
This Friday you have the opportunity to see firsthand the work of Columbia College Chicago's graduating MFA and BFA/BA Photography students. Opening Friday evening, the exhibitions feature the work of students who you will no doubt be seeing in galleries, museums, and publications in the near future. As informed readers already know, Columbia College Chicago has long set the standard for photography in the Windy City. Visit these two shows and you'll see why. The BFA/BA show is located at 1006 S. Michigan Avenue, 1st floor. The MFA show is in the Raw Space Gallery, located at 525 S. State Street, 1st floor. Both openings are this Friday, may 16th, from 4-7 PM, and coincide with the College's annual Manifest arts festival and Artwalk, which runs from 11 AM-7 PM. You can see either show between those hours on Friday.
David Travis, Art Institute of Chicago Photo Department head, has called Columbia's Photo Department "the new IIT," alluding to an earlier Chicago heyday in which photography luminaries Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind and others where at the center of a vibrant and influential photography program at that institution that produced such influential photographers as Ray Metzker.
If you haven't already done so, don't forget to get a look at former Columbia MFAs Ben Gest and Cecil McDonald, who are currently showing at Stephen Daiter and Catherine Edelman Galleries respectively. Keep your eyes and ears open, too, for the appearance of Howard Henry Chen, another former Columbia College photography MFA, who will be making his solo museum debut in MCA's 12X12 exhibition program in August.
Above: Curtis Mann, 'Thought, collective (somewhere, Israel 2007)'
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