Artist Panel - Quarantine Picture Show - Part 2

Artist Collaborative Rolls and TubesModerated by Victoria Mara Heilweil

Saturday, June 20, 2020
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

ARTIST PANEL: QUARANTINE PICTURE SHOW - Part 2

Artist Collaborative Rolls and Tubes
Moderated by Victoria Mara Heilweil

On June 20, 2020, SF Camerawork presented the second portion of our two part online panel discussion of Quarantine Picture Show moderated by SFC member and curator Victoria Mara Heilweil. Rolls and Tubes is a humorous and clever remaking of photographic history with toilet paper; created as a collaboration between SFC members and artists Christy McDonald, Colleen Mullins, Jenny Sampson and Nicole White. Rolls and Tubes references a canonical 1978 photography exhibition entitled, Mirrors and Windows.  This project arose out of a desire to create new work with objects in the home. Toilette paper suddenly became their muse because of its shift from ubiquitous basic to precious commodity.  The panel discusses how their collaboration works between the four members, their interest in, and relationship to photographic history, the role Instagram has played in their process, and the importance of fun in art making.

CHRISTY MCDONALD
Working in a documentary and street photography style, Christy is a Berkeley-based photographer who uses photography as a way of seeing the beauty in and interacting with people, places and things often thought of as misunderstood or ignored. With ongoing projects in the California Central Valley and the Middle East, Christy will travel anywhere, anytime seeking to change the way people view the many parts of the world she sees. Christy also studies Arabic, swims in the SF Bay and is a mom to two teenage daughters.

COLLEEN MULLINS
Colleen Mullins is a San Francisco based photographer and book artist, whose work examines anomalous margins in larger stories about the world, and what we think we know about them. She has been the recipient of two McKnight Artist Fellowships and four Minnesota State Arts Board Grants, and her work has been seen in The New York Times Lens, PDN, Oxford American, and Monthly Photo Korea, among others.

JENNY SAMPSON
Jenny Sampson is a Berkeley-based photographer specializing in the historical photographic process, wet plate collodion. Her work is included in the Candela Collection and other private collections. A monograph of her Skater tintype portraits was published in 2017 and her follow up, portraits was published in 2017 by Daylight Books and her follow series, Skater Girls is due out in the Fall of 2020.

NICOLE WHITE
Nicole White is an Oakland-based artist, curator, and historian. White uses historical and contemporary photographic processes to examine the medium’s varied functionality while looking at the American cultural landscape. She holds a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art (2002), a MA in Art History from the University of Connecticut (2010) and a MFA in Studio from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2012). Recent exhibitions include: An Object of Their Own, Perspectives Gallery, MIAD, Milwaukee, WI (2020),and Medium, MWSPE, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY (2018).  She is a Professor of Photography at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill, CA.

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