ONLINE October 16th, 6:30-8:30pm
Featuring JP Terlizzi along with PRC Members Andy Ryan and Becky Behar
Free to attend, and open to the public.
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PRC Nights is a long-standing monthly tradition at the PRC, we host a guest photographer along with additional PRC Members for a lively evening of conversation on rotating themes. This free, program fosters a sense of community by offering an opportunity to share images and insights about particular topics in contemporary photographic practice. PRC Nights is open to the public and all are welcome!
The October 16th theme is “Still Life” featuring photographer JP Terlizzi. What is Still Life? No one says it better than the J. Paul Getty Museum, “Still life derives from the Dutch word stilleven, coined in the 17th century when paintings of objects enjoyed immense popularity throughout Europe. The impetus for this term came as artists created compositions of greater complexity, bringing together a wider variety of objects to communicate allegorical meanings.”
JP Terlizzi is a New York City photographer whose contemporary practice explores themes of memory, relationship, and identity. His images are rooted in the personal and heavily influenced by the notion of home, legacy, and family. He is curious about how the past relates to and intersects with the present and how the present enlivens the past, shaping one’s identity. Terlizzi earned a BFA in Communication Design at Kutztown University of PA with a concentration in graphic design and advertising. He has studied photography at both the International Center of Photography in New York and Maine Media College in Rockport, ME.
Terlizzi’s highly acclaimed still life work is known for its distinctive use of style, pattern, texture, and color. He uses food and objects that serve as memory that links to a foundation in family tradition, history, and culture. His work has been exhibited extensively in galleries and museums across the United States and abroad, including juried, invitational, and solo exhibitions, notably at Koslov Larsen Gallery, (Houston, TX), Vicki Myhren Gallery (Denver, CO), Gilman Contemporary (Ketchum, ID), Klompching Gallery (Brooklyn, NY) Florida Museum of Photographic Art, The Griffin Museum of Photography (Winchester, MA), Ft. Wayne Museum of Art (Ft. Wayne, IN), and The Montclair Museum of Art (Montclair, NJ), among others. He has been recognized four times in Photolucida’s Critical Mass Top 50 and three times as a Finalist. His work has appeared in AIPAD, The Photoville Fence, and his portfolios have won notable awards of distinction with Klompching Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), Sohn Fine Art Gallery (Lenox, MA), and Soho Photo Gallery (New York, NY). Terlizzi’s work is represented by the following galleries: Koslov Larsen (Houston, Tx), Gilman Contemporary (Ketchum ID), Sohn Fine Art (Lenox, MA), Beth Urdang Gallery (Wellesley, MA), PhotoEye Gallery (Santa Fe NM).
Becky Behar is a photo-based artist born in Colombia and now living in the suburbs of Boston. Her richly choreographed portraits and still lifes investigate motherhood, the passage of time, and what we carry through generations. With incandescent subject matter emerging from rich shadows, her photographs evoke Dutch oil paintings, replete with symbols of transience, family, and faith. Behar punctuates portraits with still lifes that mark the present-day, rendering plastic bags luminous amongst cherries and figs. Here, home is an idea, not a place. Behar has exhibited at national and international galleries including a pop-up exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA), and solo exhibitions with Kniznick Gallery (Waltham, MA), The Griffin Museum of Photography (Winchester, MA), Workspace Gallery (Lincoln, NE) and Concord Free Public Library (Concord, MA) where she was an Artist in Residence. Her group exhibitions include the Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts (Providence, RI), Photographic Resource Center (Cambridge, MA), Woodmere Museum (Philadelphia, PA), and FotoNostrum Gallery (Barcelona, Spain). Behar’s work has been featured in A Photo Editor, Float Photo Magazine, Fraction Magazine, The Boston Globe, Jewish Boston and What Will You Remember?. Behar has received multiple acknowledgements for her work including being a Photolucida Critical Mass top 200 finalist (2020), a finalist for the Griffin Museum of Photography John Chervinsky Emerging Photographer Scholarship (2020), and was an awardee with the 16th Annual Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers (2021). Behar’s most recent honors include a Concord Cultural Council Grant (2022), and a Combined Jewish Philanthropies Grant (2023). She is currently a Visiting Scholar at Brandeis University’s Women’s Studies Research Center (Fall 2023 – Summer 2025) where she conducts research in order to develop her photography portfolios.