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A TIME MACHINE by Ally Campbell
FIRST PLACE
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Curator Granville Carroll says, "I kept coming back to this image. The light, the shadows, the composition, and the colors continuously spoke to me. This image reflects our collective need to find and hold onto something meaningful. I couldn’t help but sense a longing for a time before this one, for a moment before consciousness grew into a humanoid form reflecting upon its existence. 
 
The abstract nature of the image prompted me to meditate on what the simple gesture of a hand reaching forward could represent. It brought me to a place of stillness, while simultaneously invigorating a sense of movement and vibration. What lies beyond the border of the frame and the confines of the background is unknown to the viewer. Like many origin stories, both personal and collective, this image symbolizes how one is tasked with unravelling the unknown and that which has been lost due to displacement, violence, natural disaster, and more. This image reflects the collective action to search for belonging and the personal journey to understand oneself in relation to the larger expanse of society and the whole of the universe. A Time Machine is the perfect title for this image. It pushes and pulls the viewer between several points of time. It forces one to contend with confusion and loss. There is a boldness that is erupted from the intense light; it blinds us while holding and caressing us. The glow produced by an unknown object is reminiscent of the afterlife or beforelife.
 
I am particularly intrigued by the way this image fuses together the abstract and representational aspects of photography and how it blends the most foundational aspects of the medium (light and shadow) to create a loose narrative that is complex. I felt that this image invites the viewer into a new dimensional way of thinking and being. There is an ethereal quality that this image possesses and gifts the viewer with. This image has invoked a sense of being that moved me to a place of wonderment, of joy, loss, abundance, and fear. It is multidimensional, just as our individual and collective origin stories are.
 
What is it about the ephemeral nature of existence that draws you to make work about it?"

Ally Campbell says, "I wanted to believe photographs could be accurate representations of experiences. That this place, person, or moment could remain exactly how it once was, and I could hold onto it forever through an image. A mentor helped me realized that no photograph is entirely truthful, and that’s the beauty of the medium. This dichotomy between representation and reality, desire and truth, memory and experience is what drives me to make photographs."

Granville Carroll asks, "Is there a specific personal origin story or narrative that inspired this image?"

Campbell says, "Whenever I visited the town I grew up in, I used to drive to all of the places that had meaning to me in the town – past houses that used to be different colors, through neighborhoods that were once desolate. This ritual became a type of obsession that I would do every time I came home, wondering if I could see something I hadn’t before. I needed to go back in time, to make more sense of who I am today. I made this picture after I pulled into the driveway with no new revelation, only the idea that my car is a time machine – a vehicle through which I could revisit the past."

MORE ABOUT ALLY CAMPBELL:

Ally Campbell (b.1995) is a Brooklyn based photographic artist. She received her BFA in Photography with a minor in Art History at the Lesley University College of Art and Design in 2017 and MLA in Museum Studies at Harvard University in 2021.

Her work has been exhibited at the Laconia Gallery, Cambridge Art Association, Raizes Gallery Spaceus and various online galleries. Campbell’s work continuously explores themes of the ephemeral, memory, and the loss that occurs between reality and representation.

Career Highlights: 

Published Midnight Drive with Trash Press, curated exhibition Reimagining Home at Spaceus, featured artist on From Here on Out. 

Website: 
www.allycampbell.com

Instagram: 
www.instagram.com/aally_campbell

 
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EVELYN by Ally Campbell
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1253 AM by Ally Campbell
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COSMIC BEING by Ally Campbell
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NOT HOW IT WAS BUT HOW I WANTED IT TO BE by Ally Campbell
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THE HOUSES ARE DIFFERENT COLORS by Ally Campbell
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FIRST DAY by Ally Christmas
SECOND PLACE

Ally Christmas says, "The photograph is a vessel for representation, for somehow binding the human body to the world. How, then, does that representation and subsequent binding become complicated or disrupted through the violent act of manipulating one’s own representation?

In this series of images (made as part of a larger body of worked titled pleasing memory picture between 2016-2017), I picked key memories from my personal archive and content-aware filled myself out.

This self-inflicted wounding – puncturing the photos with the spot healing brush and the clone stamp – became a strategy for testing the bounds and reliability of my actual memory. The more time passes between the edits and my present moment, the less I actually remember the details of the lived experiences the photos once documented."

