Thursday February 9, 2012

Laura Mackin Artist Talk

Thursday February 9, 7 PM

Join us for SOLO exhibition artist Laura Mackin's walkthrough of her exhibition 120 years 

Laura Mackin is a kind of amateur archivist. Not unlike the countless Tumblr managers of the world, she collects countless and readily available mundane imagery that populates our visual world, reorganizing and cataloging it for re-contextualized consideration; but unlike those countless Tumblr managers (or at least most of them), Mackin invests deeply in the authors of the original imagery.   Previously, Mackin has mined ebay seller’s photos, collecting images by single sellers (the Davis mirrors) or a category of sales (wedding dresses), drawing from a select group of their output to shape a kind of oblique portraiture of an individual or a poetic typology.

 

More here:
http://three-walls.org/programs/threewallssolo/laura-mackin.php