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The Neddy Artist Awards at Cornish College of the Arts
Exhibition, January 27 through February 24 2018
Featuring:
Gretchen Bennett
Marita Dingus
Dakota Gearhart
Christopher Jordan* - 2017 winner in painting
Tuan Nguyen
Che Sehyun* - 2017 winner in open media
Barbara Sternberger
Gillian Theobald
Curated by Melissa Feldman
studio e, 609 South Brandon Street, Seattle
Honeymoon View with Windscreen and Small Tear. Archival inkjet photograph. 35 1/4” H X 52” W. 2017
For this work, a photographic inkjet print of a large-format color pencil drawing of a recorded moment from my honeymoon becomes a series of translations through which the original drawing can be seen from a fixed point of view. The source photo for the original drawing is taken from above. The drawing, too, is photographed from above, and a trapezoid is the result. Surface evidence, such as an accidental tear on the printed source photo in the symmetrical shape of a butterfly, is accepted as a happy accident and translated into the drawing and final photograph. Evidence being fragmentary, and document canonical, I am interested in evidence, as all pieces of the process are collapsed into one elegant space, or slice, that captures a more complex experience.