The 15th Annual PRC Juried Exhibition

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harlan erskine, 'Bridge III,' 20 x 37 inches, 2008

I am happy to announce that three images from my series Imaginary Wars have been selected for "EXPOSURE: The 15th Annual PRC Juried Exhibition." The show is made up of 12 artists selected from a total of 220 International submissions. The juror was Mia Fineman, Senior Research Associate, Department of Photographs, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

EXPOSURE:
The 15th Annual PRC Juried Exhibition
Juried by Mia Fineman
April 23 - June 20, 2010
Opening reception, TBA

For this year's exhibition, Fineman selected 12 artists out of a total 220 international submissions.

2010 Selected Artists
Jacqueline Bates (NY)
Joshua Deaner (RI)
Harlan Erskine (NY)
Alexander Harding (MA)
Joseph Holmes (NY)
Stella Johnson (MA)
Bryan Alfred Martello (MA)
Mary Parisi (CA)
Charles Rozier (CT)
Irina Rozovsky (MA)
Cindy Stephens (MA)
Millee Tibbs (RI)

From the Photographic Resource Center (PRC):

Each year, the PRC is pleased to host a juried exhibition with a nationally-renowned juror. This prestigious competition is a great opportunity to view new work as well as see topics in which contemporary minds are engaged. With only about a dozen artists selected from close to 300 entries, the PRC Juried Exhibition is a highly competitive and revered program. All winners exhibit several images each in the PRC gallery.

Guest jurors represent esteemed curators, photographers, and professionals from the region and beyond. As each juror brings a different perspective, the show is unique and fresh every year. Past guest jurors of the PRC Juried Exhibition have included Mia Fineman, Russell Hart, Lesley A. Martin, Jen Bekman, Jeanine Fijol, Alison Devine Nordstrom, Rachel Rosenfield Lafo, Chris Enos, Diana Gaston, Deborah Martin Kao, Richard Woodward, and Edward Earle, among others.

In celebration of the PRC's 30th anniversary in 2006, and to reflect the mission and function of our annual photography competition, we changed the name of the PRC Members' Exhibition to EXPOSURE: The Annual PRC Juried Exhibition.

X INITIATIVE: BRING YOUR OWN ART (BYOA)

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Yesterday the one year experiment called the X INITIATIVE ended with a marathon 24 hour art show. BRING YOUR OWN ART (BYOA) began at 11 am on February 3rd and continued, doors open until February 4th officially closing at 11 am with all work left in the building would become trash if not picked up. This process reminded me of the closing event for the Miami space The House. They lost their lease to a group of condo developers and for their closing event everyone was asked to put a piece of art up that would be destroyed with the building.

I arrived at after dinner to put up a handful of my Black Sun Project images with a mini project called "10 Suns for 2010." The space was a busy workshop with a mix of artists friends and viewers all roaming around and enjoying the spectacle. The first floor had a rotating open stage where bands and musicians could sign up for time slots. The second and third floors of the space were reserved for artwork.

I had learned of this event via Jerry Saltz and his popular Facebook page. During the evening the New York Magazine art critic roamed the floors of the gallery offering free on the spot critiques. After I walked through the two floors and installed my images I was able to talk with him. We discussed my work and the event itself. He was very approachable in person and you could tell he was enjoying the interaction and the event.

The diversity of work was amazing. It would have been very hard to curate a show like this but this event was more then sum of the work on its walls. It was a show for the ages. This crowd-sourced art / performance / Relational Aesthetic was an experiential tour-de-force.

I placed my Black Sun pictures in spaces next to work that I thought they worked well with. Take a look at the installation pictures below. Also, if your work is in any of the pictures please let me know and I will make a caption and link to your website.

Here is the aftermath of the event when I picked up my work:

Tonight, Tuesday's Photo Art Tweetchat - What is photography's role in crises like Haiti?

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What is photography's role in crises like Haiti?

For tonight's Art Photo Tweet chat will will be joined my photographer and writer Michael David Murphy aka @whileseated2. Recently, he wrote this piece in foto8 Does Haiti's Crisis Call for a New Photojournalism? This started off a great deal of discussion.

These is also a huge post over on the blog Prison Photography Staring at Death: Photographing Haiti.

Another starting point will be Susan Sontag's classic essay: Looking at War, Photography's view of devastation and death. I will be re-reading that before our chat.

We will be having an open ended chat on how photography interacts with disasters and crisis, using These articles as a starting point. Here are some potential points of discussion:

  • What are the moral/ethical issues of creating photography in disaster/crisis areas, help the people in front of you or photograph them?
  • What contribution does photography play in helping those in distress
  • "artistic vampirism" - making money/fame based on the misfortune
  • Why do we love to look at decay. Why can't photographers get enough of Detroit?
  • Are photographers adding anything to public knowledge/information?
  • What's the value of pro photo vs vernacular (Here Is NY vs Meyerowitz vs Abu Grhaib)

Join in tonight at 9 pm EST.

NOTE: we will be making these tweets a biweekly event now. So Todd and I can better prepare. Maybe in the future if momentum builds more we can move it back to a weekly event. If you liked the weekly version please email / tweet us.

These Art Photography Twitter Chats anyone can join in or just read it live by using the hashtag #photoartchat on Twitter. One easier way to transform twitter into a chat room is Tweetchat.com and entering the photoartchat room here: http://tweetchat.com/room/photoartchat.

PS., you should follow OcularOctopus on Twitter, here:http://twitter.com/OcularOctopus and me here: http://twitter.com/harlanerskine