Empty Night
Quiet
Todd J. Donery: Empty Night, and Quiet are an example of taking a new look at what is seen almost every day in the world, capturing a moment in time which will never be seen exactly the same. This persistence of vision allows us to understand in a new way that what we see every day looks different each time we see it.
Sarah Weiss: A luminous metaphor for longing—for the restless persistence of vision itself: reaching, always reaching, into the dark. These images suggest desire, perception, and the act of searching. Light—and the act of photographing—becomes a symbol for grasping at meaning, memory, or connection in uncertain times and shadowed spaces.
Spectical
Mike Hazard: Once upon a time I was nicknamed Media Dada. I made 10,000 still and motion pictures with my daughter. She grew tired of my persistent camera. She decided that the reason she needed glasses to read at a young age was because I kept asking her to turn toward the sun. Then one day she noticed a basket of sunglasses in her mother's studio. "Dada, let's make a picture." Thus, "Spectacle."
Centenarians/The Sonoran Desert
Eternal Vigilance/ The Night Watchman
Carnegia Gargantua/ The Saguaro
Debra Fisher Goldstein: Witness my loving relationship with Carnegia Gargantua, the icon of the American Southwest, the saguaro cactus. Persistent in its lifespan and its history, the saguaro lives 100 to 150 years, growing its first side arm, or branch after 80 years. It has been a source of food and shelter for varieties of living species, including humans, for thousands of years. Today the saguaro’s existence is threatened by climate change which has allowed the growth of non-native grasses which seed when set aflame by ever-increasing wildfires. The grasses regrow far quicker than the Carnegia Gargantua, and it is predicted that in less than 100 years, this monumental survivor will no longer exist.
Waiting For Lady Gaga
Stephen Cowdery: This image was distilled from numerous shots of a crowd waiting for an appearance of Lady Gaga, Reykjavík, 2012. It persisted in my memory as being a more memorable event than if she had actually appeared.
Ken Rustler Barbie
Sacha Stauffer: Through the use of long exposures my vision was to bring life and movement to these Arctic seaside settings to ensure the sights, sounds and smells of these remote locations will be with me forever.
You Can Burn the Books But Not the Words
The End of Illness
Last Known Copy of the Code of Ethics
Jack Mader: Throughout my 50+ years in photography, I have had many consistent themes and subjects and deteriorating books has been one of them. I made this particular series of images in January of 2025. My vision for this subject matter has been pretty much the same throughout as I’ve been drawn to the impermanence of things, how printed text and language itself are changing and how we must be persistent in protecting our rights in an authoritarian era.
Hallway
Reflection
Maury Landsman: I am a long time sometime photographer. I want the viewer to see what I see or imagine I see .
Flee Market Masks, New York, New York
Walker Art Lookers, Minneapolis, MN
David J. Thompson: The definition of Persistent of Vision describes how we perceive motion from the rapid display of static images. At first glance my photographs don’t fit the definition of ‘Persistent Of Vision”.
I would rather use it as a phrase of my artistic process as a photographer. When I go out with my camera I am always searching for a “Vision”. Something that catches my eye and stimulates my artistic sensibilities. At the same time I know that only through being “Persistent” will I capture a worthwhile photograph.
Fall Lilies
Lily Reflections
Joanne Thompson: Ponds and nature have been a persistent theme in my photography. I am fascinated with the way the same scene changes within seconds with the light, cloud cover, wind and waves all making the photo unique to that moment in time. The scene captured is never real though, as it is altered by the camera’s intervention.
Night Garden
Larry Risser: “In a way nobody sees a flower—really—it is so small—we haven’t time—and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.” This observation by Georgia O’Keefe was an inspiration for taking a fresh look at familiar backyard flowers— seeing them at night, illuminated with a single hand-held light cube. Perhaps “Night Garden” is more an extension than a persistence of vision, but it allowed me to focus on a single blossom without the distraction of other details and to appreciate the wonderful structure and color of flowers.
Cake Show, photo encaustic
Merry Reimler: While the formal concept of “persistence of vision” refers to the optical illusion that makes motion appear continuous, poetically, it’s a beautiful way to describe devotion. To me, bakers embody that. They engage in deeply repetitive processes—kneading, measuring, proofing, decorating things meant to be consumed, things that won’t last. To master baking is to bring love into the world through care and persistence.
My work Cake Show is an archival print mounted on wood panel, layered with semi-transparent encaustic medium. With this piece, I honor artists who persist in using their skills for good—bringing beauty and love into the world through their work.
My work Cake Show is an archival print mounted on wood panel, layered with semi-transparent encaustic medium. With this piece, I honor artists who persist in using their skills for good—bringing beauty and love into the world through their work.
