Anne Wilkes Tucker is Curator Emerita of Photography at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, where she founded the photography department in 1976. The museum’s collection now comprises 30,000 photographs made on all seven continents. Catherine Anspon just celebrated 20 years at Paper City Magazine where she is the arts editor for the publication. In addition to writing about art, Catherine has been an invaluable connector of creatives and a champion for artists in Texas and beyond. Anne Wilkes Tucker & Catherine Anspon have both known Christopher and his work for the last several decades. Together they will guide us through a look at Christopher Rauschenberg’s insightful, joy-filled series, Studio Photography.

Hailing from a family of notable artists, visual artist Christopher Rauschenberg began honing his own craft of photography in the early ‘70s. His innate ability to tell a unique story through the capturing of well-known Parisian landmarks led to Princeton Architectural Press’s publishing of Paris Changing: Revisiting Eugène Atget’s Paris. Transcendent of time, Rauschenberg presents an immersive experience of past, present, and future history with his work. As the cofounder and president of multiple galleries and exhibition spaces, Rauschenberg carries the legacy of influencing myriad artists - as well as co-curating and exhibiting for nearly eight hundred solo artists. Residing in Portland, Oregon, he has traveled and photographed in thirty-four countries, and his work has become a permanent fixture in over a dozen prestigious museums.

From the artist: 

“I grew up having three artist parents, I’ve been a photographer since 1957 or 1973, depending on how you count, and I’ve been a curator since 1975. Consequently, I am happy to find myself in artists’ studios often. I’m primarily there to look at their art but I love to savor the delightful conjunctions of objects and images in those studios – 2- and 3- dimensional collages that both create and result from the powerful artistic charge that is the lifeblood of an artist’s studio.”

A percentage of the proceeds from this exhibition will be donated to the National MS Society.