ARTIST TO ARTIST

Project Space

Exhibition Dates:
May 13 - June 30, 2022

Exhibiting Artists:
Matt Eich, Atong Atem, Ernesto Pujol, Justine Kurland, Ann Hamilton, Bill McDowell, Letha Wilson, Sarker Protick, Irina Rozovsky, Pixy Liao, Jason Fulford, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Rodrigo Valenzuela, Leslie Hewitt, James Welling, Abelardo Morell, Mark Klett, Lida Suchy, Wayne Lawrence, Doug DuBois, Mary Mattingly, Stanley Greenberg, Yoshinori Mizutani, Keliy Anderson-Staley, Miki Soejima, and Meryl Meisler

Opening Reception:
Friday, May 13, 2022, 5:00-9:00pm

With great excitement, Rivalry Projects is sharing a new exhibition in collaboration with Light Work (Syracuse, NY) and their renowned Fine Print Program. In this exclusive partnership with Rivalry Projects, Light Work will be offering affordable photographs from leading contemporary artists including Keliy Anderson-Staley, Atong Atem, Doug DuBois, Jason Fulford, Justine Kurland, Wayne Lawrence, Irina Rozovsky, Miki Soejima, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, and Rodrigo Valenzuela. 

On view in Rivalry’s Project Space from May 13-June 30, 2022, Artist to Artist highlights artwork available through the Fine Print Program and makes collecting photography a very real possibility for everyone. Each artist has donated their pieces in support of Light Work’s mission, and through the generosity of these artists Rivalry Projects and Light Work are able to offer them at affordable prices. 

As an added component of this partnership, Rivalry Projects will also offer issues of Contact Sheet, Light Work’s single photographer-focused magazine, which they publish five times per year. Rivalry will also be signing up those interested for Contact Sheet subscriptions. Please note: each subscription directly supports Light Work’s programs, including residencies, exhibitions, and publications.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Matt Eich is a portrait photographer and photographic essayist working on long-form projects about the American condition. Eich holds a BS in Photojournalism from Ohio University and an MFA in Photography from Hartford Art School’s International Limited-Residency Program. His Fine Print Program print of a flooded road comes from his acclaimed project and book, Carry Me Ohio. Eich exhibits his work widely in solo and group shows and his books and prints are in permanent collections at The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, The Portland Art Museum, The New York Public Library, Chrysler Museum of Art and others. He has received grant support for his long-form projects from the Alexia Foundation, the Aaron Siskind Fellowship, a VMFA Professional Fellowship, NPPA Short Grant, National Geographic Magazine, and twice received the Getty Images Grant for Editorial Photography. Eich participated in Light Work’s Artist-in-Residence Program in 2013.

Atong Atem is a South Sudanese artist and writer from Bor now living in Narrm (unceded Aboriginal land outside Melbourne, Australia). Born in Ethiopia, she spent her first years in Kenya’s Kakuma refugee camp before moving to Australia as a child. Atem’s photos explore the experiences of young immigrants, and how they knit together the different cultures that surround them. She focuses on migrant narratives, postcolonial practices in the diaspora, the relationship between public and private spaces, and identity through portraiture. Atem’s distinctive artistic practice combines both photography and hand painting, incorporating bold color and pattern inspired by her South Sudanese background. Atong Atem studied painting at Sydney College of the Arts in 2012 before furthering her studies at RMIT University in Melbourne. i-D and Okayafrica have featured her work and she recently exhibited at Brisbane Powerhouse Museum, where she won the inaugural MELT Portrait Prize.

Ernesto Pujol was born in Cuba, grew up in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and has lived and worked in New York City since 1983. Pujol is a site-specific performance artist, social choreographer, and educator with an interdisciplinary practice. His work in painting, prints, installations, and photography explores concepts of exile, memory, freedom, and gender. Baptism (Catechumen) (2009) is a diptych of two images presented as a single photographic print, in which Pujol captures a spiritual moment when a figure disappears into the water. Pujol received his BA in humanities and painting from the Universidad de Puerto Rico and his MFA in interdisciplinary art practice from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Pujol has received fellowships from the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation/NEA Regional Fellowships and grants from the Joan Mitchell Foundation and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Pujol participated in Light Work’s Artist-in-Residence program in January 1999.

