Lecture

Photographer Richard Renaldi, internationally exhibited and most recently acclaimed for his series Touching Strangers (monograph released by Aperture Foundation, spring 2014), will present and discuss his work. Visit www.renaldi.com to see more work.

 

About Richard Renaldi

Richard Renaldi received his BFA in photography from New York University in 1990. Exhibitions of his photographs have been mounted in galleries and museums throughout the United States, Asia, and Europe. In 2006 Renaldi's first monograph, Figure and Ground, was published by the Aperture Foundation. His second monograph, Fall River Boys, was released in 2009 by Charles Lane Press. Renaldi's most recent monograph Touching Strangers was released by the Aperture Foundation in the spring of 2014.

Brian Paul Clamp is the owner and director of ClampArt, a gallery in Chelsea in New York City specializing in modern and contemporary art with an emphasis on photography. ClampArt mounts ten to fifteen exhibitions per year featuring the work of emerging and mid-career artists. Mr. Clamp opened the gallery in 2000 after completing a Master of Arts degree in Critical Studies in Modern Art at Columbia University. For eight years prior to that Mr. Clamp served as the director of a gallery on Manhattan’s Upper East Side specializing in late 19th- and early 20th-century American paintings. Aside from exhibitions at his own gallery space, Clamp has curated numerous photography shows at various venues throughout the United States, and has reviewed photographers’ portfolios on dozens of panels over the past several years. Mr. Clamp is the author of numerous publications on American art to date, and also occasionally contributes written work to various art periodicals.

Douglas Nielsen is the collector behind the Center's current exhibition Performance: Contemporary Photography from the Douglas Nielsen Collection. A professor at the University of Arizona School of Dance, he has been collecting photography since the 1970s while simultaneously living an itinerate life-style as a performer, choreographer, and teacher of contemporary dance.

For the past two decades, Keith Carter and Kate Breakey have each created hauntingly poetic and evocative bodies of work from the stuff of the real world. In a conversation moderated by Chief Curator Joshua Chuang, both of these acclaimed photographers will discuss their current work, longstanding friendship, and ongoing belief in the medium of photography. This talk is part of The Etherton Gallery Distinguished Lecture Series, presented in conjunction with Without and Within: Keith Carter and Kate Breakey with Ed Musante opening at Etherton Gallery September 13, 2014.

Join Performance: Contemporary Photography from the Douglas Nielsen Collection artist Jo Ann Callis for a presentation of her work followed by a conversation with collector Doug Nielsen and CCP Chief Curator Joshua Chuang. For a preview of Callis's work visit joanncallis.com.

Immediately following the lecture, the CCP will host an opening reception in the gallery to celebrate Performance.

On Thursday May 1st artist Rosalind Fox Solomon will speak about how her life experience animates her work. Solomon will discuss sources of the internal, visual language that puts her in touch with her subjects. She will speak of about her personal history and why at age 38, she began her life as an artist and photographer, revealing what led her to examine relationships and ritual; survival and struggle. Throughout her lecture, Solomon will share images, beginning with her earliest pictures in the American South and ending with a preview of her recent photographs from Israel and the West Bank which will be exhibited in Prague in September. THEM, a book of Solomon’s photographs interspersed with fragmented texts, will be published by MACK in late May. Solomon’s images continue to be widely published and exhibited around the world.  In 2005, Solomon began to organize her extensive archive which came to the Center for Creative Photography in 2007. The Rosalind Solomon Archive contains a key set of over 1000 fine prints, unique books, and other art works, which together with Solomon’s original negatives, transparencies, personal papers, letters, business files, scrapbooks, video, audio tapes and other documentation chronicle her long and productive career. Selections from this archive are included in the exhibition The Process and The Page: Developing Photographic Books currently on view at the Doris and John Norton Gallery for the Center for Creative Photography at the Phoenix Art Museum (through August 17th, 2014). *Meet Solomon on Friday May 2nd during our Photo Friday

