Broken Land | Still Lives
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- Date/Time (Multi-Day Event)
- 03/27/2017 11:00 AM EST - 5:00 PM EST
- Location
- Baron & Ellin Gordon Art Galleries
- Fee
- Free
- Description
- Photographer Eliot Dudik seeks in “Broken Land” to create landscapes that come alive with the acts of war, and cause, at least, contemplation of the nature of being American, to allow understanding, communication and cooperation with fellow citizens. These photographs are an attempt to preserve American history, not to relish it, but recognize its cyclical nature and to derail that seemingly inevitable tendency for repetition. “Still Lives” features portraits of weekend actors who caravan a web of routes to re-perform the actions of the American Civil War on surrogate battlefields. These works provide a sense of the diversity of actors existing in this community, many of whom devote their lives to this performance, and strive to immortalize them in a fabricated state of tranquility as they hover above the ground they fight for. Dudik’s photographs have been installed in group and solo exhibitions across the United States and Canada. Dudik founded the photography program within the Department of Art and Art History at the College of William & Mary, where he currently teaches and directs the Andrews Gallery.
