MARCH 2008
Women to Watch 2008
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. (March 14– June 15, 2008)

NMWA introduces the exciting and eclectic new exhibition, Women to Watch 2008, which focuses on 32 photographic works by 11 contemporary women. Representing a wide range of styles, methods, and themes, the exhibition introduces the viewer to artists from six (seven) states: Marita Gootee (Mississippi), Joan Myers (New Mexico), Lissa Rivera (Massachusetts), Zoe Strauss (Pennsylvania), Tricia Moreau Sweeney (Illinois), and Tarrah Krajnak and Wilka Roig (Vermont, and New York) and four countries: Valérie Belin (France), Jin-me Yoon (Canada), Elisa Sighicelli (Great Britain), and Paulina Parra (Spain).

Bringing together a diverse selection of color and black-and-white photography, Women to Watch 2008 is part of a new exhibition program developed by NMWA in partnership with its national and international committees. This year's inaugural exhibition is designed to increase the visibility of--and critical response to--a promising cadre of emerging and mid-career women artists.

Each committee participating in Women to Watch 2008 worked closely with museum curators from its locality to put forward the names of five contemporary photographers for consideration. Nominations were presented to this year's juror, NMWA Deputy Director / Chief Curator Susan Fisher Sterling, at the committee leadership conference in 2006. By seeking out photographers deserving national and international attention, NMWA's committees participate in the museum's core mission as well as strengthen ties with respected art professionals in their respective regions.

http://www.nmwa.org/exhibition/

MARCH 2008
The 14th Annual Julia Reinstein Symposium: Through a Feminist Lens
Keynote Lecture & Exhibition
George Waters Gallery, Elmira College, Elmira, NY (February 26– March 14, 2008)

Wilka Roig and Tarrah Krajnak are young women artists who investigate the gestures, costumes and settings embedded in the representation of female identity. Lending a new twist to role-playing photography, a style in which the photographer performs as, or directs the performance of, her subject for the camera, they explore intimacy, voyeurism, rivalry, social roles and the construction of the female persona while blurring the boundaries between staged and documentary photography and exploring the relationship between self-presentation and the camera.

In addition to the keynote lecture and solo exhibition, Tarrah and Wilka enjoyed talking with students in the gallery for close to two hours. You can see documentation of the gallery talk through the link below:

http://ie.youtube.com/

JANUARY 2008
Women to Watch - Vermont Nominees
Exhibition and Gallery Talk
Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Johnson State College, Johnson, VT
(January 20– February 12, 2008)

This exhibition features the work of Bethany Bond, Luciana Frigerio, Tarrah Krajnak & Wilka Roig, and Lynne Weinstein (three women and one two-woman team) whose work stood out as exceptional examples of Vermont photography. Curated by professional photographer, former UVM faculty member, and current JSC fulltime faculty member, John Miller, this exhibition shows how the camera not only captures a moment but a personality, an era, a photographer and a composition - all in one snap, one gesture, one image.

Tarrah Krajnak & Wilka Roig were the photographers ultimately selected by the National Museum of Women in the Arts to be part of an exhibition in Washington, DC. Their body of work touches the rich depths of collaboration, partnership, and work that is simultaneously separate, individual, and united. The merit, however, of all the photographers in this exhibition - Bethany Bond, Luciana Frigerio, and Lynne Weinstein - is of very high caliber; each artist creates with photography a beautiful investigation. Bethany Bond explores life cycles through visual metaphor, Luciana Frigerio excavates the realms of living and non-living in black and white, and Lynne Weinstein follows a veil of light as it falls on botanicals, fruits, and human form.

http://www.jsc.edu/NewsAndEvents/NewsArchive/

SEPTEMBER 2007
(untitled # ) Exhibition & Gallery Talk
John Hartell Gallery, Ithaca, NY (October 22 – October 27, 2007)

In conjunction with the exhibition of (untitled # ) in its entirety, Tarrah and Wilka, with special guest Magda Romanska, will be talking informally about the process of collaboration, contemporary trends in photography and portraiture, performance in photography, art and theatre history as it influences aesthetic trends in contemporary art and popular culture.

