Personal| Universal- Jill Katz

Personal| Universal is a collective of six women photographers brought together by a passion for travel, exploration and a concern for social change -

 Each woman in this project is being spotlighted weekly.... All 6 women were asked the same 5 questions - In the simplicity of the questions comes some insight into their  Personal universal 

Show opens March 27th TOMORROW

Show hangs thru May 16

Jill Katz

Jill Katz is a photographer living and working in Philadelphia. She is a graduate of New York University where she received her MA in Art Education and is currently the Director of Marketing and Communications at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at the University of Pennsylvania.  The subject of much of her work is based on international travels to Asia, Central Europe, and Cuba

When Broken Glass Floats, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Archival pigment print

7 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches

2005

Favorite Color:  

Purple. Depending on its hue it can be both regal and spiritual. A deep purple can be quietly commanding and the fleetingness of a lavender sky strangely beautiful. It has significant depth in its derivations from a strong warm and strong cool color and has both these warm and cool inherent properties.

Three Artists You are Inspired By:

William Eggleston and Stephen Shore. Through their documentary style color snapshots of the American landscape they turn the aesthetics of ordinary rural and urban landscapes into personal poetry. Their work calls attention to the formal concerns of color and composition while isolating moments when the banality of the everyday is aligned to make the perfect moment that makes you feel something extraordinary. I am also inspired by the photos of photojournalist Steve McCurry who has the ability to convey a person’s true essence and to capture human emotion.

Define Your Personal Universal:  Has your Personal Universe point of view changed from the start of this project?

I have always been curious how place affects a person’s ability to adapt, grow, belong and feel content. It is something constant that pushes me out of my comfort zone and allows me to think about place outside of what is familiar. This has stayed true throughout the development of this project. The timing of this show came together organically. Through knowing this group of photographers over the years we have shared common experiences about our travels and how through our work we hope to impact viewers in some way.  This project reinforces the importance of the awareness of the places we live as they continue to change, modernize, become vulnerable, evolve, and are threatened, and to think responsibly about our role in it.

Where do you want to travel to next? 

Israel and Turkey. It has been over twenty years since my first visit to Israel. I know it will feel like a very different place now from what I remember. Because Turkey is so near I would like to visit there as well.

LIMITED EDITION SALE PRINT continues

Fish Pull by Julia Blaukopf

This special Edition archival pigment print is available only online

Image comes signed by artist -Julia Blaukopf

Images will be posted via US post on  March 27th as part of the Personal Universal Opening-
A Second Mailing will go out May 16th as part of the Personal Universal Closing- 

Editions:

10x8 - Edition of 100 for $25

14 x 11 - Edition of 40 for $65

20 x16- Edition of 5 for $300

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Personal| Universal - Julia Blaukopf

Personal| Universal is a collective of six women photographers brought together by a passion for travel, exploration and a concern for social change -

 Each woman in this project is being spotlighted weekly.... All 6 women were asked the same 5 questions - In the simplicity of the questions comes some insight into their  Personal universal 

Show opens March 27th

Julia Blaukopf
Julia Blaukopf has worked as a photographer and creative partner with organizations and businesses in Copenhagen, Kenya, Ghana, Lithuania and throughout the US. Julia creates social art and focus on visual storytelling through photographs, mixed media works and large-scale fabric installations.

Favorite Color: 
pearl white and copper

Three Artists You are Inspired By:
Graciela Iturbide, Hannah Höch, & Gordon Parks

Define Your Personal Universal:  Has your Personal Universe point of view changed from the start of this project?
Personal | Universal is the duality that embodies my experience of traveling.  The reflections I create define the personal. 
The themes the camera carries from each place represent facets of the universal. My personal universe is a dream.  The act of travel is like living in a story.  The images I create reflect the glimpses of time and place.



Where do you want to travel next?
being in Spain and travel down to North Africa and on through Egypt to Jordan and Israel

JULIA IS RELEASING A  SALE SPECIAL EDITION PRINT JUST FOR THIS EXHIBITION THAT WILL ONLY BE AVAILABLE ONLINE - LOOK FOR MORE INFORMATION ON HOW TO PURCHASE YOUR PRINT

Personal| Universal - Beth Uzwiak

Personal| Universal is a collective of six women photographers brought together by a passion for travel, exploration and a concern for social change -

 Each woman in this project is being spotlighted weekly.... All 6 women were asked the same 5 questions - In the simplicity of the questions comes some insight into their  Personal universal 

Show opens March 27th

Beth Uzwiak-
Beth Uzwiak is a visual anthropologist currently finishing her PhD at Temple University in Philadelphia. Beth Uzwiak creates works on paper and bookwork that integrates collage, sewing, drawing, printmaking, painting, text, and installation.

Artist:  Beth Uzwiak

Title:  Adoration

Medium:  Limited Edition Artist Book of Archival Pigment Printed Photographs

Size: 9’’x8’’ (closed) 9’’x75’’ (extended)

Year: 2009

Description: The photographs in this artist’s book capture a religious procession during Holy Week in Antigua, Guatemala.

Favorite Color:

It must be because it is the dead of winter, but yellow is my favorite color.  Bright, Mexican-house yellow.

Three Artists You are Inspired By:
Artists Louise Bourgeois and Kara Walker continually inspire me for their ability to transform intimacy, including violence, into visual form.  For the past year, I have been obsessed with the work of Susan Meiselas, not only her socially engaged photography, but how she uses images to activate memory and narrative. 

Define Your Personal Universal:  Has your Personal Universe point of view changed from the start of this project?
Recently, a Belizean friend described my personal universe as the “three sisters,” referring to the companion planting technique. My squash, maize, and climbing beans: art, research, and writing.  I am a visual anthropologist interested, quite broadly, in how images shape social action.  I also make images—photos, artist’s books, works-on-paper, paintings, collage—to record, process, and challenge my experiences.  My art is often ethnographic in practice and incorporates archival materials and oral histories.  My thoughts, actions, and dreamsare restless and never settle on one subject, medium, or place.  As a current artist-in-residence at the 40^th Street Studios in West Philadelphia, I am exploring new mediums and expressions.  I also teach undergraduate art history and anthropology classes and work as an editor for New City Community Press.
Where do you want to travel next?
During this exhibit, I will be in Belize to present findings from a two-year-long health research project there, and to photograph.  And where to after that?  Who knows? 

PERSONAL UNIVERSAL

Photo 612 is pleased to present.....

Personal| Universal - the manner in which we reflect and ‘re-order’ the world around us in pursuit of self-discovery

Personal| Universal is a collective of six women photographers brought together by a passion for travel, exploration and a concern for social change

Julia Blaukopf, Genevieve Coutroubis, Jill Katz, Amie Potsic, Beth Uzwiak , Elysa Voshell

 This exhibition looks at the places we live from a fresh perspective – the cycle of how the familiar continues to change, modernize, evolve and become vulnerable.  As a result, this forces us to contemplate places outside of our norm.

Each photographer has a different story, yet there is a shared vision and desire to create a common dialogue  - photographic visions are presented in various forms: fabric panels, books, prints and scrolls

Personal| Universal hangs from March 26 thru May 16

Open Reception March 27, 1:00 – 3:00 pm

This show was first released a year ago in Philadelphia – the story Continues

Look to learn about each artist Individually in the Coming WeeksPhoto 612 will be releasing a Special Limited Edition Print from this show that will only be available online…..