In this feature, we showcase an image per week from our current exhibition, EXPOSURE: 13th Annual PRC Juried Exhibition, juried by Aperture’s Lesley A. Martin. In celebration of the last weeks of the show, we increased the frequency (and the excitement). This is the 2nd to last image!

You have 2 days to see the show - the last day is July 2nd! We’re open this week Tuesday and Wednesday 10am - 6pm. (If you are out of town, browse our flicker set.)

This week’s image is from Erik Shubert. Erik’s work, like the other Eric, is about work - and funny! Luckily, I haven’t had too many desk jobs, or these would hit even closer to home. I was thrilled that these two could meet at the opening reception.

ABOUT : Erik Schubert (Cambridge, MA), inspired in part by Dale Carnegie’s book How to Win Friends and Influence People and his businessman father, has been collecting and documenting scenes and ephemera of corporate aspirations and failure. A 2007 MFA graduate of MassArt, Schubert has shown in several juried student shows in Boston such as Boston Young Contemporaries and the 2007 PRC Student Exhibition. He has an upcoming solo show, Thinking Big, at the Slocumb Gallery at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, TN.

From Erik’s statement:

“How to Win Friends and Influence People” - Realizing that we live in an increasingly business-centered society, how we navigate as “businesspeople” may determine the success or failure of our aspirations and the ability to pursue them. I am interested in how this kind of society shapes our visual world and language.

At a young age it was instilled in me that the mythology from Dale Carnegie’s classic book, How to Win Friends and Influence People was one that predicated success and happiness in life. The book has been widely published and accepted by businesspeople and corporate planners all over the world, including my father.

Some images are documentations of found items, constructed on location. Other images are documentations of ephemera that I have collected from such places as expositions, infomercials, my family, and home. With these photographs, I try to explore and communicate metaphorically the success, failure, and complexity of corporate mythologies in society.

ABOVE IMAGE: Erik Schubert, Level II, 2007/2008, from the series “How to Win Friends and Influence People,” Archival Inkjet Print, 19 x 23 inches, courtesy of the artist

  
In this feature, we showcase an image per week from our current exhibition, EXPOSURE: 13th Annual PRC Juried Exhibition. However, in celebration of the last few weeks of the show, we are going to increase the frequency (and the excitement) and share 2 per week - it’s a veritable photo frenzy!

Get thee to the PRC before the show’s last day of July 2nd!

Originally from Spain and trained as an architect, Marta is a 2nd year graduate student at one of our member schools, Rhode Island School of Design. Marta’s work has been striking quite a chord with our visitors and we’ve been getting a lot of inquiries. In her series “On War,” Marta takes images depicting war or conflict in art and photography. The recognizable images include Goya’s The Third of may, 1808; Picasso’s Guernica, 1936; Robert Capa’s Death of Militiaman, 1936 (seen above); Richard Misrach’s Submerged Trailer, Salton Sea, California, 1983.

From Marta Labad’s statement:
The following project is composed of crumpled-up familiar images that depict conflict. These images belong to my visual and cultural heritage and allow me to talk about the world surrounding us, especially conflict and aggression related to war, catastrophe, and the landscape.

ABOVE IMAGE: Marta Labad, ON WAR #5 (Robert Capa’s Death of Militiaman, 1936), 2008, Digital C-Print, 20 x 20 inches, courtesy of the artist

In this new feature, we are showcasing an image per week from our current exhibition, the 13th Annual PRC Juried Exhibition. Molly Landreth is our 9th to date. Don’t forget, there is only 2 1/2 weeks left to see the show!

From Molly Landreth’s statement:
“Embodiment: A Portrait of Queer Life in America” - This series of photographs is an archive and a journey through a rapidly changing community and the lives of people who offer brave new visions of what it means to be queer in America today. To be visible is to become both empowered and vulnerable, even in a world where progressive attitudes are beginning to take hold. These images depict subjects who meet my gaze with a rare combination of forthright self-awareness and total abandon, as if standing in for something much larger than themselves.

ABOVE IMAGE: Molly Landreth, Lindsay and Tina, Mills College, Oakland, CA, 2005, 2005/2008, from the series “Embodiment: A Portrait of Queer Life in America,” Digital Pigment Print, 20 x 24 inches, courtesy of the artist

In this new feature, we are showcasing an image per week from our current exhibition, the 13th Annual PRC Juried Exhibition. Robert Knight’s is our 8th to date.

