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Blue Sky Gallery is pleased present the winner of Blue Sky Gallery’s 2020 Curatorial Prize: June T Sanders, whose exhibition, What A Body Moves Through, will open at Blue Sky May 6, 2021.
Curated by June T Sanders and featuring work by
Tyler Clarke, Bryson Rand, and Lindley Warren Mickunas
Join us Wednesday June 9, 2021 for a Panel Discussion with the Artists, Curator, and Portland-based artist and educator Dru Donovan — Free to attend, register now to get the Zoom invitation.
What A Body Moves Through features recent photographic work by three emerging artists Tyler Clarke, Bryson Rand, and Lindley Warren Mickunas. These images address and expand upon contemporary notions of the body: its ability to channel social and political histories, expand itself through contexts and vessels, and ultimately, challenge our ideas of sexual and gendered realities. The combined work of these three artists is heavy, playful, curious, and confrontational—playing with traditional ‘straight’ black-and-white photographic styles, and elaborating on contemporary visuals of queerness, femininity, and moments of sexual tension. It lives somewhere between document and imagined worlds, allowing for nuance, the ephemeral, and reflections on the ways that we have, can, and will move through our natural and cultural landscapes.
June T Sanders is an artist, writer, educator, and curator from south central Washington state. She lives there still. She is currently a full time assistant professor with the digital technology & culture program at Washington State University. Her work is about gender, dirt, expansions, home.
Tyler Clarke is a photographer living in their hometown of Lynbrook, Long island. Their work reflects on gender through awkwardness; queer phenomena; escapism in America; the suburban basement. In 2019, Tyler received a BFA in photography and video from the School of Visual Arts.
Bryson Rand was born in Phoenix, AZ in 1982 as the son of an Air Force pilot, and spent his childhood living around the world on Air Force bases. In the summer of 2019 Bryson attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and he received an MFA from Yale School of Art in 2015, a Masters in Art Education from the School of Visual Arts in 2009, and a BFA from University of Colorado in 2004. Bryson's first solo exhibition, Some Small Fever, was held at La MaMa Galleria (NYC) in the Spring of 2017. He has had subsequent solo exhibitions with Zeit Contemporary and his photographs have been exhibited across the United States in group exhibitions at Fraenkel Gallery, Regen Projects, Yossi Milo Gallery, The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, Abrons Art Center, as well as internationally at Denker+Schneider Gallery in Berlin, and at Museo Universitario Del Chopo in Mexico City. Bryson’s work is held in the collections of the Leslie Lohman Museum, Oz Art, and numerous private collections. He has published two books with Raw Meat Collective: Some Small Fever (2017) and The Origins of Color (2018) and one book with Dashwood Books, Waters (2017). Bryson’s work has been included in numerous publications, including Der Greif, Dear Dave, Matte Magazine, VICE, and NEWSPAPER and has been featured on ArtForum.com. Bryson is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Photography at Bard College and lives in Brooklyn with his husband, Ryan and their dog, Frankie.
Lindley Warren Mickunas is a Chicago-based photographer, editor, and curator. She is the founder of various publications including The Ones We Love and The Reservoir, a collective editorial project on the politics of image making. Warren Mickunas is a 2021 MFA Photography candidate at Columbia College Chicago and Curatorial Assistant at the Museum of Contemporary Photography. Most recently, she was published in FotoFilmic's JRNL 2 edited by STANLEY/BARKER and exhibited by Der Greif at Berlin Photo Week.
[images from left to right © Tyler Clarke, Bryson Rand, and Lindley Warren Mickunas]