Light Work is pleased to announce the 2019 Transmedia Photography Annual exhibition, featuring photographs by seniors from the art photography program in the Department of Transmedia (TRM) in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. The exhibition will be on view in the Hallway Gallery at Light Work from Jan. 14 – March 1, 2019. There will be an opening reception on Thursday, Jan. 31, from 5-7 p.m. Refreshments will be served.
The exhibiting artists are Pat Boland, Chloe Conklin Woodrow, Mollie M. Crandell, Catherine E. Doherty, Nicolo Orson Gilmore, Charlotte Lester, Nick Polyzoides, Tyanna Asia Seton, Siyaka Taylor-Lewis and Junxiu Wang.
Barbara Tannenbaum, chair of prints, drawings and photographs, and curator of photography at the Cleveland Museum of Art, served as juror to select images for Best of Show and Honorable Mention awards. Seton took Best of Show and Honorable Mentions went to Crandell, Lester and Taylor-Lewis.
Beginning artists, whether painters, writers or photographers, are often told to start by making art about the things they know,” notes Tannenbaum. “But it is hard to see one’s backyard, family member, friend or neighborhood with fresh eyes. Harder still to bring the viewer—who is a stranger—into that world and make them feel like a participant rather than a voyeur. Yet that is what Tyanna Seton, Mollie Crandell and Charlotte Lester and Siyaka Taylor-Lewis have accomplished. Each chose to address one of the most complex subjects: the human condition.”
On any given day students may be working alongside major international artists, forging important relationships and learning how to print, edit, and exhibit work by watching working artists do the same thing,” says Laura Heyman, associate professor of art photography, about the program’s ongoing collaboration with Light Work. “Students get to test these skills in the annual TRM Light Work exhibition, which is not only the first exhibition for many art photography majors, but also an important learning opportunity for them.”
The bachelor of fine arts degree in art photography emphasizes creativity, intellectual development, and the acquisition of skills to build professional, technical, and visual abilities within the broad and varied field of Photography. Art Photography students exhibit their work nationally and establish careers working with museums, magazines, fashion, advertising, photo studios, art galleries, educational institutions and other visual industries.
Light Work is located in the Robert B. Menschel Media Center located on the Syracuse University campus at 316 Waverly Avenue. Gallery hours are: Monday-Thursday 10 a.m.-9 p.m., Friday 10 a.m.- 6 p.m., Saturday-Sunday 1 p.m.-9 p.m. Light Work closes on all major holidays.