UPCOMING CONVERSATION
Alice Proujansky and Kelli Connell in Conversation
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UPCOMING CONVERSATION
Alice Proujansky and Kelli Connell in Conversation
Join us for a conversation between 2024 Baxter St Mid-Career Artist Alice Proujansky and photographer Kelli Connell on the occasion of Proujansky’s exhibition, Hard Times are Fighting Times on February 12th, 2025 at 6:00 PM ET. The conversation will revolve around both artists’ photographic practices and relationships to the medium. Hard Times are Fighting Times is on view through February 26th at 128 Baxter St.
Hard Times are Fighting Times offers a profound and intimate reflection on family legacy, radical activism, and psychological formation. Drawing from her family’s personal archives, Proujansky traces the indelible influence of her parents’ revolutionary ideals and shared vision for social transformation.
Support for the Mid-career Lens-based Artist Initiative is provided by the Mellon Foundation and the William Talbott Hillman Foundation.
Alice Proujansky is a photographer and quilter looking at family labor: birth, work, motherhood and identity. Her photobook, Hard Times are Fighting Times (Gnomic Book, 2023), uses archival and documentary images to look at the legacy of radical activism in her family. It was shortlisted for a 2024 Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award and the Rencontres d’Arles Author Book Award, and was selected for exhibition through Baxter St’s Mid-Career Artists Initiative. She is working on a photobook about culturally-responsive birth work and a photography/quilting project about psychological formation and motherhood. Her work has been supported by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, International Women’s Media Foundation, Magnum Foundation, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, New York State Council on the Arts and Peleh Fund. She has been published by Aperture, Fraction Magazine, the New Yorker, New York Magazine, the New York Times, Virginia Quarterly Review and others. Alice has taught photography since 2002, most recently for Aperture. A member of Women Photograph, Alice grew up in Greenfield, MA. She graduated from New York University and lives in Brooklyn with her family.
Kelli Connell’s work investigates sexuality, gender, identity and photographer-sitter relationships. Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, J Paul Getty Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Dallas Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, among others. Publications include Kelli Connell: Pictures for Charis (Aperture and Center for Creative Photography, March 2024), PhotoWork: Forty Photographers on Process and Practice (Aperture), Photo Art: The New World of Photography (Aperture), and the monograph Kelli Connell: Double Life (DECODE Books). Connell has received fellowships and residencies from The Guggenheim Foundation, MacDowell, PLAYA, Peaked Hill Trust, LATITUDE, Light Work and The Center for Creative Photography. Connell is a professor at Columbia College Chicago.