Raleigh Exhibitions

2026 Raleigh Exhibitions

2026 in Raleigh will feature exhibitions at A Photographers Place, Artspace, Block Gallery, Jobe House and the Click! Plein Air Fence exhibit in downtown.

Check back for updates as programs are confirmed!

A Photographers Place Gallery
Friday October 2, 2026

Henry Horenstein: Show

"SHOW" by Henry Horenstein captures the raw and artistic essence of modern burlesque, blending glamour and grit in a disappearing world of performance art.

“For subjects, I prefer older cultures & places, especially disappearing ones.” — Henry Horenstein
Elliott Gallery is extremely proud to present SHOW, a sensuous but candid look at modern burlesque, by the noted Boston-based photographer Henry Horenstein. Taken between 2001 & 2009, SHOW pays homage to the resurgence of burlesque in the last several years.

The photographs in this exhibition are a lavish display of ‘noir-styled’ images, which are a bewitching combination of the tantalising & titillatingly sexy, alongside the harsh, true reflections of the mysterious & raw world that they document.

Portraying all aspects of the Burlesque: the classic striptease, drag, fetish & the bizarre. SHOW’s dark, grainy images, mix feathers, fishnets, tattooed bodies, glitter & whips, with the more shocking & rawer, perhaps uglier side of the world of burlesque.

August 19 through October 30, 2026

ART WHAT YOU EAT

Block Gallery Exhibition

Food and art have an intertwined history, from the rustic Egyptian murals depicting bread-making to the colorful fruits by Cézanne. However, probably most notable are the hyper realistic Dutch still lifes with highly skilled renderings of reflective silver and glassware, dew drops on flower petals, and feathers and fur of dead carcasses. No matter the style in which any of these is illustrated, they all reflect the times in which they were created. Food is an essential part of life and culture, and artists have continued to document our relationship to it in personal and profound ways.

Each of the "Art What You Eat" photographers works with food as their subject matter but has a unique approach to tell their individual story. Whether it is the captured moments of food preparation by Anna Routh Barzin, the frozen-in-time images of Harsha Sipani, or the abstracted, minimalist design approach of Dhanraj Emanuel, their work reflects and celebrates our current culture.

October 1 -30 2026

Click! Plein Air Exhibition

 Click! Plein Air comes to Dix Park in Raleigh this year from October 1-30.

The theme is: OPEN. We are looking forward to presenting striking and engaging photographic work in a diverse public audience in an open-air setting.

The fence is a collaboration of photographers who submit from all over North Carolina and beyond and juried this year by Jerome De Perlinghi from the American Center for Photographers in Wilson, NC.

2025 Raleigh Exhibitions

October 3 - November 1, 2025
Opening Reception: October 3, 2024 12:00pm – 9:00pm

A Photographers Place - 5100 Lacy Ave. Suite 100 Raleigh, NC 27609

Katrina Remembrances- 20 years after

Featuring work by:

Bryce Lankard

John Rosenthal

 Donn Young

At the 20-year anniversary of the devastation that Hurricane Katrina wrought on New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, I am partnering with photographers John Rosenthal and Donn Young to present our views on the aftermath of the Hurricane. Due to the recent flooding in Hillsborough, NC, our original venue, the Eno Mills Gallery has closed. We have changed the date and location. The exhibition and a variety of speakers will now be at A Photographer's Place in Raleigh, NC and will take place in October during the Click! Photography Festival.

 Louisiana artist poet Katie Bowler Young. Katie will read from her book "Through Water With Ease."

October 3rd - November 29, 2025
Exhibition Opening October 3, 2025
A Photorapher’s Place

 78/46 Analog Work: Elemental Presence

Ray Bidegain
Amanda Tinker
Andy Mattern

There are certain photographs that defy translation. You can try to scan them, photograph them, reproduce them in a book or on a screen, but something essential always slips through the cracks. Platinum and platinum/palladium prints are like that. They aren’t just visual; they’re physical, elemental. You need to see them in person to truly understand what they are. This is why the 78/46 exhibition came into being.

As the editor of Analog Forever Magazine, I’ve spent years celebrating the beauty and resilience of analog photographic practices. I’ve written about platinum prints, published them, even obsessed over how to best present them in print. But no matter how carefully we reproduce them, they never quite land the way they do in person. And that’s not a failure, it’s a reminder.

78/46 refers to the atomic numbers of platinum (78) and palladium (46). It’s a nod to the chemistry at the heart of this work, but also to the artistry. It is the transformation of metal into emotion, of materials into meaning. Each of the three photographers in this exhibition brings their own voice to the process. One might lean into narrative, another toward abstraction, a third toward the conceptual or poetic. But all of them share the discipline and devotion that this medium demands.

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