Of Land and Place Vermont Center of Photography
OF LAND AND PLACE: A JURIED EXHIBITION
Juried by Sharon Harper & Karen Haas
The inextricable relationship between people and the natural world is often revealed in the smallest moments. If we are open to them, oceans, forests, deserts, rocks, and sky, can teach us about persistence and the interconnectedness of all things. The relative brevity of human life—nested as it is within geologic time—can invite contemplation and long looking, which makes photography, in many ways, the ideal medium to record the powerful forces that transform landscapes over time. For this Open Call, the Vermont Center for Photography solicited work from local, national, and international artists using photography in intriguing ways to explore the environment in all its variety.
This exhibition features 41 photographers from across the US & Canada:
Exhibtion Date : March 7- April 27, 2025
Jurors:
Sharon Harper works at the intersection of technology, perception, and the living environment. Her work is in permanent collections at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, the Harvard Art Museums, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art in Santa Barbara, California, the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, The New York Public Library, and the Denver Art Museum among other collections. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography, a Meredith S. Moody Residency Fellowship and an Elizabeth Ames Residency Fellowship at Yaddo, a Sam and Dusty Boynton Residency Fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center, and residency fellowships at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California the MacDowell Colony, the Ucross Foundation, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Monastery of Halsnøy, Norway and the Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest in Kentucky. A monograph of her work, From Above and Below, was published by Radius Books. She is Professor of Visual Art, Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies, Harvard University.
Karen Haas has been the Lane Curator of Photographs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston since 2001, where she is responsible for a large collection of photographs by American modernists, Charles Sheeler, Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, and Imogen Cunningham. The Lane Collection, which has recently been given to the Museum, numbers more than 6,000 prints and ranges across the entire history of western photography from William Henry Fox Talbot to the Starn twins. Before coming to the MFA, she received her MA from Boston University and held various curatorial positions in museums and private collections, including the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the BU Art Gallery, and the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover. Her recent activities include exhibitions, Gordon Parks: Back to Fort Scott; Edward Weston: Leaves of Grass; and Ansel Adams: In Our Time; and publications, An Enduring Vision: Photographs from the Lane Collection; MFA Highlights: Photography; Ansel Adams; and The Photography of Charles Sheeler: American Modernist.
