Seeing Time: New Work by PNCA Photo Students
Seeing Time
New Work by PNCA Photo Students
Curated by Teresa Christiansen and Alec L Smith
Apr 4 - 27, 2024
This selection of new student work from the PNCA Photography Department embodies the intricate and central concept of “time” through photography. From blending tactile markings of decay, cinematic travel across landscapes, to abstract gradients of a melting horizon, each piece offers a unique perspective on the passage of time. Employing techniques ranging from shutter speed manipulations, early photographic and experimental processes, to the contemplative veiling of time itself marrying analog textures and digital romanticism, these emerging artists’ work showcases how time can be explored through both the material and mechanical.
- Teresa Christiansen, Head of Photography Department at PNCA
Selected Artists
• Hali Autumn • Fio Ballerini • Morgan Bell • Blue Corvidae •
• Ansley Gwin • Maggie McNeil • Keanu Narciso • Malique Pye •
• Jacob Reppeto • Alahnna Rousselo • Maria Fernanda Sanchez Flores • Mandy Tran •
Teresa Christiansen (she/her) was born and raised in New York City and currently lives in Portland, OR where she is Head of the Photography Department at Pacific Northwest College of Art. Teresa received her MFA in photographic studies from ICP-Bard in 2008, and worked as an Assistant Photographer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for nine years. She has exhibited her work nationally, including New York, Philadelphia, Seattle and Portland. Recently she has shown work at Aperture Gallery and Chashama in NYC, the Photographic Center Northwest in Seattle, Melanie Flood Projects in Portland, and the Portland Art Museum. She was a 2007 winner of PDN Photo Annual, a 2013 Regional Arts & Culture Council grant recipient and a summer 2014 Wassaic Artist Resident. Her work is in the collection of the Portland Art Museum.
Alec Smith (She/They) is a trans* photographer, educator, and curator who was born and raised in a rural Kansas horizon. She returned there to teach Photography and New Media at the University of Kansas, School of Architecture and Design in 2021 but now lives and works in Portland, Oregon as Photography Department Technician at PNCA and Adjunct Professor at MHCC. Her bodies of work live primarily in book form, print, and community. Central to her practice is her dedication to portraiture combined with a poetic sequencing of the existence of life and death, grief, energy, intimacy, and queer experiences. Alec is also an editor and collaborator with friends at “From Here on Out,” an experimental publishing platform that organizes artist interviews, exhibitions, and publishing projects. She most recently has been collected in The Washington State University Queer Archives with other community members and artists sharing queer history and experience related to the Palouse region of Washington State.