Curators Choice Award • © Deborah Saul |
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Honorable Mention • © Donna Dangott |
Honorable Mention • © Dominic Lippillo |
Honorable Mention • © Ann Prochilo |
Honorable Mention • © Anne Walker |
© Geoffrey Agrons |
© Elizabeth Bailey |
© Laura Barth |
© Rod Bland |
© Lynne Breitfeller |
© Gloria DeFilipps Brush |
© Cheryl Clegg |
© Count Constantin |
© Viviana Delidaki |
© Bruce Flye |
© Matt Frantz |
© C.S. GREIG |
© Lara Gilks |
© Perry Hambright |
© Dave Hanson |
© Camille Harvell |
© Mane Hovhannisyan |
© Hugh Jones |
© Elizabeth Kayl |
© Lawrence Manning |
© Charlotte Michaux |
© Dale Niles |
© Ekaterina Pavlova |
© Lawrence Russ |
© Wright Schickli |
© Christopher Schneberger |
© Rebecca Skinner |
© Leanne ❤️ Trivett |
© Jim Turner |
© Suzanne Theodora White |
International Juried Photography Exhibition
Guest Curator: Emma Powell
NARRATIVES ~
FIGMENTS & FRAGMENTS
Opening Night Reception: Saturday Jan 15th 6-8pm
Exhibition Dates: Jan 15th - 29th, 2022
Guest Curator | Emma Powell
The photograph’s power as a narrative tool is derived from the impression that what is captured within the frame is an accurate representation of what actually occurred at a specific moment in time. As complete or comprehensive as any narrative may appear to be, it will always be subject to a process of including some elements and excluding others. These inclusions and exclusion are a crucial part of what photographic storytelling is all about - What is being presented within the frame to the viewer – and what is being left out or left to the viewer’s imagination.
Praxis Gallery presents photographic works that explore the development of visual narratives through the still image. Stories may take any shape or form; they may be literal or fantasy, documentary or fiction; complex or minimal.
Curators Choice Award • © Deborah Saul |
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Honorable Mention • © Donna Dangott |
Honorable Mention • © Dominic Lippillo |
Honorable Mention • © Ann Prochilo |
Honorable Mention • © Anne Walker |
© Geoffrey Agrons |
© Elizabeth Bailey |
© Laura Barth |
© Rod Bland |
© Lynne Breitfeller |
© Gloria DeFilipps Brush |
© Cheryl Clegg |
© Count Constantin |
© Viviana Delidaki |
© Bruce Flye |
© Matt Frantz |
© C.S. GREIG |
© Lara Gilks |
© Perry Hambright |
© Dave Hanson |
© Camille Harvell |
© Mane Hovhannisyan |
© Hugh Jones |
© Elizabeth Kayl |
© Lawrence Manning |
© Charlotte Michaux |
© Dale Niles |
© Ekaterina Pavlova |
© Lawrence Russ |
© Wright Schickli |
© Christopher Schneberger |
© Rebecca Skinner |
© Leanne ❤️ Trivett |
© Jim Turner |
© Suzanne Theodora White |
International Juried Photography Exhibition
Guest Curator: Emma Powell
NARRATIVES ~
FIGMENTS & FRAGMENTS
Opening Night Reception: Saturday Jan 15th 6-8pm
Exhibition Dates: Jan 15th - 29th, 2022
Guest Curator | Emma Powell
The photograph’s power as a narrative tool is derived from the impression that what is captured within the frame is an accurate representation of what actually occurred at a specific moment in time. As complete or comprehensive as any narrative may appear to be, it will always be subject to a process of including some elements and excluding others. These inclusions and exclusion are a crucial part of what photographic storytelling is all about - What is being presented within the frame to the viewer – and what is being left out or left to the viewer’s imagination.
Praxis Gallery presents photographic works that explore the development of visual narratives through the still image. Stories may take any shape or form; they may be literal or fantasy, documentary or fiction; complex or minimal.
