Join us on March 5th at 6 PM for a talk by acclaimed artist Toni Pepe, presented by the Photographic Resource Center with support from the Griffin Museum of Photography. The lecture will be offered both online and in person in the Screening Room on the lower level of Lesley University Hall.
Following the talk, we invite you to continue the conversation at the PRC gallery from 7–8 PM for a casual social hour with the artist.
Toni Pepe creates prints and three-dimensional assemblages from discarded newspaper images, family snapshots, and obsolete photographic equipment, investigating how photography shapes our understanding of time, space, and self. Her practice explores the layers of information a print conveys beyond its image—whether through the presence of text, subtle stains, or crop marks—each detail offering insight into the photograph’s journey and its significance as a physical object. More than static images, photographic prints capture and suspend our likenesses and histories, bearing the marks of time and physical interaction.
Pepe is the Chair of Photography and Associate Professor of Art at Boston University. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at institutions such as the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Boston, Blue Sky Gallery, and the Center for Photography at Woodstock. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the MFA Boston, the Boston Athenaeum, Fidelity, the Boston Public Library, the Danforth Art Museum, the University of Oregon, Candela Books + Gallery, The Magenta Foundation, and numerous private collections. She was a resident at Frans Masereel Centrum in 2023, a MacDowell Fellow in 2024, and was recently named a Howard Foundation and Evelyn Stefansson Nef Fellow.
Pepe’s lecture will take place in Lesley’s Screening Room, located on the lower floor in Lesley University Hall. There will be signs posted throughout the first floor in University Hall to direct guests to the screening room.