Embracing Chaos with Erik Mace
Embracing Chaos with Erik Mace
Monday’s, September 26th - October 24th, 12 pm - 1:30 pm ET
“Pick up your toys.”
Does that question still make you reflexively furrow your brow? Do you wish it did? This practice group is for you. Let’s get messy together. We’ll spend five weeks looking at our projects through the lens of chaos, creating discomfort within existing bodies of work and employing it as a starting point for new work. Those times in a project’s lifecycle when we’re least sure, least confident - those are often the times that the most courageous work can unfold.
In this practice group, we’ll use a combination of assignments and rich discussion to see how far we can push each other and ourselves outside of our comfort zones. The old adage “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” doesn’t apply here: let’s break some things. Experimentation and iteration will help us understand our motivations behind our projects and how our work can take on new dimension.
Requirements: While this practice group is open to a maximum of 10 photographers of all levels, each of us will get the best of each other by joining with a curious mind eager to be challenged in respectful, productive ways.
Erik Mace is a photographer and graphic designer whose work is focused on memory and introspection, exploring personal history through lens-based and adjacent media. His projects germinate from specific childhood memories and grow into broader discussions of identity, American life, and the human experience. Observations and reflections of his past are rooted in seeking a greater understanding of present themes, both personal and cultural. Much of his current work begins with the photographic medium and become richer explorations through the addition of design, experimental typography, or computer-generated graphics. He has self-published numerous photobooks, including Slate, an effort to give agency to our planet and voice to its landscapes, both natural and created. Slate highlights gesture, form, color, texture, and pattern as building blocks for a new language, one that is informed by the natural world. Erik received his BFA in Visual Communications from Washington University in St. Louis and is an alumnus of the Contemporary Photography program at the International Center of Photography in New York.
Erik Mace
Erik Mace
Erik Mace
