July | August 2006 - Boston Photography Focus

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EXHIBITIONS IN THE GALLERY
2006 PRC Benefit Auction
Preview Exhibition: September 8-October 1
Live Auction: Thursday, October 5
Get your paddle ready and mark your calendars for the 2006 PRC Benefit Auction. Hundreds of photographs will be
on display (and for sale!) at the PRC and Boston University’s 808 Gallery. Save the date, the live auction is slated for
Thursday, October 5! More information will follow in the September/October newsletter.
EXHIBITIONS ONLINE
Northeast Exposure Online (NEO), presented by Zeff Photo Supply, is an online monthly series showcasing
regional emerging artists. The presentations are by invite only and feature a selection of images, a
biography, artist and curator statements, and links
setts State House, and the Boston Drawing
Project at the Bernard Toale Gallery, among
others. He has taught at the Art Institute
of Boston (Boston, MA), University of
Massachusetts, Boston (Boston, MA), and
MassArt. He has worked at the Bonni Benrubi
Gallery (New York, NY) and as assistant
to Abelardo Morell, Eugene Richards,
William Wegman, and Arnold Newman.
Thomas Gearty (Cambridge, MA), Pavement,
Ogunquit, Maine, 2006, Polaroid Type 600 Print,
Courtesy of the artist
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Thomas Gearty
www.bu/edu/gearty.htm
Recently returning to the US from London,
Tom Gearty earned his MFA from Massachusetts
College of Art (Boston, MA) in
1999 and holds a BA from the University
of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA). Gearty was
a major contributor to Henry Horenstein’s
Black & White Photography: A Basic Manual
and Photography with Horenstein and
Russell Hart, a founding editor and writer for
Teachingphoto.com, and was selected for
Sotheby’s Artlink worldwide Emerging Artists
Program. He has exhibited around Greater
Boston at the St. Botolph Club, Massachu-
Featured online will be images from
Gearty’s new series of Polaroid images.
In all of his work, Gearty seeks out simple
scenes, details, gestures, and moments that
inspire wonder and yet also impart a feeling
of loss. In hundreds of instant small images,
he captures a vast array of things—often
selecting objects for the agency that they
appear to assert—ultimately building a new
vocabulary of sorts. Whether it is crumbling
pavement that just doesn’t seem to match
up or a strange pattern of condensation on
a car hood, he draws attention to a “secret
world of things” independent of humans.
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Robert Thurlow
www.bu.edu/prc/thurlow.htm
Robert Thurlow is a MFA graduate from the
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
and holds a certificate in photography from
the Maine Photographic Workshops (Rockport,
ME). Currently, he teaches at Salem
State College (Salem, MA) and Curry College
(Milton, MA). His exhibition and award
record includes selection for the Danforth
Museum of Art’s 2005 New England Photographers
(Framingham, MA), Cambridge
Robert Thurlow (Salem, MA), Self-Iconolatry #10,
2004, Photo emulsion on wood with oil, 24 x 24
inches, Courtesy and copyright of the artist
Art Association’s 2004 National Prize
Show, and the Essex Art Center’s 2003
Juried Show (Essex, MA).
Featured online are selections from two
series Self-Iconolatry, self-portraits printed on
wood, and Self-Consuming, portraits of the
fast food industry. In Self-Iconolatry, he coats
liquid emulsion on plywood panels onto
which he then prints straight-on photographs
of himself wearing various shirts. In Self-
Consuming, an ongoing series, he documents
his trips and meals at different fast
food restaurants. Sentiments of humor,
dread, and alienation emerge in all of his
works; his sheer repetition of single images
or ideas serves to challenge notions of pop
culture and the banality of the everyday.
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