Alice Q. Hargrave is a photographic artist and educator, based in
Chicago. Her work explores the fugitive nature of experience, time,
light and the photographic medium itself, and how photographs
literally color memory and perception Hargrave has had several
one-person and group exhibitions, including two one-person shows at
The Chicago Cultural Center. She exhibits and is collected
nationally and internationally; her work is included in the
collections of The Museum of Contemporary Photography, The
Ruttenberg Collection, Nuveen Corporation, Outer Circle
Corporation, and Rush Presbyterian Hospital among others. Her work
has been seen at Yale University Art Gallery, The Smart Museum of
Art (Chicago, Ill.), The Museum of Contemporary Photography, The
Tweed Museum of Art, Art Metz (France), Klein Gallery, and Carol
Ehlers Gallery, which represented her. Hargrave has received many
awards for her work, and has been published and reviewed in several
journals. She is an adjunct professor at Columbia College in
Chicago, where she has taught both full time and part time since
1994.
Allison Grant is a Chicago based curator, writer, and artist.
Currently, she serves as assistant curator at the Museum of
Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago, where she has
worked since 2008. Grant holds an MFA in photography from Columbia
College Chicago and a BFA from the Columbus College of Art and
Design in Media Studies. She teaches in the Photography and Art &
Design departments at Columbia College Chicago.
Sandra Binion is an interdisciplinary artist based in Chicago. In
addition to her own career as an artist, she curates exhibitions
for Experimental Sound Studio's Audible Gallery. For each of these,
she composes a poem in lieu of a curatorial statement in order to
reflect on the aesthetic and emotional core of the artists whose
work she has selected.
Kendra Paitz is Senior Curator at University Galleries of Illinois
State University, where she has
been since 2008. She is also the founding Director at Violet Poe
Projects, an independent artist-
project space. She has organized solo exhibitions featuring Juan
Angel Chavez, Laura Letinsky,
Melanie Schiff, Jason Lazarus (co-curated), Stanya Kahn, Carrie
Schneider, Kendell Carter,
Stephanie Brooks, Oliver Herring (co-curated), Irena Knezevic, Bob
Jones, Schuyler Maehl,
Adam Farcus, and Shinique Smith, among others. Her group
exhibitions include The House of
the Seven Gables, Orison for the Forest, and but you gave me
flowers. She has supervised
publication of seven monographs or exhibition catalogues at
University Galleries. Paitz's essays
and interviews have been published by University Galleries of
Illinois State University, Normal,
Illinois; Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago; and Golden Parachutes,
Berlin. She has been the
Principle Investigator for grants awarded by The Andy Warhol
Foundation for the Visual Arts (in
2015 and 2012), the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, and
Target, among others. Paitz
lives in Bloomington, Illinois."
"...dreamy and mysterious images of some of nature’s most
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