Curators Choice Award • © Deborah Saul |
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Honorable Mention • © Donna Dangott |
Honorable Mention • © Dominic Lippillo |
Honorable Mention • © Ann Prochilo |
Honorable Mention • © Anne Walker |
© Geoffrey Agrons |
© Elizabeth Bailey |
© Laura Barth |
© Rod Bland |
© Lynne Breitfeller |
© Gloria DeFilipps Brush |
© Cheryl Clegg |
© Count Constantin |
© Viviana Delidaki |
© Bruce Flye |
© Matt Frantz |
© C.S. GREIG |
© Lara Gilks |
© Perry Hambright |
© Dave Hanson |
© Camille Harvell |
© Mane Hovhannisyan |
© Hugh Jones |
© Elizabeth Kayl |
© Lawrence Manning |
© Charlotte Michaux |
© Dale Niles |
© Ekaterina Pavlova |
© Lawrence Russ |
© Wright Schickli |
© Christopher Schneberger |
© Rebecca Skinner |
© Leanne ❤️ Trivett |
© Jim Turner |
© Suzanne Theodora White |
International Juried Photography Exhibition
Guest Curator: Emma Powell
NARRATIVES ~
FIGMENTS & FRAGMENTS
Opening Night Reception: Saturday Jan 15th 6-8pm
Exhibition Dates: Jan 15th - 29th, 2022
Guest Curator | Emma Powell
The photograph’s power as a narrative tool is derived from the impression that what is captured within the frame is an accurate representation of what actually occurred at a specific moment in time. As complete or comprehensive as any narrative may appear to be, it will always be subject to a process of including some elements and excluding others. These inclusions and exclusion are a crucial part of what photographic storytelling is all about - What is being presented within the frame to the viewer – and what is being left out or left to the viewer’s imagination.
Praxis Gallery presents photographic works that explore the development of visual narratives through the still image. Stories may take any shape or form; they may be literal or fantasy, documentary or fiction; complex or minimal.
PHOTO ARTS CENTER
International Juried Photography Exhibition
THE STILL LIFE
Opening Night Reception: Oct 19, 6 - 8PM
Exhibition Dates: Oct. 19 - Nov. 9, 2024
Still life photography, more so than other types of photography, such as landscape or portraiture, gives the photographer extensive leeway and precise control in the arrangement of design elements within a composition. Still life photography is a demanding genre, one in which the photographers are expected to be able to form their work with a refined sense of lighting, coupled with composition and design skills. The still life photographer makes pictures rather than takes them.
Praxis Gallery presents photographic art that investigates the genre of the Still Life. Submissions may explore classical to conceptual aspects of the still life, photographing object arrangements that intrigue, engage or entertain the viewer. Juror: G.S. Broz
International Juried Photography Exhibition
NOCTURNES:
DUSK TILL DAWN
Entry deadline: Oct. 19, 6 - 8PM
Exhibition dates: Oct. 19 – Nov 9, 2024
“Night does not show things, it suggests them. It disturbs and surprises us with its strangeness. It liberates forces within us which are dominated by our reason during the daytime.” ―Brassai
Spanning two centuries, the magic of night photography has captured the collective imagination of the masses. From the infamously long exposures required by early artists to high-speed color film and the advent of digital technology, the light at night has inspired an explosion of interest among contemporary artists. Natural vistas, celestial bodies, urban landscapes, artificial structures, and nocturnal interludes represent but a few of the limitless subjects of nighttime photography.
Praxis Gallery presents photographic art that explore the fundamental qualities that make night photography – from dusk till dawn – a compelling contemporary art form. Curated by Praxis Directors
International Juried Photography Exhibition
THE STREETS
Opening Reception: Sat. Sept. 21, 6–8PM CST
Exhibition Dates: Sept. 21 - Oct. 12, 2024
"Street Photography became recognized as a genre in its own right during the early 1930s. Street Photography is unique in the way it is associated with the photographer's skill in capturing something of the mystery and aura of everyday city living. The Street Photographer is then often likened to the historical figure of the flâneur: namely someone who mingles anonymously amongst the crowd observing and recording the ways the unsuspecting city dweller interacts with his or her environment."
