TRY, TAKE TIME – TAKE TIME, TRY

Filter Photo is pleased to present try, take time – take time, try, a solo exhibition by Jesse Ly.

try, take time – take time, try compiles photographic, sculptural, and installation approaches concerned with the dualities of care and labor. Considering the balance of tenderness, alongside the rigidity and rage needed to cause change, manifests via pictorial sequencing and referential iconography. The works make time for concerns related to setting affirmations, safe keeping, protection, and preparedness – to realize possibilities and ideals made within dreams.

One’s field of view exists and transcends multitudes, blending degrees of needed softness and conviction. Encapsulating this disparateness delves into the functionality of these simultaneously differing but similar emotions and approaches. The work calls upon these methods of making to look into and allude how one can harness the needed firmness to create direction with the leniency and care needed to hold space for compassion.

About the Artist

Jesse Ly is an Asian-American photographic and image-based artist. They hold a BFA from the University of Cincinnati’s college of DAAP. They are currently the Graphic Design and Photography Media Facilities Coordinator  at the University of Dayton. They have exhibited work both nationally across the US and internationally. They have had solo exhibitions at spaces including RoyGBiv Gallery -  Columbus, OH, Foster Gallery - Dedham, MA, The Neon Heater - Findlay, OH and Gallery Photoland - Olympia, WA. As well had notable group exhibitions at spaces such as The Contemporary Arts Center - Cincinnati, OH, FotoFilmic - Vancouver, BC, The PH Museum - Bologna, Italy among others. They have been a recipient of an Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council, a Regional Artist Renewal Grant via the National Endowment for the Arts, and was named a finalist for the Aperture Portfolio Prize in 2023.