Mad Art Gallery: Friday, 2 October 2009
Mad Art Gallery proudly presents F3 a photography exhibit with work by Leah Oates, Shawn Michelle Smith, and Geoff Story. This exhibit opens on Friday, October 2, 2009, with a free opening reception from 7:00 p.m. until 11:00 p.m. The exhibit continues through October 27, 2009. Gallery hours are by appointment Tuesday through Saturday from 11:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m.
Leah Oates’ photographs are her response to sites and objects that are ignored, piles of trash, alleyways, overpasses, and abandoned structures. She shoots in working class and industrial areas. Raised in a working class area of New England, Oates has a familiarity and strong emotional connection with these locations. Oates’ photographs capture the poignant beauty of these otherwise bleak locations. Oates’ serious of double exposures play with ideas of time, of multiple memories, and how we reconstruct time and place. Blurring multiple moments and locations into one image, Oates captures the essence of place and time passing quickly.
Shawn Michelle Smith’s work examines lynchings that occurred in the last decades of the ninetieth century and the first decades of the twentieth century. Smith uses photographs of these lynchings and isolates women and girls in the crowds. She reduces these figures to heir minimal forms, making white silhouettes that recall the projections of nineteenth century phantasmagorias, spectacles of light and shadow that created ghostly apparitions.
Geoff Story enjoys exploring the unseen corners of his beloved city armed with whatever camera suits him at the moment. Geoff rarely shoots friends or family, relying on the kindness and willingness of strangers to be his subjects.
Leah Oates’ photographs are her response to sites and objects that are ignored, piles of trash, alleyways, overpasses, and abandoned structures. She shoots in working class and industrial areas. Raised in a working class area of New England, Oates has a familiarity and strong emotional connection with these locations. Oates’ photographs capture the poignant beauty of these otherwise bleak locations. Oates’ serious of double exposures play with ideas of time, of multiple memories, and how we reconstruct time and place. Blurring multiple moments and locations into one image, Oates captures the essence of place and time passing quickly.
Shawn Michelle Smith’s work examines lynchings that occurred in the last decades of the ninetieth century and the first decades of the twentieth century. Smith uses photographs of these lynchings and isolates women and girls in the crowds. She reduces these figures to heir minimal forms, making white silhouettes that recall the projections of nineteenth century phantasmagorias, spectacles of light and shadow that created ghostly apparitions.
Geoff Story enjoys exploring the unseen corners of his beloved city armed with whatever camera suits him at the moment. Geoff rarely shoots friends or family, relying on the kindness and willingness of strangers to be his subjects.
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