Tuesday, October 3
Catherine Wagner

Catherine Wagner works with elements of contemporary society and transforms them into conceptual images that investigate culture. For over thirty years she has been a keen observer of the built environment, examining institutions of learning and knowledge, such as art museums and science labs, as well as the ways we construct our cultural identity. Ms. Wagner’s process involves the investigation of what art critic David Bonetti calls "the systems people create, our love of order, our ambition to shape the world, the value we place on knowledge, and the tokens we display to express ourselves."

Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Laia Abril

Laia Abril is a visual artist, photographer and bookmaker from Barcelona. After graduating in Journalism she enrolled FABRICA’s — the Benneton artist residency; where she worked at COLORS Magazine as a creative editor and staff photographer for 5 years. Her projects have been shown in the United States, Canada, UK, China, Poland, Germany, Holland, Switzerland, France, Italy or Spain as published in media worldwide. Her work is held in private and public collections as Musée de l’Elysée, Winterthur Museum in Switzerland or MNAC in Barcelona. She is the author of Thinspiration (Self-published 2012), The Epilogue (Dewi Lewis, 2014), Tediousphilia (Musée de l’Elysée, 2014) and Lobismuller (RM, 2016) — holder of the Images Book Award. Her current new long-term project A History of Misogyny, first chapter On Abortion — exhibited at Les Rencontres in Arles in 2016; will be published by Dewi Lewis in 2017.

Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Jason Fulford & Tamara Shopsin

JASON FULFORD is a photographer and co-founder of J&L Books. He is a Guggenheim Fellow, a frequent lecturer at universities, and has led workshops across the United States, in Japan, Italy, Poland, The Netherlands, Germany and Spain. His monographs include Sunbird (2000), Crushed (2003), Raising Frogs for $$$ (2006), The Mushroom Collector (2010), Hotel Oracle (2013), and Contains: 3 Books (2016). He is co-author with Tamara Shopsin of the photobook for children, This Equals That (2014), and co-editor with Gregory Halpern of The Photographer’s Playbook (2014). Fulford’s photographs have been described as open metaphors. As an editor and an author, a focus of his work has been on the subject of how meaning is generated through association.

TAMARA SHOPSIN is a graphic designer and illustrator whose work is regularly featured in The New York Times and The New Yorker. She is the author of two memoirs: Mumbai New York Scranton and Arbitrary Stupid Goal. She is also designer of the 5 Year Diary, co-author with Jason Fulford of the photobook for children, This Equals That and a cook at her family’s restaurant in New York City.