Justine Kurland holds a BFA from the School of Visual Arts and an MFA in photography from Yale University. She is best known for photographing subjects in American wilderness landscapes. Influences to her strongly narrative work include nineteenth-century English picturesque landscapes and the utopian ideal as well as genre paintings, photographs of Julia Margaret Cameron and Mathew Brady, and illustrations from fairy tales. Kurland has used staged tableaux to explore the social landscape of girlhood, life on communes and in the wilderness, and traveling on the road with her son, Casper. Here, she photographs Casper in a moment of rest, framed by colorful hydrangeas. Kurland’s work is in many permanent collections including the Corcoran Gallery (Washington, D.C.), the Guggenheim Museum (New York City), the International Center of Photography (New York City), Montreal’s Museum of Fine Arts, and the Whitney Museum (New York City). Higher Pictures in New York represents her. Kurland participated in Light Work’s Artist-in-Residence program in 2016.

Ann Hamilton is a visual artist internationally recognized for the sensory surrounds of her large-scale multi-media installations. Noted for a dense accumulation of materials, her ephemeral environments create immersive experiences that poetically respond to the architectural presence and social history of their sites. This image comes from the common S E N S E, an exhibition at Henry Art Gallery. Using materials and representations of animals, Hamilton creates an elegiac accounting of the finitude and threatened extinctions we share across species. She asks: “How are objects—once animated by a living context—re-animated in cultural imagination, as we recognize the reach and the limits of our hands to touch and our voice to call?” Born in Lima, Ohio, in 1956, Ann Hamilton received a BFA in textile design from the University of Kansas in 1979 and an MFA in sculpture from the Yale School of Art in 1985. Hamilton has served on the faculty of The Ohio State University since 2001, where she is a professor in the Department of Art. Hamilton represented the United States at the 48th Venice Biennale and is a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship. Hamilton premiered her video piece, table, at Urban Video Project (UVP) in April 2014.

Bill McDowell is a photographer living in Plattsburgh, New York. This diptych of two images is from his project Ground, a series of photographs taken from the Farm Security Administration (FSA) archive of “killed” negatives. These negatives that had been damaged with a hole punch by the FSA staff in the 1930s. McDowell’s sequence of photographs relates to land and agriculture, and is mediated by the manner in which the killed negative’s black hole abstracts subject, space, and time. With this, he creates a dense narrative connecting contemporary and Great Depression Americas. McDowell is the 2013 recipient of the Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant, and has received the Aaron Siskind Individual Photographer’s Fellowship, the New York Foundation on the Arts Photography Fellowship, as well as many other artist grants. McDowell’s photographs are represented in collections at the Yale University Art Gallery, the George Eastman Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, among others. He is a professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Vermont. McDowell participated in Light Work’s Artist-in-Residence Program in 1995.

Letha Wilson was born in Hawaii, raised in Colorado, and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. Her excursions in the Rocky Mountains have placed the natural world and its image at the root of her artistic interests. Her mixed-media work begins as an exploration into our understanding of landscape, and her piece Glacier Sky (Back to Back) is no exception. Wilson adhered the backs of two prints together and then hand-altered the piece by cutting and folding an opening in the center, transforming it into a three-dimensional sculpture that can be displayed with either image facing outwards. Collectors may purchase two prints to display as a diptych. Wilson earned her BFA from Syracuse University, an MFA from Hunter College, and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2009. Wilson has exhibited her artwork at many venues including Art in General, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Bronx Museum of the Arts, International Center for Photography, Essl Museum of Contemporary Art, Hauser and Wirth, Eleven Rivington, Higher Pictures, and GRIMM. In 2013, Wilson received both a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Photography and a Deutsche Bank Fellowship. Wilson participated in Light Work’s Artist-in-Residence program in 2015.

Sarker Protick makes work that explores the possibilities of time, light, and sound. His portraits and landscapes engage philosophically with the specificities of personal and national histories. This print from his series Of River and Lost Lands depicts a quiet moment on the water in a typically atmospheric color palette. British Journal of Photography named Protick among their annual “Ones to Watch” and PDN listed him among 30 emerging photographers of the year. He is the recipient of Australian Photobook of the Year grand prize, Joop Swart Masterclass, Magnum Foundation Fund, and World Press Photo Award. He has shown his work in museums, galleries, and photo festivals that include Art Dubai, Chobi Mela International Photography Festival, Dhaka Art Summit, Latvian Contemporary Museum of Photography, Noor der licht, Paris Photo, and Singapore Art Week. Protick is a faculty member at Pathshala-South Asian Media Institute and East Wing Gallery represents him. Protick participated in Light Work’s Artist-in-Residence program in 2019.

