Annual Juried Competition and Exhibition
Rehan Miskci, Joseph Desler-Costa, and Daniel Terna
Baxter St. at Camera Club of New York
New York, NY
August 15 – September 8, 2015
Baxter St. at CCNY is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2015 Annual Juried Photography Competition and an upcoming exhibition featuring the top three competition artists, juried by writer and curator Marvin Heiferman. The three top winners – First Place Winner Rehan Miskci, Second Place Winner Daniel Terna, and Third Place Winner Joseph Desler Costa offer three different but cohesive visions of contemporary photographic practice.
After viewing over 250 entries, juror Marvin Heiferman had this to say about the process:
“To look through thousands of strong images submitted by hundreds of photographers to this year’s BAXTER ST at CCNY Juried Exhibition was, simultaneously, an exhilarating and sobering experience. Photography has never been as firmly embedded into our personal and shared experiences as it is today. As a result and in recent years, never have so many people committed themselves and gotten credentialed to explore the range of possibilities that imaging offers up to us. It is a given in contemporary visual culture that photography and our relationship to it exist in a constant state of flux, and so I was drawn to work that, in one way or another, addresses how the medium does and does not function, right now. The eighteen portfolios selected explore the various ways past, present, and future, fact and fiction, public and private, and data and sentiment circle around each other in images. In some instances, the restlessness that implies may be more evident than in others. Yet, what links these works together is how, collectively, they reflect upon what makes our current state of fascination with and reliance upon images so constant and so compelling.”
Curator and writer Marvin Heiferman organizes projects about photography and visual culture for institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, Smithsonian Institution, International Center of Photography, Whitney Museum of American Art, New Museum and the Hillman Photography Initiative at the Carnegie Museum of Art. A contributing editor to Art in America, Heiferman has written for numerous publications, monographs, magazines and blogs, including The New York Times, CNN, Artforum, Design Observer, Gagosian Quarterly, and Aperture. His most recent book is Photography Changes Everything (Aperture, 2012), and new entries to his online project WHY WE LOOK are posted daily.
Advanced Master Remix
ICP-Bard MFA 2015
Curated by Joanna Lehan
Baxter Street Camera Club of New York
New York, NY
July 7 – 30, 2015
Advanced Master Remix features work selected from the solo thesis exhibitions of the 2015 graduates of ICP-Bard’s MFA in Advanced Photographic Studies, as well as recent work, and new, site-specific installations. This remix highlights the multidisciplinary work of these artists, for whom the photographic image is a starting point, though not always the endpoint.
Photography today is the torrent that carries us, and a language we all speak. Undertaking “Advanced Photographic Studies,” then, is a more complex endeavor than ever, and the work of these newly-minted MFAs represents the new ways in which the image can be interrogated and reinterpreted.
Esther Boesche, Stephanie Colgan, Joseph Desler Costa, Marie Louise Omme, Kat Shannon, Marisa Sottos, Daniel Terna, Jessica Thalmann, Beau Torres, Kimberly J. Wade & Tracie Williams
This One’s For You
ICP-Bard MFA Group Show, Class of 2015
Rita K. Hillman Education Gallery
International Center of Photography
New York, NY
April 4 – May 17, 2015
This One's For You is the group thesis exhibition by the 2015 ICP-Bard MFA students.
This MFA exhibition showcases the work of artists who use the social activity of photography to explore the various ways that pictures make apparent our points of contact and alienation. These artists act as facilitators and interrogators by turning the camera on their families, communities, and surroundings.
The results of their efforts take many forms: sculptural reliefs, sound installations, video projections, environmental viewing pods, and other experiments that combine formal innovation with emotional directness. While the world of images is questioned and examined, there is very little cynicism about the role of art in making meaning of our lives. This one is for you reflects the openness with which these 13 artists address the world around them.
Esther Boesche, Stephanie Colgan, Joseph Desler Costa, Anna Ekros, Connor McNicholas, Marie Louise Omme, Kat Shannon, Marisa Sottos, Daniel Terna, Beau TorresJ, essica Thalmann, Kimberly J. Wade, Tracie Williams
We Buy Gold, Home Movies, and Other Pictures
ICP-Bard MFA Studios
Long Island City, NY
February 12 – 15, 2015
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