2020 NATIONAL JURIED EXHIBITION:
THE PEER SHOW
The Cleveland Print Room's National Juried Exhibition, THE PEER SHOW, is an annual exhibition since 2015, showcasing the work of photographers across the country. This year, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the exhibition will be, for the first time, completely digital. The call for art was also opened to include art of any medium. We received over 200 submissions from across the US and even from the UK. 49 images have made it into the show.
Our jurors, artists Lissa Rivera and Ruddy Roye, meticulously examined each work and decided on the following awards. The recipients of the Best in Show and Director's Awards will be given the opportunity to show their work in a joint exhibition at the Cleveland Print Room in 2021. There are so many exceptional pieces that an Honorable Mention category has been created.
Lissa Rivera is a photographer and curator based in New York, NY. Rivera received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts, where she became fascinated with the social history of photography and the evolution of identity, sexuality and gender in relationship to material culture. Beautiful Boy, Rivera’s latest project, takes her interest in photography’s connection with identity to a personal level, focusing on her domestic partner as muse.
Radcliffe (Ruddy) Roye is a Brooklyn-based documentary photographer specializing in editorial and environmental portraits and photojournalism. A photographer with over twelve years of experience, Radcliffe is inspired by the raw and gritty lives of grassroots people, especially those of his homeland of Jamaica. Radcliffe strives to tell the stories of their victories and ills by bringing their voices to matte fibre paper.
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