Irina Rozovsky’s project One to Nothing depicts an Israel we do not see on the news. Her images describe a place beyond politics; they do not defend a side or critique the conflict. Israel is seen as a mythological backdrop to the age-long struggle between man and the dusty, sun-bleached landscape of his origin. A loose, subtle, and open-ended narrative, One to Nothing describes a historic tension with unusual observations. This beautiful, limited-edition color print portrays two brothers locked in a stalemate on the shores of the Dead Sea, a battle we seem to have been fighting since the beginning of time. The image graces the cover of Rozovsky’s first monograph, One to Nothing (Kehrer Verlag, 2011). Rozovsky’s work has been published and exhibited internationally. Solo and group shows include Smith College, Northampton, MA; Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Breda International Photo Festival, Breda, The Netherlands; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI; Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY; Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL; and Noorderlicht Festival, Groningen, The Netherlands. Rozovsky participated in Light Work’s Artist-in-Residence Program in August 2012.

Pixy Liao was born and raised in Shanghai, China, and currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. Liao’s ongoing photographic and performative series features herself and her boyfriend, Moro, as they playfully explore the power dynamics and possibilities of an intimate sexual relationship. She has received a NYFA Fellowship, En Foco’s New Works Fellowship, and LensCulture Exposure Awards. She has exhibited her photographs at Flower Gallery in New York City, He Xiangning Art Museum in China, Format in the UK, Kips Gallery in Korea, Noorderlicht in the Netherlands, The Running Horse Contemporary Art Space in Lebanon, and VT Artsalon in Taiwan. She has participated in artist residencies with Camera Club of New York, Center for Photography at Woodstock, and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Liao holds a MFA in photography from University of Memphis. Pixy Liao participated in Light Work’s Artist-in-Residence Program in June 2015.

Jason Fulford has adopted the photobook format as his primary mode of expression and works with the sequence and arrangement of individual images to build layers of articulation. He intentionally leaves unanswered many of the questions that his work poses about the experience of looking and thinking; he invites viewers and readers to become active participants in deciphering images. His most notable monographs include Sunbird (2000), Crushed (2003), Raising Frogs for $$$ (2006), The Mushroom Collector (2010), and Hotel Oracle (2013). Fulford is also the co-author, with Tamara Shopsin, of a photobook for children titled This Equals That (2014). His print, South of Chennai (2001), comes from this project, in which the triangular shape of the shark’s mouth is the focus of a playful pairing of images. Through pictures and storytelling, Fulford toys with the language of photography and the meaning of images. Fulford was a 2014 Guggenheim Fellow and is the co-founder of J&L Books, through which he produces a few new books each year by and about contemporary artists.

Paul Mpagi Sepuya bases his work in portraiture, storytelling, and homoerotic visual culture. He investigates the role of the studio as a social environment by staging photographs with his friends, partners, and lovers as subjects and employing mirrors and collage techniques. This unique print is part of the Figure series, and has never been shown or published until now. Sepuya received his BFA from New York University Tisch School of the Arts in 2004 and his MFA from the University of California Los Angeles in 2016. Sepuya has exhibited his work widely, including at the Artist Institute in New York, Franklin Art Works in Minneapolis, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and The Studio Museum in Harlem. Public collections holding Sepuya’s work include the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, International Center of Photography in New York,  Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, Museum of Modern Art in New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, and Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Paul Mpagi Sepuya currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Sepuya participated in Light Work’s Artist-in-Residence Program in July 2018.

Rodrigo Valenzuela’s work in photography, video, and installation boldly addresses themes of labor, power, and representation. In American Type, he uses and critiques the language and history of abstraction in art, simultaneously imbuing his photographs with social and political meaning. Valenzuela studied art history and photography at the University of Chile (2004), holds a BA in Philosophy from The Evergreen State College (2010), and an MFA from the University of Washington (2012). Recent solo exhibitions include Future Ruins at Frye Art Museum (Seattle, WA, 2015), Galerie Lisa Kandlhofer (Vienna, Austria, 2018), Work in Its Place at Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (Eugene, OR, 2018), New Land at McColl Center (Charlotte, NC, 2017), American-Type at Orange County Museum (Santa Ana, CA, 2018), Labor Standards at Portland Art Museum (Portland, OR, 2018), and Prole at Ulrich Museum of Art (Wichita, KS, 2016). Valenzuela is an assistant professor in the Department of Art, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), and received the 2017 Joan Mitchell Award for Painters and Sculptors. Valenzuela participated in Light Work’s Artist-in-Residence program in 2017.

