Wenesday October 4, 2023, 2023 - November 5, 2023

Michael Galinsky, The Decline of Malls Across America

Peel Gallery will celebrate photography in many ways this month including a show of Michael Galinsky's mall snapshots from the early 90's and their accompanying publications. This body of work revisits a time when the Berlin Wall was about to fall and capitalism had won the cold war, partly through a relentless campaign of jeans and Coca-Cola diplomacy.

Sunday, October 8, 2023

DEVELOPING STORY: Five years of the Film Photo Award Exhibition

The Film Photo Award is open to all emerging, established, and student photographers based in the United States. Each award period provides three distinct grants of Kodak Professional Film and complimentary film processing by Griffin Editions to photographers who demonstrate a serious commitment to the field and are motivated to continue the development of still, film-based photography in the 21st century.

All winners of the FPA in its five year history will be celebrated in Developing Story: Five Years of the Film Photo Award at Cassilhaus. Artists include Trent Davis Bailey, Susan Worsham, Guanyu Xu, Jon Henry, Leah Schretenthaler, Jonathan Mark Jackson, Graham Dickie, Alexander Komenda, Odette England, Magda Biernat, Owen McCarter, Kristina Knipe, Simon Murphy, Saskia Baden, Chance Deville, Emma Ressel , Matthew Leifheit, Biance Surchio & riel Sturchio, and Shawn Bush. RSVPs are required to attend. Please check out the Cassilhaus website to see all programming updates.

Opening Friday, October 13, 2023 6:00 PM 9:00 PM

FRANK Opening Reception: Dan Gottlieb and Barbara Tyroler

Dan Gottlieb’s SWAMP features a suite of pictures inspired by explorations of eastern North Carolina’s hauntingly beautiful cypress swamps, mill ponds, and creeks – and their fragile ecologies. Dan combines his life decades as an artist, museum designer, and environmental activist using a laborious experimental process of his own design.

Garden Journeys, A Portrait Photographer Explores the Landscape showcases the work of professional photographer and educator, Barbara Tyroler. Barbara first began rendering the natural landscape during the early seasons of our Covid pandemic. The abstracted imagery emerged as a broader appreciation for the complex interconnectedness and social networking at play.

October 13, 2023 - January 12 2024

Wojtek Wojdynski: SYMBIOSIS

Although Chapel Hill, North Carolina has been Wojtek Wojdynski's home for the last 20 years, he began his photographic journey as a teenager in Warsaw, Poland. At 12 he began spending time in a darkroom at one of Warsaw's art centers. When he was 16, Wojdynski build his first darkroom. After completing a master's degree at Warsaw's Polytechnic Institute, Wojdynski put his photographic dreams on hold and redirected himself for a career as an electrical engineer, which brought him and his family to the U.S. in 1981.

After twenty years of keeping his interests on the back burner, Wojdynski was able to realize his dream and make photography his full-time occupation in 2000.

Sunday, October 29, 2023

“As If A Mirror” - Tama Hochbaum

The self-portrait, by its very nature, is linked to an artist’s identity. She insists on her relevance, her existence, even, through her representation of self. Over the course of two years, I created numerous self-portrait images, with each one subjected to multiple digital processes, producing enormous numbers of variations. A subtitle for the portfolio, As If A Mirror, could be “Theme and Variation, and Variation, and Variation, Ad Infinitum”. The process consisted of layering a gridded self-portrait with disparate images: scenes from my garden, beloved objects, a room in my house, a place I had visited, for instance, all of them screen-captured grids, chosen from my iPhone’s camera roll because of a particular format, say, or composition, or color scheme. The starting point is always a self-portrait. The second layer changes with each new creation, depending on the time of year, what sparked my interest, where I was sitting at the moment, what I fancied as significant at the time, for example. The layers’ facets mix, push and pull in an always surprising way, like a visual square dance. The resulting image presents at times as a mosaic, at times as a tapestry, at times as a painting.

Jason Farago, in his New York Times essay on Albrecht Dürer’s 1500 self-portrait, implies that the artist presents “the self as a subjective individual, the author of one’s own life story”. My self-portraits, consciously self-centered, are vibrant, deliberate, fabricated, staged composites that state, I am here, and this is my story.