Current Exhibition at Gallery114

August 12 – November 7, 2024

Reception Thursday, October 17, 5-8 p.m.

Panel discussion at 6 p.m.

Tableau photography is a powerful method for storytelling. Sometimes used interchangeably with the term directorial photography, this mode of art making combines the physical world with a deliberately constructed setting, which allows the artist to orchestrate scenes and conceive new narratives. Though unique in their use of materials and photographic processes, artists Jaime Aelavanthara, Suzanne Camp Crosby and Thomas Whitworth each focus on in-camera production instead of digital manipulation. The visual narratives that result consciously blur the distinction between truth and fiction as worlds are made and unmade, unfolding and evolving, each artwork requiring careful observation in order to interpret what is seen.

Jaime Aelavanthara received her MFA from Louisiana Tech University and is currently an Associate Professor of Art at the University of Tampa. Suzanne Camp-Crosby (1948–2020) received her MFA from the University of South Florida in 1976 and  taught at HCC as Professor of Photography for 38 years. Thomas Whitworth, a former Professor of Fine Art at the University of New Orleans, currently lives and works in central Florida and holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as well as an MA from California State University, Fullerton.