A couple of weeks ago, we concluded a 2 week run of the PRC on Flak Photo. This “web photo happening” spotlighted 10 images from the Juried Show. We’re still a “feature” on their home page, www.flakphoto.com.  Also be sure to check out Boston’s own Sage Sohier’s work as well. To see the show on the walls, check out our PRC Flickr page!

I have been a fan of Robert Knight’s work for some time now, so I was tickled when our juror Lesley A. Martin liked his work too.  I featured Robert’s work on Northeast Exposure Online (NEO) in May 2006 - right when he was graduating from MassArt.  Robert is one of our juried show alumni; he was also selected for last year’s exhibition as well by juror Jen Bekman (looks like he’ll also be a 20×200 soon!). This coming fall, he’ll have a show at Gallery Kayafas as well!  Congrats!

From Robert Knight’s statement:
In this subset of my larger “Dwelling” project, I explore the expectations which parents place on their children and which are reinforced by societal institutions, imagery, and traditions.  Through my photographs, I perceive a parent’s hopes and dreams about their child’s future physical image, intelligence, and success, as well as tensions that may exist between these aspirations and reality.  Collectively, I hope this project will make us conscious of children’s pressures and aware of the potential effects of the myriad images to which they are exposed.

ABOVE IMAGE: Robert Knight, Free and Hazel (Ages 12 & 8) #1, Roslindale, MA, 2006, 2006/2007, from the series “Dwelling: Caution - Children at Play,” Archival Inkjet Print, 31 x 39 inches, courtesy of Gallery Kayafas

In this new feature, we are showcasing an image per week from our current exhibition, the 13th Annual PRC Juried Exhibition. This is our 7th to date.

Last Friday concluded a 2 week run of the PRC on Flak Photo. This “web photo happening” spotlighted 10 images from the Juried Show. We’re still a “feature” on their home page, www.flakphoto.com, and in the gallery, so check it out. Thanks Andy!

If you are out of town, don’t worry, we posted lots of images of the installation and reception on our PRC Flickr page!

From Martine’s statement:
“Tête-à-Tête is a series of intimate portraits of my two adolescent sons and their friends, taken in our home in New York City as well as in the South of France. …Begun in the fall of 2005, the work explores adolescence as a liminal state-a time between childhood and adulthood, the feminine and the masculine, and innocence and a burgeoning self-consciousness.”

ABOVE IMAGE: Martine Fougeron, Nicolas and Adrien Dining, October 2005, from the series “Tête-à-Tête,” Digital C-Print, 15 ½ x 19 ½ inches, courtesy of the artist

We just posted new pics 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 13th Annual PRC Juried Exhibition.

Just click the photomontage below!

A sneak peek, CLOCKWISE from upper left:

* New England Institute of Art Photo Faculty Molly Lamb and Jared Leeds (past PRC NEO!) come out to support exhibiting artist and NEIA faculty Claire Beckett (center)
* Exhibiting artist and MassArt alum Erik Schubert and PRC Curator Leslie K. Brown
* PRC Executive Director Jim Fitts and Gallery NAGA Director Arthur Dion
* Juried show alum Bob O’Connor and friend check out Eric Percher’s work

In this new feature, we are showcasing an image per week from our upcoming 13th Annual PRC Juried Exhibition. This is our 6th to date, slightly delayed due to the holiday on Monday.

I first saw Talia Chetrit’s work in the juried graduate exhibition, Boston Young Contemporaries. I always love when artists address their own mediums. BYC 2008 will be coming soon to the 808 Gallery, right next door to the PRC, July 18th through August 2nd!

Talia’s work is different, it’s hard to put a finger on it. Enthralled, I showed her in our online series of emerging photographers, Northeast Exposure Online (or NEO for short). I was thrilled that our juror Lesley A. Martin liked her work too and selected it for this year’s show.

Here is a snippet from her artist statement:
“Photography records optical space. Light and time are its basic elements. I reduce my subject to these fundamental components to investigate the potential of photography’s inherent properties and how we perceive and categorize this medium. I examine the photographic process and experiment with perception-both the viewer’s and my own. How can the basic tools of light and space move us? How can we encounter them differently?…From white to black, Grayscale refers to the Zone System, a chart traditionally used when exposing negatives for a perfect tonal spectrum.”

