Up next in the PCNW Gallery: Pained Vistas!

 


December 6, 2021
Media Contact: Lilly Everett leverett@pcnw.org 
 

Pained Vistas
Curated by Jon Feinstein and Roula Seikaly

On view January 13 - March 17, 2022

Opening reception: January 13th, 6-8pm


SEATTLE—Photographic Center Northwest (PCNW) is proud to present Pained Vistas Curated by Jon Feinstein and Roula Seikaly

Pained Vistas includes photography and video that engages landscapes as terrains framed by conflict, trauma, and beauty. From the United States' legacy of slavery and systemic racism, the entrenched conflict between Palestinians and Israelis to the worldwide reckoning on climate catastrophe and many others, Pained Vistas looks to the potential for catastrophe to unfold under a picturesque sky.

EXHIBITING ARTISTS

Kris Graves
Selena Kearney
Yazan Khalili
Dionne Lee
Irina Rozovsky
Griselda San Martin
Kelsey Sucena
Donna J. Wan
Wendel White
Marc Wilson
Kiliii Yuyan   
 

Jon Feinstein is a Jewish photographer, curator, writer, co-founder of Humble Arts Foundation, and Content Director at The Luupe. Jon has curated numerous exhibitions over 15+ years at galleries and institutions including Blue Sky Gallery, PDX; The Ogden Museum in New Orleans for PhotoNola; Glassbox, Seattle; Colorado Photographic Arts Center, and Barclays Arena in Brooklyn, NY for ArtBridge. His projects have been featured in Aperture, NY Times, BBC, VICE, The New Yorker, Hyperallergic, and Feature Shoot, and he's contributed to VICE, Hyperallergic, Aperture, Photograph, TIME, Slate, GOOD, Daylight, Adobe, and PDN.

Roula Seikaly is an American of Palestinian descent, an independent curator and writer, and Senior Editor + Co-Curatorial Director at Humble Arts Foundation. Roula has curated exhibitions at SF Camerawork and SOMArts (San Francisco), Axis Gallery (Sacramento), Filter Photo Festival (Chicago), CPAC (Denver), Blue Sky Gallery (Portland), and the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. Her writing is published virtually and in print at Hyperallergic, Photograph, BOMB, Afterimage, Aperture, Strange Fire Collective, and KQED Arts.

For more info go to: https://pcnw.org/pained-vistas/
Kris Graves, The Beach, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2020
Selena Kearney, Home or Exile, 2019
Yazan Khalili, Landscape of Darkness 30/f5.6, 2008
Dionne Lee, Still from Challenger Deep TRT: 19:47 Single Channel Video, 2019
Irina Rozovsky, Untitled (One to Nothing), 2011

Griselda San Martin, Untitled (from Project Tijuana)

Kelsey Sucena, View of Golden Gate, San Francisco, 2019
Donna J. Wan, Dumbarton Bridge #2, 2014
Wendel White, Marshalltown School, Mannington, New Jersey, 2008
Marc Wilson, Terezin
Kiliii Yuyan, Empty Court, Bering Sea, 2018
Photographic Center Northwest (PCNW) teaches people how to see. Through our 53 credit Certificate Program, classes and workshops; free exhibitions and companion public programs; and publicly accessible facilities we teach the history and future of the photographic medium. For more information, visit pcnw.org.

The PCNW gallery is open to the public Monday - Thursday 12-9pm, Friday CLOSED, Saturday and Sunday 12-6pm

Proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test will be required when visiting PCNW’s gallery or attending a public program. As has always been our policy, all staff, faculty, volunteers, students and visitors are required to wear a mask while at PCNW.

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