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Artist Exhibitions:
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 ...
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Artist Statement for Christy Karpinski
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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.” My photographs speak more to the internal transition, by asking the adult viewer to identify with the child and to recognize how these changes in our perception of children are also changes in our perception and experience of ourselves as adults.
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