Saturday, February 6, 2021: “This Is Us, Regional Portraiture Today” at the Springfield Museums
by ag
Today was the phase two opening of the Springfield Museums’ This Is Us: Regional Portraiture Today exhibit being held in conjunction with the Smithsonian’s The Outwin 2019: American Portraiture Today that is also on display here in Springfield.
As regular visitors to Pixetera know, I’ve not been shy about having my own pop-up shows, courtesy of Photoshop, at other museums, e.g., MoMA, Dia:Beacon, Smith College Museum of Art — a surprisingly satisfying form of presenting work that makes up for its limited exposure with seriously reduced printing and framing costs :)
Happily though that wasn’t necessary for this regional show (not every artist lives within a 3-block radius of the museums as I do though). Below are two photographs from the exhibit, along with a new one made from discarded test prints.
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I’ve enjoyed your selfies (or nonselfies, or antiselfies), Alan. Glad you included the statement in this post. Congratulations on your well-deserved inclusion in the Springfield Museum show.
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Thanks Linda. Always nice to know there’s an audience for my anti-selfies.
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I’m glad you’re in the show. The statement is (of course) very well written – it’s clear and it seems to assume just the right amount of knowledge and intelligence on the part of the audience. It’s so refreshing to read an intelligent artist’s statement that isn’t full of jargon and BS. I’m a big fan of your anti-selfies, as hard as they can be to look at sometimes. Congrats!! :-)
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Thanks Lynn. You touched on one of my pet peeves — the academic, pretentious BS that’s found in so many artistic statements. Photographing for the sheer pleasure of it seems to be a foreign concept when entering photo contest and exhibition land.
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Right! A lot gets lost in the run for MFA’s I guess. One of the nice things about being older is not feeling any pressure to engage with all that.
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