June | July | August 2008 Volume 32, Number 3 - Boston ...

About the Artists
Mariliana Arvelo (Cambridge, MA) has been documenting her family and
herself in the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, and the United States in her series
“Generations.” A graduate of Boston’s New England School of Photography and
recipient of the St. Boltoph Club Grant, Arvelo has shown at the Danforth Museum
of Art in Framingham, MA, the 2006 PRC exhibition Document, Soho Photo
Gallery in New York, NY, and ARC Gallery in Chicago, IL. Arvelo has an upcoming
exhibition with the Art Forum program at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin
American Studies at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. www.marilianaarvelo.
com
Eric Percher, Untitled, 2006/2008, from the series “Work,”
Digital C-Print, 30 x 40 inches, courtesy of the artist
Clint Baclawski (Boston, MA) investigates places where people congregate,
both for spectacle and consumerism. A spring 2008 MFA candidate from Massachusetts
College of Art + Design (MassArt) in Boston, MA, Baclawski holds a BFA
in advertising photography from Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester,
NY. He has been showcased in the PRC’s NEO online gallery, jen bekman’s “Hey,
Hot Shot!” competition, and was recently featured in a Boston Globe story
on promising MFA graduates by Cate McQuaid. www.clintb.com
Claire Beckett (Jamaica Plain, MA) is documenting the soldiers, military training,
and fabricated Iraqi spaces within America in her series “Simulating Iraq.”
Holding an MFA from MassArt, Beckett is currently an Assistant Professor at
the New England Institute of Art in Brookline, MA and a recipient of a Massachusetts
Cultural Council Individual Artist Grant. Featured in the PRC exhibition
DOCUMENT, Beckett has shown at the University of Rhode Island’s Photography
Gallery in Kingston and is currently represented by Bernard Toale Gallery in
Boston. www.clairebeckett.com
Cree Bruins (Cambridge, MA), influenced by her upbringing in Rochester, NY
and a Kodak family pedigree, uses overlooked photographic materials to create
prints, drawings, and installations. In her “Leader Series,” she collects, scans, and
prints discarded end leaders from processed 35mm film. A graduate and Traveling
Scholar recipient of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Bruins has
shown at various galleries in Boston, including Barbara Krakow Gallery, Mills Gallery,
and Bernard Toale Gallery, and has an upcoming exhibition at the Danforth
Museum of Art.
Mariliana Arvelo, Beatriz and a branch, Punta Cana,
Dominican Republic, 2007, from the series “Generations,”
C-Print, 30 x 40 inches, courtesy of the artist
Lana Z Caplan (Boston, MA) has been researching and photographing former
sites of public executions in Europe, Asia, and the United States. Presented as
sepia toned gelatin silver prints in French mats with text, the final presentation
subverts visual and cultural expectations and practices. Caplan earned her
BA from Boston University and her MFA from MassArt, where she is currently
teaching. She recently received a Puffin Foundation grant for this work and has
shown this series along with film and video at the Danforth Museum of Art and
her Boston gallery, Gallery NAGA. www.lanazcaplan.com
Talia Chetrit (Providence, RI) considers essential qualities of her subjects and
photography itself in a series of distilled and straightforward, yet open-ended,
images. Holding a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chetrit
will earn her MFA this spring from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in
Providence, RI. Recent exhibitions have included 31 Under 31: Young Women in Art
Photography at the Humble Art Foundation (a non-profit dedicated to emerging
photographers) and the PRC’s online gallery NEO, as well as an upcoming show
at Soho Photo Gallery. www.taliachetrit.com
Erik Schubert, Level II, 2007/2008, from the series
“How to Win Friends and Influence People,” Archival
Inkjet Print, 16 x 20 inches, courtesy of the artist