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Exhibition

Presented by MPS Digital Photography

Sight Seen

September 30 - November 5, 2016
A blurry photograph of gas station pumps. The scene is lit from the left. The only color is the blurred light from the screens and the neon painted lines on the bottom lips of the concrete barriers.

Nieves Roadcap, Things Fall Apart, 2016

SVA Chelsea Gallery

601 West 26th Street, 15th floor, New York, NY 10001

Reception

Wed, Oct 19; 6:00 - 8:00pm

An interior installation photograph of the 2016 Sight Seen Gallery show
An interior installation photograph of the 2016 Sight Seen Gallery show
An interior installation photograph of the 2016 Sight Seen Gallery show
An interior installation photograph of the 2016 Sight Seen Gallery show
An interior installation photograph of the 2016 Sight Seen Gallery show
An interior installation photograph of the 2016 Sight Seen Gallery show

Curated by: Michael Foley

School of Visual Arts presents “Sight Seen,” an exhibition of thesis projects by members of the MPS Digital Photography class of 2016. Curated by SVA faculty member and gallerist Michael Foley, “Sight Seen” is on view Friday, September 30, through Saturday, November 5, at the SVA Chelsea Gallery, 601 West 26th Street, 15th floor, New York City.


“Sight Seen” features work by students who participated in the MPS Digital Photography online program and those who completed the New York City campus-based program. “The exhibition showcases the commitment and imagination required from each student to successfully conceptualize and complete a unique body of photographic or time-based work,” says MPS Digital Photography Chair Katrin Eismann.


“Strong-minded and fiercely independent, this group of students achieved outstanding work with great diversity of topic, medium and approach,” says curator Michael Foley. “Sight Seen’ is full of punctuation and defined style. There are voices heard loud and soft, each distinctive and appropriate to the subjects they share with us.”


Angelique Ambrosio’s series “Ingest” uses stylized still lifes to address the use of genetic modification, pesticides, antibiotics and hormones in food production.


Boyz Bieber’s virtual reality project Rush Hour transports viewers onto the streets of Manhattan to eavesdrop on disjointed conversations.


Conceptualized and designed by Quartz Brown, By Oath magazine is a contemporary print and electronic media platform for emerging musicians and fashion designers.


Stanley Cadet’s sports photography series “Elemental Space” celebrates ambition, perseverance and the personal drive to overcome limitations and challenges.


Neal Corman’s “Smoke Filled Rooms” documents barbecue restaurants from Texas to Brooklyn.


“Unfinished” by Camila Cossio is a study of how nature continuously alters manmade structures.


The large-format black-and-white images in Haoran Fan’s “Displacement” depict layered landscapes, textures and figures.


Ellis Gaskell’s “Over 80” is a survey of octogenarians and nonagenarians who embody an active and positive life philosophy.


“Gotham” by George Golub captures the variety of architectural elements and urban form in New York City.


Kenneth Greenwood’s “The Wrestlers” examines the worlds of amateur and Olympic-level wrestling.


“Out of Transit” by Shravya Kag documents New York City subway musicians, commonly referred to as buskers.


Peter Killeen’s “Sunbelt” explores regional identity in the southern and southwestern United States.


“The Old Harem” by Hao Liu is based on imagined impressions of what life was like for women in the harems of the ancient Chinese emperors.


In “Edges,” Circle Lu blurs the boundary between photography and painting by applying pigments to inkjet prints.


Maya Luo’s “Passing Beauty” is a series of still-life photographs that addresses the culture’s obsession with youth and superficial beauty.


“Us” by Chloe Ning explores the differences and similarities between identical twins.


Ang Ong’s “Hong Kong Café” expresses her conflicted emotions about New York’s Chinatown neighborhood.


In “Crossing Thresholds,” William Ortega explores the idea of masculinity and gender as it is defined and modeled by younger boys.


Nieves Roadcap’s “Things Fall Apart” surveys American culture through glitch photography and refined enhancement techniques.


