July | August 2006 - Boston Photography Focus

Right : John Willis, Father & Son, Pine Ridge Reservation,
SD, 2004, Gelatin silver Print, 20 x 24
inches, Courtesy and copyright the artist
Above : Harvey Loves Harvey, “Appropriation often comes first. The blah blah, the other, is often the
objective. Communication and self-realization as hacky hack.” – Paul McCarthy, From the series A
Photographic Study Of The Artistic Interpretation Of Philosophical Statements By Popular Artists: What Is
Meaning, 2006, 7-color Ultrachrome Print, 15 x 33 inches, Courtesy and copyright the artists
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entitled Blur of the Otherworldly: Contemporary
Art, Technology, and the Paranormal
at the Center for Art and Visual Culture
at the University of Maryland Baltimore
County, which included a catalog with
extensive texts. In 2006, she received
Creative Capital and LEF grants and
lectured about her work in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Marsching was selected to be one of
four finalists for the 2006 ICA Prize and
her work will be shown at the new ICA
building this fall. Her website is www.janemarsching.com.
1999
1999 prc members’ exhibition:
exploring new technologies,
part of first Boston Cyberarts
Festival, april 30-june 27
Jurors : Edward G. Earle, Curator of Digital
Media, International Center of Photography,
New York, NY, and the PRC
matthew nash
Matthew Nash has worn many hats in
the years since showing at the PRC. He
co-curated the exhibition Lingo at Oni
Gallery in 2002 and coordinated OCD
at the Boston Center for the Arts’ Mills
Gallery (Boston, MA), which received
national attention. His collaboration with
artist Jason Dean, known as “Harvey Loves
Harvey,” has had solo shows at Oni Gallery
and Fitchburg State College (Fitchburg,
MA) and has shown at numerous venues
in Boston, New York City and elsewhere.
Harvey Loves Harvey is represented by
Judi Rotenberg Gallery (Boston, MA). In
2004, Nash launched the online journal
Big RED & Shiny, which covers the arts
in New England, and holds the title of
Publisher. The project has grown to three
editors and numerous contributors. He is
also a contributing editor to Contemporary
Magazine, a college professor, cat owner,
and (by the time this is in print) loving
husband. Online, you can find him at:
www.bigredandshiny.com and
www.harveylovesharvey.com
2000
2000 prc members’ exhibition
may 5-june 28
Jurors : Richard B. Woodward, Editor at
Large for DoubleTake magazine, and John P.
Jacob, Executive Director of the PRC
john willis
John Willis recently published the book,
Recycled Realities, a collaboration with
Tom Young, with the Center for American
Places and Columbia College. Since showing
in 2000, his work has been added into
many collections including The Library of
Congress (Washington, DC), The National
Museum of the Native American (Washington,
DC), The Whitney Museum of
American Art (New York, NY), among
others. He has shown at venues including
Oglala Lakota College (Kyle, SD),
Light Factory (Charlotte, NC), Houston
Center for Photography (Houston, TX).
Willis has received recent grants from The
Vermont Arts Council, the Vermont Arts
Endowment, and The John Anson Kittredge
Foundation. Willis co-founded and
directs the Exposures Cross Cultural Youth
Exchange Program which leads annual
Right : Neeta Madahar, Falling 3, 2005, Light jet
print, 48 x 48 inches, Courtesy of Neeta Madahar
and Howard Yezerski Gallery (Boston, MA)