Above, see a pic of the FPAC Gallery that features a section of the Image for Sale show. Along with some of Jeffrey P. Heyne's work and Silvie Agudelo's you can see "Photo ID Required" peering from the wall.
Here is the gallery announcement for the show:
The Fort Point Arts Community Gallery presents:
IMAGE FOR SALE
Sylvie Agudelo
Kurt Cole Eidsvig
Jeffrey P. Heyne
July 20-August 17, 2007
Opening Reception Friday July 27 from 5-8pm
In this media saturated culture, our identity is linked with images of celebrities representing an ideal that is unobtainable. Our desire to conform to this ideal is the fuel that enables our consumer driven economy to move forward. Image For Sale, curated by Jessica Hyatt and Kristen Mills, is the work of three artists who deal with how media images form our sense of self.
Jeffrey P. Heyne uses Polaroid photographs of a Barbie doll to create digitally altered images that are covered in resin. O-rings are used to create molded circles or lenses in the surface, a utilitarian reference to the mechanical processes that form commodities as well as a contradiction of the polished, idealized Barbie image. Jeffrey's "deliberate distortions of the perfect run-way model proportion" subvert and highlight consumerism's control over humanities "need for conformance and acceptance".
Sylvie Agudelo's large photographs of nudes in a natural landscape are not retouched or digitally manipulated. The figures are captured experiencing an escape or freedom from image consciousness, which in turn (ironically) becomes a commodity image of the body. The series was made as a "rebellion against the media and manipulated images of the human body" and the photographs capture a world where commodity items don't exist.
Kurt Cole Eidsvig works with collage and layering to build up images of women regarding their reflection in the mirror. Drawing from the deep history of female portraiture, Kurt's figures seem to pose for an audience but their seductive gaze is revealed to us as a mirrored image. We are no longer the object of seduction, the object no longer exists. This reflexive view of the female figure along with the media images that create the background on which they regard themselves ask us "What are you looking at?"
The FPAC Gallery
300 Summer Street, mezzanine
Boston MA 02210
617 423-4299
hours: Monday-Friday 9-3:30, Thursdays until 6pm
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