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Exhibit to showcase photography
By KRISTIN E.M. RIEMER
Reporter Contributor
"Young Photography: Multiple Expressions," an exhibit of work by the participants of the prestigious 12th annual National Graduate Seminar of The Photography Institute, will be on display from March 27 through April 19 in the UB Anderson Gallery, Martha Jackson Place, near the UB South Campus.
The exhibit, which will open with a reception from 5-8 p.m. March 27, is coordinated by Lalla A. Essaydi and Deborah Jack, two of the 20 participants in the two-week graduate seminar that focused on cutting-edge issues in photography. Jack is a UB graduate and a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Art.
UB graduate student James C. Holland also was a participant in the 2002 National Graduate Seminar.
The 2002 graduate seminar, which was entitled "Projected Images: Visual to Political" and organized by Cheryl Younger, director of The Photography Institute, sought to encourage a democratic approach to the consideration of photography and to ensure the inclusion of women and minorities, whose voices often are absent from the dialogue. Post-seminar projects, such as "Young Photography: Multiple Expressions," allow students, artists and critics throughout the nation to take part in the discussion.
"Untitled" from "Here Nor There" series, Deborah Jack
The exhibit comes to the Anderson Gallery from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The photographers also recently exhibited as a group at the University of Florida and the University of Michigan.
Addressing such issues as representation, identity and feminism, the young photographers featured in the exhibit attempt to come to grips with the power of the projected image and its ability to communicate many layers of meaning and encoded information, Jack says. Having come of age in an era where the photograph has become questionable as a document of truth, these artists are using the medium to express an "unapologetically" subjective point of view, she notes.
In addition to Jack, Holland and Essaydi, who hails from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, the photographers whose work is featured in "Young Photography: Multiple Expressions" are Carla Cioffi, Southern Illinois-Carbondale; Bradley Corman, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Christopher D. DiCiocco, University of Colorado; Phoung M. Do, New York University; Lalla A. Myra Greene, University of New Mexico.
Also, Jessica Kaufman, Massachusetts College of Art; Glen Kawabata, University of New Mexico; Sonya Lawyer, University of Florida; Helen Chung Lee, University of Michigan; Andrew John Liccardo, Texas Tech University; Heike Liss, Mills College.
Also, Paul Melhado, Long Island University; Shelia Pree, Georgia State; Mark Slankard, Ohio University; Henry Tsang, University of California-Irvine; Ron Witherspoon, Georgia State University, and Danny Yahav-Brown Maryland Institute College of Art.
Anderson Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, and 1-5 p.m. on Sunday. The exhibition is free of charge and open to the public. For more information, call 829-3754.