Ally Christmas is a visual artist from the Northern VA area, currently living and working out of Shepherdstown, WV. Much of her work revolves around notions of selfhood, virtuality, and lived experience, and her hybrid practice involves a number of forms including digital video, still photography, tintypes, palladium prints, bookmaking, gifs, cinemagraphs, and installation. Outside of her personal art practice, she teaches lens-based media as an Assistant Professor of Art and serves as the coordinator of the BFA Photo program at Shepherd University.

Career Highlights-

Christmas’s work has been shown at a wide variety of venues, including bitforms gallery in New York City; aCinema’s aDifferent Festival in Milwaukee; ATHICA in Athens, GA; Marcia Wood Gallery in Atlanta, GA; the Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, CO; and the Alternative Film Festival in Toronto, where her video piece, Syncing, won the festival award for Best Web Series. After earning her MFA in Photo & Video from the University of Georgia in 2018, Christmas spent two years teaching video art and photography courses at Grinnell College as the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Video and New Media.


 IMAGES FOR SALE -
 
Ash, ’96
8”H x 10”W
Archival Inkjet Print
$150 unframed
 
First Day
8”H x 10”W
Archival Inkjet Print
$150 unframed
 
Nesting Dolls
8”H x 10”W
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Soft Piles
8”H x 10”W
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Someone’s Birthday (Not Mine)
10”H x 8”W
Archival Inkjet Print
$150 unframed
 
World Cup
8”H x 10”W
Archival Inkjet Print
$150 unframed
 
 
Contact: Ally Christmas 
allybeephoto@gmail.com

Website: www.allychristmas.com
Instagram:
www.instagram.com/allychristmas
 
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ASH by Ally Christmas
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NESTING DOLLS by Ally Christmas
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SOFT PILES by Ally Christmas
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SOMEONE'S BIRTHDAY (NOT MINE) by Ally Christmas
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WORLD CUP by Ally Christmas
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BEGIN by Andrew Ortiz

Andrew Ortiz says, "The images enclosed are examples from a new body of work titled Measured Disorder. It is a highly personal narrative of my struggles with seizure disorders. Dark in both emotional content and physical appearance, the images are computer manipulated collages of original digital photographs and scanned
items that seek to express the intense psychological impact of dealing with physical challenges.

A review of a recent gallery exhibition of this work referred to them as self-portraits, which is partially true since many include my face or body. However, they are also meant to express a process and an experience –what it’s like having seizures as well as the medical “measuring” one undergoes on an ongoing basis.

Sometimes disembodied, sometimes clinical, sometimes mystical, the images attempt to communicate my varied experiences with epilepsy."

Andrew Ortiz was born in Los Angeles, California and has been a resident of
Arlington, Texas since 1997 when he began his teaching career with the Art & Art History Department of the University of Texas at Arlington. In 2004 he earned tenure and was promoted to associate professor. He currently teaches photography and digital imaging to
undergraduate and graduate students at the university.

Andrew received his Master of Fine Arts degree in visual studies from SUNY Brockport’s Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY.  From documentary photography that presented “found
moments” or broad snapshots of urban society, his work has transitioned into computer manipulation of imagery used to explore personal narratives about ethnicity and identity through large scale digital collages. Over the past thirty years his work has been featured nationally and internationally in over one hundred and sixty group and forty-one solo exhibitions.

Recent exhibitions include solo shows at Gallery 414 in Ft. Worth and Inner Space
Gallery in Dallas in 2018. Other solo exhibitions in the past few years have taken place in Lake Jackson, TX, Buffalo, NY, Epworth, IA and San Antonio, TX.

He has been selected to participate in national artist residency programs including at venues in Oklahoma, California, Florida and New York. He has also been invited to give over thirty presentations, lectures and workshops throughout the country. In addition, his artwork can be found in numerous public and private collections.

He is the recipient of many awards including the “New Photography Award” from En Foco in New York City, First Prize in the Gordon Parks Photography Competition, Gold Medal Finalist
and Award from the San Francisco International Photography Exhibition, numerous Best of Show and Juror’s Awards from competitive exhibitions throughout the country, and a Grand
Prize for faculty portfolio from the Photo Imaging Education Association. He has also received several professional development and faculty research awards and grants throughout his academic career.

Images for Sale:

Title: Collection, 29 x 20, framed
Medium: Archival Pigment Print
Price: $425., framed
Limited Edition of 5 images.


Title: X Ray, 29 x 20, framed
Medium: Archival Pigment Print
Price: $425., framed
Limited Edition of 5 images.


