NYAB Event - "Graphic Intersections & The Portrait As Allegory" Exhibition

"Graphic Intersections & The Portrait As Allegory" Exhibition

Umbrage Gallery

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Graphic Intersections is a collaborative project loosely based on the old Surrealist and Dadaist game, the Exquisite Corpse. Designed to unite disparate artists in an interconnected photographic relay of images inspired by one another, this project strives to emphasize a system of response entirely rooted in unmediated visual reaction.

The first photographer made a photograph, which was subsequently forwarded to the second in line. The second photographer, based solely on their own visual, emotional, intellectual, or philosophical response, in turn made a photograph in artistic reaction to the one they were given. The artists involved were not given any written material to accompany the photographs, nor did they know whose image they were responding to. This was designed to propagate chance, or as the Surrealists put it, to exploit “the mystique of accident.”

Ultimately, Graphic Intersections challenges the bounds of sequential, narrative imagery, while simultaneously fostering stronger lines of artistic affiliation.

The exhibition includes photographs by Ben Alper, Anastasia Cazabon, Thomas Damgaard, Scott Eiden, Grant Ernhart, Jon Feinstein, Elizabeth Fleming, Alan George, Hee Jin Kang, Drew Kelly, Michael Marcelle, Chris Mottalini, Ed Panar, Bradley Peters, Cara Phillips, Noel Rodo-Vankeulen, Irina Rozovsky, Brea Souders, Jane Tam and Grant Willing.

In the inside gallery space, a second exhibition, The Portrait as Allegory, examines the work of Timothy Briner, Birthe Piontek, and Susan Worsham, three artists who utilize the figure metaphorically in service of a broader discourse on the human experience. In addition to exploring the personal identities of their subjects, these portraits simultaneously become vehicles which speak to a variety of social, historical, and familial histories. Timothy Briner’s images both confirm and undermine cultural and societal stereotypes largely associated with small-town American life; Susan Worsham’s portraits explore the artist’s own ancestry in an attempt to visually reconcile the past and present; and Birthe Piontek’s photographs investigate the quest for individuation in the mythic great north.

About The Curators

The Exposure Project was co-founded in 2005 by Ben Alper and Anastasia Cazabon with the aim of exposing and promoting new photographic talent through exhibition, publication and online exposure. Since their inception, they have nurtured community-based collaborations that seek to expand the lines of artistic camaraderie. The Exposure Project has hosted numerous exhibitions, self-published four books, facilitated various online projects and moderated a blog. See www.theexposureproject.com

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