The finalists this year were photographers, sculptors and installation artists. Hart’s installations of fiber sculpture, which she describes as “wrapped, knotted, sewn and housepaint-slathered;’ occupied corners and alcoves, softly lit with pink and lavender lighting, their organic qualities evoking domestic femininity on the surface but with a manic creepiness Undeath.
2024’s finalists are outstanding. Samuel Aye-Gboyin, a Florida photographer originally from Ghana, brings an unusually mature eye to portraiture, elevating Ghanaians in their everyday Jives with gorgeously lit, seemingly casual black and white compositions. Fernando Ramos photographs in color, and takes his portraiture a step further with many subjects in masks or costumes. Diego Alejandro Waisman, originally from Argentina, pursues themes of displacement in his photographs of Miami’s trailer parks, which have their own dark poetry about them. Clio Yang is a Florida-based mixed media artist; besides photography, Yang’s video installation “Blind Box” at UCF is seen through a scrim jumping with text and drawings.”
2024’s finalists are outstanding. Samuel Aye-Gboyin, a Florida photographer originally from Ghana, brings an unusually mature eye to portraiture, elevating Ghanaians in their everyday Jives with gorgeously lit, seemingly casual black and white compositions. Fernando Ramos photographs in color, and takes his portraiture a step further with many subjects in masks or costumes. Diego Alejandro Waisman, originally from Argentina, pursues themes of displacement in his photographs of Miami’s trailer parks, which have their own dark poetry about them. Clio Yang is a Florida-based mixed media artist; besides photography, Yang’s video installation “Blind Box” at UCF is seen through a scrim jumping with text and drawings.”
Samuel Aye-Gboyin – Pathways 2024: The Carlos Malamud Prize Finalist
I am humbled and excited to finally share that I have been selected as a finalist for the Pathways 2024: The Carlos Malamud Prize. The show is organized by The Rollins Museum of Art and the UCF Art Gallery at the University of Central Florida.