February 25, 2014

NEO

Concealed at first at last I appear:

Amy Theiss Giese

Room Study No. 16, 2013
skiagram + chemigram

For her mysterious and evocative photographs, Amy Giese returns to photography's refulgent past by using processes first established by photography inventor William Henry Fox Talbot. Called "skiagrams," Giese's photographs record light and shadow at night on paper that is coated with silver gelatin. In the darkroom, the artist then chemically alters the silver, giving the photographs their rich and varying colors. In this manner, Giese combines nineteenth and twentieth century methods and chemistry to create abstract contemporary works of art.

UPCOMING EXHIBITION

Fall Back, Spring Forward:
Photography in New England

May 1 - May 10, 2014

Opening Reception: Thursday, May 1, 2014, 6-9pm

PRC Gallery, 832 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA

Mary Kocol, Garden Roses, 2008, from the series Ice Gardens. Courtesy of the Artist and Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA

The PRC is honored to participate in Flash Forward Festival 2014. Set within the Boston cityscape, Flash Forward is a four-day photography festival (May 1-4), organized by the Magenta Foundation, that offers networking events and educational programming, such as panels and lectures by respected industry professionals, indoor and outdoor exhibitions, and nightly events.

For more information, and a schedule, please click here.

A group exhibition, Fall Back, Spring Forward showcases the work of ten New England-based photographers. Artists were selected by PRC Curator Francine Weiss. Boston has long been a hub for intellectual and artistic activity with artists who have embraced new ideas while finding inspiration in the past. Fall Back, Spring Forward brings together photographers who are reinvigorating the medium by building on or engaging with the past while springing into the future. Their interests include long standing photographic and cinematic traditions, visual and popular culture, art history and iconography, reminiscence and memory.

Artists include: Rick Ashley (Marblehead, MA), Lindsey Beal (Providence, RI), Nadine Boughton (Gloucester, MA), Marcie Jan Bronstein (Belfast, ME), Jesse Burke (Rumford, RI), Amy Theiss Giese (Allston, MA), Mary Kocol (Somerville, MA), David Mattox (Allston, MA), Cheryle St. Onge (Durham, NH and coastal Maine), and Alicia Savage (Boston, MA).

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LECTURE

Arno Rafael Minkkinen

Sunday, April 6, 1:00 pm

BU Morse Auditorium
602 Commonwealth Avenue

Free and open to the public!

Arno Rafael Minkkinen
Grand Canyon, Arizona, 1995

Weaving together the history of photography with his own journey with the medium, world-renowned photographer Arno Raphael Minkkinen will discuss his career as a fine art photographer and his commitment to making his work without compromising his aesthetic principles. According to the artist, "'Holding My Ground' means staying true to the fundamental tenet of my work: the lens decides what the picture will be." The title also refers to the other aspects of Minkkinen's life in photography, "about going the distance, discovering what that distance could and should be, and exercising enormous patience in the process."

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Co-Sponsors

CURRENT EXHIBITION

Leopold Godowsky Jr.,
Color Photography Awards

January 21 - March 22, 2014

PRC Gallery, 832 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA

The Leopold Godowsky, Jr. Color Photography Awards honor the co-inventor of Kodachrome film. Established by the Godowsky family in 1987 and held every four years, the awards recognize "achieved excellence in color photography."

Focusing on emerging and under-recognized artists and new approaches to color photography, the 2014 Godowsky Color Awards were granted on the basis of the strength and originality of the photographic work. The 2014 awards were international and open to artists working in any form of color photography.

Image: Bastienne Schmidt, The Red Dress, Sagaponack
from the series Home Stills, 2008.