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November Issue 2006
City of Charleston in Charleston Features Works by Robert Epps
The City of Charleston is presenting the exhibition, Uncommon Places, featuring silver gelatin prints by Charleston artist, Robert Epps. The exhibit on view at the City Gallery at the historic Dock Street Theatre in Charleston, SC, will be on view from Nov. 3 through Dec. 4, 2006.
Epps was born in Charleston. After entering college, majoring in fine arts, he received his undergraduate degree in architecture from Clemson University where he also received his Masters of Architecture degree in 1977. It was during his Masters studies that his interest in photography emerged under the guidance of Sam Wang, Professor of Photography in Clemson University's College of Architecture's Masters of Fine Arts Program. During this period, Epps' photography was exhibited in a solo exhibit at the Clemson University Student Union Gallery. Epps continues his interest in photography and traditional photographic printing processes.
Epps comments on his work: "I have always found the complexity of the common, in form and place, more appealing, more intriguing than the predictability of the heroic and picturesque. This is not, however, acknowledgment or acceptance of the mediocre, or mundane. Nor is it an advocacy to instill art on that which is not artistic. It is a respectful fascination of the complexities within the simple - that which we call ordinary - as alternative to the complicated heroic and a challenge to that which is ordained heroic. Some images reflect this exploration of the potential of the simple. Other images provide the opportunity to reconsider truth and authenticity within our environment as counterpoint to the sentimentality and nostalgia that speaks to mimicry."
"These photographs, though the contribution of diminished light - isolate elements of the environs of South Carolina and, in particular, Charleston," Epps continues. "Here, redemption is offered for the overlooked and the wrongly dismissed. These photographs provide the opportunity to visualize the ordinary as complex and foreboding, and in some compositions, the heroic as benign."
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