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Jeff James (2013)

ARTIST:.....Jeff James.

EXHIBIT TITLE: .....Deadpan Alley.

MEDIA: .....Photography.

DATE: .....Thr 17 Jan 2013 - Thr 16 May 2013.

CURATOR/ART JUDGE: .....Terry Ward.

GALLERY MANAGER/ART HANGER: .....Terry Ward.

ARTIST NOTES: .....Artist's statement:
My series, The Friendly City, is an attempt to explore a single place and carve out of it a personal narrative of how I perceive the world and the American culture in particular. I use the Harrisonburg landscape as the vocabulary to talk about issues such as politics and religion, marketing and exploitation, fear and hope, time and age, etc. I make use of irony and humor in my framing to call attention to contradictions in our values and to disrupt the intended narrative of quaint or altruistic. I look at architecture and landscape  and notice the attempts we make to beautify that which is in the process of decay. I find these details of a  culture in transition (or decline) sadly poetic and occasionally they fill me with hope.

ARTIST WEB: http://FriendlyCityPhotos.BlogsSot.com

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