Feature Articles

September Issue 2002

McMaster Gallery in Columbia, SC, Features Works by Jennifer Laffoon & Laura Kissel

The McMaster Gallery in the Department of Art of the University of SC in Columbia, SC, will host seen:unseen:scene works by Jennifer Laffoon and Laura Kissel Sept. 5 through Oct. 5, 2002.

The exhibit will feature photographic images by Jennifer Laffoon and a film by Laura Kissell, both Assistant Professors in the Department of Art at USC. Laffoon will be exhibiting a new series of large photographic images. Kissell will feature her film Finding Lula.

Jennifer Laffoon

Laffoon is a photographer and digital artist. She is an assistant professor of photography in the art department at the USC. For her MFA thesis, she created scenarios in roadside motels, investigating notions about these public/private spaces. She is currently working on a new body of work, which explores the domestic interiors of others. Laffoon states, "I am interested in investigating the often overlooked details of these personal spaces, elevating them and evoking a vague narrative amongst the images within the series."

Laurel Kissel

Kissel is a media artist who works in film, video, and the electronic and digital arts. For her MFA thesis at Northwestern University, she directed, shot and edited Leaving Bristol (1999), a documentary film about memory, landscape and place. Continuing to explore these themes in her current work, Kissel's latest digital video project confronts the intangible aspects of our contemporary landscape: the origin of abandoned places, and the failure of written histories and our own memories to adequately speak for the documented subject. Kissel is also at work on an interactive project to document beauty parlor culture in the state of South Carolina.

For more information check our SC Institutional Gallery listings or call the Mana Hewitt, gallery director at 803/777-7480.

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