“Rochester-based artist Granville Carroll kicks off our annual Wish You Were Here series with a talk about his photographic works that conjure unknown cosmic universes, alien landscapes, and portals to alternate dimensions. Through the lens of Afrofuturism and Astroblack concepts, these digitally and physically manipulated images activate the imagination to reveal new realities and visions of the future as personal and collective origin stories.” George Eastman Museum
Thank you to Bree Lamb and Leo Hsu for featuring my work for Issue 155! You can check out the four other artists in the feature via the link below!
I had the pleasure of sharing my project Cosmotypes with Galina Kurlat for Lenscratch. Click the link below to read up on the published article, originally published November 2021.
Its with great pleasure to share my project Because the Sun Hath Looked Upon Me has been published in the Brink Literary Journal! Copies of the journal can be purchased directly from their site (use the link below)!
No. 2 Fall 2021 Brink
EXCITING NEWS!!! Next month I will be giving an artist talk at the George Eastman Museum! I am beyond thrilled to be able to share my work with the local community and photographic community at large. For those who will be in or around Rochester in October I hope to see you there! I will be sharing a range of photographic projects to examine what the veil means, how I use Afrofuturism to peer beyond it, and what we can all do to push against the many limitations of social labels and expectations. Beyond the Veil will take you through my imaginative journey to understand humanity beyond the context of social constructs and into otherworldly and newly crafted universes! I will also be sharing a new project I am currently working on called Dark Matter. You wont want to miss this!
Via VSW:
“Visual Studies Workshop announced today (8/20/21) the 24 artists awarded upcoming September 2021 – September 2022 Project Space Artist Residencies. The Artists-in-Residence, including 4 collaborations, were selected from over 100 applicants by a team of VSW curators, a former Artist-in-Residence, and an outside curator.
The Project Space residency program at Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY is a studio workspace for artists working in photography, book art, film, and media art. The residency program provides artists the opportunity to experiment with new work or new display strategies, and to have discussions with critics, curators, graduate students, and the community-at-large about works-in-progress. Selected artists receive a stipend, housing, and 4 weeks in a dedicated Project Space studio at VSW, where they will have access to bookbinding and digital printing studios, a photo darkroom and screen printing lab, and the Nathan Lyons Research Center library and collections.”
Selected Artists: Rebecca Aloisio, Ambarien Alqadar, Keliy Anderson-Staley, Ligia Bouton, Samantha Box, Granville Carroll, Lili Chin, Maya Ciarrocchi, Kelli Connell and Natalie Krick, Duke and Battersby, India Johnson, Işık Kaya and Thomas Georg Blank, Salome Kokoladze, Jodie Mack, Bárbara Oettinger, Ahndraya Parlato, Jenn Poggi and Josh Meltzer, Rashaad Parker, Kelly Sears, Savannah Wood
Interview with Lonnie Graham
I spoke with Lonnie Graham via Lenscratch for their Photographers on Photographers features about community, humanity, culture, and art. Check out our conversation via the link below!
