A Long Slant of Light brings together artists Ian Lewandowski & Mo Costello in a display of corporeal image-making & drawing. In some ways a rejection of the singular & complete image. In others a process of direct impression, traces, & artifacts. Legibility is discarded - and instead the bodily experience is hung through an emotional & expansive framework. 

Working against both documentary impulse & conceptual asperity, the combined work of these artists offer up a more viable creative scaffolding: The capacity of the image to carry us. The vernacular tumbled through vulnerable & bright substrate. The social life of images. Forms that swell. 

Ian Lewandowski’s first solo exhibition, Community Board, was exhibited at The Java Project in Brooklyn in 2019. The Ice Palace Is Gone, his body of color photographs made from 2018-19, was published as his first monograph by Magic Hour Press (Montréal) in 2021. My Man Mitch, a body of photographs and appropriated photo material native to Indiana made from 2014-17, was published by Kult Books (Stockholm) in 2022. Lewandowski also teaches undergraduate photography courses at The New School and SUNY FIT in New York, as well as continuing education courses at Gowanus Darkroom in Brooklyn. Additionally, he manages and prints the photo work of Kenny Gardner (1913-2002). Lewandowski lives in south Brooklyn with his husband Anthony and dog Seneca. 

Mo Costello (Seattle, 1989) is an artist and educator drawn to the social life of images. Mo lives and teaches in Athens, GA, where she’s worked out of a unit in a local flea market for the last several years. 

June T Sanders is an artist, writer, educator, and curator from the hills of rural south east Washington state. She lives there still. She has most recently been awarded the Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts curatorial prize, a photography Research Fellowship from the New Hampshire Institute of Art, and the Western Communities Photo Grant from High Country News. She is currently an assistant professor at Washington State University, a public art curator for ArtsWA, and an organizer/coach for the world famous palouse gay baseball collective.