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Artist Statement:
In my work I photograph people
who have a deep felt sense of
tradition. For a year of days
beginning in the Autumn of
1999, I lived in a remote
village in the Maramuresh
region of northern
Transylvania, Romania. This
area came to my attention
through my love of Balkan Folk
Dancing. My research revealed
the Maramuresh region to be
unique amongst the former
Soviet Bloc for the way it had
preserved its way of life.
After World War II, for forty
years of communist rule, a few
valleys in Maramuresh escaped
collectivized farming because
of poor soil and hilly
landscape. In the post
cold-war period, preservation
continues because of pervasive
impoverishment which slows the
advancement of modernity into
the reaches of northern
Transylvania.
But nothing will stand still
forever. While the older
generation still don winter
footwear that pre-date the
Romans, the younger generation
flock to market to buy shoes
bearing that ubiquitous swoosh
of western manufacture.
My purpose is to capture and
convey images of their way of
life before it becomes further
compromised by globalization.
In our modern world, we often
feel we have “lost” something
important, something precious.
Though they do not know it ...
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Exhibitions for Kathleen Laraia Mclaughlin:
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007 Robert V. Fullerton Museum, San Bernardino, California
2005 Visual Arts Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin
2004 Charleston Heights Cultural Arts Center Gallery, Las Vegas, Nevada
2004 Mind's Eye Gallery, Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho
2003 Romanian Peasant Museum, Bucharest, Romania
2003 National Museum of Art, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2002 Ethnographic Museum, Sighetu Marmatiei, Romania
2002 East-West Gallery, Romanian Cultural Center, New York, NY
2002 University of California Berkeley Extension, San Francisco, California
2001 Romanian Embassy, Washington, DC
2001 Anderson Gallery,Richmond, Virginia
1998 Sara D. November, Gallery, The Jewish Community Center, Richmond, Virginia
2-3 PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2006 Art6 Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
2005 Edouard de Merlier Gallery, Cypress College, Cypress, California
2004 Maude Kerns Art Center, Eugene, Oregon
2003 Eastern Kentucky University, Giles Gallery, Richmond, Kentucky
2003 Gheorgheni Cultural Center, Harghita, Romania
2001 Soho Photo Gallery, New York, New York
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2005 Romania Redrawn, Photo West Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2005 Transylvania Romania, Julia Dean Workshops Gallery, Marina del Rey, California
2005 Juried Membership Exhibition, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, Texas
2005 Mark Woolley Gallery, One Foot After Another: Photography, Portland, Oregon
2005 Photo-Eye Gallery, First Annual Juried Photographer's Showcase, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2004/5 Humanity Photo Award 2004, Guangdong Museum of Art, China,
UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France, UN Pavilion 2005 EXPO, Aichi, Japan
2004 2004 Fellowship Recipients, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, Texas
2004 Culture and Agriculture, New Visions Gallery, Marshfield, Wisconsin
2003 Invitational Photo Exhibition, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, Louisiana
2003 The 146th Royal Photographic Society Exhibition, Stoke Museum and Art Gallery, England
2003 The Contemplative Man, Cultural Center, University of Nantes, France
2002 The Photo Review 2002 Photography Competition Exhibition, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2002 Lancaster Museum of Art's Photo National 2002, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
2002 Il Primo Internazionale della Fotographia Chiaramonte Gulfi, Gulfi, Italy
2002 Midwest Photography Invitational: XII, Lawton Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, Wisconsin
2002 Humanity Photo Award 2002, Beijing, China
2002 The 145th Royal Photographic Society Exhibition, Stoke Museum and Art Gallery, England
2002 Contemporary Photography in Virginia, Western Virginia Museum of Art, Roanoke, Virginia
2002 Gallery Print Photographic Awards, Gallery Print, Stillwater, Minnesota
2002 Women’s Center Juried Exhibition, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho
2002 Threads of Tradition, Smithtown Township Arts Council, New York
2001 7th Annual National Photography Competition, Texas Artists Museum, Port Arthur, Texas
2001 Folio, Charles H. Taylor Arts Center, Hampton, Virginia
2001 Latent Images, Our Dream Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2001 Spectra ’01, Third National Photography Biennial, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, Connecticut
2001 Current Works 2001, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, Missouri
2001 The 144th Royal Photographic Society Exhibition, Stoke Museum and Art Gallery, England
2001 She-Painting, East-West Gallery, Romanian Cultural Center, New York, New York
2001 Fresh Works, A Celebration of Virginia Photography, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
2001 7th Biennial Juried Competition in Southeastern Photography, Crealdé School of Art, Winter Park, Florida
1999 1st Annual Richard Nagler Photography Competition, Judas Magnes Museum, Berkeley, California
PUBLICATIONS
2005 Black & White Magazine, Annual 2005, reproduction of photograph, December 2005, Arroyo Grande, California
2005 SHOTS 89, reproduction of photographs, Autumn 2005, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2005 SHOTS 88, reproduction of photograph, Autumn 2005, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2005 Portland Art Dealers Association, reproduction of photograph, March 2005, Portland, Oregon
2004 fotogrid, reproduction of photograph, Spring 2004, Vol. 1, Los Angeles, California
2003 The Times Saturday Magazine, reproduction of photographs (cover and photographic essay), March 8, 2003, London, England
2003 LensWork <44, reproduction of photographs (cover and portfolio), December 2002/January 2003, Anacortes, Washington
2002 The Photo Review, reproduction of photographs, Langhorne, Pennsylvania
2002 Humanity Photo Award 2002, (exhibition catalogue), reproduction of photographs, Beijing, China
2002 Contemporary Photography in Virginia, (exhibition catalogue), reproduction of photograph, Western Virginia Museum of Art, Roanoke, Virginia
2002 New Rag Rising, photographic essay, High Point, North Carolina
2001 Style Weekly Magazine, reproduction of photograph, December 11, Richmond, Virginia
2001 The Photo Review, reproduction of photograph, Langhorne, Pennsylvania
2001 7th Annual National Exhibition Competition, (exhibition catalogue), reproduction of photograph, Texas Artists Museum, Port Arthur, Texas
2001 144th International Print Exhibition Catalogue, reproduction of photographs, Royal Photographic Society, Bath, England
2001 7th Biennial Juried Competition in Southeastern Photography, (exhibition catalogue), reproduction of photograph, Winter Park, Florida
2001 Style Weekly Magazine, reproduction of photograph, April 24, Richmond, Virginia
2001 Tribeca Trib, reproduction of photograph, July/August, New York, New York
2001 Downtown Express, reproduction of photograph, July 3, New York, New York
2001 The Villager, reproduction of photograph, July 4, New York, New York
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