Breathing In

Here's the press release for one of two of my upcoming shows this month. If you did not receive it by email and want to be on my mailing list, please let me know. If you don't want to be on my mailing list, please let me know. I'll try not to hold any grudges. Hope you can make it!



Rona Chang: Breathing In

April 23 – June 18, 2011
Opening Reception: Saturday April 23, 4 – 6pm

Reading with the poet Ann B. Knox: Saturday May 21, 2 – 3pm
RSVP to homefrontrgallery@gmail.com

The Homefront Gallery is pleased to present Breathing In by Rona Chang, a collection of photographs taken over the last ten years. This exhibition celebrates the publication of the book Breathing In, a collaboration with the poet Ann B. Knox. It highlights the images and words that emerged from “like ways of seeing” the world’s “patterns, strangeness and delights.”

A flick at the eye’s edge
and it’s gone.
It was probably nothing,
but no, it was
something…

-Taking Shape p.22

Photographer Rona Chang is a recipient of En Foco's New Works #14 Fellowship. In 2011, she was awarded a grant by Queens Council on the Arts with public funding from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs for her series Moving Forward, Standing Still. Ms. Chang is a finalist for the 2011 Rome Prize. In 2007 she was an associate artist at the Atlantic Center of the Arts residency under the guidance of Thomas Struth. Her work has been showcased online and has exhibited both nationally and internationally. After receiving her BFA from The Cooper Union School of Art she worked as a photographer for the Asian Art Department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for nine years, where she photographed all of the Japanese woodblock prints, Indian paintings, and Chinese handscrolls in the collection. Her work can be seen on ronachang.com.

Ann B. Knox is author of two books of poetry, Staying Is Nowhere, SCOP-Writer's Center Prize and Stonecrop, Washington Writers' Publishing House Prize. and two recent chapbooks, Reading the Tao at Eighty (Finishing Line Press), and The Dark Edge, (Pudding House Press). Individual poems have appeared in many literary journals such as Alaska Quarterly, Nimrod, Poetry, The Green Mountains Review. A collection of short fiction, Late Summer Break (Papier Mache Press), was selected by Barnes & Noble as one of their Discovery Books. She received an MFA from Goddard/Warren Wilson and for eighteen years edited the literary journal, Antietam Review.


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