2016 Annual Juried Exhibition
Travis Brown
Danielle Eliska Lyle
Marc Ohrem-Leclef
August 17 – September 3, 2016
Gallery hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 12 – 6 pm
Opening Reception | August 17 | 6 - 8 pm
Backyard Screening at 8 pm of Marc Ohrem-Leclef’s video OLYMPIC FAVELA
BAXTER ST at CCNY is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2016 Annual Juried Photography Competition and an upcoming exhibition featuring the top three competition artists, juried by artist Mickalene Thomas. The ...
2016 Annual Juried Exhibition
Travis Brown
Danielle Eliska Lyle
Marc Ohrem-Leclef
August 17 – September 3, 2016
Gallery hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 12 – 6 pm
Opening Reception | August 17 | 6 - 8 pm
Backyard Screening at 8 pm of Marc Ohrem-Leclef’s video OLYMPIC FAVELA
BAXTER ST at CCNY is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2016 Annual Juried Photography Competition and an upcoming exhibition featuring the top three competition artists, juried by artist Mickalene Thomas. The three top winners – First Place Winner Travis Brown, Second Place Winner Danielle Eliska Lyle, and Third Place Winner Marc Ohrem-Leclef offer three different but cohesive visions of contemporary photographic practice.
Travis Brown was born in Nashville, Tennessee in 1984. He went to East Tennessee State University where he was awarded a BFA in 2009 upon the completion and exhibition of his first major body of work; After Hours. In 2010 he moved to New York City to attend the School of Visual Arts where he received an MFA in Photography, Video and Related Media in 2012. Since receiving his MFA, he has been working in West Tennessee on his body of work titled, Cashin’ Out. In 2015, Aint-Bad Magazine published images from Cashin’ Out for the edition titled From Here On. In 2014 Travis exhibited in Atlanta in both the Morris Museum and the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center. Travis lives and works in New York City.
Danielle Eliska Lyle is a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. As a gifted writer, filmmaker and photographer, she has written/directed feature documentaries, short films and theatre plays. Her photography work has been a part of several exhibitions, including shows at the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, the Los Angeles Center of Digital Art, Soho Photo Gallery and Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation. Danielle wrapped a short film/photography collaboration earlier this year and is currently working toward directing her first feature narrative film project.
Marc Ohrem-Leclef was born in Dusseldorf, Germany. After studying Communication Design at the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences in Germany he relocated to New York City in 1998. Ohrem-Leclef’s visual arts practice centers on immersive portraits of communities—whether they are formed by bloodlines, social circumstance, or cultural movements. Ohrem-Leclef’s work has been exhibited in Germany, Brazil and the U.S. It has been reviewed and featured in publications such as Artnews, BBC, Slate, Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, Internazionale, Huffington Post. OLYMPIC FAVELA, a book of photographs by Marc Ohrem-Leclef with a text by Luis Perez-Oramas (MoMA), was named “best of 2014″ by AmericanPhoto Magazine. In 2013 Marc was invited as a Guest Lecturer in the Advanced Photography Seminar at Columbia University, New York.
About the Juror:
New York-based artist Mickalene Thomas is best known for her elaborate paintings composed of rhinestones, acrylic and enamel. Thomas introduces a complex vision of what it means to be a woman and expands common definitions of beauty. Her work stems from her long study of art history and classical genres of portraiture, landscape, and still life. Inspired by various sources that range from 19th century Hudson River School to Edouard Manet, Henri Matisse and Romare Bearden, she continues to explore notions of beauty from a contemporary perspective infused with more recent influences of popular culture and pop art. She is represented by Lehmann Maupin in New York, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, and Galerie Nathalie Obadia in Paris.