ArtServe – Ft. Lauderdale – Superficial Impressions
July 8th – August 21st, 2021
Does a photograph reveal only what the camera sees, or does it convey what the photographer would like you to see?
An upcoming exhibit entitled “Superficial Impressions” Thursday, July 8 through Saturday, August 21, 2021 at ArtServe will seek to answer that question with a display of contemporary works from established and emerging South Florida photographers.
Sponsored by Broward County Cultural Division and WLRN, “Superficial Impressions” will feature all types of media, such as film, video or photos originating from a mobile device. Images include a wide variety of artistic categories, such as architecture, creative, motion, landscape, lifestyle, natural world and wildlife, portraiture, objects, street photography and travel.
“In the era of the selfie and the infinite social media scroll, we’re searching for photographs born out of creative passion and sensitivity: the result of a need to express one’s feelings through the image; the creator’s unique view of one’s surrounding reality,” ArtServe Curator Sophie Bonet explained.
Artists who have been selected for “Superficial Impressions” by the exhibit jury panel also will be awarded the opportunity to develop and execute a solo exhibition and inclusion in ArtServe’s 2022-2023 Artistic Calendar.
“ArtServe strives to be a platform that allows exhibiting photographers to communicate with the world and share their vision; to communicate an idea, a message, or an emotion,” ArtServe Executive Director Jason Hughes said.
Over the years, we have seen genres and subgenres of photography emerge and innovate, even before being legitimized as an art form. From daguerreotypes to digital, numerous ways of capturing images have been developed, reanalyzed, and redefined. But there is always a further spin to photography as a creative tool to discover and question.
This exhibition aims to promote contemporary works of art from South Florida photographers; thematic or retrospective, in black and white or color, documentary, conceptual or experimental, and overlapping genres, advancing the dialogue about the extensive possibilities of contemporary photography, as well as the role of the artist throughout creative and production processes.
