Looking Askance
October 16 - November 10, 2015
Anna Elise Johnson, Good Governance, 2015. Courtesy of the artist
Reception: Fri, Oct 16, 6–8pm
Gallery SKE + UChicago Center in Delhi, DLF Capitol Point, Baba Kharak Singh Marg, New Delhi
Drawing on India’s long tradition of documentary photography, Looking Askance considers contemporary photographic works from the University of Chicago that respond to current events and media imagery. These works complicate what it means to “bear witness” by proposing a problematic relationship to the utopic premise that photographs can shift the social and political conditions they picture. Through photography, collage, video, and large-scale installation, Looking Askance casts suspicion on the use of photography’s rhetoric to convey historical narrative as absolute.
Curated by Laura Letinsky, Professor in the Department of Visual Arts for the Delhi Photo Festival.
Presented by The University of Chicago Center in Delhi and Logan Center Exhibitions.
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Looking Askance: Artist Talk at the UChicago Center in Delhi
Date: October 27th. Tea and Registration from 5:30-6:00pm, with a Talk and Q&A from 6:00-7:00pm
Location:
University of Chicago Center in Delhi
DLF Capitol Point
Baba Kharak Singh Marg
New Delhi, India 110001
Participants: Laura Letinsky, Matthew Connors, Marco G. Ferrari, Matthew Connors, and Anna Elise Johnson
UChicago MFA Program Talk at Ashoka University
Date: October 27th
Location:
Ashoka University
Plot No. 2, Rajiv Gandhi Education City, Kundli, Post Office Rai, Near Rai Police Station, Sonepat, Sonepat, Haryana 131028, India
Participants: Laura Letinsky, Marco G. Ferrari, Anna Elise Johnson, Matthew Connors, Autumn Elizabeth Clark
UChicago Presentation at Shiv Nadar University
Date: October 28th
Location:
Shiv Nadar University
NH91, Tehsil Dadri
Gautam Buddha Nagar
Uttar Pradesh - 201314
Participants: Laura Letinsky, Marco G. Ferrari, Anna Elise Johnson, Matthew Connors, and Autumn Elizabeth Clark
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Laura Letinsky (b. 1962, Winnipeg, Canada) is an artist and professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago. Recent exhibitions include the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, The Photographers Gallery, London, and Denver Art Museum, CO. Previous shows include the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography; Casino Luxembourg; Galerie m Bochum, Germany; Museum of Modern Art, New York; and The Renaissance Society, Chicago. Collections include the Art Institute of Chicago; J.P. Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Hermes Collection, Paris; Musee de Beaux-Arts, Montreal, QUE; Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She has received grants from numerous institutions, including the Richard Driehaus Foundation, Anonymous Was A Woman Foundation, John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, and Canada and Manitoba Arts Council. Publications include Feast, After All, Hardly More Than Ever, Blink, Venus Inferred, and Ill Form and Void Full.
Autumn Elizabeth Clark (b. 1989, Providence, RI) is a Chicago-based artist who received her MFA from the University of Chicago in 2015 and her BFA from Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design in 2011. Clark primarily works in photographic media, ranging from collage to video works, but has also worked in the form of a large installation of photo-collaged and found wallpapers. Clark works as Laura Letinsky’s curatorial assistant and researcher for Looking Askance and upcoming exhibition Unsuspending Disbelief slated for January 2016 at the University of Chicago’s Logan Center Gallery.
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Marco G. Ferrari (b. 1974, Chicago, IL) is an Italian-American video artist based in Chicago. He received his MFA from the University of Chicago in 2013 and his BA from DePaul University in Communication and Italian. He builds films, installations, digital images, sounds, and video projection performances that explore our relationships with place and time, to probe how identity is shaped by tensions raised by our attachments to or de-attachments from our built and natural environments.
Anna Elise Johnson (b. 1983, Starnberg, Germany) is a Houston-based artist working with photography, collage, and drawing. She received her MFA from the University of Chicago in 2012 and her BFA in painting and art history from Washington University in St. Louis in 2005.
Matthew Connors (b. 1976, Port Washington, NY) received a BA in English Literature from the University of Chicago and an MFA in Photography from Yale University. Since 2004 he has been teaching at the Massachusetts College of Art & Design in Boston where he is currently the Chair of the Photography Department. He lives and works in both Boston, MA and Brooklyn, NY.
Valerie Snobeck (b. 1980, Wadena, MN) is an artist living and working in New York City. She received her MFA from the University of Chicago in 2008 and, her BFA from St. Cloud State University in St. Cloud, Minnesota, in 2003. In the past, Snobeck has exhibited at the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, and her work was recently included in the 2014 Whitney Biennial.
Daniel Traub (b. 1971, Philadelphia, PN) is a Brooklyn based photographer and filmmaker. Since 1999, he has been engaged with long term photographic projects in China including Peripheries which explores the border region where urban and rural China meet and Little North Road which looks at the people and activities found on a pedestrian bridge in an immigrant section of Guangzhou, China.
Danielle Rosen (b. 1988, Iron Mountain, MI) is an interdisciplinary artist and educator living in Chicago, IL. She received her B.F.A. from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design and her M.F.A. from the University of Chicago. Rosen is currently working on a series of photographs and sculptural screens that continue her problematization of human cultural representations of non-human animals.
Jayson M. Kellogg (b. 1985, Napa, CA ) is an American born artist from Los Angeles. A veteran of the second Iraq war, he received a BA in Sociology from the University of Southern California in 2012 and is currently completing an MFA at the University of Chicago. His most recent exhibition was this spring, a three person show titled Blurring and Its Opposite at Agency in Los Angeles. Working in time-based media Jayson’s work explores the liminal spaces where our conceptions of morality, ethics and self begin to break down into a paradoxical relationship between tragedy and comedy.
Artists
Matthew Connors
Valerie Snobeck
Daniel Traub
Anna Elise Johnson
Marco Ferrari
Danielle Rosen
Jayson Kellogg.