Silver Eye

Join Fellowship 26 artists for a series of online conversations!
Meet them and learn more about their work, on view at Silver Eye through August 8, 2026.

In Fellowship 26, Conner Gordon and Helen Jones both reimagine relationships to place.

Gordon destabilizes conventional views of the American landscape through abstract photographs of the Oregon coast made using binoculars as a makeshift lens. Together with an accompanying video, these works reject clarity in favor of the peripheral, the fragmented, and the multifaceted.

Jones explores the connections between people and place, focusing on the emotional and material traces that persist across time and geography. By combining contemporary photographs with archival materials, she creates open-ended narratives that resist fixed interpretation, revealing instead echoes, connections, and lingering mysteries.

Join both artists online on Thursday, July 23, at 6 pm ET as they discuss their work and the themes explored in Fellowship 26.

Register below!

Helen Jones, Apparition, Vermont, 2018, courtesy of the artist

Participating Artists

1. Conner Gordon is an artist and educator exploring photography as unreliable narration. Through installations and self-published photobooks, he explores how photography’s documentary fallibility opens up new expressive potential. He holds an MFA in Art from the University of Oregon and is currently a Lecturer in Photography at Washburn University in Topeka, KS.

2. Helen Jones is an image maker whose work explores interactions between people and places, and the imprints they leave behind. She holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin and a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art. Since 2011, she has run Pine Island Press, a small press specializing in publishing photography and art zines.