Every year Light work invites between twelve and fifteen artists to come to Syracuse to devote one month to creative projects. Over three hundred artists have participated in the AIR program, many of whom have since achieved international acclaim.
The residency includes a $4,000 stipend, a furnished artist apartment, 24-hour access to our state-of-the-art darkroom and digital facilities, and generous staff support. Work by each Artist-in-Residence is published in a special edition of Contact Sheet: The Light Work Annual. Contact Sheet is a beautiful publication that is sent to over four thousand art lovers, museums, galleries, and libraries in over thirty-two countries. Applications are accepted throughout the year. Please see the How to Apply section for details on our facility and the application instructions.
Current Artists in Light Work's AIR program
Chad States
June 2009
Chad States turned to Craig’s List and other online forums to find subjects for his series about masculinity. His images indicate that cultural differences, societal expectations, and personal histories produce myriad complex answers to the question, “Are you masculine?” Photographing his subjects in their homes and other domestic spaces, each image weaves together environmental portraiture with psychological topography. During his time at Light Work, States plans to turn his attention to shooting, editing, and printing images from another body of work, entitled Cruising, that investigates the performance of sexuality in the landscape of public cruising spots.
States currently lives and works from Philadelphia, PA. He holds an MFA from Tyler School of Art and a BA from Evergreen State College. His work has been exhibited at venues including Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA; Chashama Time Square Gallery, New York City; Daniel Cooney Fine Art Online Auction; FLUXSPACE, Philadelphia, PA; Torpedo Gallery, Washington, D.C.; Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE; and Hunter College Times Square Gallery, New York City. For more information about States and his work, please visit www.chadstates.com.
Doug Manchee
June 2009
Doug Manchee made the trip all the way from Rochester, NY, for his residency. He arrived with plans to create several book dummies from various series of work. Manchee has already assembled a magnificent edit, sequence, and layout for a book based on his series Archive, a body of work that was also the subject of the exhibition Picturing the Archive in May 2009 at Visual Studies Workshop. The 96-page book will build on the structure of the exhibition and will be self-published in a limited edition. Also during his residency, Manchee plans to shoot new images of bookstores and of personal photographic archives as a further exploration of how we catalog and preserve our visual history.
Manchee received both his BA and MA from San Francsico State University. He is currently an Associate Professor at Rochester Institute of Technology, where he is also Program Chair for Advertising Photography. Manchee has shown work at Thomas Werner Gallery in NYC, the Ping Yao International Photography Exhibition, Ping Yao, China, and Gallery Kunsler, Rochester, NY, among other venues. For more information about his work, visit www.dougmancheeprojects.com.
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