Reception & Artist Talk: Thurs., February 22, 5 - 7 PM
On View: February 22 - April 2, 2018
DAI Corridor
When the very first issue of Aperture magazine was published in 1952, the art critic Nancy Newhall wrote that “the old literacy of words is dying and a new literacy of images is being born. Perhaps the printed page will disappear and even our records will be kept in images and sounds”. The statement seems all the more prescient over sixty years later, especially given the ubiquity of smart phones, social media photo apps, emojis, and selfies. Why add images to an already saturated landscape? The student photographers of the 2017 emerging photography exhibition are creating images because of a compulsion and passion, because the image is how they explore their world and make sense of their reality. Weather plunging into the macro world of fungi, searching for the punctum moment of adventure sports, mining the subconscious for motivation and connection, disrupting digital data, or molding female forms from garbage waste, the records kept in this show are ones of curiosity and experimentation, imagination and skill.
Emerging photographers are Riley Loew, Haley Pehrson, Wilson Johnson, Chris Wodicka, Joanna Harms, and Krista Mathes.