Announcing the 2014 Light Work Artists-in-Residence

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Every year Light Work invites between twelve and fifteen artists to come to Syracuse to devote one month to creative projects. Over 400 artists have participated in Light Work’s Artist-in-Residence Program, and many of them have gone on to achieve international acclaim.

The residency includes a $5,000 stipend, a furnished artist apartment, 24-hour access to our state-of-the-art facilities, and generous staff support. Work by each Artist-in-Residence is published in a special edition of Contact Sheet: The Light Work Annual along with an essay commissioned by Light Work. Work by former Artists-in-Residence is also part of the Light Work Collection.

We are pleased to announce the 2014 Light Work Artists-in-Residence!

Kalpesh Lathigra

Daniel Shea

Rose Cromwell

Ben Huff

Robert Benjamin

Jessica Labatte

Rory Mulligan

Kristine Potter

Keren Shavit

Gregory Halpern

Keisha Scarville

Wayne Lawrence

Mary Mattingly

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See past Artists-in-Residence at www.lightwork.org/air
Applications are now open for 2015. Apply at lightwork.slideroom.com

2014 Book Collectors Offer: Peter Mitchell’s Strangely Familiar

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Peter Mitchell
Strangely Familiar
Nazraeli Press/Light Work, 2013
Hardcover, 68 pages with 47 four-color reproductions
ISBN: 978-1-59005-353-9
First Edition
Signed by the artist

Light Work is pleased to offer signed copies of the highly-anticipated monograph Strangely Familiar by Peter Mitchell. In the 1970s, Mitchell was working as a truck driver in the English city of Leeds, and he photographed the city during his rounds. This work depicts the factories and small shop owners of Leeds, all photographed, with the aid of a stepladder, in a formal manner. In 1979, the photographs were shown at Mitchell’s one-person exhibition at Impressions Gallery in York; this was the first landmark color photography exhibition in the UK. The work was later included in the seminal exhibition How We Are: Photographing Britain at Tate Britain in 2007. Despite being widely exhibited, collected, and written about since the 1970s, Peter Mitchell’s photographs of Leeds – where he continues to live and work – have never before been published as a monograph. Strangely Familiar presents 47 color plates, beautifully printed, and the book opens with an introduction by photographer Martin Parr.

All proceeds from our Fine Print Program go directly to supporting artists working in photography.

Take advantage of the 2014 Book Collectors Offer. Order a signed copy of Strangely Familiar by Peter Mitchell and you will also receive a one-year subscription to Contact Sheet (a $115 value) for only $75!

Browse the new prints and books online at www.lightwork.org/shop

A Closer Look: 2014 Benefactors Offer

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4 Prints + 1 Book + Contact Sheet
2014 Benefactors Offer

The Benefactor Offer represents an excellent way to further your collection, while supporting Light Work’s mission. Contributors of $1,500 will receive James Welling‘s image from the Master Print Edition, all three prints in our Fine Print Program (John Chervinsky, Lucas Foglia, Irina Rozovsky), and a signed copy of Strangely Familiar by Peter Mitchell. In total, a $2,015 value! By participating in this category you will save on the cost of the prints and book, and receive a one-year subscription to Contact Sheet.

About the artists:

James Welling‘s work centers on an exploration of photography, shuffling the elemental components of the medium to produce distinctly uncompromising results. During his career, Welling has experimented with different photographic mediums, including Polaroids, silver gelatin prints, photograms, and digital prints, exploring the tensions of and between representation and abstraction.

John Chervinsky is a self-taught photographer. He is also an engineer working in the field of applied physics and spent eighteen years running a particle accelerator at Harvard University.

Lucas Foglia‘s photographs explore the relationships between people, economy, and wilderness in rural America.

Irina Rozovsky‘s project One to Nothing depicts an Israel we do not see on the news. Her images describe a place beyond politics; they do not defend a side or critique the conflict.

Despite being widely exhibited, collected, and written about since the 1970s, Peter Mitchell’s photographs of Leeds – where he continues to live and work – have never before been published as a monograph. Strangely Familiar presents 47 color plates, beautifully printed, and the book opens with an introduction by photographer Martin Parr.

All proceeds from our Fine Print Program go directly to supporting artists working in photography.