Jim Pipkin: My two images in this exhibit are from an ongoing series (or a “persistent vision” one might say…) on people and their interactions at local parades, gatherings, and fairs. From blank stares to big smiles, I find people’s varied and universal expressions fascinating.
Desert Rose
Orchid
Lee Fabel: I’m consistently persistent in photographing flowers although people, architecture, landscapes and other aspects of the natural world capture my attention as well. I enjoy sharing my perspective of the world through my photography.
Del's Time Zone
Del Bey: My art delves deep into the symbolic exploration of social interactions, uncovering the enduring emotional imprints of recurring negative encounters. Through photography and videos, present realities are juxtaposed with the echoes of past experiences, inviting viewers to contemplate the complex interplay between memory, perception, and societal dynamics.
Hazy Faith
SoloIn the Night
No Way Through
Through Lightening
Jane Eastwood: My early reaction to Trump’s destruction of our democracy was despair and disbelief, a dense thicket we could never get through. With persistence of vision - and action - I have to believe we’ll break through like lightening.
Movement #2
Winter Rakes
Mike Ruth: Cambridge Dictionary, Persist: “to continue to exist past the usual time." Persistence of vision, with regards to these images, exemplifies this meaning to persist. The photographs displayed in this show represent an illusion of a moment in time, though gone, still remains because the artist decides to capture that scene at a juncture of time and space that will never exist again, outside of the photograph.
Dream Catcher
Amorphous
Sarajane Berge: My images: “Spirit Dancer”, “Dream Catcher” and “”Amorphous” are photogravures. A polymer photogravure is where the photographic image is transferred by exposure to a light sensitive plate which etches the plate. The plate is hand inked, a selected paper is placed on top of the plate and run through a printing press. The etched image result is very similar to an intaglio which, for me, has a inherently perceived and timeless quality.
Bisbee Beach
Aerial Flow
Susan Nelson: Persistence of Vision:
Beauty captured in unexpected places and fleeting moments, revealing the mystery in the mundane.
Beauty captured in unexpected places and fleeting moments, revealing the mystery in the mundane.
Seeing Beyond Obstacles
Julia Classen: When I went to a talk by Pamela Sherlock entitled The Obstacle is the Way, I did not expect that I would need to to be persistent and alter my vision one week later.
Ascent
Glide
Delivery
Karen Kraco: These less-than-a-second captures of herons in flight fix them forever in our minds, yet also speak of what came before – the wrestling with a tangled branch, the takeoff from the nest, the wingbeat that provided the power to glide. And they spur us to imagine what followed. Where are these birds now?
Kendall LaCroix: Persist in the vision to conserve our natural places. Images captured at Marjorie McNeely Conservatory.
Rachel Nash: Persistence of vision refers to the optical illusion that occurs when visual perception of an object continues after the rays of light proceeding from the object no longer enter the eye. It is also understood as how we experience a sense of motion from still images rapidly viewed through a projector.” The definition brought to mind how a photograph captures split second moments. Stopping time, yet the viewer is still able to feel movement in the image. Isolating one frame - your brain fills in the rest. You can imagine what happened before and after. I chose to use these three images of a group of Maasai “competing” in various games because the body angles and the dust being kicked up are all things that indicate motion, even if it is just a moment being captured.
Ben Cooper: I chose these images for their exploration of movement, energy and time. I used long exposures to capture something more dynamic and moody than a traditional still image would typically convey - giving a more vibrant, comprehensive representation of the scenes involved.
Patrice: My work serves as meditation on presence, passage and the quiet poetry of becoming.
In this pair of images from my 7-part series Transition, I explore the ephemeral nature of movement and identity through the lens of intentional camera movement. By photographing my own feet in motion, I invite the viewer into a deeply personal narrative - one that reflects both physical and emotional shifts. The blurred contours and abstracted forms evoke a sense of dislocation, echoing the uncertainty and fluidity that often accompanies periods of change.
In this pair of images from my 7-part series Transition, I explore the ephemeral nature of movement and identity through the lens of intentional camera movement. By photographing my own feet in motion, I invite the viewer into a deeply personal narrative - one that reflects both physical and emotional shifts. The blurred contours and abstracted forms evoke a sense of dislocation, echoing the uncertainty and fluidity that often accompanies periods of change.
The Chapel, Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis
Museum of Contemporary Art. Chicago..
Westminster Presbyterian Church, Minneapolis.
Richard Dana Anderson: Searching for new approaches, and experimentation are for me, the keys to making any composition. Fresh viewpoints and novel perspectives can bring about an exciting final result. I hope the arcs, angles, and planes in these architectural photographs draw you in and are compelling.