Title: Begin, 29 x 20, framed
Medium: Archival Pigment Print
Price: $425., framed
Limited Edition of 5 images.


Title: Blur, 29 x 20
Medium: Archival Pigment Print
Price: $425., framed
Limited Edition of 5 images.


Title: Palabras Drifting, 29 x 20
Medium: Archival Pigment Print
Price: $425., framed
Limited Edition of 5 images.

Title: Strain, 29 x 20
Medium: Archival Pigment Print
Price: $425., framed
Limited Edition of 5 images.

Contact: Andrew J. Ortiz
ortiz@uta.edu

 
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BLUR by Andrew Ortiz
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COLLECTION by Andrew Ortiz
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PALABRAS DRIFTING by Andrew Ortiz
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STRAIN by Andrew Ortiz
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X RAY by Andrew Ortiz
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CERULEAN 0734 by Christos Palios

Christos J. Palios says of 'Athenian', "For more than thirty years I’ve been visiting my family in Europe. Through the same large kitchen window overlooking an expansive Athenian metropolis, I've experienced a compelling array of ephemera: shifting atmospherics, feverishly-flickering lights, bustling thoroughfares.

Anchored by the mythological wonder of the ancient Parthenon in the distance, this view enchanted my child mind. Often lost in reverie of limitless memories and milestone journeys to Greece in youth, while being raised among two disparate cultures, this vista emerged from a curious duality: intriguing foreign landscape (ambition) vs comfortably-familiar novelty (safety).

As commuters in time’s flow, nostalgia gradually accrues while memories fade and we become seeming foreigners to our own pasts. Coupled with my fondness for spaces and an ongoing struggle with being present, as momentary fragments of time, these views form a continuous visual essay—a meditation on human presence, an evolution between city and artist.

I’ve considered this window a private, calming portal of stillness among a frenzied life surrounded by density. This ongoing series serves as a personal visual metaphor contemplating life's paradox of welcome diversity and a subconscious yearning for uniformity."

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.  —Aldous Huxley

Christos was raised as a first-generation Greek-American, a son of immigrants. As strong symbolic sparks, these two distinct cultures forged his personal and creative evolution. Socioeconomics, cultural diversity, history, and architecture inform his intellectual intrigue and creative process. His long-term photographic work is rooted in research and probes themes of identity, connection, nostalgia, and isolation. 

Christos' springboard originates in the visual arts, consummated by a BFA from the University of Maryland in Baltimore. His photographs have been exhibited at venues such as the Baltimore Museum of Art, Blue Sky Gallery, Grimaldis Gallery, Candela Gallery, Tew Galleries, Isabella Garrucho Fine Art, Houston Center for Photography, among others, has been published, and resides in private and corporate collections throughout the country and abroad.

Resume / CV2022

Interview, Dodho Magazine, Barcelona, (Conversations)—
Shortlist, Athens Photo Festival, Athens, Greece, (Architecture of Gilded Dreams, Resplendence of Antipodes, Sarakiniko)—
Exhibitor, F-Stop Magazine Online Group Exhibition, Amusement (Architecture of Gilded Dreams)—
Shortlist, Communication Arts, Photography Annual, (Architecture of Gilded Dreams)—
Publication, Dodho Magazine, Fine Art/Still Life, (Conversations)—

2021
Silver Award, Tokyo International Foto Awards, Fine Art/Still Life, (Isolation Games)—
Silver Award, Prix de la Photographie de Paris, Fine Art/Still Life, (Isolation Games)—
Publication, Dodho Magazine, Print/Digital Issue #19, Juried by Catherine Edelman, Florian Kazimirski, Roger Ballen, & Caroline Hunter, (Conversations)—
Exhibitor, A. Smith Gallery, Vistas Exhibition, Juried by George Nobechi, (Sarakiniko)—
Honorable Mention, International Photography Awards, Online Exhibition, Fine Art/Landscape, (Sarakiniko)—
Exhibitor, F-Stop Magazine Online Group Exhibition, Landscape (Sarakiniko)—
Bronze Award, Prix de la Photographie de Paris, Fine Art/Still Life (Isolation Games)—
Exhibitor, PCNW, Time Capsule, Juried by Shamim M. Momin, Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Henry Art Gallery, Honorable Mention (Isolation Games)—
Exhibitor, Griffin Museum of Photography, 27th Juried Show, Critic’s Pic Gallery (Isolation Games)—
Exhibitor, The University of Southern Mississippi Museum of Art, International Juried Virtual Exhibition, Juried by Betty Press (Isolation Games)—
Exhibitor & Contributor, Hal Gould Vision in Photography Award Virtual Print Auction (Annual Fundraiser), Colorado Photographic Arts Center, CO

