so grateful to announce that I have been selected by Juror Michael Itkoff (co-founder of Daylight Books) for the exhibition RED, at the SE Center for Photography in South Carolina!
selected work:
suck on my sweet tooth until I'm sore.
RED
Juror: Michael Itkoff
Gallery exhibition: February 3 – February 28, 2017
RED Prospectus
Red. Blood, the Grand Canyon and Mars- all Red. Red has more personal associations than any other color. Red is exciting, Red draws attention. Red is heat, passion, sex, anger, love and joy. Red can be happiness and good fortune.
Juror: Our juror for Red is Michael Itkoff, artist and Cofounder of Daylight and Fabl. Michael’s photographic and video work is in public and private collections in the United States and his work has appeared on the covers of Orion, Katalog, Next City and Philadelphia Weekly. Michael was the recipient of the Howard Chapnick Grant for the Advancement of Photojournalism (2006), a Creative Artists Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Arts Council (2007), and a Puffin Foundation Grant (2008). He has written for the NYTimes Lens blog, Art Asia Pacific, Nueva Luz, Conscientious blog and the Forward. Michael’s monograph Street Portraits was published by Charta Editions in 2009.
He is currently represented by the Edelman Gallery in Chicago.
Daylight is a non-profit organization dedicated to publishing art and photography books. By exploring the documentary mode along with the more conceptual concerns of fine-art, Daylight’s uniquely collectible publications work to revitalize the relationship between art, photography, and the world-at-large.
Exhibition Details: Selected images will hang in the SE Center’s main gallery space for approximately one month with the opportunity to be invited for a solo show at a later date. Openings are timed to coincide with the Village of West Greenville, Greenville, South Carolina's textile mill village turned arts district, First Fridays, a celebration of art, food and music. Participating artists that can attend have the opportunity for a Portfolio Review by SE Center Director Michael Pannier on the following Saturday morning (reservations needed).