The 2009 James D. Phelan Art Award in Photography:
Doris Jew Conrath and Jim Stone
The James D. Phelan Art Award in Photography is administered by SF Camerawork for The San Francisco Foundation, and is given in recognition of artistic achievements by California-born artists. The recipients of this year’s award are Doris Jew Conrath and Jim Stone. Jurors for this award were Allan deSouza, artist and SFAI professor, and Cathy Kimball, executive director of San Jose Institute for Contemporary Art.
Doris Jew Conrath’s panoramic images are created out of several photographs. The artist explains: “Instead of wide views of a physical space taken by pivoting from one point, I record while walking around a structure and unfold the space in a manner similar to a world map created by using a cylindrical projection method. The individual photographs are then digitally stitched together, forming a new space that shows all sides, allowing the viewer to take in multi facets at once.”
The photography of Jim Stone explores facets of America’s unusual and complex character. The artist sees his work as framing “an organized set of graphic and sociological concerns. Damage, misdirection, isolation, and failure accompany other consistent subthemes, such as obsession and its public display, the mixing of religious and military iconography in a peaceable secular society, and the ironic difference between intent and achievement.”
June 4 - August 22, 2009
Opening Reception: June 4, 2009, 5 – 8 pm
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- Image credits, top to bottom: Jim Stone, Doris Jew Conrath, Jim Stone, Doris Jew Conrath