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(Left to Right) Naima Green, Elliott Jerome Brown Jr., Ian Lewandowski.
Presented in partnership with the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art
In conversation with the current exhibition Uncanny Effects: Robert Giard's Currents of Connection, this event brings together three contemporary photographers––Elliott Jerome Brown Jr., Naima Green, and Ian Lewandowski––who are documenting queer communities. Moderated by Ariel Goldberg, this conversation will explore how their specific photographic practices in and around portraiture relate to legacies of image-making in LGBTQ communities of the 1970s-1990s.
Ariel Goldberg's publications include The Estrangement Principle (Nightboat Books, 2016) and The Photographer (Roof Books, 2015). Goldberg’s writing has most recently appeared in Afterimage, e-flux, Artforum, and Art in America. Goldberg is based in New York City and has taught writing at Pratt Institute, Columbia University, and The New School. They co-curated Uncanny Effects with Noam Parness at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art.
Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. (b. 1993, Long Island, NY) utilizes photography and sculpture to visualize intimacy, communion, and self-possession. He has been featured in exhibitions domestically and internationally. Brown Jr. was a participant in the New York Times Portfolio Review (2016) and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2017). He received his BFA in Photography from the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. He recently spent the past year participating as an Artist-in-Residence at St. Roch Community Church in New Orleans, Louisiana and is currently represented by Beauchene Gallery in New York.
Naima Green is an artist and educator currently living in Brooklyn, NY and Mexico City, Mexico. She holds an MFA in Photography from ICP–Bard, an MA from Teachers College, Columbia University, and a BA from Barnard College. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at the Smart Museum of Art, MASS MoCA, International Center of Photography, Houston Center for Photography, Bronx Museum, BRIC, ltd los angeles, Gallery 102, Gracie Mansion Conservancy, Shoot the Lobster, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and Arsenal Gallery. Green has been an artist-in-residence at Mass MoCA, Pocoapoco, Bronx Museum, Vermont Studio Center, and is a recipient of the Myers Art Prize at Columbia University.
Ian Lewandowski is a photographer from Northwest Indiana. He has recently exhibited photographs at School 33 Art Center (Baltimore), 1969 Gallery (New York), Skylab Gallery (Columbus), and Lamar Dodd School of Art (Athens). Ian has been published in Unseen, The Fader, American Chordata, and Capricious. In 2019 he completed an MFA at the State University of New York at Purchase (SUNY), where he also taught undergraduate photography courses. His first solo exhibition, Community Board, was exhibited at The Java Project in Brooklyn, also in 2019. Ian’s work negotiates picture and body histories. He lives in Brooklyn with his husband Anthony and dog Seneca.