Installation View L-R: Madahar, Reed, Skarbakka, Huttner
Installation View L-R: Skarbakka, Hilliard, Salavon
Installation View L-R: Salavon, Tourlentes, Hall, Kidd, Schneider
Installation View L-R: Schneider, Madahar, Reed, Skarbakka
Anne Hall
Elizabeth and Ginger, 2005
c-print
20 x 24 inches
Anne Hall
Michelle and Dreamer, 2005
c-print
20 x 24 inches
Anne Hall
Rose and Cubby, 2005
c-print
20 x 24 inches
David Hilliard
Looker, 2005
c-print (edition of 12)
five panels @ 24 x 20 inches each
image size: 24 x 100 inches
David Hilliard
Ruminate, 2005
c-print (edition of 12)
three panels @ 24 x 20 inches each
image size: 24 x 60 inches
Per Huttner
Untitled (Bullring, Birmingham), 2004
c-print (ed. 2/5)
70 3/4 x 23 1/2 inches
Jeremy Kidd
Thames 2, 2004
Light jet on mounted Sintra
24 x 64 inches (editon of 15)
Neeta Madahar
Sustenance #92, 2003
Iris Print on Somerset Velvet Paper
edition of 15
Image size: 35 x 46.75
Neeta Madahar
Sustenance #101, 2003
Iris Print on Somerset Velvet Paper
edition of 15
Image size: 35 x 46.75
Neeta Madahar
Sustenance #114, 2003
Iris Print on Somerset Velvet Paper
edition of 15
Image size: 35 x 46.75
Jesse Reed
Torsos (detail), 2005
C-print
edition of 10
7 x 5.5 inches
Jesse Reed
Torsos (detail), 2005
C-print
edition of 10
7 x 5.5 inches
Jesse Reed
Torsos (detail), 2005
C-print
edition of 10
7 x 5.5 inches
Jesse Reed
Torsos (detail), 2005
C-print
edition of 10
7 x 5.5 inches
Jesse Reed
Torsos (detail), 2005
C-print
edition of 10
7 x 5.5 inches
Jason Salavon
100 Special Moments (Newlyweds), 2004
Digital C-print
45 x 29.5 inches
edition of 7 + 2 AP
Jason Salavon
100 Special Moments (Little Leaguer), 2004
Digital C-print
45 x 29.5 inches
45 x 29.5 inhces
edition of 7 + 2 AP
Gary Schneider
Hope, 2003
Pigmented ink on canvas
edition of 5 (2 AP)
Kerry Skarbakka
Porch, 2003
c-print (edition of 7)
50 x 60 inches
Kerry Skarbakka
Pali Lookout, 2004
c-print (edition of 7)
50 x 60 inches
Stephen Tourlentes
Rawlins, Wyoming, Wyoming State Death House Prison, 2000
Silver print (edition of 25)
20 x 24 inches
Stephen Tourlentes
Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, Penn State Death House Prison, 2003
Silver print (edition of 25)
20 x 24 inches
Stephen Tourlentes
Eddyville, Kentucky, Kentucky State Death House Prison, 2003
Silver print (edition of 25)
20 x 24 inches
Photography, perhaps more than any other medium, carries the weighty expectation to function as a tool for historic documentation, form of proof, testimony of experience or scientific discovery. The photograph is looked upon to hold “an answer”. The artists in Taking Inventory, to a certain extent, continue (and poke a stick at) this tradition, focusing on images and often creating and collecting taxonomies that investigate, examine and transform the world around them.
Anne Hall and Neeta Madahar examine the concept of transformation – our desire that a place or an object might somehow change us, allow us to escape or make us “better”. Kerry Skarbakka and David Hilliard examine various psychological states fused (to) and acted out within a very specific physical space. These spaces ultimately hold the answer...or allude to the action taking place. Stephen Tourlentes, Jeremy Kid and Per Hüttner present us with seemingly knowable spaces but in new (and somewhat obsessive) ways, inviting the viewer to reconsider the way in which the world is viewed and what it could ultimately mean. Jesse Reed, Gary Schneider and Jason Salavon scrutinize the body, Schneider with a flashlight, Reed with paint and Salavon employs digital software, with surprising results, rendering the physical self in a surprising new light.
Perhaps, in the end, the images in Taking Inventory prove that the more we scrutinize our world (especially with the camera), the more we realize that we may never truly understand it.
