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Juried Competition Winner Sacha Vega (b. 1991) is a photo-based mixed media artist. She was a recent resident of ARTHA Project, class 2016-2017. She received her BFA in Photography from Pratt Institute and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
"I grew up in a Catholic Asian American household that held familiar comfort with mystic or supernatural belief, modes of thinking I have always thought to be at odds with each other. As a photo-based artist, I became fascinated with this idea that the people I trust navigate the world with faith in manifestations, that do not hold “proof” in a traditionally photographic capacity.
Through photographing and interviewing my family in the Philippines, I was curious if I would be better equipped to articulate the origins of this spiritual tension. That said, conversation and debate sparked only more questions and ultimately this work prescribes value to the colorful and complex space that thrives between your certainty and someone else’s." 📷: ‘IV,’ 2017. @sachachavega #baxterstccny #photography
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Juried Competition Winner Sacha Vega (b. 1991) is a photo-based mixed media artist. She was a recent resident of ARTHA Project, class 2016-2017. She received her BFA in Photography from Pratt Institute and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
"I grew up in a Catholic Asian American household that held familiar comfort with mystic or supernatural belief, modes of thinking I have always thought to be at odds with each other. As a photo-based artist, I became fascinated with this idea that the people I trust navigate the world with faith in manifestations, that do not hold “proof” in a traditionally photographic capacity.
Through photographing and interviewing my family in the Philippines, I was curious if I would be better equipped to articulate the origins of this spiritual tension. That said, conversation and debate sparked only more questions and ultimately this work prescribes value to the colorful and complex space that thrives between your certainty and someone else’s." 📷: ‘II,’ 2017. @sachachavega #baxterstccny #photography
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Check out ‘DAYBREAK: New Affirmations on Queer Photography’ @leslielohmanmuseum co-curated by Ka-Man Tse. On view now through September 2nd. Included in this show is artist and Baxter St at CCNY 2018 Workspace Resident @elliottjeromebrownjr. Ka-Man is also a participating artist in our auction benefit at Baxter St this October! @tsewhat_tsewhat #leslielohmanmuseum #photography
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Juried Competition Honorable Mention Justin Schmitz is an artist living and working in Chicago, Illinois. He received an MFA from Yale University in 2013 and a BFA from Columbia College Chicago in 2004. "Airsoft is a live-action version of first-person shooter video games. I am interested in the enactment of make-believe roles that look and feel like actual military special operations. The boys precisely recreate the look of a contemporary soldier and carry seemly realistic weaponry–confusing the line between reality and imagination. At times, their fantasy game takes on realistic proportions and these young men appear as soldiers. In other instances, their age, ill-fitting clothing and physique reveal them as children. The performance of a video game in physical space further conflates the distance between fantasy and reality. The missions, scenarios, and personas are make-believe, but the targeting and tactics involve the development of skills that can be used outside of the game. Young people playing with guns in war games is not a new phenomenon, however contemporaneously, these photographs allude to the menacing potential of young men. I contemplate the discipline that is being learned, the empathy that is being shown, and how these boys will interpret the world they will grow into." 📷: ‘Fog,’ 2017. @justinschmitz #baxterstccny #photography
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Juried Competition Honorable Mention Justin Schmitz is an artist living and working in Chicago, Illinois. He received an MFA from Yale University in 2013 and a BFA from Columbia College Chicago in 2004. "Airsoft is a live-action version of first-person shooter video games. I am interested in the enactment of make-believe roles that look and feel like actual military special operations. The boys precisely recreate the look of a contemporary soldier and carry seemly realistic weaponry–confusing the line between reality and imagination. At times, their fantasy game takes on realistic proportions and these young men appear as soldiers. In other instances, their age, ill-fitting clothing and physique reveal them as children. The performance of a video game in physical space further conflates the distance between fantasy and reality. The missions, scenarios, and personas are make-believe, but the targeting and tactics involve the development of skills that can be used outside of the game. Young people playing with guns in war games is not a new phenomenon, however contemporaneously, these photographs allude to the menacing potential of young men. I contemplate the discipline that is being learned, the empathy that is being shown, and how these boys will interpret the world they will grow into." 📷: ‘Guise,’ 2017. @justinschmitz #baxterstccny #photography
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Juried Competition Honorable Mention Molly Matalon, born in 1991, is a photographer from South Florida. She received her BFA in photography from The School of Visual Arts in New York City. “In The Morning and Amazing draws on a common perception that associates sites in the domestic sphere — beds, couches, kitchens, and the boudoir — with the feminine, but reorganizes those spaces to feature male subjects. In my photographic practice I come to occupy those spaces with men, and exert a degree of control and power I have not found in my other entanglements with them, romantic or otherwise. I use familiar aspects of the domestic space as tools or props in the fantasy I’m constructing. In turn, these objects take on sensual or erotic valances. These still-lifes are fleshy, in various states of consumption, and speak to the moments in, before, during, and after sex. In my romantic novel, they are the punctuation. In this world men look at me the way I want to be looked at.” 📷: ‘Joe (Black Socks),’ 2017. @mollymatalon #baxterstccny #photography
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Juried Competition Honorable Mention Molly Matalon, born in 1991, is a photographer from South Florida. She received her BFA in photography from The School of Visual Arts in New York City. “In The Morning and Amazing draws on a common perception that associates sites in the domestic sphere — beds, couches, kitchens, and the boudoir — with the feminine, but reorganizes those spaces to feature male subjects. In my photographic practice I come to occupy those spaces with men, and exert a degree of control and power I have not found in my other entanglements with them, romantic or otherwise. I use familiar aspects of the domestic space as tools or props in the fantasy I’m constructing. In turn, these objects take on sensual or erotic valances. These still-lifes are fleshy, in various states of consumption, and speak to the moments in, before, during, and after sex. In my romantic novel, they are the punctuation. In this world men look at me the way I want to be looked at.” 📷: ‘Watermelon Shell,’ 2017. @mollymatalon #baxterstccny #photography
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Juried Competition Honorable Mention Sam Light (American, b. 1996) graduated with Honors from Pratt Institute in May 2018, receiving his BFA in Photography. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. “”Space”, both in concept, and physicality, defines understanding. In every moment, the quality of found, and the satisfaction of construction, exist as a means to build up and tear down experience. Existing within this natural tension, the product of successful manipulation intentionally notes that fate is both self-made, yet predetermined. As the studio becomes a construction site, images narrate past moments in present contexts. Was it real? Imagined?” 📷: ‘The Entire World,’ 2018. @lightboy_ #baxterstccny #photography
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Juried Competition Honorable Mention Sam Light (American, b. 1996) graduated with Honors from Pratt Institute in May 2018, receiving his BFA in Photography. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. “”Space”, both in concept, and physicality, defines understanding. In every moment, the quality of found, and the satisfaction of construction, exist as a means to build up and tear down experience. Existing within this natural tension, the product of successful manipulation intentionally notes that fate is both self-made, yet predetermined. As the studio becomes a construction site, images narrate past moments in present contexts. Was it real? Imagined?” 📷: ‘Unexplained House Fire,’ 2018. @lightboy_ #baxterstccny #photography
