All photos © Johnnie Chatman

Johnnie Chatman is an artist, theorist, and researcher based in Southern California. His research focuses on American history, visual culture, contemporary art, and notions of landscape. A primary component of his research and artistic practice involves analyzing the interrelationship between the legacy of the American West, the history of photography, and the Black experience in the United States.

He is a Katzin Fellow and doctoral student in Art History, Theory, and Criticism with an emphasis in Art Practice at the University of California San Diego. Chatman's artwork has been featured in exhibitions internationally, including at Fraenkel Gallery, HereArts, and SF Camerawork. His work can be found in public collections, including the Figge Art Museum, Center for Creative Photography, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. In 2020, he was a recipient of the En Foco Photography Fellowship. His work has been featured in numerous publications, including Dear Dave, Nueva Luz, and Zoetrope All-Story. He is also the founder and curator of Terms & Conditions, an experimental film screening series.


All photos © Charlotta Hauksdottir

Charlotta María Hauksdóttir is an Icelandic visual artist based in California, who uses photography, collage and mixed media in her work. Residing in the USA for over 20 years, she still draws inspiration from her home country Iceland. Created from the perspective of her experience with epilepsy, her work centers around the unique connection one has to places and moments in time, and how memories embody and elevate those connections.

Hauksdóttir received a BA in Photography from the Istituto Europeo di Design in Rome, Italy, in 1997 and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2004. She also holds a Diploma in Creative and Critical Thinking from the Iceland Academy of the Arts.

Her work has been exhibited around the world, with solo exhibitions in the USA, Russia, and Iceland including numerous group shows and photography festivals. Her photographs have been published in several magazines and books, as well as a monograph A Sense of Place - Imprints of Iceland by Daylight Books that is in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, SFMOMA, and Princeton, among others. Hauksdóttir’s work is also part of numerous private and public collections such as Stanford Health Care and Reykjavik Museum of Photography.

Exhibition Dates: November 30, 2022 - January 21, 2023

Chung 24 Gallery, 4071 24th St, San Francisco, CA, 94114
(DIRECTIONS HERE)

A Sense of Place - Imprints of Iceland features landscape work from 2003-2019 from the artists’ estranged homeland. The work ranges from diptychs and triptychs to human scale composite images as well as hand cut layered prints in fingerprint and landform patterns. Evoking the uniqueness of our connection to nature, the visible and obscured parts of the landscapes suggest the imperfections of memory while prompting the viewer to draw on their own experiences to complete the work. By utilizing fingerprint patterns they also speak to our individual responsibility for our impressions upon nature.

Charlotta will be signing copies of her book following the lecture on December 1st.

A Sense of Place - Imprints of Iceland by Charlotta Hauksdóttir

Published by Daylight Books, 2020.
36 Color Photographs, 96 pages
ISBN 978-1-942084-70-9