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Happy weekend everyone! What better time to check out this week’s online exhibition, featuring Jen Mawson’s project, “This Low Mound of Earth”? Visit the link in our bio or AviaryGallery.com/online-exhibitions for more!

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“These photographs are about a place that is not defined by parameters that can be drawn on a map. Growing up in a military family ensured that I never occupied a specific place for more than a few months or years at a time. This itinerant childhood not only made it difficult to answer the simple question of where I’m from , but also allowed me to become comfortable with the fleeting. This affinity with ephemera led to my interest in photography and how it can be used to show an embodied location versus a geographical one.

These photographs show instances of waste, near decay, and compromise in a culture that is mired in excess and rapidly approaching its limits both in the environment and in society. The world is, for the most part, shown as I have found it -- broken, incomplete, ordinary yet complex and fascinating.

These cramped scenes contain barriers, shrouding the answers, ensuring eyes never lay on the object that allows it all to make sense. I am not trying to mimic reality , but question it. Photography is dangerous in its appearance of reality, and I am interested in the subtle things within a frame that makes me question whether or not what I am looking at is real -- I want to be able to believe a photograph, but not trust it.” by @aviarygallery

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Don’t forget to check out this week’s online exhibition, featuring Jen Mawson’s project, “This Low Mound of Earth”! Head on over to the link in our bio, or visit AviaryGallery.com/online-exhibitions for more 🪄

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“Jen Mawson (b. 1994) is a photographer based out of Boston, Massachusetts. She received her BA from the University of Missouri in Interdisciplinary Studies, with an emphasis in Photography, Religious Studies and English. She graduated with an MFA in Photography at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2020.” by @aviarygallery

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This week on our site we’re featuring Jen Mawson’s project, “This Low Mound of Earth”! Check out the link in our bio, or visit AviaryGallery.com/online-exhibitions for more ✨

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“These photographs are about a place that is not defined by parameters that can be drawn on a map. Growing up in a military family ensured that I never occupied a specific place for more than a few months or years at a time. This itinerant childhood not only made it difficult to answer the simple question of where I’m from , but also allowed me to become comfortable with the fleeting. This affinity with ephemera led to my interest in photography and how it can be used to show an embodied location versus a geographical one.

These photographs show instances of waste, near decay, and compromise in a culture that is mired in excess and rapidly approaching its limits both in the environment and in society. The world is, for the most part, shown as I have found it -- broken, incomplete, ordinary yet complex and fascinating.

These cramped scenes contain barriers, shrouding the answers, ensuring eyes never lay on the object that allows it all to make sense. I am not trying to mimic reality , but question it.

Photography is dangerous in its appearance of reality, and I am interested in the subtle things within a frame that makes me question whether or not what I am looking at is real -- I want to be able to believe a photograph, but not trust it.” by @aviarygallery

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Don’t forget to check out our latest online exhibition featuring Vanessa Leroy’s project, “as our bodies lift up slowly” at AviaryGallery.com/online-exhibitions & through the link in our bio!

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“Vanessa Leroy (b. 1996) is a photographer from Waltham, Massachusetts. She is currently completing her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She remains on the hunt for new ways of seeing, remembering, and altering the world through photography. She is drawn to image-making because of the power it holds to create nuanced representation for marginalized people and uplift their stories. She sees photography as a tool for social justice, and with it, she hopes to create worlds that people feel as though they can enter and draw from, as well as provide a look into an experience that they may not personally recognize.” by @aviarygallery

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Just a few of the stunning images from, “as our bodies lift up slowly” by Vanessa Leroy, on view at AviaryGallery.com/online-exhibitions & through the link in our bio 🖤

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“This project is titled “as our bodies lift up slowly”, and I often say that making this work is about facing myself. As a person who has tended to compartmentalize difficult emotions for most of my life, I’m looking inward at the parts of myself that I previously found to be unsavory and tried to ignore. I carried negative thoughts that hindered my self-growth. There isn’t a lot of space for dreaming in an oppressive world, so I use photography as a tool to create a space where I freely navigate the various facets of my life experience and identity. I hope to weave the viewer in and out of my memories and thought processes through the use of archival family photographs, digital/physical photographic manipulation, text, and switching between black and white and color as a way to mimic the ebb and flow of memories and time. These images, some of which take place in nature and within interior spaces encompass themes of family and lineage, cultural and religious upbringing, the purging of fear and shame, self-acceptance, and embracing spirituality as a way to heal.” by @aviarygallery

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We’re so excited to share work from Vanessa Leroy’s project, ‘as our bodies lift up slowly’ in this week’s online exhibition! You can view more through the link in our bio, or at AviaryGallery.com/online-exhibitions 🌿

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“This project is titled “as our bodies lift up slowly”, and I often say that making this work is about facing myself. As a person who has tended to compartmentalize difficult emotions for most of my life, I’m looking inward at the parts of myself that I previously found to be unsavory and tried to ignore. I carried negative thoughts that hindered my self-growth. There isn’t a lot of space for dreaming in an oppressive world, so I use photography as a tool to create a space where I freely navigate the various facets of my life experience and identity. I hope to weave the viewer in and out of my memories and thought processes through the use of archival family photographs, digital/physical photographic manipulation, text, and switching between black and white and color as a way to mimic the ebb and flow of memories and time. These images, some of which take place in nature and within interior spaces encompass themes of family and lineage, cultural and religious upbringing, the purging of fear and shame, self-acceptance, and embracing spirituality as a way to heal.” by @aviarygallery

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Head on over to AviaryGallery.com/online-exhibitions (or the link in our bio) to see more of this work by Mika Simoncelli!