Leslie Hewitt is an artist living in New York City. With her work in photography and other media, she tries to restructure pieces of American history by inserting people, things, and icons forgotten by the times and gives them new purpose in the present. Hewitt graduated from The Cooper Union’s School of Art in 2000 and went on to earn an MFA from Yale University in 2004. Her work is in the public collection at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, the Yale Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, among others. Hewitt was represented in the Museum of Modern Art’s New Photography 2009, a thematic presentation of significant recent work in photography that examines and expands the conventional definitions of the medium. Hewitt participated in Light Work’s Artist-in-Residence Program in July 2009.

James Welling’s work centers on an exploration of photography, shuffling the elemental components of the medium to produce distinctly uncompromising results. During his career, Welling has experimented with different photographic mediums, including Polaroids, silver gelatin prints, photograms, and digital prints, exploring the tensions of and between representation and abstraction. This dramatic print comes from Welling’s abstract explorations from the 1980s, reproduced by the artist himself as a one-of-a-kind silver gelatin print exclusively for Light Work. Welling has had solo exhibitions at Künstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway; Musée départemental d’art contemporain de Rochechouart, France; Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA; and David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY, as well as a touring retrospective with the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH. His work was included in the Metro Pictures inaugural exhibition and featured in the 2008 Whitney Biennial in New York. He has also exhibited in group exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Welling participated in Light Work’s Artist-In-Residence Program in 1986.

Abelardo Morell’s images reveal the extraordinary in the familiar. Morell writes, “The pictures I made around the house when I first became a father have influenced much of the work that I do today ― from looking at a book with the curiosity of a child to turning ordinary rooms into giant cameras.” The image Camera Obscura – Late Afternoon View of the East Side of Midtown Manhattan, 2014 is one example of his prolific series, Camera Obscura. “Over time, this project has taken me from my living room to all sorts of interiors around the world. One of the satisfactions I get from making this imagery comes from my seeing the weird and yet natural marriage of the inside and outside.” He has received a number of awards and grants, including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1994, an Infinity Award in Art from ICP in 2011, and a Lucie Award for achievement in fine art in 2017. Galleries, institutions, and museums that have shown and collected his work include the Boston Museum of Fine Art, Chicago Art Institute, Houston Museum of Art, Metropolitan Art Museum in New York, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and The Whitney Museum of American Art.

Mark Klett received his BS in geology from St. Lawrence University, and his MFA in photography from the Visual Studies Workshop. Klett’s work has been in group shows at the Autry Museum in Los Angeles, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the Art Museum of the University of Texas in El Paso. He has a solo exhibition on view at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA. His work has been exhibited at museums and galleries internationally, including the Cleveland Museum of Art; the National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C.; the Center for Creative Photography in Tuscon, AZ; and the Photo Gallery International in Tokyo, Japan, among others. His work is included in permanent collections worldwide, including at the George Eastman House in Rochester, NY; the Museum of Modern Art, New York City; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo; the Victoria and Albert Museum in London; and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, among others.

“The photo was made in Mexico at Pinacate, their first nature reserve. The time was dawn, and my shadow was raking across the top of the cider cone I had climbed. I noticed that I could project it onto a small saguaro cactus, and did so for the picture. Saguaros are the symbol of the Sonoran Desert in this part of Mexico and my home state of Arizona just a few dozen miles to the north. Saguaros may grow to be 30 or 40 feet tall and live over two hundred years. This cactus was relatively young, about my same age though much younger in saguaro years than I was in human years. It was a reflection of differing perceptions of time, of life and the land.”

– Mark Klett

Lida Suchy is a first-generation American born into a refugee family. She draws on this background as inspiration for her creative work. For more than 30 years, she has chronicled communities through portraiture. This photograph comes from her ongoing series, Portrait of a Village: The People of Kryvorivnya, Ukraine, which she has documented with her 8 x 10 view camera since 1992. In support of her creative work, Suchy was named a Guggenheim Fellow (2016), New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Fellow (2106), and Fulbright Scholar (2012-14). Among other grants, she received a New York State Council on the Arts/CNY Arts Grant (2008), an ArtsLink Grant (1996), and an International Research & Exchanges Board Fellowship (1988). Suchy received her MFA from the Yale School of Art in 1992. Her photographs are in public collections including San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, Eastman Museum, Rochester NY, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, and the Ivan Franko Museum, Kryvorivnya, Ukraine. Suchy received the Light Work Grant in Photography in 2010 and 2016 and was a Light Work Artist-in-Residence in 1994.

