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Two old colored photographs side by side. On the left is a VW bus in green and white pulling up to a driveway with a woman and three kids standing looking at the van. On the right is an interior of a call on a highway from the back seat looking at a teen sitting backwards in the front seat with a cigarette in his mouth.
January 11-April 5, 2020

Liz Albert: Family Fictions

The anonymous nature of the found snapshot is both mysterious and intriguing, and a key element of Liz Albert’s work.   Her series, Family Fictions, uses found images to create narratives that define a specific social and cultural time and place with sharp visual cues.  Her works point to a sliver of photographic time, when cameras were readily available, film easily developed, and the slide show was ubiquitous.

Reception Saturday, February 1, 6:00-8:00 p.m.; free and open to the public.

 

 

Gallery: Works on Paper
Dates: January 11-April 5, 2020
Participating artists: Liz Albert
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Two old colored photographs side by side. On the left is a young couple kissing laying down on a stripped blanket. On the right is a young boy in a blue sweater and glasses seated in the front seat of an old car looking down at a map.
Liz Albert, A Map to Lead the Way, Archival Inkjet Print
Two old colored photographs side by side. On the left is a New Years party with many people gathered around throwing confetti. On the right is a car just unburied from two large snowbanks on either side.
Liz Albert, Happy New Year , 2016, Archival Inkjet Print
Two old colored photographs side by side. On the left is an old kitchen with white cabinets and stove with a woman crouched at the stove looking back at the photographer. On the right is a man in a brown suit taking a photograph of a woman in a blue and orange dress with low shoulders who is on the ground supported by her left arm looking up at the man taking the photograph.
Liz Albert, Doubletake , 2018, Archival Inkjet Print
Two old photographs side by side. The left is a family in a driveway by a blue car looking at a green and white VW van. The one on the right is of a teenaged boy seated in the foot well of the passenger seat looking back at the photographer with a cigarette in his mouth.
Liz Albert, Breakaway , 2017, Archival inkjet print
Two old colored photographs side by side. On the left is a young couple kissing laying down on a stripped blanket. On the right is a young boy in a blue sweater and glasses seated in the front seat of an old car looking down at a map.
Liz Albert
A Map to Lead the Way , Archival Inkjet Print
Two old colored photographs side by side. On the left is a New Years party with many people gathered around throwing confetti. On the right is a car just unburied from two large snowbanks on either side.
Liz Albert
Happy New Year , 2016, Archival Inkjet Print
Two old colored photographs side by side. On the left is an old kitchen with white cabinets and stove with a woman crouched at the stove looking back at the photographer. On the right is a man in a brown suit taking a photograph of a woman in a blue and orange dress with low shoulders who is on the ground supported by her left arm looking up at the man taking the photograph.
Liz Albert
Doubletake , 2018, Archival Inkjet Print
Two old photographs side by side. The left is a family in a driveway by a blue car looking at a green and white VW van. The one on the right is of a teenaged boy seated in the foot well of the passenger seat looking back at the photographer with a cigarette in his mouth.
Liz Albert
Breakaway , 2017, Archival inkjet print

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