Check out the Pictures from our Most Recent Opening! "Slick" by Annie Seaton and "Nature Morte" by Cynthia Greig

New Show Opening Tonight from 6-8pm!

Come see our two newest shows featuring artist Annie Seaton in Gallery I with "Slick," and Cynthia Greig in Gallery II with "Nature Morte."

The surf's always up for the figures in Seaton's "Slick." Armed with her camera, Seaton

becomes a "surf voyeur," capturing the variety of surf culture, from surf gangs to multigenerational surf families. In "Slick" she again combines photography with painterly ink

washes to evoke the pure joy she associates with time spent at the beach. By focusing

on such positive emotions, however, Seaton is also responding to life’s difficulties and

constraints. Seaton says, “life comes in waves and all its crests and troughs;

sometimes pounding and ominous and sometimes gentle and heartening.”

Trained as a painter, Seaton has incorporated photographs into her work since 2008.

She has exhibited her work throughout the West Coast and Canada for the past

decade. Most recently, her work was included in the Carnegie Art Museum’s 2011

group exhibition, “Splash!” This is Seaton's second solo show at dnj Gallery.

In Gallery II, dnj Gallery will be exhibiting Greig’s work, in which she revisits her unique

method of photographing a three dimensional object while giving it the appearance of a

two dimensional line drawing. Greig uses ordinary house paint to whitewash objects.

After drawing crude outlines on these objects, she photographs them in still life

arrangements. By confusing two distinct means of representation–photography and

drawing–Greig explores the boundaries of photography and questions how we form our

beliefs about what is real or true. As Greig states, “’Nature Morte’ revisits the tradition

of still life to further explore the illusory and documentary nature of the photograph in

relation to the vanitas themes of death, decay, and ephemerality.”

Greig’s work has been exhibited widely throughout the country as well as

internationally. In 2011, the Oakland University Art Gallery in Rochester, Michigan, held

an exhibition of her work entitled, “Cynthia Greig: Subverting the (un)Conventional.”

Her photographs are included in the collections of the George Eastman House,

Rochester, NY, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, and the Museum of

Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL. “Nature Morte” is Greig’s second solo

exhibition at dnj Gallery. Greig lives and works in Detroit.

Map and Directions to the Gallery

Silver Eye Center for Photography 2012 Benefit Auction & Brunch

The Silver Eye Center for Photography is hosting its biennial auction and fundraiser. This year features a vast array of vintage and contemporary works by established artists and new up and comers. Auction goers can grab a three day getaway or tickets to any number of events in their silent auction. You can spend guilt free knowing that your purchase goes to supporting Pittsburghs creativity and contemporary photography.

This year Silver Eye was honoring Aaronel deRoy Gruber (1918-2011). Gruber was a very loyal and generous supporter of the Silver Eye Center and an influential individual in the field of photography.

To learn more about him click here

The Benefit Auction and Brunch will be taking place on Sunday, April 29, 2o12 from 11:00am to 2:00pm at:

Clear Story Studio, 1931 Sidney Street

Pittsburgh, PA 15203 (Southside)

An Auction Catalogue, and online pre-event bidding are available at the Auction Website Here

Advance Tickets can also be purchased online at the Auction website or by phone at 412.431.1810 ext. 12 through April 20, 2012

38 Books Nominated for Lillian Smith Book Awards for 2012

The Southern Regional Council (SRC) recently announced that thirty-eight books have been nominated for the Lillian Smith Book Awards for 2012, to be presented in Decatur, Georgia on September 2, 2012.

SRC is an inter-racial organization founded in 1919 to combat racial injustice in the South. SRC initiated the Lillian Smith Book Awards shortly after Smith's death in 1966 to recognize authors whose writing extends the legacy of the outspoken writer, educator and social critic who challenged her fellow Southerners and all Americans on issues of social and racial justice. Since 2004 the awards have been presented by SRC in a partnership with the University of Georgia Libraries, whose Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library houses a historic collection of Lillian Smith's letters and manuscripts. The Georgia Center for the Book became a partner in 2007, when the awards ceremony first became part of the Decatur Book Festival.

The award recipients for 2011 were Sacrifice Zones by Steve Lerner and At the Dark End of the Street by Danielle McGuire.

