Category: Curator’s Choice

Patrick Owens

Patrick Owens was born in Gastonia, NC in 1982 and raised in Taylors, SC. He received his Associate of Arts degree with an emphasis in Photography from Greenville Technical College…

Hiro Tanaka

We don’t normally show diptych work on the website. In fact, I usually hate it. Working in the educational side of photography, I see it all the time. Mostly intro…

Matthew J Brown

Matthew J. Brown is a visual artist living in East Tennessee. Brown received his B.F.A. from East Tennessee State University in 2015. Brown’s work has been exhibited internationally and has…

Julia Gillard

Julia Gillard grew up in the Midwest and takes pictures primarily as a way to have a conversation with her surroundings about American culture, politics and current events. The aim…

Jacob Haupt

Jacob Haupt (b. 1989, Modesto, California) is an artist working with photography, video, and sculpture. His work employs pop culture as both metaphor and mirror for addressing the tragedy of…

Frank Hamrick

Oxford American Magazine and NPR have written about Frank Hamrick’s art. His work is collected by the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, The Art Institute of Chicago and The…

Matt Williams

Matt Williams has been on the radar for a while now. He submitted to our Curator’s Choice issue earlier this year and although he was not selected for the publication,…

Laura Beth Reese

Laura Beth Reese (b. 1987) holds an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) and a BA from Muhlenberg College. Her work has been exhibited nationally—most…

James de Leon

James de Leon (b. 1984) is a self-taught photographer who grew up in California’s San Fernando Valley. He received his B.A. in American History from the University of San Francisco…

Penn Chan

Penn Chan is a photographer and videoographer based out of Portland, Maine. His work ranges from documentary and fine art photography with interests in self imposed ioslation, technological mysticism and…

Jose David Valiente

José David Valiente (1986) is a documentary and fine art photographer based in Murcia, Spain. He studied Audiovisual Image and then continued with Artistic Photography in EASD Murcia. José is…

Aaron Wax

Aaron Wax is an artist and photographer living and working in Brooklyn, NY. He earned his MFA in Photography, Video, and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts in…

Christian Rodriguez

Christian Rodriguez was born and raised in New York City to immigrants from the Dominican Republic. He spent his childhood traveling between the two islands and cultures. Through high school,…

Paul Sisson

Paul Sisson is a 2013 Bachelor of Fine Arts in photography graduate from the University of Colorado Denver. Originally from Minneapolis, MN, he currently resides in Arvada, CO. His work…

Ashley E. Walters

Ashley E Walters was born in Spearfish, South Dakota and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. She earned her BFA in 2015 from the Maryland Institute College of Art.…

Lewis Ableidinger

Lewis Ableidinger (b. 1983) is from the small town of Kensal (pop. 163), located in central North Dakota. Early on he developed an appreciation for the subtleties of a region…

Maury M Gortemiller

Maury Gortemiller is an Atlanta-based photographer and educator. His work has appeared in exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA), the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center and…

Jerry Siegel

Siegel was born and raised in Selma, AL, and graduated from the Art Institute of Atlanta. He was awarded the Grand Prize of the first Artadia Award in Atlanta in…

Samantha Sutcliffe

Samantha Sutcliffe was born and raised in the suburbs of New Jersey. In 2013 she received her B.A in Studio Art from The City College of the City University of…

Steven Lang

Steven Lang received his B.F.A. from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He was the recipient of a Loft Mentor Award for 2013-2014 and was a writer-in-residence for Coffee House…

Matthew Earl Williams

M. Earl Williams received a Masters of Fine Arts in Photography and a Masters of Arts in Studio Arts from the University of Iowa. He also received a Bachelors of…

Leah Frances

Growing up on Vancouver Island, America was a land that seemed somewhat like a mirage to Leah Frances. A place that was within reach but, at the same time, a…

Stefano Marchionini

Born in Verbania (Italy) in 1985, Stefano Marchionini lives in Arles, France. In 2014 he obtained a Master’s degree with honors at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris,…

Rachel Loischild

Rachel Loischild is a Boston-based artist and photographer as well as a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellow in Photography. She holds her MFA in photography from Pratt Institute and her BA…