Light Work Podcast

January 14 – March 1, 2019 Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery Gallery Talk: Thursday, January 31, 6pm Reception: Thursday, January 31, 5-7pm Light Work is pleased to present American Type, a solo exhibition by artist Rodrigo Valenzuela. lg.ht/AmericanType — Rodrigo Valenzuela completed an art history degree at the University of Chile in 2004 and then worked in construction while making art over his first d...

November 1 – December 13, 2018 Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery Gallery Talk: Thursday, November 1, 6pm Reception: Thursday, November 1, 5-7pm Keisha Scarville’s primary theme is the relationship between transformation and the unknown. Grounded in photography, she works across media to explore place, absence, and subjectivity. After the death of her mother in 2015, Scarville deepened her use of photograp...

August 27 – October 18, 2018 Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery Gallery Talk: Thursday, September 20, 6pm Reception: Thursday, September 20, 5-7pm Light Work is pleased to announce Be Strong and Do Not Betray Your Soul: Selections from the Light Work Collection. The exhibition is guest-curated by For Freedoms, a platform for civic engagement, discourse, and direct action for artists in the United States, c...

March 20 – July 27, 2018 Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery Gallery Talk: Thursday, March 29, 6pm Reception: Thursday, March 29, 5-7pm Karolina Karlic’s Rubberlands is an ongoing photographic survey that maps the social and ecological impacts of rubber manufacturing. Following the trajectory of the artist’s earlier work exploring the automobile industry in Michigan, Rubberlands proceeds from Midwest cities...

January 16 – March 2, 2018 Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery Gallery Talk: Thursday, February 1, 6pm Reception: Thursday, February 1, 5-7pm Light Work is pleased to present Land of Epic Battles a solo exhibition of prints by Philadelphia-based artist Justyna Badach. Land of Epic Battles features Badach’s new series of large, hand-made dichromate prints, made using film stills from ISIS training videos. Fo...

November 1 – December 14, 2017 Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery Gallery Talk: Thursday, November 30, 6pm Reception: Thursday, November 30, 5-7pm In his exhibition, Anonymous, John Edmonds combines two distinct series of portraits, both of which conceal the identities of their subjects. The first series comprises striking formal studies of individuals wearing hoods on the street, photographed from behind....

August 28 – October 19 Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery Event: Wednesday, September 13, 6-7:30pm Reception: Wednesday, September 13, 5-6pm Light Work is pleased to present the work of photo-collage and video artist Suné Woods, To Sleep With Terra. This will be Woods’ first solo exhibition with Light Work since her residency here in 2016. The exhibition will be on view in the Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery at...

March 20 – July 27, 2017 Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery Gallery Talk: Friday, April 14, 6pm Reception: Friday, April 14, 5-7pm Light Work is pleased to announce Scale Without Measure, a solo exhibition by artist George Awde. Awde’s photographic work explores themes of contemporary masculinity, the male body, friendship, sexuality, and notions of physical and psychological strength, as seen through youn...

January 17 – March 3, 2017 Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery Gallery Talk: Thursday, February 2, 6pm Reception: Thursday, February 2, 5-7pm The Gray Line is a series of portraits that artist Kristine Potter made at West Point Military Academy, which has trained a large number of high-ranking Army officers and eventual U.S. politicians. Raised in a military family, Potter notes that “a very particular kind...

November 1 – December 16, 2016 Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery Gallery Talk: Thursday, November 10, 6pm Reception: Thursday, November 10, 5-7pm Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa’s One Wall a Web is an exhibition that gathers together work from two discrete photographic series that he made in the United States: Our Present Invention (2012–2014) and All My Gone Life (2014–2016). Both the series and the exhibition...

August 29 – October 22, 2016 Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery Lecture: Friday, October 7, 6pm Reception: Friday, October 7, 6-8pm For his exhibition A Place That Looks Like Home, artist Todd Gray re-frames and re-contextualizes images from his personal archive that spans over forty years of his career as a photographer, sculptor and performance artist. Gray describes himself as an artist and activist who...

March 21 – July 22, 2016 Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery Gallery Talk: Wednesday, March 23, 6pm Reception: Wednesday, March 23, 5-7pm With her photographic projects, Japanese artist Miki Soejima walks the line between fact and fiction, uncovering the inherent artifice and truths in images, the significance of authorship, and the power of suspended disbelief. Soejima elaborated her latest project during...

January 19 – March 10, 2016 Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery Gallery Talk: Wednesday, January 27, 6pm Reception: Wednesday, January 27, 5-7pm Light Work is pleased to present Mass and Obstruction, a solo exhibition of work by artist Mary Mattingly. Mary Mattingly creates photographs, sculpture, video and large-scale public art projects ostensibly about climate change but revealing deeper focus on surviva...

March 17 – July 18, 2015 Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery Artist Talk: Tuesday, March 17, 6:30pm Gallery Talk: Thursday, March 19, 6pm Reception: Thursday, March 19, 5-7pm Light Work is pleased to announce the exhibition Sight Specific featuring the work of artist Letha Wilson. Letha Wilson’s photographic, sculptural work begins as an exploration into our understanding of landscape. By alluding to conven...

January 12 – March 5, 2015 Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery and UVP Everson Artist Talk: Tuesday, January 27, 6:30pm Reception: Wednesday, January 28, 5-7pm Light Work and Urban Video Project are proud to present Accumulations and Number Sixteen, concurrent exhibitions featuring the work of multidisciplinary artist Xaviera Simmons. The works within these exhibitions present an artist working with— and th...

November 3 – December 17, 2014 Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery Gallery Talk: Thursday, November 13, 5pm Reception: Thursday, November 13, 5-7pm Light Work is pleased to announce Where Objects Fall Away, an exhibition spanning the career of photographer and book artist Raymond Meeks, exploring his relationship to the photobook and its form. lg.ht/WhereObjectsFallAway — In the words of artist and publishe...

March 17 – May 30, 2014 Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery Gallery Talk: Thursday, March 20, 5pm Reception: Thursday, March 20, 5-7pm With multiple bodies of work brought together in New Geographics, artist Michael Bühler-Rose explores what he calls a “new geography”—that, in our rapidly globalizing world, cultures and places are crossing over others right in front of our eyes. A working artist and profess...

January 13 – March 6, 2014 Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery Gallery Talk: Thursday, January 30, 6pm Reception: Thursday, January 30, 5-7pm Aspen Mays approaches her art-making practice with some of the same methods she learned acquiring a degree in anthropology. By embracing the art and science of photography her projects often begin by tracking down information, ideas, and experts in a variety of fields...

Jackie Nickerson: Terrain November 5 – December 20, 2013 Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery Gallery talk: Thursday, December 5, 6pm Reception: Thursday, December 5, 5-7pm — Jackie Nickerson makes photographs that examine people and their relationship to the earth, through the physical and psychological conditions of living and working on the land. With her exhibition Terrain, Nickerson revisits eastern and...

Jason Lazarus: Too Hard to Keep (Syracuse) April 4 – May 31, 2013 Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery at Light Work Gallery Talk: Thursday, April 4, 5pm Reception: Thursday, April 4, 5-7pm — In 2010 Chicago-based artist Jason Lazarus initiated a growing archive of photos deemed “too hard to keep.” T.H.T.K. (Too Hard to Keep) is a place for photographs, photo-objects, and even digital files to exist when the...