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David Oresick

David Oresick is the executive director and curator of Silver Eye Center for Photography, located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Silver Eye promotes the power of contemporary photography as a fine art medium by creating original exhibitions, educational programing, and a spaces for artists to learn, create, and connect including a production space called the Lab @ Silver Eye. Silver Eye’s programs are dedicated to supporting the work of emerging, mid-career, and under-recognized artists and sharing that work with our diverse audience in engaging and meaningful ways. David holds an MFA from Columbia College Chicago and a BFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology. He was a co-founder of the video-art screening series Video Playlist at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago and was the Lab Manager at Light Work in Syracuse, New York.

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Man asleep in front of a mirror, his face revealed in reflection.

A Brief History of Loss, Life, and Healing in an American Family

After the sudden passing of Rebecca Arthur’s mother in the summer of 2014, still grieving, she left her childhood home of Fayetteville, New York, to begin school in New York City.

By David Oresick Aug 01, 2019

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