2020
Exhibitor, Center for Photographic Art, 2020 International Group Exhibition, Juried by Aline Smithson, Carmel, CA (Isolation Games)
Honorable Mention, International Photography Awards, Online Exhibition, Fine Art/Still-Life, (Isolation Games)
Honorable Mention, Prix de la Photographie de Paris (Px3), Online Exhibition, Fine Art/Still-Life, (Diaspora)
Finalist, Critical Mass, (Isolation Games)
Shortlist, Athens Photo Festival, Athens, Greece, (Isolation Games, Athenian, Fleur-de-Lis)
Exhibitor, The Curated Fridge, Summer 2020,Online Group Exhibition (Isolation Games)
Exhibitor, Houston Center for Photography, Togethering, Online Group Exhibition (Isolation Games)
Exhibitor, Lenscratch, The 2020 Self-Quarantining Exhibition, Online Group Exhibition (Isolation Games)
Exhibitor, F-Stop Magazine, Contemporary Still Life, Online Group Exhibition (Fleur-de-Lis)

2019
Exhibitor, Table Testaments, Arts Benicia Gallery, Benicia, CA, (Conversations)
Exhibitor, Colorado Photographic Arts Center (CPAC), Coming Together, Denver, CO (Conversations)
Exhibitor, Candela Gallery, Unbound Annual Invitational & Juried Summer Exhibition, Richmond, VA (Conversations)
Exhibitor, 38th Annual Collector’s Night Auction Gala Exhibition, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C., (Conversations)
Featured, Musée Magazine Weekend Portfolio, New York, (Absolute Powers // ex-nihilo)

2018
Finalist, Critical Mass, (Conversations)
Shortlist, Athens Photo Festival, Athens, Greece
Photo of the Day (January 18th), Don't Take Pictures Magazine, Kat Kiernan


Portfolio: www.christospalios.com
Instagram: www.instagram.com/christosjpalios


 
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DELUGE 1158 by Christos Palios
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INTERMITTENT 1028 by Christos Palios
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LEADEN 1202 by Christos Palios
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PLACID 1722 by Christos Palios
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SUNDAY 2044 by Christos Palios
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POKING, PRODDING, SEEKING by Eric Afflerbach
THIRD PLACE

Eric Afflerbach says, "Is He...You Know seeks to understand the feelings of shame and fear that I have in being openly gay. The images, created through the use of projections, prisms, and camera lens filters which distort my body and face, are loosely inspired by the tropes and atmospheres of horror movies. The brightly colored, kaleidoscopic world I’ve constructed explores the beauty in my queerness that I’ve longed to embrace but have hidden out of fear. It signifies my growing confidence with being visibly queer, despite the stigma and hatred that is, and will continue to be, projected onto me."

Eric Afflerbach is a fine art photographer from Floral Park, NY. He is currently attending SUNY New Paltz, where he graduated in 2022 with a BFA in Photography. Eric's work, often self-portraiture, explores queerness and the subconscious through surreal imagery that recalls the tropes and feelings of horror films.

Awards & Recognition-

2022    Luigi and Anita Traverso Photography Award Endowment   
2021    Frank and Gertrude Eckelt Fine Arts Memorial Scholarship


www.ericafflerbach.com
www.instagram.com/ericafflerbach
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ALIEN by Eric Afflerbach
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MAKE OUT by Eric Afflerbach
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NATURAL INDECENCY by Eric Afflerbach
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THE LIMP WRIST THAT COULD SAVE YOUR LIFE by Eric Afflerbach
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THE SUN STEALER by Eric Afflerbach
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BALI DAZE by Jane Gottlieb

Jane Gottlieb says, "I have been expressing my joy of art with paint, shapes and colors since I was very young.  I started as a painter, evolved into a photographer, and eventually began hand-painting on my Cibachrome prints over 35 years ago.  Before Photoshop I found a way to express a new magical reality with the vivid, saturated and unrealistic colors 
I painted into each individual photographic print.

