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Artist Exhibitions:
2004 West Alabama Juried
Show,honorable mention,
November 14th through December
30th. Arts Council of
Tuscaloosa
Double Exposure Juried
Photography Exhibition, Arts
and Humanities Council of
Tuscaloosa, 1st Place cash
award, January 29 - February
25, 2005
2005 West Alabama Juried Show,
November 21st through December
20th. Arts Council of
Tuscaloosa...
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Artist Galleries:
Bare Hands Gallery: Shine
2004, Annual holiday group
show, 11/26 - 12/30,
Birmingham, AL, 109 South
Arrington Jr. Blvd.
representative works: ongoing
2005/
Harrison Gallery: Group
Photography show, 3/2005
Tuscaloosa, AL
representative works: ongoing
2005/
Creative Outlet, Tuscaloosa,
AL
representative works: ongoing
2005/...
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Artist Reviews:
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Artist Statement for Tish Blackwood
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These pieces were done using multiple printings of standard, scanned black and white photographs and digital color photographs on Arches 90 lb. watercolor paper. Further media used includes watercolor, chalk pastel, charcoal, colored pencil, collaged paper, and water-based polymer medium.
They began as an extension of some compelling photographs from itinerant photographer’s work in Southeastern Alabama from the 1930’s. I felt drawn to the stark expression that was conveyed by many of the subjects, unencumbered by context or preparation. These were very different from the old photographs I had of my (Northern) family, which were standard, posed studio records. I then began to use the lack of context as the point of departure, placing them in a new ekistic.
I have been using my own photographs now, concentrating mostly on decayed architectural forms and materials, which have not seemed inherently worthy of representation. Taken in a new context, they become new themselves, both through being taken as parts, which decreases their subjective nature; and manipulation with other media to enhance the beauty of the forms.
I have also made some boxes from antique and found objects which grew out of these 2-dimensional pieces, as a kind of archaic modernism. More of my work can be seen by e-mailing me at BackwaterBooks1@comcast.net.
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