Photo Narratives: The Latent Image,” Examines People, Places and Things
Exhibition Dates: October 5 – Nov. 6, 2006
Reception: Thursday October 5th, 3:30 – 5:30 p.m. in the Gallery
The Cazenovia College Art Gallery presents Photo Narratives: The Latent Image, which runs from Thursday, October 5 through Monday, Nov. 6. Artists represented are Gary Cawood, Neil Chowdhury, Kerry S. Coppin, Arthur Hand, Matthew Linton and Kathleen L. McLaughlin. The Artist Lecture Series and reception for this show is scheduled in the gallery on Thursday, Oct.19 from 4 to 6 p.m.
Gary Cawood received a master of fine arts degree from East Tennessee State University, and a bachelor of architecture degree from Auburn University. He is currently professor and photography area head at the University of Arkansas Little Rock.
Neil Chowdhury (http://www.neilchowdhury.com/) works in digital media and photography, and is an assistant professor teaching photography at Cazenovia College. His current body of work called Waking from Dreams of India, about the realization of his lifelong dream to travel and explore in his father’s native country. He is also working on the Mixed Blood Portraits Project http://www.mixedblood.org/. A recurrent theme in Chowdhury’s work is a visual investigation of the tension between the individual and society in various cultures. He taught at Zayed University in Dubai; at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Mich., and the University of Washington in Seattle. He is also an experienced commercial and industrial photographer. Chowdhury’s photographs, video installations and paintings have been exhibited in the United States, Brazil, Cuba and the United Arab Emirates. He received his master of fine arts in photography at the University of Washington in 2001.
Kerry Stuart Coppin, who teaches photography at Brown University, is an American artist of African descent whose work attempts to interpret and record his experience, in addition to participate in an ongoing debate on the fate and shape of the Black cultural experience. He presents provocative photographic interpretations that elaborate and celebrate positive aspects of Black community experience; while documenting contemporary American experience. Teaching at a rural campus of Kansas State University Coppin came to recognize and appreciate the rural Black experience and began to explore the experiences of people of African decent, isolated from their African ancestry, living in “exile” in the New World. In the course of his work, Coppin has traveled to Dakar, Senegal, Havana, Cuba, Cairo, Egypt. Of his work, he writes: “These photographs, exhibited alongside images of North American Black communities, construct a portrait of Black cultural life as we enter a new millennium (a hoped-for period of joy, serenity, prosperity, and justice . . .). Photographs are powerful instruments of cultural and economic change . . . Through photography I not only attempt to interpret and record my experience, but also to participate in an ongoing debate on the fate and shape of the Black cultural experience.”
Arthur Hand is the head of the photography program at McHenry County College in Crystal Lake, Ill. He has traveled to Japan, England, Ireland, Italy, France and Israel, and has spent extended periods of time in Belize and Mexico. In 1982 Hand and his wife, artist Janette Maley, did hospice care for his mother, one of six family members who died of cancer. Hand’s photography is part of a collaborative project with Maley, titled “Journey Toward Healing,” documenting Maley’s own experience with breast cancer. “Journey Toward Healing” has been exhibited at the International Museum of Surgical Science, the Indiana University Fine Art Gallery, Virginia Intermont College, the Dekalb Women’s Center, and the University of Wisconsin, Fox Valley. Photographs from the project are now part of the Midwest Photographers Project, in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, Chicago. Hand received a bachelor of arts degree in humanities from Thomas A. Edison State College in Trenton, N.J., and a master of fine arts degree in photography from Indiana University.
Matthew Linton (http://www.lintonarts.com/ and http://www.artbiker.com/) is an associate professor of fine arts at the University of Houston, Clear Lake. He wrote, “Teaching provides a prime creative and academic atmosphere to continue my own intellectual pursuits while facilitating, and being facilitated by the students.” His most recent project is Roadside America, which includes photographs of roadside attractions and other juxtapositions of man vs. nature, in nostalgic and romantic, yet sometimes biting, views of the American Landscape. He lives in Houston, Texas with his wife and family. He received a bachelor of fine arts degree in photography from Arizona State University. He attended Tufts University, and received his master of fine arts in visual and critical studies from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
The work of Kathleen Laraia McLaughlin (http://www.klmphoto.com/) documents peasant life northern Transylvania, seeking to convey an old way of life to the eyes of a modern audience. Through a Fulbright Senior Scholarship she was able to continue this work in Romania, focusing on the rapid changes caused by modernization in a previously isolated country. She writes, “In our modern world, we often feel we have “lost” something important, something precious. Though they do not know it now, these [Transylvanian] peasants are losing their customs in the same way our forebears lost theirs. In Romania, I concentrated on the hodgepodge of change. Everywhere people are caught between a very old world and a very new one: college students have illiterate parents, villagers without running water have cell phones . . .” McLaughlin received a master of fine arts degree in photography from Virginia Commonwealth University.