Tuesday, August 25, 2020

Assignment: Photography in America Now (418/518/618)

©Jessica Backhaus

Assignment:

Research and present on a photographic exhibition of your choice that was or will be on view in 2020 or 2021 in the United States. The artist may be international or American. 

You will need to provide visual imagery in a powerpoint to accompany your presentation. 

You must select an exhibition by Wednesday 9/2 for instructor approval, with 1-2 alternate choices. The artist needs to be a major contemporary (currently living and making new work) photographic artist.

Components:

(100 points total)

  • Introduction of artist’s background, 20 points
  • Presentation on the background of institution hosting the exhibition, 20 points
  • Description of work in exhibition, 40 points
  • Q&A, 20 points
Presentation dates:

9/14 Monday Graduate Students
9/16 Wednesday   Art 418 students

A few major galleries, photo museums and spaces to keep an eye on:

NY

Pace/MacGill Gallery

Howard Greenberg Gallery

Yancey Richardson Gallery

Danziger Gallery

Laurence Miller Gallery

Robert Mann Gallery

Janet Borden

Higher Pictures

Bonni Benrubi Gallery

Robert Mann Gallery

Yossi Milo Gallery

Julie Saul Gallery

Clamp Art

Center for Photography at Woodstock (Upstate NY)

 

Boston


Photographic Resource Center

Panopticon Gallery

 

Los Angeles

Annenberg Space for Photography

Peter Fetterman Gallery

 

Blue Sky Gallery (Portland)

Center for photographic Art Carmel, CA (https://photography.org)

Vermont Center for Photography (Brattleboro, VT)

SF CameraWork (San Francisco)

Houston Center for Photography

MoCP (Museum of Contemporary Photography) Chicago

Museum of Photographic Arts (San Diego)

Southern Museum of Photography (Daytona Beach, Florida)

George Eastman House (Rochester NY)

Center for Photographic Art (http://www.c4fap.org) Fort Collins, CO

Center for Creative Photography (Tuscon, AZ)

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