Juror

Burt Finger is the Gallery Director and Co-Owner of Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery (PDNB Gallery). As a photographer, Mr. Finger studied art and exhibited in various galleries in Texas including the Contemporary Art Museum in Houston. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Art Houston and the Musée de la Photographie in Charleroi, Belgium. He also taught photography at North Texas State University (currently University of North Texas). Mr. Finger’s current position as Gallery Director involves curatorial duties, appraisals, and corporate, museum and private sales. He has curated well over 200 exhibitions including the milestone shows, “SHINE”, featuring antique shoeshine boxes, and vintage shoeshine-themed photographs; “Pictures of Me”; and “Texas Bauhaus”. He also organized exhibitions outside the gallery for nonprofit galleries. In recent years he has appeared as a photography appraiser on the acclaimed PBS program, Antiques Roadshow.