In Conversation: Brittney Cathey-Adams, Rachel Fein-Smolinski, and Jaclyn Wright
Presentations of the Body in Self Portraiture
Monday, November 23, 2020
6:00 - 7:30 PM PST
On Monday, November 23rd from 6:00 - 7:30 PM PST SF Camerawork hosted a conversation with FORECAST 2020 artists Brittney Cathey-Adams, Rachel Fein-Smolinski, and Jaclyn Wright. Together these three artists explored themes of marking, the gendered body, and self-portraiture in photography.
ABOUT BRITTNEY CATHEY-ADAMS
Brittney Cathey-Adams is a photographic artist currently located in Portland, OR. Her work includes themes of body politics, and fat representation that interrogates the histories of the male gaze and self-portraiture. Her work has been exhibited throughout institutions such as the de Young Museum in San Francisco, CA, Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, CA and Colorado Photographic Arts Center in Denver, CO. She was part of the 2019 Curatorial Prize at Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, OR and gave a lecture at the Portland Art Museum.
Brittney Cathey-Adams
ABOUT RACHEL FEIN-SMOLOINSKI
Rachel Fein-Smolinski (b. 1992 Buffalo, NY) is an artist and educator who holds a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA from Syracuse University. Fein-Smolinski has exhibited internationally and is the recipient of numerous awards, residencies, and publications, including publication in Kris Graves Project’s Solace, the design, technology, science, and science fiction website Gizmodo. She has received the 2020 Artist Residency at LATITUDE in Chicago, IL, the 2019 Visual Studies Workshop residency, Duke University's Archive of Documentary Arts and History of Medicine's Research grant, the 2018 Wynn Newhouse Award for Artists of Excellence with Disabilities, and the Silver Eye Center for Photography’s Fellowship 19 International Award Honorable Mention. Her 2019 video, Referred Pain, was shown in the Video in America exhibition at The Everson Museum in Syracuse, NY, SPACES in Cleveland, OH, and Silver Eye Center for Photography. She has had solo shows at The Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art, The Griffin Museum of Photography, and SUNY Upstate Medical University’s Health Sciences Library.
Rachel Fein-Smolinski, Image by T. William Arnold + Kiley Reed Black, 2019
ABOUT JACLYN WRIGHT
Jaclyn Wright is an interdisciplinary artist from the Midwest. She received her BA from Southern Illinois University and her MFA from Indiana University. Her work combines traditional analog photographic techniques with contemporary digital methods and fabrication processes. Recent exhibitions of her work include: Sabine Street Studios (Houston), SFO Museum (San Francisco), and the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (Salt Lake City). Her work has been included in the collections at The Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, IL. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Photography at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, UT.
Jaclyn Wright
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