New Photography III — Lenard Smith Studio

New Photography III
April 5 – July 10

The Museum’s celebrated photography biennial presents 15 innovative and accomplished artists, selected by photographer and publisher Kris Graves through a nationwide open call. The artists in the exhibition focus on a diverse array of techniques and subject matter, picturing people, landscapes, society, and culture through digital, analog, and alternative processes. From Aline Smithson’s silhouettes, made of cyanotype-overlaid damaged digital scans, to Melissa Ann Pinney’s long-term project on students in the Chicago Public School system and Rashod Taylor’s intimate scenes of family life, the works in the exhibition reveal a survey of what contemporary photographers find intriguing.

Selected artists: Edward Bateman, Kristen Joy Emack, Gregg Evans, Jon Feinstein, Jeong Hur, Michael Iacovone, Margaret Murphy, Ahmed Ozsever, Melissa Ann Pinney, Lenard Smith, Aline Smithson, Noel Spirandelli, Thomas Stoffregen, Rashod Taylor, and Michael Young.

About the Academy Art Museum

As the premier art museum on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, the Academy Art Museum presents high-quality exhibitions and a full range of art classes for visitors of all ages. Past exhibitions have featured artists such as James Turrell, Robert Rauschenberg, Mark Rothko, Pat Steir and Richard Diebenkorn. The permanent collection focuses on works on paper by American and European artists from four centuries including recent acquisitions by Graciela Iturbide and Zanele Muholi. Arts educational programs range from life drawing lessons to digital art instruction, and include lunchtime and cocktail hour concerts, lectures and special art events, as well as a Fall Craft Show. AAM also provides arts education to public and private school children from the region and is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums.

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