STUDIO65: March 2011

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Brenda LaBier: as i remember it...

Brenda LaBier: as i remember it…

Untitled, 2011. © Studio65. Courtesy of the artist

Jo Spence went on to explore her childhood experience within her own photographic work. ...she staged possible family pictures in a dramatic performance of concealed relationships and submerged emotion. The work developed into a practice she described as a form of therapy, working through traumatic moments and reliving the intensities of childhood...(Spence 1987) Chap. 3, page 158.

This image relates to Spence's quote because my work incorporates multi-layered meanings and I combine re-enacted moments with symbolic meaning to expand on "memory work" of childhood traumas and tracing identity.

Brenda LaBier: as i remember it...

Brenda LaBier: as i remember it…

Untitled, 2011. © Studio65. Courtesy of the artist

As a continuation of as i remember it..., I incorporate multi-layers combining

re-enacted moments with symbolic meaning to expand on "memory work" of childhood traumas and tracing identity. This image was selected due to its many reads.

Brenda LaBier: as i remember it...

Brenda LaBier: as i remember it…

Untitled, 2011. © Studio65. Courtesy of the artist

As a continuation of as i remember it..., I incorporate multi-layers combining

re-enacted moments with symbolic meaning to expand on "memory work" of childhood traumas and tracing identity. The constant struggle portrayed is why I selected this image.

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Brenda LaBier: as i remember it...

Brenda LaBier: as i remember it…

Untitled, 2011. © Studio65. Courtesy of the artist

Developed for, as i remember it…, I use objects to transfer recalled memories of childhood traumatic events.

Brenda LaBier: as i remember it...

Brenda LaBier: as i remember it…

Untitled, 2011. © Studio65. Courtesy of the artist

Developed for, as i remember it…, the recollection of childhood memories contains both visual and physical imprints.

Brenda LaBier: as i remember it...

Brenda LaBier: as i remember it…

Untitled, 2011. © Studio65. Courtesy of the artist

Developed for, as i remember it…, this image recalls a memory of waiting, wondering and not being sure of who I should be, an inner struggle.

Robert Mapplethorpe

Robert Mapplethorpe, Lisa Lyon, 1980
http://www.mapplethorpe.org/portfolios/female-nudes/

from The Mapplethorpe Foundation

Similar to Dijkstra, Mapplethorpe uses the body and individual but seen as an object of desire rather than classification of a group. Yes, this group of images is specifically female but it does not describe a particular group of women. The subject matter or body focuses more on form rather than content or meaning surrounding the figure.

Rineke Dijkstra: Park Portraits

Rineke Dijkstra, Parque De La Ciudadela, Barcelona, June 4, 2005
http://www.mariangoodman.com/exhibitions/2007-01-17_rineke-dijkstra/

from Marian Goodman Gallery
17 January - 17 February, 2007

Dijkstra uses the body to speak of a world experience and depicts bodies as social and changeable, transformed by experience. As bodies in transition she is classifying individuals or groups by the outer surfaces of the body.

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Brenda LaBier: as i remember it…

Untitled, 2011. © Studio65. Courtesy of the artist

The work developed for, as i remember it…, acts as a form of therapy, working through traumatic moments and reliving the intensities of childhood. These memories are rarely comfortable, a calm exterior of a turbulent inner experience as the subject matter.

Brenda LaBier: as i remember it…

Untitled, 2011. © Studio65. Courtesy of the artist

Brenda LaBier: as i remember it...

Brenda LaBier: as i remember it…

Untitled, 2011. © Studio65. Courtesy of the artist

Shinichi Maruyama: Gardens

Shinichi Maruyama Gardens, Garden #1, 2010

Archival pigment print

37 3/4 x 72 inches

Ed. of 7

http://www.brucesilverstein.com/galleries.php?gid=592

from Bruce Silverstein

17 February - 2 April, 2011

I selected this work in regards to the artist's actions of repeatedly throwing liquid into the air and photographing the resulting shapes and sculptural formations. The lighting and uncertain compositions are elegant and rich.