Browse the new prints and books online at www.lightwork.org/shop

Collaborative Blog Initiative in Conjunction with Jackie Nickerson’s Terrain

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Light Work is pleased to announce a new collaboration with Syracuse’s 601 Tully on a community-curated website about food consumption and impact: The To Go Box.

The To Go Box is an interactive and collaborative art project that accepts community submissions and aims to facilitate both dialogue and the creation of new works of art.

The To Go Box runs in conjunction with Light Work’s exhibition of Jackie Nickerson’s Terrain and 601 Tully’s multi-artist exhibition Nourish: An Exploration of Consumption. The To Go Box will run from November 12th to December 7th; each week will focus on a different theme. Using that theme, we will highlight an interview, a discussion, and a curated art “assignment” geared towards public participation. Participants accept an assignment, complete it by following the instructions, and send in the required content – text, photos, poems – to be displayed online. Like a recipe or assembly instructions, the nature of these assignments is intended to guide people towards their own experience and the creation of their own work.

The submitted post that gets the most interaction (in the form of likes and reblogs) will win a series of prizes from 601 Tully and Light Work at the end of the website’s run.

The themes are as follows:
Week 1 – Urban Foodscape (with curated assignment by artist Tattfoo Tan)
Week 2 – Food Desert and Food Security
Week 3 – Our Connection to Food
Week 4 – Labor and Food (with curated assignment by artist Jackie Nickerson)

Explore the links below to find out more information about our exhibits.

Light Work:
www.lightwork.org/archive/jackie-nickerson-terrain/

601 Tully:
601tully.syr.edu/2013/09/nourish-an-exploration-of-consumption/

Now open for submissions, you can check out the blog here:
www.thetogobox.tumblr.com

A Closer Look: Irina Rozovsky

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Irina Rozovsky
Untitled (from One to Nothing), 2011
Archival inkjet print, 10 x 10 in. on 14 x 11 in. paper
Shipped in a 18 x 14 in. mat
Edition of 50, signed and numbered by the artist

Light Work is pleased to announce a limited edition print by photographer Irina Rozovsky as part of the 2014 Fine Print Program.

Irina Rozovsky’s project One to Nothing depicts an Israel we do not see on the news. Her images describe a place beyond politics; they do not defend a side or critique the conflict. Israel is seen as a mythological backdrop to the age-long struggle between man and the dusty, sun-bleached landscape of his origin. A loose, subtle, and open-ended narrative, One to Nothing describes a historic tension with unusual observations. This beautiful, limited-edition color print portrays two brothers locked in a stalemate on the shores of the Dead Sea, a battle we seem to have been fighting since the beginning of time. The image graces the cover of Rozovsky’s first monograph, One to Nothing (Kehrer Verlag, 2011). Rozovsky’s work has been published and exhibited internationally. Solo and group shows include Smith College, Northampton, MA; Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Breda International Photo Festival, Breda, The Netherlands; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI; Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY; Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL; and Noorderlicht Festival, Groningen, The Netherlands. Rozovsky participated in Light Work’s Artist-in-Residence Program in August 2012.

All proceeds from our Fine Print Program go directly to supporting artists working in photography.

Browse the new prints and books online at www.lightwork.org/shop

A Closer Look: Lucas Foglia

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Lucas Foglia
Cardin in the Rain, Virginia, 2006
Archival inkjet print, 7.5 x 10 in. on 9.5 x 12 in. paper
Shipped in a 14 x 18 in. mat
Edition of 50, signed and numbered by the artist

Light Work is pleased to announce a limited edition print by photographer Lucas Foglia as part of the 2014 Fine Print Program.

Lucas Foglia’s photographs explore the relationships between people, economy, and wilderness in rural America. Foglia grew up on a small family farm in New York and graduated from Brown University and the Yale School of Art. His first book, A Natural Order (Nazraeli Press, 2012), was published to critical acclaim. Focusing on people who responded to environmental concerns and the recession by moving off the grid in the rural southeastern United States, the book includes this memorable portrait of a woman named Cardin, photographed during a rainstorm in Virginia. Photographs from A Natural Order have been exhibited internationally and are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX; Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK; and Museum of Modern Art Library, New York, NY. Foglia participated in the Light Work Artist-in-Residence Program in 2007.

All proceeds from our Fine Print Program go directly to supporting artists working in photography.

Browse the new prints and books online at www.lightwork.org/shop