Opening Reception + Art Walk TONIGHT!
Join us for TONIGHT for the opening of our newest exhibition, Double Vision, a series of work from New Jersey based artist Annie Hogan. The opening reception for Double Vision will coincide with the Asheville Downtown Gallery Association’s June and will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. Light hors d’oeuvres, wine, and beer will be provided. We hope to see you this evening!
The images in this series serve as an outsider’s investigation of slavery’s legacy of injustice and inequality through an examination of the traditional southern plantation home and the lesser structures which surround it. Hogan explores the incongruent relationship between the grand plantation homes and the smaller, meager homes and cabins which surround them.
The artist states: “As an outsider to the US, I question what lies beneath the grandeur and elegance of the plantation house, which is a powerful architectural and social symbol in the South. Along with looking at the main house I look at the grounds and the buildings that exist alongside it.” Hogan creates a joined narrative of the two structures by overlaying the images on top of one another in many of the larger scale works. Additionally, Hogan has created cyanotypes, a photographic printing process that gives a cyan-blue print, which serve as unique portraits of the larger homes themselves.
Hogan, a native of Australia, is currently a professor at The Mason Gross School of Arts at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New
Jersey. She received her Bachelor of Photography at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia, and acquired her MFA in Photography from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work is in permanent collections at The Art Institute of Chicago, East Carolina University Joyner Library Collection, The National Gallery of Australia, as well as many other private and public collections both in the US and abroad.
“Her choice to depict such a heavy subject matter in a soft, beautiful, almost delicate manner is an unexpected surprise which results in a truly stunning juxtaposition. These works are unique, they are conceptual in nature, but quite simply — they are strikingly beautiful.” says gallery director Heidi Gruner.
We hope to see you this evening! If you aren’t able to make it tonight, all work will be on our web site on Saturday.
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