

CONTEXT 2020
Filter Photo is pleased to announce Context 2020, our annual spring open call for photography-based work. This year the exhibition is juried by Eve Schillo, Assistant Curator Wallis Annenberg Photography Dept., Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Context 2020 opens March 20 and runs through April 25, 2020, at Filter Space gallery and continues online.
Congratulations to Juror’s Choice winner Julianna Foster and Honorable Mention Gary Emrich.
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, March 2020
Watch the video walkthrough here
Image Credit: Samantha Cabrera Friend
Participating Artists
Garrett Baumer
Greg Boozell
William Camargo
Cathy Cone
Haile Eshe Cole
Kes Efstathiou
Gary Emrich
Jim Ferguson
Julianna Foster
Bernadette Fox
Samantha Cabrera Friend
Dana Fritz
Jennifer Georgescu
Denis Gillingwater
Hans Gindlesberger
Abbey Hepner
Evan Hume
Rachel Jessen
John Keatley
Christine Lucy Latimer
Lorraine Ning
Eleanor Oakes
David Obermeyer
Miguel Ontiveros
Karen Osdieck
Inga Pae
Rich Saal
Albert Abdul-Barr Wang
Nicole White
Tim Wilson
This exhibition is partially sponsored by The Illinois Arts Council Agency.
Exhibition Dates: March 20 – April 25, 2020
Location: Filter Space 1821 W. Hubbard St., Ste. 207
Gallery Hours: Online