Upcoming Exhibitions

Erin Bernard: Rolled Dice and Flicked Matches

Through metaphoric paintings, and a psychologically charged architectural installation, Erin Bernard presents a wavering stance on the potential gains and losses of engaging in games and gambling. The figures of her paintings are unable to distinguish between their internal burning desire to continue with their gambit, and their environments' pressing dire condition.

Rolled dice are like flicked matches: there's a risk that bridges may be burned and stacked card house ignited. But there's also the chance that from the ashes a fortune phoenix is born.

Greg Schmigel: Imperfect Strangers—An Exhibit of Mobile Street Photography

For Greg Schmigel, there's something very special and unique about capturing street photography. According to Schmigel, "It's real, it's true slices of life as we see it — and many times, slices of life as the rest of us miss them." Schmigel's photographs take a quick, candid look at everyday moments—the lives of the people and strangers that he encounters on the street or in public places. Schmigel believes that 90% of photography is about what the photographer sees with his or her own eyes. The choice of camera that he or she uses makes up for the rest. All of Schmigel's photographs are created with a simple handheld mobile device—the iPhone. He insists that he is not an iPhoneographer. Rather, a street photographer who happens to use an iPhone as his primary camera of choice.

Greg Schmigel was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1969, but has spent the majority of his life in and around the Washington DC Metropolitan area. In 2011, Schmigel founded and launched the Mobile Photo Group, an international collective of mobile photographers dedicated to promoting their work and presenting mobile photography as an important and evolving form of photography.

All of the artist's photographs are dedicated to his wife, Suzy. You can view his website at www.justwhatisee.com.

Rachel Manley: False Impressions

As a foreigner living in Tunisia, Rachel Manley has often found irony in her surroundings where a church that wasn't a church, and a wedding that wasn't a wedding. She started working on the False Impressions series a little over a month before the Jasmine Revolution (now known as the Arab Spring) began in January 2011. Prior to the revolution, Manley's initial projects on Tunisia were not political. However, politics has been a difficult topic to avoid over the past year. This exhibition is her reaction to the upheavals in Tunisia.

"I have spent years directly observing Tunisian culture and digesting my observations. Yet, I am corrected everyday. No, I am not Tunisian. I am a foreigner living in Tunisia. These are my observations, my false impressions."

For more information about Rachel Manley and her art, visit www.rmanley.com.