Photo by Cole Don Kelley
Untitled, 2016 from the series Everything Has an End, But a Sausage Has Two by Caleb Churchill
From The House Fire, 2015 from the series “Dry Grass Crackling” by Vivian Ewing
Untitled (IT'S BLISS), 2015 from the series Dream Machine by Matthew Cronin
23 April 2015 from the series Air Mail, After You by Courtney Nimura
4 May 2015 from the series Air Mail, After You by Trevor Powers
Untitled (Clancy’s Thumb Nail), 2015 from the series No Limit on the Worlds by Lindsay Metivier
As photography assumes a daily role in the investigation of our personal world and our constructed knowledge of it, these seven photographers — Caleb Churchill, Matthew Cronin, Vivian Ewing, Cole Don Kelley, Lindsay Metivier, Courtney Nimura, and Trevor Powers — meditate on the capacity of image-making to extract, rephrase, and construct meaning in our everyday lives.
Capturing pieces of personally viewed moments, the photographs trail with them severed ends of former connections interpreted purely within the frame of the singular photograph. These individual photographs are exhibited in groupings determined by a number of criteria including emotion and narrative implications.
In this new context, which can be interpreted as a narrative arc, the photographs are impacted by their relationship with each other, and how they complete the narrative. Their initial personal associations are partially, or wholly, subsumed by the aggregate, with a tension created between the individual image and the narrative whole. The meaning derived is now found in the viewer’s subjective interpretation, and their resolution of this push and pull.
In a world increasingly defined by visual interaction, we take notice of the role and influence of the narrative’s unconscious and constant presence, and our adapting ability to deconstruct and reconstruct our experience within the flood of imagery that infiltrates our daily lives.
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Midway Gallery
Midway Gallery is a multi-discipline exhibition space that is dedicated to introducing and engaging thought-provoking art through a diverse range of mediums and media. The Midway Gallery is located at Midway Artist Studios, a former wool warehouse converted into an 89-unit creative live-work space, in the Fort Point area of Boston.
Lines of Sight will be exhibiting in a private studio in Midway Artist Studios. Guests are invited to enter the exhibition through the buildings back entrance and experimental space – a transformed freight entrance and elevator showcasing various installations leading to the featured exhibit.
Alicia Savage is a fine art photographer based in Boston. Her portfolio “Destinations”, a series of conceptual self-portraits, has been published and exhibited internationally. Ms. Savage is the co-director of Midway Gallery, a multi-discipline exhibition space located in Midway Artists Studios in Fort Point Boston.
Caleb Churchill (b. 1980, New York) is an American photographer living in Providence Rhode Island. He is an MFA Photography candidate at the Rhode Island School of Design. He received his BFA in Photography from the Glasgow School of Art, Scotland and his MA in the History of Photography from the University of St Andrews, Scotland. His work has been included in the Brighton Photo Fringe at the Moore House (Brighton, England,) The Cell (Glasgow, Scotland,) and at the University of St. Andrews in conjunction with a visiting artist lecture. He has participated in DO IT! Houston, an exhibition celebrating the 20th anniversary of Hans Ulrich Obrist’s exhibition do it and the release of do it: the compendium (Houston, Texas) as well as his solo exhibition Terra Incognita at Settlement Goods (Houston, Texas). He is currently working on a collaborative exhibition with Raina Belleau entitled Fantasia Colorado at Grin Gallery (Providence, RI), an interdisciplinary exploration into how truth becomes legend.
Matthew Cronin lives and works in Boston, MA. His work has been exhibited in several major cities including New York, Los Angeles, and Vancouver. He received his BFA from from Massachusetts College of Art and Design with honors in photography.
Vivian Ewing (b. 1992) was raised on Martha’s Vineyard and earned a BFA in photography with honors from the Maine College of Art in 2015. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently at PhoPa Gallery in Portland, Maine as part of Seeing Through: Maine Photographers 30 and Under and in Hard Lines at Doomed Gallery, London. She has been featured in print as part of Meanwhile Press’ Locals zine and in online publications. Vivian has worked as a writer, an exhibiting artist, an editor, a publisher’s intern and a curator’s assistant.
Cole Don Kelley is a photographer born and raised in Paris, Texas. He is currently pursuing his MFA at the Yale School of Art and lives in New Haven, Connecticut.
Lindsay Metivier (b.1985, Burlington, Vermont) is an artist and independent curator based in Boston, Massachusetts. She holds an undergraduate degree from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and is the proprietor of Aviary Gallery, an exhibition space and art book store with a digital photography lab. Additionally she teaches photography and works as a photographer on a freelance basis. Her work has been shown most recently at the Dorchester Art Project, Door 3 Gallery, Stonecrop Gallery and the Nave Gallery. Her work has been featured on Humble Arts Foundation and A New Nothing.
Courtney Nimura (b. 1981) is a photographer and archaeologist living and working in London and Oxford, UK. Her work focuses on form, color and ‘beauty’ in the everyday, on archaeological excavations, or in her academic workspaces. Having lived abroad for the last decade, collaboration is an important element of her work. Nimura is currently a researcher at the University of Oxford and continues to exhibit and publish in the USA.
Trevor Powers (b. 1985, Burlington, VT) is a visual artist living and working in western Massachusetts whose practice is centered around and informed by the everyday, coincidence, nature and collaboration. His work is realized through photographs, zines, artists’ books and curatorial projects. He has had zines published by Arts & Sciences Projects (NYC), Oranbeg Press (NYC) and Brown Owl Press (United Kingdom). Powers currently serves as the editor and designer for the photography journal, Papersafe, which he co-founded in 2014.