Reception: Thursday, November 15, 6-8pm Curatorial Talk at 7pm
Curated by Peggy Shaw
Monday, November 12, 2012 – Saturday, February 2, 2013
Music by the Parkland Guitar Ensemble
Closed: 5pm November 21-25 Thanksgiving Break; December 22– January 6 for Holiday Break; and
January 21 for Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Accomplished photographers from across the country will
participate in the exhibition
Shift: Contemporary
Photography Exhibition, curated by Parkland’s Art and Design faculty member
Peggy Shaw. The exhibition will run from
Monday, November 12 through Saturday, February 2, 2013. An opening reception honoring the
photographers is scheduled for Thursday, November 15 from 6-8pm.
Serving as curator for this group
exhibition is Peggy Shaw, an associate professor in photography/video at
Parkland College writes in her essay, “Photographers have always had to integrate
creativity, technology, and process - responding to light, adjusting lens, translating
pixels to paper. As photography evolves photographers must also, but what’s
truly revealing are the ways they respond: open to both contemporary and
historical processes now considered alternative - subject and process is
twisted to reveal new ideas.”
This exhibition provides viewers
with the opportunity to examine the work of photographers who work with a
variety of lens-based equipment and each artist has their own viewpoint on
either our natural world, structured worlds, and/or the body. Shaw continues, “Using digital cameras, webcams, video cameras, microscopes and scanners
- these works are not only captured - but created. New technology and processes
do not replace the old but add to the options for artists to interpret, and
then express their ideas”.
Shaw received her Master of Fine
Arts degree at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and her bachelor of
Fine Arts degree in painting from the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign. Her photography has been shown nationally and has won
numerous awards in both photography and video, including fellowships from both
the Illinois Arts Council and Arts Midwest/NEA Regional.
Participating artists include a
mix of studio artists and faculty at educational institutions across the
country: Bruce Checefsky (Director of the Reinberger Galleries at the Cleveland
Institute of Art and Adjunct Professor in Liberal Arts, Cleveland, OH), Dana
Fritz (Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of
Nebraska, Lincoln, NE), Richard Gray (Associate Professor of Photography and
Chairperson of the Department of Art, Art History & Design at the
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN), Christa Kreeger Bowden (Associate
Professor of Art at Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA), Joyce Lopez
(Studio Photographer, Chicago, IL), Michael Sherwin (Assistant Professor in
Photography and Intermedia at West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV), S. Gayle Stevens (Part-Time Instructor of Photography, College of Dupage, Glen Ellyn,
IL) and Sonja Thomsen (Studio Photographer, Milwaukee, WI).
Parkland
Art Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Thursday; 10 a.m. to 3
p.m. Friday; and noon to 2 p.m. Saturday. The gallery will be closed from 5 p.m.
on November 21 through November 25 for Thanksgiving Break; December 22 through January
6 for Winter Break; and January 21 for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
To find
the gallery when classes are in session, we suggest using the M6 parking lot on
the north corner of the campus. Enter through any door and follow the ramps
uphill to the highest point of the first floor, where the gallery is located.
The gallery windows overlook the outdoor fountain area.
Programs
at the gallery are partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council,
a state agency. Parkland College is a section 504/ADA-compliant institution; for
accommodation, call 217/351-2505.
For
more information on the invitational, please call the gallery office at
217/351-2485 or visit www.parkland.edu/gallery.
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