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Brenda LaBier: as i remember it…

Brenda LaBier: as i remember it…

Untitled, 2011. © Studio65. Courtesy of the artist

Expanding on as i remember it..., I portray the compounded effects of childhood neglect and abuse through conflicting family constructs. Bringing the interior divergence of emotions to the exterior. 

Brenda LaBier: as i remember it…

Brenda LaBier: as i remember it…

Untitled, 2011. © Studio65. Courtesy of the artist

Expanding on as i remember it..., I portray the compounded effects of childhood neglect and abuse through conflicting family constructs. Bringing the interior divergence of emotions to the exterior. 

Brenda LaBier: as i remember it…

Brenda LaBier: as i remember it…

Untitled, 2011. © Studio65. Courtesy of the artist

Expanding on as i remember it..., I portray the compounded effects of childhood neglect and abuse through conflicting family constructs. Bringing the interior divergence of emotions to the exterior. 

Ralph Eugene Meatyard

Ralph Eugene Meatyard

Untitled, ca. 1963
Collection of the International Center of Photography, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Traub, 1980

http://museum.icp.org/museum/exhibitions/meatyard/introduction.html

These staged images are almost literary in their implied narratives, what writer Guy Davenport has called “charming short stories that have never been written.” Although they present strange juxtapositions and embrace accidents, these unsettling pictures are not so much surrealistic as transcendental. With a quiet spiritual force, they suggest the complex emotions associated with childhood intimacy, innocence, loss, and destruction.

Christian Boltanski: Studio

Christian Boltanski

http://www.tate.org.uk/magazine/issue2/boltanski.htm

'I began to work as an artist when I began to be an adult, when I understood that my childhood was finished, and was dead. I think we all have somebody who is dead inside of us. A dead child. I remember the Little Christian that is dead inside me.

Stanley Spencer

Stanley Spencer, S e l f - P o r t r a i t, 1 9 59 

© Estate of Stanley Spencer 2003. All Rights Reserved, DACS

http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/spencer/spencer_teacherspack.pdf

Stanley Spencer’s work is relevant to all key stages for many commonly studied topics – some of them cross-curricular. Themes that pre-occupied the artist throughout his career and which are also favourites with examiners are: the Self (viewed through events remembered from childhood as well as in the scrutiny of the self-portrait); Landscape, encompassing a sense of place (who better than Stanley Spencer to elucidate what is meant by that phrase?); War; Religion and Sex, and Writing.