New Currents in Contemporary Art: Master of Fine Arts Exhibitions


2007


Maria Britton
Emily Cash
Sharon Lee Hart
David Huyck
Mildred Joyner Long
M.J. Sharp
Kristin Anne Thomsen
Montana Torrey
Izel Vargas
Stacy-Lynn Waddell



Zeynep Cagla long

Mildred Joyner Long, Untitled #1, 2007; chromogenic print. © 2007 Mildred Joyner Long

Artist's Statement

Intimate Immensity

A popular dictionary defines home as a place where one lives, an environment offering security and comfort, a place of origin and/or the place where something is discovered, found or developed. Using this broad notion of home as a starting point, I seek spaces in public and private places that explore dualities within our worlds. I am interested in seemingly opposing forces such as interior/exterior, life/death, presence/ absence, (wo)man/nature, reality/fantasy, and the moments where the oppositions come together as one. I do not intend to resolve the relationship or connection between the two, but hope to create a sense of ambiguity where the intersections are in a state of flux. Are the trees emerging or disappearing from the blanket of fog? Do the curtains create a hiding place from the outside world or act as a means to escape the domestic space? I am interested in the simple details of everyday, often overlooked spaces, and with the help of the viewer's imagination, hope that these photographs may open up new worlds in which one may dwell.

Mildred Joyner Long