Praxis Gallery presents photographic art that explores the genre of street photography from all angles, including people, urban structure, and documentary subject matter. Juried by: Valérie Jardin.
International Juried Photography Exhibition
NUDE
GEOGRAPHIES
Opening Night: Sept. 21, 4 - 6PM
Exhibition Dates: Sept. 21 - Oct 12, 2024
The nude form has been portrayed in art throughout history, from the classical era to the enlightenment and the modern era. The nude figure in western art–specifically in photography–has expressed ideals of female and male beauty along with other human qualities including life, energy, and an array of complicated human emotions.
Praxis Gallery presents photographic works that explore the nude in any of its varied styles including figure studies, environmental nudes and implied nudes–just to name a few of the many iterations of this genre. Curated by Praxis Directors
International Juried Photography Exhibition
THE SHADOW ASPECT
Opening Reception: Sat. Aug 17, 6-8PM
Exhibition dates: Aug. 17 – Sept. 14, 2024
‘Most people think that shadows follow, precede, surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses, and memories.’ - Elie Wiesel.
Praxis Gallery presents photographic art that explores the formal, conceptual, and metaphoric implications of the shadow. Some photographs focus on the shadow as pure visual form expressed through the creation of line, shape, pattern, and texture, while others may examine the cultural and psychological implications of the shadow - exploring ideas of foreboding, internal conflict, passages into the unconsciousness, or other ephemeral interpretations. Juried by: Elizabeth Flinsch
International Juried Photography Exhibition
MOTION > BLUR
Opening Night Reception: Aug. 17, 6 - 8PM
Exhibition dates: Aug 17 - Sept 14 , 2024
In most cases, photography is used to “freeze time,” with a still image. Motion in photography creates a paradox: the image is a frozen moment in time but what is captured is an object that is a blur of motion – an apparent streaking, bending, distorting and /or movement of light and objects in the foreground or background of the image frame. Blur can demonstrate the velocity of movement. It can convey the emotional dimensions of the subject photographed, presenting dream like qualities by invoking the surreal and transitory nature of time passing. Meteors streak across the sky, ghostly figures move through a room, the artist paints shapes with a light source. These are some examples of how blur represents motion in time-lapse photography.
International Juried Photography Exhibition
THE FOUND OBJECT
Opening Reception: Sat. July 20, 6-8PM
Exhibition dates: July 20 – Aug. 10, 2024
A "found object" is a material artifact discovered by chance and assigned esthetic value in an artist’s hand. Found art may include a wide array of objects and items either discarded, forgotten, dropped, or misplaced – such as shoes, a fork, shopping carts, signs, doll heads, abandoned cars, clocks, mementos, or any object that can be reimagined through the lens of a camera.
Praxis Gallery presents photographic art that investigates this idiom: exploring the subject of the “found object” as pure visual form, detached from its history or utility, or conversely, the representation of the object as a catalyst for exploring broader issues such as subjectivity and socialization, memory and loss, or love and death. All genres, capture types, an post-production processes are welcome for submission. Juried by Jonathan Pavlica.
© Joan Tortorici Ruppert
International Juried Photography Exhibition
WATER ~ SKY
Opening Reception: June 20, 2024. 6 - 8PM
Exhibition dates: July 20 - Aug. 10, 2024
Water, sky, and the liminal space between them are, by definition, poetic and symbolic. There exist infinite iterations of the qualities of water and sky: water may be fluid, frozen, rippling, reflective, tranquil, turbulent, crystal-clear, submerged, or flowing. The sky may be celestial, atmospheric, airy, cloud-covered, ethereal, canopied, or infinite. The colors of water and sky span the spectrum from warm to cool; reflective silver, dark indigo, cerulean, cyan, azure, to crimson and blazing gold. Black & white photography features the fundamental nature of water and sky by emphasizing their form, texture, and contrast while stripping away the elements of color.
From ice to ether, oceans to puddles, starry nights to clouds reflected in glass—Praxis Gallery presents photographic artwork that explores the ideas of water and sky in their myriad forms.
