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Exhibition Review
Radial Survey Vol.4 Reviews
Silver Eye Center Highlights Regional Photographers in ‘Radial Survey Vol. 4’ TABLE Magazine December 8, 2025 By Shawn Simmons
"Titled Resolve, the exhibition brings together six artists working within 300 miles of Pittsburgh, a geographic circumference that, by design, excludes art-world metropoles like New York and Chicago while drawing forward the dense constellation of artists, teachers, and experimenters working across the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest. The result is an exhibition that makes space for uncertainty, highlighting work that is still actively discovering itself..."
A Radius of Possibility: Silver Eye Center for Photography’s biennial turns a three-hundred-mile boundary into a curatorial tool. Pittsburgh Review of Books December 8, 2025 By Sarah Fleming Steinberg
"Three hundred miles. It’s an arbitrary distance, a circle drawn on a map with Pittsburgh at its center, catching Detroit and Rochester while excluding New York and Chicago. In Silver Eye Center for Photography’s Radial Survey, that arbitrary boundary becomes a methodological choice with distinct implications. By limiting geography, the biennial expands possibilities for what conversations become audible when the usual coastal voices aren’t drowning everyone else out..."
Liminal Intimacy in Radial Survey Vol.4 Petrichor Magazine November 14, 2025 by Emma Riva
"Every moment is a negotiation of intimacy. As I type this out in an airport terminal, a Starbucks employee knows my name, travelers around me see my face, but none of these relationships are truly close, knowing ones. Most people are in a liminal intimacy with each other, between the known and the unknown—and this is also a version of the relationship between the viewer and the work of art. The fourth iteration of Silver Eye Center for Photography’s Radial Survey sees lens artists negotiating these questions of liminal spaces and intimate encounter..."
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