The Light Factory Third Juried Annuale |
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Gallery Talk with Alex Nyerges Alex Nyerges, Director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond) and Juror of TLF Third Juried Annuale, will join us at The Light Factory for a gallery talk, Thursday, August 5, beginning at 7PM. What makes the work in the Annuale so extraordinary? Alex Nyerges will discuss how and why he selected the six finalists from over 130 entries! Free to members of The Light Factory; $5 for non-members. For more information, call 704.804.7467. |
April 19 - August 15, 2010
Knight Gallery
Free and open to the public
Photo by Blue MitchellWith this annual competition, The Light Factory asked photographers and artists throughout the world to submit their most challenging and inventive work for an exciting exhibition.
These winners have been selected from more than 130 entries:
Nicholas Dantona (Franklin, TN)
John Grant (Charlottesville, VA)
Diana Greene (Winston-Salem, NC)
Aspen Hochhalter (Charlotte, NC)
Blue Mitchell (Portland, OR)
Lori Vrba (Chapel Hill, NC)
Message from the Juror, Alex Nyerges, Director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
The Light Factory Third Juried Annuale is an amazing collection of talent assembled from across the country.
With more than 130 talented photographers, it was challenging to winnow the field down. It was especially difficult when there were only a dozen photographers remaining in the pool. Selecting the final six was even more daunting. In the end, I am sure that the visitors to this exhibition will be pleased with both the quality and variety.
It just so happens that the final artists are evenly divided between traditional media - especially gelatin silver prints - and more cutting edge media in the realm of photography. The variety speaks to that of the field as a whole, a testimony to the vitality of photography in a new age where film and digital media have found themselves in complementary not competing roles.
I am also thrilled that so many of the half dozen artists selected are North Carolinians and Southerners; this speaks volumes to the state of photography in the South. Photography here, as elsewhere, has taken its rightful place as a major medium in the fine arts, something that has been far too long in coming.
I offer my congratulations to the six stellar artists who are exhibited here and to all those who submitted to The Light Factory Third Juried Annuale competition.
