Best Photography Solo — Emerging Artist

Sometimes shows in Pirate’s cramped and awkwardly shaped Associates’ Space outshine the main attractions up front. That was surely the case when Conor King’s Sentience was on view there. The twenty-something King, a recent University of Colorado graduate, created six photo enlargements framed in natural-wood boxes. The photos were illuminated from behind, making them glow. The images depicted people involved in enigmatic activities — like a man on a rope raiding a nest filled with giant eggs. The room was lit only by the glow of the photos, which unified them and also established an appropriately somber mood.