2010 Summer Fest Guest Curators

In 2010 we will be graced with three fabulous Guest Curators in the Maxon Mills building who will be filling the Old Hotel and New Hotel 1 with fabulous artists and their work. More info below….

DIS-ROBED

documenting and archiving the self today
@ New Hotel 1 in the Maxon Mills
Curated by Kathleen Smith and Ava Rawski

Preview of work:

Dis-Robed: documenting and archiving the self today is an exhibition of contemporary work that probes the intersection of personal and collective memory by investigating the impulse to document and archive the self.  At this intersection is portraiture, from self-portraiture to voyeurism and all in between.
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Artists include:
Tod Seelie
Max Gleason
Disorientalism (Katherine Behar & Marianne M. Kim)
Bryan Zanisnik
Alex Golden with music by Nicholas Csicsko
Jo Q. Nelson
Red Bucket Films
Kristine Taylor

Sea Change

@Old Hotel in Maxon Mills
Curated by Alison Zavos

Preview of work:

‘Sea Change’ is a group photography exhibition which examines our complicated relationship with animals and the environment in wake of the greatest environmental disaster in American history, the BP oil spill.

Featuring the work of 26 emerging and established photographers, most of whom are based in New York, the exhibition will be displayed on the beautifully decaying walls of seven rooms in the old Greek Revival Hotel section of Maxon Mills (the Old Hotel).

Highlights of the show include Nadya Wasylko’s image of sunbathers fighting for space along the bank of the polluted Dnipro River in Ukraine; Katie Shapiro’s ‘Malibu Sandbags’ series, which documents a last ditch attempt by residents to save their properties from rising sea levels; Katharyn Addcox’s photographs of women involved in sustainable farming; Kate Kunath’s documentation of beekeepers, signifying the rise of a more conscious ‘back to the land’ approach; and Mark Mahaney’s entrancing image of a mother and fawn frolicking on a manicured lawn.

Artists Include:
Lexi Adams
Katharyn Addcox
Rachel Barrett
Steven Brahms
Timothy Briner
Alexander Diaz
Jacqueline Di Millia
Marten Elder
Charlie Engman
Eva Fazzari
Stanislav Ginzburg
Rob Hann
Zev Jonas
Kate Kunath
Mark Mahaney
Billie Mandle
Annick Rosenfield
Niv Rozenberg
Katie Shapiro
Robert Warren
Nadya Wasylko
Elizabeth Weinberg
Eric White
Margaret Inga Wiatrowski
Geordie Wood
Alison Zavos