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Artist Statement:
For the series "Formation":
My photographs are the result
of my many years working as a
nanny. I have always enjoyed
letting go and entering into a
world experienced through the
senses. This seems to be a
point of connection between me
and my child friends. We
explore and relate on this
basic level resulting in
images that inhabit this sort
of in-between space of adult
and child.
In the field of Sociology of
Childhood, there is an ongoing
discussion of how our
understanding and perception
of childhood and adulthood is
changing. The child/adult
distinctions that were once
based on the idea of the
innocent child, who is
developing toward the worldly,
completed adult, are changing
into something new.
Children are no longer thought
of as blank slates needing to
be given all knowledge and
information, they are now the
“knowing child,” seemingly
wise beyond their years, with
our expectations of their
responsibility for themselves
early in life. Adults are no
longer “completed.” We think
of ourselves as always
evolving or “developing.”
This change in our perception
of adulthood and childhood has
been reflected in contemporary
photography mostly as an
externalization of the child
as the “knowing child.” ...
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Exhibitions for Christy Karpinski:
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Awards:
Honorable Mention-Best of Show, Onward: Journey For Emerging Photographers, Project Basho 2008.
Illinois Arts Council Fellowship Award in Photography 2007.
Honorable Mention, PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris 2007.
Award of Excellence, Cook County Treasurer, March 2007.
Solo Exhibitions:
Formation, Up Gallery, Chicago, IL May-June 2005.
Photographs by Christy Karpinski, Chicago Public Libraries Celebrating Women’s History Month, Chicago, IL March 2005.
Selected Group Exhibitions:
Onward: Journey For Emerging Photographers, Juried by Andrea Modica,Project Basho, Philadelphia, PA 2008.
A Field Guide to North America: The Exhibition, Curated by the Humble Arts Foundation, Gallery Bar, New York, NY2007.
Exposure 2007, Mistlin Gallery, Modesto, CA Fall 2007.
1st Annual CoPA Juried Exhibit, Brian Ulrich-juror, Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, WI July 27-August 31, 2007.
Boys and Girls, City Gallery of Photography at the Historic Water Tower, Chicago, IL May 17-August 4 2007.
Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas Honors Women’s History Month, County Building, Chicago, IL March-April 2007.
12th Juried Exhibition, Bonni Benrubi-juror, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA 2006.
New Trends in Chicago Photography, Version Kuntshalle, Chicago, IL April 2006.
Annual Women Photographers Competition, Dreambox Gallery, Chicago, IL March 2006.
MFA Thesis Show, Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago, IL May-June 2005.
Manifest Club Showcase, The Hothouse, Chicago, IL June 2, 2005.
11th Juried Exhibition, Andy Grundberg-Juror, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA 2005.
Chicago Art Open, Chicago IL 2004.
Westmoreland Art Nationals, Westmoreland County Community College, Latrobe PA 2004.
Muliebral, Group exhibit. Hokin Gallery, Chicago, IL March-April 2003.
National Juried Exhibition, The Salon Studio, Loveland, CO 2002.
Group exhibit, The Maine Photographic Workshops Gallery, Rockland, ME July 2001.
Publications:
C.O.P.A. Exhibition Catalog 2007, Coalition of Photographice Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 2007.
A Field Guide to the North American Family by Garth Risk Hallberg, Mark Batty Publisher, August 2007.
Wondertime magazine, various issues, Massachusetts, 2006-2007.
Home Life, 6x6 book series, Columbia College Chicago, 2004.
Altar Magazine, issue <3, New York, 2004.
Foto Pozytyw magazine, issue <12, Lodz, Poland, 2003.
StoryQuarterly, vol.39, literary journal. Portfolio of photographs, 2003.
Shots magazine, issue <78 and <80, Minnesota.
Feline magazine, issue <1, featured artist, New York, 2002.
2002 Best of Photography Annual, Photographer’s Forum.
Invisible, artist’s book,Free Milk Press, 2001.
Education:
Columbia College Chicago - Chicago, IL 2005
Masters of Fine Art, Photography
University of Arizona - Tucson, AZ 1997
Bachelor of Arts, Major in Women’s Studies; Minor in Sociology
Teaching and Other Experience:
Juror for the Wells Street Art Fair, Chicago 2008.
Gallery 37 - Chicago Public Schools, Teaching Artist currently
Columbia College Chicago, Adjunct Faculty 2005-current
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