Jennifer Greenburg: Revising History, & Janna Ireland: The Spotless Mirror
@ Schneider Gallery
230 West Superior St., Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, September 20th, from 5PM - 7:30PM
On view through Saturday, October 26th
Jennifer Greenburg: Revising History
Janna Ireland: The Spotless Mirror
September 13 – October 26, 2013
Opening Reception:
Friday, September 20 from 5:00 – 7:30 PM
Schneider Gallery is pleased to present a new body of work by Chicago-based photographer Jennifer Greenburg. In Revising History, Greenburg utilizes found vernacular snapshots of events, portraits, and tourist photographs to design her own past. Part performer, part photographer, Greenburg creates her own personal history through reenactment. She appropriates various roles and commandeers the selected moments by digitally suturing herself into the original image. The final pieces are very literally a manufactured history, one that looks and feels authentic and is littered with enough relatable moments that we can identify with the photographs via our own collective experiences.
Photographer Janna Ireland also takes on the role of another. In our back gallery, a selection of Ireland’s work from her most recent series, The Spotless Mirror, subtly examines femininity, the domestic, and the bourgeoisie, while riffing on both 1980s female African-American artists and symbolism from canonical paintings. She explains, “I am playing a character, and her life has little to do with my own. It is a fantasy, born of a fascination with representations of wealth.” Through Ireland’s invented protagonist, the photographs speak to a larger narrative surrounding the tenuous qualities of status, position, and photographic depiction.
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