Marin Museum of Contemporary Art presents a National Show on Photography that represents new directions and fresh voices within the genre. This show includes 50 artworks from around the nation that integrated photographic processes and materials. Many of the artists represented move fluidly through old and new processes, incorporating conventional darkroom techniques and digital manipulation in the creation of their works. Simon Pyle’s work pushes at the edges of digital media’s capabilities by displaying a jpeg image evolving and degrading as it is resaved 262,144 times in his piece Grandpa Back from the War. C. Wright Daniel’s work is camera-less, but uses the paper and photographic chemicals to create abstract prints of crumpled planes. MarinMOCA member Christie Stewart’s work incorporates flash bulbs and other miscellaneous photographic equipment into thoughtfully assembled grids. Other works include 22 year-old San Francisco artist Chantel Beam’s photo entitled Girl Gang, which integrates fashion photography and narrative portraiture, and LA artist Douglas Ito’s photo of a lone milk jug is emblematic of the isolation and empty promises of a consumerist culture. The juror for this year’s exhibition is Jessica Brier, curator and writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. As Curatorial Assistant of Photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), she has assisted in organizing exhibitions including Francesca Woodman (2011), Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective (2012), and South Africa in Apartheid and After: David Goldblatt, Ernest Cole, Billy Monk (2012). Independently, she has organized exhibitions at the Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art and Park Life, in San Francisco, and Headlands Center for the Arts, in Sausalito. She has contributed writing to Art Practical (artpractical.com), art on paper magazine and SFMOMA’s blog, Open Space. She holds a BA from New York University and an MA in Curatorial Practice from California College of the Arts. Ms. Brier will give a talk on her process and the themes of the show on September 21, at 6 pm at MarinMOCA.