Exhibition: From the Inside III
New year, new exhibition. Three of my photos will be included in the annual Maine College of Art staff exhibition at the June Fitzpatrick Gallery at MECA. The work is a little different from what I typically show, but it didn’t feel like either the right venue or time to show the still untitled hate crime/speech work.
I also designed the postcard. Over Christmas I noticed it was upside down on my mother’s refrigerator, always a good sign. The image is from the inside of the Porteous building in the 30′s or 40′s, I also added the store’s logo. It’s a bit of an homage to Warhol’s purposely, mis-registered screen prints (like it wasn’t obvious).
It is First Friday that night, so make the rounds and load up on free wine, cheese and crackers – oh yeah, and see some artwork too.
June Fitzpatrick Gallery at MECA
522 Congress Street
Portland, Maine
Show runs: January 5 – 20, 2007 (it may open sooner)
Opening: First Friday, January 5th 5-8pm
More images!
I’m having trouble finding an easy solution for posting images to WordPress (what I use to manage my site). I’m in the process of finding something manageable – which is why you don’t see more photos on my site. For now you should look at some of my images on Flickr. They typically are outside of my normal artwork, though I’ll be exhibiting several in an upcoming show at a local gallery. I’ll post more info about that, including the images, in a separate post.
Update: I’d been wanting to use simpleviewer for sometime, but was having trouble getting it working. Somehow I figured it out (may have been as simple as uppercase vs. lowercase file naming, duh). Well, now the Music, Ireland, One Flesh and BlogLife sections have images. I should be adding newer images to some of those shortly.
Collaborative Project/Site (Update II)
I’ve begun working on a new photography project with my friend Danielle Askini. She’s a writer, social worker and a trainer for The Center for the Prevention of Hate Violence (not to mention one of my favorite people).
The idea for this project began while I was working on my family’s genealogy. As it turns out a few racist words were actually created on Ellis Island (for more info, see here). My initial notion for the project was to have people of different heritages holding cards with a racist word and the definition. My hope was to demystify and take away the power of these words.
I was also impacted by some of the stories of the participants of my 2003 project ‘One Flesh’ which focused on gender, sex and sexuality. Danielle, herself a past victim of hate violence, was a participant in that project as well.
I’ve decided to combine these two ideas and asked for Danielle’s help, given both her personal and professional connections to the topic. We’ve melded some of our ideas and decided to photograph people impacted by hate speech and violence while incorporating text within the photos to help further illustrate these incidents.
Danielle will be moving in November, so hopefully we’ll at least be able to get an artist statement and some of photographing done. We are looking for other people to participate, so if you’re interested please contact either of us. She’ll also be working on an essay that will be part of the piece.
She also sat for a photo for my project, BlogLife. I hope to post that work soon as well.
New site coming soon (update)
Hello, I’m moving my site to WordPress, I hope to complete the work soon. I’ve added images from One Flesh, though they are small for now as I explore options for displaying images.