Join our guests Edwin Torres and Erin Delsigne as well as curators Heather Palecek and Habiyb Shu’Aib for the return of our monthly artist talk.
Erin Delsigne
https://www.filmcollageartist.com
Film Collage Artist, Erin Delsigne, is most well-known for her instant film collages using Polaroid and Fuji Instax film to create psychedelic landscapes and surreal portraiture.
She earned her education from Humboldt State University and Cal State Long Beach; studying Photojournalism, Black and White film, digital and commercial photography.
In 2018, Film Collage Artist was born when, Los Angeles based artist Erin Delsigne, started creating her first instant film collages to bridge the gap of understanding her controversial battle with Lyme Disease.
Her work is captured on a custom converted Mamiya Universal Press with a Rezivot back; allowing Erin to photograph with i-Type, Sx-70 and 600 Polaroid films.
In only two short years, Film Collage Artist was accepted into a prestigious artist-in-residence at Château d’Orquevaux in France, won The Denis Diderot [A-i-R] Grant, featured in Analog Magazine Forever’s article ‘Top 20 Spring Polaroid Week 2020’, featured in 10 group exhibitions and published in various magazines.
Edwin Torres
https://www.edwintorrespf.com/homepage
Edwin J. Torres (b.1989) is an award-winning photographer preoccupied with uncovering stories about family life and disenfranchised communities that are often overlooked. He graduated from Colby College with a degree in American Studies, which sparked his intellectual curiosity about history, current events, and the representation of cultures in a variety of media.
Born in the Hunts Point neighborhood of the Bronx and raised in a Puerto Rican family, Torres developed a love for his vibrant community and works to serve as one of the voices from within.
Currently, Torres serves as the Deputy Digital Director for the Governor’s Office in New Jersey. Prior, he served as a staff photographer for the New York City Mayor’s Office. Prior to his work in government, Torres was a freelance photojournalist. In 2016, Torres was the lead photographer and contributed reporting in a Pulitzer Prize winning story with ProPublica and the New York Daily News. He is a member of the Bronx Photo League which is attached to The Bronx Documentary Center (BDC) and published the Jerome Avenue Worker’s Project.
His work has been published in the New York Times, Vice, The Atlantic, The New York Daily News, The American Prospect, ProPublica, The GroundTruth Project, Leica Blog, and several other outlets.
Third Thursdays is a monthly artist talk from the JKC Gallery. This season’s shows will all be in-person and virtual simultaneously. It is curated and moderated by artists, Heather Palacek and Habiyb Shu’Aib, and hosted by Michael Chovan-Dalton, Director of the JKC Gallery. The talks were started by Palacek and Shu’Aib as a platform for artists to showcase their work to the Trenton and the larger regional community and quickly reached an audience from New York to Philadelphia. With the introduction of hybrid virtual and in-person shows we now have regional artists and artists from across the country and our audience reach is global.
-Michael Chovan-Dalton / JKC Gallery Director