May | June 2007 - Boston Photography Focus

About the Artists
Daniel Ballesteros, Cabinet
Top , 2007, C-print, 20 x 20
inches, Copyright and courtesy
of the artist
Chris Bentley, Missile Park, from
the series “Desert State: The
Edge of America,” 2004,
C-print, 26 1/2x 34 1/2 inches,
Copyright and courtesy of the artist
Anastasia Cazabon, Untitled
#3, from the series “Stories,”
2006, C-print, 18 x 18 inches,
Copyright and courtesy of the artist
Jon Edwards, Pentimento, from
the series “Islands in Maine, A
Way of Being,” 2004/2006,
Gelatin silver print, 10 x 10
inches, Copyright and courtesy
of the artist
Erin Eriksen, Cambridge, MA,
2006, C-print, 13 x 19 inches,
Copyright and courtesy of the artist
Erik Gould, Detail of Every Bradford
Pear Tree along Freeborn
Ave., East Providence, from
“The Rhode Island Photographic
Survey,” 2003, 48 framed
gelatin silver prints, each 7 x 10
inches, Copyright and courtesy
of the artist
John Hirsch, Untitled #753, from
the series “A Duty Paid,” 2006,
Archival ink jet print, 32 x 40
inches, Copyright and courtesy
of the artist
Robert Knight, Eli & Ben (Ages
10 & 7) (#2), Chestnut Hill,
MA, 2006/2007, from the
series “Dwelling,” Archival ink jet
print, 31 x 39 inches, Courtesy
of The Boston Drawing Project at
The Bernard Toale Gallery
www.prcboston.org | exhibitions
EXPOSURE: THE 12TH ANNUAL PRC JURIED EXHIBITION
IN CELEBRATION OF THE PRC’S 30TH ANNIVERSARY
MAY 25 – JULY 1, 2007
Each year, the Photographic Resource Center is pleased
to host a juried exhibition of photography and related
media. This prestigious competition is a great opportunity
to view a slice of the best and brightest as well as see
topics in which contemporary minds are engaged. We
were delighted to have Jen Bekman, founder and director
of jen bekman, a pioneering fine art gallery in New
York City’s burgeoning Bowery arts district, as the 2007
guest juror. For this year’s exhibition, Bekman selected
16 artists out of 317 submissions (that translates to
close to 40 pieces from over 3000 images)—the largest
number of entries ever received in the exhibition’s history.
With between ten and twenty people selected, The
Annual PRC Juried Exhibition is a highly competitive and
nationally-revered program. All winners exhibit several
images each in the PRC gallery and are also highlighted
in the PRC’s publication, in the loupe, which is
distributed to thousands of visitors, members, museums,
colleges, and university and college libraries.
PRC Juried Show History
In celebration of the PRC’s 30th anniversary in the
2006/2007 academic year and to reflect more accurately
the mission and function of our annual photography
competition, we changed the name of the PRC
Members’ Exhibition to EXPOSURE: The Annual PRC
Juried Exhibition. In total, over 230 artists have shown
in the PRC Juried Exhibitions—including an array of
established photographers and those cited as “ones to
watch.” Invited guest jurors represent esteemed curators,
photographers and photography professionals from
the region and beyond. Past jurors of the Annual PRC
Juried Exhibition have included: Jeanine Fijol, Photo
Editor of Photo District News (PDN) magazine; Alison
Devine Nordström, Curator of Photographs, George
Eastman House, Rochester, NY; Rachel Rosenfield Lafo,
Director of Curatorial Affairs at the DeCordova Museum
and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA; Chris Enos, artist,
educator, and founder of the PRC; Diana Gaston, then
independent curator; Deborah Martin Kao, Curator of
Photography, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA; Richard B. Woodward, former Editor
at Large, Doubletake Magazine; and Edward Earle,
Curator of Digital Media, International Center of Photography,
New York, NY.
The objective of this prestigious exhibition perhaps rings
even more true today than when it was first announced
in the PRC newsletter in 1996: “[the PRC juried show]
signals the Center’s deepening commitment to area artists
and its support of the range of photography produced
in the New England region.” To that, I would add
“nationally and beyond.” Join us in congratulating the
featured artists of the PRC’s 12th Annual Juried Exhibition.