The 2012 nominees include:

TITLE	AUTHOR	PUBLISHER
New Destination Dreaming: Immigration, Race, and Legal Status in the Rural American South	Helen B. Marrow	Stanford University Press
Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age	Virginia Eubanks	The MIT Press
The Book of Sarah: Poems	Amy Benson Brown	WordTech Communications LLC/ DBA Turning Point
Still A Man and Other Stories	James E. Cherry	Aquarius Press/Willow Books
Legacy: The Secret History of Proto-Fascism in America’s Greatest Little City	Scott Smith	Createspace
The Last Will and Testament of Rosetta Sugars Tramble	Myra McLarey	Ink Brush Press
Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement	Tomiko Brown-Nagin	Oxford University Press
Dancing with Gravity: A Novel	Anene Tressler	Blank Slate Press
Tobacco Capitalism: Growers, Migrant Workers, and the Changing Face of a Global Industry	Peter Benson	Princeton University Press
The Red Market: On the Trail of the World’s Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers and Child Traffickers	Scott Carney	William Morrow, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
The End of Anger: A New Generation’s Take on Race and Rage	Ellis Cose	Ecco, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Girls Like Us: Fighting for a World Where Girls Are Not for Sale, an Activist Finds Her Calling and Heals Herself	Rachel Lloyd	Harper, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
All Labor Has Dignity	Edited by Michael K. Honey	Beacon Press
Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid that Sparkled the Civil War	Tony Horwitz	Henry Holt and Company
Hey, Shorty! A Guide to Combating Sexual Harassment and Violence in Schools and on the Streets	Joanne N. Smith, Mandy Van Deven, and Meghan Huppuch	The Feminist Press
Critical Race Consciousness: Reconsidering American Ideologies of Racial Justice	Gary Peller	Paradigm Publishers
Black and White: The Confrontation between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene “Bull” Connor	Larry Dane Brimner	Boyds Mills Press
Brothers (And Me): A Memoir of Loving and Giving	Donna Britt	Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group
The Night Train: A Novel	Clyde Edgerton	Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group
The Neighborhood Project: Using Evolution to Improve My City, One Block at a Time	David Sloan Wilson	Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group
White Flight/Black Flight: The Dynamics of Racial Change in an American Neighborhood	Rachael A. Woldoff	Cornell University Press
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention	Manning Marable	Viking/Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
Upheaval in Charleston: Earthquake and Murder on the Eve of Jim Crow	Susan Millar Williams and Stephen G. Hoffius	University of Georgia Press
Elbert Parr Tuttle: Chief Jurists of the Civil Rights Revolution	Anne Emanuel	University of Georgia Press
Civil Rights History From the Ground Up: Local Struggles, A National Movement	Edited by Emilye Crosby	University of Georgia Press
Mary Turner and the Memory of Lynching	Julie Buckner Armstrong	University of Georgia Press
The Accidental Slaveowner: Revisiting a Myth of Race and Finding an American Family	Mark Auslander	University of Georgia Press
Writing the South through the Self: Explorations in Southern Autobiography	John C. Inscoe	University of Georgia Press
Alabama Getaway: The Political Imaginary and the Heart of Dixie	Allen Tullos	University of Georgia Press
Detained without Cause: Muslims’ Stories of Detention and Deportation in American After 9/11	Irum Shiekh	Palgrave Macmillan
No Room of Her Own: Women’s Stories of Homelessness, Life, Death, and Resistance	Desiree Hellegers	Palgrave Macmillan
Head Off & Split: Poems	Nikky Finney	Northwestern University Press
Gust: Poems	Greg Alan Brownderville	Northwestern University Press
The Stranger You Seek: A Novel	Amanda Kyle Williams	Ballantine/Bantam Dell A Division of Random House, Inc.
Diary of an Eco-Outlaw: An Unreasonable Woman Breaks the Law for Mother Earth	Diane Wilson	Chelsea Green Publishing
The Trials of Eroy Brown: The Murder Case that Shook the Texas Prison System	Michael Berryhill	The University of Texas Press
Thirteen Loops: Race, Violence, and the Last Lynching in America	B.J. Hollars	University of Alabama Press
Civil Rights in New York City: From World War II to the Giuliani Era	Edited by Clarence Taylor	Fordham University Press

DESIRE FOR MAGIC: Patrick Nagatani 1978-2008 at the Avampato Discovery Museum

"Then and Now" Artist Patrick Nagatani has a show opening April 21st at the Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences of West Virginia. The show consists of photographs, collages and works with mixed media to form a biopic of Patrick's 30 year artistic career.

For more info about the Exhibit click here:

Upcoming Exhibits