REGENHARDT GALLERY AT SHRODE ART CENTER
SHRODE PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION AND EXHIBIT
October 6, 2024 – January 12, 2025
• Exhibit Open: Tuesday – Saturday 10:00 am to 5:00 pm & Sunday 1:00 to 5:00 pm
• Gallery Admission – Free
GATHER AT THE GALLERIES – EXHIBIT OPENING RECEPTION
Saturday, October 5 | 5:00 to 7:00 pm
Admission $10.00 | Cedarhurst Members – Free
• Open bar and appetizers | 5 to 6 pm
• Gallery hop to see the art and meet the artists | 5 to 7 pm
• Shuttle rides to Shrode Art Center | 6 to 7 pm
Programming
Art Chat
Sunday, January 12 | 3:00 p.m.
Shrode Art Center | Free admission
- Exhibiting photographers and public welcome
- Moderater – Carrie Stover, Director of Shrode Art Center
Shawn Pilkington, Short Eared Owl Sprinkled in Light, 2024
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ABOUT THE EXHIBIT:
The Shrode Photography Competition and Exhibition is a juried competition open to artists 18 years of age and older living in southern Illinois south of Interstate 70, including Charleston, IL. Eligible media accepted included photography created with photographic film, and digital images.
278 photographs were entered in this year’s competition from 69 different artists, representing 41 southern Illinois communities! 36 works were accepted representing 34 artists. We are delighted that so many people in the region are involved in the art of photography and that we are able to offer this challenge. Awards include cash prizes for Best of Show, 1st Place, 2nd Place, 3rd Place and Honorable Mention Certificates.
2023 Shrode Art COmpetition Judge – Dan younger
Dan Younger is a Professor of Art, founder of the studio area and former chair of the Department of Art & Design at the University of Missouri in St. Louis. He has been teaching art in university settings since 1978.
He has over 165 national and international exhibits, and his works are in numerous public collections including Museum de Stadt, in Gladbeck Germany, The Fox Talbot Museum and the National Trust, Lacock, England, The Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago), the Harry Ransom Center at UT- Austin, The Saint Louis Art Museum, and Diaphne – Pole Photographique, of Montreuil, France.
Younger spent the summer of 2017 in Beauvais, France photographing Cathédrale Saint-Pierre de Beauvais, a 13th century masterpiece of Gothic design. Over that time he produced over two hundred 360° images of the interior of that cathedral with the intention to create a « street map » of the interior which would allow website visitors to tour the cathedral. A website, http://saintpierretour.com, is now available.
Younger prides himself in taking on and transforming subject matter in photography which are mostly the province of amateurs: vacations and children. His pictures of strangers enjoying (and photographing) themselves in vacation spots, called “Travel Places” has been shown across the US and was the subject of a solo exhibition at the Sheldon Galleries in St. Louis in February 2014. William Wilson, Director of the Grand Center for the Arts in Tracy, California wrote that Younger’s images are “equally disturbing and charming”. In an essay accompanying the catalog of the 2008 Grand Center exhibit, he wrote “Dan Younger captures the moments in between the anticipated highlights of the vacation. These are depictions of what really goes on around us in the places we gather in attempts to be entertained, rewarded, and find relaxation.”
His second portfolio, called “Some Kids” are photographs of children at parties and at
play. This work was featured in “Photaumnales 2013” an international photo festival in the French town of Bueuvais, in September of 2013. Younger was the solo American invited to this international event. Aline Smithson of LENSCRATCH wrote, “Never before have so many fine art and documentary photographers turned their lenses on the world within the confines of their own front door. Photographers who document family are participant observers–caught between the decision to participate in familial activities or capturing their loved ones with photographic interpretation, sometimes at their expense. Dan Younger has created a portfolio called “Some Kids” that are photographs of children at parties and at play. He prides himself with transforming subject matter that is mostly the province of amateurs: vacations and children.”
Younger’s photographs have also been used in the sets of NBC’s “The Biggest Loser”, on ABC’s “Meet the Newlyweds” on Fox’s “I Married a Stranger” and on VH1’s “Scot Baio is 45 – And Still Single” among others. Tony Marsh, Emmy winning director of “Newlyweds” wrote that Younger’s photographs are “bold and evocative. They do not merely document but beckon you to wander around in the sublime space between first impression and fond memory”.
His web site is www.artstuffpixs.com
