Contents: Love, Anxiety, Happiness, and Everything Else

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RAYKO EXHIBITION
Features images from the winners of Critical Mass (not the bike race)

Contents: Love, Anxiety, Happiness and Everything Else
Photographs by the Critical Mass Top 50 photographers

Opening Reception: May 10th, 6-8pm
Exhibition dates: May 10th – June 15th, 2012

RayKo Photo Center Gallery
428 Third Street
San Francisco, CA 94107

The aim of Photolucida’s Critical Mass program is to give exposure to emerging and mid-career photographers across the globe. In 2011, over 500 artists entered their work for the chance to be seen by over 200 professionals in the photography world. Curators, gallery directors, editors, and publishers juried the work of these artists, and through a truly democratic process, narrowed the field down to the Critical Mass TOP 50. Juror, Darius Himes of Fraenkel Gallery, selected one image per artist to represent the artists’ projects. The exhibition will travel from PCNW in Seattle to Newspace Center for Photography in Portland, and RayKo Photo Center in San Francisco, furthering the mission of all four photography organizations to bring top emerging talent to the public. To view the full body of work each artist submitted you can visit:
http://www.photolucida.org/cm_winners.php

THE JUROR

Darius Himes is Assistant Director of Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco. He is a co-founder of Radius Books, a non-profit publisher of books on photography and the visual arts, where he serves on the Board and consults on project acquisitions. He was founding editor of photo-eye Booklist, a quarterly magazine devoted to photography books, which ran from 2002–2007. A lecturer, educator, and writer, he has contributed to Aperture, Blind Spot, Bookforum, BOMB, PDN, and American Photo. In 2008, he was named by PDN as one of the fifteen most influential people in photography book publishing. His most recent title, “Publish Your Photography Book,” co-authored with Mary Virginia Swanson, was released by Princeton Architectural Press in the Spring of 2011.

Juror Statement

"The picture's smiling appearance is for your sake, so that by means of the picture the real theme may be established." —Mathnavi, 1.2769

Curating an exhibition from a pre-established group of artists and photographs has certain obvious challenges, as well as unpredictable rewards. The parameters are simple to explain: one photograph was to be selected from small portfolios submitted by each of the fifty chosen Critical Mass artists. What will be first and most readily apparent to the viewer is the vast diversity of work. That is the first theme. A further layer is provided by the groupings of images. They are both loose and intentional, with hints of association and shades of meaning. Lastly, one arrives at individual images, each extracted from larger, and in this case, unseen bodies of work. Each image then carries with it a theme singular to itself and yet stands in for a deeper vision, while simultaneously speaking to and being informed by the other works in the exhibition. Theme upon theme hinting at other themes; a wide-ranging conversation. As Kent Rogowski's opening piece so elegantly indicates, the ultimate Contents to be found in the works shown here speaks to Love, Anxiety, Happiness and Everything Else.

CRITICAL MASS ARTISTS

Jane Fulton Alt, Evgenia Arbugaeva, Jessica Auer, Mary Ellen Bartley, Daniel Beltra, Nadine Boughton, Colette Campbell-Jones, Christopher Capozziello/AEVUM, Kirk Crippens, John Cyr, Katrina d’Autremont, Scott Dalton, Christopher Dawson, Nigel Gordon Dickinson, Mitch Dobrowner, Carolyn Drake, Jeremy Dyer, Mark Fernandes, Misha Friedman, Lucia Ganieva, Meggan Gould, Gabriela Herman, Sarah Hobbs, Jeroen Hofman, Jennifer Hudson, Yaakov Israel, Heidi Kirkpatrick, Alejandra Laviada, Fritz Liedtke, Sebastian Liste, Gloriann Liu, Larry Louie, Mark Lyon, Michael Marten, Susana Raab, Jesse Rieser, Alejandro Rivas, Kent Rogowski, Philipp Scholz Rittermann, Geoffrey H. Short, Youngsuk Suh, Daro Sulakauri, Stephen Vaughan, Toshiya Watanabe, David Welch, Sarah Wilson, Susan Worsham

About RayKo

RayKo Photo Center & Gallery is a comprehensive photographic facility, located near the Yerba Buena Arts District, with resources for anyone with a passion for photography. Established in the early 1990’s, RayKo Photo Center has grown to become one of San Francisco’s most beloved photography darkroom spaces; it includes traditional b&w and color labs as well as a state-of-the-art digital department, a professional rental studio, galleries, and the Photographer’s Marketplace – a retail space promoting the work of regional artists. RayKo also has San Francisco’s 1st Art*O*Mat vending machine and a vintage 1947 black & white Auto-Photo Booth.

RayKo Gallery serves to advance public appreciate of photography and create opportunities for regional and national artists to create and present their work. RayKo Gallery offers 1600 square feet of exhibition space and the Photographer’s Marketplace, which supports the work of Bay Area artists, and encourages the collection of artwork by making it accessible to collectors of all levels. The Photographer’s Marketplace offers photography collectors unique and affordable work from artists living and working in the surrounding area.

RayKo Photo Center & Gallery
428 Third Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
415-495-3773 (ph)
http://www.raykophoto.com
Tuesday-Thursday: 10-10 pm, Friday-Sunday: 10-8 pm
Monday: closed

*RayKo is located in the SOMA arts district of San Francisco within walking distance of SFMOMA, the Moscone Center, Yerba Buena Gardens, as well as AT&T Ballpark.

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