“Beyond Limits” by Diana Sancho documents Special Olympic, Paralympic and able-bodied athletes in Costa Rica.


“Superlatives” by Timothy Smith portrays Generation Z through classic archetypes of modern Americana, with references to the 1970s and 1980s.


Ashli Wallace’s self-portrait series “Miss Pretty” depicts her experience as a beauty pageant contestant and addresses the pageant’s impact on young women.


Ping Wang’s The Nostalgia of the Infinite is a conceptual fine-art and fashion project.


“For My Girls” by Nichole Washington is inspired by female hip-hop artists from the 1990s.


The Master of Professional Studies in Digital Photography is an intensive one-year graduate degree program that addresses digital image capture, workflow, exhibition printing, sound, video and visual storytelling skills required of professional photographers and educators working at the vanguard of the commercial, fine-art, portrait, and fashion photography fields. Graduates are ideally positioned to pursue gallery representation, editorial or commercial work, as well as high-end digital retouching and consulting careers. The School of Visual Arts offers the MPS in Digital Photography program on-campus and on-line.


A close-up photograph of a woman’s face. She has blue eyes and is wearing a blond, curly wig and heavy makeup. One hand is up in her hair, and the other is applying red lipstick to her pursed lips.

Ashli Wallace

A photograph with a red square in the middle of a white background. Inside the square is a black-and-white portrait of black woman. She is crouched and facing the camera with a neutral expression. SHe is wearing a graphic tee-shirt, black ripped jeans, sneakers, a shell choker, and large hoop earrings. Her right hand is bent and pressed on her thigh, and the other is bent with her hand under her chin. Around her body are yellow streaks of paint. And above her head is a black painted crown, the image of a diamond behind it.

Nichole Washington

A headshot portrait of a person against an orange background. They have red hair and blue eyes and are in three quarter view. They are wearing large glasses, a patterned knit sweater with a large, red collar, and a small beaded necklace. Their hair is tied in small knots sticking off their head.

Tim Smith

A blurry photograph of gas station pumps. The scene is lit from the left. The only color is the blurred light from the screens and the neon painted lines on the bottom lips of the concrete barriers.

Nieves Roadcap

A portrait of two seated women from the torso up, in front of a dark background. One is seated in profile facing towards the right of the frame, with her head turned towards the background. The other is seated behind her, facing towards the left of the frame. The woman in front is slightly obscuring the body and face of the other woman. Both are in identical black shirts and pants, and have their hair up in ponytails.

Chloe Ning

An abstract photograph of a portrait of a woman seated in three-quarter view, looking at the camera. The photograph is half the size of the frame, and is rotated to the left slightly, and is against a white background. The back half of the portrait is black and white. The front half is in color. Over the color portion of the woman’s face, there is white and black paint streaked over it. There is a triangle shape intersecting the image from the woman’s chin, to the bottom of the portrait, to outside of the portrait image. Inside the triangle is a color-inverted image of the woman’s shoulders and hand from a different photograph, against a black background. There is a splatter of dark blue paint in the black part of the image. Black is bleeding from the triangle down and off the bottom of the frame.

Circle Lu

A black-and-white photograph of a man, seated against a black background. He is wearing a white shirt and black suspenders and a black fedora. He is smiling with his eyes shut. He is holding a banjo on his lap, with one hand strumming and the other around the neck, with his fingers on the fretboard.

Shravya Kag

A high contrast, black-and-white photograph of a windowed, city skyscraper. The right face is being hit with light. The shadows of a buildings off frame are covering parts of the building in lback shadow. The background behind the building is also black.

George Golub

A photograph of an older woman, walking down a narrow hallway with her back to us. She is wearing a T-length red dress, white tights, brown shoes, and has short, red hair. The walls of the hallway are also red and lined with dozens of picture frames.

Ellis Gaskell

A photograph of a barbeque restaurant. There is a large open stove in the middle with sausage links on hooks suspended over it. Underneath the stove grate is a pile of burning logs.

