118 N. Jefferson Street
Dayton, OH 45402
937-224-3822
Dayton Visual Arts Center
Exhibition
Details of works, clockwise from top left: Sabrina (2014) Tintype | Clay (2010) Chromagenic print | Phronsie and Kandice look at 1904 downtown Dayton (2013) Archival pigment print | Umbra (2014) Archival pigment print, Photographers clockwise from top left: Keliy Anderson-Staley, Daniel J. McInnis, Glenna Jennings, Julie Renée Jones.
Variations in Likeness: Keliy Anderson-Staley, Julie Renée Jones, Glenna Jennings & Daniel J. McInnis
Sep. 5, 2014 – Oct. 18, 2014
Tues–Sat:11 am–6 pm
Four photographers — Keliy Anderson-Staley, Julie Renée Jones, Glenna Jennings and Daniel J. McInnis — are represented in Variations in Likeness. Using various contemporary and historical photographic processes and the genre of portraiture, each artist explores a range of attitudes, from re-visioning history to expressing the diversity of the human condition. Ms. Anderson-Staley uses mid 19th-century tintype processes to achieve what was described in The New Yorker as "intensely focused, thoughtful, and grave" portraits. Ms. Jones' interest in the "uncanny and nonsensical," in literary and cinematic works such as Alice in Wonderland and Poltergeist is "a way of traversing and describing the psychological journey of childhood and transition." Ms. Jennings' work unites "disparate topics" to explore "a passionate need to organize chaos while celebrating disorder." Mr. McInnis uses an 8 x 10 film camera to document the tension between full-body portraiture and the subjects' “indigenous” spaces, which for him might mean in their own “neighborhoods” or in spaces of symbolic meaning to them alone.
Event
Sep. 5, 2014
DVAC, 118 N. Jefferson St. | Dayton OH 45402
There will be an Opening Reception forVariations in Likeness on Friday, September 5, from 5 to 8 pm, during Downtown Dayton's 1st Stop 1st Friday. http://www.downtowndayton.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=147
Reservation Information:
Free and open to the public.
Panel discussion
Oct. 2, 2014
DVAC, 118 N. Jefferson St. | Dayton OH 45402
Beginning at 6:15 pm, Curator Joel Whitaker will lead a panel discussion with three of the exhibiting artists — Glenna Jennings, Julie Renée Jones and Daniel J. McInnis — of Variations in Likeness.
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Free and open to the public.
Event
Sep. 4, 2014
DVAC, 118 N. Jefferson St. | Dayton OH 45402
A Collectors' Preview Event for Variations in Likeness takes place on Thursday, September 4, from 5 to 7 pm. Free to Collector, Patron, Connoisseur and Aficionado Level Members as well as Corporate Sponsors.
Reservation Information:
Free to Collector Members and above.
Event
Sep. 12, 2014
DVAC, 118 N. Jefferson St. | Dayton OH 45402
A Reception during the Downtown Dayton's Urban Nights will take place on Friday, September 12, from 5 to 10 pm. free and open to the public, reception at DVAC.
http://www.downtowndayton.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=113
Reservation Information:
Free and open to the public.