Beyond the Surface: The Photograph as Object, will open Thursday, January 9th at 4pm at the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo University Gallery in California. A big thank you to educator and artist Lana Caplan, Assistant Professor of Photography and Video at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo for the wonderful opportunity to curate this exhibition […]
Gallery Exhibition
Project XV: New Perspectives on Photography
Each year, I teach a year long Personal Project class at the Los Angeles Center of Photography where photographers continue with or create new bodies of work, produce artist’s books or catalogs, hone their articulation and consider their influences. To say that I’m proud of these artists is an understatement–I’m amazed by their dedication to […]
American Truth: Complex Views of the American Experience
American Truth is a new exhibition that explores the subjectivity of truth, specifically in photographic work–indeed a timely and important subject in today’s current waters. The exhibition is curated by Jasmine Wahi, founder and co-director of Project for Empty Space, a nonprofit arts organization in Newark, New Jersey and will be on display at the SVA […]
A Certain Uncertainty: Selections from the Cassilhaus Collection
A couple of years ago at the CLICK! Photo Festival, I had the great pleasure to visit Cassilhaus and meet the creators, Ellen Cassilly and Frank Konhaus. Ellen and Frank have a particular sensibility to their collecting, one that resonates deeply with my own. Many of their images are mysterious, or obscured in some way. Visual […]
Awareness: Allan Gill, Janna Ireland, Laura Parker, Ni Rong, Bill Sosin and Robert von Sternberg
I’ve always felt that what connects us as photographic artists and seers is that we have a heightened sense of awareness to world and our surroundings. I’m sure my children tire of my endless narration of things that I notice, behaviors I observe, and not just visual, but sensory experiences that I encounter. The dnj […]
Strange Light: The Photography of Clarence John Laughlin at the High Museum
On the heels of Halloween, who better to feature than “the Father of American Surrealism,” Clarence John Laughlin? Born in 1905, Laughlin is best known for his haunting images of decaying antebellum architecture in his hometown of New Orleans. His work is the subject of an exhibition at the High Museum in Atlanta, Strange Light: […]