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As we continue the run up to our next brick & mortar exhibition, On the Inside: Portraiture Through Photography, we are excited to offer a sneak peek at the innovative work of Lisa Crafts. She has created a gallery of photography-based portraits that depict thinkers, activists and dreamers who are engaged with issues arising from the effects of human impact on the environment.Each portrait is an expressive fiction/non-fiction video collage, and contains a visual narrative that incorporates ideas, fears, insights, intentions and contradictions that emerge from conversations with each participant. These silent works, each one minute in length, exhibited on vertical monitors, use animation to disrupt literal and authoritative documentary as a means to open up conversation and invite new ideas.Below are stills from the four works that will be featured in the upcoming exhibition, along with notes from Crafts' conversations with the subjects.
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Rigoberto Lara Guzmán, Community Gardener, Social Activist, 2017Animation includes compost, chickens and circuitry
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Nicole Lindsey, Urban Beekeeper, 2019Animation includes ragweed, sparkplugs and seeds
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Xiye Bastida, Student, Climate Justice Activist, 2019Animation includes soil, monarch butterfly, bullhorns
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Brandon Balengée, Artist / Biologist, 2019Animation includes mutant frog, spotted gar, oil, formenifera
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On the Inside: Portraiture Through Photography is a group show featuring an international selection of photographers and image makers, offering the opportunity to deepen an ongoing conversation about self across borders of all kinds. Stay tuned for details about the exhibition opening.
The Animated Portraits of Lisa Crafts
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