Making Room

Exhibition dates: May 25 – June 23, 2018 

Opening reception: May 25, 2018 | 6-8 PM  

Gallery: LES Gallery

Participating Artists: Marisol Chiang, AC Towery, and Amy Westpfahl

Making Room is the inaugural exhibit by a New York City based collective of photographers. The images in this show are an outgrowth of the ongoing dialogue we have engaged in over the past 2 years. As a group, we create a space to show, critique and support each other’s creative work. The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Educational Center is an important part of our process, as it is where we meet, and fittingly, the location of our first group exhibition. As photographers, we each have distinctive approaches and conceptual concerns, it is our choice and commitment to making room for our personal work which binds us. The self-imposed deadlines of our meetings encourages us to explore our ideas, by making prints and talking through questions or concerns about our work. Discussing the process of developing ideas and comparing notes about how, why and when we work encourages us to think critically about the approaches we use and the limits we impose on ourselves. We transform our individual worlds through the images we make, while collectively we create, reflect, and challenge what we see.