Goldstein Auditorium Lobby
Schine Student Center
303 University Ave., Syracuse
"Diverse Voices: New Acquisitions to the Light Work Collection" is a major exhibition featuring a sampling of photographs by artists who have participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program over the past two years. It portrays an inclusive vision of societies from both here in the United States and throughout the rest of the world, providing a subtle, creative reflection and interpretation of cultural diversity. The images that comprise the exhibition also reflect the diversity of Light Work's Permanent Collection, as well as the artists' cultural backgrounds and the unique photographic practices they employed in order to explore issues of diversity, gender and identity in various ethnic communities.
The exhibition also contributes to the visual construction of diverse voices, with images portraying everything from the documentation of the daily lives of foreign workers to family portraits of immigrants. Works presented include: Vietnamese American artist Dihn Q. Le's complex photo collage of interwoven black-and-white photographs taken by photojournalists and colored images from Hollywood movies of the Vietnam War; Howard Henry Chen's portraits of people living in modern day Vietnam, which balance the often-seen violent images of the war; and work by Lonnie Graham, where the persistence of memory in racial identity plays an important role in his work. This exhibition, connected by memory and through differences, unfolds stories of today's cultural movement, both voluntary and involuntary, which have shaped the diversity of this country and countries throughout the world.
Other artists whose work is featured in the exhibition are: Ellen Blalock, Laura Cano Blanco, Sylvia de Swaan, Osamu James Nakagawa, Mel Rosenthal, Zoe Sheehan Sladana and Fazal Sheikh.
Hours for the exhibition are 11 a.m.-5 p.m. daily. For more information, contact Light Work at 443-1300.
Selections from this exhibit can be found in the Multimedia/Gallery section.