What Photography Is
Curated by Kyra Schmidt
Eleanor D. Wilson Museum at Hollins University
January 27 - April 24, 2022
A group exhibition featuring ten artists that explore diverse contemporary motifs through the medium of photography.
Artists included: Julia Wilson, Nicki Klepper, Klea McKenna, Em White, Emily Margarit Mason, Emily Sheffer, Sama Alshaibi, Amy Elkins, Mary Zompetti, and Meghann Reipenhoff.
Guest curator and art photographer Kyra Schmidt envisions photography as a medium that can uncover truths. In her catalogue essay, Schmidt writes, “... the 10 artists in this exhibition open us up to truths that are personal, historical, and collective by looking at both analog and digital mediums in new and exciting ways. From cyanotype and gumoil portraiture to photographic reliefs and re-photographed collages, each artist has employed their material to consider how a photographic object can transform critical consciousness. By utilizing the power of photographic experience, these artists confront issues surrounding race and gender ideologies, ecological grief, and the passage of time.”
View the curator’s lecture on YouTube.
