April 21 6:30-7:30pm – In-Person + Virtual
The JKC Gallery has another great pairing of two photographers who document humanity and the the world around them in very distinct ways.
Krista Svalbonas
I have a longstanding interest in architecture, particularly urban environments. I
am fascinated by the language of spatial relationships and by the effect of architectural form and structure on the psychology of the human environment. My cultural background as an ethnically Latvian/Lithuanian artist informs this interest. My parents spent many years after the end of World War II in displaced-person camps in Germany before they were allowed to emigrate to the United States. Their childhood memories were of temporary structures, appropriated from other (often military) uses to house tens of thousands of postwar refugees.
My connection to this history has made me acutely aware of the impact of politics on architecture, and in turn on a people’s daily lived experience. My work explores architecture’s relationship to cultural identity, social hierarchy, and psychological space. I work in a variety of media, including photography, painting, and installation. Integral to each series is extensive photographic documentation. In some cases this documentation becomes a visible part of the work I produce, and in other cases it becomes a subtext or a part of a multilayered piece. Within my practice I am often looking at the range of the camera-generated image, and its combination with other media such as silkscreen, painting, collage, as well as its integration with technology including CNC routing and drone photography. I am avidly interested in the intersections of media where these technical investigations serve social, political, and cultural explorations.
www.kristasvalbonas.com
https://www.instagram.com/kristasvalbonas/
Eddie Einbender-Luks
Entering into photography by means of a small 35mm film camera, Eddie fell in love with the analog process and the camera became a new way to see and interpret the world. For Eddie, photography from concept to the final print is an expression of joy as well as a way to revisit moments distilled in time.
In this presentation, Eddie will explore early analog work made in Philadelphia that helped shape his photographic sense, time spent with a Cuban-Haitian folkloric troupe and the joy they experience through music and the parade, and more recently a trip to Ukraine to visit a friend who lived in Kyiv. His work explores daily life and human emotions and his photos strive to reflect back to us our collective humanity and show us the strength of the human family.
https://www.instagram.com/rolleineddie/
https://www.facebook.com/einbenderluks
Third Thursdays is a monthly artist talk from the JKC Gallery. 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 local artists to showcase their work to the Trenton and larger regional community and quickly reached an audience from New York to Philadelphia. Now our hybrid shows have regional and international artists and audiences.
-Michael Chovan-Dalton / JKC Gallery Director