New Exhibits: Opening Reception

Featured exhibitions include:

• Sojourning in Lyric Time by Huiyin Zhou
• Shaped by Light, Formed by Time by Elisabeth Effron
• Blink of an Eye by Bryce Lankard

Exhibition Open July 10 – August 29

soujourning in lyric time by Huiyin Zhou

soujourning in lyric time is an exhibition of huiyin’s photographic series.

Born and raised in the industrial hub of Dongguan, China, huiyin zhou 徽音 (they/ta/她) is a transnational queer feminist organizer and community-based photographer, writer, multimedia artist and cultural producer. A diasporic bird constantly up- and re-rooting themselves, they are currently based in Durham, NC, and NYC. They work with digital and analog photography, text, installation, and performance with a relational, reciprocal praxis. Creating with intimate and tender sensibilities, huiyin explores themes related to intimacy, memory, diaspora, queer feminism, and community building.

Shaped by Light, Formed by Time by Elisabeth Effron

Shaped by Light, Formed by Time is an exhibition of Elisabeth Effron’s photographic work ranging from prints on silk to layered encaustic works on panel.

Elisabeth Effron combines photography, encaustic painting and collage to create works that explore the complexity of perspective. She’s interested in how emotion and empathy can change circumstances, experiences, and places. Her current work includes photo encaustic collage pieces and photographic silk panels reflecting ordinary moments of mindfulness.

Blink of an Eye by Bryce Lankard

Blink of an Eye is an exhibition of Bryce Lankard’s archival ink prints from film negatives which investigate the moments and places that one takes for granted, assumes will always be around… and then, in the blink of an eye, can disappear. The events surrounding both 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina brought this project into a deeper personal focus for the artist due to his long-standing connection with both of these unique cities.

This sense of apparent sudden loss can be applied to physical objects, such as buildings or cities, and even to concepts like summertime, mortality and youth. Lankard is drawn to quiet moments, childhood icons, off-seasons, and solitude, even amidst activity. By using the softer, gauzier perspective of cheap plastic cameras, these images contain a bit of that sense of nostalgia and sentimentality.