Jason Landry

Jason Landry
Born (1972-07-27) July 27, 1972
Everett, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupation writer, gallery owner, photography collector
Education Massachusetts College of Art and Design, B.F.A.
The Art Institute of Boston, M.F.A.
Spouse Anne DeVito (June 21, 1997–present)

Jason Landry (born 1972) is an American art and music writer, photography collector and owner of Panopticon Gallery in Boston, Massachusetts. He is a frequent contributor to the Huffington Post,[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] has blogged for The Good Men Project,[11] and Big Red and Shiny.[12][13][14][15][16][17] His stories and essays have appeared in South Shore Magazine,[18] Spot Magazine,[19] In The Loupe[20] ,[21] and in Don't Take Pictures.[22] Landry is the author of Instant Connections: Essays and Interviews on Photography.

Early life

Landry grew up in Greenland, New Hampshire and graduated from Portsmouth High School in 1991. After dropping out of college after one year, he began working for his local telephone company, which went through a few mergers, from New England Telephone to NYNEX to Bell Atlantic before settling on Verizon. After 10+ years at the Fortune 500 company, Landry left the corporate world behind to concentrate on a different career.

Landry returned to school in 2004 and earned his B.F.A. in Photography from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2007 and an M.F.A. in Visual Arts from The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University in 2009. While in graduate school, he was on the Board of Directors of the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University before working for them as their Education Manager, Project Manager, and Programs and Operations Manager.

Career

In 2010, Landry purchased Panopticon Gallery from Tony Decaneas. Panopticon Gallery, established in 1971, is the oldest fine art photography gallery in New England and one of the oldest photography galleries in the United States specializing in contemporary, modern and vintage photography. They represent established and emerging photographers with a primary focus on developing and expanding their careers, connections and art network. The gallery regularly assists collectors in buying, selling and locating photographs and supports local educational institutions, regional art museums and estates. Panopticon Gallery is located inside the Hotel Commonwealth in Boston, Massachusetts.

In keeping with the galleries core focus, Landry has been known to attend portfolio review events and photography art fairs both nationally and internationally, has juried group exhibitions, and has lectured at regional and national art colleges and universities.

In 2013, Landry was hired as the Director of the M.F.A. in Photography program at the New Hampshire Institute of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire.

Honors

Author

Landry is the author of, Instant Connections: Essays and Interviews on Photography. This book intertwines essays, interviews, quotes and autobiographical stories around the central theme of photography. Secondary themes in the book have to do with the idea of making connections, having mentors and building your personal network. It features interviews with such artist as Vik Muniz, Leonard Nimoy, William Wegman and Harold Feinstein, and quotes from such artists and collectors as Chuck Close and W.M. Hunt. The essays are meant to inspire, motivate and educate—some are informative and critical, while others contain humorous and quirky anecdotes. Instant Connections caters to the fine art photography world and is not a critical theory primer in the likes of Roland Barthes and Susan Sontag, rather the author has injected his own contemporary twist to everything.

Stories and news about Instant Connections as well as interviews with the author have appeared in newspapers,[23][24] magazines,[25] blogs[26][27][28][29][30][31] and have appeared on Radio BDC.[32]

Publications

References

  1. ↑ Landry, Jason. "Liz Steketee: Truth, Intertwined and Manipulated". Huffington Post. July 22, 2014
  2. ↑ Landry, Jason. "Youngho Kang: 99 Variations of a Self-Portrait". Huffington Post. July 15, 2014
  3. ↑ Landry, Jason. "Michael Crouser: The Real Deal Out on the Mountain Ranch". Huffington Post. July 10, 2014
  4. ↑ Landry, Jason. "Photographer Rick Ashley: Altering Perceptions through Portraiture". Huffington Post. April 29, 2014
  5. ↑ Landry, Jason. "Alexa Torre: Mexican Utopia". Huffington Post. March 7, 2014
  6. ↑ Landry, Jason. "Give 'Em Sell! - Photographer Erik Schubert and His Best Pitch". Huffington Post. February 12, 2014
  7. ↑ Landry, Jason. "Shards of Memory: David Prifti". Huffington Post. January 27, 2014
  8. ↑ Landry, Jason. "An Interview with Leonard Nimoy". Huffington Post. November 23, 2013
  9. ↑ Landry, Jason. "Keeping What Is Old, New Again". Huffington Post. October 18, 2013
  10. ↑ Landry, Jason. "Why Art Galleries Are Important". Huffington Post. October 10, 2013
  11. ↑ Landry, Jason. "Who’s In Your Top Five". The Good Men Project. December 7, 2013
  12. ↑ Landry, Jason. "A Short Conversation with TRIIIBE". Big Red and Shiny. Vol. 1 #113. August 24, 2009
  13. ↑ Landry, Jason. "A Conversation with Harold Feinstein". Big Red and Shiny. Vol. 1 #109. June 22, 2009
  14. ↑ Landry, Jason. "An Interview with Vik Muniz". Big Red and Shiny. Vol. 1 #105. April 27, 2009
  15. ↑ Landry, Jason. "Exhibition by Photographer Brian Doan Sparks Protest". Big Red and Shiny. Vol. 1 #100. February 16, 2009
  16. ↑ Landry, Jason. "Interview with Jim Fitts". Big Red and Shiny. Vol. 1 #92. October 13, 2008
  17. ↑ Landry, Jason. "Yoav Horesh at StoneCrop Gallery". Big Red and Shiny. Vol. 1 #85. June 30, 2008
  18. ↑ Landry, Jason. "A Salty Sustainability". The South Shore Magazine. Indian Summer issue, 2013
  19. ↑ Landry, Jason. "Interview with William Wegman". SPOT magazine. Houston Center for Photography, Spring, 2013
  20. ↑ Landry, Jason. "Interview with Roger Ballen". In The Loupe, Photographic Resource Center at Boston University. Vol. 34 #1, February/March, 2010
  21. ↑ Landry, Jason. "John Chervinsky: Studio Visit". In The Loupe, Photographic Resource Center at Boston University. Vol. 34 #1, February/March, 2010
  22. ↑ Landry, Jason. “Let It Snow”. Don’t Take Pictures magazine. Summer, 2013
  23. ↑ Levey, Robert. "Seacoast Native makes Instant Connections". The Portsmouth Herald, January 20, 2014
  24. ↑ Gardner, Jan. "Instant Connections by Jason Landry". The Boston Globe, January 11, 2014
  25. ↑ Kiernan, Kat. "An Interview with Jason Landry". Don't Take Pictures magazine. June 18, 2014
  26. ↑ Stull, Kate. "Leader of the Week: Jason Landry". www.popforms.com. January 5, 2014
  27. ↑ Spring, Elin. "Jason Landry’s Instant Connections". What Will You Remember? November 21, 2013
  28. ↑ Fitts, Jim. "Instant Connections by Jason Landry". PhotoWeenie.com. November 20, 2013
  29. ↑ Smithson, Aline. "Instant Connections by Jason Landry". LENSCRATCH. November 19, 2013
  30. ↑ Smithson, Aline. "The Jason Landry Mixtape". LENSCRATCH. September 11, 2013
  31. ↑ Wolfe Boynton, Cindy. "Jason Landry interview", Literary New England. December 30, 2013
  32. ↑ Santoro, Henry. "Jason Landry making ‘Instant Connections’ through his photography". RadioBDC. November 19, 2013
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