VANTAGE POINT 23 – BRONX EYES

Posted on 2016-08-22

Launched in 1997, ICP at THE POINT is a year-round photography-based collaboration that includes a classroom/studio, black-and-white darkroom, and gallery. Through weekly classes for pre-teens and teens, the program teaches photography, critical thinking, writing, and public speaking with the goal of fostering self-esteem, community development, and social change.

Bronx Eyes is an exhibition of student photographs from the past four years, which celebrates the power of their individual voices and shared experiences. To see the Bronx through the eyes of its own, the images reveal a unique and essential representation of local stories and truths.

Featured Artists
Marissa Alicea, Marlon Allen, Elisaac Alvarez, Roy Baizan, Tony Baizan, Cristal Bautista, Kayla Beltran, Jasmin Chabla, Boris Cortes, Antonio Cruz, Britney Cuevas, Wesley DeJesus, Brianna Diaz, Daniela Dipre, Ajohntae Dixon, Nailea Dominguez, Alexa Duran, Preston Fulwood, Alberto Garcia, Fritzi Garcia, Evan Guzman, Diana Herrera Cuautle, Aesetou Hydara, Raymond Jimenez, Stephanie Martinez, Artie Medina, Eduardo Montalvo, Sebastian Peralta, Tayvhon Pierce, Shandale Ricketts, Margarete Rodriguez, Rick Rodriguez, Alexa Seda, Victoria Spaulding, Jada Stewart, Sabrina Vasquez Alexandria Velazquez, Nicholas Watson, Shanice Workman

Opposite – Roy Baizan, 2016

Exhibition runs through to October 23rd, 2016

ICP at the Point
940 Garrison Avenue
Bronx, New York
NY 10474

www.icp.org

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PHOTOGRAPHS BY FRANK GIMPAYA

Posted on 2016-08-22

In 2007, the Museum of Modern Art exhibited a series of drawings by French post-Impressionist painter and draftsman Georges Seurat. Frank Gimpaya was taken by the painter’s 1882 rendering of The Veil. He was inspired to create a photographic tableau of this drawing as a means of instruction for the photography classes he taught at Saint Peter’s University in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Production took place in spring 2008. The setup design was simple: natural window light, grey seamless paper background, a fan, and a mask purchased years before in a Halloween shop in the Greenwich Village, NY. Originally conceived as a demonstration photograph, Gimpaya observed varied changes, both subtle and dramatic, as he worked. The one photograph turned into a series that questions the notion of identity, changing personas, assumptions of beauty, the nature of creativity, the ambiguity of photography, and the emotional projection from a half hidden face.

Opposite – #7 from the Mask series, 2009

Exhibition runs through to October 23rd, 2016

The Bronx Museum of the Arts
1040 Grand Concourse
Bronx, New York
NY 10456

www.bronxmuseum.org

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