Jake Rowland, a Summer 2005 Hot Shot, is exhibiting his work in SVA's Mentors, an exhibition of photographs by emerging artists.

Mentors is a show for the 56 SVA students who participated in "a year-long mentorship with leaders in the visual arts." Students were paired with the city's "best-known photographers, curators, art directors, publishers, art dealers, critics and writers" to learn how to gain a wider audience for their work. Ms. Jen Bekman is actually a mentor herself; her prodigy is Nicholas Fevelo.

Jake makes pretty rad portraits. The one above is part of a series of photographs called The River Rock Variations (the series can be seen on Jake's website, which can be accessed by clicking up top on Jake's name). You should head to SVA and check out his work. The show will be up until April 29th.

The exhibition is at the:

Visual Arts Gallery
601 West 26 Street, 15th floor
NEW YORK