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Feburary, 4, 2011
 
“This Land”
Solo Exhibition for Jack Spencer at Rebekah Jacob Gallery
(Color Photography)
 
On Friday, March 4, 2011 (5:30-8PM) in conjunction with the art walk, JACK SPENCER will open “THIS LAND,”an exhibition of color photography. “This Land” is comprised of landscapes spanning the United States and includes many images of South Carolina’s Low country. The series is representative of the time Spencer spent from 2003 to 2005 while traveling throughout the United States and Canada. Going from one city to the next, attending exhibitions of his work, Spencer avoided interstate highways and got lost along backcountry roads. The images he produced are carefully composed, simple, straightforward landscapes of the towns and countryside he found along the way. Although the human element is suggested through man made structures, virtually none of these works show people, a departure from Spencer’s prior series, “Native Soil” and “Apariciones”.  The exhibition will be on view from March 1 through March 31.
 
The Artist on the series…“This Land started when the war started in Iraq. It was almost a violent reaction to that. The early photographs were torn and distressed. But it evolved into the idea that we live in the magnificent land, albeit one with a lot of bones rattling around in the closet”
 
ABOUT THE ARTIST…
Jack Spencer was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, a land that has found its way into many of his photographs. The precisely crafted prints poignantly tell the story of the rural life in the America’s Countryside. Spencer is perhaps best known for his series Native Soul that features deep sepia tones combined with deep-South imagery: the humid bayou country, horses, and the everyday man of the Mississippi River Delta.In 1999, they became the subject of his first book also entitled “Native Soil.”. His images, often blurred, and slightly manipulated-are very distinct from any other body of work about the Carolina Low Country.  The slightly out-of-focus quality of his photographs is achieved by skillful manipulation of the printing process in the dark room, when the negative is projected through transparent materials, thus distorting the light. The prints are then varnished with subtle tones of earth-yellow or earth-red pigments.
Spencer currently resides in Nashville, Tennessee. Jack is a self-taught photographer who attended Louisiana Tech University.He work is in many collections including: The Houston Museum of Fine Art, Berkley Museum of Art, Sir Elton John’s Photography collection.
 
Rebekah Jacob Gallery’s principal focus is the representation of an international group of contemporary artists whose diverse practices include painting, works on paper, photography and video. Each artist has exhibited widely in the US and abroad and is included in museum and corporate collections. The gallery adheres to a rigorous curatorial model and maintains an accelerated exhibition schedule, non-media specific, that features emerging contemporary artists, as well as artists from all generations.
 
For details from Rebekah Jacob Gallery, please contact:
Tel. +1 843 937 9222, rjacob@rebekahjacobgallery.com
169-B King Street, Charleston SC 29401
 http://www.rebekahjacobgallery.com



                                                   Charleston Harbor, 20 x 24'', Archival Pigment Print


                                                          Cumberland 22, 20 x 24", Archival Pigment Print


                                                                       Edisto, 20 x 24", Archival Pigment Print


                       Two Wild Horses, Cumberland Island, 20 x 24", Archival Pigment Print


                                                                      Lianas, 20 x 24", Archival Pigment Print

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