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, Javier Griffey and Jacquelyn Johnson use text and image to explore how personal narratives are constructed, shared, and understood.

Griffey brings together photographs from his mother's archive, a recent portrait of his father, and his own photography and writing to examine shifting relationships between self, family, and belonging.

Drawing from a loved one’s religious testimony, Johnson combines photographs and text-based works to examine faith and attention as acts of devotion, while reflecting on the possibilities and limitations of storytelling and representation.

Join both artists online on Thursday, July 30, at 6pm ET as they discuss their work and the themes explored in Fellowship 26.

Register below!

Javier Griffey, I Often Forget You Were a Child Once, 2026 (detail), courtesy of the artist

Participating Artists

1. Jacquelyn Johnson is a project-based artist working interdisciplinarily between photography, time-based media, textiles, and prose. She currently lives in Ithaca, New York where she works as a program coordinator and is an MFA candidate in Image Text at Cornell University. She is bound to art and writing through vernacular language, failures in storytelling and representation, and daily practices. Johnson is from Western Pennsylvania, and is a co-director of the Pittsburgh Art Book Fair, and self-publishes under the moniker Cool Dry Place. She received her B.F.A. from Carnegie Mellon University School of Art.

2. Javier Griffey is a photographic essayist whose practice interrogates photography as a meditation on fragmented truths, shared memory, and the ethics of seeing. Drawing from personal archives, documentary methodologies, and his own emotional cadence, Griffey approaches the medium as both document and metaphor. His images, texts, and material interventions dance in tandem, seeking validation in the use of a camera. He holds an MFA from the School of the Arts at Columbia University and a BA from Moravian University.