Panopticon Gallery just hosted an opening for their new show “Dress Up!” that was a call to “come out and play!” The show, which will run through July 9th, features four photographers who integrate a variety of masquerades into their work. And “dress up!” people did, in droves. Undoubtedly...
The Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago covers every angle in its current show, “Spectator Sports”, running through July 3, 2013. Featuring ten artists and multiple media, this variable but fun exhibit focuses especially on the spectator’s perceived engagement with athletes during the excitement...
“Constructed Landscapes”, a series of photographs illustrating places where large-scale Japanese building projects meet the land, are anything but pedestrian. In this solo show at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA (through Fall 2013), Toshio Shibata is exhibiting his more recent large-format...
In Al Fisher’s beautiful black & white studies of Boston street performers, he “strove to go beyond the mask to reveal the person at the core underneath”, and in the process captured a delicate balance of both persona and person. “Character Study”, running through March 2014 at the deCordova...
There’s been a resurgence of interest in New York’s Photo League, the collection of photographers active during the span of American upheaval which included such monumental cultural shifts as the Great Depression and the Red Scare. Numerous exhibits have been devoted to various artists, geography...
The emerging artist currently featured at Panopticon Gallery in Kenmore Square, Boston, deserves special notice. Allison Smith, a recent B.F.A. from MA College of Art & Design, presents a handful of lovely 16×20 gelatin silver prints which explore the effects of time-lapse photography in various...
“Views from Cape Cod and the Massachusetts Islands” is now on exhibit through May 13th at Panopticon Gallery in Kenmore Square, Boston. In his remarkable and arresting series of outsized color photographs entitled I’m Not On Your Vacation, Brian Kaplan set out to observe the people and places that...
Cape Cod and the Islands could not look more different. Neal Rantoul’s crisp aerial photographs detail almost abstract views of uninhabited land, water and the places that they meet. Brian Kaplan’s large-format color prints focus on the inhabitants of the Cape and the largely unnoticed world...
Thirty-nine pieces of pure eye candy by Annie Leibovitz are now on view at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach through June 9, 2013. In celebration of their acquisition of these Leibovitz’s portraits, the Norton has mounted a show sweeter than dessert. Leibovitz started her photography career,...
The current “Alternative Processes” show at Panopticon Gallery (Kenmore Square, Boston, running through 4.1.13) is exhibiting artists who utilize archival photographic methods to explore a variety of themes. In her series, “A Mariner’s Descent”, Nikki Segarra explores her consuming fear of water...
