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Artist to Artist Interview with Curator Anita Bates
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February 2022 - As a part of the Detroit Artists Market exhibition Into the Open, curator Dr. Anita Bates interviewed Mara about her previous work and current explorations. Check out this interview to learn more about Hyperstimulation, A Lack of Control, and The Siren Collection!
Feminine / Masculine - PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
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February 2022 - “The Untended Garden - Failure of Purpose” and “The Untended Garden - To Pluck” were chosen to be a part of the Feminine / Masculine international exhibition at the PH21 Gallery in Budapest, Hungary!
Additionally, “The Untended Garden - Failure of Purpose” was also chosen to be one of three honorable mentions for the exhibit!
The exhibition runs from February 10 – March 5, 2022!
For more information and to view the virtual exhibition: PH21 Gallery
Aeonian Magazine - Issue 6
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January 2022 - The Untended Garden is featured in Issue 6 of Aeonian Magazine!
Aeonian Magazine is a publication dedicated to celebrating experimental photography. Through Instagram, they have created a community of photographers interested in all things experimental-- polaroids, cyanotypes, tintypes, film, and so much more.
Mara’s work is featured in the first of four artist interviews for the issue. Read more here!
Into the Open - Detroit Artists Market
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January 2022 - The Siren Collection and work from A Lack of Control is included in the Into the Open exhibition at Detroit Artists Market!
Friday, January 21 – February 19, 2022
Curated by Anita Bates
To bring something into the open means it is made public, not subject to concealment or obfuscation. The exhibition, Into the Open, intends to do just that; to make more visible the diverse and formidable work of Detroit-area artists, Mariam Ezzat, Mara Magyarosi-Laytner, Priscilla Phifer, Heloisa Pomfret, Alice Smith, Mandisa Smith, and Jessica Wildman Katz. The varied art and design elements co-mingle via both 2D and 3D work, presenting a rich tapestry of talent and craftsmanship.
Lensbaby Shoot Extraordinary Conference
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December 2021 - The 2021 Lensbaby Shoot Extraordinary Photography Virtual Conference was December 7th-9th and there is still a ton of great programming available. Mara, as both an educator and a Lensbaby Ambassador, spoke about Evolving Your Portfolio Creatively and featured work from Mistrusting My Nature, A Lack of Control, and The Untended Garden.
Floresta Magazine Issue 001 - Balance
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November 2021 - Images from The Untended Garden are featured in Floresta Magazine Issue 001 - Balance!
The magazine, started in Manchester, UK, explores the notion of balance in existing micro- and macro- environments through a fusion of poetry, chemigrams, photography, words, illustration, design from waste, and VR. According to Floresta, “Balance is ambiguous, delicate, and interconnected.”
The work can be found at this link.
Developed Work - Midwest Center for Photography, Wichita, KS
in Exhibition
November 2021 - Very proud to announce that selections from The Untended Garden have been selected by Midwest Center for Photography @mwcponline for their exhibit “Developed Work” in November.
“Developed Work exhibition featuring current and relevant work of worldwide photographers that are helping define the pulse of contemporary photography around the globe. Developed Work has become established as the premiere exhibition at MWCP for featuring some of the most important creative work of the year.”
November 5 - November 26, 2021
Opening Reception - Friday, November 5, 7-9pm
Midwest Center for Photography
Wichita, Kansas
Find out more about the exhibition here!
Silver Water Collective Announcement
October 2021 - Silver Water Collective, a group of ten women photographers from across the United States and Canada, announced their presence this week with a brand new website! (SWC Website) The group met at Savannah College of Art and Design during their time in the MFA Photography program. Mara, the founder of the group and one of the collective curators, initially reached out to each artist in December of 2020 based on their talent, work ethic, and goals as artists to band together and produce content as a group. Silver Water Collective produces exhibitions, live critiques, and will soon have the SWC Podcast!
The group’s first exhibition will be in Toronto, Canada in May. Stay turned for more details!
Lensbaby Featured Artist Article - Experimenting with Abstract Photography
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September 2021 - Images from The Untended Garden and A Lack of Control were featured in an article on Lensbaby.com along with a great interview about Mara’s background, work, and motivations as an artist.
A link to the article can be found here.
Gaze Exhibition - All SHE Makes and Arts To Hearts Project
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September 2021 - The Untended Garden is featured in a virtual exhibition curated in partnership between All SHE Makes Magazine and the Arts to Hearts Project.
“Women are often subjected to a gaze which shapes their identity. This gaze is from men, other women, and society at large which makes a woman feel conscious about herself. It signifies a woman to be The Other as she is excluded from the community. The theme for the exhibition is this ‘gaze’, of being a woman, a woman of colour, a person identifying as a woman, an outsider, and any other way of depicting hierarchy.
Our goal is to document multiple varied voices leading to a strong single female voice by showcasing various perspectives/experiences of defining this “Gaze”. This exhibit with international womxn artists is an attempt to construct a visual and vocal message with the support of art & women artists. Documentation of ‘the gaze’ that has stopped them, broken them, hurt them, and also set the fire in them to come forward.”
Check it out the exhibition here!
A Siren’s Call - Patch and Remington, Marcellus, MI
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August 2021 - A Siren’s Call is a solo exhibition of abstract, experimental images by Mara Magyarosi-Laytner created during her residency at The Siren, Detroit in August 2020. The large scale, experimental transfer pigment process images are the largest images that Mara has ever created.
“I have spent my entire life trying to control every single little thing around me - often successfully, but at a great detraction to my own personal health and happiness. The only space in my life that I let go and allow “things to be” as they are is photography. In fact, I am often going in the opposite direction - I am actively chasing a lack of control in myself through my work.
Any photography that is too perfect, too particular, too measured, is completely uninteresting to me. I want to find the spaces where photography is mysterious, unpredictable, and filled with change. I view my work as a continuous set of experiments - because of that, when I “perfect” a method within the craft, I find ways to either pivot or abandon completely for fresh space. I have lived in that experimental space through creating abstractions by shooting through glass or replicating through double exposure, creating images that feel both familiar and otherworldly, a space of light and texture that cannot be easily replicated by the natural eye. I have chosen to work within abstraction due to wanting to chase a world less mundane than the one that I occupy, one where there is curiosity in any space that is observed for a little more time.”
More information about Patch and Remington found here.
Red Bull Arts Detroit Microgrant - July
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