Top: Joey Solomon Below: Junlin Zhu
Recent alums of the Department of Photography & Imaging, Joey Solomon and Junlin Zhu, are both participating in a group exhibition through Conception. Junlin will be presenting work that was part of his senior thesis this past spring. The show is open for one day only on August 1, 2019 at 52 Walker Street from 5:00 to 9:00pm. Both artists will be present.
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As an openly gay and disabled man, Joey Solomon’s artistic work hones in on the psychology of self and other humans through portrait studies and darkroom accidents using the lens as his medium. Solomon pulls much of his work perspective from personal entanglements in recurring themes of mental and physical illness. His images continue to document motifs surrounding familial shared illness, queer view and the erosion of our Earth. If nothing else, Solomon’s work serves to affirm a learning process of our tender and dysfunctional species.
朱俊林 Junlin Zhu (b. 1994, Mianyang, Sichuan, China) is a visual artist working primarily with lens-based medium. The theme of his work centers on his intersectional identities of being gay and Asian, along with an inspection on the idea of the mainstream versus the "other" (insider/outsider). With a personal interest in facilitating diversity, and an understanding of the importance of anti-hegemonic representation, his work aims to provide a sphere for Asian faces and bodies in the visual world.