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Posted on August 2, 2019

Miss Americana
Gordon Stettinius
September 5 – October 20, 2019

Receptions Sept 8, 2019 4 – 6 PM and Oct. 10, 2019

  • A building that looks like a space ship. opens IMAGE file
    © Gordon Stettinius
  • A woman in a bathing suit with her leg wrapped around a pole on a parade float.. opens IMAGE file
    © Gordon Stettinius
  • An alien in a corn field. opens IMAGE file
    © Gordon Stettinius
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    © Gordon Stettinius

Statement
This body of work has been made over the last twenty years and more and shows no signs of being even near finished.

I was not working specifically on a ‘project’ until this collection started to take shape of its own accord. After moving around the country several times in the last 25 years, I realized I had covered a lot of territory and it began to feel to me as though this work was forging a chaotic observation about blue highways. Colored by my interests and experiences, the work lists between sentimentality and cynicism but is ultimately skewed by raw social curiosity. Mostly, when editing, I am struck by the realization that you just can’t make this stuff up. We live in a curious place.

The title, Miss Americana, is intended to convey both the corny good feeling that comes from tourist attractions and listening to roadside prophets, from loving this place where we live… replete with nostalgia and the passage of time and seeing loved ones pass among strangers. But prefixing the ‘Miss’ in front of ‘Americana’ is an intentional effort to subvert the rose-tinted nostalgia that sogs our cultural landscape. On larger issues, we seldom agree on much of anything. No matter who you are, there are subjective and objective realities to be had and someone to tussle with if you should be so inclined. Along the highways and byways, there is no end of enterprises to amuse, confuse, educate or anger those who are willing to pull over and pay attention.

My motives are generally mixed up between the simpler impulse to make images of my friends and family and surroundings on the one hand and my opposite tendency to wrestle images into a more theatrical being in hopes of conveying specific ideas or questions on the other. The admittedly hybrid result is a visual breakdown lying somewhere between my inventions and my intentions. This is a record of one person’s thoughts and ideas, and maybe not always an honest record at that. -GS

Bio
Gordon Stettinius’ work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, his photography can be found in both private and public collections, and he is a winner of the 2009 Theresa Pollak award for Excellence in the Arts. Stettinius is represented by opens in a new windowRobin Rice Gallery in New York and opens in a new windowPage Bond Gallery in Richmond, Virginia. He is also an emeritus member of 1708 Gallery in Richmond, Virginia.

In 2010, Stettinius decided to start up an independent publishing company, opens in a new windowCandela Books, which released its first fine art photography book, a monograph of photographer opens in a new window Gita Lenz. An exhibition of Lenz’ work opened concurrently at opens in a new windowGitterman Gallery in New York. In 2011, Stettinius published the fourth book, opens in a new windowSalt & Truth. from American photographer Shelby Lee Adams. Currently, Candela is working on its third and fourth titles.

In 2011, Candela Gallery was founded opening with exhibitions to support Candela’s first book titles but quickly filling its schedule with photographers of national reputation. The gallery is located in the downtown arts district in a newly renovated building.

Stettinius is also currently teaching as an adjunct professor at Virginia Commonwealth University.

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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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