RIVE: A PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION & ARTIST TALK

Talk will take place on April 18, 2019 @ 6:00pm

Jon Verney a photographer whose work engages in manipulated found imagery, an interplay between the images of forgotten amateur photographers and the powerful sensation of abstract colors and fractal patterns and reticulation of the original. Using the contemporary material that is a Polaroid and subjecting them to methods of tangible and controllable manipulation of the photographic emulsion,

Jon Verney is a visual artist whose practice interweaves the materiality of painting, photography, and film. After earning a BFA with Distinction in Painting from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2010, he relocated to Florence, Italy, where he attended SACI’s Post-Baccalaureate studio program. He was afterwards awarded a SACI Photo/Media Teaching Assistantship and remained at the school for two more years as a TA and darkroom technician. Upon returning to the United States, he received his MFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan in 2016. Verney has exhibited his work nationally and internationally and has attended artist residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, the Studios at MASS MoCA, Penland School of Craft, and the Independent Imaging Retreat in Ontario, Canada. His studio practice is based in North Adams, Massachusetts.

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