Artwork by Ellie Kingsbury

  

Juried by Carla Williams, "The Photographic Self" includes photography, mixed media, video, and installation works by Grace Aneiza Ali, Kayla Anderson, Pilar Arthur-Snead, Jennie Barrese, Charmaine Bee, Nakeya Brown, Rashelle Brown, Lee Bullitt, Valerie Caesar, Ellen Cantor, Sonia Louise Davis, Nona Faustine, Sierra Faye, Jessica Van Fleteren, Shawné Michaelain Holloway, Jessica Hopkins, Janna Ireland, E.K. Jeong, Ellie Kingsbury, Zoraida Lopez, Kayla Massey, Qiana Mestrich, Marcia Michael, Johannil Napoleón, Niki Nolin, Glynnis Reed, Kristin Reeves, MahlOt Sansosa, Rafia Santana, Andi Schreiber, Pallavi Sharma, Amy Misurelli Sorensen, Tina Starr, Jennifer Tiner, Gwynneth VanLaven, Catherine Walker, Jennifer Weigel, Dana West, and Morgan Ford Willingham.  

 

The exhibition, "The Photographic Self" is wheelchair accessible. 

Photography by Diane J. Schmidt

  

"Michele Fitzsimmons at the Art Institute" with Photography by Diane J. Schmidt presents images created at the Art Institute in 1981, in which Michele Fitzsimmons posed nude and Diane J. Schmidt photographed her in various galleries, as she interacted with the artwork and the space. The work is part of a larger collaborative project and accompanying book, 'The Chicago Exhibition', in which Fitzsimmons and Schmidt present nude portraits taken in public locations throughout Chicago.  

     

Edited and printed by Peter Jones, the digital prints in this exhibition are all out-takes. "In some, only minor corrections and cleaning were done. In others, the full force of Photoshop has been used to combine and remake images in the hope that some new light can be cast on that distant afternoon."

 

Diane J. Schmidt is a writer and photojournalist currently living and working in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She earned her BA in Comparative Literature from Prescott College, a BFA in Photography/Design from Rhode Island School of Design, and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Mexico. Schmidt is the recipient of numerous awards including a Visual Arts Fellowship in Photography from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Robert R. McCormick SRI fellowship. Peter Jones has a BFA and MFA in printmaking and drawing and has worked as a master printer in traditional printmaking. He has collaborated with Michele on several projects in the past. "Michele Fitzsimmons at the Art Institute" is their latest collaboration.
 

  

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