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5/5/2011

Four Exhibitions

Houston Center for Photography, Houston

Teenagers: Portraits of Identity and Expression

Teenagers: Portraits of Identity and Expression presents the work of five contemporary photographers - Natan Dvir, Martine Fougeron, Alison Malone, Rania Matar, and Nancy Newberry. Each of these photographers create portraits of teenagers yet each selects a different angle to explore similar themes. Dvir and Matar go into the personal spaces of teens to create environmental portraits that present the person and their surroundings in a straight manner, bringing attention to the belongings that represent the identity and expression of the individual. Newberry and Malone both enter subcultures to create portraits of teens as they partake in distinct traditions yet convey concepts and emotions common to groups beyond that which they partake. Fougeron has a unique perspective as the mother of two teens. These photographs take a narrative approach and depict the time and sequence of teens. All of these portraits are intimate yet universal as the subject confronts the camera and viewer.

Natan Dvir photographs the human aspects of political, social and humanitarian issues through teenagers of Arab descent living in Israel.His series, Eighteen, is an artistic point of contact serving as an invitation to get closer. A project aimed at reconciliation through understanding and respect. An inside view by one who is typically regarded as an outsider.

Martine Fougeron's series, Tête-á-Tête, began in 2005 and features the lives and adventures of her two adolescent sons and their friends. These intimate portraits captures the adolescents in the transition between childhood and adulthood. Many of the portraits are taken in their environments--the couch, bed, hiking trail, a party. Photographed over several years, the series records her sons through boyish moments, after-prom parties, and high school graduation.

Based in New York, Alison Malone's photography focuses on the relationship between people and how they exist in the world. While photographing the disparities among people, her work often illustrates the common nuances that connect us all. Her series, Daughters of Job, features a secret society of daughters and granddaughters of Freemasons. These young ladies are at the age of self-discovery and trying to establish their own identities while participating in a strongly patriarchal organization.

Rania Matar was born and raised in Lebanon and currently teaches photography at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. During her summers, she teaches photography to young girls in Lebanon's refugee camps. Her series, A Girl in Her Room, features young women on the cusp of adult-hood in the private world of their bedroom - a place of escape, of refuge, of identity.

Nancy Newberry, a native Texan, began her series on the Homecoming ritual of gifting elaborately decorated mums to friends and significant others. The decorations signify interests, organization involvement, and social status. Her series, MUM, also tries to illustrate the importance of rituals as vehicles of communication and reflects upon the interplay between individuality and social affiliation.

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Kendrick Brinson's Sun City: Life After Life

2011 JURIED FELLOWSHIP EXHIBITION

HCP Fellowship Recipient Kendrick Brinson

Houston Center for Photography is proud to announce an exhibition of Kendrick Brinson's Sun City: Life After Life. Brinson is the 2011 HCP Fellowship recipient. The exhibition will be on view at HCP in Gallery X from May 6 - June 19, 2011 with an artist talk and conversation with Juror Jeffrey Teuton of Jen Bekman Projects (New York, NY), at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, May 6, preceding the opening reception.

Sun City: Life After Life is Brinson's exploration of the lives of the 40,000 residents in Sun City, Arizona - the first planned retirement community in the United States and the largest. Sun City provides seniors with a life after work and a life after raising children - it is a life of enjoying friends and being active, in spite of age.

Juror Jeffrey Teuton of Jen Bekman Projects (New York, NY) says of Brinson's project:

“As her project unfolds, the viewer is guided through the overlapping cycles of life and experiences that encompass the community. Weaving through the myriad of unique lives and experiences at Sun City, Kendrick brings the viewer into an intimate connection with her subjects. Picture to picture each image resonates with the viewer, leaving you to feel the full scope of emotions that parallel the up-and-down experiences of life... Blending the humorous with the mundane, going between unique moments of celebration and more quiet and reflective images, she is able to capture the full trajectory of the lives, experiences and landscapes that make up the community. It is this commitment that makes the work so successful. You are at once amused, touched, enchanted, and reflective in a way that is rare to feel from one body of work.”

Brinson is a founding member of LUCEO Images, a cooperative of photographers producing work for the editorial and commercial fields. Brinson lives in Atlanta, GA.

