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TODD SIMEONE "FROM A TO A" |
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May 21 – June 12, 2005 |
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Crawl Space Gallery is pleased to present From A to A, an exhibition of large-scale digital photographs and installation by Seattle artist Todd Simeone. In his first solo show Mr. Simeone presents selected work from a series created during his past two years as an undergraduate photography student at the University of Washington. Recognizing the first solo show as a notable event in the artist's life, he found it of the utmost importance to create one single artwork that reflected everything he has come to know and understand over the years as a smooth and confident progression; in short, he sought to complete the trip from point A to point B. In search of the B Simeone found another A. This show presents this discovery by revealing that life's big moments can be found in the most obvious places.
In this carefully selected suite of images, common yet significant objects such as games, charts and chairs are taken from the artist's personal settings then photographed and digitally manipulated to reflect underlying concepts. Using a combination of digital erasures and additions as symbolic gestures, Simeone's photographs offer a unique take on his own experience and environment and create an entirely new experience for their viewers. Confronted with the transfiguration of something familiar, the willing participant can find that Simeone expresses himself in spaces in between: the strange and familiar, truth and fiction, the poetic and the prosaic, and most notably for this exhibition, in between what things were and what they have become |
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