Life In Analog: A Juried Film Photography Exhibition

EXHIBITION DATES: October 17, 2018 - November 10, 2018

Fort Works Art is pleased to announce the reception for the open call show Life In Analog: A Juried Film Photography Exhibition. The competition will include works by 36 artists from around the country who work in film photography. The talented artists featured were selected by juror Kristen Gaylord, Assistant Curator of Photography for The Amon Carter Museum of American Art.

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Kristen Gaylord was appointed as Assistant Curator of Photographs at the Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas in the summer of 2018. Gaylord was previously at The Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA), where she served as the Beaumont & Nancy Newhall Curatorial Fellow, Department of Photography, since 2015; she previously worked there as a research assistant and a curatorial intern. During her tenure at MoMA she contributed to numerous photography exhibitions and publications, including Cindy Sherman (2012); Robert Heinecken: Object Matter (2014); Christopher Williams: The Production Line of Happiness (2014); Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015 (2015); One and One Is Four: The Bauhaus Photocollages of Josef Albers (2016); Arbus Friedlander Winogrand: New Documents, 1967 (2017); and Stephen Shore (2017).
Gaylord was the inaugural curator of the Duke House Exhibition Series at New York University, where she organized Intertwined (2016) and Beatrice Glow: Spice Roots/Routes (2017). Her additional work experience includes roles at various arts organizations in California and New York, including the Museum of the City of New York and the Willem de Kooning Foundation, as well as teaching positions at Ramapo College of New Jersey, Kingsborough Community College, and NYU. She has presented and published on art history topics from ancient Egypt to art of the 21st century, and earned her master’s degree at NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts, where she is currently a PhD candidate. Her dissertation on serigraph artist Corita Kent has been supported by grants from NYU, the Schlesinger Library at Harvard, and the Louisville Institute.