Austin Irving

Artist Statement
NOT AN EXIT is a collection of large format photographs that proposes a closer examination of the nondescript interiors that we routinely pass through; doorways and hallways, liminal spaces intended for movement but here, somehow appear maze-like and impenetrable. Presented as close-to-life-size Lightjet Type-C prints, the scale and repetitive compositional elements of these images evoke a methodology of clinical examination and categorization of the spaces we pass through and sometimes never truly see.

“Austin Irving subtly plays with logic and our sense of space in her series of doors and doorways. With too-narrow hallways and passages that may lead nowhere, each door seems slightly at odds with our reality.” – Jacqui Palumbo

André Ramos-Woodard

Annette LeMay Burke

“By casting projections of her family members onto the walls of her childhood home, Annette LeMay Burke evokes the poignancy of memory. In “Rumpus Room,” a group who once gathered together welcomes the viewer, cutting through the linearity of time.” – Jacqui Palumbo

Artist Statement
It’s never easy to say goodbye to the places and people that have structured our lives. After my parents’ deaths, I was left with their physical possessions (including their home and photographs) and my recollections of our lives together. In this series, I’ve expressed my farewell to my beloved childhood home by projecting my family’s photos onto the walls of the house. By juxtaposing the projected images onto the home’s surfaces, I have unearthed 60 years of memories engrained into the confines of our home.

Elle DioGuardi

“Elle DioGuardi’s installations intervene in the landscape, presenting text that confronts the viewer. “Over and over” is located on a bridge in plain view, while “Thinking About You” finds a home in a more isolated icy setting. Through photography, however, both sites are equally accessible, allowing a wider audience to consider the works.” – Jacqui Palumbo

Brittany Severance

“How do we leave an impression of ourselves behind? Brittany Severance’s warmly lit interior scenes are heavy with human presence, yet no one appears in the photographs. There is a stillness to each arrangement, each object in the home a clue.”
– Jacqui Palumbo

“‘Summer games’ by Cristina Fontsaré has a timeless quality. The serene photograph gently suggests a narrative through posture and gesture, through details like tan lines and light-dappled water, calling to mind cinematic scenes of girlhood.” – Jacqui Palumbo

Cynthia Rettig

Artist Statement
We all die or move out of our homes at some point. That movement leaves a lot of personal stuff behind. Some material things we own deteriorate, erode and turn to dust. I’m interested in how light travels across furniture, rooms and windows. Time frames the absence of objects, markings of moved furniture, paintings and footpaths on worn rugs. Patterns as consistent as time- the routine of life, it’s all there in a house. Clues, energy - the quirky way things connect us, the wealthy and working class have holes in their pajamas, outdated spices and books never read.. Every house is a story and a constant reminder that all is temporary.

Bria Sterling Wilson

Artist Statement
I wanted to document individuals in my life during the Covid-19 era. I was curious to investigate how the stay-home order in Baltimore, Maryland that began on March 30th, 2020 was affecting my co-workers, family, and friends. What happens when our homes become the only walls we see for days, weeks, and months at a time? How does the context of our bedroom, kitchen, or living room change? How do our relationships transform with those that we live with? These were some of the questions that traveled through my mind before photographing.

Christina Santner & Grace Anne Odom

Artist Statement
All these images were made as part of a collaborative project, Winter Garden Photographs, undertaken by Christina Santner & Grace Anne Odom. United by a shared passion for photographs as objects, Christina & Grace Anne collaborated to convert their bathroom into a full-scale wet plate collodion darkroom, so that they could start producing images using this historic process. First introduced in 1851, the wet plate collodion process requires that the plate, either glass or metal, be sensitized to light, exposed in the camera, developed, fixed, and then rinsed for every image made. Essentially, the wet plate photographer makes her own film, shoots, and then processes it on the spot.

Alana Perino

Holly Romano

Artist Statement
In this current body of work, I am documenting my behavioral observation of my children, brought on by the perpetual stay-home orders during the CoVid pandemic. Having consistent, non-stop time with them for the past year, I am able to notice the in-between moments of their day-to-day activities — how they intentionally spent their down time, how they react to home-schooling and seclusion, and how they relate within the family and the physical elements in their environment.

Artist Statement
An Unsearchable Distance is inspired by the numerous failed searches for the purported Northwest Passage. For several centuries it was assumed that the elusive passage was just beyond a series of rapids, a little farther upstream, or over a mountain range—somewhere just out of sight. It never was. Instead, any semblance of a passage has only recently been revealed by the destructive melting of polar ice over the top of North America. It is ironic that the long sought and imagined passage only exists today as an unintended result of constructing an environment to circumvent the natural barriers that once proved the impossibility of the passage.

Stan Banos

Ken Konchel

“Ken Konchel’s architectural images are exercises in light and shadow. With buildings reduced to their geometry, the locations have less importance; instead, the meditative images form a collective rhythm.” – Jacqui Palumbo

Jacob Lunderby

Matt Roberts

Ruby Chu

“Ruby Chu’s images are weighty with the unease of surveillance, heightened through washes of color. Cropped in close, the location is kept ambiguous” – Jacqui Palumbo

Richard Bergeman

Image Description
“Along the 804 Trail,” pictures a view up the Central Oregon Coast from a Native American (and later pioneer) trail that became the subject of controversy and litigation in the mid 20th century as developers began building homes on what many argued was a historical and historic public right-of-way. A truce was declared a few decades ago when many property owners agreed to accommodate public access to the trail, which wanders several miles over beaches and rocky headlands in the vicinity of Yachats, Oregon.

Vyncex Gorlami

Image Statement
Compost is a still life photo of a receptacle of fruit and vegetable matter, which simmered in a structure fire, fermented, and blew the lid off its container in a burnt-out building in the Portland neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky. The photo is a Magic Lantern Dual ISO image, taken under duress while trespassing. The scene is all-natural, illuminated by a dimming golden hour, trickling through scorched curtains, without a prearranged composition.