36th Annual Photography Regional

Cover Image: Newbold Bohemia, Dream Vacation

From March 11 to April 18, 2014, Albany Center Gallery presents the 36th Annual Photo Regional. (Awards and artists reception is April 4, 2014 5-9p.m.)

Since the late 1970s, artists within a 150-mile radius of Albany have competed for opportunity to have their work picked by prestigious jurors for the annual Photography Regional exhibition. This year, regional photographers Mark McCarty and Susan Myers selected 43 photographers from the 131 who submitted. The resulting 36th Annual Photo Regional includes several well-recognized and established professionals as well as a few highly talented and innovative newcomers The work ranges from the traditional to the cinematic, from the avant-garde to the formalist. Wedding photographs stand beside abstractions, which stand beside surrealist psychological self-portraits.

Visitors to the 36th Photo Regional might come away not with conceptions of an overarching theme, but rather with the same questions the jurors wrestled with when choosing the exhibited works: “What constitutes ‘good art’?” “What constitutes ‘good photography?’” and “Where is photography headed in the future?” Ultimately, the show asks the question “What all can photography do?,” and then answers it in the form of a variety of technical and conceptual solutions to the questions that have been explored by this region’s best practitioners of the medium.

Join us at 39 Columbia Street, Albany, from March 11 to April 18 as Albany Center Gallery presents the 36th Annual Photography Regional. The artists reception will be held from 5 pm to 9 pm on Friday, April 4. Awards at 7:30 p.m.

Award sponsors include Albany Center Gallery, Fulton Street Gallery, McGreevy ProLab & ProPress, Arlene’s Art Supply, SPS, Carrie Haddad and more!

Selected Photographers include Jim Allen, Deyva Arthur, Justin Baker, Breanna Berger-Tzabar, Newbold Bohemia, Laura Brodsky, Carrie Brown, David Bruce, Perry Burlingame, Tracey Buyce, Beau Comeaux, Frisbee Houde Connie, Kayla Coons, Ian Creitz, Chris DeMarco, Jeri Eisenberg, Michael Farrell, Ray Felix, Steven Fink, Jim Flosdorf, George Gati, George Gruel, Stephen Honicki, Mike Hotter, Sean Hovendick, Scott Keidong, Michelle Mainella, Dan McCormack, Chuck Miller, Art Murphy, Erika Nusser, Linda Pinkans, Luba Ricket, Anthony Salamone, Mark Schmidt, Mike Shannon, George Simmons, Richard Tomasulo, Mark Van Wormer, Jacqueline Vincent, Katherine F. Wardle, Brian Williams, Yaqing Xie

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