Women On the Edge: ALTERNATIVE PROCESSES IN NEW ENGLAND
Dates
Opening Reception: Friday, July 5th 2024, 5-8pm
Exhibition Dates: July 5th-Sept 1st 2024
Special Workshare Event
In conjunction with VCP’s exhibition Women on the Edge: Alternative Processes in New England, Lux et Libera will be holding its first in-person work-share event at the Vermont Center for Photography on Saturday, July 13th from 5 – 7pm. Open to female-identifying photographers working in historic and alternative processes, these work-shares are an opportunity to share what you’re working on, see what others are creating, and engage in robust conversations of all things alt-process! Please RSVP by emailing: info@luxetlibera.org
Exhibition Information
Women on the Edge: Alternative processes in New England is an exhibition curated by Dale Rio, founder of Lux et Libera: women at the intersection of light and chemistry, an initiative seeking to celebrate the leading role women play in film and historic process photography by creating new opportunities for them to create and share work. The exhibition will feature female-identifying artists based in New England who are utilizing film and alternative/historic processes to create experimental works that push the boundaries of conventional photography. It will provide examples of the groundbreaking work that’s being created in our corner of the country and inspire other women and girls to explore new modes of expression and visual storytelling.
Artists
Lindsey Beal (RI)
Megan Bent (CT)
Anne Eder (MA)
Jeannie Hutchins (ME)
Connie Lowell (NH)
Rachel Portesi (VT)
Dale Rio (CT)
Curator
Dale Rio is a photographic artist whose work explores issues such as mortality, human constructs, and man’s relationship with the natural world. Utilizing film and historic photographic processes, Dale employs “straight” photography to document the world around her and also creates conceptual work in response to that world. Her work has been shown extensively in the U.S., as well as in England, Germany, and New Zealand. Her images reside in private collections and have been reproduced in countless publications. She has authored one book and co-authored a second. Dale received a BA in Studio Art from Smith College in 1993 and an MFA in Photography from Pratt Institute in 1996. In 1997, she was awarded a Fulbright Travel Grant and the Miguel Vinciguerra Grant to document life in rural Sicily. Upon her return to the States, Dale embarked upon a varied photographic career that has included freelancing, serving as a master darkroom printer, teaching, curating, and editing. In 2018, Dale was the recipient of a Windgate Scholarship, which allowed her to study the Daguerreotype process at Penland School of Craft. She has attended residencies at Penland, the Studios at MASS MoCA, and the Farmington Valley Arts Center and will be in residence at Ars BioArctica in 2023. Dale has been involved with numerous photo and art centers across the country, and in 2015, she co-founded The Halide Project, a Philadelphia-based non-profit whose mission is the support of film and historic process photography. In 2021, she launched Point A to Point B: analog explorations, a print publication that features travel- and place-based film and historic process photography, and in 2022 she founded Lux et Libera: women at the intersection of light and chemistry, an initiative that seeks to recognize the leading role women play in alternative process photography.