Playing Through Photography: New Work from PNCA Photo Students
Juried by Teresa Christiansen
Apr 6 - 29, 2023
On display on Community Exhibition Wall
Photography embraces play through many means. The photographic image can be a result of a playful process: painting with chemistry on light sensitive paper or using long exposures to record the travel of light. A photographer might embody a sense of playfulness in the way they challenge a conventional genre of image making. Or they may work with costume, makeup and props to role play in the studio. The element of surprise and wonder through unexpected colors and juxtapositions can evoke feelings of whimsy. This selection of new student work from the PNCA undergraduate Photography Department embodies a range of playing through photography.
- Teresa Christiansen
Selected Artists
Teresa Christiansen (she/her/hers) was born and raised in New York City and currently lives in Portland, OR where she is Head of the Photography Department at Pacific Northwest College of Art. Teresa received her MFA in photographic studies from ICP-Bard in 2008, and worked as an Assistant Photographer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for nine years. She has exhibited her work nationally, including New York, Philadelphia, Seattle and Portland. Recently she has shown work at Aperture Gallery and Chashama in NYC, the Photographic Center Northwest in Seattle, Melanie Flood Projects in Portland and the Portland Art Museum. She was a 2007 winner of PDN Photo Annual, a 2013 Regional Arts & Culture Council grant recipient and a summer 2014 Wassaic Artist Resident. Her work is in the collection of the Portland Art Museum.