2 shows this weekend:
Flash Forward 2010 Group Show
Emerging Photographers from Canada, The UK & The USA
Opening: June 2, 2011, 7-10pm / Open daily 12pm-7pm
The Fairmont Battery Wharf, Boston
Curated by Maryann Camilleri, Myrabelle Charlebois and Aaron Schuman
Curatorial Statement: There could be no Flash Forward Festival without this six-year-old annual competition showcasing the best emerging photographers from Canada, the USA and the UK. Each year, after a call for entry to emerging photographers, curators from each of the participating countries review the submitted work and identify those young people that they believe show great promise as professional fine art or documentary photographers. This exhibition and supporting publication show the result of that process.
We Have Begun Our Final Descent
Curated by
Delaney Allen
Opening: Friday June 3, 6pm - 9pm / June 1 - 9, 2011
Nationale Gallery 811 East Burnside / Portland, OR
Participating photographers:
Debbie Carlos (Chicago, IL)
Mikel Cumiskey (Hilo, HI)
Brian Felder (Portland, OR)
Sydney S. Kim (Brooklyn, NY)
Jeff Luker (Portland, OR)
Jennilee Marigomen (Vancouver, BC)
Nicole Mark (Portland, OR)
Sarah Meadows (Portland, OR)
Kristie Muller (New York, NY)
Anna Shelton (Portland, OR)
Keith Davis Young (Austin, TX)
"Days before April’s anticipated federal shutdown, I spoke with my mother about the perceived demise of America as a superpower. That my mother, a conservative woman with whom I never before discussed politics, felt compelled to address this issue revealed to me not only the overwhelming uncertainty caused by our country’s shifting global identity, but also a correspondence between this decline and my personal interest in the degradation of fine art. As announced in the show’s title, we have begun our final descent, and in more ways than one.
The photographs included in this exhibition beautifully capture the multifaceted, oſten subtle, effects of America’s slippage. Printed on rough newsprint versus traditional photograph paper, the medium both complements and assumes the images’ fatalistic subject matter while, through its unstable composition, also leading to the destruction of the photograph itself. This gradual, all-too-human, disintegration presents a precarious contrast to the long-held ideal of an immortal fine art that I believe obdurately reflects America’s present, declining, situation." - Delaney Allen
Photo: Keith Davis Young