Even though the juried show is now no longer on the gallery walls, we’ll continue to feature two images per week from EXPOSURE: The 14th Annual PRC Juried Exhibition until next Thursday. Check back Monday and Thursday to see the last images and artists, including artist statements and website links.

Surf on in to our flickr site and check out installation shots and photos from the opening reception of EXPOSURE by clicking here.

BETSY SCHNEIDER-”Scenes” 2000-2009

With the hope of subtly subverting expectations of what childhood should look like, I strive to make images which are at once familiar and strange, provocative and reassuring, candid and performative. I believe that childhood is defined less by an idealized state of innocence and more by a drive for knowledge and experience. The series consists of intuitive and spontaneous pictures taken when I am with my children and their friends in our everyday lives: in backyards, pools, parks, motels, zoos, etc..  The work grows out of my observations of my children’s’ experience of the world. Ultimately, the work, like parenthood itself, has proven to be far less of a means to express my previously established ideas about children and being a parent, but has taken on much more of its own journey, teaching and revealing as much as reflecting. This continues to be a work in progress.

Betsy Schneider, The Tub, 2003, from the series “Scenes,” Archival inkjet print, 16 x 20 inches, courtesy of the artist

Click here to visit the artist’s website

THURSDAY, JULY 2

The Hallway Gallery.
First Thursday: Brent Refsland, Roberta Stone, Vanessa Irzyk, and Kat Russell. Reception: 6-9pm. 617-818-5996. 66a South Street, Jamaica Plain, MA, 02130.

FRIDAY JULY 3

Addison Woolley At Studio 203A.
First Friday Art Walk.  Opening Reception: 5–8pm. 207-450-8499. 61 Pleasant Street, #203A, Portland, ME 04101.

Sharon Arts Center.
Water: Mystery & Plight. Opening Reception: 5–7pm. 603-924-7676. 30 Grove Street, Peterborough, NH 03458.

Even though the juried show is now no longer on the gallery walls (it is closed as of June 29th), we’ll continue to feature two images per week from EXPOSURE: The 14th Annual PRC Juried Exhibition until next Thursday.  Keep checking back to see an image per artist as well as artist statements and website links.

Surf on in to our flickr site and check out installation shots and photos from the opening reception of EXPOSURE by clicking here

LYDIA PANAS-”Family Pictures/Untold Stories” 2007-2008

These are family pictures.  Not the ones you find in a family album, but the ones we put aside.

The photographs are not always comfortable. They ask that we look deeper than the surface. They record the distances that separate individuals. They hold ambiguities and conflicts as well as expose secrets.

I invite families to pose for me. I feel deep affection for those who stand in front of my camera and tread gently with their feelings.  I wait until the face they present to the public is gone and try to photograph what lies underneath: the complex part we often don’t see about ourselves.  Though at times, I am unsure if I should continue, it is the job of the artist to expose and reveal.

My own feelings are uncovered in the process. (We can only see that which we recognize.)  I photograph so I can understand.

Lydia Panas, Tony and Maddie, 2007/ 2008, from the series “Family Pictures / Untold Stories,” C-print, 32 x 40 inches, courtesy of the artist

Click here to visit the artist’s website

As with many other non-profits, the PRC is dealing with the effects of the economic downturn. A number of PRC board members have come together to launch a matching fund drive. For every dollar that you give, an additional dollar will be contributed to the PRC, up to $20,000. Our goal is, with your help, to raise $40,000 before June 30th from this special fundraising initiative.

Please consider a gift of $10, $25, $50, $100 or more. We understand that these are challenging times for everyone. Know that your contribution will make a real difference.

As always, we appreciate your participation in our efforts to continue to support all the programs that make the PRC so unique.  Thank you.

In this new feature, we’ll be featuring two images per week from EXPOSURE: The 14th Annual PRC Juried Exhibition. Keep checking back on Mondays and Thursdays to see an image per artist as well as artist statements and website links.

This is the last weekend of the physical show, but we’ll continue to feature images from Exposure until mid July.  So, if you are in the Boston area, stop by before June 28th!  The PRC is open this Thursday, 10 - 8pm, Friday 10- 6pm, and Saturday and Sunday, 12-5pm. Click here for directions.

