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Fresh Works: A Sampler of New England Photographers

FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 2011
CURATED BY PAULA TOGNARELLI/Griffin Museum of Photography &
GEORGE SLADE/Photographic Resource Centre at Boston University
Location: TBA

  • Official opening and celebration: 7–10 PM
  • Exhibition open daily: 12 PM–7 PM

New England’s photographic bounty is plentiful due in part to the tremendous conflux of influence from its universities, cultural institutions and gallery sphere. Fresh Work is an exhibition assembled by Paula Tognarelli of the Griffin Museum of Photography and George Slade of the Photographic Resource Center. It is not a definitive description of New England photography but an eclectic sampling of ten contemporary New England photographers rising on the scene with bodies of work that are now just being shaped to fruition.

Featured Artists

Curator Biographies

Paula Tognarelli

Executive Director and Curator
Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA USA

Paula TognarelliPaula Tognarelli is the Executive Director and Curator of the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA. The Griffin Museum of Photography is a small nonprofit photography museum whose mission is to promote an appreciation of photographic art and a broader understanding of its visual, emotional and social impact. The Griffin Museum houses 3 galleries and maintains 4 satellite gallery spaces and several virtual on-line galleries as well. Ms. Tognarelli is responsible for producing over 50 exhibitions a year at the Griffin and its surrounding satellite spaces. She holds a M.S. in Arts Administration from Boston University, is a graduate of the New England School of Photography and is a current candidate for her Masters in Education at Lesley University as a visual arts teacher. She has juried and curated exhibitions internationally including American Photo’s Image of the Year and the Lishui International Photography Festival in Lishui, China. She has also been a nominator for the Prix Pictet in Geneva, Switzerland.

George Slade

Curator and Program Manager
Photographic Resource Centre at Boston University

George SladeGeorge Slade is the curator and program manager at the PRC (Photographic Resource Center) in Boston. Since 1990 he has worked as a curator, writer, consultant, editor, and lecturer from his home base in St. Paul, Minnesota. He writes extensively on photography, and received a fellowship from the Andy Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital Arts Writers Grant Program in 2008 for a book project on autobiography and archival photographs. His essays and reviews appear in print in monographs, exhibition catalogues, and magazines, and online, often with the tag re:photographica. He was the artistic director of the Minnesota Center for Photography from 2003 to 2008, the director of the McKnight Foundation Artist Fellowships for Photographers Program from 1998 to 2008, and an adjunct assistant curator at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts for its 2008 presentation of the massive Lee Friedlander retrospective organized by the Museum of Modern Art in 2005.