Wayne Lawrence is a documentary photographer based in Brooklyn, New York. His work represents a visual diary of his life’s journey, and focuses on communities that mainstream media tends to overlook. Lawrence’s print, titled Maldiya, comes from his project Orchard Beach, a collection of direct and beautiful portraits celebrating the diversity and community of one of New York City’s most popular waterfront destinations. Lawrence has exhibited his photographs at the Bronx Museum of Art, The FLAG Art Foundation, Amerika Haus (Munich), the Open Society Institute, and the African American Museum of Philadelphia, among others. His work has been published by The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, TIME, Rolling Stone, Men’s Journal, The Sunday Times Magazine, Mother Jones, Mare, COLORS, and Newsweek. His first monograph, Orchard Beach: The Bronx Riviera, was released by Prestel Publishing in October 2013. Lawrence’s work is in the private collections of Glenn Fuhrman, The FLAG Art Foundation, MSD Capital, and L.P. Recent awards include The Arnold Newman Prize for New Directions In Photographic Portraiture and the Aaron Siskind Foundation Fellowship. Lawrence participated in Light Work’s Artist-in-Residence Program in 2014.

Doug DuBois has photographed his family for over twenty-five years, following the seasons of happy and sorrowful moments. His book …all the days and nights featuring this and sixty-one other images in the series, is the result of decades-long observation, during which DuBois’ family experienced many joyous occasions and devastating losses.

DuBois’ photographs are in the collection of major museums such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, NY; SFMOMA in San Francisco, CA; J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, CA; the Library of Congress in Washington, DC; and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England. Exhibition venues include the J. Paul Getty Museum; The Museum of Fine Art in Houston, TX; New Langton Arts in San Francisco, CA; PARCO Gallery in Tokyo, Japan; Voies Off in Arles, France, and more. DuBois has received fellowships from MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, The National Endowment for the Arts, SITE Santa Fe, Light Work, and the John Gutmann Foundation. His work has been published in DoubleTake, New York Times, The Telegraph (London), and Monopol (Berlin), among others.

New York-based artist Mary Mattingly creates sculptural ecosystems in urban spaces. Photography is central to the process, documentation, and display of her participatory work. Her print, Navel of the Moon, depicts a figure standing on a flooded desert floor in Mexico, inflating one of Mattingly’s “Wearable Homes,” in order to potentially float or collect water. Mattingly has exhibited her work widely, including shows at Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Kitchen, International Center of Photography, the Seoul Art Center, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, and the Palais de Tokyo. She has received grants and fellowships from the James L. Knight Foundation, Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology, Yale University School of Art, the Harpo Foundation, NYFA, the Jerome Foundation, and the Art Matters Foundation. Media that has featured her work include Aperture Magazine, Art in America, Artforum, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Financial Times, Le Monde Magazine, The New Yorker, BBC News, MSNBC, Fox News, NPR, WNBC, and Art21’s New York Close Up series. Mattingly participated in Light Work’s Artist-in-Residence program in 2014.

Stanley Greenberg’s photographs of architectural sites con- template form and content in the context of contemporary urban existence. He describes his approach as follows: “I look at photographs for the information they contain. I know that their record is not necessarily a mandate for truth, but I want them to tell me what they can beyond the act of the creation of the image and the production of the resulting prints. It’s an old fashioned way of looking, for what has happened in the visual arts generally has also happened specifically in photography: style and attitude have supplanted the photographers’ first call to record and document the world before them.”

Greenberg is the author of Invisible New York: The Hidden Infrastructure of the City (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998); Waterworks: A Photographic Journey through New York’s Hidden Water System (Princeton Architectural Press, 2003); and the forthcoming Architecture Under Construction (University of Chicago Press, 2010). The architecture images will be exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in 2010.

His photographs are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Greenberg is the recipient of several grants, including a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation in 2005, and grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Greenberg participated in Light Work’s Artist-in-Residence Program in 1997.

