Time(s) - 12:00 am - 10:00 pm
Location
Atlanta Photography Group
Photo: Linda Plaisted
Aline Smithson
Selects 2024
Juror:
Aline Smithson
Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Lenscratch,
Photographic Artist and Educator
Exhibition Dates: September 17 – October 12, 2024
Reception/Open House/Artist Talk – September 28, 2024 6:00-9:00pm ET
This exhibition, juried by Aline Smithson, Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Lenscratch, is an open-themed showcase that celebrates the diverse world of fine art photography, encompassing a wide range of subjects, cultures, and the global landscape. In the selection process, our juror considered how the images worked in conversation with one another. She worked through 634 images submitted by 125 artists to choose 50 for Aline Smithson Selects 2024.
This is the second year for the APG/Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Purchase Award, a $3,000 prize which is made possible through a generous grant from Edwin Robinson and Julin Maloof, in honor of Gloria and Ted Maloof. This is a great opportunity for artists to premier photography gallery in Atlanta and the Southeast, and to be considered by Lisa Volpe, Curator of Photography at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston for the museum purchase award.
The Opening Reception will be a hybrid event on September 28, 2024 6:00-9pm ET, with Ms. Smithson and Ms. Volpe in attendance, and featuring a juror/artist talk beginning at 7:00pm ET.
Aline Smithson
Founder and Editor-in-Chief
Lenscratch
Aline Smithson is an interdisciplinary artist, editor, filmmaker, and educator based in Los Angeles, California. Best known for her conceptual portraiture and a practice that uses humor and pathos to explore the performative potential of photography. Growing up in the shadow of Hollywood, her work is influenced by the elevated unreal. She received a BA in Art from the University of California at Santa Barbara and was accepted into the College of Creative Studies, studying under artists such as William Wegman, Allen Rupersburg, and Charles Garabedian. After a career as a New York Fashion Editor working alongside some the greats of fashion photography, Smithson returned to Los Angeles and her own artistic practice.
She has exhibited widely including over 40 solo shows at institutions such as the Griffin Museum of Photography, the Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art, the Shanghai, Lishui, and Pingyqo Festivals in China, The Rayko Photo Center in San Francisco, the Center of Fine Art Photography in Colorado, the Tagomago Gallery in Barcelona and Paris, and the Arnika Dawkins Gallery in Atlanta. In addition, her work has been featured in numerous publications including The New York Times, The New Yorker, PDN (cover), the PDN Photo Annual, Communication Arts Photo Annual, Harper’s, Eyemazing, Soura, Visura, Shots, Pozytyw, and Silvershotz magazines.
Smithson is the Founder and Editor- in-Chief of Lenscratch, a daily journal on photography. She has been an educator at the Los Angeles Center of Photography since 2001 and her teaching spans the globe. In 2012, Smithson received the Rising Star Award through the Griffin Museum of Photography for her contributions to the photographic community and also she received the prestigious Excellence in Teaching Award from CENTER. In 2014 and 2019, Smithson’s work was selected for the Critical Mass Top 50. Her work is held in significant public collections including the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Crocker Art Museum, and the Santa Barbara Art Museum.
In 2015, the Magenta Foundation published her first significant monograph, Self & Others: Portrait as Autobiography. In 2016, the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum commissioned Smithson to create a series of portraits for the upcoming Faces of Our Planet Exhibition. In the Fall of 2018 and again in 2019, her work was selected as a finalist in the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize and exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in London. In 2019, Kris Graves Projects commissioned her to create the book LOST II: Los Angeles that is now sold out. Peanut Press Books published her monograph, Fugue State, in Fall 2021. Her books are in the collections of the Getty Museum, the Los Angeles Contemporary Art Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, London, the Metropolitan Museum, the Guggenheim, the Museum of Modern Art, among others. In 2022, she was honored to be a Hasselblad Heroine. With the exception of her cell phone, she only shoots film.
Website: www.alinesmithson.com
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is among the 10 largest art museums in the United States, with an encyclopedic collection of more than 65,000 works of art. The main campus comprises the Audrey Jones Beck Building; the Caroline Wiess Law Building; the Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden; the Glassell School of Art; The Brown Foundation, Inc. Plaza; and the BBVA Compass Roof Garden. The MFAH has two cafés, a repertory cinema, two libraries, and two nearby house museums for decorative arts: Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens, and Rienzi.
Website: mfah.org
Selected Artists
Alec Dann
Alexander Gouleta
Alex Wahoski
Anne Berry
Astrid Reischwitz
Beate Sass
Benita Mayo
Billy Clifton-Strawn
Blake Burton
B Proud
Chip Standifer
Christa Blackwood
Clay Fisher
Corinne Adams
Dale Niles
Dennis Church
Derrick Hender
Diane Meyer
Elizabeth Pedinotti Haynes
Gene Dominique
Grace Weston
Jennifer McKinnon Richman
Laurie Peek
Lawrence Manning
Lee Day
Linda Plaisted
Lisa McCord
Louis Leon
Lynne Buchanan
Lynn Saville
Melissa Brown
Myrtie Cope
Nathan Dean
Paula Pink
Polly Whitehorn
Robin W Bailey
Rohina Hoffman
Royce Soble
Saba Sitton
Sam Zalutsky
Seth Cook
Stephanie Hanlon
Stephen Weiss
Susan Borowitz
Susan James
Suzanne Révy
Teri Figliuzzi
Tom Meiss
Wendy Garfinkel-Gold
William Karl Valentine