HCP's annual photography Fellowship Program provides two recipients with a $2,000 monetary award to continue their photographic work and a solo exhibition at HCP. An independent jury of photography specialists award the fellowships to emerging artists using photography or related media to complete work-in-progress. One fellowship is a general HCP fellowship, awarded to an nationally or internationally based artist and the other is the Carol Crow Memorial Fellowship, awarded to a Houston-based artist.

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2011 JURIED FELLOWSHIP EXHIBTION

Carol Crow Memorial Fellowship Recipient Bryan Schutmaat

Houston Center for Photography is proud to announce an exhibition of Bryan Schutmaat's Grays the Mountain Sends. Schutmaat is the 2011 Carol Crow Memorial Fellowship Recipient. The exhibition will be on view at HCP in Gallery Y from May 6 - June 19, 2011 with an artist talk and conversation with Juror Jeffrey Teuton of Jen Bekman Projects (New York, NY), at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, May 6, preceding the opening reception.

Juror Jeffrey Teuton of Jen Bekman Projects (New York, NY) says of Schutmaat's project:

Moving through portraits and landscapes, Bryan captures the mixture of experiences and stories of the land and people he documents, all blending seemlessly with an incredible life and vibrancy which, in others' hands, could be mundane and quiet. It is impossible to look away.

HCP's annual photography Fellowship Program provides two recipients with a $2,000 monetary award to continue their photographic work and a solo exhibition at HCP. An independent jury of photography specialists award the fellowships to emerging artists using photography or related media to complete work-in-progress. One fellowship is a general HCP fellowship, awarded to an nationally or internationally based artist and the other is the Carol Crow Memorial Fellowship, awarded to a Houston-based artist.

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Collaborations VIII: Pick your Battles
May 6 - June 19, 2011

In its eighth year, HCP’s Learning Center Gallery will showcase work by sixteen participants in the Collaborations VIII program. During the six-month program, students from nine Houston-area high schools met every other week at HCP to develop the concept of the exhibition while sharing their personal experiences and their photographic eye. This year's participants met with artists and photographers Scott Dalton, Lorna Bieber, Peter Brown, Heather Sanchez, and Shelley Calton, who guided them throughout the process of developing their exhibition. Reflecting the participants' confrontations with issues such as stereotypes, self-image, career decisions and relationships, Pick your Battles is an exhibition that focuses on the challenges these artists face during their teenage years.

HCP brings together Houston-area high school students to collectively execute an exhibition of their own work. Now in its eighth year, Collaborations has grown exponentially since it began in 2003 when HCP challenged the photography teachers from two radically different schools to unite and collaborate through the medium of photography. From conception to presentation, the students are involved in every step of planning and executing their exhibition. The Collaborations participants meet bimonthly with an HCP educator and a visiting artist, photographer, or museum professional, to select a theme, critique their work, and to discuss their plans in implementing their final projects.

Collaborations VIII exhibition will be on view HCP’s Learning Center Gallery from May 6 - June 19, 2011.

Collaborations VIII participants are Justin Calvert, Marshall Cargle, Lissette Carranza, Emilee Cooney, Marissa Garcia, Bryna Hoang, Josselin Joya, Bianca Kaushal, Alex Liso, Elyse Lopez, David Copeland Loredo, Junny Ma, Garrett Marsh, Erica Reed, Emily Spence, and Alice Wang.

This year’s participating schools include:
Bellaire High School, HISD public school
The Chinquapin School, private school for inner city youth
Cy-Fair High School, CFISD public school
Episcopal High School, private school
High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, HISD magnet school
The Kinkaid School, private school
KIPP Houston High School, alternative-learning private school
Lamar High School, HISD public school
St. John's School, private school

Imagine:
Kendrick Brinson
The Belles and Beaus
From the series Sun City: Life After Life
2010
Archival inkjet print
16x24 inches

The Opening Reception will be Friday, May 6, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. with Artist Talks with the two fellowship recipients beginning at 5:30p.m. and the Artist Talks with the Teenagers Exhibition participating artists beginning at 6:00 p.m.

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