Surf on in to our flickr site and check out installation shots and photos from the opening reception of EXPOSURE by clicking here

BRAD MOORE

These photographs were shot in modest, well-worn, suburban cities in central and inland Southern California. Built in the 1950s and 60s, these cities provided a new home and future to a post-war population. This is where I grew up and, after 25 years, I returned. The areas I remembered were fading away, and I was struck by the simultaneous growth and decline. Initially, it was the buildings that interested me; I shot them in formal, almost symmetrical compositions. Then I began shooting the surrounding shrubbery with the same architectural approach. I liked the way the buildings and plants worked together, so that is how the project evolved. I have opted to avoid traditional, documentary-style photography; instead I have photographed in primarily static compositions, reflecting change, irony and evolution.

Brad Moore, Kermore Lane, Stanton, California, 2008, Archival pigment print, 16 x 21 3/4 inches, courtesy of the artist

Click here to visit the artist’s website

The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University. Sarah Charlesworth.  Lecture: 7:30-9:30pm.  617-585-6770.  Boston University, Kenmore Classroom Building, 565 Commonwealth Ave, Room 101, Boston, MA.

Griffin Museum of Photography. Fashion Photography: Photographs by Matt Albiani. Student Talk: 5-5:45pm.  Tour of exhibition: Lifeguard on Duty, 5:45-6pm.  Book signing with wine and cheese reception: 6-8pm.  781-729-1158.  67 Shore Road, Winchester, MA 01890.

Jamaica Plain Arts Council. Small Works Show & Sale. Show: 6-9pm. 617-272-5354. Doyle’s Cafe, 3484 Washington Street, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130.

THURSDAY, JUNE 25

American Society of Picture Professionals. ASPP New England Summer Party and Silent Auction. 6:30-8:30pm. The Precinct, 70 Union Square, Somerville, MA 02143. Please RSVP to KL_Potvin@hotmail.com by June 20.

Massachusetts Audubon. Spontaneous Synergy: Texture, Light and Color.  Reception: 6-8pm. 781-784-5691 x8111.  Moose Hill Wildlife Gallery, 293 Moose Hill Street, Sharon, MA 02067.

FRIDAY, JUNE 26

Boston Center for the Arts. And the fair Moon rejoices: contemporary visionaries in the wake of Blake.  Opening Reception: 6-8pm.  617-426-5000.  539 Tremont Street, Boston, MA 02116.

Boston Young Contemporaries. Opening Reception: 6-8pm.  808 Gallery, 808 Commonwealth Ave,
Boston, MA.  02115.

University of Maine Museum of Art. Highway of Thought: Photographs by David Hilliard; Elegant Darkness: Photographs by Connie Imboden. Show Openings: 10am-5pm.  207-561-3350.  40 Harlow Street, Bangor, ME 04401.

SATURDAY, JUNE 27

The Art Institute of Boston. MFA in Visual Arts: Graduate Exhibition.  Reception: 8-10pm.  617-262-1223.  AIB Main Gallery, 700 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02215.

The Little Gallery Under the Stairs. Important Things.  Opening Reception: 2-5pm.  781-715-1445.  25 Exchange Street, Lower Level, Lynn, MA 01901.

The Loading Dock Gallery. Small Person Giant Presence.  Opening Reception: 5-8pm.  978-349-8069.  122 Western Ave, 2nd Floor A*Mill, Lowell, MA 01851.

TUESDAY, JUNE 30

Griffin Museum of Photography. Miles to Go: Portraits of Elite Senior Athletes, photographs by John Rich.  Opening Reception: 6-7:30pm. 781-729-1158.  The Griffin Museum at the Aberjona River Gallery, Aberjona Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 184 Swanton Street, Winchester, MA 01890.

Parachute Factory. White Collar. Blue Collar. Pink Slip.: Art at Work. Artist Reception: 5-7pm. 203-772-2788. Erector Square, 319 Peck Street, Building 1, New Haven, CT 06513.

In this new feature, we’ll be featuring two images per week from EXPOSURE: The 14th Annual PRC Juried Exhibition. Keep checking back on Mondays and Thursdays to see an image per artist as well as artist statements and website links.

