Filter Photo Context 2020

We are very pleased to announce the artists exhibiting work in Context 2020, our annual survey exhibition of contemporary photography. Context 2020 features the work of 30 artists selected by juror Eve Schillo, Assistant Curator, Wallis Annenberg Photography Dept., Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), from a pool of over 250 submissions. Congratulations to the accepted artists listed below!

Mark your calendars for the opening reception on Friday, March 27th from 6 - 9 PM. The Juror's Choice Award and Honorable Mention will be awarded that night. We look forward to seeing you there!

Context 2020

My congratulations to all of the artists included in Context 2020. It was a privilege to review the many strong submissions, and, in turn, to acknowledge that the quality of submissions stand as a credit to Filter Photo for their fine work in expanding the notion of a photo-based practice. The works selected are by default a reflection of my own opinion of photography’s current strengths: traditional themes made more relevant with a strong dose of the poetry that is photographic abstraction. Portraiture that is traditional ¾ frontal pose or in situ, but also mysterious and questioning. Landscape or streetscapes that are also–or primarily–read as formal tonal fields. Photo experimentation that is both process-directed and simultaneously not read foremost as a photograph.  The blurred, but not confused, nature of photography in 2020 is all represented here.

Eve Schillo
Assistant Curator, Wallis Annenberg Photography Dept.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)