Posts made in May, 2010
STEVEN ROOD
Speke’s Gazelle and Meerkat, two black-and-white photographs by Steven Rood, are featured in the Center’s Animalia exhibition, which opens today in the Center’s Main Gallery. Rood was chosen as an Honorable Mention by juror Karen Irvine. Both images come from Rood’s series also of the same name as the exhibition, Animalia.
(Photo credit: Speke’s Gazelle by Steven Rood)
(Photo credit: Meerkat by Steven Rood)
More of Steven’s work can be found at www.stevenroodphotography.com
Read MoreAMY ECKERT
(Photo credit: Bunny by Amy Eckert)
Can you mass-produce a sense of home? asks Amy Eckert.
Her photograph, Bunny, was recognized as an Honorable Mention by Karen Irvine, juror of the Center’s upcoming “Animalia” exhibition. The image comes from Eckert’s series, Manufacturing Home.
In her artist’s statement, Eckert describes the popular marketing tactics of display homes and, tellingly, the use of animal imagery to persuade consumers:
Manufacturing Home explores ideas of Home via the multi-billion dollar industry selling the idea back to us. The display homes in my pictures are brand-new and have not been lived in yet … They are stage sets awaiting the drama of daily life. I identify with the random objects trying hard to make the empty rooms seem familiar. The use of prop animals to help sell homes suggests the enormous role that they play in our lives, and hints at our universal need for security and companionship.
More of Amy’s work can be found at www.amyeckertphoto.com
Read MoreSARAH CUSIMANO MILES
(Photo credit: Heron (Ardea goliath) with pomegranate by Sarah Cusimano Miles)
Photographer Sarah Cusimano Miles was recognized by juror Karen Irvine as an Honorable Mention in the Center’s “Animalia” exhibition. Her photographs Heron (Ardea goliath) with pomegranate and Gull (Larus argentatus) with artichoke were both selected for exhibition. Both images display arranged animal specimens in a manner that suggests the institutional cataloging of animalia as seen through the gaze of art history.
Discussing her photographs, Cusimano Miles’ artist’s statement reads:
I am interested in collections of objects and our relationships to them. These photographs explore the “not on view” public collection at the Anniston Museum of Natural History located in Alabama. They represent the excess of the collection; the specimens that are acquired and then shelved for long periods of time … By portraying these objects through the tradition of the still life, I hope to comment on the still present issue of decadence in our culture, while illuminating the unheralded beauty of that which is held in stasis.
(Photo credit: Gull (Larus argentatus) with artichoke by Sarah Cusimano Miles)
HUGO TEIXEIRA {JUROR’S SELECTION}
(Photo credit: Chengdu Flamingos by Hugo Teixeira)
Hugo Teixeira’s photographs, Chengdu Flamingos and Xi’an Hippopotamus, were awarded the Juror’s Selections for the “Animalia” exhibition. Both images come from Teixeira’s China Zoo series, which documents how animals relate to China’s consumerism. The series portrays the distinctive manmade barriers that separate “us-from-them” and how these constructed environments are intended for animals to function as spectacle. Some of Teixeira’s photographs are distinctive of China, while others provide generalizations and commentary about zoos from around the world.
Discussing his project and working in China, Teixeira’s artist’s statement reads:
You were as likely to find a tiger in your soup as you are to find one in a cage at a zoo. And while at first I approached the subject mater in a documentary fashion, as much out of outrage as curiosity, I soon saw the resulting images as just that: a testament to the complexity of humankind’s relationship with animals.
Click [HERE] to see the entire China Zoo series.
(Photo credit: Xi’an Hippopotamus by Hugo Teixeira)
More of Hugo’s Work can be found at www.hugoteixeira.com
Read MoreLAWRENCE RUSS
(Photo credit: Deep Red, Deeper Blue by Lawrence Russ)
… color is vital to my photography. I want it to be sensuous, but it has to help create some emotive or spiritual force.
Lawrence Russ’ Deep Red, Deeper Blue is featured in the Center’s Red exhibition.
Discussing Ersnt Haas’ idea of “The Poetic Element,” an excerpt from Russ’ artist statement reads:
I want all the print’s aspects to draw the viewer inside its room, but once that occurs, I hope there’s an intimation of something beyond, its tail just visible under the door.
More of Lawrence’s work can be found at www.lawrenceruss.com
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