Artist Talk & Reception for Gina Costa: Ways of Seeing

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Artist Talk & Reception for Gina Costa: Ways of Seeing Event Dates and Times 1/26/2017 - Starts: 5:30 PM - Ends: 7:30 PMNotre Dame Center for Arts & Culture, 1045 W. Washington Street, South Bend, IN 46601 The Crossroads Gallery for Contemporary Art will host an artist talk and an exhibition reception with artist Gina Costa on January 26. Gina Costa: Ways of Seeing features photography from three bodies of work by Costa, including her highly regarded Memory, Decay, Beauty series, as well as work from her award winning Street Photography series. In addition, a catalog available for the reception and remainder of the exhibition.

Costa is an acclaimed photographer with accomplishments including multiple exhibitions and awards. In July 2016 she won first place for best photo essay in the Latin American Mobile Photography Awards & Exhibition in San Paolo, Brazil. Her work has been archived at the Fratelli Alinari Photo Archive in Firenze, Italia.

Costa earned her graduate degree in Art History from the University of Chicago. She has worked at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; The Art Institute of Chicago; Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York; and has taught art history at a variety of universities. She is an award-winning, internationally-known, published photographer, who has exhibited in galleries in the United States and Europe.

"[Setting] out photographing not just specific themes, but glimpses of life and places visited, as a minimalist urban diary" says Cary Benbow, photographer, writer, and publisher of www.wobnebmagazine.com. "[Costa's] work allows the viewer to reflect on their own past, their own history and memories, in order to give meaning to the everyday world."

The exhibition will be open to the public beginning January 9, 2017 at 9:00 am. A public artist talk by Costa and a reception will be held on Thursday, January 26 at 5:30 PM. Light refreshments will be served.

A 36-page catalogue titled Gina Costa: Ways of Seeing accompanies the exhibition and is published by the Notre Dame Center for Arts and Culture. The publication includes 26 full-color illustrations and essays by Costa and Benbow, amo ng others. It is available for the duration of the exhibition and by request afterwards.

This exhibition is organized by the Crossroads Gallery for Contemporary Art, Notre Dame Center for Arts & Culture. The catalogue was generously supported by an anonymous donor. For further information on Costa's exhibitions, publications, and images see www.ginacosta.com.

Alex Schaufele, 574.631.5224, aschaufe@nd.edu
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