Friday, June 7 - Sunday, August 11, 2024
Barbara Bosworth
Danielle M Dean
S. Billie Mandle
Alyssa Minahan
Emily Sheffer
Unfolded: Dust Collective
Installation view
Unfolded: Dust Collective, is an exhibition of books and prints by five artists working with Dust Collective, a local publisher founded in 2017 by Emily Sheffer. Featuring five handmade, small edition books of work by each artist, each book is displayed alongside prints of work from each title.
EMILY SHEFFER, Vessel, 2022
26 x 20 inches | 66.04 x 50.8 cm.
Archival pigment print
Edition of 7
Emily Sheffer’s photographs use clay and landscape as a keyhole through which creation myths can be examined and unpacked. Driven by her interests in ancient visual culture, geology, and pottery, her images create a photographic experience that examines the earth itself as life-giving matter. Emily earned her MFA in photography from The University of Hartford, and BFA in Photography from The Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Photography at the University of Hartford.
S. BILLIE MANDLE, Circumference, Untitled 2, 2013 - 2014
40 x 33 inches | 101.6 x 83.82cm.
Archival pigment print
Edition of 2
S. Billie Mandle creates images that distill attention. Her projects question the histories and mythologies embedded in landscapes and architecture — engaging with themes of contingency, paradox, and faith. She has photographed Catholic confessionals, Emily Dickinson’s bedroom, and burned forests in California. She received her MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and a BA in biology from Williams College. She has exhibited widely, including at the Addison Gallery of American Art (Andover, MA), the Hyères Photography Festival (France), and Garden (Los Angeles, CA). Her projects have been supported by a NYFA Fellowship, a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship, and a grant from the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation and her work has been featured in publications such as Aperture, Cabinet, and Wired. In 2020 her monograph, Reconciliation, was published by Kehrer Verlag and an artist book, Stellar Skytron, was published by Dust Collective. Her work is held in several public collections including the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Addison Gallery of American Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Getty library, and LACMA library. She lives in Massachusetts where she is an Associate Professor of Photography at MassArt.
Installation view
ALYSSA MINAHAN, Untitled (from the series Have I Told You?), 2021
22 1/8 x 15 3/4 inches | 56.19 x 40 cm.
Archival pigment print
Edition of 5
Alyssa Minahan utilizes photographic materials, including unfixed gelatin silver paper and large format negatives, in non-traditional ways to express ideas integral to the medium of photography, specifically its complex relationship to time, space and memory. Minahan has released two publications with Datz Press, an end and a beginning (2022) and NOTES (2019). Her books are held in the collections of The New York Public Library, International Center for Photography Library, Harvard University Houghton Library, Amon Carter Museum of American Art Research Library and Stanford University Library, amongst others. Minahan has exhibited her work at numerous galleries and museums, including the Datz Museum of Art (Gwangju, South Korea), Center for Creative Photography (Tucson, Arizona), Pingyao International Photography Festival (Shanxi, China), Photographic Center Northwest (Seattle, Washington) and Boston University Art Galleries (Boston, Massachusetts). She has been awarded artist residencies at the Penumbra Foundation Workspace Program, Studios at MASS MoCA and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Minahan is the recipient of the Massachusetts College of Art and Design Graduate Teaching Fellowship and is currently a Lecturer in Photography at Emerson College.
Installation view
DANIELLE M DEAN, The Sea, A Mirror, 2023
12 x 18 inches |30.48 x 45.72 cm.
Archival pigment print, charcoal
Edition of 5
DANIELLE M DEAN, Night Sea, 20181
12 x 16 inches |30.48 x 40.64 cm.
Archival pigment, graphite
Edition of 5
Danielle M Dean is an artist, educator, and curator based on San Juan Island in Washington State. She received an MFA in photography at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, and her work is included in public and private collections throughout the country. Recent exhibitions have taken place at the San Juan Islands Museum of Art, Bakalar Paine Galleries, Amazon Headquarters, and the Aperture Foundation. She has been an artist in residence internationally, including the 2019 MassArt Fellowship to The Studios at Mass MoCA, Blue Sky Gallery’s 2018 AIR at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, and a teaching residency at Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology in Bangalore, India. Her limited edition artist books are included in the collections of the Peabody Essex Museum Library, The Morton R. Godine Library at MassArt, and Blue Sky Gallery Library.
BARBARA BOSWORTH, Latourell Falls, Columbia River Gorge, 1993
17 x 30 inches | 43.18 x 76.2 cm.
Vintage gelatin silver contact print
Edition of 3
BARBARA BOSWORTH, Babs at Rattlesnake Creek, Montana, 1996
17 x 30 inches | 43.18 x 76.2 cm.
Vintage gelatin silver contact print
Edition of 3
Barbara Bosworth grew up in Novelty, Ohio, and currently lives in Massachusetts. Bosworth is professor emeritus of photography at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston. Bosworth’s large-format photographs explore both overt and subtle relationships between humans and the rest of the natural world. Whether chronicling the efforts of hunters or bird banders or evoking the seasonal changes that transform mountains and meadows, Bosworth’s caring attention to the world around her results in images that similarly inspire viewers to look closely.
Over her long career, Bosworth has photographed in both black and white and color. Her single images display a generous attention to small facts, while her large-scale triptychs reveal a panoramic awareness, one that lets viewers glimpse relationships between frames across a wide field. All of Bosworth’s projects remind viewers not only that we shape the rest of nature but that it also shapes us.
Bosworth’s work has been widely exhibited, notably in solo exhibitions at the Cleveland Museum of Art (2024), The Boston Museum of Fine Arts (2024), Denver Art Museum (2015), Peabody Essex Museum (2012), the Smithsonian American Art Museum (2008), and Phoenix Art Museum (2006). Her publications include The Sea (Radius Books, 2022), One Star and a Dark Voyage (TIS Books, 2020), The Heavens (Radius Books, 2018), The Meadow (Radius Books, 2015), Natural Histories (Radius Books, 2013), and Trees: National Champions (MIT Press; Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, 2005).
Installation view