Yoshinori Mizutani (1987) lives and works in Tokyo. Mizutani graduated from the Tokyo College of Photography in 2012. He has won a number of prestigious awards including Japan Photo Award in 2013 as well as Foam Talent Call and Lens Culture Emerging Talents Top 50 in 2014.

Mizutani's newest series HDR_nature series offers a fresh take on nature photography. Using the latest technology, he creates images which look like painted with brush strokes. Today everyone can take photographs and there are too many photographs of nature, making it extremely difficult to come up with something new with this well-trodden and familiar theme. With HDR_nature, Mizutani ventured into a new frontier in photography. HDR, short for High Dynamic Range, is a post-processing task of taking a series of images, combining them and adjusting the contrast ratios to create images as close as possible to what the human eye sees. He deliberately moves his camera around to let it combine multiple out-of-focus images. As a result, he manages to create something we have never seen before. By adopting a technology of digital photography in a creative way, he added a new page to the history of photographic expression which has always gone hand-in-hand with the development of technology.

Yoshinori Mizutani’s photographic work explores expressive possibilities that mix the traditions of diaristic and street photography with a conceptual practice. With his bright flash and distinct color palette, Mizutani’s print, Yusurika 064 (2014), captures the natural beauty of a bird in flight through the trees.

For her series [Hyphen] Americans, Keliy Anderson-Staley has created a vast, broadly diverse collection of portraits with the wet-plate collodion process using nineteenth-century chemical recipes, period brass lenses, and large wooden view cameras. Each individual—identified only by a first name—defiantly asserts his or her self, resisting any imposed external categorizing system. At once contemporary and timeless, these portraits raise questions about our place as individuals in history and the role that photographic technologies have played over time in defining identity. This portrait of Kevin, captured in Syracuse, is reproduced here from a wet-plate collodion tintype as a beautiful and collectible print. Her work has been exhibited at The National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian, Washington, DC; The Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME; The Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona, FL; Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL; and The Palitz Gallery, Lubin House, New York, NY, among other venues. Anderson-Staley participated in Light Work’s Artist-in-Residence Program in 2010.

London-based artist Miki Soejima walks the line between fact and fiction, uncovering photography’s inherent artifice and truths. Her latest project, The Passenger’s Present, combines street photographs from Japan with constructed still life images, including her print, Still Life 04. Her images allude to narratives, histories, and myths beneath Japanese society’s surface. Some images include small red spheres; these are Atomic FireBalls, the American candy named after the atomic bomb. “I think my core interest lies in how narrative context can shape our way of seeing the world and affect how we act,” she says. Soejima’s work with photographs began after completing studies in Cultural Anthropology at Kyoto’s Ryukoku University, which included a year’s exchange at the University of Westminster. She then moved to London to study photography at the London College of Communication. Soejima received the 2012 First Book Award from MACK and the National Media Museum for Mrs. Merryman’s Collection, which MACK published in 2012. She has exhibited widely in Europe and the US, including Dublin’s PhotoIreland Festival, Barcelona’s Arts Santa Monica, and London’s Michael Hoppen Gallery. Soejima participated in Light Work’s Artist-in-Residence program in 2015.

Meryl Meisler was born 1951 in the Bronx and grew up on Long Island, NY. Meisler frequented and photographed the legendary New York City discos. A 1978 CETA Artist Grant supported her portfolio on Jewish identity. Upon retiring from 31 years as a New York City public school art teacher, she began releasing previously unseen work, including her books, A Tale of Two Cities: Disco Era Bushwick (Bizarre, 2014), Purgatory & Paradise: SASSY ‘70s Suburbia & The City (Bizarre, 2015) and New York PARADISE LOST: Bushwick Era Disco (forthcoming 2021). Meisler has received support from Artists Space, CETA, China Institute, Japan Society, LMCC, Leonian Foundation, Light Work, NYFA, Puffin Foundation, VCCA, and Yaddo. She has exhibited at the Brooklyn Historical Society, Brooklyn Museum, Dia Art Foundation, MASS MoCA, New Museum, New York Historical Society, and Whitney Museum. Collections that hold her work include AT&T, American Jewish Congress, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Brooklyn Historical Society, Columbia University, Emory University, Islip Art Museum, Library of Congress, Pfizer, and Reuters. Meisler lives in New York City and Woodstock, NY. ClampArt represents her work.