And don’t forget - since this past Monday, the PRC has been teaming up with the kind folks at Flak Photo to feature 10 images from the Juried Show, a “web photo happening” if you will. The series continue today, and runs weekdays through the end of this week, May 26 - 30.

If you are out of town, don’t worry, we posted some images of the installation and reception (with more to come this week) on our PRC Flickr page!

ABOVE IMAGE: Talia Chetrit, Rainbow, 2007, Inkjet Print, 24 x 20 inches, courtesy of the artist

The show is hung, the labels are up, and the carpet is vacuumed! If you are in the Boston area, stop by for some art, hummus, and good conversation TONIGHT from 5:30-7:30pm. The show looks great!

In addition the wonderful mention of the PRC in PDN this month and the current “web photo happening” this week and next week on flakphoto.com, we’ve been lucky to get a lot of attention about this year’s show, EXPOSURE: The 13th Annual PRC Juried Exhibition.

Online today is a super AV slideshow feature on BU Today. Our favorite BU reporter Kimberly Cornuelle spoke to 3 of the artists in the show - Lana Z Caplan, Claire Beckett, and Cree Bruins - and the slideshow features every image in the exhibition!

Here is some other press for you to check out - but do come by and see the work in person if you can!

* Boston Phoenix last week
* Boston Phoenix, this week, May 22, 8 days a week/ critic’s pick
* Boston Globe, Sidekick, Friday, May 23

The first ever New York Photo Festival is in full swing this weekend. Sadly, taking down the New England Survey exhibition and artists dropping off and overall gallery prep for EXPOSURE: 13th Annual PRC Juried Exhibition is keeping me close to the fold here in Boston. Neverthless, we wish them the best and have a few neat PRC/Boston overlaps to note! Congratulations all!

Our 2008 PRC juror Lesley A. Martin is one of the curators of the festival. She put together a wonderful exhibition, Ubiquitous Image, which includes Penelope Umbrico, represented locally by Bernard Toale Gallery, whom I showed most recently in the PRC exhibition Ad/Agency.

A few names of note made the inaugural NY Photo Awards list under fine art single images and series. Martin Fougeron has been getting a lot of attention as of late and will be in our upcoming juried show. Jessica Todd Harper, who was in the 2005/2006 PRC exhibition Group Portrait, makes the list as does local imagemaker (and the photographer of the Boston Superheros Project) Tanit Sakakini.

When dropping off her work for the juried show yesterday, Claire Beckett told me that she was invited by Laurel Ptak of Aperture and i heart photograph to be on an Aperture panel. She’ll speak on Sunday with photographer Nina Berman, a sort of before and after Iraq. Claire was in our 2006 PRC exhibition, DOCUMENT, and was interviewed this week in Big, Red, and Shiny.

Consider this an open invitation to add any other
connections/kudos in the comments!

For those heading to NY, have a safe trip. Please take lots of pictures and share them with us will you?

In this new feature, we are showcasing an image per week from our upcoming 13th Annual PRC Juried Exhibition. This is our 5th to date.

This is Lana Z Caplan’s 2nd juried show she’s gotten into since I’ve worked here. I have been a fan ever since Lana showed me work in my monthly portfolio reviews. I drooled over her tintypes at Gallery NAGA. Lana has been researching and photographing former sites of public executions in Europe, Asia, and the United States. Presented as sepia toned gelatin silver prints in French mats with text, the final presentation subverts visual and cultural expectations and practices.

Here is an example of the title for the above image: Site of Public Executions by Hanging from the Tyburn Tree Gallows, up to 25 people hanging at a time, averaging 35 hangings per year, 1571 – November 3, 1783, (Marble Arch, London)

Come to the PRC opening on Thursday, May 22nd from 5:30-7:30pm and see the real work! Or if you are out of town, don’t worry, we’ll be posting images of the installation and reception on our PRC Flickr page.

ABOVE IMAGE: Lana Z Caplan, 2007, Sepia Toned Gelatin Silver Print, 20 x 21 inches, courtesy of the artist and Gallery NAGA

For those who haven’t yet had the “Swanny” - aka Mary Virginia Swanson - experience , I pass along a link to her web site and to her incredible blog.

I first met Swanny at the SPE Austin, TX in 2003 and she knew who I was before I knew who I was! I highly recommend her book The Business of Photography and required it for my class at AIB.

