Joshua Kessler: Frame Rate

A series of abstract, color-driven photographs and micro-videos by Joshua Kessler serve as a meditation on how technology has so fundamentally changed the way that we consume and experience imagery.

Whitney Hubbs: Body Doubles

Body Doubles challenges the male gaze and reclaims ownership of the female body. Hubbs references nudes from art history and popular culture to manipulate how the female form is observed in her photographs.

Replace with Fine Art: A Response to Modern China

Replace with Fine Art includes work by contemporary Chinese and Chinese American artists Chen Wei, Liu Bolin, Chen Qiulin, Jen Liu, and Ren Hang that comments on China’s contemporary life, heritage, and modernization.

Melvin Grier: Clothes Encounter

Clothes Encounter showcases seldom-seen images from Cincinnati’s fashion scene during the 1980s and 1990s, captured by award-winning former Cincinnati Post photojournalist Melvin Grier.

Carolyn Wagner: The Things They Kept

Featuring objects from the Second World War, The Things They Kept explores how every tear, every blemish, and every mark forms both an individual and collective narrative from our shared human history.

Vis-Abilities

Vis-Abilities showcases the photography of local women artists with disabilities that reflects the unique perspectives and experiences of the artists—their ongoing struggle for social inclusion and independence.

Emily Momohara: Fruits of Labor

A photo-based installation, Fruits of Labor critically interrogates Momohara’s family’s 100-year immigration journey from plantation laborers in Japan to mainland America.

Re-membering an Archive: Iris at 10

Iris‘s 10th anniversary exhibition recalls and constucts a heretofore non-existent archive representing the exceptional photography of regional and international artists presented over the last decade.

Timescapes: Earth’s Open Archive

Featuring landscape reportage that illuminates our planet’s archival continuum, Timescapes captures the effects of unrelenting time and our fleeting activity within it.

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