Artist-in-Residence | Susan Lynn Smith
Side Gallery: 10.27.11 – 12.2.11 Reception: Thursday, October 27th, 6-8p On Second Thought depicts places that may not suggest a reason to linger. Upon closer examination, these environments that are often overlooked, contain subtle incongruities. The photographs reveal a peculiarity and anxiety that is present within the spaces we inhabit. A tension develops between ordinary [...]
Call for Entry: Artist-in-Residence Submission
Submissions are closed for 2012 residency. Please check back soon for updated dates Finalists notified – November 22, 2011 Interviews schedule first week of December image courtesy of Artist in Residence, Meghann Riepenhoff ABOUT Our Residence Program was developed to continue our support and education of fine art photographers. Through the program, artists receive a [...]
Artist-in-Residence | Eric William Carroll
Main Gallery: 10.27.11 – 12.2.11 Reception: Thursday, October 27th, 6-8p Eric William Carroll’s exhibition titled, “Plato’s Home Movies,” consists of a long blueprint photogram mural (60 ft. in length), a video projection piece, and a C-print photograph. Challenging the belief that photographs are meant to preserve moments or memories forever, Eric uses early photographic techniques [...]
Artist-in-Residence | Don Ross
Side Gallery: 8.11.11 – 9.15.11 Opening Reception: Thursday, August 11th, 6-8p San Francisco-based photographer Don Ross spent a year re-photographing vantages around the City that were originally pictured in a 1910 estate survey of the many tracts of land owned by famed millionaire Adolph Sutro (1830-1898). At the time of his death, the Prussian mining [...]
Michael Elsden
“Last year I was honored by being selected as the first Artist-in-Residence at Rayko Photo Center. This was one of the most amazing and intense periods of developing and producing art that I have ever experienced. Working with Michael, Mia, and Ann allowed me to advance my ideas and evolve the skills necessary to achieve [...]
Artist-in-Residence | Jo Babcock & Marketplace Artists | Kurt Manley, David Becker and Philipp Striebe
SIDE GALLERY: 9.16.10 – 11.5.10 Best known for his VW Van Camera and for his book, The Invented Camera (Freedom Voices Press, 2005), Bay Area artist & educator Jo Babcock was selected for RayKo’s Artist In Residence program summer of 2010, for his extensive project 1000 CAMERAS.
Klea McKenna | Artist-in-Residence
SIDE GALLERY: 4.25.10 – 5.30.10 Opening Reception: Sunday, April 25th, 4-6p My relationship to nature lies somewhere between adoration and suspicion. This ambivalence is the source of my recent projects, which have each dealt with human perception of nature and landscape. In my current, unfinished series, “Slow Burn”, I explore the materiality of the photographic [...]
Reconstructed Memories | Liz Steketee | Artist-in-Residence
SIDE GALLERY | 12.17.09 – 1.18.10 Opening: Thursday, January 17th, 6-8p Reconstructed Memories is a unique print series that uses my personal family photographs to rewrite history from my vantage point. By choosing unrelated images and digitally manipulating them into unlikely combinations, I build new memories. I forge new relationships, address old confrontations, imagine different [...]
Instar | Meghann Riepenhoff | Artist-in-Residence
SIDE GALLERY | 6.25.09 – 7.31.09 “The strange resonant word instar…implies something both celestial and ingrown, something heavenly and disastrous, and perhaps change is commonly like that, a buried star, oscillating between near and far.” -Rebecca Solnit Instar I (comparatively recent epoch) 24 x 20” c-print photogram, 2008
