Pulitzer-prize winning Boston Globe critic Mark Feeney paid us a visit last week.  This Monday, his review of the PRC Portfolio exhibition ran, and it’s a super one!  Thanks so much Mark, we are glad you enjoyed it!

You can preview the portfolio in the PRC gallery through this Sunday, September 14th, or in the online site for this collecting opportunity.  We have been contemplating showing the portfolio in other venues and sharing it with more people, and I think Mark seconds that emotion.  Here are a couple of good quotes below, but you can read the rest by clicking here.

Which means one of the year’s best shows has what must be the year’s shortest run….

The nicest bit of hanging in the exhibition plays off of color. Ralph Gibson’s “Bahia” shows a window through which we glimpse a rectangular slice of impossibly blue tropical sky. It’s so elemental it could be a Barnett Newman abstraction. Across the room, at an angle (like the window), is McPhee’s “Irrigator’s Tarp Directing Water, Fourth of July Creek Ranch, Custer County, Idaho.” Phenomenally gray and threatening clouds dominate the image, but what jumps out is the tarpaulin. It’s a darker but no less vivid blue than Gibson’s Brazilian sky. Samba meets C&W in a duet of blueness.

Sussex, Brazil, Idaho (Carlisle, too): many roads lead to the PRC’s space on Comm. Ave., at least photographically. There’s an easy balance between elsewhere and here. Lalla Essaydi goes to North Africa for “Les Femmes du Maroc #45″ and Dow ventures below the Rio Grande for “All Night Taco Stand, Av. Gustavo Baz Prada, El Country, Naucalpan, Estado de Mexico” (its lighting conjures up a south-of-the-border version of Edward Hopper’s “Nighthawks”). Conversely, Sohier, the one photographer with a picture in both portfolios, offers “British Redcoat re-enactor, Battle of Concord and Lexington, Lexington, MA.” It amusingly - and disorientingly - joins past to present. An alternate title could have been “Musket Meets Subdivision.”

READ MORE HERE

Sunday, June 22, 2008, 10:00am – 5:30pm
Boston University’s George Sherman Union, Academy Room, first floor towards the back of the cafeteria, 775 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
FREE with PRC membership
Please RSVP by Wednesday, June 18th. Call Cate Brennan at 617.975.0600 with questions or to RSVP

Want to get together with other artists and talk photo? Come to a Member photo sharing on Sunday, June 22nd from 10:00am – 5:30pm. Bring your photographs, portfolios, or laptops and share your images with fellow members. Tables will be set up for you to display your work. This informal sharing is meant to encourage discussions of technique, visions, and collaboration.