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MADE IN WOODSTOCK
V
featuring work by CPW's
artists-in-residence from 2007-2009:
WILLIAM CORDOVA, LATOYA RUBY FRAZIER,
TIA-SIMONE GARDNER, LAWRENCE GETUBIG, DANIEL HANDAL, WAYNE HODGE, JEANNETTE
LOUIE, HEE JIN KANG, TARRAH KRAJNAK & WILKA ROIG, EMILY HANAKO MOMOHARA, RICARDO
MORALES-HERNÁNDEZ, DAWIT L.
PETROS, TIM PORTLOCK, KANAKO SASAKI, LUPITA MURILLO TINNEN, and DONNA J.
WAN
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ON VIEW: JANUARY 15-MARCH 27, 2011
OPENING RECEPTION: SATURDAY JANUARY 15,
4-6pm
We are pleased to present MIW V (Made
in Woodstock V) the fifth installment of the Center for
Photography at Woodstock's (CPW) series featuring work created by
recent participants of WOODSTOCK A-I-R, CPW's residency program
for artists of color working in the photographic arts.
Established in 1999, WOODSTOCK A-I-R is a
workspace residency program which provides participants with time, facilities,
space, and the critical & technical support necessary to move forward. The
program encourages the pursuit of creative risk-taking in an inspiring and
supportive environment where, working without distraction, photographic artists
can focus intensely on their own work, continue works in progress, layout their
goals for the future and break new creative ground. Each resident spent 2-4
weeks in Woodstock, staying at the Villetta Inn at the historic Byrdcliffe art
colony. With quiet and solitude, yet enlivened by a community of fellow artists,
WOODSTOCK A-I-R participants work in the idyllic environment of Woodstock- a
gathering place renowned for its vibrant cultural history.
Representing the broad range of photographic
practices and interests that WOODSTOCK A-I-R helps realize, the 18 artists
featured in MIW V engage in an inspired and deeply self-aware dialogue on
history, politics, representational concerns, and more. As no two residencies
are the same, the exhibition reveals the intensely diverse, dynamic interests of
the artists as a group, and addresses each image-makers own particular story and
voice.
William Cordova's (Miami, FL) sets of
photographs acknowledge, document, and archive the marginalized histories of the
Young Lords and Black Panther Party.
LaToya Ruby
Frazier (New Brunswick, NJ) turns the camera on her own
family, negotiating complex and fraught familial relationships as both subject
and photographer.
A mixed-
media artist, Tia-Simone Gardner (NYC) investigates
psychological relationships to locations and spaces and the idea of home.
In
his cardboard cutout series, Lawrence
Getubig (Keysville, VA) reexamines the fantasy genres and
narratives of childhood by casting himself as a character in relation to the
typical white American male hero.
Working within
environmental portraiture, Daniel Handal (NYC) explores
a small but burgeoning subculture of young adults who are actively engaged in
farming, raising livestock, and living sustainably in the Hudson Valley.
Wayne Hodge's
(NYC) video and photo-based collages critique the influence of historical
theater on contemporary visual culture and its role in transforming ideologies
of race.
Jeannette
Louie's (West Orange, NJ) articulates emotional states such
as boredom, dread, and inattention with photo-collages that evoke the odd,
random thought processes of the subconscious.
Hee Jin Kang's (NYC)
photographs of abandoned mattresses in New York City elevate the mundane and
everyday into observational poetry.
In an homage to the surrealist artist Claude Cahun and her partner Marcell
Moore, the collaborative team of Tarrah Krajnak & Wilka Roig
(Winooski, VT and Ithaca, NY, respectively) address representational trends of
women within photography.
Deeply struck
by the deaths of 7 friends and family in a brief period of time, Emily Hanako
Momohara's (Cincinnati, OH) Koden series contemplates
bereavement by creating dual portraits of herself and a shadow representing
aspects of those who have passed on.
An
artist who works with a variety of media, Ricardo
Morales-Hernández's (Lidra, Puerto Rico) superimposed and heavily
worked images remake and review history and its artifacts.
Dawit L.
Petros (NYC) creates diptyches that address notions of presence
and absence within natural environments, addressing the tension between one's
self and surroundings.
Using
cutting-edge video gaming technology and referencing tropes of American
landscape painting, Tim Portlock's
(Philadelphia, PA) constructed cityscapes examine the changing relationships
between communities and urban planning.
Justine Reyes' (NYC) grouping
of photographs tenderly display a set of drawers filled with her uncle's
possessions, presenting memento mori which speak to themes of memory and
familial legacy.
Kanako Sasaki
(Sendai, Japan) works out of the representational tradition of Japanese
ukiyo-e paintings as she poses and photographs herself in a dreamlike,
"floating" world.
Lupita Murillo
Tinnen's (Plano, TX) Mourning Sickness series
reveals the photographer in a vulnerable, emotionally intense, and cathartic
private performance as she deals with grief surrounding her 3-year struggle with
infertility.
Inspired by the
Hudson River School of Art and drawing from cultural references of the iconic,
the monumental, and the symbolic, Donna J. Wan's (Menlo Park, CA)
large-scale photographs of the natural world question and subvert traditional
perceptions of landscape.
CPW's artists-in-residence build upon
existing genres, while injecting their own personal inquiries and perspectives.
MIW V champions these 18 talented artists of color and
provides a forum for a visual engagement with a wide yet interconnected range of
photographic methods, interests, and subject matter. Together, they celebrate
and enrich Woodstock's historic role as a home, community, and source of
inspiration for generations of artists - past, present, and future.
To learn more about the exhibition,
Made in Woodstock V, please click here.
To learn more
about WOODSTOCK A-I-R, please click here.
This exhibition is made possible in part the generous
support of private and public lenders and with funds from the New York State Council on the
Arts, a state agency, and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the
Visual Arts.
Founded in 1977, the Center for Photography at Woodstock
is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 artist-centered organization dedicated to supporting
artists working in photography and related media and engaging audiences through
opportunities in which creation, discovery, and education are made possible.
To learn more visit www.cpw.org.
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