Christina Leslie | Hamilton, ON

Movers and Makers is a group exhibition featuring photographic work by four early-career Toronto-based artists: Aaron Jones, Christina Leslie, Dainesha Nugent-Palache and Bidemi Oloyede.

While the past few years have had a devastating impact on many people, it has been especially hard for those of the Black diaspora, as the two overlapping catastrophes of racism and the pandemic have taken a profound toll. Movers and Makers speaks to the challenges of the present moment by invoking a desired future of Black optimism. It does so by furthering the goal of its precursor Movers and Shakers (2018, presented at Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art) to provide a much-needed exhibition opportunity for local early-career artists, while critically shifting toward Black artists who address their subjectivity through artistic strategies of photographic experimentation.

View/download the exhibition catalogue.

EVENTS:

Exhibition related programming details will be shared shortly.

This exhibition is presented in partnership with Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art.

Come see the SWC exhibition, Sterling Presence Redux, at Patch & Remington in Marcellus, MI.
August 5 - September 10, 2022
Opening Reception:
Friday, August 5, 5-8pm

History, memory, identity, time, decolonization, and perception are explored in the exhibition Sterling Presence Redux featured at Patch & Remington. Each featured artist employs a particular process and technique that challenges the boundaries of traditional photography in her work.

While each artist comes from a unique experience and perspective, photography helps them to communicate their shared internal struggles as women in contemporary society and art.

Individually their work encompasses a variety of material and photography methods, but it finds commonalities through cross-references between subjects, so transforming their collective work into a process-based modern art powerhouse.

for more information click here.

Collective Artist Brianna Dowd is featured in the online virtual exhibition "Resilience Through Time", hosted by PHOTO TROUVÉE MAGAZINE. For more information click HERE!

Christina Leslie | Toronto

Excited to announce that our own Chris Leslie will be featured in the Workman Arts Exhibit, Being Scene. Celebrating artists with lived experiences, the exhibition will be both in-person and online this year. Being Scene showcases a survey of juried artworks by a wide range of artists with varying disciplines. Alongside this, the curated component returns this year by inviting a new guest curator Oliviana Cinco, to curate a member group show alongside the juried show as part of the overall exhibition. With an accompanying event series including artist-led events/panels/tours and educational workshops/discussions both in-person and online, this year’s 2-month long programming will be an interactive and exciting experience demonstrating what these 56 artists have to offer.

Being Scene opens online on March 31 from 6-8 PM EDT, for more info click here.

Mara Magyarosi-Laytner | Savannah, GA

Congrats Mara on your MFA Thesis show!!!

Although we celebrate Mara’s success of her show it is a testimony of a three year effort to get to the place Mara has gotten to today….we celebrate you Mara, your process, your creativity, and your dream! Thank you for letting us be a part of your beautiful journey!!!!

(from Mara)

Three years ago, I was drowning in expectations.
I stopped being able to recognize myself.

Two years ago, I was coming up for air,
Watching an artist talk,
The conversation clicked and I said to myself,

Wait.
Am I an untended garden?
Is that what is happening to me?
And can I tend it? Is it even possible?

And now,
Literally a week away, next Friday,
You’ll be able to see the result of that garden.

Three years ago, I felt invisible.
And now, I’ve never felt more seen.

I can’t wait to see y’all next week. 🌸

The Untended Garden
MFA Thesis Exhibition
Cedar House Gallery

Opening Reception
Friday, April 1st, 6-9pm

for more information about Mara’s thesis work click here

Mara Magyarosi-Laytner & Cristina Casiano | Italy

Mara’s and Cristina’s work have been selected to be featured in gallery and online at LoosenArt as part of the exhibition “Auto Focus. A Portrait of the Self”. This international group exhibition has selected photo, video, and digital design to be included in the exhibition.

LoosenArt is an on line gallery and platform dedicated to contemporary visual arts, born and based on principles of contemporaneity, the very same principles in which contact, connection and exchange are prerogatives of a cultural evolution supported by a technology that is the expression of an interest to find new channels to relate freely and more directly to the others, an interest to demonstrate an innate need of human contact, where meetings are always something which give rise to something else. For more information about LoosenArt and to see the full exhibition click here.