Surf on in to our flickr site and check out installation shots and photos from the opening reception of EXPOSURE by clicking here.

SARAH A. MARTIN-”You are What You Love” 2007-2008

Growing up, I was told the acronym, J.O.Y, was the key to establishing a fulfilled life. J.O.Y. is a reminder that life is balanced when your priorities are: Jesus, others…and then, you. So, what happens when your religious upbringing doesn’t make sense and all of a sudden you are O.Y.J. or just O.Y.? That doesn’t spell anything, does it?

I am looking to my childhood friends, old Sunday-School rooms, and the new generations of J.O.Y. seekers to make sure I’m not missing the point. Some of my old friends are also struggling to balance priorities, secret desires, and misplaced maternal instincts (pets) ultimately hoping more than anything to find a place to put their love.

Sarah A. Martin, Untitled, 2007/2008, from the series “You are What You Love,” Archival inkjet print, 12 x 18 inches, courtesy of the artist

Click here to visit the artist’s website

In this new feature, we’ll be featuring two images per week from EXPOSURE: The 14th Annual PRC Juried Exhibition. Keep checking back on Mondays and Thursdays to see an image per artist as well as artist statements and website links.

Surf on in to our flickr site and check out installation shots and photos from the opening reception of EXPOSURE by clicking here.

CAROLYN V. MARSDEN

To create these woven photographs, I photograph either a location at two different times of day from the same vantage point or a set of two family members from a similar point of view. I cut the photographs into strips, and then weave them back together. The landscapes are static objects, but they demonstrate the divergent appearances created in a single place by the light of different times of day. The portraits are a representation of family resemblance and genetic similarity. The weaving technique shows the siblings’ resemblance and individuality at once.

Carolyn V. Marsden, Brother and Sister, 2008, Woven photograph using inkjet prints, 30 x 30 inches, courtesy of the artist

Click here to visit the artist’s website

Lichtenstein Center for the Arts. Pittsfield Art Show Invitational. Opening Reception: 5-8pm. 413-499-9348. 28 Renne Avenue, Pittsfield, MA 01201.

THURSDAY, JUNE 18

Brookline Arts Center. Shots Abroad: International Photography by John Martino. Opening Reception: 7-8pm. 617-566-5715. 86 Monmouth Street, Brookline MA 02446.

The Odysseus Project: Finding Home. Artist Panel Discussion: 7pm.  617-388-5919. Fort Point Gallery, 12 Farnsworth Street, Boston, MA 02210.

FRIDAY, JUNE 19

The Bancroft Gallery. 54th Annual Arts Festival. June 19-21:10am-4pm. 781-383-2787.  South Shore Art Center, 119 Ripley Road, Cohasset, MA 02025.

The Schoolhouse Gallery. NEW/NOW: New painting, drawing, and photography.  Opening Reception: 6-8pm.  508-487-4800.  494 Commercial Street, Provincetown, MA 02657.

SATURDAY, JUNE 20

The Hallmark Museum of Contemporary Photography. Gallery 85 Annual Exhibition and Benefit Print Sale work by volunteer students from the Hallmark Institute of Photography. Artist’s Reception. 413-863-0009. 85 Avenue A, Turners Falls, MA 01376.

SUNDAY, JUNE 21

Griffin Museum of Photography. Backstage at the Apollo: Photographs by Jenn Warren.  Reception: 3-4:30pm.  781-729-1158.  Atelier Gallery at the Stoneham Theatre, 395 Main Street, Stoneham, MA.

Mobius. Photographs by Bob Raymond.  Opening Reception: 3-7pm.  617-638-0020. 725 Harrison Ave, Suite One, Boston, MA 02118.

In this new feature, we’ll be featuring two images per week from EXPOSURE: The 14th Annual PRC Juried Exhibition. Keep checking back on Mondays and Thursdays to see an image per artist as well as artist statements and website links.

Surf on in to our flickr site and check out installation shots and photos from the opening reception of EXPOSURE by clicking here.

