Pace University Art Gallery Presents Retold: Altered Photography and Companion Exhibitions

Historic newsroom pictures and modern artworks discover how pictures are edited, altered, and understood

Pace University Art Gallery presents three exhibitions exploring how photographic which means is formed by manipulation, from analog newsroom edits to modern digital practices. The interrelated exhibits—Retold: Altered Photography, Cut and Paste, and Open for Interpretation—open with a free public reception on Thursday, June 11 from 6:30 p.m. to eight:30 p.m.

The undertaking is impressed by historic newsroom prints from the George Stephanopoulos Collection at Pace that retain seen marks of guide enhancing, together with pen traces, white‑out, and incisions. Created within the mid-Twentieth century, these alterations replicate editorial judgment and the technical constraints of newspaper manufacturing, shaping interpretation whereas assembly the calls for of copy and format.

For modern audiences accustomed to digital manipulation and absolutely fabricated pictures, these analog edits seem strikingly overt.

Yet their transparency reveals a foundational reality: pictures have at all times been formed, edited, and constructed.

Removed from their authentic context, these pictures immediate renewed consideration to what’s revealed or omitted in producing visible which means.

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Curated by Sarah Cunningham, artwork gallery director and affiliate medical professor, with Roger Sayre, professor and affiliate chair of the Art Department, the exhibitions embody:

• Retold: Altered Photography (Pace University Art Gallery): an exhibition that includes work by six modern artists—Nouf Aljowaysir, Garth Amundson and Pierre Gour, Juyon Lee, Negin Mahzoun, and Wendel A. White—who use photographic alteration to reclaim and reframe private narratives and social histories, difficult images’s authority as a impartial file.
• Cut and Paste (Student Exhibition Lab): a CMS 338: Media Criticism student-curated choice of historic newsroom pictures from the George Stephanopoulos Collection analyzing seen proof of guide enhancing in print media.
• Open for Interpretation (Student Exhibition Lab): a show of ART 356: Experimental Photography scholar digital works responding to those historic practices, exploring how pictures might be reinterpreted by way of building and deconstruction.

By putting modern artworks in dialogue with historic newsroom pictures, the exhibitions spotlight photographic alteration’s twin capability: to claim authority and to query it.

Across all three, acts of reducing, enhancing, layering, and erasure reveal that pictures are by no means impartial; they’re constructed, contingent, and open to interpretation.

The exhibitions stay on view by way of July 30, 2026. The gallery is positioned at 41 Park Row in Lower Manhattan. All exhibitions and occasions are free and open to the general public. Summer hours for drop‑in viewing are Wednesday by way of Saturday, 1:00–6:00 p.m. Please verify the gallery’s Instagram for updates to hours and vacation closures.

About the Pace University Art Gallery

Founded with the conviction that artwork is integral to society, the Pace University Art Gallery is a inventive laboratory and exhibition area that helps innovation and exploration for each artists and viewers. Open to college students, employees, and college from throughout the Pace campuses and, equally, to the Lower Manhattan neighborhood and guests from all over the world, the Art Gallery encourages private investigation and important dialogue by way of thought-provoking modern artwork reveals and public programming. Enhancing the Art Department’s Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Fine Arts packages, the Art Gallery gives college students real-world alternatives to exhibit their very own artwork and to work instantly with skilled artists to put in and promote exhibitions. All reveals and occasions are free and open to the general public.

About Dyson College of Arts and Sciences

Pace University’s liberal arts school, Dyson College, gives greater than 50 packages, spanning the humanities and humanities, pure sciences, social sciences, and pre-professional packages (together with pre-medicine, pre-veterinary, and pre-law), in addition to many programs that fulfill core curriculum necessities. The College gives entry to quite a few alternatives for internships, cooperative schooling and different hands-on studying experiences that complement in-class studying in making ready graduates for profession and graduate/skilled schooling decisions.

About Pace University

Founded in 1906 and celebrating 120 years of making ready college students for fulfillment in 2026, Pace University pairs real-life studying with robust lecturers to launch significant careers. With campuses in New York City and Westchester County, Pace serves 13,600 college students throughout a variety of bachelor, grasp, and doctoral packages by way of the College of Health Professions, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, Elisabeth Haub School of Law, Lubin School of Business, Sands College of Performing Arts, School of Education, and Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems.