The Haunted—Contemporary Photography Conjured in New England | Photography Panel

Saturday, December 13 | 4pm

Join CMCA Curator Grant Wahlquist and artists Tad Beck, Kate Greene, Dylan Hausthor, and Jocelyn Lee for a spirited discussion and debate about contemporary photography. Prompted by the recent publication of The Haunted—Contemporary Photography Conjured in New England, this event explores the way in which each artist uses tropes of haunting, spiritualism, witchcraft, and the occult to understand the nature and role of image making in our postmodern, post-digital age.

The Haunted, edited by Lee, invokes New England’s overlapping histories and highlights the different ways in which the art and technology of photography reveals hidden dimensions of the world and conjures new possibilities and ways of seeing. In Lee’s own words, it “reveals a distinctly New England sensibility—the images are moody, introspective, and deeply attuned to the natural and supernatural qualities of the landscape.” Signed copies of The Haunted and other volumes by the participants will be available for purchase immediately following the discussion.

Jocelyn Lee received a BA from Yale University and an MFA from Hunter College. She is a recipient of a Maine Arts Commission Individual Artist Grant, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her work is in numerous public and private collections, including: the the Bowdoin College Museum of Art; the Colby College Museum of Art; the Farnsworth Art Museum; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Portland Museum of Art; the Yale University Art Gallery; and many more. In addition to many of the institutions listed above, Lee’s photographs have been presented in exhibitions at venues including: CMCA; the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum; Huxley-Parlour Gallery; the Maison Européenne de la Photographie; the National Portrait Gallery; the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art; Pace MacGill; and the Rijksmuseum.

Tad Beck received a BFA from the School of Visual Arts and an MFA from Art Center College of Design. His work is featured in collections including: the Addison Gallery of American Art; the Farnsworth Art Museum; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Princeton University Art Museum; the Portland Museum of Art; the Wadsworth Atheneum; and the Worcester Art Museum. Beck has presented solo exhibitions at: CMCA; LACMA; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (collaborative exhibition with Jennifer Locke); Marisa Del Re Gallery; the Fisher Center at Bard College; Samuel Freeman Gallery; and Nathalie Karg Gallery. In addition to many of the institutions listed above, his work has also been featured in group exhibitions at venues including: Apexart; Castelli Gallery; Debs & Co.; Fotofest International, Houston; Rupert Goldsworthy Gallery; the Ogunquit Museum of American Art; and Spritmuseum, Stockholm.

Kate Greene received a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and an MFA from the Yale School of Art. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at venues including: CMCA; the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum and Sculpture Park; the Institute of Contemporary Art at the Maine College of Art and Design; the Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art; the Visual Arts Center at the University of Texas at Austin; and many more. ROMAN NVMERALS published a limited-edition book of her series “Pyrotechnics" in the Fall of 2016. 

Dylan Hausthor received a BFA from the Maine College of Art & Design and an MFA from the Yale School of Art. They received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2024 and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Hausthor’s work has been shown at venues including: CMCA; Dowling Walsh Gallery; the Institute of Contemporary Art at the Maine College of Art and Design; and the Portland Museum of Art.

The Haunted—Contemporary Photography Conjured in New England is a limited edition book of photography and poetry by SPEEDWELL.

Edited by Jocelyn Lee
Essay by Jocelyn Lee & Brian Urquhart
Designed by Emily Sheffer of Dust Collective
Printed in New England by Meridian Printing

Format: Hardcover, 11.5 x 9.75 inches
Edition total: 500 copies
Photographs: 59
Poems: 11
Total Pages: 159

PHOTOGRAPHERS

Tad Beck
Tabitha Bernard
Barbara Bosworth
Neville Caulfield
Caleb Charland
Jed Devine
Smith Galtney
Kate Greene
Pia-Paulina Guilmoth
Tonee Harbert
Cig Harvey
Dylan Hausthor
David Hilliard
Jocelyn Lee
Amanda Marchand
Leah Sobsey
Emily Sheffer
Peter Shellenberger 
Wendy Small
Cheryle St. Onge
Shoshannah White

POETS

Emily Dickinson
Robert Frost
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Mary Oliver
Mihku Paul
Anne Sexton
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow