JERICHO DITCH
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| Kim Yvette Smith, 17"x 44", newsprint, 2010. Moses "Teish" Cannon, 17"x 22", pigment print, 2010. Untitled, 5"x 8", pigment print, typed text, 2010. |
Jericho Ditch is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by Deana Lawson.
Deana Lawson’s work is focused on the personal and historical events experienced through the body.
Her work addresses themes of intimacy, familial legacies, mortification, and the flesh. Although
the resulting photograph(s) are important, the exchanges between photographer and subject, the
observer and the observed, are just as important. Her photographs present a community of strangers,
friends, neighbors, and biological family. Lawson sees the various people and stages of life that
she captures as existing within one expanded family album.
Lawson utilizes a wide range of photographic languages, including staged imagery photographed with
studio lights and a large format set-up, in combination with candid snap shots. In addition, Lawson
uses appropriated pictures given to her by subjects, or images she discovers in local library
collections, and sometimes purchased. The different modes of photographic production, whether
staged or found, feed into the ongoing narratives that Lawson complicates.
Deana Lawson is a photo-based artist born in Rochester, NY. She received her M.F.A. in Photography
from RISD in 2004. Exhibitions include KIT Museum in Dusseldorf Germany; PS1 Contemporary Art
Center, New York; Light Work Gallery, Syracuse New York; Studio Museum in Harlem; Cohan & Leslie
Gallery, New York; Collette Blanchard Gallery, New York; Artists Space, New York; Print Center in
Philadelphia, and Spelman College Museum of Fine Art in Atlanta. Lawson is the recipient of the 2008-
09 Aaron Siskind Fellowship Grant and a NYFA Grant in 2006. Her work has been published in Time Out
New York, Contact Sheet #154, and PQ Journal for Contemporary Photography Volume 24. Deana has
participated in residencies including, 2010 Workspace Residency at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
in New York, Light Work in Syracuse, NY, and Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY. Deana
currently lives and works in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. For more information please contact Jericho Ditch
at info@jerichoditch.com.
Her work addresses themes of intimacy, familial legacies, mortification, and the flesh. Although
the resulting photograph(s) are important, the exchanges between photographer and subject, the
observer and the observed, are just as important. Her photographs present a community of strangers,
friends, neighbors, and biological family. Lawson sees the various people and stages of life that
she captures as existing within one expanded family album.
Lawson utilizes a wide range of photographic languages, including staged imagery photographed with
studio lights and a large format set-up, in combination with candid snap shots. In addition, Lawson
uses appropriated pictures given to her by subjects, or images she discovers in local library
collections, and sometimes purchased. The different modes of photographic production, whether
staged or found, feed into the ongoing narratives that Lawson complicates.
Deana Lawson is a photo-based artist born in Rochester, NY. She received her M.F.A. in Photography
from RISD in 2004. Exhibitions include KIT Museum in Dusseldorf Germany; PS1 Contemporary Art
Center, New York; Light Work Gallery, Syracuse New York; Studio Museum in Harlem; Cohan & Leslie
Gallery, New York; Collette Blanchard Gallery, New York; Artists Space, New York; Print Center in
Philadelphia, and Spelman College Museum of Fine Art in Atlanta. Lawson is the recipient of the 2008-
09 Aaron Siskind Fellowship Grant and a NYFA Grant in 2006. Her work has been published in Time Out
New York, Contact Sheet #154, and PQ Journal for Contemporary Photography Volume 24. Deana has
participated in residencies including, 2010 Workspace Residency at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
in New York, Light Work in Syracuse, NY, and Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY. Deana
currently lives and works in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. For more information please contact Jericho Ditch
at info@jerichoditch.com.
DEANA LAWSON 6.8.10 / 7.2.10