Jeffrey Shagawat “SELFIE”

Freight and Volume

poster for Jeffrey Shagawat “SELFIE”

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For his first solo exhibition with the gallery, photographer Jeffrey Shagawat explores self-portraiture - or in the parlance of the post-Internet age, Selfies - and takes the tradition to provocative new places. Shagawat’s grand Warholian gesture of presenting an entire exhibition of a personal journey places his own image, whether present or implied, into each visual work. Everything is a self-portrait and yet no image really portrays one’s essence. Or does it? Aren’t we etched within every single gesture, emotion and act? And isn’t the universe just a reflection of our own Private Idahos? In the words of the writer/ philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, the ideal lifetime, one that is free of existential nausea, would be To do, and while doing to make oneself and be nothing but the self which one has made.

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from December 18, 2014 to January 10, 2015

Opening Reception on 2014-12-18 from 18:00 to 21:00

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