Light, Trace, Time

Featuring New Work by David Burdeny, Brian Flynn, Dan Hudson, Laurel Johannesson and Mitch Kern.

Herringer Kiss Gallery is proud to present photographic based works by five artists who use the camera within their artistic practice to reveal new possibilities.  Artists include David Burdeny, Brian Flynn (Dip '92, Painting), Dan Hudson, Laurel Johannesson (Professor, Drawing) and Mitch Kern (Associate Professor, Photography). Each artist uses photography to connect past with present and memory with reality. 

David Burdeny’s photographs are evocative of a time long gone, a moment in history, places we imagine or imagine to be, thresholds between then and now which connect us to the basic human condition of ephemerality, the notion that nothing lasts forever.

Brian Flynn’s work begins with a photo shoot. Brian casts models to portray people from his memories and photographs them in specific positions to bring that past to life again. He then uses parts of these photographs as transfers in his large-scale history paintings based on his family’s experiences in Northern Ireland.

Dan Hudson’s lenticular photography and videos results from the ritual of returning to this specific location once a week to experience and document the changes in the landscape that correspond to the astronomical cycle of our planet orbiting the sun. It is a way of connecting the passage of time with change.

Laurel Johannesson’s works are shaped by her recent experimental film. Both the photographs and the film that influenced them inhabit spaces where clarity dissolves, where gestures blur into traces, and where the real and the imagined drift toward one another.

Mitch Kern is an artist whose work explores the complex interplay between society and the environment through photography, video, sculpture, and performance. His latest series delves into the impact of synthetic nature on concepts of social belonging, questioning how artificial landscapes shape human identity and connection.

Exposure Photography Festival – 2026