For the past 30 years I have been scanning my one-of-a-kind hand-painted prints 
and my library of 35mm Kodachrome color transparencies taken over the last 45 years.  I love to paint, collage and enhance them with Photoshop, creating my own idyllic world! "

Bio / Career Highlights:

"My art has been shown worldwide in many solo exhibitions including:
Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio; Colarinda Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal;
MAD Gallery, Milan, Italy; Demenga Gallery, Paris, France & Basel, Switzerland;
Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA; Laguna Art Museum, CA; 
Petersen Automotive Museum, LA, CA;  LA County Natural History Museum, CA; 
Monterey Museum of Art, CA; Nancy Hoffman Gallery, NYC, NY; L’Image Gallery, Rome, Italy; 
Louis Stern Gallery, West Hollywood, CA; Wall Space Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA.

I have been included in countless group exhibits and Art Fairs around the world over the last 30 years. 

It has been in many magazines, book covers, two museum exhibition catalogues and two books have been 
published of my art, Garden Tales and Car Tales.  
 
Recently I have had the honor of being asked to install my art in many wonderful public spaces, 
on exhibit for 10 years:

In 2013 I installed more than 70 large art works at the UCLA Law Library and 
UCLA Anderson School of Management, including a 5'x10' commission.

I also installed an exhibit of my “Joy Rides” series printed on aluminum
at the Car Museum in Oxnard CA.
In 2014 I installed 20 new very large artworks printed on aluminum at 
the UCSB Gervirtz Graduate School of Education.   

In 2015 I created the First Vertical Art Gallery at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health: 
I got a drab eight story stairway freshly painted bright white, it had good lighting and I filled it with eight large artworks. 

This is about encouraging people to make a healthy choice and use the stairs instead of the elevators, and of course being drawn into the stairwell by my exciting art exhibit!
In 2016 I installed 15 more very large artworks at the UCLA Charles Young Graduate Library, in a huge first floor study hall!

In 2017 I installed another 15 artworks in the UCSB English Dept building.
I had the inaugural solo exhibit at a new wonderful gallery at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden entitled  “Jane Gottlieb Fantasy Gardens”.
In 2018 I had a 4 month exhibition entitled “Jane Gottlieb Photographs France” at the UCSB Art, Design & Architecture Museum!

I just finished at 15’x15’ commission for the UCSB Library titled “Check It Out”!  Largest artwork I have ever created!"


My Cosmic World
Shape of Things to Come - 20”Hx30”W
Archival dye sublimation print on aluminum
$1500 with thin black metal frame
Limited edition of 15
Signed on front & back



Day Dream- 30”Hx20”W
Archival dye sublimation print on aluminum
$1500 with thin black metal frame
Limited edition of 15
Signed on front & back



Bali Daze - 20”Hx30”W
Archival dye sublimation print on aluminum
$1500 with thin black metal frame
Limited edition of 15
Signed on front & back

Contact: Jane Gottlieb
www.janegottlieb.com
www.instgram.com/janegottlieb
 
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SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME by Jane Gottlieb
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DAYDREAM by Jane Gottlieb
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UGLY by Jennifer Esneault
HONORABLE MENTION

Jennifer Esneault says, "Since I was a small child, I have been a teller of stories. A vivid imagination coupled with anxiety and sleep disorders have long fueled my need to express myself through evocative and rich elements of story. The receipt of my first camera at the age of nine stoked that desire to tell my story through images. 

Each of my images represents a struggle, a desire, a diagnosis, or flawed logic. On these tiny play stages, we explore the downfall of naivete, the dangers of wall-building, the monsters who stalk us in the dark. And yet, we remain hopeful and curious as a child; one who is unafraid of what lies beyond the chambers of the mind."

Jennifer Esneault is a conceptual photographic artist in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Her conceptual work is informed by her own experiences and imagination, including depression, anxiety, sleep disorders, and trauma. 

Her subject matter is the quiet inner workings of a human mind, fraught with anxiety, hope, beauty, and connectedness. Her work seeks to inform the viewer of the transformation of a psyche over time. Through light, shadow, and universal symbolism, she tells stories that reside in us all. 

When not creating photographic artwork, she spends her time painting abstract and mixed media pieces and writing poetry and other prose. She is an active member of the Louisiana Photographic Society, serving as its exhibit coordinator and web master. Most often, you can find her at home with her husband and two children.
 
