Joan Lyons: Representations
From the artist’s statement: "These images are samplings from the representational systems of the Western mimetic tradition that forms our cultural bias. Photographed, over a period of five years, throughout Western Europe and North America they reflect on the treasure houses of great museums. The focus shifts, in part, to city streets as the essential representational narratives migrate to a commercially-driven media culture in the late twentieth century. To what extent does the Christian salvation myth define our present-day culture? How has that culture been shaped by a history in which women were absenced from the creation of images?"I have filtered images through my consciousness as well as my lens, made time contiguous in not-quite-arbitrary grids and placed the whole back into an exhibition space. Perhaps this is a way to claim a piece of this overwhelming tradition as my own."

79 frames (to be assembled as large grids); 55 running feet; rental fee is $2,500

Please contact Tate Shaw to inquire about this or other traveling exhibitions, (585) 442-8676 or email tateshaw@vsw.org

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