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Exploring Photographic Boundaries
Written By: Billy Love, The Bascom | Issue: March 2024 | Photograph By: Erik Mace
At the start of a busy year ahead, The Bascom welcomes its 2024 Photography Artist in Residence, Erik Mace.
Each spring since 2016, The Bascom welcomes to the community a new artist working in the photographic medium as part of its residency program.
The 2024 Photography Artist in Residence has been awarded to Asheville-based photographer Erik Mace. Arriving on The Bascom campus in February, Mace will begin exploring the area and focusing on new approaches to his photographic practice, with an exhibition of new works in The Bascom’s Joel Gallery.
Many of his projects germinate from specific personal memories and grow into deeper discussions of place and identity, while other bodies of work are born from a general sense of wonder.
Mace is a visual artist who uses photography, graphic design, and book arts as his tools of inquiry.
As an experimental visual thinker, he is deeply curious about the power of photography and adjacent media, and how to take advantage of their limitations. Mace’s exhibition will explore how the promise of exactness informs a viewer’s relationship with a photograph. He will capture photographs of prints of his work, which, in turn, will undergo processes such as dithering, distillation, and other forms of distortion, pushing the boundaries of the original content.
The Bascom’s Photography Artist in Residence Program also supports STEAM-based education for school-aged children in Macon County, an appealing component of the residency program for Mace.
“The Bascom’s and this residency’s focus on community involvement is of particular interest to me,” he says. “A consistent thread throughout my career has been finding ways to connect with and inspire those outside of the art world through my passions.”
Please join The Bascom in welcoming Erik Mace to the community as an artist in residence. His exhibition will open at The Bascom on April 20, and a public reception will be held on July 11.
by Billy Love, The Bascom
photos by Erik Mace
