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March 2, 2011
I will be included in an exciting new exhibition at Smith Andersen North.
CALIFORNIA CONTINUED: New Approaches in West Coast Photography
March 5 - April 15, 2011
Please join us for an Opening Reception Saturday, March 12, 6-9pm
Smith Andersen North is pleased to present California Continued: New Approaches in West Coast Photography,
a selection of works by established and emerging artists that explores
the concerns and influences that have shaped California photography of
the past several decades.
"A
place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most
obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so
radically that he makes it in his own image." - Joan Didion
No
other place is better than California at projecting its own image into
the world- its promises and tragedies- so that it exists in the popular
imagination as something thoroughly known--as much a myth and an idea as
a real place. But rather than simply debunking those myths and clichés,
the artists and photographs in California Continued gain much of their
imaginative power from operating within them- opening up their
assumptions, stretching their boundaries, getting dangerously close, and
resituating themselves toward their subject matter in innovative ways
to answer larger, more personal questions.
While
many of the photographers are influenced by methodologies handed down
through mentorship in the art schools, a fresh spirit of experimentation
pervades. Processes such as the pinhole photography, photograms,
collage, multiple exposure, Polaroid, and digital manipulation find new
conceptual footholds in a dialogue around chance, perception, and the
poetic capabilities of raw photographic materials themselves as
transmitters of time and history.
From
the flourishing of photography programs and NEA grants in the 1970s
that put California on the cutting edge of contemporary photography to
the present, California itself remains a complex muse—constantly
shifting between a self-conscious stage, painfully aware of its mythic
importance as a spiritual and psychological end-point, and simply a
backdrop against which the more mundane aspects of daily life are played
out. In all of its multiplicity, California Continued examines the
trajectories of those who have brought their particular dreams and ideas
to California and made it their home.
ARTISTS
Mike Brodie
John Chiara
Zoe Crosher
Mark Citret
Robert Cumming
Judy Dater
John Divola
Dru Donovan
Miguel Farias
Jack Fulton
Katy Grannan
Todd Hido
Bessma Khalaf
Justine Kurland
Michael Light
Jasmin Lim
Chris McCaw
Sean McFarland
Klea McKenna
Mark McKnight
Richard Misrach
Abner Nolan
Jennifer O'Keeffe
Catherine Opie
Job Piston
Leland Rice
Will Rogan
Paul Schiek
Larry Sultan
Lindsey White
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