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“While photographing for this project at the American Museum of Natural History, I felt an awe that I’ve felt since visiting the museum as a kid. The dioramas seem as though you could fall into them, and the animal specimens seem alive – in one image, one primate puts an arm around another and the gesture is tender, if implausible.

While some of these images play off the personified drama generated in dioramas and display cases, others respond to the ambiguity of what we are able to learn there. In omitting all text elements of the displays, I hope to make apparent viewers’ desires for and expectations of information from the museum, as well as the limitations of that information. The museum, like photography, is conventionally understood to bring objective truth to its viewers. The museum, like photography, presents a visual reality that is at once exactly described and woefully untrue.” An excerpt from Mika Simoncelli’s artist statement. by @aviarygallery

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Don’t forget to check out this week’s online exhibition, featuring the work of Mika Simoncelli! You can see more through the link in our bio, or at AviaryGallery.com/online-exhibitions ✨

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“Mika Simoncelli is a sophomore at Harvard University majoring in Art, Film and Visual Studies. Mika grew up in New York City and studied film photography at the International Center of Photography. In quarantine, Mika is pondering the possibilities and limitations of photography in expressing connection, touch, and embodiment.” by @aviarygallery

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This week we’re featuring work by Mika Simoncelli, which you can explore at AviaryGallery.com/online-exhibitions, or through the link in our bio. 🌿

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“While photographing for this project at the American Museum of Natural History, I felt an awe that I’ve felt since visiting the museum as a kid. The dioramas seem as though you could fall into them, and the animal specimens seem alive – in one image, one primate puts an arm around another and the gesture is tender, if implausible.

While some of these images play off the personified drama generated in dioramas and display cases, others respond to the ambiguity of what we are able to learn there. In omitting all text elements of the displays, I hope to make apparent viewers’ desires for and expectations of information from the museum, as well as the limitations of that information. The museum, like photography, is conventionally understood to bring objective truth to its viewers. The museum, like photography, presents a visual reality that is at once exactly described and woefully untrue.

The production of knowledge in the museum is shaped by the desires of those who control it. Both museums and photographs have a history of being used to express power and dominion. I included photographs of exhibits about Native Americans because I feel that they speak to the museum’s warping of Native histories. At the same time, I worry that I am furthering the harm done by the museum by excluding any contextual information about the objects in these exhibits. For me, these photographs motivate exploration of my subject position, both as a white American implicated in the continued abuse of Native populations, and as someone who wields a camera and must face the complex and violent legacy of photography.

Ultimately, the aim of the museum, and of my photographs, is larger than telling the truth – both are spaces to hold questions, exploration, and reflection”. -Mika Simoncelli. by @aviarygallery

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Our lease at 48 South Street in JP ended on December 31st. The remains were shipped to @peel_gallery in Carrboro, NC. Aviary will merge with Peel and continue to show and share artwork online so please keep following! And follow @lindsaymetivier’s new space, @peel_gallery, the Triangle’s newest art gallery, digital photo lab , and art book store.

Thank you to all who have reached out with Aviary memories! After 9 years of exhibitions and art events, we’re feeling sad to leave but so happy to have left the space with thousands of friends and memories. We’ll be working on archiving every show and event, send along images and memories if you want to! We’d love to see them. ❤️

Thank you all for making the space what it was and keeping it alive for so long! by @aviarygallery

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Don’t forget to check out our latest exhibition, “Grace”, featuring images by Scott Offen! You can view the full virtual exhibition through our link in bio or at AviaryGallery.com/current-exhibition ✨

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"Grace is a series of photographs created by Scott Offen over the past four years of his wife, Grace. The impetus of this body of work has been the attempt to better understand one person through close observation. What makes this possible is the confidence that comes from long association, in their case, thirty nine years. Intimacy and trust are roads both travel. Each partner is vulnerable behind and in front of the camera. Each portrait reveals not only the sitter’s and the maker’s intent, but also uncontrolled moments of self disclosure. They work together. They ask questions about emotions, relationships, and their visual depiction. The images explore solitude, the difficulty of knowing another or oneself, love for a partner of many years, aging, and the mystery of these things. Together, they are always focused on making beautiful images.”

Scott Offen was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1960. He is currently pursuing an MFA in Photography at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. His work has been shown most recently at Aviary Gallery in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts and at the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, Massachusetts where he has work in their collection.” taken in Aviary by @aviarygallery

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Check out these shots from, “Grace” our latest exhibition of photographs by Scott Offen. While we’re sadly still closed to the public, you can see this entire exhibition on our site at AviaryGallery.com/current-exhibition! (& through our link in bio 🌿). & be sure to stay tuned for more install shots coming to our site soon!

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“Grace’ is a series of photographs created by Scott Offen over the past four years of his wife, Grace. The impetus of this body of work has been the attempt to better understand one person through close observation. What makes this possible is the confidence that comes from long association, in their case, thirty nine years. Intimacy and trust are roads both travel. Each partner is vulnerable behind and in front of the camera. Each portrait reveals not only the sitter’s and the maker’s intent, but also uncontrolled moments of self disclosure. They work together. They ask questions about emotions, relationships, and their visual depiction. The images explore solitude, the difficulty of knowing another or oneself, love for a partner of many years, aging, and the mystery of these things. Together, they are always focused on making beautiful images.” taken in Aviary by @aviarygallery

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