BETH LILLY-”Monster” 2005-2009

The recent explosive growth seen by many Southern cities began a turf war where both trees and power lines fight for the same thin stretch of green space. The idea of an actual war waging unnoticed on city streets caught my imagination. Hidden in plain view were literally the front lines in what could be called the “Nature versus Civilization” conflict.

Starting in 2004, I photographed in Atlanta, Nashville, and Charlotte to tell this story hopefully from the trees’ point of view. The photograph becomes the portal though which the fauna demand to be taken into account and prompt viewers to ask questions about the relationship between nature and culture, the difference between humans and non-humans, and the evolution of the city’s civic landscape. Just who are the monsters? Is it the trees that have been forced into unnatural shapes or the systems that place trees at the bottom of the power hierarchy?

Beth Lilly, Highland View, Atlanta , 2007, Archival pigment print, 22 x 17 inches, courtesy of the artist

Click here to visit the artist’s website

In this new feature, we’ll be featuring two images per week from EXPOSURE: The 14th Annual PRC Juried Exhibition. Keep checking back on Mondays and Thursdays to see an image per artist as well as artist statements and website links.

Surf on in to our flickr site and check out installation shots and photos from the opening reception of EXPOSURE by clicking here.

PHIL JUNG-”Windscreen” 2008

A car’s interior is both a public and private space. The interior, littered with personal articles, offers a portrait of its owner, while the aging exterior conveys imminent decay.

The gasoline-powered vehicles that were introduced in 1896 represented freedom, hope, exploration, and independence–quintessentially American ideals. By 1947, when the photographer Wright Morris made his image of an aging Model T, those early ideals had already begun to deteriorate. Windscreen revisits those concepts by exploring the relationship between automobiles and their owners today.

When combing through neighborhoods for cars, I look first for the way light enters a car and renders color. If I find nothing inside its cabin that tells something about its owner, I move on. Above all, the car needs to be drivable or just recently taken off the road. If a car sits for too long uninhabited, it loses something. The composite of this automotive space reflects who we are, where we come from, and possibly where we are going.

Phil Jung, Verbenas on the Desert, 2008, Archival pigment print, 32 x 40 inches, courtesy of the artist

Click here to visit the artist’s website

ASMP New England. Dick Durrence: Creating Opportunities. Presentation: 6pm. 617-951-1499. E.P. Levine, 23 Drydock Avenue, Boston, MA 02210.

THURSDAY, JUNE 11

Colin Ford Lecture Series. Julia Margaret Cameron – 19th Century Photographer of Genius. Lecture: 6:30pm. 617-876-4491. Longfellow National Historic Sites, 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA 02138.

The New England Institute of Art Gallery on the Plaza. Celluloid Dreams: America’s Vanishing Movie Palaces & Drive-In Theaters. Photographs by Stefanie Klavens. Reception: 6-8pm. 617-739-1700. 10 Brookline Place West, Brookline MA 02445.

Gallery at Spencer Lofts. Connective Tissue. Opening Reception: 6-9pm. 617-466-0403. 60 Dudley Street, Chelsea, MA 02150.

Multicultural Arts. The North End Album: Roy DiTosti; The Boxes: Chung Chak. Gallery Reception: 6-8pm.  617-577-1400.  41 Second Street, Cambridge, MA 02141.

FRIDAY, JUNE 12

Brookline Arts Center. Myrtle Figueiredo: Reflections on the City. Photo Discussion Salon: 6:30pm. 617-566-5715. 86 Monmouth Street, Brookline, MA 02446.

New England School of Photography. 2009 NESOP Alumni Show. Opening: 3-5pm, 7-9pm. 617-437-1868. 537 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215.

The Odysseus Project: Finding Home. Opening Reception: 5-7pm.  617-388-5919. Fort Point Gallery, 12 Farnsworth Street, Boston, MA 02210.

SATURDAY, JUNE 13

Exposure Arts Boston. Outdoor Gallery and Music Event. 12-8pm. exposureartsboston@yahoo.com. DeFilippo Playground on Prince Street in the North End, Boston.

The Arthouse Gallery at The Pinehills. Lucien Angier.  Opening: 11am.  508-209-2000.  33 Summerhouse Drive, Plymouth, MA 02360.

