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Posted on November 3, 2014

Lost Boys
Liz Calvi
November 5 – January 31, 2015

Critic: Meg Birnbaum

  • Kevin, a boy seated on stairs in home.
    Kevin
    Kevin
  • Larz, a boy standing for the camera in a black jacket and t-shirt.
    Larz
    Larz
  • A boy laying across his bed.
    Christian
    Christian
  • Booker, a boy laying in bed.
    David
    David
  • A boy seated on a flowered couch.
    Booker
    Booker
  • A landscape of a White House with bushes and a tree in front with snow on the ground.
    Eric
    Eric
  • Matt, a boy seated at a table with a book.
    Matt
    Matt
  • Alex, a boy seated in a chair outside the house.in the yard.
    Alex
    Alex
  • A 2 foot kid's swimming pool surrounded by brush.
    Wood Pond
    Wood Pond
  • Trey, a woman seated in a chair in the yard with plants surrounding her.
    Trey
    Trey
  • Mikey, a boy seated in a dark room against the window.
    Mikey
    Mikey
  • A landscape of a pond and its bank with a backdrop of trees. Foggy atmosphere.
    Woodridge
    Woodridge Lake
  • A boy seated on a couch with his arm resting on his knee and the arm of the couch.
    Abandoned Highways 1
    Nick
  • Nick, a boy seated against a bureau dressed in black.
    Nick
    Abandoned Highways 1
  • A boy from the waist up with a white t-shirt on, his arms raised above his head on the door jam

“Ask your brother if he knows my brother. He will know him. He’s terrible….”

Lost Boys depicts young men living in the American suburbs. Their age’s range from 18
to 25, they are from Generation Y. In reverie between youth and adulthood, this
generation has been called the peter pan generation because they’ve had delays into
adulthood and frequently return to their hometowns because of financial hardships. These
are my brothers. Some I knew from my past and others I’ve met recently. Not only do
they embody a generation, but they also epitomize the actions of generations past.

I want to feel what home means to these boys and what it means to feel happiness and
freedom; ideas that we have constructed in relation to the American Dream. These boys
are all in a state of repose in their parent’s homes; not the common trajectory for males in
accordance to the American Dream.

I aim to have the boys dually express a level of vulnerability and tenderness that is often
looked down upon for men. Being a female photographer, I am also questioning the male
gaze to further challenge gender stereotypes.

“If your brother is so terrible then what are you?” I asked this boy casually smoking in
front of me. He took a deep inhale before responding.

“Beloved.” He replied with an exhale. “Or at least that’s what I’d like to be.”

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Floor Plan

Amy Rindskopf's Terra Novus

At the market, I pick each one up, pulled in by the shapes as they sit together, waiting. I feel its heft in my hand, enjoy the textures of the skin or peel, and begin to look closer and closer. The patterns on each individual surface marks them as distinct. I push further still, discovering territory unseen by the casual observer, a new land. I am like a satellite orbiting a distant planet, taking the first-ever images of this newly envisioned place.

This project started as an homage to Edward Weston’s Pepper No. 30 (I am, ironically, allergic to peppers). As I looked for my subject matter at the market, I found that I wasn’t drawn to just one single fruit or vegetable. There were so many choices, appealing to both hand and eye. I decided to print in black and white to help make the images visually more about the shapes, and not about guessing which fruit is smoothest, which vegetable is greenest.

Artistic Purpose/Intent

Artistic Purpose/Intent

Tricia Gahagan

 

Photography has been paramount in my personal path of healing from disease and

connecting with consciousness. The intention of my work is to overcome the limits of the

mind and engage the spirit. Like a Zen koan, my images are paradoxes hidden in plain

sight. They are intended to be sat with meditatively, eventually revealing greater truths

about the world and about one’s self.

 

John Chervinsky’s photography is a testament to pensive work without simple answers;

it connects by encouraging discovery and altering perspectives. I see this scholarship

as a potential to continue his legacy and evolve the boundaries of how photography can

explore the human condition.

 

Growing my artistic skill and voice as an emerging photographer is critical, I see this as

a rare opportunity to strengthen my foundation and transition towards an established

and influential future. I am thirsty to engage viewers and provide a transformative

experience through my work. I have been honing my current project and building a plan

for its complete execution. The incredible Griffin community of mentors and the

generous funds would be instrumental for its development. I deeply recognize the

hallmark moment this could be for the introduction of the work. Thank you for providing

this incredible opportunity for budding visions and artists that know they have something

greater to share with the world.

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