Vision(ary) Online Artist Panel II
August 14 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
The Griffin Museum of Photography is pleased to present a series of artist panels celebrating artists of this year’s Vision(ary). Artists featured in the second panel are Hillerbrand+Magsamen, Dana Stirling, Marco Castelli, Ric Pontes, Marky Kauffmann, Vicky Stromee, Jennifer Georgescu, Andrea Alkalay, Sungchul Lee, Kevin Hoth.
Hillerbrand+Magsamen are a collaborative artist duo creating video, photography, and installation works that blend humor, tension, and domestic life. Their experimental practice explores the boundaries of family and culture, with work shown internationally and supported by grants, residencies, and institutions including the Ann Arbor Film Festival and Grand Rapids Art Museum.
Dana Stirling: Why Am I Sad
Dana Stirling is a fine art photographer and Co-Founder & Editor of Float Photo Magazine. Based in Queens, NY, she holds an MFA from SVA (2016) and a BA from Hadassah College (2013).
Her work has been exhibited internationally at Candela Books + Gallery, Panopticon Gallery, and Saatchi Gallery, among others. Featured in publications like Hyperallergic, LensCulture, and Buzzfeed, Dana’s work explores memory, identity, and personal narratives.
Marco Castelli: A Micro Odyssey
Marco Castelli (b. 1991) lives and works in Bologna, Italy. Both his personal and documentary research move through a deep interest in human environment and life, looking for different approaches to visual art, digital communication, and creative storytelling.
His works have been awarded, published, and displayed internationally.
Marky Kauffmann: The Celestial Project
Marky Kauffmann is a graduate of Boston University and the New England School of Photography. She has been working as a fine art photographer, educator, and curator for more than thirty years. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including two Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship Finalist grants. Most recently, she won First Place in Soho Photo Gallery’s National Alternative Processes Competition, and was a finalist in the 7th Edition Julia Margaret Cameron Worldwide Gala Awards in three categories, including fine art, portraiture, and landscapes photography. Last summer, Kauffmann garnered an Honorable Mention in the Danforth Museum’s Art Annual Competition, juried by curator Jessica Roscio, and was part of Photolucida’s Critical Mass Top 200.
Jennifer Georgescu: I Know All The Songs by Heart
Jennifer Georgescu is a US-born visual artist living in Basel, Switzerland. Her self-reflective projects focus on the power of language, relationships, mythologies, and control. She is a three-time finalist for Critical Mass, Photolucida, a recipient of the John Chervinsky Scholarship awarded through the Griffin Museum of Photography, and a two-time William Male Foundation Grant recipient. Georgescu’s work has been exhibited in the Athens Photo Festival, Blue Sky Gallery, Startup Art Fair LA, The Oceanside Museum of Art, the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, and the Center for Fine Art Photography. Recent publications include FRAMES Magazine, Humble Arts Foundation, Lenscratch, ArtDoc Magazine, Float Magazine, Too Tired, and the Missouri Review.
Andrea Alkalay: Unearth
Andrea Alkalay is an Argentine visual artist and Industrial Designer, trained in art photography with a focus on experimental processes. In 2024, exhibitions include Bienal Sur, Recoleta and CCK Cultural Centers, the Museum of San Juan, and The Larreta Museum. Internationally, their work has been featured at Hafez Gallery in Riyadh, the RAK Art Festival in the UAE, the Kranj Festival and Park Pecno Gallery in Slovenia (2023/24), and the DongGang Museum of Photography.
Recipient of a 2022 grant from the Saudi Ministry of Culture and winner of The Kingdom Photography Award. Other accolades include 1st place in the Latin American Professional Award (2021 WPO), finalist at the Head On Photo Festival, and winner of the Light Festival Portfolio Award in Argentina.
Publications include Aesthetica Magazine, Lenscratch, Fresh Eyes, and PHMuseum.
Sungchul Lee has worked for seven years as a photojournalist and two years as a military photographer. He uses photography, installation, and performance to unravel the trauma he experienced as a photojournalist.
Kevin Hoth: The Fifth Channel
Kevin Hoth is an artist, father, and educator based in Boulder, Colorado. He has taught university courses in photography, digital media and graphic design at numerous universities for over twenty years and has taught at the University of Colorado Boulder since 2011. Hoth’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at The Houston Center for Photography, The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, The Center for Fine Art Photography, The Institute of Photographic Studies of Catalonia in Barcelona, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, The Photographic Center Northwest, The Center for Creative Photography, and The Rhode Island Center for Photography. Recent awards include Top 200 Critical Mass 2019, Center For Fine Art Photography Center Forward 2024, and top ten finalist for the 2018 Clarence John Laughlin Award. Hoth received his Masters of Fine Art in Photography at the University of Washington, Seattle with a focus in Video Installation. He lives on the outskirts of Boulder, Colorado and regularly gets woken up by coyote howls, owl hoots and horse whinnies.
Kevin is represented by Walker Fine Art in Denver, Colorado.
Seokwoo Song: <Wandering, Wondering>
Seokwoo Song graduated from B.F.A in Department of Photography and Media, Daegu Arts University and graduated master’s degree M.F.A in Department of Photographic Design, Hongik University Graduate School of Industrial Arts. He is graduated master’s degree M.F.A in Department of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, Korea National University of Arts.
Main solo exhibitions include “The Fourth Wall,” “Floating Motions” and he took part in a number of group exhibitions including Daegu Photo Biennale, KYOTOGRAPHIE, Singapore International Photography Festival, and The National Museum of Finland, Museum Centre Ploshchad Mira, Cheonan Museum of Art, DongGang Museum of Photography, Donuimun Museum, ArtSpace3, WESS and others.
Main awards include receiving KYOTOGRAPHIE KG+ SELECT (2023), CRITICAL MASS TOP50 (2022), selected as an excellent portfolio in the 6th Busan International Photo Festival Portfolio Review (2022), Winner of the 18th Photography Criticism Awards (2021) and others. His works are housed in Photographic Center Northwest, Museum Centre Ploshchad Mira, DECK Contemporary Art Photography Centre, and others. He has been selected as an artist-in-residence at National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) Residency Goyang in 2025.
Vicky Stromee
Ric Pontes
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