Event Date and Time:
December 5, 2008 – January 10, 2009
Opening Reception December 5, 6-8PM Gallery Hours: 10:00am - 7:00pm weekdays, and 12:00pm - 5:00pm Saturdays.
Location:
721 Broadway Windows
721 Broadway, Lobby
ALEXANDRA DIRACLES
UNDER OBSERVATION: PORTRAITS OF YOUNG MOTHERS
GOES ON VIEW AT NYU'S TISCH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS
Artist is the Winner of Constantiner Fellowship in the Department of Photography & Imaging
The photography exhibition Under Observation: Portraits of Young Mothers by Alexandra Diracles, the recipient of the Constantiner Fellowship award in 2007 in the Department of Photography & Imaging at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, will go on view December 5th. The fellowship enables one graduating senior to pursue a project based in New York City. The exhibition is comprised of 12 color archival inkjet prints.
The exhibition will remain on view through January 10th, 2009 in the Window Gallery at 721 Broadway. Work in this gallery can be viewed from the sidewlk on at 721 Broadway at Waverly Place. For further information, call 212.998.1930, or visit www.photo.tisch.nyu.edu.
Leon and Michaela Constantiner, who funded the fellowship in 2004, are photography collectors interested in supporting young artists. Their collection of Marilyn Monroe photographs was recently exhibited at The Brooklyn Museum. The Constantiner Fellowship is granted to one graduating senior from the Department of Photography & Imaging each year.
With the support of this grant, photographer Alexandra Diracles documented 9 young mothers in New York City, photographing them with their children in a studio setting. Together, these photographs seek to communicate the lack of community, and the often skeptical opinions from the general public that these young mothers experience on a day to day basis. Both a critique and a celebration, this series focuses on the symbols and interests of women who are growing up, in many ways, along with their children.
Alexandra Diracles was born in Minnesota and currently lives and works in New York City.
The Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts is a four-year B.F.A. program centered on the making and understanding of images. Students explore photo-based imagery as personal and cultural expression. Situated within a university, the program offers students both the intensive focus of an arts curriculum and a serious and broad grounding in the liberal arts.
