Mid-Atlantic Chapter ConferenceSpeakers

Colin Edgington

Saturday, October 19, 2013 @ 10:00am, Kingsley Ballroom - South

Colin Edgington & Carla Shapiro

Colin Edgington is a visual artist from New Mexico, currently living and working in Phillipsburg, NJ. He holds a BAFA in studio art from the University of New Mexico and an MFA from the Mason Gross School of Arts, Rutgers University. From 2007-2008 he worked for the Digital Content Creation department (in conjunction with the Internet Archive) of the main library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 2011 he worked with David Levi-Strauss through the Art Writers Workshop (AICA/Creative Capital).Edgington's practice often resides in between the landscape and the studio where he constructs sites and objects, invents views and build narratives. His conceptual motivation ranges from interests in the human relationship to the physical world, its perception, memory and history to verisimilitude and epistemology in the medium of photography. His work has exhibited internationally including New York, NY, Brooklyn, NY, Minneapolis, MN, Chicago,IL, Santa Fe, NM and Paris, France. He has written for Exposure, Afterimage and Fraction magazines and was recently named the winner of the Iowa Review Photography Prize. He currently teaches photography at the College of Staten Island, CUNY and Raritan Valley Community College, in Branchburg, NJ.