Friday, October 26, 2007
5:00pm
Hartell Gallery, Sibley Hall

Tarrah Krajnak & Wilka Roig Collaborative Works
Gallery Talk with special guest Magda Romanska, PhD
reception to follow

Magda Romanska is Assistant Professor and Head of Theatre Studies at Emerson College’s Department of Performing Arts. She holds a B.A. from Stanford University and a Ph.D. from Cornell University. In 2001-02, she was exchange scholar at Yale School of Drama’s Department of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism. She has served on the editorial boards of Theater Magazine, Palimpsest: Yale Literary and Arts Magazine, the Yale Journal of Law and Humanities, and Diacritics. Her articles have appeared in TDR: The Drama Review, and Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Her article “Necr-Ophelia: Death, Femininity and the Making of Modern Aesthetics” appeared in the Performance Research: A Journal of the Performing Arts. Her book chapter “Hamlet, Masculinity and the Nineteenth Century Nationalism” recently appeared in an anthology published by the Cambridge Scholars Press. She is the recipient of a Mellon Foundation Fellowship (2006).

http://www.magdaromanska.com/
http://pages.emerson.edu/Faculty/M/Magda_Romanska

MAY 2007
Press Release - The Spitting Image (June 7 – August 25, 2007)

Curated by Terri Whitlock, curatorial associate in the Department of Photography at SFMOMA, The Spitting Image honors the anniversary of the feminist art movement and features the work of four young women artists who, each in their own way, investigate the gestures, costumes, and settings embedded in the representation of female identity. Lending a new twist to role-playing photography, a style in which the photographer performs as, or directs the performance of, her subject for the camera, the four artists explore intimacy, voyeurism, rivalry, social roles and the construction of the female persona while blurring the boundaries between staged and documentary photography and exploring the relationship between self presentation and the camera.

Bay Area photographer Morgan Konn, provokes the notion of identity envy in a body of work called Her House, Her Clothes in which Konn gains access to women’s houses and photographs herself inhabiting their domestic space and dressing in their clothes. For her series Double Life, Midwest-based photographer Kelli Connell employs digital techniques to construct seemingly authentic pictures of a relationship between two women, but which, in fact, use the same woman subject in each role. Collaborative artists Tarrah Krajnak and Wilka Roig look closely at the relationship of photography to identity; to the ways in which identity is not simply performed, but performed for the camera.

The Spitting Image is supported by a grant from the Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation.

http://sfcamerawork.org/press/press_summer07.html
http://sfcamerawork.org/exhibitions.html
http://www.kelliconnell.com/
http://morgankonn.com/

Exhibition & Artist Lecture - Vermont Festival of the Arts (Aug 3 – Sept 3, 2007)

The Vermont Committee of National Museum of Women in the Arts has arranged to have a photo exhibit of Anthology of Trends as part of the 2007 Vermont Festival of the Arts in the Mad River Valley that runs from Aug 3 to Sept 3.

http://www.vermontartfest.com/

Selected as one of ten women artists to be featured in the National Museum of Women in the Arts biennial show "Women to Watch" in Washington, DC, in 2008, Tarrah Krajnak and Wilka Roig will discuss their collaborative work, which uses self-portraiture to investigate the role and identity of the artists and that of photography within a sociocultural and historical context. Sponsored by the Vermont Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts.

http://www.vtwomenartists.org

“Women Artists in Collaboration: Representing Women in Contemporary Photography”
Date: 8/23/2007
Location: Big Picture Theatre, Waitsfield
Contact: Lori Klein 496-6256
Time: 5 - 7 pm


MARCH 2007
Selected for the National Museum of Women in the Arts biennial (February 2008)

Pose Archive will be represented in the exhibition Women to Watch. More information to come soon.


NOVEMBER 2006
Finalists for the National Museum of Women in the Arts biennial

Our portfolio has been selected to be forwarded to the National Museum of Women for possible inclusion in the "Women to Watch" Photography show. The show is scheduled to open February 2008.

The other three finalists are:
Bethany Bond http://www.bethanybond.com/
Luciana Frigerio http://www.lucianafrigerio.com/
Lynne Jaeger Weinstein http://www.lynneweinsteinphoto.com/

The curator of the show is Susan Fisher Sterling, Deputy Director for Art and Programs and the Chief Curator of the Museum.


OCTOBER 2006
Nominated for the National Museum of Women in the Arts biennial

We have been nominated to submit work to be considered for inclusion in the National Museum of Women in the Arts biennial exhibition called “Women to Watch”. This exhibition will feature underrepresented and emerging women artists from the states and countries in which the museum has committees. The exhibition will focus on photography.