The JKC Gallery starts off the New Year with two fantastic guests for our Third Thursdays artist talk. Ryann Casey is a great friend and partner to the JKC Gallery. Ryann recently curated Before, After – Reflections on the Armenian Genocide at Stockton University and The Mark and the Memory right here at the JKCG with Michael Chovan-Dalton. Flora Fanzutti will be joining us from France. Flora was just featured in Analog Forever Magazine and will be part of the Experimental Photo Festival in Barcelona this July.
Register here for the zoom link: https://forms.gle/dSWYJkFK7S7WydDV8
Ryann Casey
Ryann Casey is a New Jersey based artist, curator, and educator. Casey holds a BA in Photography with a minor in Gender Studies from Stockton University and an MFA/MS in Photography and Art History from Pratt Institute. She currently works as an adjunct Professor of Photography, Art History and Critical Theory at Stockton University, MCCC and Rowan College. Casey’s current photographic and curatorial projects focus on themes of loss, trauma and memory.
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Loss Event explores the intersection of personal loss with the ongoing threat of climate change and environmental degradation, specifically through the filter of memory and mourning. The project (based in the U.S. National Park system) began one year after the sudden death of a close friend and was inspired by the life she led as an avid nature enthusiast and for a time, park ranger. Loss Event is an effort to understand how grief can shape the way we move through the world and how loss can be felt in both deeply private spaces as well as publicly in places of grandeur.
Flora Fanzutti
Exploring the living matter of photography.
Between the visual imprint of the world and its loss, emerge the possibilities of transformation and expression of time.
Through my experimental explorations, I try to reveal a dialogue between representation and support.
Experimental processes are a way to intervene manually and physically on the materiality of the support itself, bringing accidents and unknown. Working directly on the negatives or photosensitive supports involves a no-turning back and opens new territories to discover.
Each work requires its own process or recipe to find the boat connecting with its substance. Time is a key factor: some processes and degradations are fast, some can take months. Experimental processes are a state of mind and a way to experience transformation, being truely alive.
I don’t consider Photography as fixing time and memories. It’s as alive as our relationship to it; it’s as changing as our memories themselves.
Photography is alive.
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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. This season our hybrid shows have regional artists and artists from across the country.
-Michael Chovan-Dalton / JKC Gallery Director