For those wanting to get all the happenings, news, and calls for entries first, her blog is a MUST! I thought I subscribed to a lot of emails and listservs, but she takes the cake. You can get it all in one place here. Check it out now, bookmark it, visit often, or better yet, subscribe to her RRS feed - marketingphotos.wordpress.com

ABOVE IMAGE: We heart blog, found on flickr in tarop’s photostream.

In this new feature, we are featuring an image per week from our upcoming 13th Annual PRC Juried Exhibition. This is our 4th to date.

Cree Bruins is the the product of a Kodak family, just like myself. We have a lot in common as you can read in her statement below and in my blog post on growing up in Rochester, NY.

Come to the PRC opening on May 22nd and see the real work. Or if you are out of town, don’t worry, we’ll be posting images of the installation and reception on our PRC Flickr page.

ABOVE IMAGE: Cree Bruins, Lost and Found, 5B, 2006/2007 from the series “Leader Series,” Iris Print, 18 x 12 inches, courtesy of the Boston Drawing Project at Bernard Toale Gallery

“Leader Series - Lost and Found”

I was raised in Rochester, New York, the home of Eastman Kodak. My father worked for this well-known company for over 30 years. This early introduction to photography continues to exert its influence today in my art.

I use discarded end leaders from processed 35mm film that had been partially exposed to light during the loading process into the camera. These film parts are digitally captured, then converted to an Iris print. Each image merges the disappearing art form of film photography with the digital technology of today.

- Cree Bruins

In this new feature, we are featuring an image per week from our upcoming 13th Annual PRC Juried Exhibition. This is our 3rd to date.

Clint Baclawski will be showing two of these amazing lightbox constructions at the PRC. Clint was recently selected by Cate McQuaid in the Boston Globe as a local graduate student to watch. Check out the slideshow of “The Graduates” online at boston.com. His MFA thesis show opens at MassArt May 1st.

Come to the PRC opening on May 22nd and see the real work. Or if you are out of town, don’t worry, we’ll be posting images of the installation and reception on our PRC Flickr page.

ABOVE IMAGE: Clint Baclawski, Exhibition Hall A, 2008, constructed lightbox with back lit pigment prints, 42 x 52 x 12 inches, courtesy of the artist and artist in inventory @ the jen bekman gallery. www.clintb.com

In this new feature, we’ll be featuring an image per week from our upcoming 13th Annual PRC Juried Exhibition. We’re very excited here at the PRC to see it all come together. Come to the opening on May 22nd and see the real work!

ABOVE IMAGE: Claire Beckett, Private Dan Floyd at Basic Training, Fort Knox, KY, 2007, from the series “Simulating Iraq,” Digital C-Print, 29 ½ x 36 ½ inches, courtesy of the artist and the Bernard Toale Gallery

Every year since 1996, the PRC has presented a juried exhibition with a nationally-renowned juror. We were honored to have as our 2008 juror, Lesley A. Martin, Publisher, Aperture Book Program.

For this year’s exhibition, Ms. Martin selected 14 artists out of a total 376 international submissions—the largest number of entries ever received in the exhibition’s history. A special spread will appear in the summer issue of the PRC’s newsletter, in the loupe and the exhibition will run May 23 - July 2, with the opening reception on Thursday, May 22, 5:30 - 7:30pm. Click here for more information on the PRC Juried Exhibition and its history.

Here is a sneak peek at the selected artists with links to their web sites. CONGRATULATIONS!

Mariliana Arvelo (Cambridge, MA)
Clint Baclawski (Boston, MA)
Claire Beckett (Jamaica Plain, MA)
Cree Bruins (Cambridge, MA)
Lana Z Caplan (Boston, MA)
Talia Chetrit (Providence, RI)
Martine Fougeron (New York, NY)
Robert Knight (Newton, MA)
Molly Landreth (Seattle, WA)
Marta Labad (Providence, RI)
Benjamin Lowy (New York, NY)
Eric Percher (Brooklyn, NY)
Erik Schubert (Cambridge, MA)
Ellen Susan (Savannah, GA)

ABOVE IMAGE:

Mariliana Arvelo, Beatriz and a branch, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, from the series “Generations,” 2007/2008, C-Print, 30 x 40 inches, courtesy of and copyright the artist