William Christenberry "House and Car and"
Pace MacGill
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"House and Car and" features a selection of photographs, encaustic paintings, drawings, sculpture, and found signs. The exhibition illuminates Christenberry's multimedia approach to capturing the spirit of his native South as reflected by the culture, natural landscape, and vernacular architecture of rural Alabama. Christenberry returns to his home in Hale County, Alabama annually. Like Walker Evans, his images of the region's architectural sites and material culture provide a window into the rural South by offering prolonged photographic studies of a place over time. For example, his sequence of 20 photographs, "House and Car, near Akron, Alabama (1978-2005)," chronicles the physical transformation of a single building over the course of 27 years. A related sculpture gives three-dimensional form to the photographed building, however, it is not intended to be seen as a replica. Rather the sculpture is a hybrid of both the actual image and Christenberry's own memory of it. Christenberry elaborates: "[t]hey are not models. They are re-creations. Imaginative re-creations, like dreams."
[Image: William Christenberry "House and Car, Near Akron, Alabama" (1981) digital pigment print on Museo Portfolio Rag paper mounted to Plexiglas 39.25 x 49.75 in.]
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Schedule
from December 10, 2009 to February 06, 2010