Join us on Dec. 12, 2014, from 7PM - 12AM for an opening reception featuring works by Stacy Kranitz in the gallery.
Live music by Ironing, Razor Tail, and Widow and Children
A mural by Evan Poirier and Steven Speir
and
The premier of films by Andrew Chadwick and Steven Spier.
Gallery Protocol is pleased to present an exhibition by photographer Stacy Kranitz. In response to an invitation from the gallery, Kranitz spent 12 weeks as an artist in residence in Gainesville, Florida, documenting her engagement with individuals, landscapes and local histories. The resulting body of work does not attempt to summarize Gainesville as “place” or “community”, but is instead an intimate record of small, often marginal, struggles for presence.
Working within the social documentary tradition, Kranitz’s work challenges and deconstructs accepted notions of this genre through a heightened sense of self-awareness which is shared between artist and subject. Acknowledging the limits of photographic representation, Kranitz’s images create an expanded sense of authorship and accountability in which all parties (including the viewer) are complicit in the representational act as a false, and yet, ultimately, satisfying and seductive construct. In this sense, Kranitz’s images do not tell the “truth”, but are honest about their inherent shortcomings, and thus reclaim these failures (exoticism, ambiguity, fetishization, etc.) as sympathetic equivalents to more forcefully convey the complexity and instability of the lives, places and moments they depict.
Exhibition is on view from Dec. 12, 2014 - Jan. 16, 2015
