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GREEN Provokes Viewers to Discover
New Meanings Through Photography
Group Exhibition Connects Varied Concept of "Green"
On view September 6 - October 5, 2013
Opening Reception, Friday, September 6, 6 - 8 pm
PITTSBURGH, Pa., August 29, 2013 - Silver Eye Center for Photography proudly announces GREEN,
a collaborative exhibition showcasing a survey of contemporary
aesthetics in photography, all connected by one common, purposely varied
idea: green. The exhibition runs September 6 through October 5, 2013.
An opening reception takes place on Friday, September 6 from 6:00 - 8:00
pm at Silver Eye's Southside gallery. It is free and open to the
public. The exhibition is organized by Dylan Vitone, a Pittsburgh-based
photographer, associate professor in the School of Design at Carnegie
Mellon University, Pittsburgh, and Silver Eye board member.
"Green,"
by definition, can be a noun, adjective, idea, color, lifestyle, and
much more. Both photographers and artists alike might be interested in
the greenery of nature; the greens on our plates, the greenbacks in our
pockets; putting greens, and the laborers who tend them; the effects of
greenhouse gases; or simply the portion of the visible spectrum lying
between yellow and blue.
"From
infancy, we are taught to interpret colors and shapes, light and
texture. We learn to navigate places, read faces, and decipher meaning
in the subtleties of how people move. Common to each of us is a basic,
visual language. And, yet, there are as many ways to interpret our
visual world as there are people seeing it," said Dylan Vitone.
"GREEN
acknowledges that, in a way, we are all like siblings. We share the
same home, but take from it experiences that are unique to each of us."
The variety of works in GREEN offers the viewer the opportunity to challenge what the word and concept means to them.
Going
"green" might have been an unconscious choice for the photographers in
the exhibition. Curator Dylan Vitone chose the following photographers
to showcase selected works from particular projects they have completed:
Sue Abramson (Pittsburgh, PA), From the Same Bulb; Adam Amengual (Brooklyn, NY), Day Laborers; Kim Beck (Pittsburgh, PA), The Grass is Greener; Peter Beste (Santa Fe, NM), Houston Rap; Joe Johnson (Columbia, MO), The Playing Field; Judy Natal (Chicago, IL), Future Perfect; and Ed Panar (Pittsburgh, PA), City of Champions.
About the Artists & Curator
Sue Abramson
is an associate professor at Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Pittsburgh, PA. For
over twenty years, she has experimented with alternative photographic
methods in connection with the garden. Her work has been acquired for
many permanent collections, including the Carnegie Museum of Art,
Pittsburgh; The Polaroid Corporation; the University of Pittsburgh;
Bibliothèque Nationale de France; and Blue Cross of Western
Pennsylvania. She has received awards and commissions from Silver Eye
Center for Photography, the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, and
Pittsburgh Society of Artists. Abramson simultaneously explores the
process of grief and grieving in her work, and has lectured on art and
grief at the F295 2012 Symposium, a Pittsburgh event that explores the
movements in 21st century photography, and the Good Grief Center of
Pittsburgh. For more information, please visit http://www.sueabramson.com/.
Adam Amengual is
a photographer based in Brooklyn, NY. After studying the basics of
photography in high school, he continued his photographic education at
Massachusetts College of Art and Parsons School of Design, New York.
Amengual's current clients include Time Magazine, The U.S. State
Department via Lipman Hearne, Inc. Magazine, Time Out New York, Men's
Health, New York Magazine, Juxtapoz Magazine, Sony BMG, NDLON, Nobu, and
Wieden+Kennedy NYC. His work has been shown in galleries at THIS Los
Angeles and the University of Massachusetts Boston. For more
information, please visit http://www.adamamengual.com/
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Kim Beck is
an associate professor in the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon
University, Pittsburgh. She received an MFA from the Rhode Island School
of Design and a BA from Brandeis University. Her work is currently on
view at 100 Acres Park at the Indianapolis Museum of Art and has been
shown at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Carnegie Museum of Art,
Pittsburgh; Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY; Socrates Sculpture Park, Long
Island City, NY; Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY; and The
Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh. She has been a fellow at the MacDowell
Colony, Yaddo, International Studio & Curatorial Program, and Cité
Internationale des Arts, amongst others. Beck is represented by Mixed
Greens in New York and Pentimenti Gallery in Philadelphia. For more
information, please visit http://www.idealcities.com/
.
Peter Beste is
an American documentary photographer based in Santa Fe, NM. He has had
solo exhibitions in London, New York, Tokyo, Oslo, Prague, Madrid, Los
Angeles, and Portland, amongst others. Beste's work has appeared in
American Photo, the British Journal of Photography, Dazed &
Confused, the London Observer, VH1, and MTV. Houston Rap,
a 280-page hardcover collaboration with writer Lance Scott Walker will
be released in November 2013 by Sinecure Books. Providing astonishing
and important insight into a great American cultural narrative, the book
gives an in-depth look into the lives of the city's rappers, dope
dealers, and community leaders. For more information, please visit http://www.peterbeste.com/
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Joe Johnson is
the head of the Art Photography program at the University of Missouri,
Columbia. He received an MFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and a
BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. His work has been reviewed
and/or published in Art in America, The New York Times, The Boston
Globe, Esquire Magazine Russia, and YVI Magazine in the Netherlands.
