Critic's Pick

Artist Statement My work explores the transitory instances of time when one’s awareness is threaded between the present and a similar moment remembered from the past. At times, these threaded moments have hard juxtapositions due to differences from the change of context, the passage of time, or a change of place. Other times, they blend Read More »

Statement Showcasing California’s Central Valley, Westlands uses documentary photography to examine the danger drought and water policies represent to farming. The valley has been a productive food-growing region for decades, but water shortages and complicated laws have placed the region’s farms—and subsequently its communities and culture—in precarious conditions. Moving beyond simplified narratives of environmentalist versus farmer or Read More »

Statement I am a collector.  Among the treasures I discover are old glass negatives, photographs, scientific ephemera, botanical prints and medical books. Many of the glass negatives are of women.I scan and combine them with scientific ephemera to form new environments.The women command attention, almost as if to ask the viewer to enter their world Read More »

Statement “The Rug’s Topography” began with me photographing my intimate partner of six years. Simultaneously, we were facing an internal conflict: how we identified as individuals differed from the roles we occupied in our partnership. As we began to grow apart romantically, our anxieties rose in response to the distance widening between us. Our individual identities within a Read More »

Statement “Solitude of Travel” documents a period of persistent travel: in the space of a decade, I passed through some 60 countries on 4 continents, often repeatedly and for prolonged periods of time.  I traveled without any overarching reason or direction, but I think even then I suspected that the pressing impulse to board yet Read More »

Artist Statement Evidence and Inhabitants Series In 1972 I was watching the Fellini film Roma and was captivated by splashes of light involving sparks from a street car at night. It seems strange to me (almost absurd) that such a momentary scene became a motivation for an entire body of work that is interwoven throughout my artistic Read More »

Lawrence Manning – Photographer Griffin Museum of Photography – Critic Artist Statement My first trip to Southeast Asia in April 2018 found me attracted to the symbiotic life and culture of the rivers, lakes, and ocean bays of Vietnam and Cambodia. I have been rendering these captures  mostly as references or sketches to create dreamy, Read More »

Artist – Kevin Hoth Critic – Griffin Museum of Photography Artist Statement for Everywhere And All At Once Ansel Adams said–somewhat cheekily–the hardest part of photography is knowing where to stand. This is essentially an acknowledgement of the importance of the camera’s coordinates in space or the vantage point of the maker. I use a mirror within the Read More »

artrəˈbyo͞oSH(ə)n/ Made up noun by the curator. Overarching Idea The action of regarding something (in a photograph) as referencing an art piece, art medium, art form, art style, movement or artist. Made up definition by the curator. Grace Weston – In our on-line gallery selections from Short Stories/Tall Tales Artist Statement In this ongoing series, “Short Read More »

Statement for Tidelines At the confluence of the Atlantic Ocean and Nauset Inlet at ebb tide on the Outer Cape, the outgoing tide stencils mountain ranges and deserts on the sand, leaving strands of sea weed and small stones scattered in its wake. Just after sunrise or in the gloaming, the sky creates mountains of Read More »