Photography Featured at Arts Center East

Arts Center East has two photography exhibits on display now through March 14. In the upstairs galleries is the 8th Annual Photography Exhibit, a juried exhibit featuring exceptional photography submitted by local and regional photographers. This exhibit solicited over 200 submissions, 90 of which are included in the exhibit. See the full program of included works here.

Award Winners

Best-In-Show: Busstop Reflection, by Susan Cannarella
First Place: Poverty, by Darin Conway
Second Place: Shadowed, by Gene Suponski
Third Place: Opus 40, John Du Pont
Honorable Mention: Viewing Dijkstra, by Christine Acebo
Honorable Mention: Curtain Number One, by Arthur Backstrom
Honorable Mention: On Pointe, by Robert Fiedler
Honorable Mention: Indigo, by Ed Kurz
Honorable Mention: Pyramid Lake Tufa, by Mallorie Ostrowitz

Thank you to our exhibit sponsors: Clay Furniture, EBK Framing, Frame Dimensions, Naek Construction, PhotoSynthesis, LLC, and Wholesale Frame Company.

On display in the downstairs Eureka Gallery is an exhibition of photography by Steven Uccello, What Leaves, What Remains.

I think of What Leaves, What Remains as a homage to classic stories of growing up, self-discovery, and running away. I centered my lens not only on the individual but the places around them; both when they are present and absent. I wandered away from a purely linear storyline because, like trying to remember our own past experiences, our memories ebb and flow between the vivid and the fragmented. I find that, in recalling my own past, the strongest imagery can sometimes be the most commonplace scenes that are simply recontextualized in the moment.
Different photographic techniques, mediums, and genres also aid in encapsulating memory and one’s own thoughts. The series includes landscape photography, architectural photography, surveillance, postcards, intimate Polaroids, still lives, and even forensic photography. By keeping myself open to all these possible strategies I find it builds out the world and ideas I want to showcase.
We all had to grow up and find ourselves. To some, being themselves may have felt like an insurmountable achievement. My goal for the series is to enable the audience to empathize with the character. Even if our experiences of becoming an adult differ from one another, art and storytelling form a language to understand other people’s own lives