EXHIBITION DETAILS

Portraits

February 15 – March 23, 2013

STATEMENT

As with the genre of painting on which it is based, the photographic portrait is a visual representation of its subject; an impression or evocation of an individual and, at times, even of an animal, place or thing, the portrait is an object created as a remembrance. But the portrait can be also best described as a creative collaboration between artist and sitter. Many of the artists featured in Portraits 2013, the current survey at the Center for Fine Art Photography, have sought to challenge the framework and conventions of the traditional portrait, while others have committed to skillfully embracing them.

Juror Charles Guice selected the images for the Portraits 2013 exhibition. Charles is the director of Charles Guice Contemporary. Recognized for developing new talent as well as for advancing more established artists, he has been instrumental in the careers of several of today’s leading contemporary artists, including Erika Diettes, Birthe Piontek, Hank Willis Thomas and Carrie Mae Weems. Guice has placed works in prominent private and public collections throughout the United States and abroad, including The Brooklyn Museum of Art, The J. Paul Getty Museum, The High Museum of Art, The International Center of Photography and The Williams College Museum of Art.