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Thu, Oct 18, 2018,7 Silver Eye Center for Photography
4808 Penn Avenue Free and Open to the Public

Talk

Zora J. Murff in Conversation with Andre Bradley

Silver Eye and Point Park University will present a panel discussion with Zora J. Murff and Andre Bradley, moderated by Terence Washington. This discussion will focus on the life and work of two contemporary photographers, and will look to unpack themes of black identity, manhood, and creating artistic agency in America.

Participating Artists

  1. Andre Bradley is based in Philadelphia and uses photography, curatorial practice and publishing to explore the subjects of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and the Black community, race, photographic representation and narrative space. Bradley utilizes photography, installation, and experimental lectures as forms of ideological resistance that foreground lived experiences of Blackness against the background of art. Bradley graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Image Text Ithaca and the Rhode Island School of Design's photography M.F.A. programs. While at Rhode Island School of Design, he received the T.C. Colley Award for photographic excellence. While at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Bradley was named a George Ciscle Scholar in curatorial practice. Bradley's first photo-book, Dark Archives, I-41, was shortlisted for the Photo-Text Book Award at Les Rencontres d'Arles and the Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation First Photo Book Award.

  2. Zora J Murff is an Oregon-based artist and educator. He uses transgressive ideologies to promote critical self-reflection, visual literacy, and consciousness raising. Murff has published multiple books of his artwork including his most recent, True Colors (Or, Affirmations in a Crisis, published by Aperture Foundation. His work has been collected and shown internationally including the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. In 2023, Murff was named an ICP 2023 Infinity Award winner. His first museum solo show, RACE/HUSTLE is currently on display at MASS MoCA through November 2026.

  3. Terence Washington is the Curatorial Liaison for Public Programs at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C.. Terence received his MA from the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art in 2017.