Jane Whitmore

Through her projects, Jane Whitmore strives to promote human rights, and respect for cultural diversity; to evoke compassion for the human condition, and to enhance cultural pride. The Bikini Project is her latest investigation.

Leah Dyjak

Leah Dyjak is an interdisciplinary, lens-based artist whose work combines performance, labor, film, and photography to explore how generations of human use affect the ecologies of place. Dyjak’s images and site-specific installations often push the edges of perception by manipulating surfaces with either the lens or in physical space.

Peter Merts

The documentary work of Peter Merts shows California prison inmates discovering, developing, and occasionally mastering artistic expression; it celebrates the humanity of these men and women, and the authenticity of their creative pursuits.

Guanyu Xu

Influenced by the production of ideology in American visual culture and a conservative familial upbringing in China, Guanyu Xu’s practice extends from examining the production of power in photography to the question of personal freedom and its relationship to political regimes.

David Ellingsen

David Ellingsen is a Canadian photographer creating images that speak to the relationship between humans and the natural world. He works predominantly in long-term, cumulative projects with a focus on climate, biodiversity, and deforestation.

Kari Wehrs

With a deep interest in the technology and history of the photographic medium, Kari Wehrs’ latest project, Shot, examines gun culture through portraiture, using the 1850s technique of creating tintypes.

Walter Plotnick

Walter Plotnick’s collages serve as a metaphor for anticipation, those moments when the unknown is being revealed. The implied act of opening the boxes, releases the energy of the occupants, allowing them to take flight.

Matthew Finley

Matthew Finley strives to connect to the viewer on an intimate and emotional level while at the same time creating artistic images that are both authentic and beautiful, often as one-of-a-kind, original pieces.