Sally Stockhold: "myselfportraits: ode to icons & other absurdities"

Spark Gallery

March 27 - April 20, 2008

Sally Stockhold "Aunt Jemima"

My new photography work, “myselfportraits: ode to icons and other absurdities” is also staged with props and hand-painted backgrounds. I photographed myself depicting icons that were actual women as well as fictional characters from literature, advertising, and art. For me, these people are all “real.” They exhibit strength, courage, nobility and determination despite internal turmoil and external obstacles. In researching this project, I felt that I was getting very close to their “back story”, the irony and absurdity which they experienced in their lives. I began to “embody” these women, to try to imagine their thoughts as life swirled around them. These pictures were never “taken” by me, but “given” to me graciously by these icons.

Biography

Spark Gallery, full- time member since 2007.

Solo Exhibits: Edge Gallery, 2006, “myselfportraits #1 series. Colorado Photographic Art Center, 2005, “Recuerdos de Sayulita” series and 2004, “Presinocchio” series. Catwalk Gallery, 2003 “Erin’s Friends” series.

Juried and Group Exhibits: Colorado Photographic Art Center, “Personal Visions” award 2003 and 2004. Flash Gallery, 2005 and 2007. Mexico Centro Cultural, Taxco, Mexico, 2006. Aperture Gallery, Spark Gallery and Business of Art Center.

Books published: “Living With Impaired Vision” and “Patrick, Yes You Can” published by The American Foundation for the Blind. Additional Photographs have appeared in numerous magazines, publications and books including, “Washington D.C,” published by Abrams.

Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture, BFA, New York, 1973. NYU Graduate Film School, 1975. Worked in New York City as a commercial photographer and filmmaker and producer of audiovisual presentations for 14 years.