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“Peace on Earth” Exhibition – Opening Reception

Name: “Peace on Earth” Exhibition – Opening Reception
Start: 2024-02-21T17:30:00-05:00
End: 2024-02-21T18:30:00-05:00
Location: Maryland Hall

February 21 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Free

Maryland Hall and the Openshaw Balcony Gallery will host an opening reception for the “Peace on Earth” exhibition, curated by Bill Gaskins, on Wednesday, February 21, 2024.

Bill Gaskins explores the myths and realities of American life by expanding the image and ideas of African-American people through photography, cinema, and non-fiction writing. He is the author of the groundbreaking monograph Good & Bad Hair: Photographs by Bill Gaskins and the inventive short film The Meaning of Hope. His essays and photographs have appeared in a variety of journals, magazines, anthologies, exhibition catalogs, and other publications, including, NKA; The Journal of Contemporary African Art, Artsy, Aperture, Nature, and The New Yorker Magazine. Bill Gaskins is also the Founding Director of the Graduate Program in Photography + Media & Society at the Maryland Institute College of Art.

Peace on Earth Exhibit

There are billions of images produced by billions of human beings worldwide. Most images we see are recorded, captured, and exposed through a wide range of picture-making systems, from cameras to mobile phones with cameras. Not every image we see is made by a photographer. A photographer intentionally looks at and sees the world to understand humankind, natural phenomena, and other beings by using their feet to move their bodies in space and follow their curiosity and vision—with and without a camera.

This exhibition offers a range of photographs by photographers who responded to the prompt to submit photographic work showing us moments of the peace you see or want to see from your location on the planet Earth. The fractions of time rendered on paper cover a range of the familiar and the familiar made unfamiliar in some cases. Rendered here are Summer days. A room with a view. A rainbow road. Stars to gaze. Sunsets. Sunrises. An embrace and a view from the world’s edge are just a few interpretations of “Peace on Earth” shown on these walls.