Some months ago I found myself on the Silver Eye Center fo Photography website. Silver Eye was one of the first organizations to award me a solo exhibition and support my career early on, something that I am grateful for. I was surprised by the new Silver Eye website as the site and the facility […]
Archives for April 2019
Jordan Gale: It Is What It Is
In 2017, we featured the work of Jordan Gale as one of the Honorable Mention nods for the Lenscratch Student Award. I was moved by his work and it has stayed with me over the past two years. Jordan has an innate ability to tell stories, in particular his own–of family, poverty, and drug abuse. […]
Harvey Stein: Mexico Between Life and Death
I don’t believe there is a better way to get to know a place than by traveling on foot, especially in a place as rich and full of life as Mexico. How else would you expect to happen upon a swirling crowd of dancers, or a child sound asleep on the shelves of a market […]
Clay Maxwell Jordan: Nothing’s Coming Soon
Clay Maxwell Jordan, photographer and musician, has a new monograph, Nothing’s Coming Soon, published by Fall Line Press. The photographs of the American South were inspired by the Buddhist belief that “life is suffering” and a place where grace and beauty is juxtaposed with loss and decay. The book is “a poetic, existential meditation on […]
Louise Russell: Points of View
There are certain artists with the passion and patience to make a particular subject their life’s work. Louise Russell has spent decades photographing 152 acres of land in San Diego’s backcountry, in a deeply personal place called the J9 Ranch. This parcel of high desert has been in her family for over 100 years, not long after the […]
On Collaboration: PWMD (Marissa Dembkoski & Paal Williams)
On Collaboration: PWMD interview by Barbara Ciurej and Lindsay Lochman Marissa Dembkoski and Paal Williams are the collaborative artist team PWMD. Their sensibilities come together in work that has a delicate duality. They disassemble the vocabulary of rendering and perception while simultaneously honoring it. Their images expose the construction and limitations of representation. Histories collide […]