Truth Matters
dal 16/9/2004 al 31/10/2004
Segnalato da
Cynthia Greig
Laura Johansen
Laura Letinsky
Douglas Mellor
Johnny Miller
Celia A. Shapiro
16/9/2004
Truth Matters
Houston Center for Photography, Houston
The Meaning of Objects. A group exhibition featuring the work of Cynthia Greig (Bloomfield Hills, MI), Laura Johansen (New York, NY), Laura Letinsky (Chicago, IL), Douglas Mellor (Bryn Mawr, PA), Johnny Miller (NYC) and Celia A. Shapiro (NYC). The exhibition focuses on still life and examines the elusive meanings contemporary artists find in simple objects.
Truth Matters: The Meaning of Objects is a group exhibition featuring the work of Cynthia Greig (Bloomfield Hills, MI), Laura Johansen (New York, NY), Laura Letinsky (Chicago, IL), Douglas Mellor (Bryn Mawr, PA), Johnny Miller (NYC) and Celia A. Shapiro (NYC). The exhibition focuses on still life and examines the elusive meanings contemporary artists find in simple objects.
Cynthia Greig's color series, Representations, uses a Pop-minimalist aesthetic to explore issues of reality and illusion.
In Sugar Coated America, Laura Johnson uses everyday objects to represent suppressed and misinterpreted truths in society.
Influenced by 17th century Dutch still life painting, Laura Letinsky photographs quiet scenes of domesticity such as abandoned table settings bathed in morning light. The result is a series of elegant color images.
Citing these same influences, Doug Mellor creates lush black-and-white traditional still lifes that project a quality of timelessness.
Johnny Miller's simple black-and-white images of objects from a Vietnam-era soldier's kitbag construct an evocative portrait of the artist's father as a young man.
In her Last Supper series, Celia A. Shapiro re-creates and presents last meals of prisoners on death row identifying each of them with the name of the prisoner.
Image: Celia A. Shapiro
John William Rook, 9/19/1986 from the series Last Supper, 2001
Type C print
Houston Center for Photography
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Houston