SUNDAY, JUNE 14

DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum. Art in the ParkFestival and Art Sale. 10am-5pm. 781-259-8355.  51 Sandy Pond Road, Lincoln, MA 01773.

In this new feature, we’ll be featuring two images per week from EXPOSURE: The 14th Annual PRC Juried Exhibition. Keep checking back on Mondays and Thursdays to see an image per artist as well as artist statements and website links.

Surf on in to our flickr site and check out installation shots and photos from the opening reception of EXPOSURE by clicking here.

JOE HOLMES

To create the images for the LCD series, I photographed visitors at New York’s American Museum of Natural History over a period of four months in 2008 and 2009. I based all choices about focus, white balance, color, contrast, etc. solely on the LCD screen that is captured in each image; the rest of the image was allowed to fall where it may. Other than those adjustments, the images are unaltered.

Joseph O. Holmes, lcd 2800, 2009, Pigment inkjet print, 15 x 22 inches, courtesy of the artist

Click here to visit the artist’s website

Two Jen Bekman artists (Brad Moore and Joseph O. Holmes) are in the show and Jen herself is a past Exposure juror. Thanks guys!

In this new feature, we’ll be featuring two images per week from EXPOSURE: The 14th Annual PRC Juried Exhibition. Keep checking back on Mondays and Thursdays to see an image per artist as well as artist statements and website links.

Surf on in to our flickr site and check out installation shots and photos from the opening reception of EXPOSURE by clicking here.

ELIZABETH FLEMING-”Life is a series of small moments” 2008-2009

This series is about intimacy and disclosure, vulnerability and awe, and the bittersweet knowledge that everything is impermanent. Through my photography, I try to take note of my everyday existence and the rituals of my family. At the same time, I acknowledge the ache I feel as I watch my girls growing bigger so quickly. Time is fleeting, but even though everyone knows this, it is difficult to be genuinely attentive.

My images are an attempt to become more aware of my environment, to see the small details, and ultimately to not let it all slip away from me. I hope to confront the varied emotions–tenderness and exasperation, adoration and sadness–that arise from motherhood and the challenge of balancing [this role] with my individual desires. My photographs hopefully put the viewer in the thick of parenthood in all of its messy splendor. I feel honored to be able to bear witness.

Elizabeth Fleming, Fury , 2008/2009, from the series “Life is a series of small moments,” Archival inkjet print, 14 x 21 inches, courtesy of the artist 

Click here to visit the artist’s website

In this new feature, we’ll be featuring two images per week from EXPOSURE: The 14th Annual PRC Juried Exhibition. Keep checking back on Mondays and Thursdays to see an image per artist as well as artist statements and website links.

Surf on in to our flickr site and check out installation shots and photos from the opening reception of EXPOSURE by clicking here.

ANASTASIA CAZABON- “From the Secret World” 2008

I view my photographs as small secrets and hidden clues to a world of imagined characters. I aim to create images in which the viewer believes that they are catching a personal moment in the life of a character; a private second that the public would never usually see. I’m attracted to juxtaposing the beautiful with the grotesque and turning the mundane into the extraordinary.

My childhood has influenced my work greatly.  I spent the majority of it by myself, surrounding myself with books and creating imaginary friends. I envisioned a private world filled with dangerous secrets, amazing friendships and wild adventures. The world that I attempt to create photographically in my adult life is based on the imagined fantasies I lived as a child.

Anastasia Cazabon, Untitled (sink), 2008, from the series “From the Secret World,” Archival inkjet print, 16 x 20 inches, courtesy of the artist 

Click here to visit the artist’s website

MONDAY, JUNE 1

AS220 Darkroom Open House. A Fragile Memory: Turn of the Century Glass Negatives from Providence Public Library’s Special Collections Department. Opening Reception: 6-8pm. 401-831-9327. Providence Public Library, 150 Empire Street, Providence, RI 02903.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3

The Griffin Museum of Photography. Photographing People: Harvey Stein. Talk and Slideshow: 7pm. 781-729-1158. 67 Shore Road, Winchester, MA 01890.

Danforth Museum of Art. Annual Members’ Juried Exhibition. Opening Reception: 6-8pm. 508-620-0050. 123 Union Avenue, Framingham, MA 01702-8291.

