August 9, 2009
Families are strange, and I’m interested in why we try to pretend like they’re not. There is a familiarity we seek and feel with commonplace portraiture, and I investigate methods of making these familiar images seem oddly unfamiliar.
Portraits generally display a desired, quintessential image of a person. It is often, however, that the image depicted is a façade for the myriad of personalities that make up the subject of the portrait. I’m interested in the complexities of people, and how their various identities are lost upon the capturing of a portrait and the image that remains.
The multiple layering and duplication of each subject is inspired by the proliferation of the phenomena in which so many of us, like a society of clones, succumb to the standard of presenting ourselves to the world in a portrait in which a smiling face masks the true identities of the person within.
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2-D by JessicaW1
July 21, 2009
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2-D by MaggieP
July 10, 2009
“Lena” from the Southern Portraiture Series
I have obsessively photographed my children since they were babies. Now that they are in their teenage years, I find that examining their identities as well as those of their friends through photography is fascinating.Youth can be seen as a time of searching for identity, during a time in which [...]
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2-D by RoseB
July 8, 2009
One of a series of found objects recontextulized into halos, exploring the range of sources, benefits, and drawbacks to being a “good girl.”
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2-D by KristinA
June 7, 2009
This image captures a performance enacted with studio-based drawing, Woods (Rabun, GA) 2009. The drawing itself is an energetic impression of the woods of Rabun, Georgia, a depiction of how my body remembers a site. When in the woods, I often perform private intimate rituals of embedding my body within the landscape to [...]
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2-D, Performance by KarenC
June 2, 2009
Selection of photographs from portfolio.
I work with domestic settings and distorted figurations.
I moved to the United States from the Soviet Union during my formative years, and I express the feelings of alienation and detachment and the wish to assimilate into a strange society that I experienced, through the tension and discomfort conveyed in the [...]
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2-D by MilanaB
May 29, 2009
Detail of ‘Childhood ‘memory station’ in Secret Museum of Mankind Installation
This piece was part of the installation Secret Museum Of Mankind where I created my own Natural History Museum, which included different ‘memory stations’: that represented my genetic past, childhood and future.
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2-D, 3-D, Installation, Performance, Sculpture by DonnaH
May 15, 2009
These photographs document a private ritual in which I adorn my body with line drawings and then display my adorned body to the camera as a re-enactment of the identity formation process.
This ritual mimics the daily grooming and attention to appearance that is tightly woven into a woman’s self image. At the same time, [...]
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2-D, Performance by LauraY
May 14, 2009
My work is about the ways people communicate.
My work is about the obsession with affirming one’s own existence.
My work is about me.
I want to take great personal risks in the pursuit of personal transformation.
I want my work to be the evidence of this transformation.
I want my work to be generous.
I want my work to bring [...]
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2-D, Installation, Performance, Video by Amber Boardman