Time(s) - 12:00 am - 10:00 pm
Location
Atlanta Photography Group
Photo: J.K. Lavin
Arpad Kovacs
Selects 2025
Juror:
Arpad Kovacs
Associate Curator, Department of Photographs
J. Paul Getty Museum
Exhibition Dates: August 12 – September 19, 2025
Opening Reception – Thursday, August 14, 2025, 7:00-9:00pm EST
Juror/Artist Talk – Thursday, September 4, 2025, 7:00-8:30pm EST via Zoom
If you can’t attend the talk in person, please click the link below to register to attend via Zoom.
This exhibition, juried by Arpad Kovacs, Associate Curator, Department of Photographs, J. Paul Getty Museum, 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. He worked through over 500 images submitted by over 100 artists to choose 30 for Arpad Kovacs Selects 2024.
This is the third 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 held on Thursday, September 4, 2025, 7:00-9:00pm EST.
Arpad Kovacs
Associate Curator, Department of Photographs
J. Paul Getty Museum
Arpad Kovacs is an associate curator in the Department of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum. His exhibitions have focused on twentieth-century and contemporary photography, with a specific interest in conceptual practices and time-based media. He organized the monographic exhibitions Hiroshi Sugimoto: Past Tense (2014); Werner Herzog: Hearsay of the Soul (2014); Tacita Dean (2022); Uta Barth: Peripheral Vision(2023) as well as thematic shows, including In Focus: Animalia (2015); Breaking News: Turning the Lens on Mass Media(2017); Encore: Reenactment in Contemporary Photography (2019), among others. He is currently working on an exhibition and accompanying publication that will survey the work of German photographer Ursula Schulz-Dornburg. He is a graduate of Queen’s University and York University.
Website: https://www.getty.edu/
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
Alexander Laurent Rubalcava
Alex Cole
Alison Lake
Beth Galton
Chris May
Dennis Luckenbill
Dennis Segers
Geoving Gerard
Gina Cholick
Isabel Chenoweth
J.K. Lavin
JW Toftness
Jospeh Pizzuto
Judit German-Heins
Lawrence Manning
Lee Beasley
Lisa R. Reisman
Lynn Saville
Lynne Buchanan
Maggie Shannon
Mark McCarty
Michael Rainey
Nancy Farese
Rebecca Spoor
Robin W. Bailey
Tom Meiss
Victoria Gewirz
Willard Pate
William Karl Valentine
Yifan Luo
