Spring 2019 RISD Photo Lecture Series
All lectures begin at 7:00pm in the Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center, 20 North Main Street.
Free and open to the public.
The Spring 2019 RISD Photo TC Colley Lecture
Photo: Carpooler #2, from the series Carpoolers, 2011. Courtesy of the artist.
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
Alejandro Cartagena
Alejandro Cartagena’s (b. 1977, Dominican Republic) projects employ landscape and portraiture as a means to examine social, urban and environmental issues. Rooted in the formalistic style of documentary photography, Cartagena critically examines Mexico’s drive towards economic development whilst contrasting yearning for a fairer world in which to live. His 2014 series Car Poolers - which featured a birds-eye-view of workers commuting in the beds of pickup trucks - received widespread critical acclaim and was featured in The New York Times, amongst other international publications. Archival and found pictures form the basis for his latest body of work which explores ‘invisible’, vulnerable people who are displaced in the midst of current political vitriol.
Spring 2019 RISD Photo Gary Metz Lectures
Photo: Tête de Homme, from the series Tribe, 2018. Courtesy of the artist.
Tuesday, April 9, 2019
John Edmonds
John Edmonds (b. 1989) is an American artist and photographer who first came to public recognition with his intimate portraits of lovers, close friends and strangers. He earned his MFA in Photography from Yale University and his BFA at the Corcoran School of Arts & Design. In 2018, TIME Magazine listed his debut monograph, Higher, as one of the top 25 Photobooks of the year. Recent exhibitions include tête à tête at the Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin at David Zwirner, Family Pictures at the Milwaukee Art Museum and Face to Face at the California African American Museum. Residencies include: the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME; Light Work, Syracuse, NY; and the Banff Centre, Banff, AB. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York and is on faculty at Yale University and the School of Visual Arts, NY. Edmonds is represented by Company Gallery.
Photo: Still Life with Poppies and Blue Lemons. Courtesy of the artist.
Tuesday, April 30, 2019
Daniel Gordon
Daniel Gordon holds a BA from Bard College and an MFA from Yale School of Art. Recent solo exhibitions include: Blue Room, James Fuentes, New York (2018), Selective Color, M+B, Los Angeles (2017), New Canvas, James Fuentes, New York (2017), Hand, Select & Invert Layer, Bolte Lang, Zürich (2016), Switzerland; Shadows, Patterns, Pears, Foam Museum, Amsterdam, NL (2014); and Screen Selections and Still Lifes, Wallspace, New York, NY (2014). He has participated in several museum group exhibitions, including Cut! Paper Play in Contemporary Photography, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (2018), Secondhand, Pier 24, San Francisco, CA (2016) Greater New York, MoMA P.S. 1, Queens, NY (2010) New Photography Series, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (2009).
He is the author of Spaces, Faces, Tables and Legs (OSP, 2018), Intermissions (OSP,2017), Still Life with Onions and Mackerel (OSP, 2014), and Still Lifes, Portraits, and Parts (Mörel, 2013), Flowers and Shadows (Onestar Press, 2011) and Flying Pictures (powerHouse Books, 2009). Gordon’s work has also been highlighted in several international publications including: The New York Times, The New Yorker, Art Review, Frieze, Architectural Digest, New York Magazine, W Magazine, Art in America, Modern Painters, PHOTONEWS, Dazed & Confused, Art in America, and Flash Art. His work resides in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Guggenheim, New York, Pier 24, San Francisco, Foam Museum, Amsterdam, and the VandenBroek Foundation, Lisse, NL.
He is the co-director of Downstairs Projects in Brooklyn where lives and works.