2022 Open Juried Exhibition
Exhibition Dates: September 2 – October 30, 2022
Opening Reception: Friday, September 2, 2022, 5 to 8pm
Installation Photos: Click Here to View Online Gallery
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VCP’s Juried Exhibition was born out of co-curatorial effort between Davida Carta and Joshua Farr. Being an open theme, there was no preconceived idea of what the exhibition would become; we guided what emerged from an initial collaborative reviewing process, ear-marking work that we had an emotional pull to and begged for additional viewing. But the process of curating VCP’s Juried Exhibition extended beyond the selection of photographic work.
We wanted to offer the audience a meaningful path for them to follow and an experience that would allow questions to arise – which often pertain to identity, gender and family history in relation to place. The creative process is always one of very personal meaning and we found ourselves struck by how many of the submitting artists’ work was based upon some idea pertaining to identity and their own exploration of their own sense of self.
Perhaps in viewing this exhibition viewer can begin to address some of these same subjects and questions for themselves.
EXHIBITING ARTISTS
Clare Benson – Tucson, AZ
Krystal Boney – Wake Forest, NC
Semaj Campbell – Avon, CT
Lisa Cassell-Arms – Shelburne, VT
Diana Cheren Nygren – Brookline, MA
Logan CW Kinney – Greenfield, MA
Yorgos Efthymiadis – Somerville, MA
Karen Spears – Rock Hill, SC
Yshao Lin – Bronx, NY
Jurors
Joshua Farr, VCP Executive Director & Curator
Davida Carta, VCP Operations Manager & Photographer
Joshua Farr is a photographer, curator, designer, printer, art-handler, and Director at the Vermont Center for Photography. Since 2011, Josh has been responsible for curating the center’s monthly photographic exhibitions as well as assisting with the organizing of photographic workshops, artists talks, publications/catalogues, & portfolio reviews. Joshua worked for the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center from 2012 to 2021 where he was a staff photographer and exhibitions installer/art-handler. Graduating in 2011, he received his BFA in Photography from the New Hampshire Institute of Art. Josh lives in Guilford, VT with his partner and two dogs. You can view his personal work online at joshuafarr.net.
Davida Carta, originally from Milan, Italy, moved to the United States to pursue her photographic education, and in 2018 she received her Masters of Fine Art in Photography from the New Hampshire Institute of Art. In 2016 she founded the online platform Underexposed Magazine, where she has been publishing and curating fine art photography work made by women and women identifying photographers ever since. In the past few years she also has been mentoring students, supporting them in creating and editing a body of work. She has lived between Vermont, Connecticut and Massachusetts, where she built a tiny house on wheels with her husband.
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Top banner image: Diana Cheren Nygren (detail)