CV

Exhibitions-
Upcoming
Sept - Group Exhibition, Jones Creek Library, Louisiana Photographic Society
Jul - Group Exhibition, Old State Capitol, Louisiana Photographic Society
Jul - Solo Exhibition, The Jones Walker Foyer Gallery at Manship Theatre
 
2022
May - Juried Group Exhibition, NAMI & The Arts Council of Baton Rouge, The Mind's Eye
Apr - Solo Exhibition, Selected Works, Bluebonnet Library
Apr - Group Exhibition Event, Live Art Event, You Aren't Alone Project
Mar - Solo Exhibition, Magic and Madness, Kelwood Contemporary Art
Jan - Curator selection, Emerging/Contemporary Artist, Your Daily Photograph, Duncan Miller Gallery
Jan - Group Exhibition, Lenscratch, Best Images of 2021
Jan - Juried Group Exhibition, Gallerium, Emotions
Jan - Juried Group Exhibition, Las Laguna Gallery, Human Faces & Figures
Jan - Juried Group Exhibition, Creatives on Fire, Self Portraits on Fire
 
2021
Sept - Juried Group Exhibition, Gwinnett County Public Library, GCPL Annual Photo Exhibit
Aug - Group Exhibition, Main Library at Goodwood, Louisiana Photographic Society
Jun - Group Exhibition, Bluebonnet Library, Louisiana Photographic Society
May - Curator selection, Emerging/Contemporary Artist, Your Daily Photograph, Duncan Miller Gallery
Apr - Juried Group Exhibition, F-Stop Magazine, Self Portraits
Mar - Juried Group Exhibition, Glasgow Gallery of Photography, International Women's Month
Feb - Curator selection, Emerging/Contemporary Artist, Your Daily Photograph, Duncan Miller Gallery
Jan - Group Exhibition, Lenscratch, Best Images of 2020
 
2020
Sept - Group Exhibition, Denham Springs/Walker Branch Library, Louisiana Photographic Society
Jan – Group Exhibition, Lenscratch, Best Images of 2019
 
2019
Nov – Group Exhibition, NAMI & The Arts Council of Baton Rouge, The Mind’s Eye
Oct – Group Exhibition, Jacoby Arts Center, Art is Distortion
Oct – Group Exhibition, Yeiser Art Center, Art Through the Lens 2019
Oct – Group Exhibition, Paragon Art, Mysticism and Magic
Sep – Group Exhibition, d’Art Center, Contrived
Jul – Solo Exhibition, East Baton Rouge Main Library at Goodwood, Underwater Series
Jun – Group Exhibition, Livingston Parish Arts Council, Louisiana Photographic Society
May – Group Exhibition, The Manship Center, Louisiana Photographic Society
Mar – Group Exhibition, d’Art Center, Persistence: A National Exhibition Celebrating Women’s Empowerment
Mar – Group Exhibition, Las Laguna Gallery, 2019 Women In Art
Feb – Group Exhibition, Arts Council of Baton Rouge Firehouse Gallery, Stabbed in the Art
Feb – Group Exhibition, Indiana University Kokomo, Perturbation
Jan – Group Exhibition, Moving Lab Venice, WAV Venice Audio-Visual Show
 
2018
Sep – Group Exhibition, Kelwood Contemporary Art, Finding Your Voice
Jul – Group Exhibition, St. Tammany Art Association, 53rd Annual Summer Show
Jul – Group Exhibition, Forum 35, 15th Annual Art Melt
 
(full CV available on website)

Career Highlights-

2017 – 11th place, International Shoot & Share Competition, Personal Work 

Images for Sale: 

Broken Things - 10" H x 10" W (on 12 x 12 paper)
Archival Paper
$400 unframed
Limited Edition of 10
Signed on Back


Curiosity - 10" H x 10" W (on 12 x 12 paper)
Archival Paper
$400 unframed
Limited Edition of 10
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Daily Masquerade - 10" H x 10" W (on 12 x 12 paper)
Archival Paper
$400 unframed
Limited Edition of 10
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Escape - 10" H x 10" W (on 12 x 12 paper)
Archival Paper
$400 unframed
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Fallen - 10" H x 10" W (on 12 x 12 paper)
Archival Paper
$400 unframed
Limited Edition of 10
Signed on Back


Ugly - 10" H x 10" W (on 12 x 12 paper)
Archival Paper
$400 unframed
Limited Edition of 10
Signed on Back

Contact: Jennifer Esneault
jennifer.esneault@gmail.com

www.instagram.com/jennifer.esneault
www.jenniferesneault.art
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BROKEN THINGS by Jennifer Esneault
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CURIOSITY by Jennifer Esneault