Johnson was a runner-up for the 2008 Aperture Portfolio Prize and was
nominated for SF Camerawork's 2010 Baum Award and the 2011 Santa Fe
Prize. He has participated in exhibitions at the Cleveland Art Museum;
The DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA; Mass MoCA, North
Adams, MA; Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York City; Flatfile Gallery,
Chicago; and Gallery Kayafas, Boston. Johnson has lectured at a number
of universities including Carnegie Mellon University; Indiana
University; the Massachusetts College of Art; Rhode Island College, the
DeCordova Museum, and the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art at Kansas
State University. For more information, please visit http://www.joejohnsonphoto.com/
.
Judy Natal
is a professor of photography and graduate coordinator for photography
at Columbia College Chicago. Her work has been exhibited at Projects
International, Washington, DC; Photograph Gallery and Jack Hanley
Gallery, New York City; and the Sao Paulo Biennial, Brazil. Her work is
part of the permanent collections of the California Museum of
Photography at the University of California Riverside; George Eastman
House, Rochester, NY; The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago;
and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, amongst others. She has
received numerous grants and fellowships including a Fulbright Travel
Grant, Illinois Arts Council Photography Fellowships, Polaroid Grants,
and New York Foundation for the Arts Photography Fellowships. Natal is
the author of EarthWorks (LightWork, 2004) and Neon Boneyard Las Vegas A-Z (Center for American Places, 2006). For more information, please visit http://www.judynatal.com/
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Ed Panar
is a photographer, publisher, and co-founder of Spaces Corners, an
artist-run project space and bookshop in Pittsburgh. He has published
numerous photo-books including Nothing Changes if Nothing Changes (Spaces Corners, 2013); Salad Days (Gottlund, 2011-12); Animals That Saw Me (The Ice Plant, 2011); Same Difference (Gottlund, 2010), and Golden Palms (J&L
Books, 2007). His photographs and books have been published and
exhibited internationally including The Museum of Contemporary
Photography, Chicago; The New York Photography Festival; The Armory
Show, New York City; nofound Photography Fair, Paris; and the Cleveland
Museum of Art. His work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of
Contemporary Photography, Chicago. For more information, please visit http://www.edpanar.com/
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Dylan Vitone,
curator, is a photographer based in Pittsburgh, where he is an
associate professor in the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon
University. His photographs have been widely exhibited and collected by
museums including The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; The
Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History; George
Eastman House, Rochester, NY; Portland Art Museum; the Polaroid
Collection; the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; and the Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston. Vitone received an MFA from Massachusetts College of
Art and a BA from St. Edward's University, Austin, TX. His photographic
projects are based around geographic location, where he uses those
locations to speak about greater social and cultural phenomenon. For
more information, please visit http://www.dylanvitone.com/
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Related Programs
Opening Reception
Friday, September 6, 2013, 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Silver Eye Center for Photography, 1015 East Carson Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15203
Free and open to the public
What is Green?
Wednesday, September 25, 2013; Reception 6:30 - 7:00 pm, Panel begins at 7:00 pm
Silver Eye Center for Photography, 1015 East Carson Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15203
What is green? Is it a
color, a lifestyle, a noun, a verb, an adjective, an adverb? Explore
this varied concept with GREEN curator Dylan Vitone and the
photographers in the exhibition for a lively discussion of their work
and the ideas behind the show. Local photographers will be on-site with
out-of-town photographers joining the conversation via Google+ hangout
projected in the gallery.
About Silver Eye Center for Photography
Silver Eye Center for
Photography is a nationally-recognized, non-collecting institution
exclusively dedicated to contemporary photography. Founded in 1985,
Silver Eye has been at the forefront of celebrating photography, both as
an expressive art form and as a medium that brings to light the telling
details and larger stories that influence and inform an understanding
of ourselves and the world. With our singular commitment to exhibiting
and promoting contemporary photography and photo-based multimedia, we
are unique in Pittsburgh and the surrounding region.
Silver Eye is located
at 1015 East Carson Street in Pittsburgh's historic Southside. Gallery
hours are Tuesday through Saturday, noon to 6 pm. Admission is free and
open to the public. Silver Eye is handicap accessible.
Silver
Eye Center for Photography is generously supported by our members and
individual donors and by the Allegheny Regional Asset District, The
Heinz Endowments, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the A.W. Mellon
Educational and Charitable Trust Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation.
For additional information, press images, or to arrange for interviews and tours, please contact: Juliana Zipay, Marketing and Membership Manager, 412.431.1810, ext. 12, jzipay@silvereye.org.
Photo Credits (left to right): Adam Amengual, Landscaper, Los Angeles, CA, from the Day Laborer series, 2011. Courtesy of the artist; Joe Johnson, Casino Entrance 1, from The Playing Field series, 2012. Courtesy of the artist; Judy Natal, Las Vegas: Saguaro, from the Future Perfect series, 2007-2012. Courtesy of the artist.
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