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Artist Statement:
The photographs in this series
came about as I was attempting
to sort through an identity
crisis. I seemed to have lost
track of who I am. After
speaking with a number of
people, some real, some
fictional, it seems most
everyone has developed so many
layers it’s difficult to
return to the core. We all
play so many roles, so many
different characters, that
it’s easy to lose track of our
true identities.
I’ve tried to take all of
these battling psyches of an
individual and compress them
into a single photograph.
I’ve combined in various
amounts, realities, dreams,
fantasies, fears, especially
the fears because that’s what
drives a lot of us, and thrown
them all on a page leaving
them to battle it out. Some
of the photographs turned into
portraits while others took on
a more narrative structure.
Hopefully I’ve captured the
complexities of some of these
people, both real and
fictional, that I spoke with.
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Artist Exhibitions:
Fantasy &
Fantasies Center for Fine Art
Photography Ft Collins, CO
2007
Visable Fringe@ Inside Out
Gallery Minneapolis, MN 2004
Art-A-Whirl
Minneapolis, MN 2004
NEMAA Fine Arts
Show Minneapolis, MN 2004
Icebox Gallery
Minneapolis, MN 2003
Minnetonka Center for
the Arts Wayzata, MN 2003
Hennipen History Center
Minneapolis, MN...
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Downtown Art
By Anna Pratt
On the Visible Fringe
Besides offering theatergoers a plethora of performances, the Minnesota Fringe Festival is serving up visual delicacies with its "Visible Fringe" series of art exhibits at several Minneapolis locations, including works of art that challenge our perception, including our self-perception, at Inside Out Gallery in the Warehouse District.
Visible Fringe artist Greg Markstrom's photographs emerged from an identity crisis. Examining the competing forces that govern our sense of self, Markstrom's composite photos deal with reality, dreams and anxieties.
His pictures are ghostly, revealing psychological impressions that seem buried and close to the surface. Many of his photos are haunting, with faces whose features are distorted or blurred. His subjects, real and imagined, also appear to be trapped behind glass doors, windows or under water -- or by a wrinkle in time. Markstrom liquifies the placement of eyes, ears, mouths and noses -- people's seemingly fixed features mix like paint.
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