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Photography by Linda Kramer, Lisa Levine,
Peter Tonningsen and Jan Watten
May 22- June 28, 2009
Bound by the thread of identity, four
Bay Area photographers join together in this group show at Autobody
Fine Art. Each addresses this theme with their own unique artistic
sensibility, capturing individuals from the rich multicultural
environment of the Bay Area, where people identify themselves
in the context of their ethnicity, class, culture, gender and
age.
In her "American Carnival Portraits" Linda Kramer photographs
subjects who exude a strong presence that brings into focus the drama of each
person's life. The images are printed large to transmit the attitude of the subject,
and to highlight the compelling details that convey something different to each
viewer examining the photograph.
Lisa Levine includes images from "Past-Tense",
a series in which she uses old photographs from family albums and other found
photographs as a starting point for digitally constructed images. Levine sees
photography as a powerful mechanism for constructing and/or reconstructing identity
and memory. These works explore ideas about the identities of the people and
the stories of their lives based on their photographs.
Peter Tonningsen draws from his project "Paper Dolls" featuring women wearing
dresses imbued with significant personal history in a series of enchanting vignettes.
These pictures are portraits in the traditional sense, but they are also collaborative
fictions; a cast of characters choreographed to masquerade everyday identity
in favor of playfully pretending or enacting some type of enigmatic personal
drama or flight of the imagination.
Jan Watten photographs of youth culture in "Parts" are
abstract and isolated fragments of young people who are childlike yet on the
verge of forming into the adult they will soon become. The images depict components
of their identity that reveal a much larger story about the search for personal
identity in a time of transition, revealing that time of flux between innocence
and maturity, and portraying the last strands of childhood and innocence that
reside just below the surface.
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