Expand and Contract: Photography and Mixed Media (In-Person Exhibition)
Apr 4, 2024 – May 18, 2024
External conditions – climate, light, heat, cold, location – may change materials into something new and unexpected. Expand and Contract thinks about photographic practice in similar terms, exploring how the melding (or separation) of various materials and perspectives may shift our sensorial experience.
Artists (Click on names to view works)
Asiya al-Sharabi, Maurizio Anzeri, Pamela Beck, David Horvitz, Diane Meyer, Warren Neidich, Victor J. Quintana Ramos, Sarah Hood Salomon, Krista Svalbonas, Andrew K. Thompson, Brian Van Camerik for Homosocial, Sinta Werner
Curator
Dr. Rotem Rozental, Los Angeles Center of Photography Executive Director and Chief Curator.
In-Person Opening Reception
April 4, 2024, 6-8pm, FREE with RSVP, @ LACP, 252 S. Los Angeles St, Los Angeles, CA 90012, RSVP Here
In-Person Exhibition Run Dates
April 4, 2024 – May 18, 2024
Expand and Contract: Virtual Exhibition, Opening Reception
Further exploring experimental photography, LACP organized an open call for international artists. Join us to celebrate them online on Wednesday, April 17, 2024, 5-6pm PST, FREE, RSVP Required – RSVP Here, view the Virtual Show page Here
About
External conditions – climate, light, heat, cold, location – may change materials into something new and unexpected. Expand and Contract thinks about photographic practice in similar terms, exploring how the melding (or separation) of various materials and perspectives may shift our sensorial experience.
Beyond its materiality, photography finds itself in the most public and the fiercely private arenas – from popular media to institutional archives, art institutions, commercial spaces, on official documentation, or in precious family albums. In that sense, photography can be seen through its ability to function in and with various fields of practice, systems and discourses.
The focus of the exhibition on experimental photography reflects a growing interest among the global photographic community, to immerse in and expand further the ways in which we think about, experience and understand our relationship with the photographic image. This international exhibition positions experimental practice at its core, exploring photography beyond traditional definitions, whether those are reflected in the creative process, or in the presentation of the work in the exhibition space.
The Curator
Rotem Rozental, Ph.D, is the Executive Director of the Los Angeles Center of Photography. Between 2016-2022, she served as Chief Curator at American Jewish University, where she was also Assistant Dean of the Whizin Center for Continuing Education and Senior Director of Arts and Creative Programming. Her upcoming book, Pre-State Photographic Archives and the Zionist Movement will be released by Routledge Publishers in March 2023, and was named recipient of the Jordan Schnitzer First Book Award by the Association for Jewish Studies.
Rotem is a lecturer at USC Roski School of Art and Design Critical Studies Department. She mentors artists worldwide and contributes regularly to magazines, journals and exhibition catalogues. Her writings about contemporary art and image-based media, as well as Jewish and Israeli art, were published in Artforum.com, Photographies, Jewish Currents, Tablet and Forward, among other outlets.
Price Sheet and Instructions for Purchasing Artwork
Download/view price sheet HERE.
Interested in purchasing artwork? Please email info@lacphoto.org and a representative will contact you ASAP. Thank you!
Features
Expand and Contract will feature:
- Opening Reception (in-person) on Thursday, April 4, 6 pm PST
- An Artist Talk (in-person) on Saturday, May 11, 11 am PST. Info & Tickets HERE.