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Current Art Exhibits
March 8 - May 31, 2009 |
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SHANNON STONEY
ON BRANGUS LANE
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Shannon Stoney is a photographer and a farmer working in the Upper Cumberland region of Tennessee. Her principal subject matter is her own rural community. She works with all formats of film cameras, from 35mm to 8" x 10." She doesn’t own a digital camera. She has experimented with many different alternative processes from the 19th and early 20th century, but now she mostly makes silver gelatin prints.
The photographs on exhibit are photogravures, a photographic process used frequently by photographers in the 19th century, when copperplate photogravures were made to illustrate books and to make very permanent prints. Instead of copper plates, Stoney uses a photosensitive polymer plate, which is etched by light, using a positive transparency of the image. The plate is then washed and dried, then inked, wiped, and printed in the traditional way, using an intaglio printing press, on fine art paper. This exhibit is located beyond the security checkpoint. |
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Shown Right: Jane on the Road, 20" x 16," photogravure. |
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Click Here if you would like more information about this exhibit. |
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Artist Statement
“In the seventies people started intentional communities as part of the back-to-the-land movement, but my home, Brangus Lane, is more like an unintentional community: it just happened. The neighborhood is a scattering of eight houses along a dead-end rural road in the Upper Cumberland region of Tennessee. There is very little traffic except our own slow-moving cars and tractors, and people, dogs, and chickens.
Now more than ever, the farmland and woods of the rural South are threatened by developers and sprawl. But the small rural community presents a compelling alternative to industrial, urban life, particularly as the fossil fuel age comes to an end. Local food production and decentralized work will be crucial adaptations to the post-fossil fuel age. For this reason, I decided to make a record of life in this community, as it changes and adapts to the 21st century. I started the project in 2000, and I expect to continue it for the rest of my life.
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Arts at the Airport receives funding for the visual arts from the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority (MNAA) and the Tennessee Arts Commission (TAC). For more information about Arts at the Airport, please call (615) 275-1614. |
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