THURSDAY, JUNE 4

Colin Ford Lecture Series. Lewis Carroll - Photographer Extraordinaire. Reception followed by Lecture: 7pm. 978-369-4188. Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House, 399 Lexington Road, Concord, MA 01742.

Tufts University Art Gallery. Sixth Annual Juried Summer Exhibition. Opening Reception: 5:30-8:30pm. 617-627-3518‎. Tufts University Art Gallery, Aidekman Arts Center, 40 Talbot Avenue, Medford, MA 02155.

JP Licks. New Work from the Arnold Arboretum: Photography by Erik Gehring. Reception: 6-8pm. 659 Centre Street, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130.

Jameson and Thompson Fine Art Services. Photos by Stephanie Putland. Opening Reception: 6-8pm. 617-524-1805. 15 Greenview Avenue, Jamaica Plain, MA 02135.

FRIDAY, JUNE 5

Gallery Kayafas. Yoav Horesh: Intransition; David Akiba: In Plain Sight. Reception: 5:30-8:30pm.  617-482-0411.  37 Thayer @ 450 Harrison Ave, Boston, MA 02118.

Montserrat Gallery.New Art Collective 2009: Salt of the Earth. Reception: 4-8pm. 978-867-9604. 23 Essex Street, Beverly, MA 01915.

Montserrat College Gallery 301. Beauty and Its Opposite. Reception 4-6pm. 978-921-4242 x3. 301 Cabot Street, Beverly, MA 01915.

Williams College Museum of Art. Edward Steichen: In High Fashion, the Conde Nast Years, 1923-1937; Edward Steichen: Episodes from a Life in Photography. Opening Receptions: 6-8pm, Gallery Talk with Exhibition Curator: 6pm. 413-597-2429. 15 Lawrence Hall Drive, Suite 2, Williamstown, MA 01267.

Carroll and Sons. Joe Fig: In The Painters’ Studio. Opening Reception: 5:30-7:30pm. 617-482-2477. 450 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA 02118.

Singer Editions Gallery. Between Places: A Landscape Photography Show Curated by Jerry Russo. Reception: 6-8pm. 617-423-3484. 300 Summer Street, Mezzanine Level, Boston, MA 02210.

Anthony Greaney. Louisa Conrad: The Last Arctic.  Opening Reception: 6-8pm.  617-482-0055.  460 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA 02118.

SATURDAY, JUNE 6

StoneCrop Gallery. Opening for the Season, featuring work from Eric Almquist. Opening Reception: 3-6pm. 207-361-4215. 805 Shore Road, York, ME 03909.

ArtSpace-Maynard Art Center. Industrial|Organic: Ceramic Sculpture by Bill Cohn and Photography by Erik Hansen. Reception 5-8pm. 978-897-9828. 63 Summer Street, Maynard, MA 01754.

The Old Schwamb Mill. Worth A Journey: Bradford England’s National Media Museum, Repository for Photography, Film, Television, Radio & the new media, including the Web. Lecture: 2-3pm. OSM Spring Photography Show: Three Arlington Photographers: Anne Black, Eric Feigenson & Paul Guiguerre. Closing reception: 3-4:30pm. 781-743-0554. 17 Mill Lane, Arlington, MA, 02476.

Peabody Historical Society & Museum. Historic Interpretation: Contemporary Artists Interpret the Historic Collection. Opening day: 12-7pm. 978-977-0514. Osborne-Salata House and Gideon Foster House, 33 and 35 Washington Street, Peabody, MA 01960.

Washington Street Arts Center. Aletha. Opening Reception: 6-9pm. Gallery 321, 321 Washington Street # D, Somerville, MA 02143.

Parachute Factory. Cellutations: An Exhibit of Cell Phone Art. Opening Reception: 12-5pm. 203-772-2788. Erector Square, 319 Peck Street, Building 1, New Haven, CT 06513.

SUNDAY, JUNE 7

AS220 Open Window Gallery. Photography by Christine Manory Reception 4-7pm. 401-831-9327.  115 Empire Street, Providence, RI 02903.

The Distillery. Spring Open Studios @ The Distillery & King Terminal. 12-6pm. 978-270-1904. 516 East 2nd Street, Boston, MA 02127.