© Joan Tortorici Ruppert
International Juried Photography Exhibition
THE PORTRAIT
Opening Reception | Sat. June 15, 6 - 8PM
Exhibition Dates: June 15 - July 13, 2024
"Making portraits is more than a physical form, it’s a silent communication in understanding and respect between the photographer and the subject. There’s an internal emotion and fire of the soul that you try to capture." – Sandra
In her book, Portraits and Persons, writer Cynthia Freeland describes three essential elements that constitute a portrait: “(1) a recognizable physical body (2) an inner life, i.e., some sort of psychological or mental states and (3) self-presentation, or the "posing.”
Praxis Gallery presents photographs that celebrate the aesthetic and conceptual considerations involved in the creation of the portrait: revealing personal narratives or new anthologies through the artistic representation of the subject. Juried by Layne Kennedy
International Juried Photography Exhibition
ANIMAL LIFE
Notification: May 24, 2024. 4PM CST
Exhibition dates: June 15 - July 13, 2024
"Animal Life' is a call for photographic work that celebrates the complex and multifaceted nature of animals, emphasizing kindness and compassion in representing our furry, feathery, and scaly friends. Showcasing companion animals, farm animals, wild animals, sea life, insects, and birds, this project encompasses various genres such as Animal Portraits, Ethical Wildlife Photography, Artistic Interpretations, Underwater Photography, Macro Photography, Conservation Photography, and Bird Photography – just to name a few examples.
Praxis Gallery presents photographic art that captures kind and empathetic portraits of a wide range of animals, from domestic pets and farm animals to a diverse array of wildlife species found across different ecosystems.
International Juried Photography Exhibition
The Shape of Things
Opening Reception | Sat. May 18, 6–8PM
Exhibition Dates | May 18 – June 8, 2024
The rhythm of surfaces, lines, and values is for me the essence of photography; composition should be a constant of preoccupation... an organic coordination of visual elements. – Henri Cartier-Bresson
The term composition means ‘putting together’ or the act of combining parts or elements to form a whole - often adhering to compositional principles that make a work of photographic art more appealing or intriguing to viewers. These principles include the development of rhythm, movement, contrast, balance, unity, proximity, and continuity to create expressive and compelling compositions – while emphasizing different visual concepts.
© Veronica Romanenghi • Directors' Choice |
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© Karen Crouse • Honorable Mention |
© Teresa Lewis • Honorable Mention |
© Maria Oliveira • Honorable Mention |
© Robindeep Singh • Honorable Mention |
© Charter Weeks • Honorable Mention |
© Madeleine Wories |
© Allan Weitz |
© Charter Weeks |
© Alan Shefland |
© Linda Sbath |
© Larissa Patel |
© David Moore |
© Elle Moss |
© Ken Lorenz |
© Teresa Lewis |
© John Laue |
© Pekka Innanen |
© Nanci Hellmuth |
© Elizabeth Kayl |
© Nanci Hellmuth |
© Donna Dangott |
© Rachel Hall |
© Kylo-Patrick Hart |
© Jamie Hardges |
© Mercedes Grassi King |
© Rytis Gervickas |
© Eugene Ellenberg |
© Teresa Camozzi |
© Karen Crouse |
© Irene Clouthier |
© Monika Chabicovsky |
© Teresa Camozzi |
© Susan Borowitz |
© Susan Borowitz |
© Gwendolyn Cameron |
© Ethan Brossard |
© Steve Anderson |
International Juried Photography Exhibition
THE BEAUTY IN MADNESS
Opening Night Reception: Sat, May 18. 6-8pm
Exhibition Dates: May 18 - June 8, 2024
Curators | Praxis Directors
Madness (mental illness) is something that frightens and fascinates us all. It is a word with which we are universally familiar yet haunts the human imagination. Through centuries, in poetry, prose, drama, and the visual arts, “madness" has been on display for all to see.
With devastating effect, mental illness can disturb our commonsense assumptions; create unbearable disruptions in the routine of daily living; and turn our experience and our expectations upside down. And yet, it is this upside-down world view that opens a universe of unique and inventive perspectives oblivious to those free from disruptions of the mind.
