CENTER on Aug 10, 2010 in Featured artists, Previously, Strange Beauty | 1 comment

(Photo credit: Jonas Kulikauskas, Girl Throw; Director’s Honorable Mention; Livebooks Website Award)

Jonas Kulikauskas prefers to surround himself with storied objects, things that have seen time and life and lived to tell. As such, his artistic predilections are for old school photo processes, gravitating towards cyanotypes and toy cameras loaded with black and white film. Girl Throw feels like it might flutter out from a yellowed garage sale novel, hinting at a bizarre life perhaps more interesting than the book in your hand.

See more of Kulikauskas’ work at www.kulikauskas.com

STEVEN ROOD

Posted by THE CENTER on May 28, 2010 in Animalia, Featured artists, Previously | 1 comment

Speke’s Gazelle and Meerkat, two black-and-white photographs by Steven Rood, are featured in the Center’s Animalia exhibition, which opens today in the Center’s Main Gallery. Rood was chosen as an Honorable Mention by juror Karen Irvine. Both images come from Rood’s series also of the same name as the exhibition, Animalia.

(Photo credit: Speke’s Gazelle by Steven Rood)

(Photo credit: Meerkat by Steven Rood)

More of Steven’s work can be found at www.stevenroodphotography.com