In this new feature, we’ll be featuring two images per week from EXPOSURE: The 14th Annual PRC Juried Exhibition. Keep checking back on Mondays and Thursdays to see an image per artist as well as artist statements and website links.

Surf on in to our flickr site and check out installation shots and photos from the opening reception of EXPOSURE by clicking here.

ALLEN BYRAN - “Comforts of Home”

These pictures are part of a series titled “Comforts of Home.” They hint at the cyclical and ever-changing nature of our lives together with the environment we inhabit. It is my hope that the viewer can voyeuristically walk into and through these disquieting panoramas. A phantom occupant and actions are implied. The minute details of objects in and around these living spaces give us a glimpse into both the past and present. Space is altered and compressed; interiors intrude into exteriors through windows or doors left carelessly ajar. These are unsettling and precarious spaces-a sense of instability or flux ensues-and planes and perspective are distorted as if in a dream. Time becomes an active element in this series as the viewer wanders around in the picture plane uncovering a story.  - AB

ABOVE IMAGE - Allen Bryan, Holiday Setting, 2009, from the series “Comforts of Home,” Pigment inkjet print, 16 x 48 inches, courtesy of the artist

WEDNESDAY MAY 27

French Library Alliance Francaise of Boston.
Mark Chester.  Artist’s Talk: 6-7pm.  53 Marlborough Street, Boston, MA 02116. 617-912-0400.

THURSDAY MAY 28

Panopticon Gallery.
Four Points of View: Photographs by Katherine Cummings, Jenny Ellerbe, Neal Rantoul and Amy Thompson.
Reception 5-7pm. Inside the Hotel Commonwealth, 502c Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA 02215. 617-267-8929.

Cloud Place.
Spring Studio Open House for the Cloud Foundation.  Reception: 6-8pm.  647 Boylston St, Boston, MA 02116.  617-262-2949.

FRIDAY MAY 29

Cambridge Art Association.
North East Prize Show 2009: Juried by William Stover, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Art, Boston. Reception 6-8pm at both galleries.  Awards at 7pm @ University Place. Kathryn Shultz Gallery, 25 Lowell Street, Cambridge, MA.  University Place Gallery, 124 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA.  617-876-0246.

SATURDAY, MAY 30

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Edward Weston and His Contemporaries.  Show opening: 10am-4:45pm. 617-267-9300.  465 Huntington Avenue, Avenue of the Arts, Boston, Massachusetts 02115-5523.
Chelsea Artists Collaborative. Chelsea Art Walk.  Saturday and Sunday, 12-6pm.

We just posted pics from the widely-successful and hugely-attended EXPOSURE opening on our PRC flickr page.   So surf on in and check out installation shots of the current exhibition and photos from the opening reception of EXPOSURE: The 14th Annual PRC Juried Exhibition.

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In this new feature, we’ll be featuring two simage per week from EXPOSURE: The 14th Annual PRC Juried Exhibition. Keep checking back on Mondays and Thursdays (with a break for the holiday!) to see an image per artist as well as artist statements and website links.

We’re very excited here at the PRC to see it all come together. Come to the opening reception on Thursday, May 21st from 5:30-7:30pm and see the real work! (For those not in Boston, we’ll also be posting images to our flickr page as well.)

RICK ASHLEY - “The Prom Series,” 2006 - 2008

The high school prom is a social ritual unique to North America, and as with any good social ritual, photography is an integral part. From an early age we are coached on how to present ourselves to the camera, yet we still look to the photographer for direction and validation.

These photographs began with a simple idea: What if prom couples gathered to walk the red carpet were unexpectedly directed instead to a professional studio set up in the school, given directions only on where to stand, immediately photographed, and then told to move on as the next couple was called?

Young people today are hyper aware of the power of photography in a socially networked world. When the spotlight unexpectedly shines, there is no time to prepare, and no one to assist, what do you do? As you look at the photographs can you see yourself?

ABOVE IMAGE: Rick Ashley, Prom Series #6103, 2006/2009, Archival inkjet print, 24 x 16 inches, courtesy of the artist.  Click here to visit the artist’s website.