"Exposed!!!", ART340 One-Night Only Exhibition

A group exhibtion of works by students in Professor John Opera's Historical and Experimental Photography class.

In the Department of Art Project Space

Center For the Arts, Room 155

On View: Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Reception: 5-7PM

Zoom image: Poster design by Simone Tallchief A exhibition poster with black text on a white backgroun, that identifies the show "Exposed!!!", happening Wednesday, April 2, 2025, in the UB Department of Art Project Space. A black and white image centered on the page depicts a closeup of a large man's face, with curly hair and beard, who is staring a the camera with a stunned/glassy-eyed expression.

Poster design by Simone Tallchief

About the works:

The photography in this exhibition was created for the course: ART 340LAB - Historic and Experimental Photo Techniques 

This course explores various historical and alternative photographic techniques, such as salted paper prints, cyanotype, gum, Van Dyke, and platinum/palladium printing. The course also studies the historic importance, and creative contemporary uses of these techniques, and  includes both shooting and writing components.

The project theme was "Time", but in these works, many of the students' ideas quickly took a different direction. The resulting work is largely in  response to Kaja Silverman's text "Water in the Camera". The project is an introduction to cyanotype and Van Dyke processes and learning the basic workflows in the historical lab.

The Artists:

Mel Anderson

Gardner Astalos

Madison Boddery

Zi Daniel

Jack-Henry Fricon

Camellia Higgins

Vidhi Jain

Madeline Anderson Klepfer

Annastasia Kuczka

Katie Pohlman

Eric Maurice Ruettimann

Simone Tenchi Tallchief

Thomas Makinnon Walsh

Angelina Brooke Weaver