New artists, new artist’s sites
Posted on | August 6, 2010 | 2 Comments
- Documentary photographer Shelia Turner has a new page, Shelia Turner Projects: http://www.wix.com/sheliaturner/shelia-turner
- Check out Canadian artist Megan Morgan’s Re-Photograph (2008) series and, really, all of her work:
From Morgan’s website:
Dimensions variable. Series of 30 black and white c prints on rag paper. Images are 7″x7″ on 9″x12″ paper in a 10″x13″ frame. Total installation size is 110″ x 42″. Acquired by Kenneth Montague and part of the Wedge Collection and Wedge Curatorial Projects. For exhibition permission contact www.wedgegallery.com.
Pamela Edmonds from the 2008 Becoming MOCAD catalogue: “Like Petros, Megan Morgan’s work moves through and around traps of authenticity, extending contemporary definitions of “community” and “family”. In a recent photographic series entitled Re-photograph, Morgan explores her own interracial Bermudian-Canadian family history by re-contextualizing a series of old family portraits and re-presenting them in a series of grids. Issues of memory and loss are counter-balanced against notions of re-creation and assertion through these images, which ultimately questions perceptions of identity from a personal, cultural and familial perspective. These images seek not to create an imaginary wholeness out of disparate parts, but rather to offer paradox, fragmentation and ambiguity as primary states of being. Collectively, the works in this exhibition suggest an identity and a body in the process of “being” and “becoming”. Insofar as identity is performed and experienced as real, self-imaging through the photographic portrait has constituted a powerful strategy through which subjects maintain control over their lives and their image.
And though she does not have her own site check out young South African artist Mary Sibande, whose work is all over the web (her gallery page is here):
Mary Sibande, I Am A Lady, 2008 or 2009
“Inspired by the explorations of race, gender and sexuality in the work of American artists Kara Walker and Cindy Sherman, and London-based Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare, Mary cast her own body in fibreglass and silicone to create Sophie. She then painted her a ‘flat black,’ so that she stands out like a dark and static shadow … Sophie’s eyes are always closed as if in a ‘constant ecstasy of fantasy’ and it’s in her mind that her dress becomes a thing of voluminous Victorian splendour. ‘If she opened her eyes, it would be back to work – cleaning this, dusting that. Her dress would become an ordinary maid’s uniform,’ said Mary.”
– Alex Dodd, Elle Decoration ZA
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August 18th, 2010 @ 2:12 pm
Are Mary Sibande’s Sophie available as prints?
Thank you
August 18th, 2010 @ 4:36 pm
You would have to check with her gallery–just follow the link.