About the 2007 Guest Juror, Jen Bekman
Jen Bekman is the founder and director of jen bekman.
Since March of 2003, the gallery has attracted the
attention of critics, museum curators, and collectors
alike, with its focus on emerging artists and innovative
group shows. Visit jenbekman.com to learn more and
be sure to check out the gallery’s fast-growing quarterly
photography competition, Hey, Hot Shot! at heyhotshot.
com. Gallery artists and exhibitions have been featured
extensively online and in publications such as The New
York Times, W Magazine, The Village Voice, and New
York Magazine and in art-related publications including
Art in America, ARTFORUM, Photo District News, and
Photograph. Bekman is also the editor of the popular
weblog, personism.com, bringing the gallery and its artists
to the attention of an even broader audience. American
Photo recently named Bekman “Gallery Innovator of the
Year.” We are thrilled to have this rising artworld star be
a part of our 30th anniversary celebration.
- Leslie K. Brown, PRC Curator
Daniel Ballesteros (Willimantic, CT) uses elements of
camera sight to suggest ethereal memories and nascent narratives
in interior spaces. Currently a MFA candidate at the
University of Connecticut at Storrs, Ballesteros has shown in
galleries from St. Louis, to Chicago, to Santa Fe.
Chris Bentley (Medford, MA) focuses on the West—both
its present boom and vestiges of its past—in his ongoing
series, “Desert States: The Edge of America.” A graduate of
Trinity College, Bentley has also studied at New England
School of Photography (NESOP) and is an active commercial
photographer and filmmaker. He has shown regionally at
the Cambridge Art Association, Copley Society of Art, and
at a variety of film festivals.
Anastasia Cazabon (Brighton, MA) draws upon fairy
tales as inspiration. In her anonymous figure’s imaginative
exploits, there are distinctly contemporary and somewhat
subversive undertones. A 2005 NESOP graduate, Cazabon
has been published in F-Stop Magazine, FILE Magazine,
and online with Projekt30. She is a founding member of
The Exposure Project, a collective of emerging photographers.
Jon Edwards (South Freeport, ME) has been documenting
individuals in Maine who have chosen to pursue traditional
trades or ways of living. Formerly a lawyer and currently a
MFA candidate at the Maine Photographic Workshops/
Rockport College, Edwards has exhibited at Silvereye Center
for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA; Center for Maine Contemporary
Art, Rockport, ME; and was recently selected for the DVD
publication Photography Now: One Hundred Portfolios.
Erin Eriksen (Brighton, MA) investigates what she calls
our “feigning of the ‘the natural” via carefully composed
and considered images of domesticated foliage in interior
and exterior environments. A studio assistant to Henry
Horenstein, Eriksen is a graduating BFA student majoring in
photography and art history at the Art Institute of Boston.
Erik Gould (Pawtucket, RI) is a part of a monumental project—the
Rhode Island Photographic Survey—documenting
everything from major intersections, roadside memorials, to
entire streets. Gould received his MFA in photography from
Ohio University, his BA from the State University of New
York, College at Geneseo, and has participated in numerous
group and solo exhibitions.
John Hirsch (Jamaica Plain, MA) explores mixed martial
arts events in his ongoing photographic series “A Duty Paid.”
Holding a BA in psychology, Hirsch studied at the Maine
Photographic Workshops and currently teaches at Noble
& Greenough School, Dedham, MA. His exhibition record
includes shows at the South Shore Art Center, Cohasset,
MA and the Waterford Gallery, Sandy, UT, among others.
Robert Knight (Boston, MA) searches for interiors that
act as surrogates for their creators, focusing on the forgotten
details and unusual arrangements. Knight’s diverse background
also includes a BA in Economics and Architecture
from Yale University and a MFA from Massachusetts College
of Art. His work has recently been selected for New Art
2007 at MPG Contemporary Gallery, Boston; New Talent
at Alpha Gallery, Boston; and the annual juried exhibition
at the Houston Center of Photography, Houston, TX.
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