Katherine Finkelstein and Ryan Foerster “In Progress”

Pioneer Works

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Baxter Street at the Camera Club of New York and Pioneer Works have partnered to bring three photographers from the Baxter Street community to process black and white photography in the darkroom at Pioneer Works, over the course of one month. This residency partnership will result in three “In Progress” exhibitions at Governors Island, at Nolan Park 8B.

Katherine Finkelstein is a New York-based artist working with the medium of photography. She received her BA from the Bard College photography program and completed her MFA at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Low-Residency program in 2017. She runs Motherbox Gallery, a natural-light exhibition space, out of her apartment. Finkelstein used her time at Pioneer Works to remix and create new work which combines sunlight, landscape, prisms, and photograms. She recently returned from a residency at Mahler & LeWitt Studios in Spoleto, Italy, with materials and film from time spent on a sacred mountain on the tenth anniversary of her sister’s disappearance in the sea, as well as a trip to the coast at La Spiaggia delle Due Sorelle (The Beach of the Two Sisters).

Ryan Foerster is an artist whose main medium is documentary photography. His process involves taking photos with a camera as well as creating photograms in the darkroom and outside in nature. He often uses leftover and found materials, a process he equates to composting. While in residence at Pioneer Works, this exhibition consists of black-and-white photographs, photograms, and archives. Series include photographs from negatives shot over the years in Brighton Beach, where he lives; a project of unsuccessful photos combined with copyright-free images; and works made from a Punk Island poster from the last time Foerster was on Governors Island, in 2008.