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2018 Annual Juried Exhibition Dannielle Bowman, Sacha Vega and Jenna Westra August 16 – September 8, 2018 Opening Reception: Thursday, August 16th | 6–8 pm Gallery hours: Tuesday–Saturday, 12–6 pm For more info, contact baxterst@cameraclubny.org

Baxter St at CCNY is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2018 Annual Juried Photography Competition and an upcoming exhibition featuring the top three competition artists, juried by Matthew Leifheit. The three winners are Dannielle Bowman, Sacha Vega, and Jenna Westra. Dannielle Bowman deals with ideas around temporality, history, and visibility, particularly the power dynamics of landscapes and the connection between earthly materiality and manmade objects. Sacha Vega incites a questioning of the presentation of reality within images, through sculptural interventions of the photographs and the inclusion of interactive materials such as heat sensitive paper. Taking aesthetic cues from performance documentation and modern choreography, Jenna Westra’s works examine the female psyche within our current political climate, re-imagining the photographic “set” as a framework that activates the performers within it. Every year Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York holds an open call for entries for its Annual National Photography Competition. Photographers and photo-based artists working in any genre are eligible to apply. Three winners are selected by an outside curator and featured in an exhibition at Baxter St at CCNY. Fifteen Honorable Mentions are featured on our website. About the Juror: Matthew Leifheit is a Brooklyn-based photographer. He is Editor-in-Chief of MATTE Magazine, an independent journal of emerging photography founded in 2010 that recently released its 47th issue. He was formerly the photo editor of VICE, and has also written criticism and interviews for Aperture, Foam, Art F City and TIME LightBox. Leifheit holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from the Yale School of Art, where he was awarded the Richard Benson Prize in 2017. Currently, Leifheit is an adjunct professor in photography at Yale, Parsons, Pratt and School of Visual Arts. Leifheit’s work in photography and publishing has been exhibited internationally and is held in public collections including the International Center of Photography, the Museum of Modern Art Library, and Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. His photographs have appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, TIME Magazine, VICE and the Yale Daily News.

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About the Artists: Dannielle Bowman was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA. She received a BFA from The Cooper Union in 2011 and an MFA from The Yale School of Art in 2018. Her work is engaged with ideas around temporality, history and land and its relationship to people. Dannielle currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Sacha Vega is a photo-based mixed media artist invested in toying with the experience of looking. She is interested how rethinking the physicality of her work, questioning that pairs critical engagement with joy, can prompt a viewer to address the nature of their own perception. Vega’s work has been featured in exhibitions at Pelham Art Center, Java Project and 99cent Plus Gallery. 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. Jenna Westra (Hunter MFA ’15) is a New York based artist working with photography and film. She has exhibited in New York at Hercules, Lubov, Thomas Hunter Projects, Underdonk and Silver Projects, in Los Angeles at Tiger Strikes Asteroid, and in Boston at The Institute for Contemporary Art and Gallery Kayafas, among others. Most recently in 2018, Hassla published a book of her work entitled Atlas, presented at NADA New York in March along with a selection of new photographs. She presented solo exhibitions at Lubov in New York and at fourseasonsberlin in the Spring and early Summer of 2018. Her work has been published or reviewed in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, Camera Austria, Nicotine Magazine, Papersafe, Bomb Magazine, and Hunted, a series of booklets produced by the Artists’ Institute. Jenna is currently artist-in-residence at HerculesArt/Studio Program. Founded in 1884, Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York is one of New York’s oldest artist-run nonprofit spaces fostering the development of emerging lens-based artists at critical moments of their careers. Through dynamic programming and access to workspace, Baxter St at CCNY has long been a catalyst for innovative creation within the artistic mediums of photography and video practices. Ranging from exhibitions, workspace residency programs, and conversation series, our core mission is to support and activate a vibrant community deeply engaged in the art of lens-based contemporary practices.