Jordan Benton is a Kentucky-born photographer who works to
understand a relationship to place through investigating the
connections between an environment and the people interacting
there. Much of his work focuses on the landscape of the American
South in the places where he grew up. His approach to photography
is situated between an on-the-road style of American documentary,
which embraces narratives of the everyday, and observational
photo story telling that unobtrusively captures life’s
spontaneity.
Justine Di Fiore uses the body in painting as a location for
social change and greater personal awareness. She reaches back
into the history of figurative representation and mark making as
she cultivates a critical and sensitive engagement with the
process of painting the contemporary figure. Her practice
incorporates her own body’s movement and an awareness of her
immediate physical relationship to the painting process through
movement based experiments inside and outside of the studio.
H. Gene Thompson is an interdisciplinary artist from
Pittsburgh, PA who uses wearable soft sculpture performed with
dance and movement to uncover unseen narratives, and explore
themes of closeness and isolation. Thompson uses a unique visual
language to disrupt expectations and isolating barriers, building
inclusive public art performance events that connect people. They
work at the intersection of sculpture and performance, using the
work to facilitate change in social space, and asking questions
about the boundaries of our interactions.
