Light Work Gallery Reception - This Thursday
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 Exhibition Title: Tracing Memory: Photographs by Angie Buckley, Pedro Isztin, Cyrus Karimipour, and Paula Luttringer
Exhibition Dates: November 3 - December 31, 2008
Gallery Reception: Thursday, November 13, 5-7pm
Guest Curator: Miriam Romais
Please join Light Work this Thursday, November 13, from 5 to 7pm, for a gallery reception to celebrate our current exhibitions. On view at this time are both the Tracing Memory as well as the Light Work Grants exhibitions.
Something someone says sparks a memory. I can't quite put my finger on it, but I can feel it balanced on the edge of my consciousness. Sometimes it's a sound, or a smell, transporting me to a place I've long forgotten. Whatever the trigger, something starts us down a path to further understand or relive an experience - a memory.
"As a recorder, the brain does a notoriously wretched job."(1) If given the choice, most of us will trust a photograph over someone else's recollection of an event. Although images capture 'fact' quite literally, alone they are void of the nuances and context necessary to serve as a time-machine as powerful as the other human senses. And yet, photographs are memory.
For the four photographers in this exhibition - Cyrus Karimipour, Paula Luttringer, Angie Buckley, and Pedro Isztin - memory is fuel. Through uniquely personal approaches, each one has created imagery that deals with powerful aspects of remembrance.
Everyone thinks, feels, experiences, and remembers things differently. Our senses are continuously challenged by a world that assaults the safety of how we remember or would prefer to, and the brain makes sense of the chaos in the best way it can. These artists express how the most emotionally laden experiences persist, and those left untouched most likely become memory traces-fragile and ephemeral.
Their work will remain, even if memories change and fade.
-Miriam Romais
1. Joshua Foer, "Remember This: In the Archives of the Brain, Our Lives Linger or Disappear," National Geographic (November 2007): 44.
Guest curator Miriam Romais is the executive director of En Foco, a non-profit organization that supports contemporary photographers of diverse cultures, primarily US residents of Latino, African, and Asian heritage, as well as Native Peoples of the Americas and the Pacific.
[Image: Pedro Isztin]
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Constructing History: Lecture by Carrie Mae Weems
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 Event Title: Constructing History: The Visual Work of Carrie Mae Weems
Artist/Lecturer: Carrie Mae Weems
Date/Time: Wednesday, November 12, at 5:30pm
Location: Watson Theater, 316 Waverly Ave. Syracuse NY 13244
Internationally renowned artist Carrie Mae Weems will speak at Syracuse University on Wednesday, November 12 at 5:30 pm. Her presentation, Constructing History: The Visual Work of Carrie Mae Weems, will be the held in Watson Theater at Light Work/Community Darkrooms, 316 Waverly Avenue. It is the first event of the 2008-2009 colloquium series sponsored by the African American Studies Department. The event is free and open to the public.
Weems' photography-centered work incorporates text, sculpture, and sound to explore possibilities for political and cultural change, as well as "the complexity of human experience" in African American history and African cultures. Her award-winning work has been exhibited and collected by such major entities as The Metropolitan Museum, MOMA, the Whitney Museum, the Getty Museum, and the National Museum for Women in the Arts. She has held Artist-in-Residence and teaching positions at institutions around the world.
[Image: Carrie Mae Weems]
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November Th3: Meet the Pros - John Isaac
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 Presentation: Thursday, November 20, 7pm-9pm
Portfolio Review: Friday, November 21, 10am-1pm
Please join Light Work/Community Darkrooms on November 20 for an exciting evening with award-winning Olympus Visionary photographer John Isaac. He will show his cutting-edge photographs, share the lessons he learned as a United Nations photographer, and offer participants invaluable tips and tools of the trade. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Isaac will also host a portfolio review session. Please join us for this valuable chance to share your work with an award-winning photographer. This session, scheduled for November 21, is open to Syracuse University students and interested members of the community. You must sign up in advance to participate in this free event. To register, call 315-443-2450.
Isaac worked as a United Nations photographer from 1978 to 1998. In his time with the UN, he worked up through the ranks from the darkroom all the way to photo chief, and visited over 100 countries. His work can be seen on his website at www.johnisaac.com.
Presentation and portfolio reviews sponsored by Olympus and Community Darkrooms, in conjunction with RA-LIN Camera.
[Image: John Isaac]
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Deborah Willis Lecture Update
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The Reflections in Black lecture, featuring internationally renowned curator, artist, photographer, and MacArthur Fellow Deborah Willis, was cancelled on Thursday, November 6 due to weather-related travel problems. The lecture will be rescheduled for sometime during the spring semester. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.
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