Take it From Here
Friday, April 5 - Sunday, May 26, 2024
Elliott Jerome Brown Jr.
Jasmine Clarke
Pia Paulina Guilmoth
Kathryn Harrison
Alec Kaus
Tommy Kha
Lindley Warren Mickunas
Nadiya Nacorda
Curated by Zora Murff & Rana Young
”Take it From Here features artworks by photographers who use the camera as a multifaceted site of imagination, play, and self-exploration. Considering photography's sordid relationship with the politics of representation, the selected artists collectively highlight new freedoms and visual possibilities of self-expression alive within the medium.”
Installation view
JASMINE CLARKE, Milan, 2017
25 x 20 inches | 63.5 x 50.8 cm.
Archival pigment print
Edition of 5
JASMINE CLARKE, Monty, 2018
10 x 8 inches | 25.4 x 20.32 cm.
Archival pigment print
Edition of 5
Jasmine Clarke is a photographer, born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Clarke is a visiting assistant professor of photography at Bard College, where she earned her BA in 2018. She received support from the 2021 Aperture and Google Creator Labs Photo Fund. She has shown her work in exhibitions including And Let it Remain So (Phoenix Art Museum), All in This Together, PhotoVogue Festival (Milan), Atlanta Celebrates Photography: Ones to Watch (MINT Gallery, Atlanta), Bard x HGG (curated by Stephen Shore at Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York City), Entitlements (National Center for Civil and Human Rights), Photoville (Brooklyn Bridge Park, New York City), and Women of the African Diaspora: Identity, Place, Migration, Immigration (Blue Sky Gallery, Portland). Clarke was a 2022 Light Work Artist-in-Residence, a finalist at Authority Collective: The Lit List and Critical Mass (Photolucida), and earned honorable mention for the Lenscratch Student Prize
TOMMY KHA, Mine (VII), 29 Palms, 2017
30 x 24 inches | 76.2 x 60.96 cm.
Archival pigment print
Edition of 5
PIA PAULINA GUILMOTH, vacation home
20 x 16 inches | 50.8 x 40.64 cm.
Archival pigment print
Edition of 5
“A glamour surrounds the dark grayscale skies, spiderwebs, and plunging falls in Guilmoth’s photography. At first, the film aberrations and light halos in her images win our trust like spirit and fairy photography of the 19th century once could, but traces of manipulation hang like a thread to pull. This evidence of the human hand warms Guilmoth’s paranormal subjects and leads to the question: who among us sees the spiderweb and specter with such affection?” - Thea Hart
Peah Pauline Guilmoth lives and makes art in rural central Maine. Her second book, At Night Gardens Grow, was published by Stanley/Barker in 2021. She is working on her third book at the moment to be released either late 2024 or early 2025. She was a 2022 MacDowell Fellow in Visual Arts.
Installation view
ALEC KAUS, Shower (Manchester), 2019
32 x 24 inches | 81.28 x 60.96 cm.
Archival pigment print
Edition of 5
ALEC KAUS, Polarities, 2015
32 x 24 inches | 60.96 x 81.28 cm.
Archival pigment print
Edition of 5
Alec Kaus is an artist and educator based in the Greater Boston area. He holds an MFA with Distinction from the University of Georgia and a BA in Studio Art from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Alec's work moves between the fields of criticism, curation, and photography, often engaging with contingent notions of home, love, and grief.
NADIYA NACORDA, Hide and Seek, 2019
24 x 24 inches | 60.96 x 60.96 cm.
Archival pigment print
Edition of 5
NADIYA NACORDA, Twister Picture, 2019
36 x 36 inches | 91.44 x 91.44 cm.
Archival pigment print
Edition of 4
Nadiya Nacorda is an artist, mother, educator and Taurus working with photography, video, and sound. Her work explores the nuances and entanglements of inheritance(s) while considering themes of magic, affection, identity, and (other)mothering; along with Blasian feminine interiority and subjectivity.
