Jamie Diamond "Seemingly Familiar"
Moeller Snow Gallery
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A work by Jamie Diamond might typically start with an online ad, or a sidewalk solicitation. Strangers will be invited to take part in some plainly described activity -- sitting for a portrait, or giving a gift. They will be brought into direct contact, with each other and with the artist. Along the way, a photograph will be taken, and a video might be shot.
But this process is mere prelude to the art object itself. The photographs of Jamie Diamond do not simply document a work of performance or relational art, and they are very often performances in themselves. Employing the language of shopping mall photo studios and blown up to near life size proportions, they produce portraits of
families, couples, brides and mothers -- portraits that are at once deeply familiar, and also deeply disconcerting.
[Image: Jamie Diamond "The Hiltons" (2008) Archival Pigment Print, 40 x 60 in.]
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Schedule
from December 11, 2008 to January 24, 2009
Opening Reception on 2008-12-11 from 19:00 to 21:00