Neal Corman

A black-and-white photograph of a city crosswalk, bustling with people. They are captured in movement, with many of the subjects blurred or semi transparent.

Boyz Bieber

A photograph of different types of fauna in vivid colors of greens. In the lower left half of the image, there is a gap in the foliage where there are some metal and plastic pipes.

Camila Cossio

A studio portrait of a woman from mid-thigh up, shot against a dark teal background. Her left hand is on her hip, while her right arm is bent with her hand lifted and slightly pointed. She is looking off camera to the left with a serious expression, body slightly turned towards the right. She is wearing a black, leather textured dress, and thick, shiny, dark green eyeshadow. She is being side lit by a strong green light, while the front is lit by neutral color.

Quartz Brown

A photograph of two strawberries, spotlit against a dark blue surface. The one on the right is being held out by a blue-gloved hand, and is large and bright red. The one on the left is being held out by a bare hand, and is smaller and less vivid in color.

Angelique Ambrosio

A black-and-white photograph of a man in a pool, in the middle of a butterfly stroke, swimming towards the camera. He is wearing a swim cap and goggles and is in mid-inhale. The water is splashing around him.

Stanley Cadet

An abstract black-and-white composite photograph, with a tree in the middle of the frame. Standing off to the left is a semi-transparent image of a nude person, with their back towards us and facing the tree. There is also the faint image of water ripples where they are standing. To the right are rounded, abstract shapes on the ground under the tree.

Haoran Fan

A black-and-white photograph of two men wrestling on a beach. One is on his back and the other is mid jump trying to pin him down, with sand flying from their feet. There are poles with caution tape around them. In the background is the ocean. Behind the tape are three people: a man holding his towel up like a cape as he watches, a man with his back to us, and a woman off to the right in profile, snapping a picture down the beach.

Ken Greenwood

A photograph of a large, structural, metal tower, with a reflective sphere sitting on the top. The bottom fades into the background. The background is a flat, peach color.

Peter Killeen

A photograph of a section of gray, cracked wall, sitting in front of a seamless white background and floor. Sticking out from behind the left side of the wall is flowing, red fabric. Sticking out from behind the right side of the wall is an ornate, stiff-backed, brown wooden chair.

Hao Liu

A photograph of a woman reclining on her back on a ledge draped in white fabric. Her left arm is bent with a hand in her hair, and the other is hanging away from her body off the ledge. She is wearing a gold and tan patterned dress, and has gold flakes on her face and in the front of her hair. There are gauzy, gold-trimmed ribbons draping from underneath her towards the floor.

Maya Luo

A photograph of a diner booth, made entirely of paper and cardboard. The floor is blue and pink squares, the booths are teal, and the walls are subway tile on the bottom half of the wall and small pink and white squares on the top half. On the walls are various posters. On the diner’s table are eight plastic upcs turned upside down in two even rows.

Ange Ong

A photograph of a young boy with curly brown hair underneath a wood slatted bed frame. He is laying stomach down on a gray carpet. His head is resting on his right arm and he is looking off the right side of the frame.

Will Ortega

A diptych showing two black-and-white environmental portraits side-by-side, of women in a gymnastics studio. The woman in the image on the left has her hands outstretched and is wearing a patterned leotard and ballet shoes. She is smiling and holding a ribbon wand. The woman on the right is in mid jump, with her arms and legs outstretched. She is in a leotard.

Diana Sancho

An abstract composite of a surreal scene of an interior, looking through a large cut-out rectangle entryway intersected in the middle by a red, rectangular pillar. The right half of the entryway is also intersected diagonally by a long, gray rectangular pillar. The left half of the entryway has a woman standing in the middle of it. She is wearing a gray drapery and has her back to us. In the background is a blue sky with white clouds and the sliver of a moon in the left corner. Behind the gray pillar in the background is a gray surface suspended in the sky, with a set of stairs disappearing off the right hand of the frame. Walking down the steps is a mannequin figure which we can only see from the shoulders down.

Ping Wang

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