Light Work Fall 2014 Exhibitions Reception
Join Light Work on Thursday, September 25, 2014 from 5-7pm for a reception celebrating their Fall 2014 Exhibitions: Revive, featuring the work of Alison Rossiter, and the 2014 Light Work Grants in Photography, featuring the work of Trevor Clement, Sebastian Collett, Dan Wetmore. Alison Rossiter will deliver a gallery talk at 6pm. The reception and gallery talk will take place at Light Work, located at 316 Waverly Avenue in Syracuse, NY. Refreshments will be served. Alison Rossiter: Revive August 18 – October 22, 2014 Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery Gallery Talk: Thursday, September 25, 6pm Reception: Thursday, September 25, 5-7pm In 2007, Alison Rossiter purchased a battered box of silver gelatin print paper stamped with an expiration date of May 1, 1946. Hoping to use the paper to make photograms, she headed into the darkroom to make a test print. She describes what emerged on the paper as she moved it through the developer, stop, and fix as a beautiful graphite drawing. Alison Rossiter uses camera-less photographic processes and expired paper to make abstract images relying on chance. The images are often aesthetically and conceptually in opposition to the exacting science of photography. Fingerprints, off-gassing, light leeks, and mold serve as indexical evidence of the action of time. She points out, “I don’t develop these prints. Time does.” In the darkroom she is dipping, pouring, and processing her collection of expired papers. Like the Abstract Expressionist painters she is often compared to, her process involves experimentation and a dialogue with simple raw materials. Alison Rossiter’s photographs are in the collections of major public institutions including: the Art Institute of Chicago; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Minneapolis Institute of Arts; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Milwaukee Art Museum; the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson; and the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Ms. Rossiter was born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1953 and currently lives and works in the New York metropolitan area. 2014 Light Work Grants in Photography: Trevor Clement, Sebastian Collett, Dan Wetmore August 18 – December 17, 2014 at Light Work Hallway Gallery Reception:Thursday, September 25, 5-7pm Light Work is pleased to announce the 40th annual Light Work Grants exhibition, featuring the work of the 2014 Light Work Grant recipients: Trevor Clement, Sebastian Collett and Dan Wetmore. The Light Work Grants in Photography program is a part of Light Work’s ongoing effort to provide support and encouragement to artists working in photography. Established in 1975, it is one of the longest-running photography fellowship programs in the country. Each recipient receives a $2,000 award, has their work exhibited at Light Work and published in Contact Sheet: The Light Work Annual. The judges for this year were Natasha Egan (executive director, Museum of Contemporary Photography), Taj Forer (co-founder, Daylight Books), and Paul Moakley (deputy photo editor, TIME). Trevor Clement is a Syracuse, N.Y.-based visual artist, musician and performance artist. His photographic and visual art has been shown at Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, the Spark Art Gallery in Syracuse and at the NoFound Photo Fair in Paris. Recent efforts have been focused on producing ‘zines and artist books, musical endeavors and the administrative maintenance of BADLANDS, an all-ages, DIY art and music space in Syracuse. Over the past seven years, Clement has performed in various hardcore-punk/noise groups across the greater eastern half of the country. The do-it-yourself ethic, the antisocial, violent and anti-capitalist character of noise and hardcore-punk music all play a major role in Clement’s thinking about visual art. Sebastian Collett is a photographer working in the U.S. and Berlin. He studied with Stephen Shore and Larry Fink at Bard College, and earned his M.F.A. from the Hartford Art School. His work has been exhibited at 25CPW Gallery in New York, Kominek Gallery in Berlin and is in the permanent collection of the Philadelphia Art Museum. He was recently awarded residencies at the Hambidge Center and the Vermont Studio Center. His work has been featured in Fraction Magazine and Vice Magazine and is included in Mossless Magazine’s survey of documentary photography, “The United States, 2003-2013.” Dan Wetmore is a photographer operating between Pittsburgh and Syracuse. He received his B.F.A. from Syracuse University in 2013, and now works at a food cooperative to fund his photography practice. He has long brown hair and drives a Buick station wagon. Gallery hours for these exhibitions are Sunday-Friday, 10 am- 6 pm (except school holidays), and by appointment. To schedule an appointment, please call 315-443-1300. Both the exhibition and reception are free and open to the public. Paid parking is available in Booth Parking Garage. Light Work invites groups and individuals to schedule tours and gallery talks of the exhibition and facility. Light Work is a nonprofit, artist-run organization dedicated to the support of artists working in photography and electronic media.Light Work thanks Syracuse University, Robert B. Menschel and Vital Projects, The New York State Council on the Arts, The National Endowment for the Arts, CNY Arts, and the subscribers of Contact Sheetfor their dedicated and ongoing support of our programs. Light Work is a member of CMAC, the Coalition of Museum and Art Centers at Syracuse University.
