2008 Woodie Awards
'Fragmented' photography brings students together
Catherine Klene
Issue date: 10/11/07 Section: A&E
A set of wooden stairs inside the Mississippi Mud Fine Art Gallery split into opposite directions, both leading up to an empty loft with pale blue walls.
Senior photography students Aimee Arseneaux and Tiffany Humphrey patiently toiled in the un-air conditioned gallery Thursday afternoon, carrying power drills, levels and endless amounts of various sized black frames up the stairs.
In the unseasonable October heat, Arseneaux and Humphrey drilled screw after screw, hanging up framed photographs of everything from army men, to portraits to mailboxes.
The photographs are part of SIUE's Digital Photographic Imagers' exhibition, "Fragmented." DPI President Arseneaux said approximately 50 different photographs will be displayed, all created by members of DPI.
Arseneaux said the group strove to come up with a name which would encompass all the different types of photography displayed.
"'Fragmented' kind of describes the show, because it covers all aspects of the media," Arseneaux said.
Graduate art student Amanda Pfister will display five pieces at the exhibition.
One of her photographs, "Modern Kitchen and Bath," shows a man standing in a bathroom with intense crimson walls, gazing intently at his reflection in a shining silver basin sink.
Pfister said the original idea to shoot in furniture stores came during a 2006 trip to Pottery Barn and seeing all the preset show rooms that allowed customers to envision the furniture in their homes. She began shooting her subjects in Ethan Allen and Thomas Lane stores, laying on display couches or contemplating their reflections in bathroom fixtures.
The idea, Pfister said, was to show how a person's private life has bled over into the commercial market.
"It's about placing people in commercial, public settings, but trying to capture these private, intimate moments either with themselves or with someone else," Pfister said. "It talks about … ourselves and our private spaces, but also these private spaces have become more commercialized."
Senior photography students Aimee Arseneaux and Tiffany Humphrey patiently toiled in the un-air conditioned gallery Thursday afternoon, carrying power drills, levels and endless amounts of various sized black frames up the stairs.
In the unseasonable October heat, Arseneaux and Humphrey drilled screw after screw, hanging up framed photographs of everything from army men, to portraits to mailboxes.
The photographs are part of SIUE's Digital Photographic Imagers' exhibition, "Fragmented." DPI President Arseneaux said approximately 50 different photographs will be displayed, all created by members of DPI.
Arseneaux said the group strove to come up with a name which would encompass all the different types of photography displayed.
"'Fragmented' kind of describes the show, because it covers all aspects of the media," Arseneaux said.
Graduate art student Amanda Pfister will display five pieces at the exhibition.
One of her photographs, "Modern Kitchen and Bath," shows a man standing in a bathroom with intense crimson walls, gazing intently at his reflection in a shining silver basin sink.
Pfister said the original idea to shoot in furniture stores came during a 2006 trip to Pottery Barn and seeing all the preset show rooms that allowed customers to envision the furniture in their homes. She began shooting her subjects in Ethan Allen and Thomas Lane stores, laying on display couches or contemplating their reflections in bathroom fixtures.
The idea, Pfister said, was to show how a person's private life has bled over into the commercial market.
"It's about placing people in commercial, public settings, but trying to capture these private, intimate moments either with themselves or with someone else," Pfister said. "It talks about … ourselves and our private spaces, but also these private spaces have become more commercialized."
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