DocuFlorida II
PROJECTIONS AND PRINTS
with featured artist Noelle McCleaf
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EXHIBITED ON NOVEMBER 16, 2018 - MAY 17, 2019
CURATED BY Lowell Bassett Felicia E. Gail Valerie George |
Noelle McCleaf, S.S. Minnow, Venice, Florida, 2017, archival pigmented print, 30" x 40"
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Featured artist, Noelle McCleaf is a photographer exploring themes of memory, relationship, and identity in the southern landscape.
Born and raised in Virginia, McCleaf received her BFA from the Ringling College of Art and Design, and her MFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, both with a concentration in Photography. Her work has been shown in national and international exhibitions, including at the Camden Image Gallery in London, The Ringling Museum in Sarasota, Florida, The Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, Colorado, and at the Slow Exposures photography festival in Zebulon, Georgia. Publications that have featured her work include Blink Magazine, Fraction Magazine, Ain't-Bad Magazine, Southern Glossary, Accent Magazine, Feature Shoot, Lenscratch, and Plates-to-Pixels. She is currently Full Time Professor of Photography and Imaging at the Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida. |
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ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
The Pensacola Museum of Art and the T.T. Wentworth, Jr. Florida State Museum, University of West Florida Historic Trust invited established, emerging, and nascent artists and photographers to submit to an open call for photographic-moving-image-based work to the lens-based exhibition, DocuFlorida II: Projections and Prints with featured artist, Noelle McCleaf.
DocuFlorida II: Projections and Prints with featured artist, Noelle McCleaf includes open call digital submissions that are projected with photographs by Florida-based photographer, Noelle McCleaf. The exhibition addresses the environment in rural and urban landscapes, and may offer an interpretive lens focused on socio-cultural and socio-spatial conditions of natural and built environments of our larger Southeastern U.S. region, an area deeply informed by river systems, gulf waters, and their associated industries and economic enterprises. By zooming in on a regional level, we hope to share this point of view with global communities at large. Within this photographic-moving-image-based experience, established, emerging, and nascent artists and photographers share space, offering a bright window into their collected stories, imagined futures, and documented realities. DocuFlorida, began in 2017 as an annual exhibition of projected photographic images focused on the current environment and landscapes of Florida, the Gulf Coast, and the Southeast Region of the U.S. It is intended as a site-specific iteration of Documerica, the photographic documentary project that was sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency in the 1970s. |
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EXHIBITION PROGRAMMING
Opening Reception & Gallery Talk Saturday December 1, 2018 5-7PM On December 1, 2018 the opening reception for DocuFlorida II included a Gallery Talk and a dual opening reception concurrent with Searching For the Seventies: The DOCUMERICA Photography Project. Symposium Friday January 25, 2019 5:30-8PM A symposium was held at Voices Multicultural Center. |
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Exhibition Location T. T. Wentworth Jr. Florida State Museum, 2nd Floor
OPEN CALL ARTISTS
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JONAH ALLEN
JAN ARRIGO JOLLAN AURELIO CHRIS BICKHAM COLLEEN ITANI & KELLY LORRAINE HENDRICKSON ELISABETH CARVER JOHN DAVIS JAIME DIFFEE JOHN DILLARD BENJAMIN DIMMITT HEATHER DUFFY SAMANTHA EARLY JENNIFER ELZWEIG |
HANA FRENETTE
ASHLEY GATES ORESTEZ GONZALEZ ERIN LA VALLE LAWRENCE LAZARE ANN MANGUM CODY MEADOWS CHRIS MOYSE EVAN OSBURN RACHEL PONGETTI MORGAN RICE KASSANDRA SPENCE SAMANTHA WILLIAMS JENEA WOOD |
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DocuFlorida was first exhibited at Pensacola Museum of Art in 2017 and was curated by
Amy Bowman-McElhone, and Felicia E. Gail. DocuFlorida III will be on display January 31st, 2020 - May 3rd, 2020 at the Pensacola Museum of Art. |