Christina Leslie | Whitby, Ontario, Canada

Leslie thanks her friends and family after being recognized for her work “The Cotton Gaze“ that has been exhibited at Station Gallery, Whitby, Ontario, Canada. Leslie states:

“I am proud of myself. Proud I never gave up, proud that I pushed through early rejections from galleries when I first started pursuing this career. Proud and thankful for all the connections I made over years. Proud of all the exhibitions and publications I've been in. Proud of being part of the @silverwatercollective_ . Proud I quit my full time job to go back to school and obtain my Masters in Fine Art. Proud that I never let a single bad or nonsensical critique dampen my determination but instead cussed them off in my head/heart and then moved on (LOL).And now I'm proud to say I won this award granted to me by @stationgallery .”

Congrats Chris! We LOVE YA!

HIGH FIVE!

Check out more of her work and Station Gallery at https://www.stationgallery.ca/

Stephanie Bauer | Elsah, IL

Stephanie’s MFA Thesis Exhibition is a smashing success as Elsah, IL welcomed Principia College’s very own Professor onto the stage as Bauer showcased her work in the Marshall Brooks Gallery. Her work will continue to be on display through March 8, 2022 and explores technology as it relates to social survival as society becomes ever more lost in the vast emptiness of screens. Click HERE to find out more about Stephanie and her work.

Emma Hopson | Savannah, GA

Presented in the SCAD Gutstein Gallery, Free Association examines the spectrum of human experience through film, with themes as varied as family, visibility, truth, and conflict. This group exhibition gathers the work of SCAD students, faculty, alumni, as well as works from the university collection to illuminate the possibilities of film as an artistic medium. For more information click here

Brianna Dowd | Greenville, SC

Bri’s work, Mother Pearl (Untitled VI), was selected by juror and renowned artist, Aline Smithson, to be included in the upcoming Conversations with the Archive exhibition at The SE Center for Photography.

This exhibition focuses on work using historical, familial, or found photographs (or ephemera) to create a new visual language or expression.
This reconsideration of other people's photographs, whether it be from a
family album or a dusty thrift store bin, allows the creator to appropriate, construct, edit, and sequence in order to create something entirely new--sometimes in conversation with the photographer's own imagery,
or sometimes as an artistic expression using only appropriated imagery. For more information visit https://www.sec4p.com/

Mara Magyarosi-Laytner | Internationally Online

This past Thursday Silver Water Collective’s own Mara Magyarosi-Laytner was a featured speaker at the Shoot Extraordinary Conference hosted by Lensbaby. She discussed her process and inspired artists to take their work to the next level using a variety of tools including Lensbaby products (after all, she is their official ambassador…kinda like the UN but for photography). So check out her newly released recording (in around the 2:05 mark) and prepare to be blown away with her beautiful fusion of education and talent! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrAFeryPJ8A

Christina Leslie | International Publication

Christina’s work “Sugar Strapped” Series has been selected and featured on @aintbad magazine website and IG page. Much of her photographic practice centers around the themes of decolonialism, race, identity, cultural representation, the Caribbean Diaspora, history and memory. Her method uses sugar crystals and photographic alternative processes to relay subject matter and history. Go give her some love and check out the article at https://www.aint-bad.com/article/2021/11/22/christina-leslie/

Marcie Kindred | Nashville, TN

Marcie Kindred is a photographer and master woodworker. She is inspired by nature, old buildings, and wood to create stunning imagery.  Marcie is playing many roles in the Art of Healing and has served as a curator for the show. She has helped design a 2021-2022 'Adaptive Fashion' program for Vanderbilt undergraduates and the local disabled population. Finally, she has lent her talents toward building furniture for the show and will have photography on display at the 100 Oaks Clinics, Vanderbilt's Divinity School, and the Curb Center at Vanderbilt.

https://www.artofhealingexposition.com/commissioned-artists

Mara Magyarosi-Laytner | Internationally Online

Collective Artist Mara to speak at Lensbaby Conference Dec 7-9, 2021!!

Check out Mara as she talks on Evolving Your Portfolio Creatively.

In this presentation, you will explore how to develop your project ideas into a skillful, purposeful portfolio. Rather than creating at the whim of the Lensbaby tool on your camera, we will be discussing how to purposefully choose your tools to convey specific ideas for more extended, thematic projects. Mara will be discussing the evolution of multiple creative projects, truly showing the roots of each idea and how the use of Lensbaby tools (Velvet, Omni Creative System) has developed the work far beyond the initial spark.

Sign up for free at the link to attend the conference and you could win a Lensbaby gift card or a Sony A7C!

https://lensbaby.com/pages/photography-conference