Issue 150 – Silver Eye Center for Photography’s Radial Survey Vol. II

In our 150th issue, Fraction is honored to feature the work of the artists in Silver Eye Center for Photography’s second Radial Survey, a regional biennial presenting contemporary artists working within 300 miles of Pittsburgh. Radial Survey Vol. II is curated by Silver Eye, drawing on recommendations sourced from a broad community of curatorial consultants living with this Radius. The work shown here in Fraction draws from the exhibition and catalog produce by Silver Eye in Pittsburgh, and showing from November 4th, 2021 through February 19, 2022. We hope that you will spend some time with the work and learn more about the artists and follow Silver Eye to learn more about this important exhibition.

The November Charcoal Book Club book is Village People: 1965-1990 by Jindřich Štreit.

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Leo Hsu & Bree Lamb
Managing Editors

Radial Survey Vol. II: Inheritance

Silver Eye is thrilled to announce the second edition of our regional biennial survey.

This biennial was created to fill a gap in the cultural landscape; we needed to share the work of the very best photographers in our region, (which we decided to define as the wide and rich space between the art capitals of New York City and Chicago, with Pittsburgh at its center.) We wanted to create a thorough, thoughtful, and engaging look at photography in this region, something more than just picture on our walls. We wanted to create a conversation within a community that is deep, fun, honest, and provocative.

The result is Radial Survey, a biennial exhibition of the preeminent emerging and mid-career photo based artists working within 300 miles of Pittsburgh. Our goal is to highlight work and support artists from places that are sometimes overlooked in the national photography conversation. Radial Survey is conceived not to identify a regional style or movement, but rather as a proposition: that artists in this space engage with logics, flows, histories, and mythologies that differ from those defining the faster-moving densities of very large cities.

After dozens of studio visits and working with curatorial consultants from across the radius, for this second iteration of the biennial we have identified a group of eight outstanding artists from across the radius whose work explores how their personal identities intersect with the histories of places they are from, and where they work.

Radial Survey Vol. II is generously support by a generous grant from the National Endowment from the Arts as well as our sponsors and patrons.

David Oresick, Executive Director
Kate Kelley, Deputy Director
Curators, Silver Eye Center for Photography
www.silvereye.org | @silvereyecenter

charcoal book club - NOVEMBER 2021