EXHIBITION: Photography is Dead...
Photography is Dead... Long Live Photography!
GROUP EXHIBITION
January 8 - February 20, 2021
Opening: Friday, January 8th, from 11 - 5 pm
Candela Gallery is kicking off 2021 with a timely exhibition featuring works by 33 international and national artists.
Juried on the eve of our national election, amid a global pandemic and the groundswell for social justice and the renewed civil rights movement, this exhibition was conceived as a way to honor the role artists play during times of stress and upheaval. We find ourselves in an aesthetic interregnum, wrestling anew with familiar issues alongside unknown conceptual parameters. And so, the prevalent themes of the featured images range from isolation to uncertain intimacy, from surreal beauty to hyper-militant agitation, from abject introspection to political resistance. Throughout, though, there is a drumbeat of history and desire, as the collected works cohere to become a time capsule of shattered conventions and new possibilities.
We are in this together, alone, united, at odds, yet ready for evolution. Or, perhaps, revolution.
These are proofs. In-progress works. Projects in transition, thoughts battered by a gathering disturbance. Along with a few older works, imbued unexpectedly with new significance. As the chorus swells between acts. It seems an appropriate time to consider who we are and where we are heading.
Photography is Dead... Long live Photography will be on display in person and online at Candela Gallery, from January 8 - February 20, 2021. Featured works will also be included in a printed catalog published by Candela Books.
Featured Artists
Hannah Altman
Susan Burnstine
Adrienne Catanese
Bridget Conn
Debi Cornwall
Matthew David Crowther
Barbara Diener
Elizabeth Ellenwood
Dylan Everett
Cristina Fontsare
William Glaser Wilson
Justin Hamel
Muriel Hasbun
Paula Humberg
Kei Ito
Svetlana Jovanovic
Galina Kurlat
Jake Lahah
Nava Levenson
Sarah Malakoff
Colleen Mullins
Drew Nikonowicz
Aamina Palmer
Alina Patrick
Rachel Phillips
Tom Ridout
Susan Rosenberg Jones
Jeanne Schmitter & Le Massi
Elin O’Hara Slavick
Zachary P Stephens
Derrick Waller
Iris Wu
For more information please contact the gallery at 804.225.5527 or info@candelabooks.com