BRING THE FAMILY

Life is overwhelming and stressful. As we work through our busy schedules, we often realize at the end of the day what is truly important. In Bring the Family, photographers Tina Barney, Lydia Panas, Catalina Kulczar-Marin, and Natalie Young explore the need for family, friends, and home.

 CLOSING RECEPTION: Thursday, May 5 from 5:30 - 7:30 (6:30 reveal of Photo Contest winners)

Thanks to our partner

On exhibit: Monday, February 14 - Sunday, May 22
Knight Gallery
Free and open to the public
 

Deepen your BRING THE FAMILY experience

BRING THE FAMILY: Photography Contest with WFAE // click here

BRING THE FAMILY: Repertory Film Series // click here

 

 

 

About the Artists

Tina Barney

When people say that there is a distance, a stiffness in my photographs that the people look like they do not connect, my answer is, that this is the best that we can do. This inability to show physical affection is in our heritage.

Tina Barney was born and raised in New York. She took up photography in the mid-1970s while in her thirties. In 1971, she began collecting photographs, and
from collecting she moved to the study of photography. Barney has consistently photographed her extended family and friends, and has continued to develop both her technique and her individual vision. In 1991, Barney won a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Her work is in many collections, including the George Eastman House, Rochester, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, and others. It continues to be exhibited both nationally and internationally. Her books include Friends and Relations (1991), Theater of Manners (1997), The Europeans (2005), and The Players (2010).


Lydia Panas

We wear stories on our faces. In [my] pictures of family relationships, it is the details that matter most. Although they portray engaging people, verdant landscapes and beautiful light, it is the small things in the images that provide us with clues to understand the subtle nature of the work. The photographs ask that we look deeper than the surface for what lies underneath; that complex part of our own personalities we often don’t see.

Lydia Panas graduated from Boston College with a BA in Psychology. She went on to study at the Art Institute of Boston and received her BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts, New York. She has also participated in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and the New York University/ International Center for Photography MA in photography program. Panas was one of nine artists selected by Houston Fotofest curators for the International Discoveries Exhibit in 2007, was a finalist in the Photolucida Book Competition in 2008, and won First Prize for the Publisher’s Choice Singular Image at CENTER, Santa Fe, NM, in 2009. Her work is included in numerous collections including MoMA Shanghai, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the Allentown Art Museum.


Catalina Kulczar-Marin

Love is blind and I feel very strongly about this. Why can’t two committed people, regardless of their gender, be legally married in the United States and have the same benefits as heterosexual couples? As advanced as a country that we may be, we are far behind in same gender issues. I want to change that by putting a face to the marriage equality issue.

Catalina Kulczar-Marin left her Physics class in high school to work in the darkroom, and she’s never truly left. A graduate of Queens University of Charlotte (NC), she has had her photographs published in print and online in the Charlotte Observer, National Public Radio, Creative Loafing, Batanga magazine, among others. After working in Charlotte for many years, Kulczar-Marin is now based in New York. She recently was involved with Let Love Reign, a photography project for marriage equality. The results are on view in Bring the Family.
 

Natalie Young

'The Farm' series…is about place and history, memory and story. It’s about the things that tie us together, and the things that bring us back. Georgia and Sabine are my two girls, [my] miniature dachshunds. The portraits have an intimacy that takes the viewer closer to the thin line that separates we human animals from our pets.

Natalie Young grew up in Texas and Arkansas and became interested in photography in college. After graduation, she worked in Nashville as a photographic assistant and moved to Southern California in 2000. Young was named one of the Top 50 Photographers in the Photolucida Critical Mass 2008 competition. She was also nominated for the 2009 Santa Fe Prize for Photography and was one of six featured artists in the Texas Photographic Society’s 2008/2009 Print Program. The Farm was exhibited at the Lishui Photography Festival in China. Young’s work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and her book, Georgia & Sabine was published in 2009.