Getting ready for Rocky Mount 2011

Thinking a lot about my solo show at Rocky Mount Imperial Centre for the Arts and Sciences next year. Next year I have 3 solo shows on the books and I'm thinking about all the preparation needed to go into making this happen. Excited!

A small photo of Anne with an icecream outside the Imperial Arts Centre in Rocky Mount. An awesome building for exhibition of visual arts...a converted tobacco factory.

 

SPE Conference in Tallahassee October 21-24, 2011

A review/blog posting on my presentation, "Up in Smoke, scenes from a modern day battlefield", I recently gave in Tallahassee, Florida by the king of the blog himself, Patrick Keough. Patrick is the head of Distance Learning at Cartaret Community College in Morehead City and he is a blast. Full of energy, he is a great photographer and artist and teaches a mean course and blogs like a demon.

Check out the blogpost on his Vasa Project site about the conference and mine and other presentations at SPE Tallahassee:

http://vasa-project.com/blog/2010/10/spese-reginal-conference-day-2/

Thanks also to Patrick for this photo of the ECU crew in attendance. I'm on the far right! And all my lovely colleagues and former undergrad and grad students from ECU. Daniel Kariko is in the middle on the ground and he is the new Assistant Professor at ECU in Photo. Go Daniel!

Thanks also go to John Mann (taking the photo) and George Blakeley for a great conference. It was great to catch up with all the folks from schools in GA, FL and SC too!

SPE Presentation: Up in Smoke; scenes from a modern day battlefield

 I recently presented at the Regional SPE conference at Tallahassee, FL as an Image Maker. My presentation "Up in Smoke: scenes from a modern day battlefield" included works made over the last 3 years while I was in North Carolina. 

Abstract: “Up in Smoke: scenes from a modern day battlefield”

Annie Hogan reveals new directions in her art practice with the presentation of several new series that comment on various representations of the contemporary political landscape using US history as its protagonist.

Presenting images created over the last three years, Hogan examines the relationship between space, place, and the body through an outsider’s perspective. Hogan misuses traditional photographic processes to fortify her thoughts on history and its relationship to the present.

Hogan begins with the ‘almost there’ images of the ‘Asymmetry’ and ‘Bloodline’ series’ of grand Georgian houses that subtly suggest power structures embedded through their domestic contents and architecture as an indicator of what was written as history.

The ‘Double Vision’ images are layered and un-sharp images of interior and exterior views of plantation houses and slave cabins which embody the asymmetrical power relations inherent in ‘the peculiar institution’ prior to emancipation.

She continues with a recent series of stereoscope images printed as diptychs using a random process of juxtaposition. The ‘Now and Now not Then and Now’ series explore the reification of ‘living history’ / re-enactment days that glorify the ‘life and times’ of the Civil war. 

SPESE, Society of Photographic Educator's South East, 2010 Tallahassee, FL

I'm gearing up for the Society of Photographic Educator's South East, 2010 Tallahassee, FL later this month. I'm excited to be able to present my work from the last 4 years when I was living in the South. I have been working with the ideas of space, place, history and politics of power and race. The title of my presentation is 'Up in Smoke; Scenes from a Modern Day Battlefield' and I will speak about 4 bodies of work that have been made since living south of the Mason-Dixon line. These ideas speak to the asymmetry of power through history, the ways in which history is recorded and 'brought to life' today.   Wish me luck!

Making images of the Barker House, Edenton, July 2010 with my trusty Linhof 4 x 5 field camera (and this image made with a Holga!). 

Mt Vernon, August 2010

The Ipswich House: Heritage house portraits by contemporary Queensland artists: 11 Sep 2010 - 14 Nov 2010

The Ipswich House: Heritage house portraits by contemporary Queensland artists, Curator Michael Beckmann, Ipswich Art Gallery, QLD, Australia

A picturesque and illuminating foray into the history and vision of Queensland’s early domestic architecture as seen through the eyes of 13 contemporary Queensland artists, "The Ipswich House" examines the city’s significant architectural heritage through a selection of commissioned ‘house portraits’ across a diverse range of mediums.

 These house portraits are more than mere pictorial representations of the city’s heritage-listed buildings, instead offering explorations into the architectural design, construction and fabrication methods while also exposing more than a hint of the personal histories and memories of their former residents.

This exhibition opens on September 11 Sep 2010 - 14 Nov 2010

Noel McKenna | Jane Burton | Barbara Heath | Michael Zavros | Richard Stringer | Maureen Hansen | Mel Robson | Carl Warner | Annie Hogan | Christina Waterson | Madeleine Kelly | Bruce Buchanan | Judy Barrass

    

The four images above are from the "Seen and Not Heard" series. They were commissioned specifically for this exhibition. I have a small statement about these images from this series:

Seen and not heard plays homage to a child’s perspective. Shot from the head height of a child, the world seems oddly skewed with looming doorways, deep long passages, tall ceilings and the familiarity of close flooring. The ambiguous nature of these spaces parallels childlike states that may hover between keen anticipation to trembling fear of who may enter or exit these transitional spaces. This process of re-contextualization speaks to how we may weave together memories of such places and participate in a shared experience of being. Both visually alluring and repelling Seen and not heard straddles the binary of confidence/uncertainty and real/imagined through a palette of earthy hues that become more ethereal from the ground upward.

Annie Hogan

Update on Monday, October 11, 2010 at 4:48PM by Annie

The catalogue for this exhibition came today in the mail from Australia!

Here is the front and it has wonderful essays in it from some of Australia's leading arts writers. Thanks Michael Beckmann for including me in the show and for the wonderful essay!