Panopticon Exhibits AIB MFA Work

Installing the MFA Inaugural Exhibition at Porter Square

Jerry Uelsmann at the Peabody Essex Museum

show website

Processes and Dreams at Panopticon Gallery

Dreams are the fogged glow of the subconscious. They can be shard memories, blurred scenes of fragmented life experiences. Personal and shared stories intersect and merge. The line between the truth and fictitiousness is ambiguous. In this illusory installation, the rational and the fanciful unite.

Panopticon Gallery is proud to present Processes and Dreams, a group exhibition that blends together photographs that are ethereal in nature. The images are a culmination of their maker's imaginations, collective, childhood and universal memories, metaphors, artifacts, rituals and personal experiences. Look closely because people and things are not always as they seem.

This exhibition will be on display from January 12 - February 28, 2012 and will feature photographs by Jennifer Hudson, Ken Rosenthal, Michael Donnor, Tami Bone, Bryan David Griffith, Rachel Phillips, Curtis Werhfritz and Emmanuelle Germain.

Excellent Liz Deschenes talk at AIB

Liz Deschenes’ work is invested in photography, particularly in cultivating a self-reflexive dialogue as well as a relationship between the third dimension in both sculpture and architecture.

Liz Deschenes received her BFA, in Photography from Rhode Island School of Design. She has been exhibiting internationally for over fifteen years, and in the last year, she has had three solo exhibitions, and a one-person presentation at Art Unlimited at Art Basel, in Switzerland. Her photographs were also recently included in the inaugural exhibition of The Modern Wing, The Art Institute of Chicago, Photography on Photography: Reflections on the Medium since 1960, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Color Chart, at The Museum of Modern Art. Her work is in the permanent collections of several museums including The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Walker Art Center, and The CCS Bard, Hessel Museum. Her work is represented by Miguel Abreu Gallery New York, and Sutton Lane, London, and Paris.

Image from Harvard Shoot! Karin, Lindsay, Matt, Tommy, Nikki

More Images from Harvard shoot! Angelina, Aris, Cotton, Dave, and Dave

Harvard Med Shoot

More images from Harvard Med shoot

Excellent Dan Estabrook talk on Tuesday!

Advocacy self-portrait assignment

The Exhibition at Gallery Kayafas

If you wish to return to take a look, here is the gallery site:

http://www.gallerykayafas.com/

The Clock by Christian Marclay

This is a quite phenomenal piece of art, highly recommended.

We will incorporate part of the 24 screening with "Photography As A Cultural Practice"

The Clock at the MFA
24 Screening Sunday Oct 9, 4pm - Monday Oct 10, 4pm

http://www.mfa.org/programs/special-event/24-hour-screening-christian-marclays-clock-1

Starting soon.

I'm excited. I mean, really. I can't wait to get rolling. Looking forward to every second of it.

Dave M

Great analysis of photo essay in Sunday NYTimes

Article in "Reading Life" by Geoff Dyer

Artists and Alchemists documentary

http://www.artistsandalchemists.com/

I had no idea this was in the works. Glad to see it. Considering the tenor of our program perhaps there's a way we could throw our support behind this, other than just spreading the word. I know I'd like to.

Not quite about photography...

...but important nonetheless. Boston, and moving thereto - where are YOU looking? I keep switching between as close as possible to the school and the city to be "where the action is" vs. out a little further where there is some space, peace, and lower rents (and also more my style). Where are some of the better places further out? Is NH out of the question? I have heard all the advice in the world (and then some) about everywhere within a 5 mile radius of AIB, and am now interested on the 10 to 30 mile radius. Thoughts?

Thanks!
Dave

Fantastic Show on Civil War Photos at Eastman House in Rochester!

link to Eastman House show

Just to break the ice...

Hi! Dave Molnar here, just wanted to say hello and that I am honored and excited to be a part of this first MFA class! I am looking forward to meeting all of you and am encouraged and inspired by the work I have seen so far. I also feel lucky, as several of us are all going to be working together in Santa Fe in a few weeks. It will be a nice introduction to some classmates in a great, no pressure, good time atmosphere. If anyone wants to get in touch for any reason, please feel free - might as well open that door as soon as possible! I can sometimes get a little off topic and long winded (as I'm sure Christopher can attest, from some of the e-mails I've sent him) so I'll just leave it at this right now. Anxious to start the adventure together!

PS -  Go Bruins!

Studio in NH

Hi All

i forgot to identify that it was my studio, covered with ominous mammatus clouds, in the last (and first) post to our new blog.

It's beautiful here in Dublin today, crisp, almost fall like air, and a great day for landscaping and working with a chainsaw. First though, a copy edit on my new wet plate collodion chapter for the third edition of my book... almost 60 pages of new text and information. If you want a preview copy, just ask and i'll send it along to you.

Heading to Santa Fe in a few weeks to try it all out in three workshops and a lot of new people. Looking forward to seeing Angelina, Jess, Dave Molnar, Dave Hyams, and Cotton work together. Nikki Seggara had to bail on her place in the wet plate workshop to go on her honeymoon... imagine making that decision. I offered to let them have their honeymoon at the workshop... haha.

If anyone is interested in a last minute wet plate collodion road show experience there's a spot open.

All for now... see you soon

christopher

www.christopherjames-studio.com