Online Group Exhibition - "Home Sweet Home" September 2023
Analog Forever Magazine is proud to present "Home Sweet Home," an online group exhibition featuring 42 photographs created with film and analog processes, curated by photographic artist, independent curator, and Creative Director at the Photographic Resource Center, Cambridge, MA, Jessica Burko!
Jessica Burko writes:
Home Sweet Home is a glimpse into domestic space. The inspiration for this type of work might be nesting, memory, nostalgia, quarantine. The subjects are people and objects emphasizing the everyday, always looked at, but seldom seen.
As I viewed the many wonderful submissions, what struck me most were the moments of silence. Home can be a loud, chaotic place, but what the photographers here chose to depict are those precious seconds in between. Shadow and light illuminating a slice of time, sofas, chairs and beds left unoccupied, faces caught unaware in deep contemplation. Many of the images reveal small details that might otherwise be overlooked, or unintentional still lifes of scenes that are so familiar they might not truly exist but for the photograph.
~ Jessica Burko
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ABOUT THE CURATOR
Jessica Burko has been an exhibiting artist since 1985 and has displayed work in solo and group shows throughout the United States. Burko is originally from Philadelphia and currently lives in Boston, Massachusetts. She holds a BFA in Fine Art Photography from Rhode Island School of Design, and an MFA in Imaging Arts and Science from Rochester Institute of Technology.
In addition to being a practicing artist, Burko is the Creative Director at the Photographic Resource Center, Cambridge, MA. She is also an independent curator with more than thirty exhibitions produced since 2000, and her professional background includes the position of Gallery Director at Stonehill College from 2000-06, from 2007-14 she held the position of Executive Director of the artist collective Boston Handmade, and from 2016-19 she was the Marketing Director at Kingston Gallery.
Burko's work in the arts community allows her to foster and strengthen connections between working artrepreneurs. She supports artists in achieving their creative and professional goals through lectures, workshops, and partnerships with organizations such as ArtsWorcester, Worcester, MA, Mass MoCA’s Assets for Artists Program, North Adams, MA, and the South Shore Arts Center, Cohasset, MA.