The JKC Gallery is excited to relaunch our old Third Thursdays series as our new Twosday Talks series.
Heather Palecek and Habiyb Shu’Aib continue their artist talk series now on the second Tuesday of the month at 6:30 pm. As always, the talks will be both in the gallery and on Zoom.
For September we have Dale Rio and CJ Harker.
Dale Rio
Dale’s talk will focus on her progression from early projects centered around the self to recent work that seeks to address issues much larger than any single individual.
IG: https://www.instagram.com/dale.rio.photography/
Dale Rio is a photographic artist whose work explores issues such as mortality, human constructs, and man’s relationship with the natural world. Utilizing film and historic photographic processes, Dale employs “straight” photography to document the world around her and also creates conceptual work in response to that world. Her work has been shown extensively in the U.S., as well as in England, Germany, and New Zealand. Her images reside in private collections and have been reproduced in countless publications. She has authored one book and co-authored a second.
Dale received a BA in Studio Art from Smith College in 1993 and an MFA in Photography from Pratt Institute in 1996. In 1997, she was awarded a Fulbright Travel Grant and the Miguel Vinciguerra Grant to document life in rural Sicily. Upon her return to the States, Dale embarked upon a varied photographic career that has included freelancing, serving as a master darkroom printer, teaching, editing, and curating.
In 2018, Dale was the recipient of a Windgate Scholarship, which allowed her to study the Daguerreotype process at Penland School of Craft. She has attended residencies at Penland, the Studios at MASS MoCA, and the Farmington Valley Arts Center.
Dale has been involved with numerous photo and art centers across the country, and in 2015, she co-founded The Halide Project, a Philadelphia-based non-profit whose mission is the support of film and historic process photography. In 2021, she launched Point A to Point B: analog explorations, a print publication that features travel- and place-based film and historic process photography, and in 2022 she founded Lux et Libera: women at the intersection of light and chemistry, an initiative that seeks to recognize the leading role women play in alternative process photography.
CJ Harker
CJ is an MCCC and JKC Gallery alum and is back to talk about more of his work.
IG: https://www.instagram.com/damagednotions/
CJ Harker’s work generally revolves around people. From formal portraiture to action, editorial and environmental work. While people are his preferred subject, it is mainly the process that motivates Harker to make work. Some times digital is the appropriate choice but he prefers to work with traditional and historic processes from film to tintype and other printmaking practices. Crafting an image from capture to print is what keeps Harker engaged with photography.