Praxis Gallery presents photographic art that explores ideas linked to mental health, be it conflict or humor, fiction or fact, or any other literal or ephemeral lens-based investigation. We welcome photographic art that questions conventional assumptions about mental health or celebrates the unique perspective only visible to those who can see the "beauty in madness”.
Juror's Choice © Jeff Schewe |
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Directors' Choice © Adam Bernard |
Honorable Mention © Miriam Schulman |
Honorable Mention © Margaret Grosspietsch |
Honorable Mention © G.S. Broz |
Honorable Mention © Larry French |
Honorable Mention © Madeleine Wories |
Honorable Mention © Glenn Sines |
Honorable Mention © Vicki Reed |
Honorable Mention © Cheryl Scadlock |
© Douglas Johnson |
© Charter Weeks |
© Ron Testa |
© Peter Tilgner |
© Alan Strassman |
© Teresa Sposito |
© Denis Sivack |
© Alan Shefland |
© Alan Shefland |
© Richard Schramm |
© Jim Sebesta |
© Richard Schramm |
© Les Schmidt |
© Wright Schickli |
© Karen Safer |
© Jeff Schewe |
© Vicki Reed |
© Bianca Rosa |
© Agnes Powell |
© Rania Razek |
© Alyssa Oursler |
© John Padour |
© Ludmila Popova |
© Charles Park |
© Leah Oates |
© Leah Oates |
© Fern Nesson |
© Janet Milhomme |
© Melody Locke |
© Luis Mesa |
© Pete Madzelan |
© Colin McRae |
© Pete Madzelan |
© Jay Levy |
© Jim Kerns |
© Alain Licari |
© John Laue |
© Timothy Keane |
© Michaelann Kelley |
© Elizabeth Kayl |
© Shane Hudak |
© Kylo-Patrick Hart |
© Douglas Henry |
© Bob Henderson |
© Douglas Hartford |
© James Gunderson |
© Dave Hanson |
© Valerie Gordon |
© Margaret Grosspietsch |
© Valerie Gordon |
© Glen Fisher |
© Dean Forbes |
© Paul Berger |
© Louise Fiore |
© Mike Eubanks |
© Roger Archibald |
© John Diephouse |
© Kay Erickson |
© Kevin Ealain |
© William Bullard |
© Michael Culshaw-Maurer |
© Phil Calvit |
© Sue Borg |
© Jacqueline Bedell |
International Juried Photography Exhibition
ON THE ROAD AGAIN
Opening Night Reception: April 20, 6-8PM, 2024
Exhibition dates: April 20 – May 11, 2024
From Robert Frank to Justine Kurland, Jack Kerouac to Thelma & Louise, the road has called out to artists. We're looking for images of interstates, blue highways, back roads, gravel roads, small towns, grand vistas, national parks, tourist traps, motels, waysides, truck stops, adventure, solitude, friendship, and kids in the back seat. Take us on a trip where the journey really is more important than the destination. If you've ever fired up a mixtape or a playlist and hit the open road, show us what you brought back.
Praxis Gallery presents photographic art that emphasizes the significance of the journey itself over the final destination. Exhibiting Artists share their unique perspectives and experiences of the open road.
Juried by: Dallas Crow
© Joan Tortorici Ruppert
International Juried Photography Exhibition
DIPTYCH~OPEN THEME
Opening reception: Sat. Apr 20, 6–8PM
Exhibition Dates: Apr 20 - May 11 2024
A photographic diptych is a work of art that consists of two photographs that are arranged side by side. Diptychs can convey a story by connecting seemingly unrelated images. The use of two photographs side by side can allow the photographer to experiment with different compositions and to create a sense of balance or symmetry. The two images in a diptych can represent duality or opposites. They allow the photographer to explore different themes, narratives, compositions, and contrasts.
Praxis presents photographic art that explores these concepts; creating new meanings and aesthetic engagement by juxtaposing two images side by side. Juried by: Sandrine Hermand-Grisel