| Press Release Checklist Debbie Grossman My Pie Town April 14- May 21, 2011 Opening Reception for the artist, Thursday, April 14, 6 to 8 pm My Pie Town is a project by Debbie Grossman in which she reworks and re-imagines a body of images originally photographed by Russell Lee for the United States Farm Security Administration in 1940. Using Photoshop to modify Lee’s pictures, she created an imaginary, parallel world - a Pie Town populated exclusively by women. The images are revised in subtle ways, making the reading of them very complicated and compelling. The sixteen images in the series are both color and black and white, and are all based on Lee’s unpublished series on Pietown, a homesteaded community in New Mexico. The original photographs are available either through the Library of Congress or through the Web. Grossman says of the project "I’ve begun to think of Photoshop as my medium – I’m fascinated by the fact this it shares qualities with both photography and drawing…..I enjoy imagining My Pie Town working as its own kind of (lighthearted) propaganda". In conjunction with the show, the gallery is publishing a small monograph of My Pie Town in a limited edition 100 copies. DEBBIE GROSSMAN MY PIE TOWN APRIL 14 - MAY 21, 2011 Main Street, Pie Town , 2009-10 pigment print 10 1/2 x 14” edition 5/15 Jessie Evans-Whinery, homesteader, with her wife Edith Evans-Whinery and their baby, 2009-10 pigment print 10 1/2 x 14” edition 9/15 The Fae and Doris Caudill family eating dinner in their dugout, 2009-10 pigment print 10 1/2 x 14” edition 8/15 Couple at community meeting, 2009-10 pigment print 14 x 10 1/2” edition 3/15 $2050 Swing your partner squaredance, 2009-10 pigment print 14 x 10 1/2” edition 6/15 Couple at squaredance, 2009-10 pigment print 14 x 10 1/2” edition 6/15 West wall: Mildred Anthony, standing by mounted animals which she killed, 2009-10 pigment print 10 1/2 x 14” edition 4/15 Ann Hesse, homesteader, 2009/10 pigment print 14 x 10 1/2” edition 2/15 Virginia Norris with homegrown cabbage, one of the many vegetables which the homesteaders grow in abundance, 2009-10 pigment print 14 x 10 1/2” edition 2/15 Garden adjacent to the dugout home of Jessie and Edith Evans-Whinery, 2009-10 pigment print 10 1/2 x 14” edition 1/15 North wall: Picture of Jean Norris’ old farm home in Oklahoma, hanging in the Norris living room, 2009-10 pigment print 10 1/2 x 14” edition 1/15 Pie Town, New Mexico. A community settled by about 200 migrant Texas and Oklahoma farmers who filed homestead claims. Scene on a homesteader's farm, 2009-10 pigment print 10 1/2 x 14” edition 1/15 Ruth Leonard secures a calf in her pasture, 2009-10 pigment print 10 1/2 x 14” edition 7/15 Nell Leathers, homesteader, shooting hawks which have been carrying away her chickens, 2009-10 pigment print 14 x 10 1/2” edition 4/15 Doris Caudill, 2009-10 pigment print 10 1/2 x 14” edition 4/15 Jean Norris and wife Virginia Norris, homesteaders and town founders, 2009-10 pigment print 10 1/2 x 14” edition 5/15 top For additional information contact the gallery back |
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