March 8 - 30, 2024
From Throughline Collective:
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Throughline will open its first juried exhibition, “MAPPING PERSPECTIVES”, on Friday, March 8 at 3909 Main Street, Houston, TX 77002, held in conjunction with the biennial photography festival FOTOFEST HOUSTON. An opening reception will take place the same evening, from 6 to 9pm; a special celebration for the juror is planned for the following Friday, March 15, from 6-9pm. Juried by Samantha Johnston, Executive Director & Curator of the Colorado Photographic Arts Center (CPAC), in Denver, Colorado, the exhibition features a broad range of lens-based work by artists from across the United States.
The theme of this year’s FotoFest is “Critical Geography”, which seeks to re-examine traditional Western and historical understandings of geography while expanding these investigations to new realms. In the spirit of this theme, Mapping Perspectives explores power structures, inequalities, and dominant ideologies within and across marked boundaries. Given we live in a world where influence comes from more than geographical coordinates, Mapping Perspectives examines how photographs capture ways in which culture, society, economics, politics, and religion shape our environments.
Participating Artists: Tya Anthony, Barron Bixler, Christa Blackwood, Leah Dyjak, Jesse Egner, Farima Fooladi, Dana Fritz, Gabriela Gamboa, Edward Gia, Vidya Giri, Megan Jacobs, Sam Jentsch, Bree Lamb / Muscle Memory Collective, Morgan Levy, Diane Meyer, Nancy Newberry, Caroline Philippone, Vann Powell, Jared Ragland, Laurie Smith, Chang-Ching Su, Kathleen Tunnell Handel, Johanna Warwick
Juror’s Statement:
I was struck by the materiality of many of the photographs, which were manipulated by hand and digitally. For example, Diane Meyer’s image Gedenkstatte utilizes embroidery to resemble pixels to represent the location of the former Berlin Wall. Caroline Philippone’s image Jose, Age 16 includes her subjects’ handwriting to share what America means to them as young teenage immigrants. Tya Anthony’s image Real Estate Jenga 4, shows Baltimore row homes set to be demolished that Anthony alters through digital manipulation. These approaches seem fitting in the context of an exhibition about boundaries, as they challenge our very definition of a photograph.
Boundaries extend far beyond lines on a map. They encompass power structures, inequalities, and dominant ideologies that mold our lived environments and influence our daily interactions. As you navigate this exhibition, I invite you to consider how boundaries shape your own lived experience. What measured boundaries are deconstructed when we seek to find the forces that connect us?
Samantha Johnston
Executive Director & Curator
Colorado Photographic Arts Center
Exhibition Dates: March 8th – March 30th, 2024
Opening Reception: Friday, March 8th, 6-9pm
Juror’s Reception: Friday, March 15th, 6-9pm
Gallery Hours: Fridays & Saturdays, 12-6pm
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Reception: March 8, 2024 | 6–9 pm
Reception: March 15, 2024 | 6–9 pm
Jurors Reception
3909 Main Street
Houston, 77004 Texas
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