Co-sponsored by the CCP in collaboration with the School of Art and the Institute of the Environment: Antarctica and the Arctic are poignant markers of the impact of climate change in the 21st Century. While there is a growing awareness of the fragility of these environments, photography continues to project an image of heroic untouched wilderness that is often unwittingly informed by 19th and 20th century European literary narratives and visual conventions. Anne Noble is a photographer and curator whose work spans still and moving image, installation and international curatorial commissions. On Friday April 25th, Noble will discuss the development of her series of Antarctic photographic projects that critically engage with heroic age histories and narratives of land, place, and environment. Noble will also discuss her recent work that explores the relationship between people and bees, in which she collaborates with scientists to create projects that incorporate the perspectives of both art and science within an aesthetic framework.  In 2003 Noble was awarded the Order of Merit for services to photography in New Zealand.  In 2009 she was a recipient of the New Zealand Arts Foundation Laureate Award and was awarded the Massey University individual research medal.  Appointed Distinguished Professor of Fine Art at Massey University, Wellington in 2013, Noble is a PhD supervisor and mentors and supervises MFA students. 

In her first Center of Creative Photography artist talk since joining the Photography faculty at the School of Art (University of Arizona) in 2006, multi-media artist and Associate Professor Sama Alshaibi will discuss the major themes of her work. Her evolution as an artist concerned with the body’s complicated relationship to land through a compromised nationalistic lens has moved towards universal spaces of conflict. Connecting borders, bodies and site through allegorical devices and a variety of media (through video, installation, sculpture, photography and social media platforms), Alshaibi’s work suggests the repeated and recycled history of domination, power and control. Alshaibi’s talk will also reflect upon her significant career successes over the past year: her participation at the 55th Venice Biennial and FotoFest 2014 Biennial, the upcoming new work in the inaugural Honolulu Biennial, her soon to be published monograph with Aperture Foundation as well as being awarded University of Arizona’s 1885 Distinguished Scholar title and grant, her third major teaching award in her years at University of Arizona. 

In this presentation visual artist and writer Rebecca Najdowski will discuss how both the physical and conceptual terrains of the desert come to the surface in her artwork. This manifests in color analogue photograms, video, installation, and augmented reality interventions. In her practice she explores the potential of expanding photographic logic into other mediums through the creation of light installations and the engagement with materiality and limits of representation of photography and video. Najdowski uses the desert as a site to address notions of landscape, the sublime, phenomenology, perception, and the shifting territories of the intangible and the concrete. Currently, she is a Visiting Professor of Photography at the University of Arizona and the Artist Fellow at the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson. 

Thursday, March 27, 2014 at 5:30pm: Penelope Umbrico, Photography as Subject. A Conversation with Kate Palmer Albers

 

Tuesday, April 15, 2014 at 5:30pm: Rebecca Najdowski, Desert Pictures

 

Tuesday, April 22, 2014 at 5:30pm: Sama Alshaibi, Sand Rushes In - the desert, the border, the body in the work of Sama Alshaibi

 

Friday, April 25, 2015: Anne Noble, In Search of an Ecological Sublime   *This lecture is co-sponsored by the Center for Creative Photography in collaboration with the School of Art and the Institute of the Environment

 

Thursday, May 1, 2014 at 5:30pm: Rosalind Solomon, Jumping Off Place: How My Life Animates My Work

 

 

All artist talks are free, open to the public, and begin at 5:30pm in the Center for Creative Photography Auditorium

 

On Thursday, March 27th, Penelope Umbrico and UA art history professor Kate Palmer Albers will discuss the artist’s photo-based installations, video, and digital media works that explore the ever-changing technologies of image making, and the ever-increasing production and consumption of images on the Internet. Utilizing photo-sharing and consumer websites as an expansive archive, Umbrico navigates between producer and consumer, local and global, and the individual and the collective. Her works question the idea of the “democratization” of photography and media, where pre-scripted images, made with tools programmed to function in predetermined ways, undermine a claim to authorship, subjectivity and individuality. For Umbrico, all images within this emergent environment are evidence of something other than what they depict.