fall 1991 - summer 1992 exhibition program

Ilene Segalove: Why I Got into TV and Other Stories
September 6 – October 6, 1991
In this traveling exhibition, Ilene Segalove explored the trials, tribulations, and amusements of growing up in middle-class America. The exhibition of photographs, video, and audiotapes were her responses to being a child of the first TV generation, and growing up in Southern California amid the allure of Hollywood fantasy culture. The Laguna Art Museum in Laguna Beach organized the exhibition.

1991 New England Biennial
October 26 – November 27, 1991
In this inaugural exhibition, the PRC presented the work of 19 New England photographers including: Christopher Barnes, Jerry Berndt, Peter Crabtree, Maryjean Viano Crowe, Jim Dow, Hansi Durlach, Chris Enos, Dorothy Imagire, Elizabeth Kunreuther, Richard Lebowitz, Denise Marcotte, Denny R. Moers, Carol Palmer, Stephen Petegorsky, Sheron Rupp, Jane Tuckerman, Peter Tytla, Frank Ward, and Tom Young. The jurors for the exhibition were Robert Heinecken, and Helaine Posner, then Curator of the MIT List Visual Arts Center.

50 Photos: A Phase I, Randomized Trail
December 1, 1991 – January 26, 1992
This exhibition provided a unique forum for individuals living with the HIV/AIDS to express themselves though the medium of photography. Fifty ready-to-use cameras were distributed to a cross-section of persons with HIV/AIDS. Each participant displayed one image and wrote a statement to accompany the photograph. A blank wall was reserved in the gallery so patrons could write their thoughts and reactions to what they saw. The wall became a permanent part of the installation.

Managed Lands
December 1 – December 29, 1991
Managed Lands was a series of color aerial photographs by Margot Balboni that examined the interrelationship that exists between humanity and the contemporary American landscape.

Pilsen: Mexican Immigrants in Chicago
January 3 – February 2, 1992
In this documentary exhibition by Paul D'Amato, he focused on the residents of the Pilsen Neighborhood in Chicago. Pilsen was originally built by Lithuanians; Mexicans and Mexican-Americans now largely populate it. The contrast between the brightly dressed Mexicans and their darker Eastern European surroundings created the striking quality of D'Amato's work.

El Salvador in the Eye of the Beholder
February 7 – April 5, 1992
The source of all the photographs in El Salvador in the Eye of the Beholder was an underground archive of more than 8,000 images. It served as evidence of a struggle not only to endure, but also to fight the silence and denial of an oppressive government and military ruling with scare tactics and death squads. The images depicted life in El Salvador from 1968 through 1991.

Jerry Berndt: Photographs from Haiti
February 7 – April 5, 1992
Photographs from Haiti documented Jerry Berndt's vision of Haiti under siege. The images were taken during uprisings in Haiti, and tell about the legacy of slavery and the struggle for freedom. The exhibition also attempted to correct the general misconceptions Americans had about the small Caribbean country and its history.

1992 PRC Benefit Auction
April 11 – April 18, 1992
This exhibition featured 200 fine art photographic prints in anticipation of the PRC's second live Auction held on April 22, 1992. The photographs included vintage prints as well as works by contemporary artists such as Nancy Burson, Ellen Brooks, Stephen Frailey, Nan Goldin, Nicholas Nixon, Holly Roberts, Michael Silver, and William Wegman.

The Silence of the Passing Time
May 1 – June 21, 1992
The Silence of the Passing Time was the first U.S. exhibition by Polish installation artist Vistan (Wieslaw Brzoska). Vistan's existential view of the human experience and the chaos of the world lay at the center of his work. The installation consisted of sixteen wooden boxes arranged in rows, and housed life size photographs of the front and back of the human body, with each face obscured by a time of day and date. Cosmic diagrammatic figures on the gallery walls also encircled the installation.

Youth Photography Exhibition
May 1 – May 31, 1992
This was the fourth annual exhibition of photographs by high school students from Eastern Massachusetts, juried by Boston area photographers Mary Ann McQuillan, Margaret Tuitt, and Sterling Worrell, then a photography professor at White Pines College in New Hampshire.

Icons
June 2 – June 30, 1992
In this exhibition, Peter Iverson created a series of controlled double exposures that combined Vietnam War imagery with religious iconography from the renaissance. His juxtaposition of war stills and sacred images served to raise questions about the relationship between combat and religion, a theme that has been explored since the Crusades.

Human Nature
June 2 – June 30, 1992
Human/Nature was a series of black-and-white "human-in-landscape" photographs by Michelle Van Parys. By forcing her viewers to see how they have littered the land that symbolizes the limitless possibilities of the American Dream, Van Parys put a new face on the American West.