Entry Point Exhibition at Hillman-Jackson Gallery
The Hillman-Jackson Gallery at Simon’s Rock presents Entry Point, a four-person exhibition showcasing the work of New York-based artists, Sara Greenberger
Rafferty, Matthew Porter, Brea Souders, and Chris Wiley. Anastasia Samoylova, assistant
professor of photography at Simon’s Rock, curated the exhibition. Entry Point runs through Wednesday, May 4. There will be a closing reception and talk at the
Hillman-Jackson Gallery on May 4 at 5:00 p.m. The gallery is open to the public Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. and weekends, noon to 10:00 p.m.
The four internationally renowned artists in the exhibition are unconcerned with the idea of photography as a conventional window that promises the illusion of reality. Instead they create a conglomeration of varied entry points into understanding a world mediated by images. This includes the exploration of production tools; investigations into the materiality of the photograph and its relationships to painting and sculpture; collaging as a means to combine multiple themes and dimensions into a single image; and studio-based practices that transcend studio walls through online networks.
Curator Anastasia Samoylova is a Russian-born artist and educator who became a Simon’s
Rock arts faculty member in 2015. She holds an MA from Russian State University of
Humanities and an MFA from Bradley Universit
y. She has recently exhibited at the Aperture Foundation in New York; Pingyao International
Photography Festival in Pingyao, China; and the Griffin Museum of Photography in Massachusetts.
Her work is included in the collection at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in
Chicago, and ArtSlant Prize collection in Paris.
Brooklyn-based artist Sara Greenberger Rafferty’s solo exhibitions include New York at PS1/MoMA, The Kitchen, and at Fourteen 30 Contemporary in Portland, Oregon. Her work was included in the Whitney Biennial and the Hammer Biennial (as part of Public Fiction) in 2014. She will engage the National Museum of American History in D.C. in a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship in 2016, and will have a solo exhibition at Document in Chicago. Ms. Rafferty will have her first solo U.S. museum exhibitions at the Dorsky Museum and the University Art Museum, on SUNY campuses next year. She is represented by Rachel Uffner Gallery in New York.
Matthew Porter’s most recent solo exhibition was Four False Starts at M+B in Los Angeles in 2016. He published his first monograph, “Archipelago”, with Mack books last year. His work is in the permanent collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, among others. M+B in Los Angeles, and Invisible Exports in New York represent him.
Brea Souders has exhibited in galleries and festivals in the U.S. and abroad—including Bruce Silverstein Gallery, Abrons Arts Center, the Center for Photography at Woodstock, New York, the Hyères International Festival of Photography & Fashion in France, the Singapore International Photography Festival and the Peel Art Gallery, Museum, and Archives. Ms. Souders has received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and a fellowship at the Millay Colony of the Arts. She was granted a Darkroom Residency with the Camera Club of New York in 2013. Her work has been featured in the New Yorker, ARTnews, LA Review of Books, and Vice.
Chris Wiley is an artist, writer, and curator. As a writer he has contributed essays to various catalogs, and to publications including Mousse, Kaleidoscope, ArtForum.com, the New Yorker, and Frieze, where he is currently a contributing editor. As a curator, his exhibitions include On Stellar Rays (NYC), and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art. He served as an advisor and researcher for numerous exhibitions at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, the 55th Venice Biennale, and the 10th Gwangju Biennale, where he was an assistant curator. His work has recently appeared in shows at Hauser and Wirth, Marian Goodman Gallery, MoMA PS1, Atlanta Contemporary, Central Utah Art Center (CUAC), and Nicelle Beauchene Gallery.