In her practice, she draws from her own lived experiences growing up in the United States. She also looks to the collective ancestral memories ancestral memories and stories passed on through, and between, the generations of her Xhosa and Philippine family while exploring broader histories of colonization and displacement.
Nadiya received her BFA in Photography & Film from VCU Arts and her MFA in Art Photography from Syracuse University. Her first book: A special kind of double was published in 2020 by KG Projects/Monolith Editions as a part of the LOST III books set, and can be found in the collections of The National Gallery of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Yale University Library, The Guggenheim Museum, Ingalls Library at Cleveland Museum of Art and more.
Her work has been exhibited at Filter Photo in Chicago, Silver Eye Center for Photography in Pittsburgh, Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, RISD's Red Eye Gallery in Providence, The Phoenix Art Museum, Center for Book Arts in New York City, Photo Vogue Festival in Milan, Candela Books and Gallery in Richmond, VA, among others.
Nadiya and her work been featured in The Washington Post (Magazine), TIME, NPR, The Guardian, AINT-BAD, Oxford American Magazine, Huck Mag, Blind Magazine, Ignant, PDN-photo district news, InStyle, Essence magazine, Upworthy, Shot Kit, ATTN and more. She is also the 2nd place winner of the 2020 Lenscratch Student Prize, as well as a finalist of the 2019 Magenta Foundation's Flash Forward competition, the 2020 Lit List, and the 2021 Silver list.
Nadiya has also presented her work through artist talks and lectures at RISD (Rhode Island School of Design), the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, VCUarts (Virginia Commonwealth University), Stanford University, Brandeis University, and the University of Washington.
She was a '22/23 Post-MFA Fellow at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Photography at VCUarts in Richmond, VA.
Installation view
KATHRYN HARRISON, Untitled, Sarasota, Florida, 2017
30 x 24 inches | 76.2 x 60.96 cm.
Archival pigment print
Edition of 5
Kathryn Harrison (b. 1988, FL) is a photographer and educator based in New York. She uses visual storytelling to inspire, empower, and connect people. Harrison is a faculty member at the International Center of Photography (ICP).
Her work has been permanently collected and exhibited globally in venues such as David Zwirner Gallery, Collectiv National, and LTD Los Angeles. She has worked with many notable clients, including The Atlantic, The Marshall Project, The New York Times, Financial Times, and Smithsonian Magazine.
Harrison completed her MFA at the Yale School of Art, where she was awarded the Richard Benson Prize for Excellence in Photography. During the same year, she received the Snider Prize from the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago and the Hillman Foundation Fellowship from the International Center of Photography. Prior to that, Harrison earned her BFA at Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida, where she is originally from.
Installation view
ELLIOTT JEROME BROWN JR., Vanessa and Diane, 2016 (courtesy Nicelle Beauchene)
36 x 24 inches | 91.44 x 60.96 cm.
Archival pigment print
Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. is an artist who uses photography to explore representation through privacy and fiction. Occasionally the work turns away from standard archival prints to examine photography as a sculptural, redactive, and site-specific process. Brown received his BFA in Photography from New York University and is a Part-Time Lecturer in Photography at The New School in New York.
LINDLEY WARREN MICKUNAS, Mother and Daughter, 2017
20 x 16 inches | 50.8 x 40.64 cm.
Archival pigment print
LINDLEY WARREN MICKUNAS, Mouth, 2019
12 1/2 x 10 inches | 31.75 x 25.4 cm.
Archival pigment print
Lindley Warren Mickunas (she/her/hers) lives with her husband and six rescue animals in Des Moines, IA where she is the Senior Executive Assistant at the Des Moines Art Center. Previously, she was Curatorial Assistant at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, Curatorial Assistant of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art, and Program Assistant of the Intermedia Research Initiative. Warren Mickunas has co-curated international exhibitions; served as a contributing editor of Rubber Factory Posters out of New York; worked as a mentor for VSCO Voices; and founded multiple print publications and online platforms including The Reservoir. She received an MFA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago and a BFA in Photography from the University of Iowa.