EXPOSURE

2008 Annual PRC Juried Exhibition
May 23 to July 2, 2008

Guest Juror Lesley A. Martin
Publisher Aperture Foundation Book Program

EXPOSURE features 14 selected artists of photography and related media whose themes include conflict, community, commerce, work and family.












Benjamin Lowy
From Iraq Perspectives, 2005-present

Robert Knight
Eli & Ben (#2), Chestnut Hill, MA 2006
From Dwellings






Martine Fougeron
From Tête-á-Tête I

NEW YORK PHOTO FESTIVAL

The Future of Contemporary Photography
Curated by Martin Parr, Lesley A. Martin, Tim Barber and Kathy Ryan

DUMBO, Brooklyn, New York
May 14 to 18, 2008


Photograph Jonathan Smith


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IN REVIEW Cai Guo-Qiang

Exploding Globally

Cai Guo-Qiang's I Want to Believe currently at the Guggenheim

Review by Jon Bakos


Inopportune: Stage One, 2004
Guggenheim exhibit I Want to Believe, 2008

Jon Bakos will be a senior BFA candidate at the Art Institute of Boston this coming fall. Jon's astute critical thoughts on contemporary art are reflected in his writings and discussions, which he shares on his website www.jonbakos.com. His work has been chosen for the second year to be included in TAKINGIN Best of AIB Photography.

Two Chinas: Chen Qiulin and Yun-Fei Ji

WORCESTER ART MUSEUM

Through September 21, 2008

Chen Qiulin, Bei Fu (Farewell Poem), 2003
Still from color video, 9 minutes, Stoddard Acquisition Fund, 2007










This exhibition considers the rapidly changing conditions in China through the lens of new acquisitions created by two young Chinese artists, Chen Qiulin (b. 1975) and Yun-Fei Ji (b. 1963). Both artists have responded to the altered landscapes and human displacement caused by flooding, which is a result of China’s Three Gorges Dam project. Chen Qiulin uses video in Bie Fu (Farewell Poem), from 2003, to revisit her childhood memories and China’s past amidst the rubble of Wanzhou, her hometown and one of the cities flooded by the dam project. In Yun-Fei Ji’s monumental scroll-like painting, Below the 143 Meter Mark, from 2006, allusions to classical landscape painting are transformed by grim contemporary details - houses and hillsides crumbling, a ghost town littered with abandoned bundles and bicycles.
(Excerpt from press release)

ABELARDO MORELL/ Bernard Toale Gallery

PICTURES in PICTURES

Bernard Toale Gallery
Boston

May 14 to June 28, 2008





















Santa Maria della Salute with Scaffolding in Palazzo Bedroom, 2007

TAKING IN @ AIB University Hall Gallery

The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University presents

TAKINGIN The Best of AIB Photography

Juried exhibit of The Art Insitute of Boston's best contemporary photography. The 2008 TakingIn jurors were Kristen Dodge, Co-Director of the Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Jim Fitts, Director of the PRC, Arlette Kayafas of Gallery Kayafas and Rania Matar, photographer.

Book Release and Reception May 15, 6pm

University Hall Gallery
Porter Square, Cambridge
May 15 to June 15, 2008


Paul Yem, Untitled, 2008