Carny is a salon installation of 75 plus photographs captured during Paul Rizzuto's recent observations while working for traveling carnivals around the Midwest.

New work by Johana Wawro and Andy Resek.

Scott Cowan, in his first photography exhibition, has selected 19 images from a body of work that will eventually contain 10,000 photos. The chosen work illustrates humor, raw tension, claustrophobia, and strangely grotesque excess within and without what is typically thought of as 'common' cultural objects. They are clearly fixed ‘facts’ of the real world but impartially recorded within the order and clarity imposed or allowed by the camera. While less focus is placed on direct narrative, the starting point is an egalitarian or evenhanded place where no one object contained within the picture has direct precedence over the ...

Extreme wealth affords an experience of reality unburdened by the traditional concerns of the middle and lower classes. Wealth has dictated our current built environment, and is the requisite to continue to augment it. With sufficient financial instruments an individual can literally construct reality, tailor it to their individual desires, and in essence, create a personal utopia: Presidential libraries, the palatial compounds of Middle Eastern sheiks, and Graceland are examples. This propensity, coupled with a higher tolerance for extravagance and decadence in contemporary culture, promises a future populated by landscapes and architectures that only exist as hyperbole ...

"The exhibition is a starting point for a reflection about the concept of cultural memory and how it has overcome a binary opposition between the individual and the collective experiences. This reciprocal relationship came across my mind when I had to leave my own country; and experience a completely different place with a new community of friends. The feeling becomes more obvious when a visiting person has to go back home. "New concepts are related with the perspective of familiar history, memory and gender; colonial, postcolonial, and transatlantic studies; museums, monuments, and memorials, as well as the practical implications ...