Big week here in Tyler Photo MFA

It has been a long time coming but Dimitra's thesis exhibition is installed and looks wonderful! The reception is 6 to 8pm THIS FRIDAY, April 12th. If you're in town you should check it out.

Synecdochic Democracy

Synecdochic Democracy problematizes the adverse impact of the Western recession on democratic functions drawing from the illustrative case of Greece. Synecdochic derives from the Greek word ‘synekdoche’ (συνεκδοχή), a figure of speech by which a part stands for the whole or vice-versa. The title refers to the means by which extant democratic systems do not live up to the standards of equality, participation, and public sovereignty, but instead represent particular citizens or groups.

Within this photography installation, I use images symbolic of ancient and contemporary notions of ‘the people’ and ‘the public space of democracy’. In the wake of more globalized issues and manifestations of civic unrest, the exhibition creates a space for rethinking fundamental presuppositions of democracy such as representation, access, citizenship, sovereignty and liberty.

Also, Brad and Joe took part in ArtUnleashed, exhibition and sale in support of their alma mater The University of the Arts' scholarship fund.

            More info: ArtUnleashed

Friends of Xeroxr

Hey everyone,
I'm in a group show at Napoleon this Friday, if you're around you should swing by.

The 3rd installment of the "Friends of XRXR" exhibition series and our first exhibition outside of Canada will be "Photocopy Philadelphia". The exhibition includes over 20 artists from Canada, Norway, Finland, Czech Republic, The UK and The U.S. with about half of the artists involved being from Philadelphia. This is a celebration of contemporary photo, a thriving arts community and a whole mess of friendship. Posters will be $30 or less (feel free to talk me down) NAPOLEON 319 N. 11th Street Unit 2L in the Vox building Artists Include: Jaime Alvarez Steven Alvarez Sebastian Benitez Michael Battaglia Jordan Baumgarten Richard Cardoza David Cooper Sonia D'Argenzio Sean Dyroff Rosemary Flutur David Graham Josh Hicke Joe Hocker Reilly Hodgson Alexa Johnson Dimitri Karakostas Denelle Kennedy Abbie Klages Jan Khur Tuomas Koskialho Matt Moreland Steph Mill Raymond Salaber Gianna Vadino Jordan Warmington Jennah White All of this was possible with support from: No Fun Press Blood Of The Young Gal Galz NAPOLEON SPECIAL THANKS TO JORDAN ROCKFORD, LESLIE FRIEDMAN AND THE WHOLE NAPOLEON GANG FOR LETTING US USE THEIR SPACE ON SUCH SHORT NOTICE

Ahem!

Brad Jamula

My work explores our symbiotic relationship with the urban environment by looking at how it affects us and, in turn, how we attempt to effect change. By moving through the city and using photography as a record of that movement, I want to question how space is constructed and how we inject ourselves into that space, either physically, or through images and mark-making.
I aim to investigate and compare how we influence urban spaces, and analyze the relationship between documentary photography and public imagery. By drawing on my own understanding of the city and my use of photography as a means of study, I hope to make larger connections between society’s experience of the evolving urban landscape and its efforts to create a more personal expression of community within that environment.

Dimitra Ermeidou in "Places of memory - Fields of Vision"

Dimitra Ermeidou is participating in the exhibition Places of memory - Fields of Vision as a member of the art project Visual March to Prespes. The show is part of the main program of the Festival of the Invisible Cities, organized by the State Museum of Contemporary Art (SMCA), Thessaloniki, Greece.

Joe Hocker

In a time in my life where little is steady, my experience of nature is eternal and unwavering. The places I go to make my photographs are preserved land. These places remain intact, short of the ebb and flow of all things in the natural world. It’s important for me to preserve memories and images of the things that are stable. Nature has always played a large role in my ability to find comfort and solace.

Being in nature brings about spirituality, allowing me to be enveloped by the wonder of the natural world and to capture that essence. While experiencing these spaces I move slowly, exploring and making photographs. These photographs are made as a reminder of the grandeur of the nature and to invite the viewer to explore these places, or places like them, for themselves.

Rebekah Flake

      

The Boy Soldiers series depicts American children at play. Specifically, the photographs show the young participants of organized battle reenactments. They clutch their weapons, they fall down dead, they confront the camera with bravery. I am interested in how patriotism gets passed down through generations in the United States. To what extent and through what mechanisms are our natural impulses to tell stories and perform war games developed and/or hijacked while we are still young? Is a re-enactor child equipped with a cultivated historical consciousness or an inoculation against the sights and sounds of battle to the point of being desensitized to the gravities of war?