PLEASE NOTE:

The PRC gallery and library are DARK and have no exhibition on display from July 3rd through early September in order to host Summer Photo Camp sessions and Summer Masters Workshops.

Make no mistake, we're still here! The PRC staff can be reached over the summer during normal business hours Monday through Friday. Please note we are not open our regular hours and are not open during the weekend. Call 617.975.0600 if you'd like to make an appointment to use the library.

a look ahead:

Please see below or click here for more information on our upcoming 2008 PRC Benefit Auction Preview Exhibitions. Tickets go on sale in August and the online catalogue will be available in September.

Preview Exhibitions and Auction Dates:
September 19 – October 19
Live Auction Preview Exhibition
on display at the PRC
832 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, free

October 2 – October 19
Silent Auction Preview Exhibition
on display at the 808 Gallery
808 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, free

Opening reception for both locations:
Thursday, October 4 from 5:30-7:30pm
808 and 832 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, free

Auction Date:
Saturday, October 25, 2008
The 2008 PRC Benefit Auction takes place at the 808 Gallery
808 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
Reception and Silent Auction: 5:30pm Live Auction: 7:00pm
Advanced tickets required.


PLEASE NOTE: Dates are subject to change and in between exhibitions, the PRC and library are open by appointment only.
Please call ahead for any group visit, 617.975.0600.

A LOOK BACK - at the previous season
for more extensive information, please see the
Exhibition Archive section

2007 PRC Benefit Auction
September 14 – October 21, 2007; Live Auction, October 27
This annual exhibition and auction included close to 200 contemporary and vintage photographs. More than $100,000 was raised to benefit the PRC.

AD | AGENCY
November 8, 2007 - January 28, 2008
This group exhibition brought together photo-based work that mimics or addresses the language of advertising and product photography as well as work that mines or alters catalogues, print ads, products, stores, or literally the process itself. Addressing a spectrum of consumerism issues, the work investigated the life of and power behind the objects, signs, and symbols that are marketed to us and the cycle of consumption—from branding to purchase and beyond. International, national, and regional artists included Kate Bingaman-Burt, Dean Kessmann, Jonathan Lewis, Michael Mittelman, Diana Shearwood, Matt Siber, Hank Willis Thomas, Brian Ulrich, and Penelope Umbrico. For the online component of the exhibition, including an essay, images, and links, please click here.

2008 PRC Student Exhibition
February 8 – March 16, 2007
The 6th annual student exhibition featured over 100 photographs by students from 18 New England universities and colleges that were current Institutional Plus Members of the PRC. For more information on the student exhibition and Institutional membership of the PRC, click here, and to see images of the installation and opening click here.

New England Survey
March 28 – May 11, 2008
This exhibition surveyed contemporary work from and of the New England landscape, featuring one artist from (or project based in) each of the 6 New England states. The exhibition took for its inspiration a poem by Amherst poet Robert Francis (1901-1987), “New England Mind.” The works highlighted often began with and focused upon a very specific locale within the regional landscape, yet meditate upon on the grander, ineffable idea of a “sense of place.”

The featured photographers/projects were Barbara Bosworth (a series focusing on a meadow in Carlisle, MA); Tanja Alexia Hollander (series of minimal views of ME marshes); Janet Pritchard (series of CT landscapes that show effects of time and history); Thad Russell (series on his parents' self-built home and land in upper VT's Northeast Kingdom); Jonathan Sharlin (series based around walks in the RI landscape); and Paul Taylor(series done in wet plate collodion on the Connecticut River in NH).

Click here for an essay on the exhibition, images, and links.

EXPOSURE:
The 13th Annual PRC Juried Exhibition
May 23 – July 2, 2008

Each year, the PRC is pleased to host a juried exhibition with a nationally-renowned juror. Begun in 1996, the PRC Juried Exhibition highlights midcareer artists and "ones to watch." Newly dubbed EXPOSURE in celebration of the PRC's 30th anniversary, we are pleased to have as our 2008 juror, Lesley A. Martin, Publisher, Aperture Book Program. For this year's exhibition, Ms. Martin selected 14 artists out of a total 376 international submissions—the largest number of entries ever received in the exhibition's history. A special spread will appear in the summer issue of the PRC's newsletter, in the loupe. Click here for more information on the PRC Juried Exhibition and its history.

EXPOSURE was on Flak Photo, May 19 - 23 & May 26 - 30.
Click here to see EXPOSURE installation and opening images.

2008 Selected Artists
Mariliana Arvelo (Cambridge, MA)
Clint Baclawski (Boston, MA)
Claire Beckett (Jamaica Plain, MA)
Cree Bruins (Cambridge, MA)
Lana Z Caplan (Boston, MA),
Talia Chetrit (Providence, RI)
Martine Fougeron (New York, NY)
Robert Knight (Newton, MA)
Molly Landreth (Seattle, WA)
Marta Labad (Providence, RI)
Benjamin Lowy (New York, NY)
Eric Percher (Brooklyn, NY)
Erik Schubert (Cambridge, MA)
Ellen Susan (Savannah, GA)