On view now and extended through July 20, 2013
 
Continuum: Doug DuBois and Aaron Blum is the first in a series which will explore mentorships and influences in contemporary photography, and those times in an artist's formative development when a special teacher or person changed everything for them. This exhibition focuses on one such mentor-mentee relationship -- that between Doug DuBois and Aaron Blum. Doug DuBois is an internationally renowned photographer and associate professor at Syracuse University where he teaches in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. Aaron Blum is DuBois' former graduate student at Syracuse and a rising talent who now lives and teaches in Pittsburgh, PA.
Each artist is represented by selections from their most recent projects. Doug DuBois' My Last Day at Seventeen is about coming of age in a housing estate in Cobh, County Cork on the southwest coast of Ireland, during the current economic downturn. This is the first time that My Last Day at Seventeen has been exhibited outside of Ireland. Aaron Blum's Born and Raised is a series of portraits of his family and friends as well as landscapes and interior scenes taken in his hometown of New Martinsville, a small rural community in the Appalachian range of West Virginia.
For more information on Doug DuBois and Aaron Blum, please visit our website.
Continuum: Doug DuBois and Aaron Blum is organized by Silver Eye Center for Photography and curated by Ellen Fleurov, Executive Director, in collaboration with the artists.
Silver Eye Center for Photography is located at 1015 East Carson Street, Pittsburgh, PA. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, noon to 6 pm. Admission is free and open to the public.
Silver Eye Center for Photography is generously supported by our members and individual donors and by the Allegheny Regional Asset District, A.W. Mellon Education and Charitable Trust Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation, The Fine Foundation, The Grable Foundation, The Heinz Endowments, The Hillman Foundation, The Laurel Foundation, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and Epson America.
Image Credits: Doug DuBois, from the series My Last Day at Seventeen, 2009-2012. Courtesy of the artist. Aaron Blum, from the series Born and Raised, 2010-2013. Courtesy of the artist.
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